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)

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.

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.

Watch this clip and try these maths tricks on your family!

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.

Geocaching is a treasure hunt with something for everyone. Using map coordinates and a GPS enabled device, you can find a geocache near your home, in the city, in the bush or in Antarctica.

Geocaches come in all sizes and shapes. It can be as easy or as hard as you like to make it. You can drive up to your geocache and spot it from the car, or you can choose to hike for miles up and down mountains in the snow in search of that elusive container.

Now get out there and have some fun with your family

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

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Use the Index page to select your year level.

Go on a scavenger hunt around your home...Click here to find a scavenger hunt checklist. How many can you find?

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.

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.

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.

Here are some comprehension tasks to challenge you...see how you go reading these texts and answering the questions

Try your skills of precision and patience when you try to make an origami mouse!

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.

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!

Explain or write instructions to describe how the machine works.

Write a letter from Nicholas to his son or his wife, explaining what he has done and why. It may start with justification as to why he has done it but finish with his regret.

Write a persuasive letter to Nicholas detailing why family is more important than money.

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.

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

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!

Multiplication Song

This is a cool rap for the multiplication facts of 6.

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