Monday

Week F – Stage 1

Happy Monday!

To complete today's activities, you will need:

a workbook

coloured pencils

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(PDF file, 199 KB)

a medium-sized ball that bounces (e.g. basketball)

saucepan

wooden spoon

paper

scissors

glue

scraps of food packaging

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

Friends

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Let's get started!

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Friends
Duration: 2:11

English

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Listening – sounds outside

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How well can you listen to the sounds around you?

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  • Sit outside for 2 minutes and listen carefully. What can you hear? ​

  • Draw or list everything you can hear. This may include human and natural noises.

Outside sounds
Duration: 3:25

Is this too hard?

  • Draw the sounds you can hear.

Is this too easy?

  • Write the sounds you hear and the action they are doing. For example, cars beeping, birds chirping. ​

  • Write a sentence about the sounds you can hear in your area. How is this different from sounds in another area? Write down the sounds you think you would hear in a different part of the state. ​

Reading together

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It's storytime!

Listen to the story 'Bluey: The Creek'.

Bluey: The Creek
Duration: 5:54

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  • Draw what you think the creek looks like.

  • Label the creek with nouns and adjectives. ​


Why do you think the creek is beautiful?

  • Write a sentence about what makes the creek beautiful.

The creek
Duration: 7:18

Is this too hard?

  • Draw the creek.

  • Finish the sentence:

The creek is beautiful because...

Is this too easy?

  • Write your own sentence about a beautiful place you have visited. Write down why it was beautiful and what you could do there.

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Share your work with your teacher.

Brain break

Let's recharge!

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

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Brain break
Duration: 1:14

Phonics

Phonemes and graphemes: ar, a

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Let's practise some phonemes and graphemes.

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  • How many sounds do you know?

Explicit phonics instruction
Duration: 13:39

Education Live

Prime numbers with chess pieces

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Join us for today's episode of Education Live!

Today we are joined by mathematician and author Adam Spencer, who explains prime numbers using chess pieces!

Education Live – Prime numbers with chess pieces
Duration: 9:50

Mathematics

You will need:

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Dot card talk

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It's time to practise our subitising skills!

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Dot card talk 4

Duration: 6:25

3 tens in a row

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Let's learn how to play 3 tens in a row.

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You will need:

  • 2 different coloured pencils

  • 0-9 spinner (PDF file, 199 KB)

  • your workbook.

3 tens in a row

Duration: 2:25

Five and friends

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Let's watch Numberblocks!

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Numberblocks Five and friends

Duration: 5:00

GetActive@Home

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Ball

Bouncing and dribbling

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Are you ready to move?

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You will need:

  • a medium-sized ball that bounces (e.g. a basketball).

Bouncing and dribbling – part 1
Duration:26:02

Creative Arts

You will need:

Saucepan
Spoon
Food packaging

Let's feast on the arts!

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Over the past few weeks we have been learning about nursery rhymes. This week we are going to learn a nursery rhyme called ‘Pease Pudding Hot’ and another one called ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’.

Listen to the instructions for today's activities.

Instructions
Duration: 2:39

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Let's sing and make music!

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You will need:

  • a saucepan

  • a wooden spoon.


Show your facial expression when:

    • London Bridge is falling down

    • You eat a cold pea pudding

    • You eat a hot pea pudding

    • You eat a pudding that is just right.

  • Sing the songs and keep the beat on your saucepan.

  • Make up some rhythms on your saucepan for the call and response activities shown in the video.

Pease Pudding Hot
Duration:17:37

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Let's make a 'partner song' food picture!

Look at the example of a 'partner song' food picture and then follow the steps below to make your own.


You will need:

  • paper

  • a pencil or texta

  • scissors

  • glue

  • scraps of food packaging.

Example of Julia's food picture

Pease pudding collage artwork. Image of bowl with foods as collage inside.

Step 1:

Draw a bridge, like London Bridge, on your paper.

Draw a bridge  Step one of London Bridge and Pease Pudding artwork

Step 2:

Turn your drawing upside down so it becomes a food bowl.

Draw a bridge Step two of London Bridge and Pease Pudding artwork

Step 3:

Fill your bowl with food by cutting out and gluing on pictures or drawing food.

Fill your bowl with food by gluing or drawing Step three of London Bridge and Pease Pudding artwork
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Share your work with your teacher.

For those who like a challenge!

Listen to and watch the animated score for the song 'Boogie Woogie Woogie Woogie Boogie'.


  • Warm up your body by moving to the song.

  • Join in with some of the body percussion to show how the harmonies move in the song.

Boogie Woogie Woogie Woogie Boogie
Duration:2:59

Environmental Education

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The needs of living things – people

Thank you to the staff at Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre for creating and sharing this activity.

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Can you help find what people need to survive?

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You will need:

  • your workbook

  • pencils.


  1. Draw a backpack

  2. In your backpack draw or write all the basic things you need.

The needs of living things – people
Duration: 2:20

Check-in survey – Environmental Education

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Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.

Student voice

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Show how you feel about your learning today.