Day 2
Welcome to Day 2!
Watch the video to help you get started.
Day 2 video
Duration: 1:01
To complete today's activities, you will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
a piece of paper
maze activity
(PDF, 137KB)
recyclable materials (e.g. egg cartons, cardboard tubes, boxes)
masking tape
scissors
a marble, small ball or aluminium foil to make a ball
a plastic cup or container
English
Speaking – Sydney
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Look at the picture of Sydney in the video. In the book we read yesterday, 'Possum Magic', Hush and Grandma Poss visited Sydney.
Describe Sydney. Think about what you can see, including:
colours
shapes
sizes.
Think about what you might smell or hear in Sydney.
Sydney
Duration: 1:34
Writing together – If you were invisible...
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Read or listen to 'Possum Magic' by Mem Fox.
'Possum Magic' by Mem Fox
Duration: 6:55
Watch the video and join in the activity.
What would you do if you were invisible?
What places would you visit?
What would you get up to?
List the places and activities with the teacher in the video and then write about them.
If you were invisible
Duration: 5:24
Handwriting: The letter 'T'
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in.
Explicit handwriting instruction – Focus: T
Duration: 15:28
Have a go at the activity sheet.
Hint! You can do these activities on plain paper or in your workbook if you prefer.
Handwriting activity sheets – Tt
Handwriting_Stage1_T.pdfDownload: Handwriting activity sheets - letter Tt
(PDF file, 190KB)
Care and connect
Paper planes
You will need:
pencils
a piece of paper
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Paper planes
Duration: 2:19
Mathematics
Number – 2 truths. 1 lie.
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video.
2 truths. 1 lie.
Duration: 4:03
Adapted from Marian Small
Prove that 25 cannot be represented with 10 MABs.
Create your own '2 truths. 1 lie.' problem.
Challenge a friend, family member or classmate to solve it!
Number – Empty number chart
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
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Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.
Empty number chart
Duration: 6:40
Adapted from Teaching Mathematics by Siemon, Warren, Beswick, Faragher, Miller, Horne, Jazby, Breed, Clarke and Brady, 2020
Instructions (select arrow)
You can complete these mazes on your own or work with someone else.
Hint! There are a range of mazes to choose from.Your challenge is to determine the number sequence through the maze.
Use what you know to decide what numbers are missing and to justify the number you placed.
Hint! You do not need to follow the maze in sequential steps if you know the value of a place on the maze. For example, on a standard hundreds-chart, I know the number 2 boxes directly above 147 is 127.
Reflect:
What helped you to determine the numbers on the maze?
How would your numbers change if it was a bottom-up hundreds chart?
Record how you used your knowledge of the hundreds-chart to complete the maze.
How did you use your knowledge of patterns on the number charts to know where to place numbers?
Challenge!
Another way to play:
Change the value of the end square to tenths or hundredths.
Brain break
Numbers all around us
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Numbers all around us
Duration: 1:14
Let's keep learning!
STEM – Marble run
You will need:
recyclable materials (e.g. egg cartons, cardboard tubes, boxes)
masking tape
scissors
a marble, small ball or aluminium foil to make a ball
a plastic cup or container
Today's STEM challenge is to design and build a track for a marble to roll from one point to another using recycled materials.
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Marble run challenge
Duration: 5:00
Materials needed
Example of a marble run design
"Home-made marble run. Just needs painting!" by Lisaismyname is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Practising making angles
Build and test one section at a time
Marble run design
Challenge!
Build some uphill sections of track to make the marble roll uphill. You might even like to build a jump!
Create some different paths for the marble to travel along.
Well done completing today's learning activities!
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