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To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
chair
rubbish bag
playdough
Overview of today's activities:
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Say hello in many languages (5-10 minutes)
Activity 2: Three for the sea (15-20 minutes)
Activity 3: Playdough maths - Part 2 (15-20 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Simon says (5 minutes)
Activity 5: Shared story: When Frank was four (10-15 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Say hello in many languages
Say hello in many languages
Learning goal: Children learn greetings in a number of languages.
1. Watch the video and listen to the song where children say hello in many languages.
Fun English (9 October 2014) 'Hello to all the children of the world' [video] YouTube, accessed 14 February 2024.
2. Watch the video again, this time copy the children to say 'hello' in different languages.
3. Which language/s do you speak at home?
4. How do you say 'hello' in your home language?
Too hard?
Too hard?
There are many ways to acknowledge or greet someone:
use a gesture or keyword sign to say hello
select a visual to say hello
look at someone and smile
say 'hi' instead of hello
practice saying 'hello.'
Choose one language from the video and practice saying hello to someone.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Start using one of the languages from the video to greet people at home.
Ask someone to help you research how to say goodbye in the languages from the video.
Three for the sea
Three for the sea
Learning goal: Children are curious and enthusiastic participants in their learning.
Every bit of rubbish hurts our oceans. Plastic rubbish can be swept from the land into our drains. It then flows to the waterways and into the ocean. We can all help by taking '3 for the sea' every time we go out.
1. Watch the videos.
UPLIFT (26 April 2018) 'Plastic Free Boy' [video], YouTube, accessed 21 November 2021.
Take 3 for the sea (7 June 2017) 'Take 3 for the sea and help save our ocean' [video], YouTube, Accessed 21 November 2021.
2. Next time you go for a walk, take a bag to collect plastic rubbish.
3. Pick up 3 pieces of plastic rubbish using gloves or a bag.
4. Put the rubbish in the bin and things that can be recycled in a recycling bin.
5. Wash your hands.
6. Listen to this story about how Ruth collected more than 3 for the sea!
Too hard?
Too hard?
Help at home by putting rubbish in the bin and things that can be recycled in the recycling bin.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Take photos or draw pictures of the rubbish you picked up when you were out and about. Use these to make a story, like Ruth's. Share your story with someone.
Playdough maths - Part 2
Playdough maths - Part 2
Learning goal: Children use materials to learn about number and counting.
1. You will need playdough to do this activity. If needed, follow the instructions to make it.
2. Make these things with playdough:
4 things that you might pack in a lunchbox
3 pieces of furniture
2 people from your family
1 item of your choice.
3. How many things did you make all together?
"46/366 Playdough (homemade)" by MCA / Mike Allyn is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Too hard?
Too hard?
Use the playdough to make:
3 balls and 2 snakes
something of your own choice.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Roll out your playdough so it is flat. Use small objects such as sticks or plastic toys to push shapes into the playdough. Arrange the shapes so they are in a repeating pattern. Count how many shapes you used altogether.
Take a break
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
Simon says
Simon says
Learning goal: Children understand and use positional language.
1. Ask someone to play 'Simon says' with you. You will need a chair.
2. One person gives instructions for the other to follow, starting with 'Simon says'. The instructions should include words that tell the person 'where' to be, for example, Simon says:
sit on the chair
lay in front of the chair
hide under the chair
stand behind the chair
sit beside the chair.
3. Swap roles, so the other person gives the instructions to be followed.
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
Too hard?
Too hard?
Play the game using hand positions, for example:
Simon says put your hands on your head.
Simon says put your hands behind your back.
Simon says put you hands in front of your eyes.
Play a game with only 2 or 3 different instructions, for example:
Simon says stand in front of the chair.
Simon says stand behind the chair.
Simon says sit on the chair.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Include an extra game rule that when the person giving the instructions doesn't start the instruction with 'Simon says', the instruction should not be followed.
Go outside and give more detailed instructions, for example, Simon says:
stand under the smallest tree
lay on top of the table
sit beside the back fence.
Shared story - When Frank was four
Shared story - When Frank was four
Learning goal: Children recognise their own growth and achievement.
1. Watch the video and listen to the story.
Alison Lester (2 April 2020) 'When Frank Was Four' [video] Youtube, accessed 21 November 2021.
2. Talk with someone in your family about what you could do when you were 1, 2 and 3.
3. How old are you now? What can you do?
4. What can you do this year that you couldn't do last year?
5. What do you think you will be able to do when you are 5? What about when you are 6 or 7?
Too hard?
Too hard?
Look at photos of yourself at 1, 2, 3 and now. Discuss with someone and celebrate the things that you have learnt to do each year.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Make a book using these sentences:
When I was 1 I could ... (draw or write one thing you could do at one).
When I was 2 I could ....
When I was 3 I could ....
Now I am 4 I can ....
When I am 5 I will be able to ....
Extra learning activities
Extra learning activities
Develop literacy concepts through story: Room on the broom.
Child voice
Child voice
Take a break
Take a break
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