Friday
Week K – Stage 3
Happy Friday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
6 paper squares
scissors
paper
egg carton, cardboard, and/or boxes
sticks, leaves and other assorted items from nature
glue or sticky tape
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
Opposite scissors
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Opposite scissors
Duration: 1:17
English
You will need:
Performance poetry
Let's describe a dog!
Watch the video 'Performance poetry' from BTN (ABC).
Performance poetry – BTN (ABC)
Duration: 2:57
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
With the teacher on the video, answer the following questions:
What sort of challenges did Solli face when he first started writing poetry?
What type of themes does Solli write about in his poetry?
Briefly summarise how slam poetry works.
How did Solli’s poetry make you feel?
Performance poetry
Duration: 1:17
Share your work with your teacher.
Look carefully at poetry
Let's explore another poem!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Read aloud the excerpt of the poem 'Fly' by Solli Raphael.
Hint! Reading poetry aloud will help you to hear the language and sound patterns within the poem.
Take a deeper look at the poem with the teacher on the video.
How does the poem look on the page?
What is the structure of the poem?
What patterns do you notice in the poem?
Identify any metaphors or similes.
What words are used in the poem to convey feeling and emotion?
How did you feel after reading the poem?
Look carefully at poetry
Duration: 3:48
Share your work with your teacher.
Free verse poetry
Let's explore free verse poetry!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Brainstorm words that are associated with a cold winter's morning.
Write 2-3 sentences about a cold winter's morning, remembering to include adjectives.
Using your sentences, create a free verse poem about a winter's morning.
Challenge yourself to repeat the same process to create a free verse poem about a haunted house.
Free verse poetry
Duration: 5:17
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.
Forehead balance
Duration: 1:30
Virtual excursion
NSW National Parks
Are you ready to go on a virtual excursion? This week we are visiting National Parks from across NSW!
Watch the video to follow the Gumbayngirr dolphin dreaming story.
Hint! These are interactive videos. Use your mouse (or finger if you are using a touch screen) to look around!
360 Aboriginal Storytelling – Coffs Coast Regional Park 1
Duration: 4:23
Watch the video to uncover the Arrawarra fish traps of Coffs Coast.
360 Aboriginal Storytelling – Coffs Coast Regional Park 2
Duration: 3:39
Mathematics
You will need:
Origami cube
Let's make an origami cube!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
6 paper squares.
Origami cube
Duration: 4:34
Exploring nets
Let's explore nets!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
pencils
paper
scissors
your origami cube.
Exploring nets:
Create the net in the video.
Use your cube to explore and make the other 10 nets.
Net exploration
Duration: 2:06
STEM
You will need:
Animal enrichment challenge task
Today's STEM challenge is to design and make an enrichment device for a zoo animal.
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook
natural materials (e.g. sticks, rocks and branches)
recyclable materials (e.g. cardboard tubes, boxes, egg cartons)
masking tape
scissors.
Download the instructions for this task:
Animal enrichment challenge task card
(Word doc, 3.7 MB)Design Thinking for STEM
(Word doc, 99 KB)
Animal enrichment challenge task
Duration: 14:36
Instructions:
find out what enrichment devices are and why they are developed by zoos.
choose one animal and find out about its habitat, what its needs are and its behaviours in its natural environment.
design an enrichment device for a zoo animal. It needs to:
encourage natural behaviours of the animal
be safe and suitable for the animal (e.g. make sure the animal’s body parts couldn’t get trapped and no items could be swallowed by the animal)
use natural and recyclable materials.
Example of an enrichment feeder for an echidna
Using the Design thinking process is a way of solving this challenge.
The Design thinking process
Design 1
Ideas for improvement:
Holes are too low, and food leaks out.
Possible solution: Put the holes higher so that the food won't leak out.
Holes on every side means the device cannot be put down without food leaking everywhere.
Possible solution: Only put holes on some of the sides, not on all sides, and not at the base.
Design 1: Enrichment feeder (food leaking out)
Design 2
Reflection:
No holes low down means the food can be added to the device without leaking out.
No holes on one side so the device could be put on the ground for the echidna to feed from.
Design 2: Enrichment feeder (food no longer leaking out)
Share your work with your teacher.
Check-in survey – STEM
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.