Day 3
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Day 3 video
Duration: 0:53
To complete today's activities, you will need:
English
Reading and viewing – Information texts: Meerkats
You will need:
pencils or a recording device
a workbook or paper
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What information is the zookeeper providing?
What facts did you learn from the zookeeper talk?
Information texts – Meerkats
Duration: 8:59
Writing and representing – Create an information text: Meerkats
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pencils or a recording device
a workbook or paper
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Record all the facts you know about meerkats. Think about what information is important.
Create a short information text about meerkats.
Create an information text – Meerkats
Duration: 6:35
Writing and presenting – Meerkat exhibit poster
You will need:
pencils or a recording device
a workbook or paper
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Use pencils or paper or a digital program to create your poster. Remember to include the four parts of an exhibit sign:
common name
scientific name
a distribution map
a photograph.
Hint! Think carefully about the audience when making decisions about colours and layout.
Meerkat exhibit poster
Duration: 8:07
Care and connect
What can you see?
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What can you see?
Duration: 1:40
Mathematics
Colour in fractions – part 1
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Colour in fractions – part 1
Duration: 3:12
Adapted from D. Clarke and A. Roche, Engaging Maths 2014
Reflection:
If you played the game tomorrow, what would you do differently? Why?
If you were giving some hints to someone younger who was about to play the game, what would you say to help them win?
Colour in fractions – part 2
You might have noticed in the video that you just watched that Michelle recorded 2 halves (2/2) as being equivalent in value to 2 quarters + 2 eighths + 3 twelfths (2/4 + 2/8 + 3/12).
We were not convinced with Michelle's thinking so we asked her to justify her thinking.
Watch this video to see what she said.
Colour in fractions – part 2
Duration: 1:35
Play 'Colour in fractions' again, this time thinking about equivalent fractions.
Explore your own game board to investigate equivalent fractions. What equivalent fractions can you see on your gameboard?
How many other ways can you find to rename Michelle's chosen section of 2 halves?
Reflection:
What is something interesting that you discovered when exploring equivalent fractions?
Brain break
Number hunt
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Number hunt
Duration: 1:14
Let's keep learning!
West African Dance
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Watch the African Dance Ensemble perform at the 2019 Schools Spectacular.
Schools Spectacular 2019 – Look to the Stars
Duration: 13:42
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