Children investigate how people send and receive ideas, information, and feelings through speech, writing, images, gestures, and technology. Message games, drawing, role-play, historical comparison, art, literacy, and number decomposition make the purposes and forms of communication concrete.
What children learn
- Understand communication as transferring information, thoughts, and feelings through speaking, writing, and other means.
- Recognise listening, observation, description, and non-verbal signals as important parts of communication.
- Compare ways messages were passed in earlier times with present-day means of communication.
- Identify spoken, written, visual, and electronic forms of communication and describe how communication has evolved.
Key activities
- Playing Who Is the Leader? and describing hidden classroom objects
- Passing a whispered message and completing a back-to-back drawing challenge
- Sorting and discussing picture cards showing different types of communication
- Exploring how radio, television, telephones, letters, email, and other communication methods developed
- Creating observational art and staging School pretend play
- Reading **u**-vowel CVC words and decomposing numbers with blocks, hoops, beads, and clips
You’ll need
classroom objects and picture cards, paper, crayons and markers, paint and brushes, books and communication images, chalkboard and classroom-play props, CVC and sight-word cards, blocks, hoops, beads, pipe cleaners, number cards, chart paper and clips
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, Social Studies/Science, Creative Learning, English, and Maths