Explore forces, and what makes a spaghetti bridge strong.

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

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.

You will love this fishing for ice cubes experiment that can be done no matter the temperature outside. This easy ice cube fishing activity is lots of fun!

Try this cool chemistry experiment with this erupting lemon volcano. All you need are simple household ingredients.

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.

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 one story from Saibai in the Torres Strait. Listen to the story and learn about Aaron's clans, the Keodal and the Samu.

Tell your family about the story.

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

Teach your parents about Mars.

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

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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)

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!

Mental Math Tricks for Kids - Math Magic for the Kids

Do you want to trick your friends and show them some magic?

Watch this Maths clip and see if you can wow your family with your awesome maths skills!

This is a true story about the history of Lego. You can respond by using this as a prompt for writing your own narrative. You might want to write a factual report of how LEGO started and include as many facts as you can find.

Listen to this story.

Write a narrative of your own based on some of the ideas presented. Think about how you are going to set the scene, develop and describe your characters. Add some figurative language to continue practicing your literacy skills

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)

Check out Khan Academy, a free online tool for teaching math (and other subjects, too).

To get started, go to “Math by grade” and choose your child’s grade to start.

The site assesses and teaches as your child works their way through problems, so they can get more help with concepts they still need to work on and jump ahead when they have mastered a lesson.

This is a cool song about Equivalent Fractions aimed at Level 4 students.

Watch the clip , make up three equivalent fractions for:

1/2 =

1/4 =

1/3 =

1/8 =

Balloon car

Watch this clip on how to make a Balloon car and measure how far it can go!

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.

Use the Index page to select your year level and choose the tasks.

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!