Friday

Week H – Early Stage 1

Happy Friday!

To complete today's activities, you will need:

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a workbook

coloured pencils

shoes

numeral cards

(0-20)

dry spaghetti pasta or straws

play dough

Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends

Click and wink

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Let's get started!

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Click and wink
Duration: 0:47

English

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Problem solving

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Let's explore how we can solve the problem of cats and dogs fighting!

Watch the video and join in the activities.


You will need:

  • a pencil

  • your workbook

  • a recording device (optional).


  • How can we solve the problem of cats and dogs fighting?

  • With the teacher in the video, brainstorm imaginative ways together.


  • How can we solve the problem of plovers (birds) swooping people when they walk near the nest?

  • List, draw or record several safe, clever solutions.

Problem solving

Duration: 5:48

Reading and viewing – chocolate advertisement

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Let's explore a chocolate advertisement!

Watch the Cadbury chocolate advertisement.

Cadbury Wouldn't it be Nice Commercial – Car Ride

Duration: 0:30

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

  • a pencil

  • your workbook.



  • What is the advertisement trying to sell you?


  • Do you like this advertisement?


  • Does the advertisement make you want to buy the product? Why?

Cadbury Wouldn't it be Nice Commercial – Chocolate advertisement

Duration: 3:44

Check-in survey – English

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Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.

Brain break

Let's recharge!

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It’s time for a brain break so we can recharge for some more learning!

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Brain break
Duration: 2:12

Handwriting

You will need:

Focus word: run

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It's time to practise our handwriting skills. Get your workbook and your pencil ready!

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

  • a pencil

  • your workbook.

CVC words – run
Duration: 9:41

Education Live

Contemporary dance

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Join us for today's episode of Education Live!

Today we are joined by Richard Cilli from the Sydney Dance Company.

Watch the video and join in!

You will need:

  • space to move.

Education Live – Contemporary dance
Duration: 15:49

Mathematics

You will need:

shoes
Cards

Sorting Shoes

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Let's explore data!

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

  • shoes

  • pencils

  • your workbook.

Sorting shoes

Duration: 9:28

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  • Ask an adult to help you collect some shoes.

  • Decide how you want to sort them. You could sort them by the type of shoes like we did or maybe by colour or size.

  • Organise your shoes into a data display. Remember to line them up evenly in rows.

  • Draw a picture showing how you organised your shoes. You could also ask someone to help you to write down what you notice.

Example of how you can organise your shoes

Many pairs of shoes organised into rows of similar types of shoes.

Example of how you might draw your data display

Picture graph showing the shoe types across the bottom and a drawing of each pair of shoes to show how many.
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  • Can you see what you have the most or least of?

  • Do you have any in your display that show the same amount.

  • Can you think of other ways to sort your shoes?

  • How does you data display change when you change how you sorted your shoes?

  • How is the data you have collected on the different shoes helpful? Could it help you to make some decisions?

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Share your work with your teacher.

Rekenrek duel – level 2

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Let's duel!

Watch the video to learn how to play.



You will need:

  • a rekenrek each

  • a set of numeral cards (0-20)

  • some paper

  • pencils

  • counters or objects to keep score.



Note: If you don't have your own rekenrek, you can use the interactive rekenrek below.

Rekenrek duel 2

Duration: 6:19

Use this interactive rekenrek if you don't have your own.



Interactive rekenrek

STEM

You will need:

Pasta (or straws)
Play dough

Pasta building challenge

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Let's get creative! Today's STEM challenge is to design and make different buildings and structures using spaghetti pasta or straws and play dough.

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

  • spaghetti pasta or straws

  • play dough.



Download the instructions for this task:

Pasta building challenge

Duration: 2:37

Materials needed

First building

First attempt at building a structure using straws, spaghetti and play dough.

Improved building

Model structure built using straws, spaghetti and play dough.

For those who like a challenge!

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  • Try to add a weight to your building.

    • Will it still stay up?

    • Do you need to make changes to your building?


  • Look at buildings with interesting shapes, such as the Sydney Opera House.


  • Try to make an unusual building.

"Sydney opera house" by jimmyharris is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Student voice

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Show how you feel about your learning today.