Monday
Week L – Stage 1
Happy Monday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
paper
ziplock bags
a stapler
cardboard
counters (or dried pasta)
playing cards from 1-10
a device that plays music
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
Cloud meditation
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Cloud meditation
Duration: 0:44
English
You will need:
Books and TV
Let's think of reasons why it's great to read books and watch TV!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Do you like reading books or watching TV?
Record 3 reasons why books are great to read.
Record 3 reasons why watching TV is great.
Books and TV
Duration: 1:27
Share your work with your teacher.
'Go Home, Cheeky Animals!'
It's storytime!
Read or listen to 'Go Home, Cheeky Animals!' by Johanna Bell.
'Go Home, Cheeky Animals!' by Johanna Bell
Duration: 6:08
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
The dogs were a little bit lazy in the story. What other animal do you think would help make all the cheeky animals go away?
How would they do that? Record 3 ways.
'Go Home, Cheeky Animals!' – activity
Duration: 3:03
Brain break
You will need:
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.
You will need:
1 piece of paper.
Brain break
Duration: 1:14
Phonics
You will need:
Phonemes and graphemes: ow, ow, ou
Let's practise some phonemes and graphemes!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
How many sounds do you know?
Phonemes and graphemes lesson 3: ow, ow, ou
Duration: 9:16
Virtual excursion
The Royal Botanic Garden
Are you ready to go on a virtual excursion? This week we are visiting the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney!
Let's explore the Royal Botanic Gardens! We will start at the entry.
Hint! You can click and drag (or use your finger, if you're using a touch screen) to look around.
Select the arrows to travel through the garden.
Select the 'play' buttons to watch a video.
Select the 'i' buttons for more information.
Welcome to the Royal Botanic Gardens
Immersive virtual tours from The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney compatible with Google Chrome and Safari
Mathematics
You will need:
How many bales of wool? Part 1
Maths is everywhere – even in nursery rhymes!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook
some counters (or dried pasta).
How many bales? Part 1
Duration: 1:42
Solve the problem:
If there were 5 sheep, how many bales of wool?
How many bales of wool? Part 2
Let's explore some strategies to solve this problem!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook
some counters (or dried pasta).
How many bales? Part 2
Duration: 12:39
Use the 3 different strategies to solve this new problem:
If each of the 5 sheep made 4 bales of wool, how many bales would there be in total?
Go fish – doubles
Let's play a number game!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
playing cards from 1-10
someone to play with.
Hint! The instructions are also below in case you need them.
Go fish – collecting and solving doubles
Duration: 6:40
Instructions:
Each player gets 7 cards. The rest of the cards are placed in a pile in the middle – this is called the 'draw pile'.
Players try to make matches (pairs of cards that are the same).
Once players can't make any more matches using their own cards, they can take turns to ask their opponent for a card.
If their opponent has a card of that number they must give it to the asking player.
If they don't, they say 'go fish' and the player gets a card from the draw pile.
For the player to keep the match they must solve the doubles fact. For example, if a player collected a double 9, they must solve and say ‘double 9 is 18’ to their opponent.
If at any point a player has no cards left, they can pick up another 7 cards from the draw pile.
Play continues until there are no cards left in the draw pile and/or all matches have been made.
The player with the most matches at the end is the winner!
Example: making matches using your first set of cards
Example of a finished game
Reflection:
How many pairs did you collect?
Is this more than, less than or the same as your opponent?
What’s the difference between how many pairs you collected and how many pairs your opponent collected?
What strategies did you use to solve the doubles?
If you played the game again tomorrow, what’s an adaptation (change) you could make?
Get active!
You will need:
Cricket at home
Let's move!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a small ball (e.g. a tennis ball)
a hat (or a cone) for catching.
Cone catching – take wickets
Duration: 0:48
Creative Arts
You will need:
The Good Times
Get ready to dance along to 'The Good Times'!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a device that plays music
a clear space for dancing.
Hint! Lyrics to the song and videos about locomotor and non-locomotor movements are below.
The Good Times
Duration: 7:45
'The Good Times' – movement
Let's move!
Find a clear space to move in.
Walk (or move) freely around in that space, swinging your arms gently to warm up your body. Try going in different directions.
Think of some different action verbs to create new movements, such as skipping, leaping, marching, rolling or crawling.
Listen to ‘The Good Times’.
Repeat some of these movements while you listen to the music.
'The Good Times'
Duration: 3:33
The-Good-Times-complete.mp3'The Good Times' – non-locomotor and locomotor movements
Let's improvise!
Listen to ‘The Good Times’ again, and this time improvise or let the body move freely ‘on the spot’ (non-locomotor).
When the music stops at the end, make a frozen shape. This is similar to a game of musical statues. Focus on using:
low shapes (crouched down)
medium shapes (slightly bent over in the middle)
high shapes (up tall).
Hint! Watch the videos below to help you with these non-locomotor movements.
Repeat the song again, but this time focus on ‘travelling’ (locomotor) movements. Again, focus on using low, medium or high shapes.
Hint! Watch the videos below to help you with improvising locomotor movements.
Musical statues travelling around freely (locomotor)
Duration: 1:58
Musical statues on the spot (non-locomotor)
Duration: 2:04
'The Good Times' – music
Let's sing!
Listen to ‘The Good Times’ track and learn to sing the song.
Hint! The lyrics are below in case you need them.
What do you think this song is about?
How does the music tell you this?
What are some good times that you remember and how do they make you feel?
Think of another song that you might know about being happy or that reminds you of a good time you have had (e.g. ‘If you’re happy and you know it’).
Sing that song and keep the beat.
Think of ways you can use the sound of your voice and use movement to show how you feel when you’re happy.
'The Good Times' lyrics
Verse 1
Sometimes I gotta wake up,
Sometimes I wanna walk out,
Sometimes I wanna do something different with my day.
Sometimes I wanna reach up,
Sometimes I wanna call out,
Sometimes life is directing me...another way.
Pre-chorus
A road can lead you far from home,
Who knows what you’ll find.
Follow the signs and take a new way,
Chorus
Life can be upside down,
Inside out and outside in.
Life can be back to front,
Front to back and round and round.
Life can be on your head,
Out of bed, that’s what I said.
That’s why you gotta make the most of ...The Good Times.
It’s better than just sitting back and waiting in line.
Verse 2
Sometimes I gotta work hard,
Sometimes I wanna do right,
Sometimes I gotta be smart and think of others too.
Sometimes I need to think straight,
Sometimes I need to shape up,
Sometimes life is directing me...another way.
Pre chorus
Dance all night and follow your dreams,
Travel the earth and keep it green.
Follow the signs and take a new way,
Well it’s better than just sitting back and just waiting in line.
Chorus x 2
Life can be upside down,
Inside out and outside in.
Life can be back to front,
Front to back, round and round.
Life can be on your head,
Out of bed, that’s what I said.
That’s why you gotta make the most of...The Good Times.
For those who like a challenge!
Draw some lines or shapes that you think are happy.
Create a drawing or painting of an event that you enjoyed or some people you like to be with.
Keep the beat and play along with the music on an instrument or using objects which make sounds, such as a box or bucket.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.