Friday
Week J – Stage 3
Happy Friday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
paper
sticky tape
scissors
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
Drumbeat
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Drumbeat
Duration: 3:11
English
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Listen up!
Let's practise our listening skills!
Watch and listen to the video 'What is your secret for a happy life?' from 1959.
Hint! This video is interviewing people on the street in Melbourne.
What is your secret for a happy life?
Duration: 4:25
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
List some things that the respondents believe are the secret to a happy life.
Do you think these would be the same answers if we interviewed people today?
What do you think the answers today would be?
Listen up!
Duration: 2:42
Share your work with your teacher.
Imagery used
Yesterday we explored the text 'The girl from Barellan'. Let's explore it some more with a focus on imagery.
Read or listen to the story 'The Girl from Barellan' from The School Magazine.
'The Girl from Barellan' by Neridah McMullin – The School Magazine
Duration: 6:32
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Explore the imagery used with the teacher in the video.
Draw or represent the image that is evoked from the descriptive language.
Imagery used
Duration: 3:14
Descriptive paragraph
It's time to write a descriptive paragraph about the Barellan tennis courts!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
What might the Barellan tennis courts have sounded like, looked like, felt like and smelt like? Use dot points to record your responses.
Using your brainstormed notes, write a descriptive paragraph about the Barellan tennis courts, creating an image for the reader. Try to use alliteration, adjectives or onomatopoeia to help the reader visualise the courts.
Draw an image of the courts.
Descriptive paragraph
Duration: 4:46
Share your work with your teacher.
Check-in survey – English
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Brain break
Let's recharge!
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: 1:43
Education Live
Fun Friday disco!
Join us for today's episode of Education Live!
Today we are joined by Mr Young from Woy Woy South Public School.
Mr Young has organised an awesome virtual school disco – watch the video and join in!
You will need:
space to move
water
your dancing shoes!
Mathematics
You will need:
Playing with tessellations
Let's explore tessellating patterns!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a few sheets of paper
scissors
sticky tape
pencils or markers.
Hint! The instructions for this activity are also below in case you need them.
Playing with tessellations
Duration: 13:28
Instructions:
Create an equilateral triangle (see below).
Create your own tessellating design using an equilateral triangle (see below).
What other shapes can you create a tessellating design with?
What shapes can you find ‘hiding’ in your pattern?
Start by making an equilateral triangle.
Follow the steps in the video or use the photo carousel.
How to make an equilateral triangle
Swipe or click through the photo carousel to see the steps.
Use your triangle to create a tessellating pattern.
Follow the steps in the video or use the photo carousel.
How to make your tessellating pattern
Swipe or click through the photo carousel to see the steps.
Reflection:
How do we know that these shapes tessellate?
What evidence can you use to prove something tessellates or doesn’t tessellate?
Describe the way you are moving your stencil to create your tessellating design?
Hint! Are you rotating, translating, reflecting or a combination?
Are there any shapes you can think of that might be difficult to create tessellating designs with? Which ones? Why?
For those who like a challenge!
What happens if you create a tessellating design with different kinds of triangles (scalene or isosceles)?
Why do you think this happens?
STEM
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Problem-solving
Today's challenge is to use our thinking skills and our imagination to come up with solutions to problems we face. This process is called design thinking.
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Brainstorm innovative ways to re-use plastic bottles. Record your ideas in your workbook.
Connect and sort your ideas.
Draw a detailed picture of one of your ideas and annotate your drawing.
Problem-solving
Duration: 15:12
Share your work with your teacher.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.