Secret Life of Stuff
Years 3 - 4
Three-week Program
In this program students will delve into letters inspired by the picture book The Day the Crayons Quit. Students will bring objects from their daily lives to life by creating unique characters, imagining daily activities, and drafting dialogue. As students work through the writing process they will role play interviews and create the content for various written texts including letters. Secret Life of Stuff is a fun and engaging way to explore character creation!
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Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478)
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)
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EN2-CWT-01
plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
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Hello Hina,
Where were you last night? Did you realise you left me in your house all by myself? I felt lonely and scared but then I called my friends. The first thing I did was raid the fridge and grab all the snacks. But then I decided to build a secret gaming cubby. Then I got your glow sticks and ate all the snacks. I was having a great time until the rain turned into a big storm and the power went out. We found a battery lamp and when we turned it on we found out we had made a big mess. Luckily the chickens helped us clean up.
But then around midnight the lamp’s power went out and I was looking for the generator. I found your mum’s stash of technology and the generator. I looked in the cupboard and found my long lost friends.
~Switchy
-Hina, HERRD Homeschool Group, 2026
Available in Semester 1, 2026.
