Water science is awesome! This water density experiment with sugar uses only a few kitchen ingredients but produces an amazing science experiment for students! You will enjoy finding out about the basics of color mixing all the way up to the density of liquids with this one simple water density experiment.

Explore forces, and what makes a spaghetti bridge strong.

Get out the pasta and test our your spaghetti bridge designs!

Straw Boats Challenge

Design a boat made from nothing but straws and tape, and see how many items it can hold before it sinks. Learn about simple physics while you test out your engineering skills.

Can you build a picture of yourself using only LEGO bricks? All you need is a base plate and a handful of basic bricks. Make it as easy or complicated as your imagination wants.

Take a trip to Mars and see what you can find out and see.

Teach your parents about Mars.

ARE YOU up for a challenge?

Do you love reading? Then why not join up for the Reading Challenge this year

Let your teacher know that you want to enter.

Once registered we'll give you a username and password as well as a list of books to read!!

You have until September to read your quota of books:

Prep - Year 2: 30 books (20 from the Challenge list)

Year 3-6: 15 books (10 from the Challenge list)

Take the time today to write an email or a letter to special friend.

You could turn your letter into

a craft activity if you make and decorate your own envelope. There are lots of clips online from easy to more challenging.

How to Make an Envelope Video

Gratitude

Today try and think of three things that you are grateful.

• You can write down or verbalise 3 things that you were grateful.

• Before bed or at the dinner table share with your family the 3 things that you were grateful.

Mathletics

Please complete activities on Mathletics. These activities have been set by your classroom teacher.

Sign in to Mathletics

Optical Illusions

Sometimes our brain sees things in two different ways.

Here are 12 illusions to test your brain, just try to see them from a different angle!

If you can't see the two of them at first, then watch the clip again!

A little, red boat is launched. We don't know who by or where but it sets off on a journey.

In this animation the boat is the main character. The children can write the narrative for this story from the point of view of the boat.

Choose from one of these of writing opportunities:

• Write the narrative for the animation

• Write the dialogue between the 2 monkeys on the boat or between the soldiers.

• Create a post card album, use stills from the animations as postcards, write home imagining they are the boat, describing what has happened, what they saw and how they are feeling.

A young boy builds himself a rocket and sends himself off to Space. He lands on a far away planet. His spaceship breaks down, a friendly alien lands and he breaks down too. The little boy parachutes to earth to get some tools to fix the ship. He gets back by way of a huge ladder, fixes the machines and then they both fly off.

Respond to the clip by choosing from one or more of these ideas:

• Write a diary/recount of the adventure.

• Write a holiday brochure page for their destination.

• Write a description of the alien or the strange place in which they land. Use as many interesting words as possible

NGV is committed to providing creative experiences for young people and their families. During this challenging time we hope to share new ways to be creative at home with our online resources. Research shows that drawing and making is a great way to help children relax and reduce feelings of anxiety.

Explore and choose from activity sheets and e-books for free things to do at home or school. Print or take inspiration with paper and pencils at hand. Transform the kitchen table into a table-top studio and turn potential boredom into productivity. Let’s get started!

She had been chasing it all day. Now, the crow had it.

Time was ticking. Time was running out. She tiptoed towards the creature, seeing the precious key it held precariously in its sharp, cruel beak. It let out an irritating, throaty cackle, its soot-black wings ruffling gently as it manoeuvred itself on top of the clock; it was ready to take flight.

Knowing she might only have a few seconds before her opportunity disappeared, she took another cautious step forward. Time seemed to slow, her body tingled in excitement and her heart thudded in her chest. It was now or never…

What do you think the key is for? Why do you think the girl is so desperate to have it?

Why do you think the crow has taken the key?

How did the clock get there? Is it significant in the story?

What do you think the crow is thinking?

Smiling Mind is a mindfulness meditation app developed by psychologists and educators. The website provides mindfulness information for parents and a link to the Smiling Mind app.

Skip Counting By 3 Song for Grade 3

This is a cool rap for the multiplication facts of 3.

Watch this clip a few times and write out your multiplication facts at least twice.

A cloud maker and his apprentice grandson are busy making clouds but everything doesn't happen as it should. As things don't go according to plan, the pair of them learn that good ideas come from happy accidents.

- Write instructions for 'How to make clouds.'

- Write dialogue between the two characters in the story.

- Write a news report detailing what people saw in the sky, perhaps interview the cloud maker for explanation.

The NGV have turned some of their much loved collection items, museum galleries and iconic buildings into puzzles.

Select your level of difficulty and away you go!

Try your skills of precision and patience when you try to make this Hexagonal Letter fold!

Maybe write a note inside it to someone in your to let them know how grateful you are for them.

A game to play with a partner

Choose ten things from around the house (that you are allowed to use) and place them on a tray.

Allow your partner one minute to look at all the objects.

Now cover the objects and ask your partner to turn away.

Now quietly remove an object and hide it from your partner.

Ask your partner to turn back and remove the cover.

They have to guess which object is missing.

Variations:

-remove two objects

- add more objects

-instead of objects use words written on a card

(This helps to build visual memory)

Little Yarns - ABC Podcast

Australia is full of diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.

From Bunuba to Wiradjuri, Mabuiag to palawa, every mob has its own language and unique culture.

Listen to the story from the Noongar Nation to learn the Wirlomin word for a very small but important animal. Keep your eyes peeled for honey possum in the banksia!

Tell your family about the Honey Possum.

The Zoo has set up 24/7 live-streaming cameras at Taronga Zoo Sydney so you can enjoy your favourite animals at any time of day.

If you can’t see them right now, check back a little later!

Watch this short clip. Come up with a narrative about a book that came to life.

Remember to use lots of interesting descriptions. You might want to start with describing the grey dull room before the book opens and then how the room is transformed by the butterflies.

Maybe consider if other animals might come out from the book...what would happen if dinosaurs came out of the book?