Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of the Wombat pack!

Watch the video to help you get started.

Day 1 video

Duration: 1:06

To complete today's activities, you will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

array game cards
(PDF file, 604 KB)

scissors

paper

English

Reading and viewing – Symbol hunt and storytelling

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Find some symbols in your house or outside. Draw these symbols.
Look at the photo with the Aboriginal symbols. What symbols can you see? What do you think these symbols mean?
Write a few sentences about what you think the story is telling us.

Symbols everywhere

Duration: 9:27

Responding to visual texts – Symbols and school logos

You will need:

pencils or a recording device

a workbook or paper

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Look at the images of the school logos.

Hint! The school logos are below if you want to look at them.

Does your school have a logo?
- What is on it? Describe the symbols and the colours.
- What do you think these symbols and colour choices mean?

Symbols and school logos

Duration: 2:29

Northbourne Public School

Dunoon Public School

Lake Albert Public School

Bexhill Public School

Bayanami Public School

Dorroughby EEC

Representing ideas – Writing about symbols

You will need:

pencils or a recording device

a workbook or paper

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Imagine the Principal and the P&C have decided to change the school logo. Design a new logo for your school.

What do the colours and symbols represent? Record your answers in your workbook or on a device.

Designing a new school logo

Duration: 0:55

Care and connect

Core muscles

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Core muscles

Duration: 0:59

Mathematics

Number – Imagining dots

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

array game cards (PDF file, 604 KB)

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Imagining dots – part 1
Duration: 6:18

Adapted from Kling and Bay-Williams (TCM, 2015)

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Imagining dots – part 2
Duration: 5:44

Michael and Penny both saw the arrays differently. How was your way of seeing the dots similar or different to their way of thinking?

Example: different ways of thinking

Examples of different strategies explained in the video.

Use the area model to represent the different ways you could break apart your array.

Example: using the area model

Examples from the video using the area model.

Number – Go fish! Partially covered arrays

You will need:

array game cards (PDF file, 604 KB)

Watch the video and join in the activity.

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

Go fish! Partially covered arrays
Duration: 6:48

Instructions (select arrow)

Each player gets 7 cards. The rest of the cards are placed in a pile in the middle (the 'draw pile').
Players try to make matches, connecting a picture card (partially covered array) with a number (a product card).
Once players can't make any more matches using their own cards, they can take turns to ask their opponent for a card.
If their opponent has the card, they must give it to the asking player.
If they don't, they say 'go fish' and the player gets a card from the pile in the middle.
If at any point a player has no cards left, they can pick up another 7 cards from the draw pile.
Play continues until there are no cards left in the draw pile and/or all matches have been made.
The player with the most matches at the end is the winner!

Getting started

Example game

Example of pairs - arrays matched with the number (product) card.

Reflection:

What strategies did you use to work out how many dots were in the array? 
Was there a product that had more than one matching array? Could there have been other arrays that matched the product? Which ones?
If you played the game again tomorrow, what’s an adaptation (change) you could make?

Challenge!

Extend the number range by adding the expansion pack gamecards! (PDF file, 474 KB)

Brain break

Crawling caterpillars

You will need:

scissors

paper

pencils

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Crawling caterpillars
Duration: 2:06

Let's keep learning!

Geography – Activities in different places

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

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Do you know why some places in Australia are protected?

What are:
- sacred sites?
- National Parks?
- World heritage sites?

What would you find in a National Park?

Hint! Look at the pictures and information below to help you.

Activities in different places
Duration: 10:49

The pictures below are from the video. They are of things you might find in a National Park.

Plants and animals

"IMGP2354" by flagondry is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

All our native plants and animals live in a particular place that suits their needs. This is called their habitat or home.
Many of these plants, animals and habitats are not found anywhere else in the world.
National parks play a key role in protecting this unique wildlife.

Places of beauty

"3 Sisters Blue Mountains Australia" by Interior_Photos is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Mountains, deserts, sandstone cliffs, snowy peaks, rainforests, and beaches are some of the different landforms found in the Australian environment.
They are protected for the enjoyment of everyone and doing so helps preserve them for many years to come.

Windows into the past

"Montague Island lighthouse" by yarra64 is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Old houses, convict jails, lighthouses, graves and Aboriginal cultural sites are places that tell us how people lived in the past. These special places are called historic sites.
You will find many historic sites protected within national parks.

Aboriginal sites

Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for thousands of years and have a special relationship with the land, the plants, and the animals.
Art sites, campsites, rock engravings and natural features like rivers and mountains are important to Aboriginal people. Many special places important to Aboriginal culture are protected within national parks.

People

National Parks guide pointing to a tree whilst educating a group of children

NPWS employs over 2,000 people to manage NSW national parks and reserves. People work in national parks to look after and study plants, animals and landforms and help the community understand why they are so important.
People visit national parks to enjoy the scenery and stay healthy by walking, camping, picnicking and exploring.

Geography – Royal National Park

Watch the video.

Record key notes from the video under the correct headings:
- plants and animals
- places of beauty
- windows to the past
- Aboriginal sites
- people.

Hint! There is an example of a table below to show how to record your notes from the video.

Royal National Park
Duration: 4:26

Use the example table to record key notes from the video in your workbook.

Example of how to set out your workbook to record your notes

A table with 2 columns. Column 1 is titled category and column 2 is titled Royal National Park example. Column 2 is left blank so that examples can be written in. Column 1 has the following categories listed: Plants and animals, Places of beauty, Windows to the past, Aboriginal sites, and People.

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