Thursday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
cardboard
scissors
glue
flower or leaf
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Fingers and toes (10-15 minutes)
Activity 2: Chicken memory game (20-25 minutes)
Activity 3: School uniform (15-20 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Shadow sketches (10-15 minutes)
Activity 5: Tell a story (20 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Fingers and toes
Learning goal: Children show interest in and respect for others.
Listen to the story in the video. Each of the babies are born in different places around the world.
Find out where you were born. Were you born in a hospital or in a house or somewhere else like the babies in the book?
Which country were you born in?
Count how many fingers and toes you have like the images below.
Draw a picture of a hand and foot.
Penguin Books Australia (2 July 2020), ''Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes' by Mem Fox & Helen Oxenbury [video], Read Aloud by Nicole Alexander. YouTube, accessed 20 September 2021.
Too hard?
Ask someone to look at some of your baby photos with you.
Get someone to trace your hands and feet. You can decorate them.
Can you count how many fingers you have on 1 hand?
Get someone to count your fingers and toes with you.
Too easy?
Trace around your fingers and number them from 1 to 10.
You can do the same thing with your toes.
Chicken memory game
Learning goal: Children follow instructions to make and play a game.
Download and print the pictures of chickens.
Can you count them? There are two of every picture, which means we have 9 pairs of matching pictures.
Paste both pages of pictures onto cardboard and cut out the pictures (or just cut the paper).
You should have 18 pictures. Count them to make sure.
Now you can play memory:
Mix the pictures up, place them on the floor or table with the pictures face down.
Take it in turns to turn a card over, then another.
If they are a pair, you can keep them, if they are not a pair, place them back face down.
Take turns with someone, or see how many times it takes for you to find all the matching pairs.
Pick your favourite picture. Can you describe it to somebody in your family?
Don't have a printer?
If you can't print the pictures, you can play memory with anything you have two pictures of.
Try playing it with playing cards, or draw two of the same image, and make them into cards.
Some ideas for images are x o = +, or use letters or numbers.
Chicken memory game.docxToo hard?
Pick your favourite chicken picture. Can you describe it to somebody in your family?
Ask someone to help you make the memory cards. Can you match the pictures?
Too easy?
Think of 6 words you know about chickens. Make a memory game with the words. Ask someone to help you write the words if needed.
School uniform
Learning goal: Children understand how to dress for school.
Image licensed under the iStock Getty Images Content License Agreement
Your uniform is what you will wear to school every day.
Ask someone in your house to help you find out about the uniform at your school.
Why do you think you will wear different clothes at school to at preschool? For example, shoes and socks will keep you safe in the playground.
What will you wear the same at school as you do at preschool? For example, a hat to stay sun safe.
Practice or pretend to get dressed for school:
If you have your school uniform (or a sibling's) dress yourself and put on your shoes/socks. Does it have the school logo on it?
Choose some clothes and pretend they are your school uniform - practice getting ready for school.
Too hard?
Get someone to look at the school website with you. Look at photos of the children at your school in their school uniform.
What colour is your school uniform?
Can you draw part of the school uniform. For example, your school hat.
Too easy?
Can you draw yourself in your school uniform?
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
Shadow sketches
Learning goal: Children learn about shapes and textures of natural objects and represent these in their drawings.
See if you can find a flower, leaf, nut, bottle brush or pine cone.
Hold it above some paper like in the video and draw its shadow.
Compare your drawing with the object. Does it look the same or different?
Brain break
Duration: 1:41
Too hard?
Ask someone to do the outline and then colour it in yourself.
Ask someone to hold the flower for you while you trace the shadow.
Too easy?
You might like to colour or paint your sketch!
Can you see similar shapes in your sketch? Describe how they are different.
Tell a story
Learning goal: Children use drawings to tell a story.
Let's tell the story of 'Where the wild things are', by Maurice Sendak, using your own drawings.
Listen to the story again if you need to.
Remember to include Max and the wild things in your drawings.
You could draw Max sailing to the land of the wild things and when they were all dancing in the forest.
Share this with your family when you have finished.
You can describe what is happening in each picture, just like an author.
"Princess Peach" by massdistraction is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Too hard?
Draw Max or one of the wild things.
Too easy?
Record yourself telling the story of 'Where the wild things are'.
Can you think of a different ending to the story?
Extra learning activities
Watch Five little piggies and learn about being safe near the road.