Friday
Week F – Stage 2
Happy Friday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
book
magazine or newspaper
pasta
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 ABC
Let's listen to some stories on KidsNews ABC.
Watch this video and then listen to the podcast below.
Once you have listened to the podcast below:
Write two interesting facts from each story, as demonstrated in the video.
Interesting facts
Duration: 2:28
Listen to the five stories on KidsNews ABC.
KidsNews ABC
Duration: 10:28
Week F - KidsNews ABC.mp3Is this too hard?
Listen to one story and draw or write a fact that you learnt.
Is this too easy?
Think of a story for ABC Kids News and write about it.
Reading and viewing
Reading time!
Read or listen to 'Mr Kessel’s Bush Tucker Garden'.
Mr Kessel's Bush Tucker Garden
Audio duration: 17:31
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Predict what you think will happen to the characters in the future - in 10 years time.
Draw or write your predictions.
Predictions
Duration: 3:07
Is this too hard?
Draw how one of the characters may look in 10 years time.
Is this too easy?
Write a story about one of the character's lives in 10 years time.
Writing – 3 box selection
Let's write a narrative!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Look at your 3-box selection planning page from yesterday's writing activity.
Write a narrative, (story) including:
an orientation (beginning)
a complication (middle)
a resolution (end).
Re-read your writing to ensure you have included detail and checked spelling and punctuation.
Narrative writing
Duration: 6:03
Is this too hard?
Draw what will happen in the beginning, middle and end of your story.
Is this too easy?
Try and include figurative language in your narrative - similes, metaphors, alliteration and onomatopoeia.
Try and include dialogue in your narrative.
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
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:
Scrabble stats – part 1
Let's explore numbers using the game 'Scrabble'!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a book
magazine or newspaper
pencils
your workbook.
Take a look at the current Scrabble points system. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Find a recent newspaper, magazine or book. Choose a paragraph or page to analyse.
Create a table to record your findings.
For each letter in the text you are analysing, record the frequency in your table using tally marks.
How many times was each letter used in the text you investigated?
Scrabble stats – part 2
Let's explore part 2 of this activity!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
What do you notice about the frequency of the letters on your tally sheet?
Does anything surprise you?
Which letters were you expecting to be used most? Or least?
Look at the letters that are most frequent (have the highest number) and least frequent (have the lowest number). Compare your data with the original Scrabble scoring system.
Are there any similarities?
Are there any differences?
Using your Scrabble stats findings, identify which letters you think should now be given the highest and lowest scores.
For those who like a challenge!
Repeat your investigation with a different text.
Does the type of text we select change the letter frequencies?
What are some similarities and differences between both data sets?
STEM
You will need:
Pasta tower challenge
Today's STEM challenge involves applying engineering design strategies to design and build the tallest free-standing tower out of pasta, 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.
Pasta tower
Duration: 2:49
You will need:
20 sticks of spaghetti pasta
sticky tape
string
a small toy, such as a LEGO person, to be at the top
ruler
scissors.
Download the instructions for this task:
Pasta tower challenge task card
(Word doc, 4.2 MB)Design Thinking. for STEM
(Word doc, 99 KB)
Materials needed
Using the Design thinking process is a way of solving this challenge.
The Design thinking process
Consider the following when constructing your tower:
1. Identify and define the challenge
Read the rules.
Collect materials and think about how they could be used for the challenge.
Keep a notebook or STEM journal to record your ideas and discoveries.
2. Design your tower
Sketch some designs in your STEM journal.
Think about how you are going to attach the toy to the top of the tower.
Does your design meet the challenge rules?
Which solution are you going to trial?
Why did you choose that solution?
3. Build, test, improve
Redesign your tower. What improvements did you make? Note this on your drawing.
How many times did you test your design?
Did you meet the challenge?
Build your tower.
Make your design and test it.
Does it stand up?
Can it hold the weight of the toy?
Draw or take a photo of your design.
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!
Use more pasta and see how tall you can make the tower.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.