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Program Overview 12th-26th August
Program Overview 12th-26th August
An overview of Online learning in the Five learning Outcomes
12th – 26th August – An overview of Online learning in the Five Learning Outcomes
IDENTITY – Emotional Development
Fruit Kebabs – This activity has opportunities for learning across all areas of development and is a great way for children to enjoy their contributions within their family.
Practicing resilience – Using positive thinking, learning how to make friends, managing strong feelings in a calm way and making decisions or “strong choices” (this is the language we use at Kindergarten) are some of the skills that will help your child become more resilient. We have some reading around developing resilience on our website.
In our next learning packs, we will include a picture of Bounce-back bear. Bounce-back bear works hard on the things we work on at Kindergarten. Bounce-back bear uses positive self-talk, tries even when things are hard and thinks of mistakes as a way to learn. You can decorate bounce back bear any way you like and think about times you have been able to bounce back.
Connecting with and sharing your learning with your teachers – Send us a photo or drawing of your fruit kebab.
Send us words about being resilient:
· Something you are looking forward to
· Something that makes you happy
· Something you are getting better at
· Something you have tried very hard to do and made it?
· One good thing that has happened to you today
COMMUNITY – Social Development
Guess the animal game – Details attached
Connecting with and sharing your learning with your teachers - you might like to send us a photo or video of you moving like an animal. Or maybe you can draw a picture of an Australian animal and tell us a word to describe how it is moving?
Our Show and Share Zoom chats – we are working towards beginning these in the week beginning 17th August. You might like to start thinking about what you will share. Choose one thing. It could be a toy, book or photo. You can think about what questions you might ask the other children about the thing they are showing. You could ask “Where did you get it?” “Why do you like it?” etc. Being interested in others is friendly talk and is an important skill for making friends and including others. You will receive more information about this closer to the time.
WELLBEING – Mental Health and Physical Development
Our video “Koori Dreamtime”. Your child can dance like the different Australian animals with Kylie. They can clap along or make their own clapsticks to use. We use this dance as another way to reinforce the message that the first people; The Boonwurrung (where we live) were experts at looking after the animals and the land. They were great story tellers and often told their stories through dance. The words to the chorus are “Koori woman, Koori man, caring for the living land and if you love Australia true; you can be a Koori too.”
Singing, dancing and drama – Music and drama support cognitive learning, motor skills, spatial awareness visual and auditory processing and memory, language development and imagination.
https://www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/shake-and-move/
This website is great. The Engage children in physical activity with fun, energetic music for dancing and free play. The Shake and Move from 7th August has one of our favourite Kinder dances on it; “The Dinosaur Stomp.”
Connecting with and sharing your learning with your teachers
Send us a photo, video or picture of you dancing
Which is your favourite animal? Why?
Did you think of a way to make your own clapsticks? Show us or tell us about them.
LEARNING – Cognitive Development
Create your own Australian animal – Children are active learners and engaging in this activity and any type of play-based learning gives children the opportunity to invent, investigate and discover.
Sorting – It is important for children to develop specific language skills related to Maths. Sorting activities support your child to understand concepts such as same and different.
Connecting with and sharing your learning with your teachers – Send us a picture or photo or description of your Australian animal and/or your sorting work.
COMMUNICATION – Communication Development
Videos – Books
Kylie reads “Wombat Stew”
Kim reads “Australian animal lift the flap book”
Connecting with and sharing your learning with your teachers - Can you guess the Australian animal in the Lift the Flap book by listening carefully to the clues?
Can you join in with the rhyming words in Wombat Stew? This is a fun story to act out. Maybe you could make your own wombat stew. At home; can you find any of the ingredients that were in the Wombat stew? Gumnuts? Insects? Can you make your own mud?
Observational Art and Connecting with Country
We are looking forward to seeing your representation of the wattle.
Where to find Further resources – There are lots of resources available on our website. There are lots of great websites and ideas for activities under our “resources to use at home” section. There is also more great reading about Social and Emotional learning and Self-regulation.
Fruit kebabs
Fruit kebabs
Can you make a healthy fruit kebabs?
Can you make a healthy fruit kebabs?
Children can engage in learning about healthy eating habits in a hands on , meaningful way; laerning the way they learn best. This is a great opportunity to talk about why it is important to eat a rainbow of foods so we can have lots of different vitamins and minerals. Fine motor skills are practiced during the threading of the fruit. Children can put their patterning skills to the test as they make their kebab. They could take orders for the kebab; they can write or draw what each family member would like on their kebab.
Connecting with your teachers:
Send us a photo or drawing of the fruit kabab you made.
Which was your favourite fruit or Vegetable?
Can you use some words to describe the taste to us? Wasi it soft? Sweet? Sour? Crunchy?
Can you teach your family to do mindful eating like we do at Kindergarten? Can you explain the rules to them?
Additional Ideas
Make a surprise plate – Try and have as many different colours on the plate as you can. Plan your plate first by drawing pictures of it. Ideas could be raw beans, snow peas, capsicum, fruit, crackers, cheese, nuts, the possibilities are endless.
Reinforcing sharing - Prepare a meal or snack with your child. Remind your child that you’re making the food to share. For example, ‘There are five of us. Do you think that’s enough strawberries for everyone?’
Numeracy learning - Ask your child to count the number of people, and help her to divide food among plates or bowls. If you’re serving at the table, remind your child of your family rules – for example, serve the oldest person or the birthday person first, and serve yourself last.
Reinforcing thinking about fairness - Encourage your child to think about fairness. For example, ‘there’s only one piece of cake left, but Liam and Rose both want it. What should we do?’
Write a shopping list – write or draw the fruit, vegetables you will need. Use this learning activity sheet to encourage children to make a shopping list and practice mark making and writing as well as contributing to family activities.
