Core Skills Analysis
English and Language Arts
Arrie listened to a Wonders of the World book, looked at its illustrations, and joined in reading some sections aloud with the support worker. She practised listening comprehension, recognising information from text and images, and participating in shared reading. During the drawing game, Arrie also communicated ideas by adding features to another person’s picture and responding to visual prompts. Her online class and conversations with the support worker and friend provided further opportunities to use spoken language for requesting, explaining and social interaction.
Mathematics
Arrie played noughts and crosses using magnets on the fridge, which required her to recognise a grid, plan where to place a marker and notice winning patterns. The game supported early strategic reasoning, spatial awareness and turn-taking. Hide-and-seek and What's the Time, Mr Wolf? also involved sequencing, position, counting or time-related language through active play. These experiences helped Arrie apply mathematical thinking in playful, practical contexts.
Science
Arrie explored materials and visual effects while painting and creating characters, making choices about colours, shapes and added features. She also used digital technology to create cartoons and watch videos she had previously made, giving her experience with recording, producing and reviewing visual content. Her movement games involved observing how people moved through space and responding to changing positions or instructions. These activities encouraged observation, experimentation and awareness of how actions can create different results.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Arrie engaged with a book about the Wonders of the World and joined in looking at representations of notable places around the world. This introduced geographical and cultural knowledge through pictures and shared discussion, although the specific locations discussed were not recorded. Her Roblox play with an online friend also involved participating in a shared digital environment and negotiating interaction with others. Arrie practised making choices, communicating with peers and participating in social communities both in person and online.
The Arts and Digital Technologies
Arrie painted, designed characters on her iPad, created cartoons and watched videos she had previously produced. In the collaborative drawing game, she exchanged drawings with the support worker and developed each image by adding new visual details, demonstrating imagination, flexibility and creative collaboration. Playing Roblox with the support worker and an online friend extended her digital creativity and social participation. Arrie also independently solved a technology access problem by using her laptop for the online class when she did not want to change accounts on her iPad.
Health and Physical Education
Arrie participated in hide-and-seek and What's the Time, Mr Wolf?, giving her opportunities to move actively, respond to changing instructions and share space with another person. She also practised social skills such as turn-taking and cooperation during noughts and crosses, drawing and multiplayer Roblox. Arrie communicated her needs by requesting food, lunch and later some personal space. These moments showed practical self-advocacy and awareness of her preferred level of independence.
Tips
Tips: Build on Arrie's interests by creating a Wonders of the World map and marking each place as it is explored. Invite her to choose one location, draw or digitally design it, and dictate or write three facts about it. Extend the drawing game into a short comic with characters, settings and speech bubbles, then read it aloud together. For mathematics, play noughts and crosses on larger grids and discuss strategies, patterns and possible moves. Continue supporting independence by offering choices about devices, activities and personal space while encouraging Arrie to explain the solution or preference she has selected.
Book Recommendations
- The Usborne Book of World History by Jane Bingham: An illustrated introduction to major events, people and places across world history.
- The Usborne Encyclopedia of Geography by Ruth Brocklehurst: A visual reference book exploring landscapes, people, places and geographical processes.
- The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds: An encouraging story about discovering confidence and creativity through making art.
Learning Standards
- English AC9E3L01: Shared reading and discussion of the Wonders of the World book supported describing how pictures, ideas and language communicate with an audience.
- English AC9E3LY01: Arrie participated in shared reading and communicated ideas through drawing, online class participation and conversations.
- Mathematics AC9M3N01: Noughts and crosses supported recognising positions, patterns and strategic arrangements on a grid.
- Science AC9SPS01: Painting, drawing and movement games involved observing actions and noticing how changes produced different results.
- HASS WAHASS91: The Wonders of the World book introduced connections between people and places, while multiplayer Roblox involved participation in a shared social environment.
- WACAO alignment note: These are suggested connections based only on the recorded activity; formal achievement should be judged through broader evidence and the applicable year-level curriculum.
Try This Next
- World Wonders worksheet: match pictured landmarks to countries or continents, then add one fact and a drawing.
- Comic-strip prompt: create a three-panel story featuring one iPad-designed character, with speech bubbles.
- Strategy challenge: play noughts and crosses and record two moves that help create a winning line.
- Digital reflection prompt: draw or describe one thing Arrie changed when creating a cartoon or Roblox experience.