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Kempsey West PS Grid – Stage 2/3 Term 3, Week 8
This week you will have access to some online Zoom activities (if you can access the internet) from different places we would have visited on
our Canberra excursion. Each day a different venue will offer a zoom session. The links and activities can be found attached in this booklet.
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Morning
CANBERRA
10am – Zoom National Museum of Australia
2pm – Zoom –Museum of Australian Democracy
(Links Attached)
Reading
Sustained Reading
Using your School magazine or other reading source, choose a narrative. Time how long it takes you to read the articles and complete the Reading Log.
Comprehension
“The Most boring street in the world “
story by Bill Nagelkerke , illustrated by Tohby Riddle
CANBERRA
10am – Zoom National Gallery of Australia
2pm Zoom National Film and Sound Archive
Reading
Sustained Reading
Using your School magazine or other reading source, choose a narrative. Time how long it takes you to read the articles and complete the Reading Log.
Comprehension
“The Most boring street in the world “
story by Bill Nagelkerke , illustrated by Tohby Riddle
CANBERRA
10am – Zoom Australian War Memorial
2pm- Zoom – National Portrait Gallery
Reading
Sustained Reading
Using your School magazine or other reading source, choose a narrative. Time how long it takes you to read the articles and complete the Reading Log.
Comprehension
“The Most boring street in the world “
story by Bill Nagelkerke , illustrated by Tohby Riddle
CANBERRA
10am Zoom – Parliamentry Education Office
2pm Zoom – Questacon
Reading
Sustained Reading
Using your School magazine or other reading source, choose a narrative. Time how long it takes you to read the articles and complete the Reading Log.
Comprehension
“The Most boring street in the world “
story by Bill Nagelkerke , illustrated by Tohby Riddle
CANBERRA
10am Zoom -Royal Australia Mint
Reading
Record yourself reading this week’s text.
“The Most boring street in the world “
If you can, record yourself using Seesaw and post it.
Spelling
Have someone test you on your spelling words
Quick Write
CSO - Character, Setting, Object.
Look at the Quick Writes page and choose one character, the setting and an object to write about.
Success Criteria has been included for you.
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Reading Strategy: Prediction
Before Reading: Complete the Prediction Flowchart about what the reading might be about. Look at the picture linked to this story
During Reading: Highlight any new words you are unsure of.
After Reading: Revise your predictions on the Flowchart.
Spelling
Copy your list words into your spelling list and complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Option: Find 5 words from your writing to include in your Spelling list as personal words.
Quick Write
CSI - Character, Setting, Incident
Look at the Quick Writes page and choose one character, the setting and an incident to write about.
Reading Strategy: Building Vocabulary Knowledge
Using the words, you highlighted yesterday from the story “The most boring street in the world”, complete the word investigation chart attached.
Spelling
Look Say Cover Write Check your list words and complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Quick Write
CSI - Character, Setting, Incident
Look at the Quick Writes page and choose one character, the setting and an incident to write about.
Success Criteria has been included for you.
After writing, edit your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Also, remember to be descriptive by packing the
Reading Strategy: Questioning
When reading ask yourself these questions and write down your answers.
Spelling
Look Say Cover Write Check your list words and complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Quick Write
CSO - Character, Setting, Object.
Look at the Quick Writes page and choose one character, the setting and an object to write about.
Success Criteria has been included for you.
After writing, edit your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Also, remember to be descriptive by packing the noun.
English – Writing
Reading Strategy: Summarising
Using your text from this week, create a summary of the text.
Spelling
Look Say Cover Write Check
your list words and complete a
spelling activity from the spelling
grid.
Quick Write
CSO - Character, Setting, Object.
Look at the Quick Writes page and choose one character, the setting and an object to write about.
Success Criteria has been included for you.
After writing, edit your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Also, remember to be descriptive by packing the noun.
English – Writing
Similar to yesterday, you are
After writing, edit your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Also, remember to be descriptive by packing the noun.
English – Writing
Edit the sentences you have written this week for:
1. Spelling 2. Grammar 3. Punctuation
Read each sentence aloud to make sure it makes sense.
