Friday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
soft toy
book or journal to write in
tray
a cup of milk
food colouring
dish washing liquid
strong paper
small twig or cotton bud
strip of fabric or ribbon
bucket or container
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Sound song (10 minutes)
Activity 2: Learn Auslan - Goodbye and thank you (10 minutes)
Activity 3: Wanda goes to the park (45 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Run rabbit tag (10 minutes)
Activity 5: Magical milk (15 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Sound song
Learning goal: Children develop knowledge of letter-sound relationships.
1. Each letter makes a different sound.
2. Listen to this song and try to sing along. You will hear different words starting with different sounds, and also see what each of the letters looks like.
Too hard?
Ask someone in your family to say each sound for you to copy.
Say the name of each person in your family. Now make the sound each name starts with.
Too easy?
Line up some of your toys and say each of their names out aloud. Listen carefully to see what the first sound is.
Write or copy the letters for each of these sounds.
Learn Auslan - Goodbye and thank you
Learning goal: Children learn to use sign language.
Auslan is the Australian sign language, a language developed by, and for, Australians who are deaf or hearing impaired. It’s a visual form of communication that uses hand, arm and body movements to convey meaning.
1. Watch this video to learn how to say goodbye in Auslan.
2. Use your hands to copy the sign.
Auslan Signbank video licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0, used with kind permission from auslan.org.au, accessed 1 October 2021.
3. Watch this video to learn how to say thank you in Auslan.
4. Use your hands to copy the sign.
Auslan Signbank video licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0, used with kind permission from auslan.org.au, accessed 1 October 2021.
Too hard?
Replay the video and keep practicing.
Too easy?
Use the sign words to communicate with your friends and family.
Practice more words in Auslan via the Signbank dictionary: auslan.org.au/dictionary/words.
Wanda goes to the park
Learning goal: Children explore different places in their community.
1. Watch the video of Wanda visiting her local park.
A day at the park
Duration: 04:41
A day at the park.MOV2. Take your own travel buddy with you to the park with an adult.
3. Take pictures, or when you are back home do drawings, of you and your buddy on your adventure.
4. Ask someone to write about your adventure in your journal.
5. Let your teachers know what you and your buddy have been up to when you get back to preschool or daycare.
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
Run rabbit tag
Learning goal: Children develop the fundamental movement skill of running.
1. Watch the video or read the instructions below to play this running tag game.
NSW Health (14 June 2017) 'Run rabbit tag - Munch & Move' [video], YouTube, accessed 3 November 2021.
2. Play this game with two or more people.
3. Each person puts a strip of fabric or ribbon in the waistband of their pants or shorts.
4. Everyone runs around, trying to steal someone else's ribbon or fabric.
5. If you are able to steal from someone else, put the fabric or ribbon in a container.
6. If you lose your fabric or ribbon, get another one from the container.
Too hard?
Play the game on wheels, crawling or walking, if running is too tricky.
Enjoy any movement or chasing game with others.
Too easy?
Play in a large open area so you can run further and faster.
Magical milk
Learning goal: Children follow instructions to investigate and explore colour.
Follow the instructions in the video or written below, to make a swirly pattern.
What you need:
shallow tray
a cup of milk
food colouring (two or more different colours)
dish washing liquid
a twig or cotton bud
strong paper.
What to do:
1. Pour the milk into the tray, just enough to cover the bottom.
2. Add a few drops of each of the food colours to the milk.
3. Dip the end of the cotton bud into the dish washing liquid.
4. Carefully put the cotton bud in the middle of each colour.
5. Watch the swirls form.
6. Place paper on the top of the milk to create an artwork.
Too hard?
Squirt shaving cream into a tray or container. Add drops of food colour or paint. Use your hands to mix the colours around and around.
Too easy?
Tip the milk out and try again, this time using more or less of each colour.
What do you think will happen if you dip the cotton bud two or three times into each colour? Have a try and find out if you were right.
Extra learning activities
For families, the video Bilingualism: Speaking two languages at home talks about the importance of children learning both English and their families first language.