Day 3

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Day 3 video

Duration: 0:53

To complete today's activities, you will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

sticky notes

dry pasta, blocks or counters

a mirror or a photo of yourself

English

Vocabulary – Word chain

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Pencils

pencils

Workbook

a workbook or paper

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Watch the video and join in the activity.


  • Look at the image of the beach in the video.​

  • Complete a word chain for ‘beach’.​


  • Look at the image of the farm in the video.​

  • Complete a word chain for ‘farm’.

Word chain

Duration: 4:45

Challenge!

Writing activity

  • Complete a word chain for a different setting. For example, a zoo or a rainforest.

Writing together – Beginning of a story

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Pencils

pencils

Workbook

a workbook or paper

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Listen to 'Alexander’s Outing' by Pamela Allen and complete the activities with the teacher in the video.

'Alexander's Outing' by Pamela Allen (Beginning of a story)

Duration: 14:56

Sight words

You will need:

Pencils

pencils

Workbook

a workbook or paper

sticky notes

sticky notes

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Complete the activities with the teacher in the video.


Today's sight words are:

  • when

  • how.

Sight words – Lesson 1: when, how
Duration: 10:42

Care and connect

Try not to think about penguins

Listening task
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Watch the video and join in the activity.

Try not to think about penguins

Duration: 2:16

Mathematics

Number – Imagining dots

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Pencils

pencils

Workbook

a workbook or paper

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Watch the video to see what to do.

Imagining dots – part 1
Duration: 2:05

Adapted from Kazemi and Hintz

Writing activity

  • Use your imagination to draw a picture of how you saw the dots in the video.

Hint! Draw a few pictures to show some of the different ways you saw the dots.

Example of how you might draw the dots

Dots grouped together in different amounts.
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Watch the next video to see what to do next.

Imagining dots – part 2
Duration: 8:55

Writing activity
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  • Draw some other ways to see the dots.

  • In the video, Michael saw chunks of 6 and Penny saw chunks of 4 when they looked at the dots. Do you see any other chunks hidden in the dots?

  • Ask someone else to describe how they saw the dots. Draw a picture of their way of seeing the dots.

  • Draw a different collection of dots. Show them to someone and see if they can close their eyes and imagine the dots.

Number – Handfuls

You will need:

Pencils

pencils

Workbook

a workbook or paper

Pasta shapes

dry pasta, blocks or counters

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Watch the video to learn how to play.


Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.

Handfuls
Duration: 3:26

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Instructions (select arrow)

  • Take a handful of pasta (or blocks or counters).

  • Hold the objects in your hand and imagine how many you have.

  • Write down your estimate.

  • Describe what that collection might look like by visualising and imagining.

  • Organise your collection so that someone can determine how many items there are by looking and thinking.

An example for the number 18

Examples of 18 in different groups.
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Writing activity

  • How many did you have altogether? How do you know?

  • How have you organised your collection?

  • Did you have more or less than your estimation (what you guessed)?

  • Can you organise them differently?

  • How many ways can you arrange your collection so that you can see how many there are by looking and thinking?

  • What do you think is the best way to organise your collection?

Brain break

Scavenger hunt

Hands-on task

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Scavenger hunt

Duration: 1:21

Let's keep learning!

Creative Arts – Little Miss Muffet

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Hands-on task

Watch the video and join in the activities.


As you sing the nursery rhyme:

  • keep the beat on your knees or by patting the floor

  • find another way to play along with the song, such as repeating some spoken words like 'Little Miss Muffett'

  • add some body movements or actions.

Little Miss Muffet

Duration: 16:15

Creative Arts – Self-portrait

You will need:

Pencils

a pencil

Workbook

a workbook or paper

mirror or photo of yourself

a mirror or photo of yourself

Hands-on task

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Hint! The main steps for drawing a face are also below.

Continuous line self-portrait

Duration: 1:49

Hands-on task

These are the main steps for drawing a face.

Step 1 – Draw the outline of the face.

A pencil drawing of an oval with lines to show it divided into quarters.

Step 2 – Draw a triangle for the nose.

Building on the previous image, a triangle is in the centre of the oval as the nose.

Step 3 – Add two circles for eyes.

Building on the previous image, two circles have been drawn above the triangle nose for two eyes.

Step 4 – Add two ears and a smile.

Building on the previous image, two ears have been added as well as a smile.

Step 5 – Add hair (you can style this!)

Building on the previous image, short hair has been drawn.

Step 6 – Add eyelashes.

Building on the previous image, long hair and eyelashes have been added.
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Does your self-portrait look like you?

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