Children explore roles of security guards, gardeners, and school/house helpers. They learn the letter H, its phonic song, and the diamond shape through playdough construction and puzzles.
What children learn
- Explain how security guards protect people and places and can assist someone who is lost, scared, or needs help.
- Describe how school and house helpers keep shared spaces clean and tidy and name common chores and cleaning supplies.
- Recognise gardeners, their tools, and basic tasks such as tending plants, watering, sowing seeds, and pulling weeds.
- Recognise and construct the letter H and identify and create the diamond shape.
Key activities
- Colour a security-guard picture while discussing the role and uniform.
- Paint with kitchen scrubbers while exploring school and house helpers' work.
- Make a leaf garland and identify common gardening tools.
- Meet a security guard and school or house helper and present paper heart people.
- Visit a garden to sow seeds, pull weeds, use tools, and recite a gardener rhyme.
You’ll need
Helper and gardener puppets, cleaning supplies and kitchen scrubbers, paint and paper, leaves and string, gardening tools and seeds, letter H flashcards and playdough, diamond flashcards and cut-outs, crayons and glue.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, integrated cognition/literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.