This week we are going to be learning about time. Today we will be focusing on a minute. A minute is 60 seconds. See if you can count to 60 slowly. This is about a minute. Today’s challenge is to see whether doing these tasks takes longer or shorter than a minute.
1 minute explosion countdown timer
Use the timer, if you finish before the bomb goes off its shorter than a minute, if the bomb goes off then it takes longer than a minute.
Making your bed
Writing your name
Walking up and down the stairs
Putting on your coat
Brushing your teeth
Sing a nursery rhyme
Count to 100
Eat your breakfast
Investigate some other tasks and see if they are longer or shorter than a minute.
Watch Mr Carter retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs and try to learn the actions and the words to the story map by following along or using the picture of the story map. You will need lots of practice little and often.
Can you build a house to protect a toy from the Big Bad Wolf (your hairdryer!)
Your house must:
See the below example the children in school built.