Monday
Week F – Stage 2
Happy Monday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
paper
1 spinner labelled tenths and hundredths
(PDF, 138 KB)
1 six-sided dice or 1-6 spinner or playing cards
(PDF, 81KB)
paperclip
a medium-sized ball that bounces (e.g. basketball)
camera (or a pencil and your workbook)
ruler
pair of socks
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
Friends
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Friends
Duration: 2:11
English
You will need:
Listening – Sounds outside
How well can you listen to the sounds around you?
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Sit outside for 2 minutes and listen carefully. What sounds can you hear?
List everything you can hear.
This may include human and natural noises.
Outside sounds
Duration: 3:25
Is this too hard?
Draw what you can hear.
Is this too easy?
List what you think other areas in NSW would hear.
Reading and viewing
Let's explore a narrative from 'The School Magazine'!
Watch the video and then listen to the story below.
Once you have listened to the story below:
Visualise the setting in the story, including the house and the garden.
Draw and label what you think the house and garden look like.
Mr Kessel’s Bush Tucker Garden
Duration: 4:21
Read or listen to all or part of the story, 'Mr Kessel’s Bush Tucker Garden'.
Mr Kessel’s Bush Tucker Garden
Audio duration: 17:31
Writing – describing a setting
Let's do some writing!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Look at your image of Mr Kessel's house and garden.
Write a description about this setting from Mr Kessel’s Bush Tucker Garden.
Try and include adjectives and a simile in your description.
Mr Kessel’s Bush Tucker Garden descriptive writing
Duration: 2:53
Is this too hard?
Draw what you can visualise from Mr Kessel's Bush Tucker Garden.
Include adjectives and nouns in your descriptive writing.
Is this too easy?
Create a Venn diagram for your area or another area, and include the similarities and differences.
Include a metaphor in your descriptive writing about the setting.
Write a description of the garden and the house.
Share your work with your teacher.
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: 1:14
Education Live
Prime numbers with chess pieces
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!
Mathematics
You will need:
Colour in decimats – part 1
Let's play 'Colour in decimats'! Before we start playing though, we need to make our game board.
Watch the video to learn how to make your decimat.
You will need:
2 sheets of paper per player
different coloured pencils or markers
1 spinner labelled tenths and hundredths
(PDF file, 138 KB)1 six-sided dice or 1-6 spinner
(PDF file, 81 KB)
(or use playing cards)1 paper clip for the spinner.
Colour in decimats – part 1
Duration: 8:49
Adapted from Anne Roche - Australian Mathematics Primary Classroom, 2010
Your game board should look similar to the one in the picture.
Colour in decimats – Game board
Colour in decimats – part 2
Now that you have made your game board, you are ready to play!
Watch the video to learn how to play.
Hint! The instructions are also included below in case you need to refer back to them.
Colour in decimats – part 2
Duration: 13:54
Instructions
Take turns to roll the dice, spin the spinner and fill in the game board. For example:
If a 2 is rolled and ‘hundredths’ are spun, we record our move as a fraction (2/100) and as a decimal (0.02).
Colour in on the game board.
Complete the ‘What I filled’ column in words (2-hundredths).
Calculate the total and record as a decimal.
Example of a game board
Helpful information
Use a different coloured marker or pen to fill in the game board for each turn.
The winner is the first player to fill in 1-whole (their entire game board) or the player who’s game board is closest to 1-whole after 10 spins.
If a player spins a fraction that won’t fit into the available space, they miss their turn.
Example: 3-tenths
If you roll 3-tenths but you only have 2-tenths left empty, and some hundredths too, you can partition your 3-tenths as 2-tenths, 8-hundredths and 2-hundredths more to colour in 3-tenths of your game board in total.
Reflection:
What was the difference between the totals for each player? Work it out one way then work it out another way.
If you played again, what would you do differently?
GetActive@Home
You will need:
Bouncing and dribbling
Are you ready to move?
Watch the video and join in.
You will need:
a medium-sized ball that bounces (e.g. a basketball).
Bouncing and dribbling – part 1
Duration:23:42
Creative Arts
You will need:
Patterns in art and music
Last week we learnt about 'optical art' which is sometimes called 'op art'. Op art can involve repeated patterns.
This week, we're going to look more at patterns in art and music.
Watch this video and listen to the instructions.
Instructions
Duration: 4:10
Patterns around us
You will need:
a camera or pencils and your workbook
an object from around the house with patterns of lines or shapes.
Instructions:
Find something in your home or outside that has repeated patterns, a bit like op art.
Take a photo of it. If you don't have a camera, you can draw it.
Hint! You can see some examples in the pictures below.
Share your work with your teacher.
Patterns in music
Musicians also use lines and patterns in their works. One example of this is a melody by JS Bach called ‘Concerto for oboe and violin’ (2nd movement).
Listen and watch the video to hear and see the patterns.
As you listen:
Trace the lines of the melodies as the instruments play them.
Do you notice how the pitch of the music rises and falls with the lines? If the line goes up, so does the pitch. When the line goes down, so does the melody (or pitch). Some of the longer lines represent long notes, and the dots are short notes.
What do you notice about the sound of the oboe and of the violin?
Concerto for oboe and violin
Duration: 6:49
Let's learn a song that also has a strong sense of line and pattern in it.
Listen and watch the video to hear and see the patterns.
As you listen:
Notice how the notes on the staff move up and down with the pitch of the melody. There are often some big jumps and a lot of repetition.
Sing and dance along with the music until you know the song well.
Dance All Day – Animated score
Duration: 2:44
Let's learn some more about lines and patterns in music!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
Hint! Watch the video from 5:09 to 6:33 to learn about the melodic contour in the song.
As you watch the video:
Trace the pitch contour of the melody with your finger in the air.
Dance All Day – Spice it up
Duration: 8:10
For those who like a challenge!
Play along with the melody on a melodic instrument such as a keyboard or a guitar. If you don't have an instrument, you can use an online xylophone.
Environmental Education
You will need:
Habitats
What do living things need to survive?
For this activity you will need:
your workbook
pencils or textas
a ruler.
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Make a list of the things a skink needs to survive in a garden.
Draw a garden that a skink needs to survive.
Habitats
Duration: 3:52
Check-in survey – Environmental Education
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.