Journey around Australia with Possum Magic

This is a self paced course based on the story Possum Magic by Mem Fox. Children will explore a range of literacy based activities, art, geography and cooking. There is also the opportunity to research their own Australian animal and create a possum box for your backyard.

These lessons can be done at any time and any in sequence after completing the first lesson.

What Will I Learn?

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)

Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure (ACELY1672)Living things live in different places where their needs are met (ACSSU211)

Living things have a variety of external features (ACSSU017)Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways (ACSSU018)

Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (ACAVAM106)