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Lorikeet's Opposites

Opposites: big and small, full and empty, up and down · ages 3-6

Open on the projector The sheet to print

1. Warm-up, 5 minutes

Simon says, with opposites: "Stand up! Sit down! Hands up high! Hands down low!"

2. The game, on the projector

Before each tap, the class shows the answer with their bodies (big arms for big, curled up for small), then a helper taps it.

Projector mode is the game with ?projector on the end of its address. It's big and landscape, a win waits for you to press Next, and nothing is saved on the computer: no progress, no animal cards, no login.

3. Away from the screen

Opposites hunt: pairs of children find two things in the room that are opposites (a full box and an empty one) and show the class.

Questions to ask

• What's the opposite of up?
• Can you find something big and something small in this room?
• Is the bath water hot or cold today?

Curriculum

• AC9EFLA08: recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school
• AC9MFM01: identify and compare attributes of objects and events, including length, capacity, mass and duration, using direct comparisons and communicate reasoning
• AC9MFSP02: describe the position and location of themselves and objects in relation to other people and objects within a familiar space
• EYLF 5.1: Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes

More detail, and every word it says: the page for grown-ups.