The School of Play Curriculum
Kindergarten
Week Ten blends creativity, imagination, physical movement, and gratitude into a joyful and well-rounded learning experience. Students begin with Shadow Play, exploring how their bodies create shapes and shadows while experimenting with movement, light, and creativity. This sensory-based activity encourages body awareness, teamwork, and communication as children share and describe their shadow creations. They then shift into imaginative thinking with My Dream Job, drawing and discussing the careers they’d love to have one day, helping students connect personal interests with future aspirations in a fun and expressive way.
The week continues with high-energy engagement through Five Little Monkeys, a playful, fitness-focused sing-along that gets students moving, balancing, stretching, and acting out the rhyme with enthusiasm. The week concludes on a heartfelt note with a Gratitude Letter to a Friend, where students write simple, meaningful letters expressing appreciation for someone special. Together, these activities support creative expression, physical coordination, emotional development, and gratitude. Week Ten offers opportunities for children to imagine, move, connect, and reflect, building confidence, kindness, and joy through meaningful play.
Weekly Lessons
Shadow Play
Shadow Play invites students into a world of imagination where their own bodies become creative tools. Using a simple light source, students experiment with making shapes, animals, and patterns on the wall, discovering how movement changes the shadows they create. This playful exploration encourages creativity, body awareness, and expressive movement, as students learn how their hands, arms, and bodies can transform into a variety of shadow characters and images.
As students experiment, they begin to understand how light and shadow work together, how distance, angle, and movement affect the size and shape of a shadow. Sharing their creations with the group builds confidence, communication, and imaginative thinking. Shadow Play turns basic science into a creative adventure, helping students explore cause and effect through fun, expressive shadow storytelling.
My Dream Job
My Dream Job invites students to imagine their futures with creativity and confidence as they explore what they might like to be when they grow up. Through drawing themselves in their dream career, students reflect on their personal interests, passions, and aspirations, whether they picture themselves as artists, doctors, astronauts, teachers, athletes, or anything their imagination can dream up. This engaging activity encourages students to visualise their goals while expressing their ideas through art.
Once their drawings are complete, students share their dream jobs with the group, explaining what excites them about that career and why it feels like a good fit. This builds confidence, verbal communication skills, and positive group interaction as classmates listen, ask questions, and celebrate one another’s ambitions. My Dream Job inspires imagination, self-expression, and future thinking, helping students dream big while practising creativity and communication.
Five Little Monkeys
Five Little Monkeys turns a classic nursery rhyme into a high-energy movement adventure where students jump, crawl, push, and laugh their way through the story. As the rhyme unfolds, students act out each moment, becoming playful monkeys on the bed, sneaking in strength exercises between verses, and responding to the doctor’s directions with squats, burpees, crawls, and more. This fun-filled singalong keeps everyone active while building coordination, fitness, and the ability to follow instructions through imaginative storytelling.
Throughout the activity, students fully immerse themselves in the role of energetic monkeys, moving with creativity and enthusiasm as the song guides them from one exercise to the next. The blend of music, narrative, and movement encourages students to stay focused, participate joyfully, and work their muscles while having a blast. Five Little Monkeys is the perfect playful warm-up or end-of-session activity, bursting with laughter, imagination, and exercise for early learners!
Gratitude Letter to a Friend
Gratitude Letter to a Friend is a heart-warming activity that encourages students to pause, reflect, and appreciate the special people in their lives. Through writing or dictating a short gratitude letter, students think deeply about why a friend or family member is important to them and express those feelings in a meaningful way. This simple act of appreciation not only strengthens relationships but also helps students recognise kindness, support, and joy in their everyday interactions.
As students write, decorate, and share their letters, they build essential writing and communication skills while spreading positivity throughout the classroom. Whether the letters are shared aloud, delivered privately, or displayed on a Gratitude Wall, the experience fosters empathy, emotional awareness, and a strong sense of connection. Gratitude Letter to a Friend turns a small gesture into a powerful moment of kindness, teaching students that expressing gratitude can brighten someone’s day and strengthen the bonds they value most.
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