Wednesday

Week B – Stage 1

Welcome to Wednesday!

To complete today's activities, you will need:

a workbook

pencils

Number visuals worksheet (optional)
(PDF file, 22KB)

Cones or markers

obstacle course materials e.g. cones, towels, pillows (optional)

Book

dictionary

Care and Connect caring for yourself, your family and your friends

Healthy habits

Let's get started!

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Healthy habits
Duration: 2:17

English

You will need:

Workbook
Pencils
Book

Speaking to an audience

Let's explore some nursery rhymes!

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Let's practise speaking!
Duration: 2:03

Building vocabulary

It's storytime!

Listen to the story 'Rocky and Louie'.


After listening to the story:

  • Write down any words that are new to you in your workbook.

  • Look these words up in a dictionary and write down what they mean.

'Rocky and Louie'
Duration: 9:27

Is this too hard?

  • Listen to 'Rocky and Louie'.

  • What sports do Rocky and Louie play?

Is this too easy?

  • Listen to 'Rocky and Louie'.

  • Compare Rocky and Louie to two characters from another book that you have read. What similarities and differences do you notice?

Compare and contrast

Let's compare! What does a fast car and a cheetah have in common?

Watch the video.

Let's write!
Duration: 4:20

  • How does a car and a cheetah move?

  • What shape and size is a fast car and a cheetah?

  • What colours are cheetahs and fast cars? Can they be the same?

  • What sounds do they both make?

  • Where would you see a fast car? Where would you see a cheetah?

  • What do they both do?

Fast car

Image by 18193486 from Pixabay

Cheetah

Image by Volker Glätsch from Pixabay

Share your work with your teacher.

Brain break

Colours

It’s time for a brain break so we can recharge for some more learning!

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Brain break
Duration: 0:59

Check-in survey – Brain break

Icon: sharing

Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.

Sight words

You will need:

Workbook
Pencils

Focus words: would, what, friend

We are learning to read and write words quickly. Let's practise some more!

Today, we will learn the words:

  • would

  • what

  • friend.

High frequency sight words
Duration: 11:35

Education Live

Animals of the week

Icon: watch video

Today we meet a number of creatures from under the sea as we take a virtual trip to the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium. Watch the videos to meet turtles, swordfish, sea stars and more!

Education Live – the Great Barrier Reef habitat
Duration: 4:32

Education Live – the sea star
Duration: 4:27

Mathematics

You will need:

Workbook
Pencils
Worksheet

Subitising

We are going to practise our subitising skills.

Watch the video and join in.

Can you tell which number is behind the door?

What's my number?
Duration: 4:33

Number visuals

We are going to do a number talk together.

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

YouCubed number visuals
Duration: 5:14

After watching 'YouCubed Number talks':

  • Complete the YouCubed number visuals activity. Or, use your workbook to write down the different ways each number visual is made up of other numbers.

  • How many different ways did you come up with?

PDHPE

You will need:

Workbook
Pencils
Cones or markers

Food rainbow

Let's learn what it means to eat a 'rainbow' of foods!

Watch the video to learn about the activity.

Eating a rainbow of healthy food
Duration: 12:17

Now it's your turn to create a healthy lunchbox.

  • Design a healthy lunchbox that contains many different colours from the food rainbox.

  • Think about what you watched in the videos to give you some ideas of foods to choose from.

Share your work with your teacher.

Obstacle course

Let's get creative and plan an obstacle course!

Watch the video to learn about the next activity.


Hint! If you need them, the instructions are also below.

Obstacle challenge
Duration: 1:00

Obstacle course – instructions:

  • Plan an obstacle course in your backyard, lounge room or anywhere else with enough space that you can safely move around. You may do this together with family members in your home.

  • Use materials from your home to design your obstacle course. For example: buckets, towels, ropes, pegs, pillows, blankets.

  • Draw a picture of your obstacle course and label the main parts.

  • Show where the start and finish lines are.

  • Draw arrows to show which way you need to go.

Example osbtacle course

For those who like a challenge!

Complete the obstacle course:

  • hopping

  • skipping

  • galloping

Which was the hardest one for you?

Virtual Excursion

Meet Bailey!

Let's check out Bailey's special role at the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Watch the video.

Watch our seagulls: Bailey on the chase
Duration: 1:31

Student voice

Show how you feel about your learning today.