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To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
lunchbox and water bottle
Overview of today's activities:
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Auslan sign-along (10 minutes)
Activity 2: Shared story - The hawke and the hen (15-20 minutes)
Activity 3: Lunch at school (15 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Measuring and estimating (10-15 minutes)
Activity 5: Where do dreams come from? (10 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Auslan sign-along
Auslan sign-along
Learning goal: Children notice and show interest in different ways of communicating.
Did you know that some people communicate in sign language?
Watch the video and listen to the song 'I am Australian' in Auslan (Australian sign language).
Replay it once it finishes and see if you can sing some of the words.
Can you sing along in Auslan?
Watch the two videos below and learn the signs for 'more' and 'drink'.
ABC Australia (21 May 2020) 'National Auslan Sign-Along | I am Australian', YouTube, accessed 30 September 2021
More
Auslan Signbank video licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0, auslan.org.au/dictionary/words, accessed 1 October 2021, Used with kind permssion.
Drink
Auslan signbank video licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0, auslan.org.au/dictionary/words, accessed 1 October 2021, Used with kind permssion.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Practice using Auslan language:
Wave your hand to say hello.
Put your thumbs up to say good.
Put one index finger up to say bad.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Pause the video and try to copy some of the Auslan sign language. How much of the song can you sign
Practice more words in Auslan via the Signbank dictionary: auslan.org.au/dictionary/words
Shared story - The hawke and the hen
Shared story - The hawke and the hen
Learning goal: Children broaden their understanding of the world.
Sometimes chickens are called chooks or hens.
Listen to this folk tale from the Philippines called 'The hawke and the hen'.
After listening, tell someone the story.
Watch Fudge, Buttercup and Hazel scratching and looking carefully at the ground. Do you think they are looking for the golden ring?
Can you think of any other reasons why chickens scratch, look and peck over and over.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Listen to the story.
Have you ever lost something? Tell a story about it to another person.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Think of the story of the hawke and the hen. Can you draw some pictures to show the beginning, the middle and the end of the story?
Lunch at school
Lunch at school
Learning goal: Children show independence when packing and unpacking their lunch.
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Practicing how to pack and unpack your school lunch box will be very helpful for school.
Find something you can use as a school lunchbox.
Ask someone in your house to help you fill the lunchbox.
Decide on what you like to eat for lunch and what is healthy for your body.
Make a sandwich or wrap - try spreading the butter and cutting the sandwich in half.
Choose fruit or another healthy snack and get it ready for your lunchbox.
Put water in your drink bottle.
Choose a favourite toy or teddy to eat with you.
Sit with your lunch box on the ground or at a table.
Open your lunch and enjoy a lunch break with your toy/teddy.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Make some choices about food that you would like in a lunch box and ask someone help you to pack it.
Put some things you like to eat in a lunch box and enjoy a picnic with a toy or teddy.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Draw or write the foods you enjoy to create a list of your favourite lunch box items.
Take a break
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.
"Boy with glass of water, 2000" by Seattle Municipal Archives is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio. pexels.com
"Washing hands" by magnusfranklin is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Measuring and estimating
Measuring and estimating
Learning goal: Children use objects to measure and use mathematical language.
Watch the video and follow the steps.
Trace around your foot and cut it out.
Choose some things to measure.
Can you find some things that are more than 7 feet tall?
Can you find some things that are less than 7 feet tall?
Try to guess or estimate how many of your feet the object will be.
Using your cut out foot, see how many feet fit end to end on your object.
Video transcript
Video transcript
[Trace around your foot]
[Now, you have your footprint!]
[Next, carefully cut your foot out.]
Alright mathematicians, so are you 7 feet tall?
Then can you find some things that are more than your 7 feet tall?
And can you find some things that are less than your 7 feet tall?
Over to you to investigate mathematicians.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Count how many steps it takes to cross a room
Too easy?
Too easy?
Do the activity with someone else. Both of you guess or estimate. See who is the closest.
Use something else to measure with.
Where do dreams come from?
Where do dreams come from?
Learning goal: Children listen and respond to information they hear in a podcast.
It seems like Max's adventure in the story 'Where the wild things are' was all just a dream.
Have you ever wondered why we dream or where dreams come from?
Listen to this podcast and learn more about dreams.
Talk about dreams with your family. Have you had any strange or funny dreams lately?
"Taking a nap" by JohnFinn is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
ABC (10 April 2019) Where do dreams come from'? [podcast] Kidslisten, accessed 30 September 2021
Too hard?
Too hard?
Sit back and listen to the podcast.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Draw one of your dreams using pictures.
Extra learning activities
Extra learning activities
Access more learning activities from the early childhood literacy and numeracy resource: This is the way we wash our clothes
Early childhood literacy and numeracy resource - This is the way we wash our clothes.docxChild voice
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