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Welcome to Day 1 of the Kangaroo pack!
Welcome to Day 1 of the Kangaroo 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
paper
sticky notes
two 0-9 sided dice or playing cards (Ace-9)
a pair of socks
English
English
Listening – Sounds outside
You will need:
pencils or a recording device
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Sit outside for 2 minutes and listen carefully.
What can you hear?
Draw or list everything you can hear. This may include human and natural noises.
Hint! If you can't sit outside, try and sit near an open window.
Sounds outside
Duration: 3:25
Challenge!
List what you think students who live in other areas in NSW might hear.
Create a Venn diagram to show what you can hear in your area, what a student from another area might hear, and the similarities and differences between the two.
Reading and viewing – Visualising the setting
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Listen to the instructions.
Visualising the setting – instructions
Duration: 0:53
Read or listen to the story, 'Mr Kessel’s Bush Tucker Garden' from The School Magazine.
'Mr Kessel’s Bush Tucker Garden' – The School Magazine
Audio duration: 17:31
Watch the video and complete the activity.
Visualise the setting in the story, including the house and the garden.
Draw and label what you think the house and garden look like.
Visualising the setting – activity
Duration: 3:27
Writing – Describing a setting
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Look at your image of Mr Kessel's house and garden.
Write a description about this setting.
Hint! Try to include adjectives and at least one simile in your description.
Describing a setting
Duration: 2:53
Challenge!
Experiment with including other figurative language devices, such as onomatopoeia and alliteration, when describing the setting.
Care and connect
Care and connect
Cloud meditation
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Cloud meditation
Duration: 0:44
Mathematics
Mathematics
Number – Finding numbers on a number line
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Finding numbers on a number line
Duration: 8:06
What is point A on our number line? How can you prove it?
Find 0 on our number line. How can you prove it?
How would you change your number line if it went to 1500 instead of 150?
How would you change your number line if it went to 15 instead of 150?
Number – The place value game
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
sticky notes to make a gameboard
paper
Watch the video to learn how to play.
Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.
The place value game
Duration: 5:22
Instructions (select arrow)
This game is for 2 or more players. You could also use a toy to represent another player and play both parts.
Make a gameboard for each player.
Take turns to throw the 2 dice (or spin your spinner).
Use the numbers you roll to create a 2-digit number. For example a 5 and a 2 could be recorded as 25 or 52.
Record your number somewhere along the path from 0 and 100.
Numbers must be placed in order from 0 – 100 so you must think carefully about the best place to put your number!
If numbers cannot be placed, you miss your turn.
Continue taking turns to roll the dice, creating numbers and filling in the pathway on the gameboard.
The winner is the first to fill all of the places.
Reflect:
Explain why you chose to create a particular number. For example, when you rolled 5 and 2, why did you choose to create 52 instead of 25?
How did you decide where to place numbers on the gameboard?
Imagine you have a space available between 34 and 41. What are all of the possible numbers that could be placed on those two spaces? What are you hoping to roll so you can fill it?
What numbers, if any, could you make where you know exactly where to put them almost every time? Which numbers are they? Where would you put them? Why?
If you were to replay this game, are there any things you would do differently? Why?
Challenge!
Make the game more challenging by:
Choosing a higher starting number and target number, such as 700 and 1500.
Use 3 (or more) dice when you roll.
Brain break
Brain break
Paper challenge
You will need:
a piece of paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Paper challenge
Duration: 1:14
Let's keep learning!
Let's keep learning!
Personal Development and Health – Food groups
You will need:
pencils, crayons or textas
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Hint! There is a large copy of the 'Australian Guide to Healthy Eating' below.
Healthy lunchboxes
Duration: 7:27
The 'Australian Guide to Healthy Eating' (select arrow)
The 'Australian Guide to Healthy Eating' (select arrow)
Look at the images of 2 different lunch boxes.
List the food groups each lunch box contains.
Use the 'Australian Guide to Healthy Eating' to make suggestions for how each lunch box could be improved.
Lunch box 1
Lunch box 2
Physical Education – Catching
You will need:
a pair of socks to throw
Note: The video mentions a student logbook. This is not required.
Watch the video and join in.
Catching
Duration:18:44
Well done completing today's learning activities!
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