Suggested Activities - Year 1
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KLA's
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Possible
Activities
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SOSE, Science
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Unit: Fresh from the Farm - (a) after
a farm visit, students use age appropriate painting package to draw a
picture of farm life. (b) use early learning
software (eg James Discovers Math) to count out fruit on a shopping list.
(c) teacher supported slide show development of
'What am I' Fresh Food Quiz (hints and answer slides)
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HPE, SOSE
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Unit: All about Me! - (a)
using a paint package with stamps, students do a self portrait or a series
of faces with different features. (b)
in a short
class-produced intranet web page, children (with help) type short bits of
information about themselves.
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SOSE, English, Technology
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Unit: Teddy Bear Rappers - (a)
class takes part in the annual 'Teddy Bear Book Rap' through Oz-Teachernet.
Teacher manages email communications involved. Students as a class group
formulate responses and write stories about bears. (b)
simple invitations to a teddy bear's picnic with the support of the
teacher done with an age appropriate program. (c)
design a bears' house
-what would bears love to have inside? - drawings on computer with stamps
of paint program inside simple empty house picture drawn by teacher (like
open dolls' house)
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English, Technology
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Unit: Fun and Fairy Tales - (a)
children interact with CD ROM based stories (b)
with a paint program, draw themselves alongside their favourite character.
(c)
fun with tales - teacher directed, class reinvention of an old fairy tale published
as a narrated slide show to be viewed in the class room
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The Arts, English, SOSE
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Unit: The Circus Comes to School! -
(a) animals of the circus, computer clip art and children's
computer drawings printed out. (b) a
published list of what people like to see at a circus. (c) a
computer published circus poster. (d) a
recall of a visit to the circus as a computer slide show.
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HPE, The Arts, SOSE
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Unit: I Sense Therefore I Am -
(a)
published posters of clip art - mouth eyes, ears etc.. with large words
typed by students band posted underneath, telling how we examples of
everyday things what do we use our senses for. (b)
Sensory walk - a recall of all seen, heard, felt etc on an excursion to
say, the forest for example as a slide show (c)
simple computer
concept map - what can't we reproduce easily to describe/present what the
senses have experienced?
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