Thursday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
soft toy
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Jack in the box (15 minutes)
Activity 2: Poem - The little land (15 minutes)
Activity 3: Song - Inanay (10 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Walking to and from school safely (15 minutes)
Activity 5: Noughts and crosses (15 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Jack in the box
Learning goal: Children experience and share humour, happiness and satisfaction.
1. Watch the video and join in doing the actions.
2. Use a box and soft toy to play your own game of Jack in the box.
Too hard?
Watch the video and enjoy.
Do as many actions as you can.
Too easy?
Decorate the box you used for your own Jack in the box toy.
Why does the toy you put inside need to be a soft toy? What can you do if you don’t have a soft toy?
Poem - The little land
Learning goal: Children think imaginatively as they listen to a poem.
1. Find a comfy place to listen to this old poem written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
2. Use your imagination as you listen, to make pictures in your mind.
3. Make an artwork of one of the pictures that came into your mind while you were listening.
Too hard?
Pretend to be a tiny mouse. Tell someone what you can see.
Too easy?
Make an artwork of all the things you can remember from the poem.
Create a poem using rhyming words.
Song- Inanay
Learning goal: Children show respect for and interest in Indigenous languages.
1. Listen to this song in Yorta Yorta language.
2. It is about shooing a goanna away by saying 'choo'.
3. The song sounds like a nursery rhyme and you can see a baby being rocked to sleep in the video.
Raising Children Network (2021) 'Inanay' [video], raisingchildren.net.au, accessed 23 September 2021.
4. How did the song make you feel?
5. Does anyone sing songs to help you rest or go to sleep?
6. Ask an adult to sing a traditional lullaby or nursery rhyme to you.
Too hard?
Sing along to a familiar nursery rhyme or lullaby with someone.
Too easy?
Learn to sing the song.
Pause the recording and see if you can say the words to the song without the music.
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
Walking to and from school safely
Learning goal: Children learn how to cross the road safely.
It's important to cross the road safely when you walk to and from school.
1. Watch the video.
Ozzie- Educational videos for kids (10 May 2021) 'How to cross the road safely with Ozzie' [video], YouTube, accessed on 14 October 2021.
2. What are the four things Ozzie said to remember when crossing the road? (stop, look, listen and think)
3. Ozzie also said you need to hold an adult's hand when you cross the road.
4. Wherever you can, cross the road at a pedestrian crossing or at the lights on a green 'walk' signal.
Image owned by the NSW Department of Education under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)
Too hard?
Ask someone to practice walking to and from school with you.
Too easy?
Make a sign or poster to help kids to remember to stop, look, listen and think when crossing the road.
Families - tell us what you think about that activity
Noughts and crosses
Learning goal: Children play a game which requires persistence and concentration.
Play noughts and crosses with a friend.
One person is the 'noughts' and draws only circles.
The other person is the 'crosses' and draws only crosses.
How to play:
1. Start by drawing four lines, two going up and down (vertical) and two going cross ways (horizontal).
2. Take it in turns drawing your symbol, either a circle or cross.
3. Draw one symbol in each square. Keep going, taking it in turns.
4. The first person to draw three symbols in a row, draws a line across them and is the winner.
Too hard?
Place counters or buttons on the paper in each square instead of drawing.
Too easy?
Challenge someone else in your family!
Extra learning activities
For families, this video explains how messy play helps child development.