Lower primary (Years K-2)
Learning activities aligned to NSW syllabuses for use before, during and after viewing episodes on iView. Episodes are organised by key learning area and activities are suitable for students in Kindergarten to Year 2. Each document contains links to the relevant series. Dates and times reflect the 2020 broadcast schedule. All episodes can be accessed through ABC iView.
Grandpa Honeyant Storytime
- Watch Grandpa Honeyant Storytime – Caar caaaar
Duration: 4mins
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-10C, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To create an imaginative text with a beginning, middle and end.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Grandpa Honeyant Storytime – Caar caaaar (69KB, DOCX) - Watch Grandpa Honeyant Storytime - Molly the grey kangaroo and the bush cleanup crew
Duration: 4 min
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-10C, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To retell a story. To make connections to a text.
Download the ABC TV education resources–grandpa-honeyant-grey-kangaroo-lower-primary (DOCX 2.2MB) - Watch Grandpa Honeyant Storytime – There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake
Duration: 4mins
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-10C, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To respond to questions about a text imaginatively. To create a character and devise imaginary activities that it would participate in.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Grandpa Honeyant Storytime – There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake (70KB, DOCX)
Play School Story Time
- Watch Play School Story Time - Adam Liaw: Little red hen and grains wheat
Duration: 7mins
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-2A, ENe-10c, EN1-2A, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To sequence events from the Little Red Hen using a story map. To write an imaginative letter in response to the story.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Play School story time - Adam Liaw: Little red hen and grains wheat (64KB, DOCX) - Watch Play School Story Time – Debra Lawrance: Ginger
Duration: 6mins
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-10C, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To make connections between a text and personal experiences. To retell a story.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Play School story time – Debra Lawrance: Ginger (2.6MB, DOCX) - Watch Play School Story Time – Dylan Alcott: The Very Itchy Bear
Duration: 5min
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-10c, ENe-11D, EN1-10C, EN1-11D
Learning intentions: To develop an understanding of rhyming words. To write a story about friendship, with a beginning, middle and end.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Play School Story Time – Dylan Alcott: The Very Itchy Bear (82KB, DOCX) - Watch Play School story time - Julia Zemiro: Where the forest meets the sea
Duration: 7mins
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-10C, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To retell an event from a story. To draw and write a personal connection to a story.
Download the ABC TV Education resources – Play School story time - Julia Zemiro: Where the forest meets the sea (68KB, DOCX) - Watch Play School Story Time - Kumi Taguchi: Too Many Pears
Duration: 5min
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-10C, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To retell a story.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Play School story time - Kumi Taguchi: Too Many Pears (DOCX 67KB) - Watch Play School Story Time – Stephen Curry: Alpacas with maracas
Duration: 7mins
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-9B, ENe-10C, EN1-9B, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To identify and represent verbs. To create and perform a simple dance sequence.
Download the ABC TV Education resources – Play School story time – Stephen Curry: Alpacas with maracas (109KB, DOCX)
Wallykazam!
- Watch Wallykazam! - Castle cafe
Duration: 22mins
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-2A, ENe-10c, ENe-11D, EN1-2A, EN1-10C, EN1-11D
Learning intentions: To use their imagination and create a flyer for a café. To create a menu from their imagination.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Wallykazam! - Castle cafe (72KB, DOCX) - Watch Wallykazam! - Hopgoblin
Duration: 22min
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-2A, ENe-11D, EN1-2A, EN1-11D
Learning intentions: To create a character from their imagination. To create a story. To describe a problem and how to solve it.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Wallykazam! - Hopgoblin (669KB, DOCX) - Watch Wallykazam! - The cake monster
Duration: 22min
Syllabus outcomes: ENe-10C, EN1-10C
Learning intentions: To make connections to a text.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Wallykazam! - cake monster (118KB, DOCX)
Numberblocks
- Watch Numberblocks - Blast off!
