Thursday
Week E – Stage 3
Good morning!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
pencils
clock or timer
6 small soft balls (or pairs of socks)
bucket or basket
a tennis or squash racquet (or similar)
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
You will need:
Category challenge 4
Let's get started!
You will need:
a pen or pencil
your workbook
timer.
Watch the video.
Wait to hear ‘Ready Set Go’ in the video.
Start your timer or check the time on the clock.
Scroll down to the next section to see the next steps.
Instructions
Duration: 0:19
5.Look at the categories that match the letter and challenge yourself to write down your responses as quickly as you can.
6. Press your timer or check how much time has passed on the clock once you have recorded a response for each letter.
Was your time faster or slower than yesterday?
Category challenge 4
T – Something you wear on your feet starting with 'T'.
H – Something in your house starting with 'H'.
U – A four letter word starting with 'U'.
R – Something that tastes nice starting with 'R'.
S – Something fun you do on a school day starting with 'S'.
D – Something you take to the beach starting with 'D'.
A – A vegetable starting with 'A'.
Y – Something that is yellow starting with 'Y'.
English
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Vocabulary – Word cline
Let's look at word clines!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Look at the example of the ‘happy’ word cline in the video.
Complete a word cline for ‘strong’.
Walk around the house on a word hunt looking for 'fragile' items.
Complete a ‘fragile’ word cline.
Word clines
Duration: 4:22
Reading and viewing – The sea (part 1)
Let's work on our vocabulary skills!
Watch the video about 'The Sea' by Paula Stevenson.
Complete the activities with the teacher on the video. You can do the activities in your workbook if you don't have the activity sheets.
The sea (part 1) activity sheets.
(DOCX, 823 KB)
The sea (part 1)
Duration: 14:53
Writing – Simile poems
It's time to create our own poems!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Select and record five words that describe you. Examples could include:
busy
hardworking
creative
happy
sleepy.
Create a simile poem using these words.
Draw an image of yourself using the objects from the simile poem.
Simile poem ‘All about me’
Duration: 3:21
Share your work with your teacher.
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:
a ball.
If you can't find a ball, use a rolled up pair of socks!
Brain break
Duration: 1:01
Education Live
Become a creature!
Join us for today's episode of Education Live!
Today we are joined by actor Anthony Taufa, from the Sydney Theatre Company.
We are going to become a creature from a story!
You will need:
space to move
a towel (or similar).
Mathematics
You will need:
Problem solving – part 1
Get ready to solve some mathematical problems!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Charlie bakes eight trays of different flavoured cakes each day. How many cupcakes does Charlie bake each day?
Create a poster to show how you solved the problem. You might like to use the picture of the cupcake array to help explain how your strategy works.
Cupcake array
Share your work with your teacher.
Problem solving – part 2
Let's head back to the bakery to solve some more challenging problems!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
your thinking from reSolve bakery 1
a pencil
your workbook.
How are these two strategies similar and how are they different?
How many cakes does Charlie need to bake?
Cupcake strategies
Problem solving – part 3
Let's head back to the bakery to solve some more delicious problems!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
your thinking from reSolve bakery parts 1 and 2
a pencil
your workbook.
Do you think the trays have the same area? If not, which tray do you predict has the biggest area?
Select an efficient strategy to determine which area is larger.
Record your thinking in your student workbook.
Share your work with your teacher.
Check-in survey – Mathematics
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
GetActive@Home
You will need:
Striking
Are you ready to move?
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
6 small soft balls (or 6 pairs of socks or similar small objects)
a bucket or basket
a tennis or squash racquet (or similar).
Striking – part 2
Duration: 27:10
Science and Technology
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Representing numbers
This activity helps us understand the type of information used by computers.
Computers process this information to ‘decide’ how to display pictures, transmit our voices through phones, operate traffic lights and much more.
Watch the video to learn about today's first activity. We will represent numbers in a way that can be changed to a “yes” or a “no”.
You will need:
cardboard or paper to make 6 cards (10cm x 15cm in size).
pencil
textas
scissors
workbook.
Representing numbers
Duration: 10:14
After you watch the video, have a go at the activity.
You can copy the pictures to help you.
Representing letters
Let's explore how letters can be represented by using numbers (dots), then we will convert the numbers to a yes or a no.
Computers process this information to ‘decide’ how to display words, which letters to print on a page and how messages are transmitted and received as texts.
Watch the video to learn about today's second activity.
You will need:
the number (data) cards from the previous activity
pencils
textas
your workbook.
After you watch the video, have a go at the activity.
You can copy the pictures below to help you.
Representing letters
Duration: 8:52
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.