Ideas for Week 6

Kindergarten

Calendar
- Attempt to reintroduce calendar time / investigate Waratah's preferences for calendar time

Religion
- Samson's riddles

Maths
- Chocolate halves and fourths (Teacher's Bag - pdf in math's resources)
- Fair or not fair? - learn to count money [Link]
- Dino footprint estimation [Link]

English
- Mum Bug's Bag
- word match - pink word cards
- Dinosaur printable book [Link]

Science & Technology: Looking around you - Why are some things in some places?
- Make a fossil from glue [Link]
- Dino trackers experiment (Baking soda and vinegar) [Link]
- Discuss fossils and vandalism [Link]
- Dinosaur pasta skeleton [Link]

Human Society & Environment: Families Past and Present - A trip to the beach.
- Show and tell
- Beach safety (discussion)
- Fun things to do
- Read a story about going to the beach
- What is your favourite thing to do at the beach?
- Write a story about going to the beach
- What other things would be fun to write a story about?
- Beach and dinosaur playscapes:
• Little beach [Link]
• Dinosaur cave [Link]
• Ocean Sensory Play [Link]

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
- Sprint Run
• Students use a hoop or skipping rope to create a personal space. They run on the spot in this space. They practise swinging bent arms, lifting legs up high and pretending to run up a hill.
• Play “Simon says.” Ask students to run while focusing on specific body parts or movements. For example, ask students to run: taking small steps (a low knee lift); taking normal steps (a high knee lift), with and without an arm swing; with head moving from side to side; and with head held still and eyes focused ahead.
• increase the length of their stride when running by placing markers or lines on the ground to mark each time the foot touches the ground
• visualise hammering nails into the wall with their elbows to visualise arm action
• explore different hand positions to find which hand position is most comfortable, for example, pretending to carry a rolled-up newspaper or relay baton, fingers together and straight, fingers curled gently as if the thumbs are hooked into the pockets of their jeans or fingers stretched out wide.
• Let students explore running at different speeds. Discuss with students how you land on different parts of the foot when running at different speeds. Students should land on the ball of the foot when sprinting, and when running slowly or jogging, land on the heel and then roll onto the ball of the foot for take-off.

Creative Arts
- Origami dinosaurs [Link]
- Fossil rubbing

Language
- Latin names for dinosaurs

Other Activities
- Playgroup at Silverdale
- Playgroup at Penrith
- Picnic with Grandma

Preschool

- Pretend shop [Link]
- Dino Bingo (shared activity) [Link]
- Name soup [Link]
- Pre-printing practice (white board sheets)
- Animal hunt [Link]

Infant Activities