Duration: 5mins
Syllabus outcomes: MAe-3WM, MAe-5NA, MA1-3WM, MA1-5NA,
Learning intentions: To find smaller numbers inside larger numbers. To add numbers to reach a given total. To select and discuss different strategies.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Numberblocks - Blast off! (1.4MB, DOCX) - Watch Numberblocks - How to Count
Duration: 5min
Syllabus outcomes: MAe-3WM, MAe-15MG, MA1-3WM, MA1-15MG
Learning intentions: To identify and describe two-dimensional shapes.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Numberblocks - How to count (1.1MB DOCX) - Watch Numberblocks – Now we are 6-10
Duration: 5mins
Syllabus outcomes: MAe-1WM, MAe-4NA, MA1-1WM, MA1-4NA
Learning intentions: To create a number line. To follow and give directions to find numbers on a number line.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Numberblocks – Now we are 6-10 (78KB, DOCX) - Watch Numberblocks – Once upon a time
Duration: 5mins
Syllabus outcomes: MAe-1WM, MAe-4NA, MA1-1WM, MA1-4NA
Learning intentions: To use a range of mathematical skills and knowledge when playing a game.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Numberblocks – Once upon a time (519KB, DOCX) - Watch Numberblocks - Seven
Duration: 5min
Syllabus outcomes: MAe-1WM, MAe-4NA, MAe-17SP, MA1-1WM, MA1-17SP
Learning intentions: To represent numbers in different ways. To represent weather by describing and creating symbols.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Numberblocks - Seven (DOCX 507KB)
- Watch Numberblocks - Ten
Duration: 5mins
Syllabus outcomes: MAe-3WM, MAe-5NA, MA1-3WM, MA1-5NA
Learning intentions: To explore different ways to show 10. To find different combinations of numbers that equal the same total. To explain answers through discussion and pictures.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Numberblocks - Ten (72KB, DOCX) - Watch Numberblocks - The three threes
Duration: 5mins
Syllabus outcomes: MA1-3WM, MA1-5NA
Learning intentions: To count and add in threes. To record and explain answers using pictures, symbols and numbers.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Numberblocks - The three threes (286KB, DOCX) - Watch Numberblocks - The two tree
Duration: 5mins
Syllabus outcomes: MAe-3WM, MAe-4NA, MA1-3WM, MA1-4NA, MA1-8NA
Learning intentions: To identify and record number patterns. To create and describe a number pattern. To explain answers through discussion and pictures.
Download the ABC TV Education resources – Numberblocks - The two tree (106KB, DOCX)
Play School Story Time
- Watch Play School Story Time - Kumi Taguchi: Too Many Pears
Duration: 5min
Syllabus outcomes: MAe-2WM, MAe-6NA, MA1-2WM, MA1-6NA
Learning intentions: To use a range of skills to solve word problems.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Play School story time - Kumi Taguchi: Too Many Pears (DOCX 67KB)
I'm A Creepy Crawly
- Watch I'm a creepy-crawly - earwig
Duration: 2min
Syllabus outcomes: STe-3LW-ST, ST1-4LW-S
Learning intentions: To label the parts of a living thing. To explore the life cycle of a living thing.
Download the ABC TV education resources – I'm a creepy-crawly - earwig (DOCX 220KB) - Watch I'm a creepy crawly – Snail
Duration: 2mins
Syllabus outcomes: STe-3LW-ST, ST1-4LW-S
Learning intentions: To create a drawing of a snail that outlines the parts of its body. To identify the needs of snails.
Download the ABC TV education resources – I'm a creepy crawly – Snail (826KB, DOCX)
I'm A Fish
- Watch I'm a fish - I'm a frogfish
Duration: 2min
Syllabus outcomes: STe-3LW-S, ST1-4LW-S
Learning intentions: To explore the features of a living thing.
Download the ABC TV education resources – I'm a fish-I'm a frogfish (DOCX 196KB) - Watch I'm a fish - I'm a rainbow fish
Duration: 2mins
Syllabus outcomes: STe-3LW-ST, ST1-4LW-S
Learning intentions: To explore and understand the characteristics of a rainbow fish. To create an environment for a school of rainbow fish to live in.
