Year 1: lessons open to try
The first lesson of each learning area is open to try, in full, with no account. Sit beside your learner for one and see how ParkSyde teaches: a worked example first, then practice with help, a quick check, and their own task to finish.
Mathematics · about 40 minutes
The Great Counting Collection: Bundles of Ten
From the unit Number Story Detectives: Counting to 120 and the Stories Numbers Tell
We are learning to count a really big collection by making groups of ten, counting the tens (ten, twenty, thirty...) and then the leftovers.
Start this lesson →English · about 35 minutes
Asking and Answering: Questions That Get Information
From the unit Talk With Me: Asking, Telling and Taking Turns
We are learning to ask and answer questions to get information, and to notice how asking looks and sounds.
Start this lesson →Science · about 45 minutes
Light Detectives: Sources, Blockers and Shadows
From the unit Light, Sound and the Places Things Live
We are learning that some things make their own light, and that a shadow appears wherever something blocks the light.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 30 minutes
When Your Grown-Ups Were Little
From the unit Then and Now: How My Family and Places Change
We are learning to use time words like past, present, then and now — and to discover what life was like when our grown-ups were kids.
Start this lesson →Health and Physical Education · about 45 minutes
Hop, Skip and Gallop: Bossing Your Own Body
From the unit Ready, Set, Go! Skills, Fuel and Being a Great Playmate
We are learning to hop, gallop, skip and jump with control, and to name the one secret that makes each skill work.
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 40 minutes
Texture Hunters and Colour Mixers
From the unit Make It, Sound It, Be It: Exploring Materials, Sounds and Roles
We are learning to explore art materials — rubbing textures, printing with found objects and mixing colours — and to notice the choices artists make.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 40 minutes
The Cranky 3000: Recipes for Robots
From the unit Robot Recipes and Brilliant Designs: Steps, Sequences and Simple Designs
We are learning that a robot follows steps EXACTLY as they are said — so instructions must be precise, in order, and tested by following them.
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When you want the rest of Year 1
Every other lesson in Year 1, and the learning record for your registration, come with a plan. A family's first plan starts with a week to try it, and nothing is charged until day 8.