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To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
skipping rope
Overview of today's activities:
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: Reusing vegetable scraps (20 minutes)
Activity 2: Count the dots (10 minutes)
Activity 3: My favourite place (15 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Skipping (15 minutes)
Activity 5: Story time in different languages (15 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
Reusing vegetable scraps
Reusing vegetable scraps
Learning goal: Children become conscious of living more sustainably.
When we cook food, a lot of fruit and vegetable scraps get thrown in the bin. This can be harmful for our environment because as the scraps rot away in landfill (the tip) they send out a gas that can make our earth too warm.
1.Listen to this book about using fruit and veggie scraps.
2. What happens in your home to fruit and vegetable scraps?
3. What are the different parts of fruit and vegetables that get thrown out?
4. Pick one of the ways in the book to use fruit and vegetable scraps.
5. Draw your idea and put your plan into action next time you have scraps to use.
Count the dots
Count the dots
Learning goal: Children count small collections and recognise numerals.
1. Use your finger to drag the green dice into the middle of the blue work area below.
2. Click the two white dice to roll the dice.
3. Count the dots. How many?
4. Repeat a number of times, each time counting the dots and saying how many.
5. Click the arrow to clear the work area.
6. Use your finger to drag the number 5 into the middle of the blue work area.
7. Click the two dice to change the number.
8. Say the number.
9. Repeat a number of times, each time saying the new number.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Practice counting whatever is near you, for example:
Count a handful of blocks. How many?
Count the shoes on your feet. How many?
Count pieces of fruit. How many?
Too easy?
Too easy?
Drag 2 dice onto the work area.
Count how many dots on each dice and then count how many dots altogether.
Say which dice has the largest number.
My favourite place
My favourite place
Learning goal: Children express a sense of belonging to their favourite place.
1. Watch the video.
My favourite place
Duration: 02:07
2. Where is your favourite place? How does being in this place make you feel?
3. Draw or paint your favourite place.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Show someone your favourite place.
Tell some about your favourite place.
Draw a picture of the part of your home you like the best.
Too easy?
Too easy?
What other places do you like to visit? Why?
Ask people in your family where their favourite place is.
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
Skipping
Skipping
Learning goal: Children participate in skipping to develop fitness and coordination.
Skipping is great fun and helps us stay fit and healthy. To find out if a rope is the right size for you, stand on the middle of it and pull the handles up. The handles should reach between your belly and armpits.
1. Watch the video and follow the instructions to skip.
Physi Kids (21 May 2020) 'Learn how to jump rope' [video], YouTube, accessed 4 November 2021.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Lay a rope on the ground and practise jumping over and back again. Practise big jumps first and then try small, quick jumps.
When you feel confident doing this, try using a hoop to jump through, instead of a skipping rope.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Try skipping backwards. It's the same movements, but in reverse.
Story time in different languages
Story time in different languages
Learning goal: Children make meaning from a text and respect diversity.
1. Listen to a story in a different language. Choose between:
We're going on a bear hunt - told in Arabic
The little red hen and the grains of wheat - told in Mandarin
Diary of a wombat - told in Cantonese
Too many pears - told in Japanese
Guess how much I love you - told in Italian.
2. Think and talk about these questions:
How did you find the story?
Was it in a language you could understand?
If not, did the pictures help you understand the words?
3. What language/s does your family speak at home? Read your favourite story in your language.
Too hard?
Too hard?
As you listen to the story of your choice, talk with someone about what you can see in the pictures.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Listen to the story again. This time mute the sound and ask someone to read you the English subtitles.
Extra learning activities
Extra learning activities
Develop literacy concepts through story: The magic hat.
Child voice
Child voice
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