Day 4
Welcome back to Day 4!
Watch the video to help you get started.
Day 4 video
Duration: 0:51
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
pencils
2 sheets of paper per player
1 spinner labelled tenths and hundredths (PDF file, 138KB)
a paper clip
a device to record audio or video
English
Reading and viewing – Diagrammatic information: Park signs
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activities.
Think about where you have seen signs like the ones shown in the video.
Brainstorm the places with the teacher in the video.
What types of information is being given in the signs?
What is the purpose of these signs?
Who is the audience?
Park signs
Duration: 12:14
Writing and representing – Information map of your house or park
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activities.
Look at the photo of the zoo map shown in the video.
What information is the map providing us?
Create a map of your local park or of your house that provides information to visitors.
Information map
Duration: 11:41
Writing and presenting – Information sign for a park or a zoo
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activities.
Create an information sign for a park or zoo. You may create your sign on paper or digitally.
Your sign may include:
opening times
admission fee
a map
some background information
facilities (shop/toilets/food)
safety information.
Information sign for a park or a zoo
Duration: 5:30
Care and connect
Pretend you are a superhero
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Pretend you are a superhero
Duration: 1:24
Mathematics
Colour in decimats – part 1
You will need:
2 sheets of paper per player
1 spinner labelled tenths and hundredths (PDF file, 138KB)
pencils
1 six-sided dice, 1-6 spinner or playing cards (PDF, 81KB)
a paperclip
Watch the video to learn how to make your decimat.
Colour in decimats – part 1
Duration: 8:50
Adapted from Anne Roche – Australian Mathematics Primary Classroom, 2010
Your game board should look similar to the one in the picture.
Colour in decimats – game board
Colour in decimats - part 2
Watch the video to learn how to play.
Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.
Colour in decimats – part 2
Duration: 13:54
Instructions (select arrow)
Take turns to roll the dice, spin the spinner and fill in the game board. For example:
If a 2 is rolled and ‘hundredths’ are spun, we record our move as a fraction (2/100) and as a decimal (0.02).
Colour in on the game board.
Complete the ‘What I filled’ column in words (2-hundredths).
Calculate the total and record as a decimal.
Helpful information:
Use a different coloured marker or pen to fill in the game board for each turn.
The winner is the first player to fill in 1-whole (their entire game board) or the player who’s game board is closest to 1-whole after 10 spins.
If a player spins a fraction that won’t fit into the available space, they miss their turn.
Example of a gameboard
Example: partitioning 3-tenths
If you roll 3-tenths but you only have 2-tenths left empty, and some hundredths too, you can partition your 3-tenths as 2-tenths, 8-hundredths and 2-hundredths more to colour in 3-tenths of your game board in total.
Reflection:
What was the difference between the totals for each player? Work it out one way then work it out another way.
If you played again, what would you do differently? Why?
Challenge!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Colour in decimats – part 3
Duration: 0:38
If you're playing with thousandths, your board game and spinner should look like this.
Game board and spinner – playing with thousandths
Reflection:
What was the difference between the final game board totals for each player? (By how much did the player win?)
How could you prove it?
What are some similarities and differences between your two game boards?
Brain break
Colour search
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Colour search
Duration: 0:59
Let's keep learning!
Taronga Zoo – Kangaroo haiku
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
a device to record video or audio
Watch the video and write down any interesting words that you hear.
Kangaroo
Duration: 4:06
Did you hear some words that you didn't understand? (select arrow)
macropod – A family of marsupials that include kangaroos, wallabies, quokkas and other similar animals. The word is derived from the Greek word ‘macropod’ which means ‘large footed.
bounding – move with leaping strides
predator – an animal that naturally preys on others
prey – an animal that is hunted by another for food
stationary – not moving
mob – a group of kangaroos
mammal – animals that are covered in fur and give birth to live babies
marsupial – native Australian mammals that have a pouch
joey – the babies of a marsupial.
Watch the video about haiku poetry.
Create a haiku about a kangaroo.
Create a video or audio of you performing your poem.
Kangaroo haiku
Duration: 4:00
A completed example (select arrow)
Old man kangaroo,
Creeping slowly in the scrub,
Marsupial king.
Mob of kangaroo,
Flying over the landscape,
The Aussie outback.
Challenge!
Create a haiku about an animal of your choice.
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