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

3 dice (or playing cards A-6, or a number spinner)

a shallow tray

water

sand and soil

pebbles

English

Speaking – Your new car!

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

View the image of the old car in the video.

Convince your family to buy this car.

What are 3 positive reasons for buying this car?

Hint! Strengthen your reasons with supporting information.

Your new car!
Duration: 1:54

Writing, reading and viewing – Connections to text

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Read the article 'Yum Yum!' by Susan Letts from The School Magazine.

'Yum Yum!' by Susan Letts – The School Magazine

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Think about a time when you tried a new food.

What was the new food?

Record 3 positives about that food.
Record 3 negatives about that food.

Connections to text

Duration: 3:05

Writing – Advertising poster

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

If you were to open an insect restaurant, what would it be called?
What would your advertising slogan be?
Create an advertising poster for your restaurant.

Hint! Your poster must convince or persuade people to come to your restaurant.

Advertising poster

Duration: 3:12

Care and connect

Scattergories

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Hint! The list of categories is in the drop down below in case you need them.

Scattergories

Duration: 1:31

Scattergories (select arrow)

Scattergories categories:

an animal
something cold
a colour
a fruit or vegetable
something you would find in your bedroom
a country
a sport
something that is stinky
somebody famous
something you would find in the ocean.

Mathematics

Number – Let's explore 1

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Let's explore 1

Duration: 5:05

Reflect on the strategies you used to solve 23 – 19 and identify the most efficient strategy you used.
How many steps did it take?
Do you think you could use the same strategy (keeping a constant difference) with other problems?
Write 1 or 2 problems you could use this strategy with.

Number – Around the house

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

3 dice (or playing cards A-6, or a number spinner)

Watch the video and join in the activity.

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

Around the house
Duration: 8:31

(From J Bay-Williams and G Kling, 2019)

Instructions (select arrow)

Draw a ‘house’ shape and write the numbers 1-10 in order around it.
Roll all 3 dice and use any of the operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) to form a number sentence that has a total of 1.
1. If a player can’t form a total of 1, the other player rolls the dice and has a go at writing an equation (number sentence) that is equivalent in value to 1.
2. If a player can go, once he or she has found a way to make 1, cross the '1' out on the game board. Then, without rolling the dice again, try to create 2.
Continue taking turns, moving around the house in order from 1 to 10.
Your turn is over when you can’t make the next number around the house.
The player to cross out the '10' wins!

Brain break

10@10 – Firefighters

Watch the video and join in the activity.

10@10 – Firefighters

Duration: 10:49

Let's keep learning!

Science and Technology – Weathering then erosion

You will need:

a shallow tray

water

sand and soil

pebbles

Watch the video and join in the activities.

Weathering then erosion
Duration: 10:05

Create a small model of a dirt hill.
Observe the erosion of pebbles and soil when you add:
- gentle rain
- very heavy rain
- grass and trees.

Which particles were easily moved by the water?
Which parts of your model stayed the same?
What happened when you added a rocky section to the dirt hillside?

Challenge!

Investigate your own neighbourhood and identify the different things we use to reduce erosion.
Create a whole landscape and include hills, valleys, rock walls, grass and trees.

Create a gentle rain storm and compare it to a heavy rain storm.
What could you use to stop or reduce erosion? Investigate the most effective way to stop erosion in your model.

Well done completing today's learning activities!

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