Month Commencing: March
Room: Dolphins
Educators: Joy Villabroza, Lindsay Nebiar, Mehakpreet Kaur, Sherwin Pura
Category Week 1
Construction/Engineering Under the sea small world adventure (National
Sea Week) – Engage children to create own
underwater world using different materials
including sensory bins, bucket, sand, shells, crabs,
plants and more. This will encourage children to
explore marine life and natural world (Mehakpreet)
Creative Arts/Music Toilet tissue Octopus & painting – Provide children
material including Toilet tissue rolls, googly eyes,
scissor, glue, paint and paint brush and let them
be creative, promoting fine motor skills,
imagination, and artistic expression.
Make Puffer Fish – Provide materials including
paper plates, various paints, paintbrushes, glue,
scissors, markers, crayons and googly eyes and
let them be creative, promoting fine motor skills,
imagination, and artistic expression.
Mermaid Painting – Provide children paint in
various colors, paint brushes and mermaid sketch
paper and encourage them to paint mermaid
scales in different colors and patterns,
encouraging imagination and artistic expression
(Mehakpreet)
Dramatic Play Under Sea Aquarium Exhibit - Create underwater
setting by sensory bin with water, colorful fish,
coral reefs, sand, stone and other marine life.
Group Time Introduce National Sea Week – Gather children
and introduce to purpose and significance of sea
week through video and storytelling.
Story Basket “Under Sea Creatures’ – Make a
basket decorated with ocean-themed images or
creatures props, tell children story about under
water creature and take them on an underwater
adventure filled with fascinating marine creatures,
fostering imagination and senses.
Learn Sea Layer – Discuss the concept of ocean
Week 2
Add Piece of Fabric for Wooden Block – Provide
children with materials including wooden blocks,
scissors, glue and colorful fabric pieces.
Encourage them to combine block and fabric to
create imaginative creation, developing spatial
awareness, fine motor skills and creativity.
Draw own Favorite Clothes – Provide children
colored pencils, papers and decorating materials
and encourage them to draw and decor their
favorite clothes, fostering creativity, imagination
and fine motor skills.
Crafts with Buttons - Provide children colorful
buttons, glue, paper with animal or flower drawn
on it and encourage them to décor the sketch
with button, choosing color and patterns of their
choice. This will help them foster agency,
autonomy, imagination and fine motor skills
(Mehakpreet).
String Pull Paint Art – Provide children materials
including acyclic paints, string, cupcake molds
and canvas papers and make them create
beautiful patterns with cupcake molds and
designs using different string pull techniques,
fostering imagination, creativity, fine motor and
communication skills (Mehakpreet).
Post Office Play – Provide children mailbox,
letter, envelops, stamps, sticker and pens and
engage them in imaginative role-playing,
fostering social, emotional, and cognitive
development.
Learn about clothes in different Season –
Visually show children clothes typically worn in
each season and discuss the types of clothing.
Read Story ‘Porcupine’s Pie’ – Read story about
the adventures of a little porcupine named Percy
who aims to find the perfect ingredients for his
grandmother's famous pie.
Week 3
Junk Yard Construction – Provide children
empty tissue roll and boxes, scissors, glue
and craft materials and encourage them to
be creative with the design of their
junkyard.
Harmony Day Bracelet – Provide harmony
day print, scissors, color pencils and glue.
Encourage children to colors the prints,
cut them into bracelet and tie around their
wrist, learning cultural awareness, fine
motor skills and creative expression
(Mehakpreet).
Harmony Day Tree – Make tree canvas,
provide colored sheet and make children
cut paper as handprints and write name of
each children on hand paper. Stick the
handprints on tree canas as a tree
branches, learning cultural awareness,
fine motor skills and creative expression.
Read book ‘We are One’ – Read the book,
make children to listen attentively and
make discussion on book themes
including unity, diversity, and inclusion.
Aboriginal Paper plate dance – Provide
children paper plates decorated with
traditional Aboriginal symbols and
patterns, teach them some basic
Aboriginal dance movements and
encourage to follow, fostering cultural
Week 4
Holi Rainbow Handprint – Provide children
paint colors, paintbrush, white paper and
mixing palate. Encourage children to dip
their hand into the paint and press their
painted hand onto the paper to create a
handprint, fostering cultural awareness,
fine motor skills and artistic expression.
Paint Holi shirts with hands – Set an
indoor table activity, provide a shirt
drawing and paint colors. Encourage
children to use their hands to put paint
colors on shirt and make it colorful,
nurturing fine motor skills, imagination and
creativity (Mehakpreet).
What is Holi? – Gather children together in
a circle, discuss significance and custom
and traditions of Holi. Also, discuss the
importance of forgiveness and spreading
joy during Holi.
 layers and explain children that the ocean is
divided into different zones based on factors such
as depth, light, and temperature.
Language/Literacy Fishing Letters and Numbers – Provide children
with fish cutouts with numbers and letters written,
make them practice letter and number recognition,
as well as fine motor skills.
Manipulative/Sensory
Science & Mathematics Count Sea Shells – Provide children number card
and assorted sea shells, encourage children to
explore the sea shells and feel their textures.
Count and sort and match with corresponding
number card, promoting numeracy skill and fine
motor skills.
Multicultural/Aboriginal
Outdoor/Indoor
Letter & Words Matching Board: Provide children
hand-drawn letter puzzles, poster board, marker,
glue and scissor. Invite children to match the
letter puzzles to the corresponding letters on the
board, fostering problem-solving, critical-thinking
and letter recognition (Mehakpreet)
Colored Ice Sensory Play – Provide material
including ice cube molds, water, food color and
plastic toys. Encourage children to add water in
mold and then add color of their choice, place
plastic toys into some of the compartments and
let it freeze for an hour. Once freeze, encourage
them explore the colored ice cubes using their
hands and senses.
Experiment secondary color using paints –
Provide children materials including Primary
color paints (red, blue and yellow), Paintbrushes
and white paper. Encourage them to mix two
primary colors to make a secondary color,
fostering scientific inquiry and creativity.
Cultural Spin – Provide children with an
opportunity to explore Aboriginal culture through
creative expression by drawing in sand or dirt.
Tracing Dots Geoboard Challenge – Provide
children geoboard, rubber bands and geometric
shapes prints with dots marked. Encourage them
explore geometric shapes through hands-on
exploration while developing fine motor skills.
Outdoor Gardening – Provide children safe
gardening tools appropriate for their little hands
including shovel, rakes, watering can and more.
Encourage them to plant seeds and develop
commitment to environmental awareness and
awareness and physical health.
Arrange Alphabet using Colorful Clay –
Provide children colorful clay, letter molds
and rolling pin. Encourage children to
shape the clay into letters of the alphabet
and arrange the letters in alphabetical
order, fostering creativity and letter
recognition.
Recycling Sorting Game - Arrange large
bins with each labeled with a different
recycling category and provide children
different recyclable items to sort such as
plastic, paper, glass and metal, fostering
numeracy skills and environmental
awareness.
Aboriginal craft with Stones – Provide
smooth stones in different sizes, paints
and paint brushes. Provide examples of
Aboriginal symbols and patterns, and
encourage children to pain those patterns
on stones.
Treasure hunt in Sandpit – Provide
children sandpit, sand tools and treasure
objects. Encourage the children to explore
the sandpit and search for hidden
treasures, fostering sensory exploration,
social skills and problem-solving skills.
Bunny Tracing Letter - Design activity to
help children recognize and practice
bunny letters and develop their
understanding of the sounds it makes
(Mehakpreet)
Holi Fizzy Science Experiment – Provide
children baking soda, vinegar, Liquid food
colors, cups for mixing and droppers. Mix
water, baking soda and food colors,
and using dropper add vinegar in soda
colored water, fostering cultural
awareness and scientific inquiry.
Learning about Shapes through Play –
Provide page print with different
geometrical shapes, including rectangle,
circle, heart, diamond, square and more
and color pencils. Encourage children to
call out the shape names and color
shapes (Mehakpreet)
Egg Hunt Activity – Provide children easter
day props, bunny baskets and hide the
eater eggs in indoor area. Encourage
children to explore each corner and find
colorful eggs, fostering
developing physical and cognitive skills as
well as cultivate their sense of joy and
community spirit.

