Friday
Week F – Early Stage 1
Happy Friday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
10 frames filler
game board
(PDF file, 33 KB)
10 items
(e.g. blocks, pegs, pencils)
paper
sticky tape
string
small toy (e.g. car or Lego person)
ruler
scissors
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
Let's go surfing!
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Let's go surfing!
Duration: 1:28
English
You will need:
Listening – KidsNews
Let's listen to some stories in KidsNews ABC
Watch this video and then listen to the podcast below.
Once you have listened to the podcast below:
Draw or write a fact that you learnt from the news story.
News story drawing
Duration: 1:34
Listen to the first story on KidsNews ABC.
KidsNews ABC
Duration: 2:46 (first story)
Week F - KidsNews ABC.mp3Is this too hard?
Simply listen to the story.
Is this too easy?
Listen to more than one story and write a fact that you learnt.
Reading and writing together
It's storytime!
Watch this video and then listen to the story below.
Once you have listened to the story below:
Draw or write what happens at the end of the story.
Did you like this story? Why?
The end of Bluey: The Creek
Duration: 3:35
Listen to 'Bluey: The Creek'.
Bluey: The Creek.
Duration: 5:54
Check-in survey – English
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Brain break
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.
Scavenger hunt
Duration: 1:21
Handwriting
Focus letter: f
It's time to practise our handwriting skills. Get your workbook and your pencil ready!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook
handwriting worksheet (optional)
(PDF file, 154 KB)
Explicit handwriting instruction
Duration: 14:55
Education Live
Shark behaviour
Join us for today's episode of Education Live!
Today we are joined by Professor Culum Brown, who will be sharing some fascinating information about sharks!
Mathematics
You will need:
Ten-frame filler
Let's play a counting game!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
another player (or team of players)
one gameboard
(PDF file, 33 KB)2 different coloured pencils
0-9 spinner or dice.
Ten-frame filler
Duration: 4:33
(Dianne Siemon and Paul Tabart)
The number 10
Let's explore the number 10!
Watch the video.
Numberblocks – Ten
Duration: 5:00
Representing ten in different ways
Let's explore the number 10 some more!
You will need:
10 items (e.g. blocks, pegs, pencils)
a pencil
your workbook.
(Captured from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oEZc2Deeqc)
How many ways can you organise 10 items?
Draw and record 3 different ways you organised your items.
Share your work with your teacher.
For those who like a challenge!
What other numbers could you do this with?
What if you had 20 items?
Pick a number, collect your items and draw a way that you could organise your collection.
STEM
You will need:
Paper tower challenge
Today's STEM challenge is to design and build the tallest free-standing tower out of paper, tape and string. The tower must be able to hold a small toy at the top.
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Rules:
You can only use the materials on the list.
Your tower needs to be able to stand up by itself.
The ruler is only for measuring and cannot be used in the tower structure.
The toy needs to be at the top of the tower.
Paper tower STEM challenge
Duration: 2:36
You will need:
paper
sticky tape
string
a small toy, such as a toy car or LEGO person
a ruler
scissors.
Download the instructions for this task:
Paper tower challenge task card
(Word doc, 3.7 MB)Design Thinking for STEM
(Word doc, 99 KB)
Materials needed
Hint! Triangles are strong shapes.
Example tower design
For those who like a challenge!
How much weight can your tower hold? Keep adding weights until it collapses!
Try building the tower using spaghetti pasta instead of paper.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.