Monday
Week O – Stage 2
Happy Monday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a drawing compass (or a circular object to use as a stencil)
a soccer ball (or similar)
markers (or shoes or water bottles)
a target (e.g. an empty cardboard box or washing basket)
a device to take a photograph
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
'See you soon' shake
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
'See you soon' shake
Duration: 0:38
English
You will need:
Describing a special person
It's time to describe a person who is special to you!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Select a special person to write about.
Divide your page into four and list:
how your person looks
how your person sounds
how your person moves
other words to describe them.
Describing a special person
Duration: 4:37
A special person in a text
Let's explore a text from The School Magazine!
Read the story 'Day at the Zoo' by Vivienne Fletcher from The School Magazine.
'Day at the Zoo' by Vivienne Fletcher – The School Magazine
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Reflect on the relationship you have with your special person.
How is it similar/different to the relationship between Josh and Hayden?
Complete a Venn diagram looking at similarities and differences between your relationship and the one in the text.
A special person in a text
Duration: 3:52
Share your work with your teacher.
Sentences
Let's write some sentences to describe your special person!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Build noun groups, as demonstrated in the video, to describe your special person.
Use these noun groups to create 3 sentences.
Hint! You will use these sentences in tomorrow's lesson to write a description.
Sentences
Duration: 4:23
Brain break
Let's recharge!
It’s time for a brain break so we can recharge for some more learning!
Complete workout 1.
Virtual excursion
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
This week we are exploring the sights, sounds and stories of Uluru.
Today we take a journey through Talinguru Nyakunytjaku, with 360-degree visuals and audio clips.
Discover key sites, hear the desert birdsong and listen to traditional owners sharing important cultural knowledge and stories.
Talinguru Nyakunytjaku – virtual tour
Mathematics
You will need:
Square letter names – part 1
Let's examine the area and cost of a name plate! There are 2 parts to this activity, so let's start with part 1!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
1cm grid paper
(PDF file, 90 KB)coloured pencils
your workbook.
Square letter names – part 1
Duration: 2:09
Use 1cm grid paper to design your name plate.
Hint! As a challenge, you might also like to include your surname.
Consider the following questions:
How could I design a letter so that I could work out its area?
Would the area of the letter be accurate if I used curved edges?
How can I avoid curves on some letters?
What does the area of a letter mean?
Example name plate
Using grid paper to find the area
Square letter names – part 2
Let's explore part 2 of this activity!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Square letter names – part 2
Duration: 2:08
A factory makes coloured metal name plates. They charge $5.00 per cm² of colour.
Calculate the number of square centimetres you used for each letter on your name plate. Write the amount below each letter.
Colour the letters on your name plate lightly with pencils.
Calculate the total cost of your name plate.
Hint! Remember, it costs $5.00 per cm² of colour.
Example – calculating name plate area
For those who like a challenge!
Find the total area of the numerals in a telephone number by drawing the numbers on 1cm grid paper.
Use the patterns from calculator numbers to draw them.
Cone shapes
Let's explore cones and cone-shaped objects in the environment!
Watch the video.
You will need:
scissors
sticky tape (or glue)
a drawing compass (or a circular object to use as a stencil)
paper
a pencil
your workbook.
Look Kool – Cones
Duration: 21:06
Adapted from ABC and © State of Victoria (Department of Education and Training) 2020
Follow the wizard’s instructions for how to make a cone from a piece of paper.
“You just have to start with a circle and not a rectangle. You just have to cut out a piece, roll up whatever you have left until the sides are even, and there you go…”
Tape your cone together.
Make different sized cones by starting with different sized circles.
Can you make a taller cone?
Can you make one that is half the size of your original cone?
Reflection:
Prove, like they did in the video, that a cylinder with the same size base and height as a cone holds three times the amount of something.
What other similarities and differences are there between cylinders and cones?
Share your work with your teacher.
For those who like a challenge!
Investigate why, in the video, Hamza says that cones are like "spinning right-angled triangles".
Get active!
You will need:
Soccer at home
Join us as we practise some soccer skills!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a soccer ball (or similar)
markers (or shoes or water bottles)
a target (e.g. an empty cardboard box or washing basket)
a clear space (e.g. a backyard).
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a soccer ball (or similar)
markers (or shoes or water bottles)
a clear space (e.g. a backyard)
someone to play with.
Creative Arts
You will need:
Where am I?
Let's explore the setting, content and context of photos!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a device to take a photograph
photos (optional).
Where am I?
Duration: 6:35
A familiar photo
Let's explore a photo that you have seen or taken!
Think of a photo you have seen or taken in the past.
Hint! It might be a photo that was taken on a holiday or at a special event.
Think about the following questions:
Where is the photo set?
What landmarks can you see?
What colours are in the photo?
If there are people or animals in the picture, what are they doing?
What do you think happened before and after the photograph was taken?
A famous photographer
Let's explore photos taken by a famous photographer, Carol M. Highsmith!
Explore the photos below by Carol M. Highsmith from her travels around America.
Choose one of the images and think about the following questions:
Where is the photo set?
What landmarks can you see?
What colours are in the photo?
If there are people or animals in the picture, what are they doing?
What do you think happened before and after the photograph was taken?
"Bridge Sea Water" by Falkenpost is licensed under CC BY 4.0
"Fishing Boat Ship" by Falkenpost is licensed under CC BY 4.0
"Bank Park Bench Tree" by Falkenpost is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Let's take a photo!
It's your turn!
Consider where you live, a place, or an event that you could go to easily to take a photograph. Think about the things that you would like to capture at this place. For example:
Will there be people or animals there or just the landscape?
What colours would you like to show in your photo - do you need to apply filters before or after taking it, such as to make it black and white or hyper-coloured?
Consider the focal point of your photograph. What is the thing that you would like eyes to be drawn to in your image?
Will it be landscape (horizontal) or portrait (vertical) view?
What do you want the viewer to think about, know or feel as a result of your photo?
Take your photograph.
Important! You must ask an adult before taking your photograph.
Share your work with your teacher.
Mime themes
Let's imagine a story based on the photograph that you just took!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
Mime themes
Duration: 2:28
Use the photograph you have taken to imagine a story connected to that image that you could create.
Hint! If you don't have your own photograph, you could use one of Carol M. Highsmith's images. For example, in Carol M. Highsmith’s image of the car and the boat, the driver could have stopped the car and run away because they were surprised by a fishing boat in the middle of a paddock.
Think about what a photo would have looked like before this image was taken and one afterwards.
Hint! If there are no people in the photograph, imagine that there were and what they would have been doing, including why they are not in the photograph.
Using these ideas, create a mimed sculpture of these three scenes:
before the photo was taken.
during the photo (including where have they gone if they are not in it).
after the photo was taken.
In the example of the boat, the mimes could show:
driving the car (frozen image).
frightened and trying to run (frozen image).
looking at the boat from a distance (frozen image).
For those who like a challenge!
Take photographs of different events to collate in a digital or real photo album.
Take a video of you acting out the scenes surrounding the photograph.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.