Publish some of your sentences in neat, cursive handwriting.
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Success Criteria has been included for you.
After writing, edit your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Also, remember to be descriptive by packing the noun.
English – Writing
In Term 1, we learned about packing the noun before and after the noun to add more detail and be descriptive.
Let’s use the sentence ‘The dog walked into the shed.’
When we pack the noun before the noun, we add adjectives in front of dog and shed to describe them.
The lonely, miserable, filthy dog walked into the dark, cold, empty shed.
Re-write the following sentences with adjectives to pack the noun before the noun.
1. There is a frog in the pond.
2. The truck is on the road.
3. The cat is on the mat.
noun.
English – Writing
Similar to yesterday, re-write the following sentences to pack the noun before the noun.
Use adjectives in front of the noun to add more detail and be descriptive.
1. The teacher ate her lunch.
2. The truck rolled down the hill.
3. The horse galloped through the forest.
Extension activity:
After adding adjectives to pack the nouns, find synonyms for your adjectives.
Replace some of your adjectives with synonyms to see if this improved your sentences even more.
In Term 1, we also learned that we can pack nouns after nouns by using relative pronouns (who, that, which, whose, whom).
If we looked at the sentence, ‘The lonely, miserable, filthy dog walked into the dark, cold, empty shed.’ we could add even more detail by using relative pronouns after dog and after shed.
e.g. The lonely, miserable, filthy dog that had a broken chain attached to its collar walked into the dark, cold, empty shed that was almost falling down.
By using a relative pronoun we can add more information about the nouns.
Re-write the same sentences from Monday by using a relative pronoun after the noun to add more detail.
Bonus points if you keep your adjectives in front of the noun from Monday’s lesson as well!
1. There is a frog in the pond.
2. The truck is on the road.
3. The cat is on the mat.
going to re-write sentences to pack the noun after the noun by using a relative pronoun.
Bonus points if you keep your adjectives from Tuesday’s lesson as well!
1. The teacher ate her lunch.
2. The truck rolled down the hil.
3. The horse galloped through the forest.
Example:
The quiet, kind, caring teacher who had just sent her students out for their break ate her delicious, steamy, sweet-smelling lunch that was last night’s leftovers and had been reheated in the microwave.
Nouns – teacher, lunch, microwave, students
Adjectives – quiet, kind, caring, delicious, steamy, sweet-smelling
Relative pronouns – who, that
Break Break Break Break Break Break
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Middle Mathematics
Number Sense
Mental Maths
Complete the Monday Mental Maths Questions
Length Activity
Use Length Worksheet 1 to record your work:
Find 15 items from around your home, e.g. spoon, shoe, a bottle, remote control, etc. and measure the length of each item using your ruler. You need to record the length of each item in both centimetres (cm) and millimetres (mm).
Mathematics
Number Sense
Mental Maths
Complete the Tuesday Mental Maths Questions
Length Activity
COMPARING LENGTH
Remembering that:
1cm = 10mm
and
1m = 100cm
Complete the Comparing
Measurements worksheets.
You may need to use your
ruler to help you compare
some of the measurements.
Online extra
Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=djTNUp4XIRo for a fun
Mathematics
Number Sense
You need to look closely at the PATTERNS in each sequence to work out how to make the next number.
Mental Maths
Complete the Wednesday Mental Maths Questions
Length Activity
How tall is that tree?
Think about how you might work out the height of a very large tree without being able to measure it. Use diagrams/pictures/drawings to show how you might do this.
Mathematics
Number Sense
Mental Maths
Complete the Thursday Mental Maths Questions
Problem Solving Activity
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs.
The great planetary explorer Nico, who first discovered the
Mathematics
PUZZLE TIME
Complete the number puzzles attached.
Remember you DO NOT have to solve the problems correctly on your first attempt!
These are PUZZLES. They are not meant to be easy! See how many you are able to solve and once you have solved them, colour them in!
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little tune to remind you of
length conversions. Ignore the
spelling in the clip as it is
American!!
