Grade R – Week 1

Play - based learning – Stick Man by

Julia Donaldson
Play-based Learning

• What is play-based learning?

• Children are naturally motivated to play. A play-based program builds on this motivation, using play
as a context for learning. In this context, children can explore, experiment, discover and solve
problems in imaginative and playful ways.
• A play-based approach involves both child-initiated and teacher-supported learning. The teacher
encourages children’s learning and inquiry through interactions that aim to stretch their thinking to
higher levels.
• For example, while children are playing with blocks, a teacher can pose questions that encourage
problem solving, prediction and hypothesising. The teacher can also bring the child’s awareness
towards mathematics, science and literacy concepts, allowing them to engage with such concepts
through hands-on learning.

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 Outcomes to cover – Basic overview (Week 1)
LITERACY
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
• Develops language
• Classifies
• Solves and completes a puzzle
READING AND PHONICS
• Eye movement
• Print communicates meaning
HANDWRITING AND WRITING
• Fine motor control – cutting
• Begins to for letters
• Draws pictures to convey a
message
MATHEMATICS
NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS
• COUNTING
• Counts objects reliably
• Counts objects in sequence
• Rote counting
• Number rhyme
• READS
• Number symbols
• Number names – match
LIFE SKILLS
BEGINNING KNOWLEGDE
• Discuss theme
• Investigation and exploration –
Science
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
WELLBEING
• Having compassion for someone
VISUAL ARTS
• 2D Art – Print and size
• 3D Art – Playdough
• Visual – Story time
PERFORMING ARTS
• Creative games
• Creative movement
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
• Full body exploration

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Listen to the story – Stick Man by Julia Donaldson

All our activities for this week will be based on a story by Julia Donaldson – “Stick man”.

Please click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFhJrLVu3T0

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 Mathematic Lesson Ideas
• Go on a stick hunt – find lots and lots of sticks – You will use them for Literacy / Mathematics / Life Skills

• Use your collected sticks

COUNTS

• How many long / short/ skinny / fat/ straight / bended sticks did you find.
• Cut 5 toilet rolls in half – number them 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10
• Count out your sticks to pop into each toilet roll.
• Sort the sticks in size – biggest to shortest / longest to shortest.
• Number Rhyme – One, two buckle my shoe

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 Mathematic Lesson Ideas
• READS

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 Life Skills Lesson Ideas
• Go on a stick hunt – find lots and lots of sticks – You will use them for Literacy / Mathematics / Life Skills

BEGINNING KNOWLEGDE
• Discuss the story, what did your child remember – highlight different themes – allow your child to lead the discuss and ask
questions to extend their knowledge.
• Science – Make a snowman
• Mix one box of Bi Carbonate of soda and 1 tin of shaving cream. Manipulate the mixture until it becomes snow like
texture. Decorate your snowman with you collected twigs.

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL WELLBEING

• 2D Art – Print and size – dip sticks into paint to create a pattern on a blank page. Collect leaves and sticks to create your own
stick man on you your patterned background.
• 3D Art – Playdough manipulation or make a stick crown.
• Visual – Storytime

PERFORMING ARTS
• Creative games – make stickman puppets and create your own stickman story and retell it to your family.
• Creative movement – Act out the different shapes the stickman took – bat / arm / flag / firewood

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Life Skills Lesson Ideas
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
• Balloon Fun
• Walk along a line sideways with a balloon in between your legs
Join Joe !
• Choose a parent or sibling and walk back to back with trying to keep the balloon in place Physical education should
• Keep the balloon in the air while in the crab position. be part of your child's daily
routine. Why not join Joe,
the PE teacher, for a daily
workout. 

https://www.youtube.com/u
ser/thebodycoach1

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Keep Playing!
Angie Bezuidenhout / Zelna Snyman