Early learning at home

These learning possibilities are organised around a quality children’s story. Each story draws on the limitless possibilities created by children’s imaginations. Each story opens a window to a range of playful and creative learning opportunities. These learning opportunities can lead children to explore their own imagination in different ways.

• Imagine
• Not a box
• The most magnificent thing
• My garden
• The incredible book-eating boy
• When Henry caught imaginitis
• The incurable imagination
• The power of Henry’s imagination
• The invisible boy
• The adventures of Beekle: The unimaginary friend
• Where the wild things are
• The gruffalo
• Inside Mary Elizabeth’s house
• Room on the broom
• Where the giant sleeps
• The paper bag princess
• Dragons love tacos
• It came in the mail
• Hunting for dragons
• The dragon and the nibblesome knight
• We’re going on a bear hunt
• There’s a sea in my bedroom
• There’s a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake
• The magic hat
• The tiger who came to tea

These learning possibilities are organised around a quality children’s story. Each story uses animals as the central characters and present opportunities to explore a range of social and emotional situations that may be familiar to children. Each story opens a window to a range of playful and creative learning opportunities. These learning opportunities can lead children to explore their own thinking and ideas in different ways.

• I went walking
• The little red hen
• Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?
• The very busy spider
• There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
• Alexander and the wind-up mouse
• Corduroy
• It's mine!
• Click, clack, moo: Cows that type
• Giraffes can't dance
• Picasso the green tree frog
• Too loud Lily
• The pear in the pear tree
• Bear and Chook
• Do you want to be my friend?
• The rainbow fish
• Farmer Duck
• Amy and Louis
• It's okay to be different
• Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
• Chickens aren't the only ones
• Rosie's walk
• Queenie, one of the family
• Six little chicks
• Time for bed

Counting is an important early numeracy skill. These learning possibilities present a number of playful experiences that invite children to explore and apply their knowledge of counting. A children’s story is also provided with a focus on counting.

• Counting at home 1
• Counting at home 2
• Counting at home 3
• Counting at home 4
• Counting at home 5
• Counting at home 6
• Counting at home 7
• Counting at home 8
• Counting at home 9
• Counting at home 10

Location and direction help children to understand the relationships between people, objects and the space around them. These learning possibilities present a number of playful experiences that invite children to explore physical location and direction. A children’s story is also provided that includes specific language or ideas about direction and/or location.

• Location and direction at home 1
• Location and direction at home 2
• Location and direction at home 3
• Location and direction at home 4
• Location and direction at home 5
• Location and direction at home 6
• Location and direction at home 7
• Location and direction at home 8
• Location and direction at home 9
• Location and direction at home 10

Data is the information children collect by observing, asking questions or testing out ideas. When children describe what they see in groups of objects they are making sense of the information and can, with support explore how they can represent the information. These learning possibilities present a number of playful experiences that invite children to explore the grouping of objects by characteristic, number or preference and the relationships that can be described as a result of the information gathered. A children's story is also provided that includes specific language or ideas that support children's growing understandings of data.

• Data at home 1
• Data at home 2
• Data at home 3
• Data at home 4
• Data at home 5

There are many fun, home-based learning possibilities that engage children in creative thinking, exploration using their senses, play and social interactions. Here you will find a mix of recipes, games and ideas for active and inquisitive minds.

• Cornflour fingerpaint
  
• Shaving cream fingerpaint
• Soap flake fingerpaint
• Uncooked playdough
• Cooked playdough
• Mud playdough
• Sand and shaving cream foam
• Box construction
• Fun with bubbles
• Chalk drawing
• Let's get building
• Invisible letters
• Adventures of Teddy
• The Hungry Monster
• The memory magician
• Maths around the house
• Rhythm and Music for Self-Regulation (Introduction)
• Rhythm and Music for Self-Regulation—Session 1
• Rhythm and Music for Self-Regulation—Session 2

Sing along: songs with lyrics

• Children of the Dreaming (with lyrics)
• Five little ducks (with lyrics)
• Inanay (with lyrics)
• Native animal song (with lyrics)
• Little green frog (with lyrics)
• One-two-three-four-five (with lyrics)