PREP
Welcome to your Prep Online Learning Space. Here you will find a plethora of different experiences where you can continue to learn from home while in Isolation.
LEGO Tic Tac Toe! Make your own homemade LEGO tic tac toe board. This is a quick and easy DIY LEGO tic tac toe board activity perfect for rainy days or quiet time.
Learning the alphabet doesn’t have to be boring and stressful!. Here’s a fun and very simple way for your kids to practice building letters, tracing letters, and even writing letters. Can you build your name out of Lego?
Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge 2022
ARE YOU up for a challenge?
Do you love reading? Then why not join up for the Reading Challenge this year
Let your teacher know that you want to enter.
Once registered we'll give you a username and password as well as a list of books to read!!
You have until September to read your quota of books:
Prep - Year 2: 30 books (20 from the Challenge list)
Year 3-6: 15 books (10 from the Challenge list)
Watch the video "Let's Learn Our Number 1-10".
Practice writing all your numbers.
Can you write all the numbers from 1 - 10 that you know?
Write the numbers in your Maths books.
There really are so many fun ways to play with LEGO besides building with LEGO sets. Though we love those too!
This LEGO parachute for a minifigure is an awesome indoor activity and a mini science lesson too.
Take a trip to Mars and see what you can find out and see.
Teach your parents about Mars.
Smiling Mind is a mindfulness meditation app developed by psychologists and educators. The website provides mindfulness information for parents and a link to the Smiling Mind app.
Guulaangga, The Green Tree Frog is a beautiful story by Gloria Whalan and her people are the Wiradjuri.
Listen to author and artist Aunty Gloria Whalan, as she tells the story of Guulaangga. Gloria is an elder of the Morwell community, though she grew up in Lithgow, NSW.
This story is inspired by Gloria's experiences growing up on a farm.
After watching this clip, try drawing your own story about something your grandparents taught you.
Mail a hug!
Send a hug to someone who needs it most.
Get a family member to outline your body. Make sure you extend your arms and get some help to trace around body.
Then cut out you silhouette. Finally, embellish it with some paint and drawing.
Let it dry and package it up for the mail.
Learning the alphabet doesn’t have to be boring and stressful!. Here’s a fun and very simple way for your kids to practice building letters, tracing letters, and even writing letters. Can you build your name out of Lego?
Click on the link above to hear the beautiful story of caterpillar's shoes.
Maybe you could draw your own caterpillar.
I wonder what shoes your caterpillar will wear?
Enjoy this animation about butterflies.
What would you do if butterflies flew out of your book when you opened it?
Teach your children to count from 0 to 100 and from a hundred to a trillion.
A warning for adults - it may get stuck in your head!
A beautiful dancer spends all of her life stuck at the top of the clock tower. She spins on her toes incessantly in order for the clock to work.
One day she becomes curious about the world outside, especially the balloons that float past her window.
As she steps into the outside world something has changed. All the colour has gone from the world and everything is frozen in time.
The only thing that can bring it to life is our beautiful dancer, powering the clock again.
Get ready for writing:
Practice holding your pencil
Activities that can help build hand muscles to assist with developing a pencil grip
Zip lock bags: encourage using fingertips to press and seal
Buttoning, snapping
stringing pasta to create a necklace for mum
crumple small bits of tissue paper using fingertips, dip in glue and paste onto a paper plate or paper to make a flower bouquet or tear small pieces of paper with finger tips and paste them onto a sheet of paper to make a picture
Mega Blocks are large sized Legos and are best for preschool age children - build something and pull it apart
pop the bubbles on large or small bubble pack by pinching with thumb and index finger or by pushing down on bubbles when sheet is placed on a hard surface.
Make some playdough break off small pieces, then try rolling the putty or clay between the pads of the thumb and index finger to make small balls. Flatten small balls by pinching them between the pads of the thumb and index finger
Little J and Big Cuz
Wombat Rex (episode 2)
Watch episode 2 which goes for about 12 minutes
called Wombat Rex.
Tasks
Tell your family about what Big Cuz was trying to
trick Little J into believing.
Write about what your favourite part and the
message in the story?
The Zoo has set up 24/7 live-streaming cameras at Taronga Zoo Sydney so you can enjoy your favourite animals at any time of day.
If you can’t see them right now, check back a little later!
Listen as Anne Gela tells the story of "Gubuluk". Anne is a Mualgal woman from the St Paul community of Moa Island, which is in the inner-west Torres Strait group of islands.
After watching this clip, draw your favourite part of the story.