Tuesday

To complete today's activities, you will need:

something to draw on

something to draw with

glue or sticky tape

empty box, such as a shoe box

paper of different colours

magazines or catalogues


optional - baking tray

optional - table salt

optional -

food colouring

Overview of today's activities:

  • Activity 1: Making your name (10 minutes)

  • Activity 2: Make a treasure box (30 minutes)

  • Activity 3: Matching colours in nature (45 minutes)

Break

  • Activity 4: Beach safety and lifeguards (30 minutes)

  • Activity 5: Bird beaks are just right (10 minutes)

Please note, these times are an approximation only.

Making your name

Learning goal: Children practice forming letters using different mediums.

Transition to school activity.

As you work through each school day, you will need to write your name a lot of times. It's fun to practice forming the letters of your name.

Choose one or more ways to make your name:

  • Trace your name using textas, pencils or crayons.

  • Look at your name and then copy it using paint.

  • Make your name with your finger in a tray of coloured salt or shaving cream.

Photo a tray filled with blue salt. In the salt a finger has written the name, 'Abbie'.

Too hard?

  • Say or sign you name.

  • Ask someone to write your name in big letters for you to trace with your finger.

  • Make the first letter of your name.

Too easy?

  • Make your surname also.

  • Make the names of people in your family and any pets.

Make a treasure box

Learning goal: Children identify things that are special to them.

What you need:

  • a small box or shoe box

  • paper of different colours

  • pictures cut from magazines or catalogues

  • glue

  • scissors.

What to do:

1. Decorate the box with the paper and pictures.

2. Collect special things that are important to you, for example:

  • small toys

  • pictures

  • photos

  • things you have made or drawn

  • items you have collected from nature.

3. Put your special things in your treasure box.

4. Tell someone about the things in your treasure box and why each is important to you.

Too hard?

  • Show someone your favourite things.

  • Tell someone about your favourite toy and why it is your favourite toy.

  • Share the experience of eating your favourite food with someone.

Too easy?

  • Create a theme for your treasure box so all of the items are related, for example a colour or animal theme.

Matching colours in nature

Learning goal: Children develop observation skills and respect for the natural environment.

1. Watch the video and follow the instructions.

Colours in nature

Duration: 02:32

Too hard?

  • Collect some leaves. Sort the leaves into 2 or 3 groups according to colour.

Too easy?

  • Research the names for the different shades, tints, tones and hues of the colours e.g. purple, mauve, lilac and violet. Where might you see these colours in nature?

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.

Beach safety and lifeguards

Learning goal: Children understand how they can keep themselves safe on the beach.

1. Watch the video.



ABC Kids (13 August 2021) 'All about lifeguards' [video], YouTube, accessed 3 November 2021.

2. Lifeguards help keep us safe on the beach. Have you ever seen a lifeguard working on a beach?

3. What are some of the things lifeguards do?

4. What equipment do lifeguards use?

5. Watch the video and talk to someone about how you can keep yourself safe at the beach.

Surf Life Saving NSW (11 May 2021) 'Annie and the waves' [video], YouTube, accessed 3 November 2021.

Bird beaks are just right

Learning goal: Children use skills of observation and enquiry.

1. These are some of the foods birds eat. Each bird's beak is just the right shape for catching or collecting and eating the food it eats.

A labelled drawing of some foods birds eat including: nectar, insects, seeds, small fish, fruit and vegetables.

2. Look closely at the shape of each bird's beak.

Photo of a galah holding a seed in a claw and eating it.

"Feeding Galah" by jeans_Photos is licensed under CC BY 2.0

3. Describe the shape of each beak using describing words such as long, short, thin, wide, sharp, pointy or curved.

4. Which beak is good for reaching into flowers to drink nectar?

5. Which beak is good for catching insects?

6. Which beak is good for plucking small fish out of the water?

7. Which beak is strong enough to break the shells of seeds or tear into fruit and vegetables?

8. Which beak is good for eating from the ground?

Too hard?

  • Point to each bird's beak and then the food you think that type of bird eats.

Too easy?

  • Research which birds eat fish. What do these birds have in common?

  • Research which birds drink nectar. What do these birds have in common?

Families - please let us know what you think about that activity

Extra learning activities

Child voice