Years 3-4

Y E A R Name: 3-4 VIBE ACTIVITIES IssueYears 188 3-4

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Yamba's ANTastic INGREDIENTS 1 apple 1 banana fruit snacks! 1/3 cup red seedless grapes 1/3 cup green seedless grapes HEALTHY 1/4 pineapple RECIPE 1 cup yoghurt 1/4 cup shredded coconut 4 wooden skewer sticks

METHOD 1. Wash all of the fruit and chop the apple, banana and pineapple into small chunks. Put all of this, along with the grapes, on a plate. 2. Spread the yoghurt and coconut onto two separate plates. 3. Slide pieces of fruit onto the skewers and design your own fruit sticks by putting as much or as little of whatever fruit you want! Do this until the sticks are almost covered from end to end. 4. Roll your fruit sticks in the yoghurt, so all of the fruit is covered. Then roll or sprinkle them in the coconut. Enjoy your ANTastic fruit sticks!! Make sure there is adult supervision at all times. Yamba's Playtime Yamba’s Playtime is a 30-minute variety style program for children and includes music, songs, dance, stories and tales about activities in the life of ‘Yamba the Yerrampe’ (honeyant). Produced and aired by Imparja Television, it has a viewing audience of around 420,000 people and has been entertaining audiences throughout remote Australia for 16 years. The program’s producer, Julie McAllan, is a singer/songwriter and former early childhood teacher. In 2009, series one was granted a Pre-school Classification – the first time an Indigenous themed pre- school program had been granted this in its 30-year classification history. History was made again when the Yamba’s Playtime one-off Christmas special was broadcast nationally on the Nine Network.

Yamba with Jacinta Price.

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Issue 188 Page 1

There are a lot of television programs just for kids. Yamba’s Playtime is a 30 minute program that includes songs, dance and stories. Yamba the Yerrampe is a life-sized honey ant, common in Central Australia. Years 3-4 Did you know that over 420000 people watch Yamba’s Playtime?

Activity 1 What do you watch on television?

1 The vowels are missing from these television words.

VIBE ACTIVITIES Fill them in then match the television pictures with their names.

Y_ m b_ ’s P l _ y t _ m _ t _ l _ v _ s _ _ n p r _ g r _ m

w _ t c h _ n g

c _ r t _ _ ns

t _ l _ v _ s _ _ n s c r _ _ n

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Y E A R p r _ s _ n t _ r 3-4 Issue 188 Page 2 Activity 2 Building reading skills Years 3-4

• skimming and scanning for information. • reading headings, text boxes and pictures. • reading for meaning. • making connections between the text and your world.

There are three levels of comprehension questions: Literal The answer is located in one sentence in the text.

VIBE ACTIVITIES Inferred You need to make links between sentences and graphics (such as illustrations, maps and tables) and what you already know. Applied The answer is in your background knowledge, what you already know or feel.

1 Read the following information about Yamba’s Playtime and answer the questions that follow.

Yamba’s Playtime Yamba’s Playtime is an Australian children’s preschool television program, produced and broadcast by Imparja Television from 1995 and now nationally on the Nine Network. Each 30 minute episode of Yamba’s Playtime follows the life of Yamba the Yerrampe (or honey ant).

Yamba the Honeyant is from Central Australia, and has a best friend named Jacinta. He is very curious and loves to learn, is active and energetic, friendly and outgoing. Darwin• • N Every episode of Yamba’s Playtime is Kakadu• Katherine educational yet entertaining and NORTHERN reflects distinctive qualities that TERRITORY • can only be found in the Tennant Creek red centre of Australia. Alice Springs • Because the show CENTRAL •Uluru appeals to an Indigenous AUSTRALIA Brisbane • and non-Indigenous preschool audience, it •Perth Sydney is used to present healthy Adelaide • messages to remote towns • Canberra • Melbourne and communities. Yamba’s Roadshow was created • and in 2011 the Yamba Roadshow crew began travelling

Y E A R throughout the Northern Territory and continued into • Hobart 3-4 Queensland performing stage shows all about healthy living. Issue 188 Page 3 1 What age group is Yamba’s Playtime made for? (inferred)

teenagers Years 3-4 Shade adults one bubble. Year 6 students preschoolers

2 Which two networks screen Yamba’s Playtime? (inferred)

Channel 7 and Channel 9 VIBE ACTIVITIES Channel 9 and Imparja Television Channel 7 and Imaparja Television Imparja Television and Chanel 10

3 Yamba is a honey ant. (inferred)

TRUE FALSE

4 Look at the map of Australia. Name one city in Central Australia. (inferred)

Write your answer on the line.

5 How would you describe Yamba? list the things that make Yamba a good friend to have. (applied)

6 What would be some things that preschoolers would enjoy most about watching Yamba’s Playtime? (applied)

Y E A R 3-4 Issue 188 Page 4 Activity 3 Language Conventions - SpellingYears 3-4

Write 1 The spelling mistakes in these sentences have been underlined. your answer Write the correct spelling for each word in the box. in the box.

Yamba’s Playtime is a variaty program.

It has a viewing awdiense of 420000. VIBE ACTIVITIES

Yamba has been entertaneing people for 16 years.

Write 2 One of the labels in each row has been spelt incorrectly. your answer Write the correct spelling of the words in the box. in the table.

honey ant hunny ant boosh tukker bush tucker abdummen abdomen constructs nests konstrucks nests Y E A R 3-4 start diging start digging Issue 188 Page 5 Activity 4 Language Conventions – SpellingYears 3-4

1 Complete the crossword about insects.

VIBE ACTIVITIES

Across 1. A flying animal that eats insects. 3. A white insect that is the ants’ enemy. 5. A cup tea.

8. The top of a jar. 10. How many legs do insects have? 11. Yes no. 12. A red insect with black spots.

14. Turn the light . 15. A long flying insect.

Down 1. An insect that makes honey. 2. An insect that lives in a colony. 4. An insect that drinks blood. 6. An insect that makes dogs itchy. 7. An insect that is bright at night. Y E A R 9. Not night. 3-4 13. Open the . Issue 188 Page 6