Monday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
Look out for this symbol for an activity that supports transition to school:
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: How I feel about school (15-20 minutes)
Activity 2: What chickens need to be healthy (15-20 minutes)
Activity 3: Plan a meal (15-20 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: My ideal pet (5-10 minutes)
Activity 5: Shared story - 'Where the wild things are' (15-20 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
How I feel about school
Learning goal: Children identify feelings and share aspects of who they are with others.
What would you like your teachers and friends at school to know about you?
What is your favourite thing to play with?
Who do you live with?
How do you get to school?
Who do you visit on weekends?
How are you feeling about starting at your new school?
Pick one of the feeling faces below.
Tell someone in your family about how you are feeling.
Excited or happy
Ok or a bit unsure
Worried or scared
Too hard?
Ask someone to help you collect some photos of you that tells your story.
Think about how you feel about starting school.
If you are excited or happy what is it that you are looking forward to? Tell someone.
Make a plan with a trusted grown up to help with feelings such as unsure, worried or scared.
Too easy?
Draw a picture of yourself and the things you like doing.
Can you add to the picture some of your ideas about what you think school will be like?
What chickens need to be healthy
Learning goal: Children explore how to care for chickens.
Think about what you know about chickens.
What do you think they eat?
What do they live in?
What do they need to keep warm?
What do they need to keep them safe?
Imagine that you are a chicken. What would you like to live in?
Now let's go on an adventure to see what chickens need to be healthy and happy. Watch the video.
Too hard?
Pretend to be a chicken eating food and having a drink of fresh water while living safely in a coop.
Get someone to read a story about chickens.
Too easy?
Draw a picture of a chicken and all the things it needs.
Plan a meal
Learning goal: Children consider the health needs of themselves and others when preparing food.
Watch the video about visiting an orchard and preparing juice.
Think about a meal that you would like to make:
Is it for a snack, breakfast, lunch, dinner?
How many people will be eating?
Will everyone like that food?
Plan your meal:
What ingredients will you need?
How long will it take?
Draw all of the things that you will need.
Work with a family member to make the meal.
ABC iView (June 2021) 'Look and wonder: Orchard'' [video], Play School: Through the windows, accessed 27 September 2021
Too hard?
Try some new food.
Make some choices about the food that you would like to eat.
Help a family member choose a meal.
Too easy?
Plan a whole day of food for your family.
Ask a family member for a family recipe. Ask them the story of the recipe. For example, my grandma learned from her mum how to make bread and butter pudding then she taught me. They made bread and butter pudding to use up bread that was a bit stale.
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
My ideal pet
Learning goal: Children explore ideas and think critically about their choices.
Listen to the audio about your ideal pet.
Think about your ideal pet.
Describe your ideal pet to someone.
What are three reasons you would like this pet?
Ideal pet: Transcript
"Ruby, My Wife's Pet Chicken" by kla4067 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
"Pride of Pets Dog Show, 2011" by angela n. is licensed under CC BY 2.0
"Our Pet Cat Mancha" by Jay Woodworth is licensed under CC BY 2.0
"Pet Parrot" by jjmusgrove is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Too hard?
Choose your favourite pet from the photos.
Too easy?
Draw a picture of your ideal pet and the things it would need to live with you.
Shared story - Where the wild things are
Learning goal: Children use images to make predictions.
Look at the cover of this book.
Answer these questions:
What do you think it might be about?
Can you see any clues?
Is there a character on the cover?
Do you think it will be an interesting story?
What might happen?
‘Where the wild things are’ by Maurice Sendak © 1967. Used with kind permission from Penguin Random Publishing Australia.
Now look at this picture from the story. It shows two wild things.
Does it give us more clues about the story?
Do you think the wild things are friendly?
Why do you think that?
‘Where the wild things are’ by Maurice Sendak © 1967. Used with kind permission from Penguin Random Publishing Australia.
Listen to the story, 'Where the wild things are' by Maurice Sendak
After the story, answer these questions:
Think about what happened at the start, in the middle and at the end.
What was your favourite part?
Would you like to sail somewhere or have you already?
What fun things would you get up to with the wild things?
Penguin Books Australia (13 October 2020) 'Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak - read aloud by Andrew Daddo ' [video], YouTube, accessed 28 September 2021
Too hard?
Show your family the pictures and ask them to help you imagine what the story could be about.
Ask someone in your family to listen to the story with you. Talk about the different sections and your favourite parts together.
Do some stomping and dancing like a wild thing.
Too easy?
Pretend you are the author and make up your own story to match the picture of the cover. Share your story with someone in your family.
Extra learning activities
Access more learning activities from the early childhood literacy and numeracy resource: Johnny works with one hammer
Early childhood literacy and numeracy resource - Johnny works with one hammer.docx