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Diary of a Wombat Year 1 (SCIENCE (Living things live in different places…

- - - - "What does a plant need to grow?"
      - "What tools will I need to plant a plant?"
      - "Where is the best place to put a plant?"
      - "What insect do you think that is?"
      - "Go and get the magnifying glass and have a look at the caterpillar!"
  - - - The children are going to imagine that they were their family pet (any pet they want to be) and write a diary of the life of that pet for the day. Make a plan (it can be made up) by researching that pet (animal), what they eat, what they will do and how they will live with the humans. The teacher will have a class discussion first and have an example ready to go through it with the children, so they know exactly what they are doing.
    - - From the book ask the children questions before they actually research what they do:
        
        "Do you think wombats have a family?"
        
        "What do you think wombats eat?"
        
        "What does the pictures tell us about wombats?"
  - - - The students can incorporate the seasons into this lesson by making a prediction. Which weather will dry the clothes the best. Learning why the wet clothes dry in the wind and sun. The children can then write about their findings and observations of how long it takes for the clothes to dry in different climates, taking into account the wind, temperature and placing.
  - - - "What does a plant need to grow?"
- - - - The children can make a version of Diary of a Wombat by changing the animal, his likes, what he eats, what he does and where he lives. Drawing a picture of the character and writing a story about them.
      - The children will draw a picture of Mothball and underneath write all her favourite things to do.
    - - The students will have a class discussion about Mothball the wombat in the book. Asking questions about the character. The children will then go back to their tables and create their own character profile on Mothball using questions from up on the board and the students can add more if needed.
        
        “What’s her favourite thing to do?”
        
        “Where does she like to sleep?”
        
        “What does she like to eat?”
  - - - Reading strategy: shared reading of prediction
        
        "What do you think the wombat will do on Monday?"
        
        "What do you think the wombat is going to eat?"
        
        Once the book has finished ask the children what they think the wombat might do on Tuesday making their own predictions, increasing vocabulary through oral language.
        
        The students are to write their own diary entry on what the wombat might do in the morning, afternoon, evening and night on Tuesday. Drawing their own illustrations.
      - "Has anyone ever seen a wombat in real life?"
        Turn to the person sitting next to you and talk to them about it for 2 minutes providing peer learning. Students are acting as text participants by relating topics of their own lives to the story.
      - Before reading the book flick through the pictures and ask the students what they think the wombat likes doing and eating.
        
        The students are then becoming code breakers by utilising the illustrations to identify some of the characteristics and to use prediction strategies.
        
        Including illustrations.
        
        The students can then go back to their tables and produce their own character profiles on Mothball the wombat.
        
        "What do you think the wombat likes to do?"
  - - - Letters: The teacher will sound out the letters and clap the words syllables with the children. The children will copy this and repeat the actions and sounding out of the words.
    - - The teacher will create a word sleuth with all the high frequency words that the children are struggling to read and spell.
      - The teacher will set up a word bingo consisting of all the words from the story. The teacher will go through and call out words and the children will place a counter on the word if its on their sheet. The first person to fill up all their words will yell out 'BINGO'.
        
        Mothball
        
        Carrots
        
        Wombat
        
        Rolled oats
        
        Demanded
        
        Creature
      - The teacher will take the students out of the classroom one at a time to get them to read through the book. To see what words or high frequency words they can pronounce such as creature, delicious or the days of the week.
        
        Individual/silent reading
        
        Peer reading
    - - Punctation
        
        "What punctation can you see used in this book?"
        
        Discuss the punctation in the book. Such as capital letters, full stops, colons, etc.
        
        "What does a full stop do?"
        
        "Why do we need capital letters?"
        
        The children can use this same punctation to write a timetable of how their day goes.
        
        Example
        Dawn: Wake up and get ready for school.
        Morning: Get to school.
        Recess: Eat morning tea.
        Lunchtime: Find my friends and eat my lunch.
        Afternoon: Go home, go to the park and finish my homework.
        Evening: Eat dinner.
        Nighttime: Go to bed.
      - Ask the children questions about the grammar in the book and how Jackie French has written it.
        
        "What have you noticed about the writing style?"
        
        The students will make their own diary entries about their lives. The teacher will clarify the language and how to write a diary.
- - - - Once the students have finished making their masks they will be able to utilise drama and play situations with them. To involve themselves in imaginary and symbolic play situations to advance their learning. Through their oral communication the children are advancing their vocabulary and language skills.
  - - - The students can design and make their own wombat face masks using a diverse range of materials to explore their creativity.
      - The students can explore indigenous people and artworks and produce a dot painting of an Australian animal they have researched.
      - The children will make a sculpture of an Australian animal using loose materials from around the classroom. Such as boxes, buttons, paint and paper. The children will then write a story or report about their animal they have made like from the book.
- - - - "Is that actually rain that filled up the wombat's hole?"
      - The students will identify the four names of the seasons. Identify which season is which and what months they occur in the year.
      - The teacher will bring in a mystery box with an umbrella, dead leaves, flowers and a hat and sunscreen. Symbolising all the seasons allowing the children to guess which is which and what they do in that season. The children will then write a story on their favourite season and what they do in it. For example: if summer was the child's favour season they would write a story about going to the beach.
    - - Go one step further then normal seasons and discuss with the children that their are other cultures in the world that have different names for things then Australians do. Indigenous people have different seasons and names for seasons.
  - - - The children will make a three recycling signs for three bins with a bunch of different types of rubbish and the children are to put the correct rubbish in the correct bin.
      - The children will learn about pollution and write a written report about a polluted area they have researched.
- - - - The children will draw two teeth one with a happy face on it and the other with a sad face one it. The children will go through magazines, newspapers or draw unhealthy and healthy foods and will have to categorise the foods onto which tooth they think they should go. The children will be looking through articles and pictures reading and viewing.
      - One way the children can do this is they can draw on a paper plate all the healthy foods they can think of and underneath labelling them. E.g. apple, carrot, banana, tomato, lettuce...