Daily PlannerToday is Monday 19th July

Spelling

English - book studyRecess

Mathematics: Numbers in our world. Lunch

Crunch & Sip + Fitness Grid

Art: Rainforest picture

Fun fact: Today is the 200th

day of the year!

Week 2 Spelling

Before looking at the spelling list, use the pictures to help you work out this week’s

sound.

Planets Stars Rockets Asteroids

flat black happy Africa

sand track flattest bracket

black mapping trap trapping

track patting trapping chatting

clapping trapped flattest

trapped action ancestors

Africa advantage

angry anticipate

Topic Words

Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon

weather weather weather

Earth Earth

addition

The spelling sound for the week is ‘a’ as in ‘cat’.

Write down a list of words

that have the short ‘a’

sound.

Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KUiov8_uEo

Spelling GridComplete a spelling activity from the grid.

Book Study We are learning to (WALT): identify where rainforests are found and look at the different

types of plants and animals that are found there.

In English this term we will be studying a book that is set in the Amazon Rainforest. Before we start reading the book, we will look at where rainforests are located and what types of plants and animals are found there. Watch these two videos and write down a few dot points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIQSAm2MbZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEsV5rqbVNQ

Let’s explore the Amazon Rainforest

Read the facts about the Amazon Rainforest and visit the websites below.

● The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, covering over 5.5 million square kilometres.

● The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world. ● There are about 40,000 plant species, 1,300 bird species, 3,000 types of fish, 430

mammals and 2.5 million different insects. ● More than 20% of the world’s oxygen is made by the Amazon Rainforest.● The Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of the known species in the world.

https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/amazonrainforest.html

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-animals-live-in-the-amazon-rainforest.html

Write an information report about the Amazon Rainforest.

Use these headings:

● location● plants● animals● interesting facts

Please use this example to help guide your writing.

Please upload this activity to Google Classroom so your teacher can give you feedback.

Where can we find numbers in our everyday lives?

Walk around the house or the

neighbourhood. Make a list of places

where you could see numbers and/or

take photographs and make a poster.

● House numbers

● Number plates

● Oven temperature

MATHSWe are learning to (WALT): to find three digit numbers and order them.

What number is one less than and one more than?

3045210

185

999

1237

Now write these numbers in order from smallest to largest.

Visual ArtWe are learning to (WALT): Use our knowledge of rainforests to create a piece of art.

Think about what you saw in the clips about rainforests.

Draw and colour or paint a picture of a rainforest including the plants and animals you would find there.