Thursday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
book or journal to write in
something to draw with
a soft toy
large ball
dice
stickers
blu tack or tape
paper plates
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Bounce the ball (5 minutes)
Activity 2: Dice fun (10 minutes)
Activity 3: Make a necklace (5-10 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Learning someone's phone number (15-20 minutes)
Activity 5: Wanda visits places in the community (15-30 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Ball play
Learning goal: Children develop coordination and ball handling skills.
1. Hold a large ball in two hands.
2. Push it down towards the ground to make it bounce.
3. As the ball rises up, push it down again with your two hands.
4. Play this song and bounce your ball to the beat.
14.Bouncetheball.mp3NSW Department of Health 'Munch & Move playlist: Bounce the ball' healthykids.nsw.gov.au/munch-move-resources/music/, accessed 2 November 2021.
Too hard?
Play with a ball while you listen to the song.
Too easy?
Try bouncing two balls at the same time (one in each hand).
Dice fun
Learning goal: Children understand how a dice works.
Dice are small cubes that have a different number of spots on each side. When you roll a dice, it will stop moving. The dots on top are the ones that we check when playing a game.
1. Look at the dice in the image below. Count how many dots are on the top of each one.
2. Find some dice at home (you might find one in a board game).
3. Use the dice to:
play a game with someone or
take turns guessing what number the dice will show before you roll it.
Too hard?
Ask someone to count each side of the dice with you.
Too easy?
Roll two dice and count how many dots there are altogether. Keep going and see what is the biggest number you roll.
How to make a necklace
Learning goal: Children learn about Aboriginal culture.
ABC Me CREATE (July 4, 2017), 'How To Make An Indigenous Necklace' [video], YouTube, accessed 29 September 2021.
Watch this video and see how Annette Sax makes a traditional Indigenous necklace. Annette is a Taungurung woman. She shares how to make an Indigenous necklace like the Aboriginal people from Victoria traditionally made.
In Yorta Yorta (Bangerang) language the word for necklace is djagoga.
1. How do you say necklace in your home language?
2. Practice saying 'djagoga'
3. Tell someone some things you learnt from Annette in the video.
Too hard?
Have someone model the word 'djagoga' and try to say some of the sounds.
Collect some native leaves, nuts and flowers. Put them in a vase.
Too easy?
Collect some of the items that Annette uses in the video and follow the instructions to make a necklace.
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
Learning someone's phone number
Learning goal: Children remember a significant phone number.
Learning someone's phone number is important for your safety, especially when you go to school. It's good to know the phone number of an adult who can help you if you need them.
1. Ask someone in your house to help you make a pretend phone to stick on the wall.
Find 12 paper plates.
Write each number 0-9 on the back of each paper plate.
You will need to make two more with the star and the hash key.
Using blu tack or tape, attach the plates to a wall in the same way as a smart phone screen.
2. Ask someone for the phone number to learn and get them to write it down or call it out to you.
3. As each number is called, touch the right button (plate) that is on your wall.
4. After a few practices, stick some stickers just above the numbers as you say them.
5. If you can, leave the pretend phone on the wall so you can repeat the number and memorise it.
Too hard?
Lay the plates out on the floor to practice, and use your hands or feet to learn the number.
Begin with the first three numbers of the phone number.
Too easy?
Try remembering the phone number as a song.
Remember a second person's phone number.
Wanda visits places in the community
Learning goal: Children visit and engage with places in their local community.
1. Watch the video of Wanda visiting some community gardens, a street library and a crop and swap.
Wanda visits special places
Duration: 09:50
2. Take your own travel buddy with you to special places in your community.
3. Take pictures, or when you are back home do drawings in your journal, 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.
Too hard?
Take a picture of your travel buddy with someone in the community.
Too easy?
Ask an adult to help you video or photograph someone you meet in the community with your travel buddy.
Ask the community member some questions about what they do at the special place.
Extra learning activities
Download the Smiling Mind app to access free meditation programs for children.
There is also a guide for parents and carers to create a mindful home for your family.