School Readiness Sea Week Tracing Letter - Design activity to help
children recognize and practice sea theme letters
in both uppercase and lowercase and develop
their understanding of the sounds it makes.
Letter of the Week - Continue letter Nn, design
activity to help children recognize and practice
writing letter N in both the uppercase and
lowercase and develop their understanding of the
sounds it makes.
Focus on toileting, practice shoe lacing, dressing
and feeding by children, clean own face and
practice handwashing.
Munch & Move
sustainability (Mehakpreet).
Letter of the Week - Continue letter Nn, design
activity to help children recognize and practice
writing letter N in both the uppercase and
lowercase and develop their understanding of the
sounds it makes (Mehakpreet)
Focus on toileting, practice shoe lacing, dressing
and feeding by children, clean own face and
practice handwashing.
Duck, duck, duck, goose game - Gather children
at outdoor area in a circle and elect one child as
the "Goose" by making them stand up and walk
around the circle, promoting social interaction
and physical skills.
Letter of the Week - Continue letter Oo,
design activity to help children recognize
and practice writing letter O in both the
uppercase and lowercase and develop
their understanding of the sounds it
makes.
Balance Ball – At an outdoor area, teach
children how to sit or stand on the balance
balls while maintaining stability and
control.
Letter of the Week - Continue letter Oo,
design activity to help children recognize
and practice writing letter O in both the
uppercase and lowercase and develop
their understanding of the sounds it
makes.
Focus on toileting, practice shoe lacing,
dressing and feeding by children, clean
own face and practice handwashing.
Easter dance – Provide children Easter
day props such as colorful hats, bunny
ears, and bunny facemasks and make
them twirl and move on Easter themed
song, fostering cultural awareness and
physical health.

EYLF & NQS to be achieved in March:

NQS EYLF
Standard 1 – 1.1, 1.2 Outcome 1 – 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Standard 2 – 2.1 Outcome 2 – 2.1, 2.2, 2.4
Standard 3 – 3.2 Outcome 3 – 3.1, 3.2
Standard 5 – 5.1, 5.2 Outcome 4 – 4.1, 4.2, 4.4
Standard 6 – 6.2 Outcome 4 – 4.1, 4.2, 4.4
Outcome 5 – 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4