Is your centre currently supporting your families with home learning packages?
We grouped together ideas that may support child’s learning at home. Any parent will appreciate having a list of easy to do activities that are not just entertaining but also have learning outcomes.
You might also want to share with parents the Yearly Years Learning Framework for their deeper understanding of suggested activities.
Connecting
□ Read and talk about a book together
□ Play “Follow the Leader” using movement or copying sounds
□ Go exploring to find the biggest/smallest rock or leaf or seed or flower
□ Play “What can you see?” outside using all of your senses.
□ “What can you hear? Feel? Smell?”
□ Go for a walk around your yard and collect things you find on the ground
□ Invite a family member to play a game with you
□ Help out in the garden
□ Make a mud painting
□ Dig in the dirt/sand pit
Sense of identity
□ Mirror play
□ Look at photos of yourself and your family.
□ Read books about the different cultures in your community
□ Talk about your culture and others in your community
□ Help make the meals for the family
□ Talk about the day’s activities and how to organise the day (using visual supports like a mini-cshedule)
□ Learn to set the table and help around the house
□ Sort the washing and fold the towels
□ Trace around their body with chalk and add in the details
Sense of wellbeing
□ Play catch with a balloon
□ Have a dance party
□ Practice deep breathing
□ Share how you are feeling using words, gestures, objects or visuals
□ Practice washing your hands while singing handwashing songs
□ Make a necklace using things you find in the backyard
□ Create a calm and quiet space inside the house using blankets
□ Make a mini obstacle course inside or outside
□ Make healthy snacks together e.g. fruit and vegetable faces
□ Play ‘Stop and Go’ games
□ Play hide and seek
Confident and involved learners
□ Have fun with coloured paper, glue, scissors, craft materials and pens
□ Dress up in other people’s clothes and act out different jobs
□ Lie back and look at the clouds
□ Use kitchen items to play music
□ Blow bubbles and find things to blow bubbles out of
□ Use boxes for pretend play
□ Build imaginary play spaces e.g. fairy garden, dinosaur cave
□ Take photographs of animals
□ Make a video using a phone
□ Use objects from the kitchen to pretend e.g. a spoon for a magic wand
□ Make animals or a boat out of something you find in nature (seed pod, leaf)
Effective communicators
□ Find colours, shapes and patterns outside and inside
□ Copy sounds made by others (vocal play)
□ Put toys in order of size, colour and shape
□ Find numbers around the house
□ Sing nursery rhymes with the actions
□ Play ‘Simon Says’ with your family
□ Water Play – fill and empty containers
□ Read books every day
□ Find items around your house that start with the first letter of your name
□ Retell favourite stories using actions, gestures, pictures or toys
□ Talk about your day and listen to others
□ Talk about the sounds and names of different animals
□ Draw shapes and squiggles in the sand with a stick pencil
You might also like this daily program which One Tree Community Services generously donated to the EduTribe community.
Please feel free to download it and share with your families.
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