Tuesday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
optional - paint
optional- paintbrush
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Conversations about school (15 minutes)
Activity 2: Draw a chicken (15 minutes)
Activity 3: Shared story (15 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Yoga (15-20 minutes)
Activity 5: The moon landing (15 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Conversations about school
Learning goal: Children share their thoughts and feelings about starting school.
This animation is for families and children to watch together.
It suggests how to talk together about starting school.
Talk with someone in your family about:
how you are feeling about starting school
what you will miss about preschool or being at home
the things at school that will be the same as at home or preschool
the things at school that will be different to home or preschool.
Draw a chicken
Learning goal: Children express their ideas through the visual arts.
drawing a chicken.m4a1. Look carefully at these chickens. What do you notice?
a small round head, a sharp beak and two round eyes
an oval shaped body covered in feathers
thin legs and clawed feet
2. Now draw your own chicken.
3. You might want to follow these steps:
Too hard?
Draw a chicken's face:
start by drawing a circle
add two round eyes
draw a sharp beak
finally, add a red wattle.
Too easy?
Can you think of another way to make a chicken? Try clay, play dough or natural materials.
Draw a chicken doing different actions such as flapping its wings, scratching in the dirt or pecking at food.
Shared story- Old Man Emu
Learning goal: Children explore culture by engaging with Australian texts.
1. Listen to the story of 'Old Man Emu' by John Williamson and Simon McLean.
Sing along if you like.
Penguin Books Australia (28 September 2020) 'Old man emu read aloud by John Williamson and Simon McLean' [video], Youtube, accessed 5 October 2021.
2. Can you remember all the types of Australian birds in the story? The photos below will give you some clues.
Thrush
"Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica)" by David Cook Wildlife Photography is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Too hard?
When you need to, pause the story and talk to someone about what is happening.
Too easy?
Ask someone to help you write a list of the names of each of the birds.
Make the sound each name starts with.
What do you think it means to, 'run the pants of a kangaroo'?
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
Yoga
Learning goal: Children engage in complex movement patterns.
Watch the video and join in doing yoga.
Cosmic Kids Yoga (31 July 2017) 'We're going on a bear hunt' [video], YouTube, accessed 6 October 2021.
Too hard?
With someone in your family helping, stretch your body in different ways:
reach up to the sun
sit down and hug your knees tight
make yourself as wide as you can.
Too easy?
Create some of your own animal poses.
The moon landing
Learning goal: Children engage in learning experiences with an older person.
1. Talk to an older person to find out if they remember when people first landed on the moon.
Did they watch the landing on TV?
"Apollo 11 Liftoff (NASA, Moon, 6/18/09)" by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
"Buzz Aldrin on the moon #tbt" by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
2. Listen to this memory from Ruth. She watched the moon landing when she was four years old.
memories of the moon landing (2).m4a3. Ask the older person to tell you about how technology has changed during their lifetime.
4. These pictures are of old TVs. Compare them to your TV at home now.
"yet another shot of the old tv in chinook motel" by gothopotam is licensed under CC BY 2.0
"Old TV digital picture Frame" by Jonas' Design is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Activity shared by Little Scientists Australia.
Too hard?
Ask an older person what they used to use to watch on TV.
Too easy?
Draw a new kind of TV.
What can this TV do?
What problems can it solve?
Extra learning activities
Learn to count through song and story.
Open the Early childhood literacy and numeracy resource or view the document below.
