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)

A family member (adult or older brother or sister) has an amount of notes and gold coins in their pocket.

Another family member says:

“I have some money in my pocket.

You have 8 questions that you can ask me to find out how much money I have.

After 8 questions you can guess." Emphasize the importance of not guessing numbers haphazardly.

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

Combine quick science and balloon play with this easy to set up science experiment for kids. Find out how to blow up a balloon with just baking soda and vinegar. Grab a few simple ingredients from the kitchen and you have amazing chemistry for children at your fingertips.

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

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MATHS

Watch and try all of the Maths tricks

This rubber egg experiment is a classic science activity! Make a naked egg or bouncy egg. Can it bounce? What happens to the shell? Does light pass through it? Find out by conducting this simple experiment.

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 as well as jump ahead when they have mastered a lesson.

Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry, which is made up of three lines of 17 syllables. It goes in a pattern of 5, 7, 5. It made up of a simple image of a particular theme, person or is object e.g. broken bike. Although it shows a simple image, writers often use descriptive observation. Sometimes it uses language effects e.g. alliteration, personification. A haiku describes one moment of time.

Watch the clip above and then have a go at creating your own haiku. Share this with your teacher through Classroom.

Math Visual

Watch any of these excellent short videos of "math visuals".

The average clip is less than one minute.

*The clips cover these Mathematical concepts:

-counting

-place value

-multiplication

-division

-Fractions

The machine burns memories as fuel, describe which memories the children would burn first. Which memories would you want to save the most and why?

Why did the machine break? What matters more than gold?

Using this same idea, create your own narrative. How would your machine work?

This is a cool rap for the multiplication facts of 7.

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

Listen to this story.

After listening to The Black Hat, click here to find some activities.

Learn about the role prefixes and suffixes play in our language. When you reach this site, click on "Prefixes and Suffixes".

(NB: the video link on this page does not work in Australia)

Can you create new words by adding prefixes or suffixes or both to these words?

1. cycle

2. believe

3. taste

4. code

5. think of some of your own...

Find out the meaning of these prefixes:

• de

• dis

• re

• im

• pro

• un

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)

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.

Scienceworks is your go-to Melbourne destination for curious minds of all ages.

Find some interesting science concepts to explore...once you have checked you have permission from your parents!

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.