1. Science
1.1. Earth & Space Science: Daily and seasonal changes in our environments affect everyday life (ACSSU004)
1.1.1. Activity Idea: Students will discuss the names of the four seasons and their characteristics that will have and connect this to the season that is depicted in the text (ie an Australian summer). Students will then create a diorama representing the season of summer using the text as a guide.
1.2. Earth & Space Science: Engage in discussions about observations and represent ideas (ACSIS233)
1.2.1. Activity Idea: An Excursion to the beach. Students will create drawings to represent what they can see at the beach. These observational drawings will then be used to describe what they heard, saw, felt and smelt.
1.3. Cross-Curriculum Priority: Sustainability
1.3.1. Activity Idea: Protecting the marine life at our beaches. The whole class will brainstorm ways we can protect the marine life in our oceans. Some examples may include substituting plastic straws to metal reusable straws or not littering.
2. Humanities
2.1. Pose and respond to questions about the familiar (WAHASS02)
2.1.1. Activity Idea: Semantic Association (adapted from First Steps Reading Map of Development, p. 181). Students will work in small groups to share (verbally) all the words they can think of related to the theme of 'what do you know about the beach, what can you find there, what can you see there, what can you smell there?' Students will bring the words that they have thought of back to a whole class discussion. The educator will provide additional words to support the vocabulary that appears within the text. These words will then be added to the classroom word wall.
2.2. Humanities and Social Sciences: History- Identify prior knowledge about a topic (e.g. shared discussion, think-pair-share) (WAHASS01)
2.2.1. Activity Idea: Think-Pair-Share. Students will share with their partner what they know about the beach and what they think the book might be about.
2.3. Humanities and Social Sciences: History- Who the people in their family are, where they were born and raised and showing how they are related to each other, using simple family trees (ACHASSK011)
2.3.1. Activity Idea: Students will conduct an oral history interview with an older family member about the students' family history.
3. Mathematics
3.1. Measurement and Geometry- Sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment (ACMMG009)
3.1.1. Activity Idea: Build a sand castle. Name the shapes that you can see in your sand castle
3.2. Patterns and Algebra: Sort and classify familiar objects and explain the basis for these classifications. Copy, continue and create patterns with objects and drawings
3.2.1. Activity Idea: Patterns at the beach. Students will create a pattern using natural loose parts that they collect from the beach.
3.3. Number and Place Value: Connect number names, numerals and quantities, initially up to 10 and then beyond (ACMNA002)
3.3.1. Activity Idea- Counting shells: The educator will set a timer of one minute and during this time students will run and collect as many shells as they can find. Once the time is up the students then come back to the educator and count how many shells they have collected.
4. English
4.1. Language
4.1.1. Text Organisation and Structure: Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, for example directionality (ACELA1433)
4.1.1.1. Activity Idea: Shared reading. Before reading the text with students, ask students which is the front cover and which is the back cover. Then ask students where to start reading from.
4.1.2. Text Organisation and Structure: Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences (ACELA1432)
4.1.2.1. Activity Idea- Punctuation Cloze using Punctuation Puppets (adapted from First Steps Reading Map of Development, p.239): Using sections of the text that students are familiar with and have read many times, the educator will prepare a few passages from the book by deleting punctuation marks so that students can fill in the gaps using their punctuation puppets (full stops and capital letters). Educator will use removable stickers to cover the key punctuation marks during a shared reading lesson.
4.1.3. Expressing and Developing Ideas: Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786
4.1.3.1. Activity Idea: Students will participate in a shared reading activity where the teacher encourages students to tell the story using only the illustrations in the text.
4.1.4. Phonics and Word Knowledge: Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration, patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (ACELA1439)
4.1.4.1. Activity Idea: 'I'm going on a picnic' focusing on alliteration and individual phonemes. Going around a circle students will name a word beginning with that alliteration pattern or phoneme. The educator will state the pattern and provide some example words to scaffold the students before they begin the activity.
4.1.5. Recognise and name all upper and lower case letters (graphemes) and know the most common sounds that each letter represents (ACELA1440)
4.1.5.1. Activity Idea- Musical Sounds: Students will move around the classroom to music. When the music stops the students have to go and touch an object in the classroom that has a selected sound from the book in it.
4.2. Literacy
4.2.1. Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations. (ACELY1646)
4.2.1.1. Activity Idea: Story Map. Students will complete a story map answering who the characters are, what the plot is, and where is the book set.
4.2.2. Deliver short oral presentations to peers (ACELY1647)
4.2.2.1. Activity Idea- Show and Tell: Students will bring in a photo from home. Each student will bring in a photo of their family/significant person in their life. and they will present their photo to the class, naming the members in their family/significant person in the photo and describing what their favourite activity to do with their family/significant person is.
4.3. Literature
4.3.1. Examining literature: Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578)
4.3.1.1. Activity Idea- Telestory: In small groups, students will work together to act out their allocated page of the text using Telestory.
4.3.2. Interpreting, Analysing and Evaluating: Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge (ACELY1649)
4.3.2.1. Activity Idea- Word Cloze Activity (adapted from First Steps Reading Map of Development, p.239): The educator will prepare a few pages of the book by deleting a word from a few sentences on the page. The educator will scaffold students with questions and students will then decide what the missing word is during a whole class shared reading lesson.
4.3.2.2. Activity Idea- Modelled Reading: The educator will facilitate a modelled reading lesson drawing students attention to the high frequency words that appear throughout the text and the educator will also demonstrate the reading strategy of sounding out consonant-vowel- consonant words.
4.3.3. Innovate on familiar texts through play (ACELT1831)
4.3.3.1. Activity Idea: Digging for letters. In the sandbox have some plastic letters. Students will use spades to dig for letters. As the students find the letters, the students will have to name that letter and the common sound that it makes. Encourage students to think about some words that appeared in the text that also include that letter sound.
4.3.4. Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students' own experiences (ACELT1575)
4.3.4.1. Activity Idea- My favourite place to visit with my family: Linking students own experiences to the text, students will create a Chatterpix explaining their favourite place to go with their family/ family member. Students will be given prompting questions to answer such as: what is the name of your favourite place to visit with your family, why is it your favourite place and what do you do at your favourite place. The finished product will then be uploaded to SeeSaw for the teacher to view and assess.
5. Health and Physical Education
5.1. Actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing such as: following safety symbols and procedures (ACPPS006)
5.1.1. Students will draw and write a packing list of everything that they have to bring to the excursion in order to be sun smart.
5.1.2. Water safety. As a class, students will create a list of rules to follow whilst at the beach including swimming in the swallow water (up to your ankles), swimming between the flags, climbing on rocks that have been deemed safe by the educator and staying within sight at all times.
5.1.3. Viewing a sun safety video to assist students with creating their sun smart packing list.