JOURNALING Question Prompt:
Write out one or more of the following questions in your Family Theme Day Scrapbook or on a piece of paper to glue in your scrapbook: What do you know about Australia? If you could go to Australia what would you like to see? What are some animals found only in Australia? What would you like to learn about Australia?
NOTE: I liked to sometimes do the journal prompt as a final activity for International Theme Days to see what my children had learned:
Raid your child’s bookshelves to find any books that may take place in Australia or feature Australian animals. Take a field trip to the library as a family find some books for this Theme Day. You could also go online to your local library's website to search for titles based on subject and then reserve them if you can save time. Find books from both fiction and nonfiction to have already on hand for your Australia Theme Day.
Here is a list of some books to try to find: Australian Book Recommendations
WRITING AND READING
BOOKS
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Australia
How to encourage your child to write:
Choose the level of your child:
Toddler/Preschool – discuss the answer(s) out loud first and have your child draw a picture of the answer
Preschool/Kindergarten – discuss the answer(s) out loud first and write the answer down for him/her leaving one word for him/her to write out himself/herself with your help. You could also encourage him/her to draw a picture as well.
Early Grade School – have your child either write out the answer himself/herself (encourage phonetic spelling) without your help, or offer to help with spelling each word out loud one word at a time.
Grade School – have your child write a sentence or two on his/her own and then read over and discuss the response. (You decide whether to correct the spelling or not)
Older Child – have your child write a longer response (paragraph).
As A Challenge – instead of a question ask your older child to write a story or poem about Australia.