Download the ABC TV Education resources – I'm a fish - I'm a rainbow fish (204KB, DOCX) - Watch I'm a fish - I'm a stingray
Duration: 2min
Syllabus outcomes: STe-3LW-ST, ST1-4LW-S
Learning intentions: To explore the features and needs of living things
Download the ABC TV education resources – I'm a fish- I'm a stingray (DOCX 315KB)
Where in the World?
- Watch Where in the World? – Angel, Rhys and Truc. Goes on an expedition
Duration: 14mins
Syllabus outcomes: HTe-1, HT1-1
Learning intentions: To understand that people live in different countries. To describe a place in their local environment and define what makes it special.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Where in the World? – Angel, Rhys and Truc. Goes on an expedition (70KB, DOCX) - Watch Where in the World? – Angel, Rhys and Tyra. Helps mum cook lunch
Duration: 14mins
Syllabus outcomes: HTe-1, HT1-1
Learning intentions: To understand that people live in different ways in different countries. To describe a place in their local environment and define what makes it special.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Where in the World? – Angel, Rhys and Tyra. Helps mum cook lunch (69KB, DOCX) - Watch Where in the world? - Angel, Tyra and Mario takes care of an injured pigeon
Duration: 14mins
Syllabus outcomes: GEe-1, GE1-1
Learning intentions: To describe a special place in a local environment. To make connections to people’s experiences in different countries.
Download the ABC TV Education resources – Where in the world? - Angel, Tyra and Mario takes care of an injured pigeon (57KB, DOCX) - Watch Where in the world? -Liza Hamza and Truc goes shopping for goldfish
Duration: 23min
Syllabus outcomes: HTe-1, HT1-1
Learning intentions: To recognise that people live in different ways in different countries. To describe a place in their local environment and define what makes it special.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Where in the world - Liza Hamza and Truc goes shopping for goldfish (DOCX 69KB)
Art with Mati and Dada
- Watch Art with Mati and Dada – Canaletto
Duration: 8mins
Syllabus outcomes: VAES1.1, VAES1.3, VAS1.1, VAS1.3
Learning intentions: To create an artwork using different perspectives. To sketch an outline of an aspect of their local environment.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Art with Mati and Dada – Canaletto (2.6MB, DOCX) - Watch Art with Mati and Dada – Dorothea Lange
Duration: 7mins
Syllabus outcomes: VAES1.1, VAES1.2, VAES1.3, VAES1.4, VAS1.1, VAS1.2, VAS1.3, VAS1.4
Learning intentions: To share ideas about a photograph. To experiment with framing objects. To experiment with angles, positioning and light when taking a photo.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Art with Mati and Dada – Dorothea Lange (893KB, DOCX) - Watch Art with Mati and Dada - Raphael
Duration: 7mins
Syllabus outcomes: VAES1.1, VAES1.2, VAES1.3, VAES1.4, VAS1.1, VAS1.2, VAS1.3, VAS1.4
Learning intentions: To share ideas about an artwork. To create an artwork in the style of a fresco.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Art with Mati and Dada - Raphael (340KB, DOCX) - Watch Art with Mati and Dada - Rembrandt
Duration: 7min
Syllabus outcomes: VAES1.1, VAES1.2, VAES1.3, VAES1.4, VAS1.1, VAS1.2, VAS1.3, VAS1.4
Learning intentions: To explore the qualities and meaning of artworks. To create a self-portrait.
Download the ABC TV education resources – Art with Mati and Dada - Rembrandt (DOCX 3.7MB)
Play School Story Time
- Watch Play School Story Time – Stephen Curry: Alpacas with maracas
Duration: 7mins
Syllabus outcomes: DAES1.1, DAS2.1
Learning intentions: To create and perform a simple dance sequence.
Download the ABC TV Education resources – Play School story time – Stephen Curry: Alpacas with maracas (109KB, DOCX)