Thursday

To complete today's activities, you will need:

something to draw on

something to draw with

socks

spaghetti

playdough

Overview of today's activities:

  • Activity 1: Hand washing (10 minutes)

  • Activity 2: Helping at home (15 minutes)

  • Activity 3: Keepy uppy (10 minutes)

Break

  • Activity 4: Shared story (20 minutes)

  • Activity 5: Building with spaghetti (20 minutes)

Please note, these times are an approximation only.

Hand washing

Learning goal: Children have good hygiene habits.

  • Have you been remembering to wash your hands before you eat?

  • What about after using the toilet?

  • What about after patting animals?

  • Have you been remembering to wash your hands after blowing your nose or sneezing?

Here's three hand washing songs. Watch your favourite or watch them all.

If you like Little J and Big Cuz, listen to this first song.

Ozkygrouch Video (4 July 2021) 'Little J and Big Cuz - Everybody Wash'em Now' [video], YouTube, accessed 15 September 2021.

If you like Play School, listen to this second song.

ABC Kids Play School 'Wash Your Hands' [video], accessed 15 September 2021.

Finally, choose this third song to view a handwashing song in Auslan.

The Wiggles (3 April 2020) 'The Wiggles: Handwashing Song in Auslan - Emma's Sign Language Time' [video], YouTube, accessed 15 September 2021.

Helping at home

Learning goal: Children contribute to their family by helping to look after the home.

Pick one of these jobs to do to help your family:

  • when the washing is dry, match the sock pairs together

  • help make a meal

  • pack your toys away

  • help in the garden by watering the plants, raking leaves or pulling out weeds

  • feed your pet or refill their water bowl

  • sweep your verandah or a path outside

  • put bottles, tins or cardboard in the recycling bin.

Toddler squatting on the floor, using a small dustpan and brush.

Image by theloushe is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Keepy uppy

Learning goal: Children develop eye hand coordination.

Follow the instructions in the video.

Too hard?

  • Attach the socks to a string or rope and hang them from a tree or washing line. Hit the socks to keep them in the air as long as you can.

  • Use a balloon hanging on a string instead of socks.

Too easy?

  • Instead of the socks, keep a balloon in the air for as long as you can.

  • Challenge someone in your family to see who can hit the socks or balloon the most number of times. Count out loud each time you hit them.

Take a break

Here are some things you might like to do:

  • have a drink of water and a healthy snack

  • play or have a rest

  • go to the toilet and wash your hands.

Shared story - The very hungry caterpillar

Learning goal: Children demonstrate their understanding of a text through drama.

Listen to the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle.

Penguin Books Australia (26 June 2020) 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle' [video], YouTube, accessed 15 September 2021.

Pretend you are the very hungry caterpillar:

  1. pop out of an egg

  2. eat all the food, growing bigger as you do so

  3. go to sleep at night with a stomach ache

  4. wake up

  5. eat through one nice, green leaf

  6. turn into a cocoon

  7. have a sleep in your cocoon

  8. emerge from your cocoon as a beautiful butterfly.

Too hard?

  • With your hands make a caterpillar. Make the caterpillar wriggle.

  • Now make a butterfly. Make the butterfly fly.

  • Have someone demonstrate hand movements to copy.

Too easy?

  • Draw what the caterpillar ate (you might need to listen to the story again to help you remember). Make sure you draw the right number of each type of food.

  • Write the number for how many of each type of food.

  • Draw the life cycle of a butterfly.

Building with spaghetti

Learning goal: Children develop skills of investigation and experimentation.

Watch this video.

WeekH-ES1S1-STEM-pastabuilding.mp4

  • Now it's your turn to make a building using playdough and spaghetti.

  • Start by sketching some ideas of buildings you would like to try and build.

  • If your building doesn't stand up, you will need to try something different, perhaps using triangle shapes.

Too hard?

  • Build using a different material such as paddle pop sticks or duplo.

  • Use some natural materials in the garden to build.

Too easy?

  • After you have built a building that stands up by itself, extend it so it is higher or wider.

Extra learning activities

  • Children develop literacy and numeracy skills through engagement with a text.

  • Open Handa's Surprise or view the document below.

Early childhood literacy and numeracy resource Handa's surprise.docx

Child voice