- Discuss:
- What should we share at school? → Learning materials/equipment/toys. Teachers/parents can also explain why food shouldn’t be shared at school.
- What would happen if we didn’t share? → Others would miss out, and it wouldn’t be fair.
- Activity: My Emu Design
- Teachers and parents are free to choose any materials available in your home or school settings.
- Before starting the activity, discuss with the children which materials they will use to decorate Emu and how much of each material they are allowed to take. Ensure that your rules are specific and measurable to help children perceive them as fair. For example, children are only allowed to get:
- two wiggle eyes,
- five pompoms,
- a handful of coloured collage materials…
- Encourage children to come to the materials table and collect their items themselves under your supervision.
- Wrap up
Sharing Is Caring!
The Book
Just Enough!
Written & illustrated by Steven Huynh, published by Steven De GC
The narrative encourages students to take only what is needed (ACPPS006, ACPPS022 – Foundation to Year 2 Health and Physical Education), reinforcing fairness in sharing resources like classroom materials. It also explores the negative consequences of overuse by addressing the basic needs of animals—food, water, and shelter (ACSSU002 – Foundation Year Science) —demonstrating how overuse impacts wildlife and habitats. Highlighting environmental changes caused by resource depletion (ACSSU019 – Year 1 Science), fostering the awareness of sustainability. With its rich themes of sharing and environmental stewardship, this story inspires young learners to adopt mindful, responsible habits in their daily lives.
Resource creator
Steven Huynh
Subject
Description
After reading Just Enough!, children may have grasped the idea of taking just enough. Now, it is a good time to reflect on the message in the classroom.
Learning Intentions
• Children learn to take turns and share learning materials with friends.
Successful Criteria
• Children take turns at getting materials for their design.
• Children take just enough materials for their design.
Curriculum Alignment
ACPPS022 8.4 ( Year 1,Year 2): Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place
• creating a bank of movement games and physical activity cards students can select from and play during lesson breaks and before or after school
• exploring sustainable practices that students can implement in the classroom to improve health and wellbeing of the class
• exploring how fruit and water breaks help support class health and wellbeing
• recognising how their actions help keep classmates safe, including identifying things not to be shared due to potential of contamination, infection and anaphylaxis
• explaining and demonstrating how being fair and respectful contributes to class health and wellbeing
Instructions
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