Wednesday

To complete today's activities, you will need:

something to draw on

something to draw with

baking tray

mixing bowl

leaves

pegs

Overview of today's activities:

  • Activity 1: Cooking scones (45 minutes)

  • Activity 2: Counting leaves (10 minutes)

  • Activity 3: Being sun safe at school (10 minutes)

Break

  • Activity 4: Following a routine (15 minutes)

  • Activity 5: Dance - NetSetGO (15 minutes)

Please note, these times are an approximation only.

Cooking scones

Learning goal: Children follow a recipe to make scones.

What you need:

  • 3 cups self-raising flour

  • 1 tablespoon sugar

  • ½ cup butter

  • 1 cup milk.

What to do:

Close up photo showing an oven temperature dial on 200.

1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees (or 200 for fan forced).

Silver mixing bowl with dry ingredients (flour and sugar) being added to it.

2. Add the flour and sugar to the mixing bowl.

A dozen cubes of cut up butter.

3. Cut the butter into small pieces.

Hand mixing butter into dry ingredients in mixing bowl.

4. Add the butter to the bowl and squish it into the flour.


Hand using a wooden spoon to mix ingredients in a mixing bowl.

5. Pour in the milk and mix all the ingredients together.

Lump of sticky dough on a messy kitchen bench.

6. Kneed the mixture to make a sticky dough.

Dough that has been rolled out into a circle. Rolling pin is resting on the dough.

7. Roll the dough out.


Hand using a cookie cutter to press a circle into the dough.

8. Press shapes into the dough.

Baking tray with 10 circles of scone dough on it.

9. Put the shapes on a baking tray.


Hand putting tray of scone dough into oven.

10. Put the tray in the oven and cook for 20 minutes.

Tray of cooked scones.

11. Enjoy the scones.

How did your scones turn out? Were they tasty?

Too hard?

  • Help with the measuring and mixing.

Too easy?

Make another batch of scones, this time substituting some of the ingredients for others:

  • instead of butter, use margarine, coconut oil, canola or olive oil

  • instead of milk, use cream, oat milk, water or lemonade.

Find and make a recipe for flavoured scones, for example cheese, pumpkin or date scones.

Counting leaves

Learning goal: Children count using one to one correspondence.

We count things one by one to see how many there are altogether. Practice counting with this activity:

10 assorted leaves.

1. Collect 10 leaves from outside (or make ten leaves from paper).

10 assorted leaves, each with a number 1-10 drawn on them.

2. Write a number on each leaf, from 1 - 10. Ask for help if you need it.

Three leaves, each with a number of pegs pegged onto them.

3. Clip pegs onto each leaf, to match the number written on it.


Hands removing pegs that have been pegged onto a leaf.

4. After you have finished, remove each peg, counting aloud as you take it off.

Too hard?

  • Collect a bunch of leaves or handful of small toys. Count them one by one to see how many you have altogether.

Too easy?

  • Collect another 10 leaves, write numbers 11-20 on them and clip pegs to match the written number.

Sun safety at school

Learning goal: Children learn about sun safety and the importance of wearing a hat.

Transition to school activity.

You will need to wear a hat at school each day, as part of your school uniform.

1. Watch the SunSmart video to remind you how to be sun safe.

SunSmart Victoria (15 May 2021) 'Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide - SunSmart Sid the Seagull Video' [video], YouTube, accessed 27 October 2021.

2. Sing along with the song.

3. Do you remember the 5 key messages? One was to slap on a hat.

4. Just as you may have a new school shirt or socks, you will have a school hat that is part of your new uniform.

5. Do you know what your new school hat looks like? Is it the same as in this photo?

6. Remember to put it in your school bag everyday so you are sun safe!

Photo of three children at a table in a school playground. They are eating their lunch, all smiling and wearing hats.

Image owned by the NSW Department of Education under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)​

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.

Following a routine

Learning goal: Children follow routines and transition smoothly between activities.

1. When you go to preschool or daycare you might see a visual timetable or routine. This shows what happens each day.

2. Draw a visual timetable to show the order you do things each morning. What do you do first? What do you do second?

3. Put your timetable on your fridge or a wall to help you remember what you need to do each morning, without needing to be reminded.

Image shows small sketches of a morning routine, accompanied by text; get snuggle, use toilet, change clothes, eat food, brush teeth etc.

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY 3.0

Too hard?

  • Take photos of the things you do each day. Print these and put them in order to create your own visual timetable.

Too easy?

  • Make a timetable for your bedtime routine, for example, eat dinner, listen to a story, have a bath.

Dance - NetSetGO

Learning goal: Children engage in increasingly complex movement and coordination through dance.

Watch the video and join in dancing.

Netball Australia (17 March 2015) '2015 ANZ NetSetGO Dance' [video], YouTube, accessed 27 October 2021.

Extra learning activities

‘Succession' (1935) by Wassily Kandinsky

Image shows the artwrok 'Succession' by Kandinsky. It is very colourful and made up of a range of curving shapes, swirls, curving and straight lines and some circles.

Kandinsky - Succession,1935 (Wikimedia Commons).

Child voice