Numeracy Activities
Literacy and Numeracy Week 2014
Read for Australia: Sunday Chutney, by Aaron Blabey (2008, Puffin)
These open-ended questions have been designed for Early Years and Primary Years students. Please alter them to suit your class.
- When playing hopscotch how many times would Sunday’s feet touch the ground if playing with one other person?
- What size box do you think would be big enough for you to get into?
- What shapes can you see in the picture of Sunday’s new school?
- Sunday had a tea party with her imaginary friends. How much cutlery and crockery would you need for a tea party with your family?
- If mum cooked 15 crumpets for your family’s breakfast, how many would each person get?
- If there were 44 legs in the protest march who could they have belonged to?
- Make a timeline of your first day at school (if you don’t remember all of the details use your imagination). Put a clock face with the time next to some of the important parts of the day.
- What time do you think it was when Sunday played with the bear and the elephant? Explain your reasoning and record the time in at least two different ways.
- Design a repeating pattern to go on the material of one of Sunday’s school uniforms.
- How tall do you think Sunday is? How tall do you think her monster truck would be?
- How far is it from your school to home? How long does it take you to get there?
A video copy of the book can be found on the National Literacy and Numeracy Week website.