Day 4
Welcome back to Day 4!
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Day 4 video
Duration: 0:43
To complete today's activities, you will need:
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a workbook or paper
paper
scissors
sticky tape
English
Vocabulary – Word clines
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Watch the video and join in the activity.
Look at the example of the ‘happy’ word cline in the video.
Complete a word cline for ‘strong’.
Walk around the house on a word hunt looking for fragile items.
Complete a ‘fragile’ word cline.
Word clines
Duration: 4:22
Reading and vocabulary – Delightful dogs
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a workbook or paper
Watch the video and complete the activities.
Hint! You can do the activities in your workbook if you don't have the activity sheets.
Create a sentence for each of the following words:
domesticated
species
companions.
Vocabulary Study – Delightful Dogs
Duration: 21:16
Complete a vocabulary study table for the word: descended.
Sample vocabulary study table
Writing – Simile poem 'All about me'
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a workbook or paper
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Select and record five words that describe you. Examples could include:
busy
hardworking
creative
happy
sleepy.
Create a simile poem using these words.
Draw an image of yourself using the objects from the simile poem.
Simile poem – ‘All about me’
Duration: 3:21
Care and connect
Belonging
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pencils
a workbook or paper
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Belonging
Duration: 1:40
Mathematics
Geometry – Tessellating triangles
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a workbook or paper
paper
A tessellation (or tiling) is when we cover a surface with a pattern of shapes that fit perfectly together with no overlaps or gaps.
Investigate tessellations in your environment. How many different examples can you find?
Use a Frayer model to draw and write what you know about tessellations.
Identify and record shapes you know that can tessellate.
List shapes that can’t tessellate.
Frayer model: tessellation
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Look Kool – tiling
Duration: 21:06
Adapted from the ABC and nrich Maths
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Draw a series of equilateral triangles. Make them fit together without any gaps between them.
Can you tessellate an isosceles triangle?
Draw different types of triangles on blank paper and find ways to tessellate them.
Equilateral triangle
Hint! Equilateral triangles have 3 sides that are the same length and 3 angles that are the same.
Isosceles triangle
Hint! Isosceles triangles have 2 sides that are the same length and 2 angles that are the same.
Reflection:
Can all triangles tessellate? If your answer is no, give an example of a triangle which doesn't tessellate and explain why.
Go back to the Frayer model and use a different coloured pencil to show what you have learned about tessellations.
Geometry – Playing with tessellations
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pencils
a workbook or paper
sticky tape
scissors
paper
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Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.
Playing with tessellations
Duration: 13:28
Instructions (select arrow)
Create an equilateral triangle (see below).
Create your own tessellating design using an equilateral triangle (see below).
What other shapes can you create a tessellating design with?
What shapes can you find ‘hiding’ in your pattern?
Start by making an equilateral triangle.
Follow the steps in the video or use the photo carousel.
How to make an equilateral triangle
Swipe or click through the photo carousel to see the steps.
Use your triangle to create a tessellating pattern.
Follow the steps in the video or use the photo carousel.
How to make your tessellating pattern
Swipe or click through the photo carousel to see the steps.
Reflection:
How do we know that these shapes tessellate?
What evidence can you use to prove something tessellates or doesn’t tessellate?
Describe the way you are moving your stencil to create your tessellating design?
Hint! Are you rotating, translating, reflecting or a combination?
Are there any shapes you can think of that might be difficult to create tessellating designs with? Which ones? Why?
Challenge!
What happens if you create a tessellating design with different kinds of triangles (scalene or isosceles)?
Why do you think this happens?
Brain break
Swap hand scribble
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Swap hand scribble
Duration: 1:10
Let's keep learning!
Taronga Zoo – Life cycle of a spiny leaf insect
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pens and coloured pencils
a workbook or paper
Copy the KWLH chart into your workbook.
Fill in the 'What I know' (yellow) column with everything you know about insects and their life cycle.
Fill in the 'What I want to know' (pink) column with some questions you have about insects and their life cycle.
Hint! Leave the last column empty. You will fill this in later.
Example of a KWLH chart to copy into your workbook.
Watch the video to learn about life cycle of a spiny leaf insect.
Life cycle of a spiny leaf insect
Duration: 5:30
Did you hear some words that you didn't understand? (select arrow)
assimilate – blend in with those around (i.e. the ant colony).
exoskeleton – the external skeleton that supports and protects the animal (i.e. the outside layer of the insect).
nymph – an immature form of an insect.
Drag and drop the life cycle of a spiny leaf insect into the correct order.
Select the blue 'Submit' button when you have matched the images and labels to the correct stages.
Hint! Watch the video again to help you find the correct order.
Complete the quiz about the life cycle of a spiny leaf insect.
Go back to your KWLH chart.
Fill in the 'What I learned' (blue) column with any new information that you have learned about insect life cycles.
In the 'How I learn more' (purple) column write or draw how you could learn more about the life cycle of an insect.
Example of a KWLH chart to copy into your workbook.
Challenge!
Write an explanation of the life cycle of a stick insect.
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