Thursday
Week M – Stage 3
Good morning!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
scissors
a used tissue box, cereal box or similar
weather chart (DOC, 30KB)
a container with a wide opening and hard sides
a skewer (or other similar light, straight item)
a balloon
a box
sticky tape
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
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Drawing and listening challenge
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
pencils
your workbook.
Drawing and listening challenge
Duration: 2:44
English
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Key words
Let's explore key words!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
View the two images of drought and rain in the video.
For each image, brainstorm 10 words that relate to that image.
Narrow the 10 key words down to just 5 key words.
Select the one key word that best summarises each image.
Key words
Duration: 4:35
Share your work with your teacher.
Adjectives, alliteration and onomatopoeia
Let's explore a story from The School Magazine!
Read all or part of the story 'The Rain Frog's Song' by Wendy McKay-Taylor from The School Magazine.
'The Rain Frog's Song' by Wendy McKay-Taylor – The School Magazine
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Identify 10 adjectives from the text.
Identify 3 examples of onomatopoeia from the text.
Identify 2 examples of alliteration from the text.
Why has the author used adjectives, alliteration and onomatopoeia?
What would the story be like if it did not have adjectives, alliteration and onomatopoeia?
Adjectives, alliteration and onomatopoeia
Duration: 5:07
Share your work with your teacher.
Last paragraph
Let's explore the last paragraph of 'The Rain Frog's Song'!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
The story ends with Maggie and her mother embracing. Imagine there is another paragraph to the text.
Write the last paragraph about the rain.
What does the pond, garden, chimney and grass now look like?
Hint! Use the senses to describe these nouns.
Last paragraph
Duration: 1:46
Share your work with your teacher.
Brain break
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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:
a pencil
paper
2 coins
a bottle cap
someone to play with.
Australia's Coin Sports – Hockey
Duration: 0:59
Virtual excursion
The Royal Australian Mint
Are you ready to go on a virtual excursion? This week we are visiting the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra!
Today, we are going to learn how Australia changed from pounds, shillings and pence to the decimal currency.
Image by hddigital/Shutterstock.com
Changeover!
Duration: 4:11
Changes to decimal currency
Duration: 6:22
Mathematics
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Position investigation
Let's create a grid-reference map!
Look at the example of the grid-reference map.
You will need:
grid paper
(PDF file, 90 KB)pencils
your workbook.
Grid reference map – example
There is a new student in your class who is also new to the local area.
Your task:
Create a simple grid map to help them locate helpful locations within the school.
Include important locations (e.g. classrooms, the office, canteen, library, hall).
Ensure your map uses a grid-reference (e.g. letters and numbers along the axes).
Ensure your map includes a compass rose.
Compass rose – example
Once you have completed your map:
Provide some helpful information with your map to describe the position of different locations.
For example: The office is at B3 and it is North of the front gate.
For those who like a challenge!
Include the four directions North-east, South-east, South-west and North-west to make your descriptions more precise.
Objects, shapes and famous buildings
Let's learn about objects and shapes through famous buildings!
Watch the video.
You will need:
a used cereal box, tissue box or similar
paper
pencil.
Objects, shapes and famous buildings
Duration: 2:51
Find and describe various 3D objects found around the house (e.g. cereal boxes, tissue boxes, cans of soft drink).
Where possible, and if it is safe to do so, pull apart prisms to explore their net. Used cereal or tissue boxes are ideal for this.
Choose another object and write or share a description on how to draw a three-dimensional object from different views.
Hint! You might use language such as base, cross-section, face, edge, vertex (vertices), top view, front view, side view, etc.
Share your work with your teacher.
Check-in survey – Mathematics
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Get creative!
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Paper puppets
Let's have some fun making puppets out of paper!
You will need:
paper
scissors
sticky tape.
Optional:
puppet template
(PDF file, 208 KB)puppet scenarios
(PDF file, 181 KB)performance planning sheet
(PDF file, 43 KB).
Paper puppets
Duration: 14:57
Science and Technology
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Under pressure
Let's measure air pressure with a barometer to help us to better understand the weather!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
(DOC, 30KB)
a container with a wide opening and hard sides
a balloon
a skewer (or other light, straight item)
sticky tape
a box
a texta or pen.
Under pressure
Duration: 14:16
Using your barometer
Follow the instructions in the video to construct the barometer.
Place the barometer in the fridge for 20 minutes to check that it works.
Set up the barometer and the box outside in the shade.
Leave the barometer in place for an hour.
Over 1 week, check your barometer. Whenever the needle moves more than a finger width up or down, mark the box and describe the weather.
Check your barometer over the next 2-3 weeks and repeat the marking process.
Learn to predict the weather
Use the chart (DOC, 30KB) or a similar method to record the weather. Include the position of your barometer pointer.
Did the needle move a great deal?
When did it move the most/least?
What did you notice about the weather when the needle was high (low pressure)?
What did you notice about the weather when the needle was low (high pressure)?
Did you notice a difference in the weather between the highest and lowest pressures?
For those who like a challenge!
Re-design your barometer so that when the pressure raises, the pointer also rises.
Observe the barometer pointer each day for a month.
Record the weather for each day.
Use your barometer and weather observations to predict the weather for the following day.
What will the weather be tomorrow?
Were you correct?
Did your barometer help you predict correctly?
Check-in survey – Science and Technology
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.