Day 2
Welcome to Day 2!
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Day 2 video
Duration: 1:01
To complete today's activities, you will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
a piece of paper
a dice or numeral cards 1-6
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 – Samoan beach huts
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Look at the picture of the Samoan beach huts in the video.
Describe the Samoan beach huts. Think about what you can see, including:
colours
shapes
sizes.
Think about what you could smell and hear.
Samoan beach huts
Duration: 1:54
Reading and viewing – Positive and negative feelings
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Read the story 'The Rainy Season' by Sue Gibbison from The School Magazine.
'The Rainy Season' by Sue Gibbison – The School Magazine
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In the story, Malia’s grandmother has memories of the rainy season that are positive.
Record some of the positive images of the rainy season that she tells Malia.
Aunty Sina does not feel the same way about the rainy season.
Record the negative images of the rainy season that she remembers.
Positive and negative feelings
Duration: 2:27
Writing – Sensory writing
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
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Why is it helpful to compare the smell of the rainy season with other scents?
If you were to write a sentence describing 'the smell of home', what kinds of scents would you describe (e.g. cooking smells, freshly cut grass, laundry powder)?
Sensory writing
Duration: 2:27
Care and connect
Paper planes
You will need:
pencils
a piece of paper
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Paper planes
Duration: 2:19
Mathematics
Number – Which one would you do in your head?
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pencils
a workbook or paper
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Which of these problems would you solve using a mental strategy?
Which ones would you solve using a written or digital strategy?
Which one would you do in your head? Part 1
Duration: 0:58
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Which of these problems would you solve using a mental strategy?
Which ones would you solve using a written or digital strategy?
Which one would you do in your head? Part 2
Duration: 3:39
Number game – 101 and you're out!
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
a dice or numeral cards 1-6
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Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.
101 and you're out!
Duration: 4:29
Instructions (select arrow)
Make a game board by drawing a 6 x 4 table.
Label the first column as ‘tens’, the second column as ‘ones’, the third column as number and forth column as total.
Each time you roll the dice, you have to decide whether the number is representing ‘ones’ or ‘tens’. For example, if I roll a 3, I could use it as 3 ones (3) or 3 tens (which we rename as 30). If you choose to use your 3 as 3 ones, record the number in the ones column. If you choose to use your 3 as 3 tens (30), record your number in the left column.
Continue to play for 6 rolls.
Once you write a number, you can’t change it.
The winner is the player with the sum that is closest to 100 without going over!
Draw up 4 new game boards. Using the same numbers you rolled, use the game boards to get closer to 100 than you did in your first game.
Play again with someone else.
Reflect:
Did you get closer to 100 on your second go with the same numbers? Why do you think that was?
What advice would you give to someone playing this game for the first time?
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 Point A to Point B without assistance (no touching the marble as it rolls down the track).
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Hint! You can download the instructions for this task:
Marble run challenge task card
(Word doc, 4.7 MB)Design Thinking for STEM
(Word doc, 99 KB)
Marble run challenge
Duration: 5:19
Using the Design thinking process is a way of solving this challenge.
The Design thinking process
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!
Try slowing the marble down.
Make the marble run complete in exactly 60 seconds - not quicker or slower!
Create alternate paths.
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