There is no right or wrong answer, so remember to have a go!
planet, saw a crowd of Zios and Zepts. He managed to see that there was more than one of each kind of creature before they saw him. Suddenly they all rolled over onto their backs and put their legs in the air.
He counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there? Do you think there are any different answers?
Use the CUBES strategy to help you solve this problem.
BONUS TASK: Draw what you believe ZIOs and ZEPTs could look like (don’t forget to give them the correct number of legs!).
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Break Break Break Break Break Break
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Afternoon
PD/H/PE
Chomp like a champion !
This week you need to record your daily food and water intake and complete the food journal attached.
GEOGRAPHY
Look at the World Map Worksheet.
Label the 7 continents.
Find and Label
Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, PapuaNew Guinea, Indonesia, India, Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.
GEOGRAPHY
Choose 3 of the countries you
labelled on your map
yesterday and draw their
national flag.
Find out the meaning behind
the design of each flag.
CREATIVE ARTS
Your favourite book is going to be turned into a puppet show and you have been chosen as the costume designer!
Choose a character or two, from your favourite book and create puppets using things around your house.
You might use an old pair of socks, boxes, aluminium foil, cardboard, string, felt or even some old fabric. See the puppet idea for inspiration.
Take a photo of your puppet/s and upload to Seesaw.
Reflection
Complete the activity attached and Reflect on the week you have had.
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The Most Boring Street in the World
story by Bill Nagelkerke , illustrated by Tohby Riddle
AUSTIN STOOD BY his front gate.
He looked one way. Then he looked the other. ‘This has to be the most boring street in the world,’ he muttered to himself.
A voice at his shoulder surprised him by saying: ‘No, it isn’t!’
The voice belonged to a girl. ‘I’m Jade,’ she said. ‘I live two houses down. I saw you when you moved in last weekend. What you said isn’t true, you know. We live on a very interesting street.’
‘Yeah, right!’ said Austin. ‘It’s nowhere near a mall. It’s not on a bus route. There’s no skate park. And everything’s old. What’s there to do? A great big fat nothing. BORING!’
Jade looked at him. ‘Come with me to the end of our street,’ she said. ‘I might be able to change your mind.’
‘Not likely,’ said Austin.
But he had nothing better to do, so he followed Jade anyway. Two houses down he saw a parked car with a trailer attached. Big letters on the back of the trailer said: DIG THIS! GARDENING SERVICES.
‘My mum looks after other people’s gardens,’ Jade explained.
The end of their street joined up with more streets.
‘Well?’ said Austin. ‘What’s there to see?’
‘Look up there,’ Jade told him.
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Austin looked up. The sky was blue. Clouds drifted overhead. Everything was exactly the same as it had been all during the long summer holidays.
‘No, not up as high as that,’ said Jade. ‘There.’
‘There’ was a lamppost with signs of the street names attached.
‘I don’t get it,’ said Austin.
‘Our street is called Meteor Street,’ Jade said.
‘So?’
‘Some people say The Meteor was the name of a ship,’ Jade continued. ‘But not just any old ship.’
She paused. Austin took the bait.
‘What sort of ship was it then?’
Jade lowered her voice so Austin had to bend forward to hear her reply.
‘Some people say it was a pirate ship.’
‘Oh,’ said Austin, showing a glimmer of interest. ‘For real?’
‘That’s what some people say. Now, what’s the name of that street?’
Austin read the sign. ‘Skeleton Bay Road.’
Jade nodded. ‘Exactly. That road goes all the way to Skeleton Bay. Some people say The Meteor was scuttled in the bay.’
‘Scuttled?’ asked Austin.
‘Sunk,’ said Jade. ‘By its pirate crew. Some people say the crew mutinied because their captain went back on his word to share out the stolen treasure.’
‘Treasure?’ said Austin.
‘Gold coins, precious stones, necklaces, rings. All sorts.’
‘And it’s still there?’ said Austin, excitement creeping into his voice. ‘In Skeleton Bay?’
