Tuesday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
sticks
string
leaves, long grasses, ferns or leaves
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Australian animals in Wiradjuri (10 minutes)
Activity 2: Feeling calm at school (10 minutes)
Activity 3: Charades (15 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Shared story- The snow wombat (20 minutes)
Activity 5: Build a little house (45 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Australian animals in Wiradjuri
Learning goal: Children learn about the languages of First Nations peoples.
Watch the video.
ABC Kids (6 July 2021) 'Learn The Indigenous Words For Australian Animals' [video], The Wonder Gang. YouTube, accessed 20 September 2021.
Practice saying the names of these Australian animals in Wiradjuri:
Too hard?
Pause the video and practice the words by repeating them.
Too easy?
There are many Aboriginal languages. Find out the Aboriginal language of the Country you are on.
Install and use the Wiradjuri dictionary app to learn more Wiradjuri language.
Feeling calm about school
Learning goal: Children develop skills of self-regulation.
Sometimes you might feel worried about starting school. Here is something you can do to help you feel calm.
Watch the video Moodies: Anxious.
ABC Kids (2021) 'Moodies: Anxious' [video], ABC iView, accessed 21 September 2021
1. In the video Rachael said she feels anxious today. How do you feel today?
2. When you feel anxious, you might feel like you have a storm inside your tummy.
3. You can calm yourself by taking a slow breath in through your nose and then a gentle breath out, like you are blowing a candle.
4. Practice slow candle blowing.
5. Remember, when you feel anxious you can take some slow candle breaths.
Families - tell us what you think about that activity
Charades
Learning goal: Children use drama to express themselves and make meaning.
When you play charades you act something out and someone else has to guess what you are pretending to be or do.
You are not allowed to talk to give any clues!
Follow the instructions below to play charades:
1. Decide what type of thing you will be pretending to be or do. You could choose to be an animal or you could pretend to be doing something like brushing your teeth or playing a guitar.
2. Don't tell anyone what you have chosen.
3. Act out your idea and ask someone in your family to try to guess what you are or what you are doing.
4. When they have guessed correctly, swap roles.
"Family playing 1" by pdam2 is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Too hard?
As you play, make noises to give clues. For example, if you are pretending to be a dog, also make a barking sound.
Too easy?
Play charades with friends or family using a video chat.
Play a different game where you describe features of an animal one by one for someone else to guess the animal's name. For a tiger you might give clues such as, 'I am orange and have black stripes. I have whiskers and I live in the jungle'.
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
Shared story - The snow wombat
Learning goal: Children make meaning from a factual text.
1. Watch the video.
It is a story about a wombat who finds snow everywhere, even on her own body. Wherever she looks, there is snow.
ABC Kids (21 December 2017) 'The Snow Wombat read by Fiona Choi' [video], YouTube, accessed 12 October 2021.
2. Watch this video to see a wombat digging.
Don Spencer Music (Apr 14, 2020) 'Dig, dig, dig like a wombat' [video], YouTube, accessed 28 Sep 2021.
3. Pretend to be a wombat digging a new burrow. Dig with your front legs and then push the soil away with your hind legs.
Where is all that dirt going?
4. Have a look at the shape of the wombat's claws in the photos. What do they remind you of?
"Juvenile Wombat (Female)" by Denis Fox is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
"Juvenile Wombat (Female)" by Denis Fox is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Read some wombat facts
Wombats are marsupial mammals, which means that they have a pouch for their young.
Wombats are most closely related to koalas.
A baby wombat is called a wombat pinkie when it is in the pouch and a joey when it has fur.
Wombats can run almost as fast as Usain Bolt.
A wombat’s pouch is the other way around to that of kangaroos and koalas, with the open side pointing towards their rear. Why do you think this is? (It has something to do with the fact that they do lots and lots of burrowing into the ground.
Too hard?
Copy some of the actions you saw the wombat doing in the video.
Too easy?
Tie a cloth bag to your tummy and dig in a sandpit or loose dirt. What happens to the dirt when you have the opening of the bag facing your front? What happens if the opening of the bag faces behind?
Make a fairy house
Learning goal: Children use natural materials to build a structure.
Watch each of these videos or follow the instructions below to make a fairy house.
How to make a fairy house: Introduction
Duration: 04:40
How to make a fairy house: Walls
Duration: 04:38
Part 2. Making the walls .MOVHow to make a fairy house: Weaving and decoration
Duration: 05:11
- Collect 15 sticks of about the same size. Try to find one that has a v shape at one end.
2. Push the stick with the v shape into the ground. Lean three other sticks against it.
3. Use string or natural twine to tie the tops of the sticks together.
4. Lean more sticks against the other ones. Place rocks at the bottom of the structure.
5. Weave leaves, vines or grass in and out of the sticks. Keep working, this might take a while!
6. Well done, now you can play with your house.
Extra learning activities
Enjoy Play School story time: The little red hen and the grains of wheat and then complete these literacy activities.