Thursday
Week O – Stage 3
Good morning!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
string
1 cup of detergent
1/3 cup of glycerine
2 and 1/3 cups of water
a mixing bowl
mixing spoon and measuring spoons
a measuring cup
plastic-coated wire coat hanger
plastic garden wire (or similar)
a large container
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
I Spy
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
I Spy
Duration: 2:13
English
You will need:
Similarities and differences between characters
Yesterday we explored a text from The School Magazine. Let's read it again!
Read or listen to 'The Thief Who Talked', a Chinese oral folk story translated and adapted by Ping Cui and Robert Colvin.
'The Thief Who Talked' – The School Magazine
Audio duration: 3:37
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
pencils
your workbook.
Watch and listen to the teacher in the video find similarities and differences between characters.
Complete a Venn diagram with the teacher in the video.
Similarities and differences between characters
Duration: 6:10
Share your work with your teacher.
Text structure
Let's explore text structure!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
pencils
your workbook.
Watch and listen to the teacher in the video talk about the text structure of 'The Thief Who Talked'.
Identify the different parts of the text.
Text structure
Duration: 11:33
Brain break
Let's recharge!
It’s time for a brain break so we can recharge for some more learning!
Complete workout 4.
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 Kapi Mutitjulu, 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.
Kapi Mutitjulu – virtual tour
Mathematics
You will need:
Drawing faces
Did you know that maths can help you with art, such as drawing faces? Let's find out how!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
string
a pencil
your workbook.
Record each of the proportions mentioned in the video. For example: the distance from your hairline to your eyebrows is about one third the length of our face.
Use string to investigate if the proportions are about the same on your face.
Use the string and your knowledge of fractions to complete a drawing of your face.
Explore if there are any other proportions on your body. Test these out with other people in your house using string (with their permission, of course!).
Probability
Let's explore probability and luck as we examine a chance experiment!
Watch the video.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Look Kool – probability
Duration: 21:06
Adapted from ABC and Nrich maths
In a far-away land, the lottery consists of four balls numbered 1 to 4, which are placed in a bag.
To enter, you choose one number. To win, your number must match the number that is drawn from the bag.
What is the chance of winning this lottery?
Record your reasoning.
The people running the lottery in this far-away land decide that it is too easy to win. So, they change their lottery game.
In the new lottery, there are still four balls numbered 1 to 4, which are placed in a bag. Now, to enter, you choose two numbers. To win, your numbers must match (in any order) the two numbers that are drawn from the bag.
What is the chance of winning this new lottery? Record your reasoning.
Have the organisers made it harder to win compared with their original version? Record your reasoning.
Create your own version of the lottery which would also be harder to win than the first game. Share your ideas with your teacher explaining how you know your game is harder.
Share your work with your teacher.
For those who like a challenge!
Play ‘scissors, paper, rock’. What chance do you have of winning?
When you roll a dice, each number is equally likely to occur. What other chance experiments do you know where each outcome is equally likely to happen?
Get creative!
West African dance
Join Schools Spectacular choreographer, Lucky Lartey, as he teaches you a fun and energetic dance!
Watch the video and join in!
You will need:
a clear space to move.
Watch the African Dance Ensemble perform at the 2019 Schools Spectacular.
Schools Spectacular 2019 – Look to the Stars
Duration: 13:42
Science and Technology
You will need:
The biggest bubble recipe test
Let's make some seriously big bubbles!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
1 cup of detergent
1/3 cup of glycerine
2 and 1/3 cups of water
a mixing bowl
a mixing spoon and measuring spoons
measuring cups
a plastic-coated wire coat hanger
plastic garden wire, or similar
a large container
baking powder and corn flour (optional)
a pencil
your workbook.
Hint! You must ask an adult to help you with this investigation.
The biggest bubble recipe test
Duration: 13:59
Record the investigation by following the steps below.
Purpose – What are you trying to find out?
(E.g. To investigate what happens when we change ingredients in a bubble recipe.)
Prediction – What do you think will happen?
Materials – List the items you used.
Method – Record what you did in steps.
Create the first recipe for big bubbles:
1 cup of detergent
1/3 cup of glycerine
2 1/3 cups of water.
Put the ingredients in a bowl and gently mix them together.
Make the bubble tool.
Ask an adult to help you create a shape with the coat hanger or the garden wire.
Add the thin cotton support if you have a large shape.
Test the bubble mixture.
Place the bubble recipe into a large flat tray.
Use your bubble tool to create bubbles.
Change the shape to investigate how this affects the bubbles
Explore what happens if the recipe is changed.
Select an ingredient to change and predict what will happen to the bubbles.
Follow the steps for the main recipe.
Add more or less of one ingredient.
Test and make bubbles with the new recipe.
Ingredients needed for the first big bubble recipe
The bubble tool
Optional:
Add a small amount of baking powder or corn flour.
Test and make bubbles with the new recipe and compare it to the first recipe.
Did the bubbles last longer?
Did they work at all?
Results – Describe exactly what you saw and draw a picture to show what happened.
Explanation – Explain what happened:
Hint! You might like to use a table like the one in the picture to help you to record your investigation.
Record your changes to the bubble recipe
For those who like a challenge
It's your turn to investigate and invent a bubble tool!
Design and make a bubble tool using string.
Hint! The example in the picture uses string and straws. The string holds the bubble soap and makes really long bubbles.
Example of a bubble tool
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.