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It's your last day using the Kookaburra pack!
It's your last day using the Kookaburra pack!
Watch the video to help you get started.
Day 5 video
Duration: 1:00
To complete today's activities, you will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
24 sticky notes or square tiles
(PDF, 90KB)
12 sticks or straws of equal length
2 tennis balls (or 2 pairs of socks rolled up)
English
English
Listening and writing – Describe the dog
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Look at the image of the Scottish Terrier dog in the video. In the next activity you will read a text with the main character being a Scottish Terrier.
Describe the dog's appearance. What does it look like? Think about:
colours
shapes
size
feel
features.
Describe the dog
Duration: 1:49
Reading and writing – Look carefully at poetry
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch and listen to the story 'Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy' by Lynley Dodd.
'Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy' by Lynley Dodd
Duration: 8:48
Watch the video and join in the activity.
What did you notice about how the book was written?
What did you notice about the animals' names?
Complete the naming rhyming activity with the teacher on the video.
Look carefully at poetry
Duration: 6:33
Phonics
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Complete the activities with the teacher in the video.
Phonics – Lesson 6: j, v, w, x
Duration: 14:11
Care and connect
Care and connect
Tricky scissors
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Tricky scissors
Duration: 0:50
Mathematics
Mathematics
Area – How many rectangles?
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Hint! There are 3 parts to this activity. This is part 1.
How many rectangles? – part 1
Duration: 2:38
What is the same about these two rectangles?
What is different about these two rectangles?
What are you wondering?
Make another rectangle that uses 12 squares.
Watch the next video and join in the activity.
Hint! This is part 2.
How many rectangles? – part 2
Duration: 1:35
How many different rectangles can you make?
How will you know when you have found them all?
Watch the last video and join in the activity.
Hint! This is part 3.
How many rectangles? – part 3
Duration: 2:41
Are there multiple ways to make rectangles with 24 squares?
Are there multiple ways to make rectangles with 18 squares?
Area – Stick construction
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
sticky notes or paper tiles
12 sticks or straws of equal length
Watch the last video and join in the activity.
Make a 2D shape using 12 sticks of the same size.
Measure the area of the shape using a square tile.
What shapes can you make using 12 sticks?
What do your recordings look like?
Stick construction
Duration: 5:09
Brain break
Brain break
One handed juggling
You will need:
2 tennis balls (or 2 pairs of socks rolled up)
Watch the video and join in the activity.
One handed juggling
Duration: 1:10
Let's keep learning!
Let's keep learning!
Education Live – Get creative in the garden
Today we are joined by Costa Georgiadis who is sharing some ways we can get creative in the garden!
Environmental Education – Investigating flowers
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Draw a picture of a flower.
Hint! It can be a flower from your backyard or from the pictures in the video.
Investigating flowers
Duration: 7:39
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