Schooling from home ideas
Specialist Classes
Physical Education
In all areas of the school we are focusing on Throwing and Catching.
Throwing – Single handed Underarm and Overarm using a variety of round balls of varying size and texture.
Students can practise throwing a ball at a target, to a partner, to themselves using any of the above mentioned methods. This can be done over varying distances for accuracy and power.
Catching – Using both hands, single handed.
Catching variations include
Catch the ball above your head and below your shoulders.
Catch the ball with your hands only not using your body as a cradle for the ball.
Catch the ball using two hands, one hand, alternate hands,
Catch a bouncing ball and on the full.
Visual Art
Design, and draw in great detail, a fantasy creature that has the following:
-between 1-7 heads
-as many eyes, noses/mouths/beaks as you like
-1 torso (chest and belly)
-between 1-12 arms, with or without hands
-as many legs as you like
-horns -OR- antlers -OR- crazy hair
-feathers –OR- fur –OR- scales
-wings –OR- claws
Once you have drawn your creature, give it a name based on the kind of noises that you imagine it might make.
Extra challenges:
-Draw the kind of habitat that your creature lives in.
-Draw the creature’s family
-Draw the creature’s favourite food
-Draw the creature as a baby
-Draw the creature doing its favourite activity
Have fun everyone! We can’t wait to see what you create! – Suzie and Jess.
Performing Arts
Prep, 1 & 2 Activity: Character Development
Watch one of their favourite TV shows.
Choose a character from the show.
With your child discuss and write down words that best describe that character.
Then write down 4 simple sentences that the character would say.
Student is then to practice becoming the character and saying the lines you wrote together.
Make sure they work on their movement, facial expressions and voice to represent the character the best that they can.
You may also like to film it and put it onto their google drive.
3/4 Student may decide to complete either a Character development activity or Artist Project.
5/6 Activity: Artist Project
Choose an artist to research. It can be a dancer, singer, actor, any type of performer.
Your information can be presented in any way that you like, google doc, google slides, on paper, filmed as a news reporter (be creative)
You need to include the following information:
- Who are they?
- Where are they from?
- What do they do?
- What are they most famous for?
- Interesting Facts
- Why did you choose this artist?
Italian
Reflections after Multicultural Day
All students can explore, reflect and elaborate on these topics:
1. What kind of clothes did you wear?
Make a drawing, explain what tradition your costume is link to.
2. What kind of food did you take to school?
Make a drawing, write the name of the dish, the main ingredients, the tradition it belongs to
3. What kind of chore did you do at home to earn your gold coin?
Tell us how did you get your gold coin and how you hope it will be used.
4. What family members did you interview to find out about your origins?
Try and draw your family tree, find out where your grandparents come from, what was their profession and why they came to Australia.
5. What are the other languages ways to say “Hello” that you learnt?
List your top ten greetings and add, if you want some words that you learnt from someone in your family.
6. Try to make a drawing where we can see all the highlights of the Multicultural day (the colourful costumes parade, the flags, the dancing, the senior students performance, the cartwheels, the stage, the ‘totems’ of our school, the Gelati Man with the gelati bike, etc.)
7. Find the meaning of these magic words (with google translate or a dictionary): 1. Amici 2. Famiglia 3. Buona Fortuna 4. Che bello! 5. Giochiamo insieme? 6. Mi piace… 7. Come stai? 8. Grazie 9. Per favore 10. Arrivederci 11. Buon viaggio 12. Forza Ragazzi!