Day 3

Let's get started with Day 3!

Watch the video to help you get started.

Day 3 video

Duration: 0:53

To complete today's activities, you will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

a collection of objects (e.g. dry pasta, pegs or blocks)

sticky notes or blank number cards

2 x 0-9 dice, spinners or playing cards.

English

Speaking and listening – Interview a character

You will need:

pencils or a recording device

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Interview a character from 'Possum Magic'.

Hint! You could choose Hush or Grandma Poss.

What questions will you ask this character?

What would you like to know?

Record your questions.

Interview a character

Duration: 1:17

Sight words

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Complete the activities with the teacher in the video.

Today's sight words are:

because
by
have.

Sight words – Lesson 2: because, by, have
Duration: 13:36

Phonics

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Complete the activities with the teacher in the video.

Phonics – Lesson 4: z, zz, ng, y

Duration: 7:14

Care and connect

Sketch your surroundings

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Sketch your surroundings

Duration: 1:24

Mathematics

Number – Counting to 100

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

a collection of objects (e.g. dry pasta, pegs or blocks)

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Counting with understanding up to 100
Duration: 16:23

Number – Order! Order!

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

sticky notes or blank number cards

2 x 0-9 dice, spinners or playing cards.

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Order! Order!
Duration: 4:51

Adapted from M Askew – A practical guide to transforming primary mathematics, 2016

Instructions (select arrow)

Roll the dice to create a 2-digit number. Write it on one of the sticky notes.
Repeat until you have 4 numbers.
Order them from smallest to largest, and largest to smallest. The challenge is: do this in the fewest (least) moves possible, and only move cards that are next to each other.

Order these numbers from largest to smallest.
Record how many moves it takes to order them. Remember, try to use the least number of moves possible!

Challenge!

Another way to play:

Make bigger numbers by using more dice.
Use only a few playing cards to form numbers (for example, use A, 1 and J (to represent 0) only). Does that increase the challenge of working out the order?