Jade shook her head. ‘Way better than that,’ she said. ‘Only the old bones of the ship are still in the bay. Whenever there’s a storm at sea, some people say you can hear the timbers of The Meteor rattling and groaning, like the voices of ghosts. You see, the story goes that when the crew came to demand their share of the treasure, they discovered the captain had escaped ashore in the longboat, taking the treasure with him. They scuttled his ship in revenge.’
‘But what happened to the treasure?’ asked Austin. ‘Did the captain get away with it, or did his crew track him down?’
Jade pointed to another street sign. ‘What does that one say?’
‘Sunset Way,’ Austin read.
‘And what colour is a sunset?’ asked Jade.
‘Gold,’ said Austin, thinking about it. ‘Or sometimes red. Sometimes orange as well. Lots of colours.’
‘The colours of treasure,’ said Jade. ‘Some people say that the captain buried it along Sunset Way.’
‘But only old people live on that street,’ Austin said. ‘I’ve seen them.’
‘They do now,’ Jade agreed. ‘But back in those days there was no street there at all. The captain meant to come back for the treasure, but …’
At this point, Jade paused dramatically.
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‘His crew did track him down,’ Austin finished.
Jade didn’t say a word. She didn’t need to.
‘Did anyone ever find the treasure?’ Austin asked.
‘Don’t talk so loudly,’ Jade said. ‘We don’t want the whole world to hear. Some people say it would have been found years ago, but no-one knows for sure. It might still be here. Every chance I get, I dig and I dig. But nobody really wants you to leave holes all over their garden, so I have to pretend I’m grubbing out weeds. It takes forever, and I can only treasure-hunt in the holidays.’
‘I guess I could help you,’ said Austin. ‘But we’d have to split any treasure we find, fifty-fifty.’
Jade nodded. ‘I’m cool with that,’ she said.
‘When shall we start?’ asked Austin.
‘Tomorrow, if you like.’
‘You’re on,’ said Austin.
They went back up Meteor Street together.
‘See you tomorrow then,’ Jade said, as she went up her driveway.
‘I can’t wait!’ Austin replied.
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Jade’s mum met her at the door.
‘Was that the new boy?’ she asked.
‘His name’s Austin,’ said Jade. ‘I think we might be friends.’
‘Nice one,’ said Jade’s mum. ‘It’s been pretty dull for you on the street with no other kids your age around.’
‘He thought our street was the most boring street in the world,’ Jade explained. ‘So I told him the story behind the street names.’
‘Which story?’ asked Jade’s mum. ‘The one about the captain’s treasure, or the dinosaur bone discovery, or the UFO sighting?’
‘The captain’s treasure, of course,’ said Jade. ‘That’s the best of the lot. But I might tell him the others if he ever gets bored again. After all, any one of them could be true. Not even the old people on Sunset Way know for sure.’
‘Hmm,’ said Jade’s mum.
‘We’re going to meet up again tomorrow,’ Jade said.
‘I’m paying you to help tidy Mrs Domanski’s garden tomorrow,’ Jade’s mum reminded her.
‘I haven’t forgotten,’ said Jade. ‘Austin’s going to come along and do some digging too. And we’ve agreed to split the treasure—my pay, I mean—
fifty-fifty.’
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Spelling Groups – 2021
Carefully find your correct spelling group and words below.
Group 3 Group 2 Group 1
Rule: Accented 2nd syllable
computer reveal
condition tomorrow
December unable
aspire uncommon
deliver unusual
election whoever
erosion imply
November oblige
October providing
reduction remember
Rule: Suffixes — ‘let’, ‘ling’, ‘ian’,
‘ship’, ‘hood’
inlet childhood
piglet likelihood
booklet parenthood
droplet pedestrian
leaflet electrician
duckling politician
gosling sibling
librarian musician
citizenship relationship
friendship leadership
Rule: Triple r-blends — ‘scr‘, ‘str ‘ and ‘spr’
scram sprain
scrap sprint
screw spring
screen spray
scream sprung
stretch sprite
street string
strip strap
stroll strop
stray stream
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Spelling Activities Grid
Write your list in Bubble
Writing
Write your list in Rainbow
Colours
Write your list in Graffiti
Write your list in
Alphabetical Order
Write each word once in
pencil, once in pen, and once
in crayon or marker.