Juicing oranges – This great idea was shared with us from Timmy’s Mum. So much great learning can happen here. Talking about cutting the oranges in half, (exploring fractions), How many oranges do we need to make one glass of juice (exploring capacity) fine motor skills (doing the juicing), language (what else do we get juice from? What else is round? What else is orange?) Contributing to the family. (making a refreshing drink of juice for everyone in the family)
IMG_2412.MOVKylie reads Wombat stew
Kylie reads Wombat stew
Can you join in with the rhyming words in Wombat Stew? This is a fun story to act out.
Maybe you could make your own wombat stew. At home; can you find any of the ingredients that were in the Wombat Stew? Gumnuts? Insects? Can you make your own mud?
Creating Australian Animals at home – The possibilities are endless………….
Creating Australian Animals at home – The possibilities are endless………….
Can you make your very own Australian animal at home?
You are all so good at being creative and using your imagination. Will you get your ideas on paper by using a thinking tool? Will you find some boxes to create with? Will you use clay or play dough? How about some natural materials like leaves and gum nuts from outside? You could move or dance like an Australian animal? You could research your favourite animal and tell us what you learnt. Tell us about What it eats? Where it lives? (the habitat) Where can it camouflage? Is it big or small? How many legs does it have? How does it move? Why do you like it? Is it nocturnal?
Sharing your learning with your teachers – send us a photo, picture or description… we can’t wait to see
You might take your inspiration from a book, a photo, a memory, a song, something in your learning pack or one of these photos ……………..
IMG_2414.MOVKoorie Dream Time Dance
Koorie Dream Time Dance
Join in with Kylie and dance like the different Australian Animals.
You might like to clap along, or even make your own clap sticks to use.
Perhaps you could send us a photo or video of you dancing.
Check out shake and move (see below) for more music and dancing. Just click on "open in new tab " to access the full website.
Sorting small things.pdfLet's get sorting
Let's get sorting
You might like to do some sorting of buttons, pegs, or money. Or perhaps you might sort your hot wheels cars or lego blocks. How many different ways can you sort them? By colour? By size? By shape?
Get busy and share your photos with us.
IMG_2413.MOVAustralian Animals Lift the flap book
Australian Animals Lift the flap book
Join Kim as she discovers all sorts of Australian Animals. Can you guess the Australian Animal by listening carefully to the clues?
Observational Drawing or Painting and Connecting to Country
Observational Drawing or Painting and Connecting to Country
Children communicate their thoughts and feelings through a range of different media. The children have recently enjoyed observational drawing and painting. This is beautiful wattle is from our tree at Kindergarten. We would love to see your drawing or painting of this wattle.
Connecting to Country – Learning about and celebrating the deep connection the first people had with the land. They have an amazing connection and understanding about how the seasons worked, it’s plants grew and how the animals behaved. very part of the wattle was used by the first people; the Boonwurrung. They used the seeds, bark, wood and gum. The bark has lots of cracks, making it stringy and ideal for string and rope making. The bark is also known to ooze resin which was prised by Aboriginal people who found it useful for waterproofing and gluing tools together, such as stone axe heads to a wooden handle. The resin was also eaten and could be mixed with ash from burnt bark and applied to wounds and sores. The wood was used widely to make digging sticks while the gum was dissolved in water to make a mild sweet drink and also mixed with ash for use as resin. The seed pods yield another important food source by grinding the pods between two grinding stones to make flour, which could then be used to make bread. Fallen wattle flowers were used to fish for eels, as they feed on a particular grub that lives in the flowers.
Some activity ideas – Can you use a mortar and pestle to grind up some interesting plants (where leaves or petals have fallen on to the ground) from your garden?
Can you make your own Coolamon? (wooden bowl) or find one and use it to collect interesting things in your garden?
Have you got a eucalyptus leave in your garden? Crush it and smell it; the oils will be released making the smell of the bush.
Guess the animal game
Guess the animal game
Guess the animal game: why it’s good for children
This game involves guessing what animal the other person is pretending to be.
Playing this guess the animal game gets children using their imaginations. It also encourages thinking skills as children try to work out what animal you’re pretending to be. It’s good exercise too, as you hop, crawl, wriggle or canter around.
You might like to include lots of Australian animals as we are learning about those at them moment; e.g. Dig like a wombat, fly like a wedge-tailed eagle.
What you need to play guess the animal
You can play this game anywhere, but an open space like a garden will give you lots of room to move. Books with pictures of animals can spark ideas for your child.
How to play guess the animal
Ask your child to choose an animal.
Ask your child to think about the way the animal moves. Look at pictures in a book together, if your child isn’t sure.
Encourage your child to move like the animal they’ve chosen.
Try and guess what the animal is.
Take turns to move like different animals. You could crawl like a spider, hop like a kangaroo, slither like a snake, or gallop like a horse.
Ask each other questions to help you guess. For example, ‘What noise does it make?’, ‘What does it eat?’, ‘Is it fast or slow?’, ‘Is it little or big?’ or ‘Do I like it?’
Adapting a guess the animal game for children of different ages
If your younger child doesn’t want to stop pretending to be the animal when it’s your turn, that’s OK. Just follow your child’s lead, and join in. Maybe you can both be slithery snakes or jumping bunnies.
Your older child might enjoy trying to ‘trick’ you with obscure or very specific animals, like an armadillo or a clown fish. If the game is going on too long, you can try setting a limit on the number of questions you can ask before the other person has to tell you the answer.
Connecting with your teachers – you might like to send us a photo or video of you moving like an animal. Or maybe you can draw a picture of an Australian animal and tell us a word to describe how it is moving?
This game comes from the raising children.net.au website
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