The Beginning (Genesis 1:20-25)
Big Question - Who made the World?
This Week - Amazing Animals
MV - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
Song: In the Beginning
Lesson: Read Genesis 1:20-25 together, talking about the different animals that it said God made. Talk about different animals and where they live.
Play Activities: 1) Match to the Patch - using toy animals you have at home put them in front of you, take turns describing where that animal would live and see if the other person/people can guess which animal you choose. Continue until all of the animals have had their homes described. 2) Create some Critters - use craft materials, boxes etc you have around the house and make an animal that lives in the sea, land or sky. 3) Animal Noises - Take turns making the sound of animals, the other person has to guess whether that animals is from the land, sea or sky.

Continue reading the readers sent home with your child and learning their sight words with a variety of interactive and play-based activities. Below are more books on Epic! that fit in with this week's letter theme.
*Kk https://www.getepic.com/app/read/68294 
*King of the Zoo https://www.getepic.com/app/read/35517
*Kangaroo Country https://www.getepic.com/app/read/18686
*Koala Joeys https://www.getepic.com/app/read/58564
*The Yellow Kite Flies High https://www.getepic.com/app/read/27475
*Abby Flies a Kite https://www.getepic.com/app/read/53806
*Kite Day https://www.getepic.com/app/read/41460
*Making 5 with Kittens https://www.getepic.com/app/read/66253
*Kittens https://www.getepic.com/app/read/58562

Here are some writing ideas and sentence starters to choose from for the next day or so...
Get your child to choose one (or more) of their stories, take a photo and send it to Mrs Coe, I will reply to them :)
*Write about a KITTEN, KOALA or KANGAROO
*Write about a KITE flying in the wind
*"If I were the KING…"
You could also base writing off something you have read, done or seen that day or during the week or weekend. 

​*find something at home beginning with the letter Kk. Send a short video sharing your news (by Thursday) with the class and Mrs Coe will post them on the blog on Friday.
Remember to greet the class (Good morning or afternoon room 1), and tell us about what you are sharing, mum or dad might even ask a question for you to answer to give us some more information.

*KICK a ball outside
*make a KITE
*Colour, Cut, Paste - KOALA and KANGAROO finger puppets

The Beginning (Genesis 1:11-13, 27-31)
Big Question - Who made the World?
This Week - God the creator is also God the provider. He made the plants and trees.
MV - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
Songs: In the Beginning
Play Activities: 1) Explore outdoors - look at the different textures, colours and scents of plants and trees in your garden or close by outside areas. 2) Dramatic play 'shops' - set up a fruit and vegetable shop and talk about where fruits and vegetables come from. 3) Bark or leaf crayon rubbings - find some different textured items outside that you can create crayon rubbings from on a piece of paper.
Object Lesson - Using a piece of fruit (apple in example) - cut up and share an apple. Once it is all gone talk about what you would do to get more if there were none left in the house (grocery store, market, tree). Apples grow on trees but where did trees come from? God made plants, trees, flowers and seeds. Talk about what other things God has made. Read Genesis 1:11a - God said to do something and it was done! Make up actions for the different things God made - tall trees, tiny seeds, beautiful flowers, delicious fruit. Talk about why plants and trees are important for us and how this is one way God provides for us (food, shelter). We are to look after and care for creation.

​These lessons introduce different vocabulary that are all asking addition questions. It is important for them to hear and use a variety of words so that when they hear a question with one of these words in it they will know they are needing to add.

​Here are some follow up adding worksheets they could complete (or continue with any unfinished worksheets from your At Home Learning Pack). If you don’t have a printer you can always write out your own questions for your child to fill in the answer or if they are up to it get them to write down the questions as you read them aloud to them. If your child is still learning to form numbers correctly you could draw shapes to represent the question eg 2 squares plus 3 squares and then they draw the correct number of squares after an equals symbol.

• Sound out the word (all of this week's words are easily decodable - each sound is heard)
  • ​​h-i-t ,  c-a-t , b-u-s
• Say the word in a sentence
• Practice writing the word
• Try writing the sentence they came up with and drawing a picture to go with it.

Practice all of this week's spelling words in fun ways - in sand or salt, with chalk, with water and a paint brush on concrete, write as rainbow words etc. Test your child to see what they remember.

Here are some writing ideas and sentence starters to choose from for this week.
Get your child to choose one (or more) of their stories, take a photo and send it to Mrs Coe, I will reply to them :)
*Write something about the plants and trees in your garden (linking to devotions)
*Write about JUMPING
*Write about something JOYFUL
*Draw (or make a craft) JELLYFISH - write about what it looks like
*Read or listen to the story Jungle Journey (https://www.getepic.com/app/read/18688) and write your own story about going on a journey through the jungle.
*Make JELLY together. Talk about what it looks like in the packet, once you've added the water and then once it has set. Talk about how you made it and/or what it tastes like. All of these things can spark different things to write about in the following days. You could add a sentence to the story each day giving more information or write with different sentence starters or ideas.
*Write about how the Jelly changed in what it looked like
*Jelly tastes like… (describe in a creative way)
*My wobbly Jelly…
You could also base writing off something you have read, done or seen that day or during the week. Your child could also write about what they are going to share for news.