Spell your list words out
using a ball
Write out the sound chunks
(syllables) in your words
Po-ta-to
Morph your words to their
base word
Fishing – Fish
Cut letters out of a
newspaper. Glue them on a
piece of paper to spell ten
words
Write each word vertically
and horizontally
Write a story using as
many list words as you can
Write opposites (antonyms)
for 5 of your list words
Write words that mean the
same (synonyms) for 5 of
your list words
Add prefixes to 3 of your
list words
micro-scope
Add suffixes to 3 of your
list words
depart-ing
Alliterate 1 of your words
seven silly salmon slept
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Spelling Words LSCWC Day 1 LSCWC Day 2 LSCWC Day 3 LSCWC Day 4
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Quick Writes Success Criteria: It was a dreary Sunday and the drizzle would just not stop. I decided to check out a movie to pass a bit
of time. Dragon’s Revenge was my only option, so I purchased a ticket and found a seat. I looked around and noticed I was the only person in the theatre. Suddenly the door bolted closed.
CSI (Monday and Tuesday) CSO (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Character Setting Incident Character Setting Object
Caveman
Teenager
Sister
Brother
Princess
Prince
Soldier
Animal
Time traveller
Dragon
Bunyip
Movie star
Alien
Unicorn
Friend
Mum
Grumpy bus driver
Elf
Rock concert
Tropical island
Outer space
School playground
Hospital
Movie theatre
Jungle
Desert
Birthday party
Prize-giving
Haunted house
Forest
Beach
Graveyard
Park
Volcano
Mountain
Theft
Won lottery
Missed the bus
Bee sting
Shark attack
Text message
Argument
Fight
Locked out/in
Lost something
Lost
Dog howling
Key turns a lock
Caveman
Teenager
Sister
Brother
Princess
Prince
Soldier
Animal
Time traveller
Dragon
Bunyip
Movie star
Alien
Unicorn
Friend
Mum
Grumpy bus driver
Elf
Rock concert
Tropical island
Outer space
School playground
Hospital
Movie theatre
Jungle
Desert
Birthday party
Prize-giving
Haunted house
Forest
Beach
Graveyard
Park
Volcano
Mountain
$100 note
Duck bath toy
Broken bike
Diamond ring
Mobile phone
Soccer ball
Letter
Rotten apple
Magic pencil
Crystal
One old shoe
Stray cat
Photo
Message in a bottle
Flag
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Day 1
Maths
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Day 2 Maths
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Day 3 Maths
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Day 5 Maths
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Geography Worksheet
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Puppet Ideas.
Creative Arts
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Canberra Online Excursion Links- You can find these links on Seesaw and Google Classroom
• Mon 30-Aug 10:00 National Museum of Australia
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84149823486?pwd=Z3p2VDdJWGRGdVVvbVd4NTlWWmpEZz09
meeting ID – 658 6486 5875
password – dart
• Mon 30-Aug 2:00 Museum of Australian Democracy
https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraMOAD
Meeting ID: 69772746197
Password: dart
• Tue 31-Aug 10:00 National Gallery of Australia
https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNGA
meeting ID – 676 9178 2190
password – dart
• Tue 31-Aug 2:00 National Film and Sound Archive
https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNFSA
meeting ID – 637 4759 6285
password – dart
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• Wed 1-Sep 10:00 Australian War Memorial
https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraAWM
meeting ID – 666 5081 9172
password – dart
• Wed 1-Sep 2:00 National Portrait Gallery
https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNPG
meeting ID – 665 1302 5037
password – dart
• Thu 2-Sep 10:00 Parliamentary Education Office
https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraPEO
meeting ID – 652 8155 6562
password – dart
• Thu 2-Sep 2:00 Questacon
BOOKED OUT.
• Fri 3-Sep 10:00 Royal Australian Mint
https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraRAM.
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Meeting ID: 630 0443 7323 Password: dart