Friday
Week F – Stage 1
Happy Friday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
10 frame fillers
game board
(PDF file, 33 KB)
0-9 spinner or a 9-sided dice
(PDF file, 199 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
Tap and wink
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Tap and wink
Duration: 1:03
English
You will need:
Listening – KidsNews
Let's listen to some stories from 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?
Listen to the news story and draw something you learnt.
Is this too easy?
Listen to more than one story and write two facts from each story.
Writing together
Let's finish a story.
Listen to 'Alexander’s Outing' by Pamela Allen.
Complete the writing activities with the teacher in the video about the 'ending' of the story.
The end of Alexander's Outing
Duration: 22:19
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.
Brain break
Duration: 1:21
Sight Words
Focus word: where
We are learning to read and write words quickly. Let's practise some more!
Today, we will learn the word:
where.
High frequency sight word instruction
Duration: 6:26
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 a 9-sided dice
(PDF file, 199 KB)
Ten-frame filler
Duration: 4:33
(Dianne Siemon and Paul Tabart)
Money and coins
Let's learn about Australian money!
Watch the video.
While watching the video, think:
Does the size of money matter? For example, is the biggest coin always the one with the highest value?
Investigate how many different ways you can make $1 using all the coins you can find in your house.
For example:
10 ten-cent coins
20 five-cent coins.
How else can you make $1?
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.