*find something at home beginning with the letter Jj. Send a short video sharing your news (by Thursday) with the class and Mrs Coe will post them on the blog on Friday.
Try to remember to greet the class (Good morning or afternoon Room 1), and tell us about what you are sharing, mum or dad might even ask a question for you to answer to give us some more information.
*Also if you make some Jelly - take a photo of your child with their creation so the class can see!

*JELLY - make jelly. Talk about what it looks like in the packet, once you've added the water and then once it has set. Talk or write about how you made it and/or what it tastes like.
*JUMPING - have a jumping competition - who in your family can do the most of a certain type of jumps (star jumps, leap frog jumps, jump rope, etc) in 1 minute.
*JUMP on the trampoline (if you have one).
*JOKES - tell jokes together as a family. See if you can come up with your own knock, knock jokes.
*Get crafty and see if you can make a JELLYFISH.
*JIGSAW puzzles - get any puzzles out that you have at home to play with.
*Make a collage using newspapers, magazine, old cards etc of pictures starting with the letter Jj.

The Beginning (Genesis 1:9-10)
Big Question - Who made the World?
This Week - God speaks, he made the land and sea.
MV - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
Songs: In the Beginning (from last week)
Play Activity Ideas:
1) Islands in the sea - design a simple obstacle course (you could draw 'islands' on the ground with chalk or use cushions or newspaper, mountains/chairs to climb over, bridges etc). See if your child can go through the obstacle course by going on the islands and not falling in the sea!
2) At the beach - make a pretend beach by arranging towels, balls, sunglasses, buckets, etc (near a sandpit if you have one - otherwise find things sand and sea coloured to represent those things). Use this as an imaginative play space.
3) Sandy toes - a sensory activity with wet and dry sand (if you have it), describe what the different sand feels like.
4) Make a snack that reminds them God made the land and sea - this could be blue jelly (sea) with bits of fruit (land) or anything creative you can thing of!
Object Lesson - (If you made a play space you could do this talking in that area) Play a quick game of Simon says then ask "How do you think God made the land and sea?" When God said something, it happened. Imagine you're at the beach, what can you hear/feel/see? God spoke and told the water to come together in one place…and it did! When that happened there was dry ground. What are the different names for the water, and dry ground? God's word is very powerful. When he speaks or commands something, it happens!!

Practice all of this week's spelling words in fun ways - in sand or salt, with chalk, with water and a paint brush on concrete, write as rainbow words etc. Test your child to see what they remember.

Continue reading the readers sent home with your child and learning their sight words with a variety of interactive and play-based activities. Below are more books on Epic! that fit in with this week's letter theme.
*Izzy Impala's Imaginary Illnesses https://www.getepic.com/app/read/5199 
*Do you know about Insects? https://www.getepic.com/app/read/48646 
*I see https://www.getepic.com/app/read/70100
*I see butterflies https://www.getepic.com/app/read/59405
*I see ladybugs https://www.getepic.com/app/read/59409
*I see a cat https://www.getepic.com/app/read/47455
*I smell! https://www.getepic.com/app/read/52264
*I hear! https://www.getepic.com/app/read/52267
*I taste! https://www.getepic.com/app/read/52262
*I want pizza https://www.getepic.com/app/read/54350
*I like my bike https://www.getepic.com/app/read/65847
*I want to help https://www.getepic.com/app/read/64649
*I will try https://www.getepic.com/app/read/40127
*I see and see https://www.getepic.com/app/read/40180
*Who am I? https://www.getepic.com/app/read/7140
*It's my turn https://www.getepic.com/app/read/12097
*I'm the boss! https://www.getepic.com/app/read/12103
*I can! https://www.getepic.com/app/read/13319
*I see plants https://www.getepic.com/app/read/58931
*I Can See https://www.getepic.com/app/read/25763
*I see insects https://www.getepic.com/app/read/58924
*Alphabet - Ii https://www.getepic.com/app/read/59330
*What good is an I? https://www.getepic.com/app/read/29103
​*In my backyard https://www.getepic.com/app/read/60003

Here are some writing ideas and sentence starters to choose from for this week. Aim to write one story each day. 
Get your child to choose one (or more) their favourite stories, take a photo and send it to Mrs Coe, I will reply to them :)
*"On ANZAC day…"
*If you made ANZAC cookies in the weekend, write about how you made them OR what they tasted like.
*Go on an insect hunt in the garden and write about what you found.
*"I like…"
*"I went…"
*"I see…"
​*Write about what it would be like to live in an IGLOO. "In my igloo…"
You could also base writing off something you have read, done or seen that day or during the week. Your child could also write about what they are going to share for news.

*find something at home beginning with the letter Ii. Send a short video sharing your news (by Thursday) with the class and Mrs Coe will post them on the blog on Friday.
Try to remember to greet the class (Good morning or afternoon room 1), and tell us about what you are sharing, mum or dad might even ask a question for you to answer to give us some more information.

​*Become an INVENTOR - make, construct or build something using whatever resources you have at home.
*Make a collage using newspapers, magazine, old cards etc of pictures starting with the letter Ii.
*INDOOR or INVENTOR scavenger hunt. Or you could make your own looking for different types of INSECTS.