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Kempsey West PS Grid – Stage 3 Term 2, Week 4

You will not need access to a digital device to complete the following activities.

Look carefully at the highlighted tasks – these are the tasks that you will need to bring to school with you on your class day.

5/6P - Monday 5/6H - Tuesday 5/6K - Wednesday 4/5M - Thursday

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Morning

Reading

Sustained Reading

Using your School magazine,

choose a narrative. Time how

long it takes you to read the

articles and complete the

Reading Log.

Reading Strategy: Activating Prior Knowledge

Read Whale Aware article by Lynn Lederhos.

Complete the KWL Chart and

Reading

Sustained Reading





Reading Log.

Reading Strategy: Questioning


Record any questions you have

Reading

Sustained Reading





Reading Log.

Reading Strategy: Building Vocabulary Knowledge


Identify the first unfamiliar word

Reading

Sustained Reading





Reading Log.

Reading Strategy: Visualising


Whales are interesting creatures. In the article Whale

Reading

Record yourself reading this

week’s text.


You can, record yourself using

Seesaw and post it.

Reading Strategy: Summarising

Complete the summary sheet using the article Whale Aware.

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answer the following questions:

1. What we think we know

2. What we want to find out

3. What have we learnt

English - Spelling:

Copy your list words into the spelling table 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

A Moment in Time.

Look at the Quick Writes page and images. Each day you will use an image to write about that moment in time using the five senses. Select a different image each day.

Success Criteria has been given.

English – Writing

We are continuing to work on writing descriptively by packing the noun.

When we pack before the noun, we place adjectives in front of the noun to add more detail.

e.g. She owns a small, dilapidated house.

Small and dilapidated are adjectives that help to describe the noun (house).

We could change the adjectives to completely change the meaning of the sentence and how the reader will think of the house.

about the text in the brainstorm sheet attached

Is there something you don’t understand?

Is there something you would like more information on?

Sort your questions and find out the answers to your questions.

English -Spelling:

Look Say Cover Write Check your list words and complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.

Quick Write

A Moment in Time.



English – Writing

Today we are revising packing the noun after the noun by using a relative pronoun. Try to keep adjectives before the nouns as well to write really descriptive sentences.

The relative pronouns are:

Who

That

Whose

Whom

Which

Use one of the relative pronouns after the nouns to add more detail.

in the text (cetaceans).

Before reading on for the pronunciation, model thinking aloud of the possible ways to read the word phonetically (e.g. the letter ‘c’ could make an ‘s’ sound as in ‘set’, or a ‘c’ sound as in ‘cut’). Experiment with ideas, before reading on for the pronunciation. Repeat this process with further unfamiliar words (e.g. narwhal, beluga, keratin, Bryde’s, minke, sei etc.)

Complete the word investigation chart using unfamiliar words and write down the definition for these words.

English -Spelling:


Quick Write

A Moment in Time.



English – Writing

In Term 1, we also learned about using prepositions after nouns and verbs to add more detail. You will find a list of prepositions in a sheet attached to this document.

Some examples are: at, in, on, against, after, with, under, to, among, behind, off, off.

If we look at yesterday’s

Aware there is a lot of descriptive information that help describe what a whale looks like.

Draw a picture that you could use as the new image to support this text.

Quick Write

A Moment in Time.



English -Spelling:


English – Writing

Revise yesterday’s session where we wrote sentences using prepositions to add more detail.

Have another look at the prepositions sheet attached to this document.

Re-write the following sentences to include prepositions to add more detail.

Bonus points if you continue to pack the noun before the noun with adjectives or if you include relative pronouns and prepositions in your sentences.

1. She entered the room.

Spelling

Have someone test you on your spelling words.

Quick Write

A Moment in Time.



English – Writing

Re-read your sentences from this week where you have been trying to add more detail to simple sentences using adjectives, relative pronouns and prepositions.

Edit your sentences for:

• Spelling • Grammar

• Punctuation

Read your sentences aloud to make sure they make sense.

Re-write your sentences in neat, cursive handwriting.

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E.g. She owns a huge, modern house.

Place adjectives in front of the nouns in the following sentence to help the reader visualise the nouns.

1. The girl ran into her bedroom.

2. The dog ate the bone. 3. The man wore a coat.

E.g. She owns a small, dilapidated house that she wants to fix up.

In the sentence above, the word that was used after the noun (house) to add more detail.

Revisit your sentences from yesterday and use a relative pronoun after the noun to add more detail.

example sentence, we can change that into a preposition and still add detail.

E.g. She owns a small, dilapidated house in the most expensive street in town.

In this sentence, we used the preposition in to add more detail about the noun (house).

Re-write the following sentences and add more detail by using prepositions.

1. I went to the beach. 2. She sat on the chair. 3. Joe waited for the train.

2. The cat ate my sandwich.

3. Alex played football. 4. Steve wrote in his

diary.

Break Break Break Break Break Break

Middle Mathematics

Number Sense

Mental Maths

Complete Monday mental Maths worksheet.

3D Space

Look at the 3D Object Properties Worksheet. Trace the shapes and fill in the information.

Mathematics

Number Sense

Mental Maths

Complete Tuesday mental maths worksheet.

3D Space

Look at the 3D Shapes Around Your Home Worksheet. See how many items you can locate that match each 3D shape (see

Mathematics

Number Sense

Mental Maths

Complete Wednesday mental maths worksheet.

3D Space

Choose an item from home, e.g. a toy, saucepan, lounge chair, etc. and draw the FRONT, TOP and SIDE VIEW. Remember this is not an art lesson! You do

Mathematics

Number Sense

Mental Maths

Complete Thursday mental maths worksheet.

3D Space

Design and make a building using 3D Shapes, e.g.

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example). Draw your item (using a pencil and ruler) and label it.

not need to focus on the details of your item, but on the SHAPES you see.

e.g. Recliner

You must include a minimum of 4 different 3D Shapes in your design.

Use the proformas included to help draw and create your 3D Shapes.

Break Break Break Break Break Break

Afternoon

Geography

Last week we labelled a world map. This week we are focusing on Australia’s Neighbours.

Look at Worksheet 1 and try your best to work out where each of the countries listed can be found on the map.

Then, choose 1 of the countries and fill in the Country Investigation Worksheet.

Remember to use complete sentences and to present your work with pride (keep it neat).

Geography

Look back at your map from yesterday. Choose a country, different to the one you worked on yeaterday and complete a Country Investigation (just like the Worksheet) in your workbook. Remember to use complete sentences and to present your work with pride (keep it neat).

Compare the 2 countries you have now learned about.

What do they have in common (same)?

What makes them different?

CAPA – MUSIC/ART

Create an artwork that shows

how you feel about music.

Choose an instrument that you

like and sketch it lightly in the

centre of your page.

From the top corner, lightly

sketch a musical scale going

down to the opposite corner.

Place musical notes on the

scale in different colours that

reflect how you feel about

music.

Reflection

Complete the activity attached and Reflect on the week you have had.

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You can include a sketch or

the name of your favourite

musicians in your creation.

Using resources available to

you, colour/paint your artwork

using colours that show how

you feel about music. Dark

colours if you don’t like it and

bright colours if you do!

Upload your artwork to

Seesaw.

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Whale Aware

article by Lynn Lederhos, whales106 by Veeble is licensed under CC by-NC-SA 2.0.

A lot like you—but bigger

Whales belong to a group of sea-dwelling mammals, including dolphins and porpoises, called cetaceans (pronounced set-AY-shins). Cetaceans look like fish and live in the

water, but they are mammals. This means they breathe air, produce milk to nourish their young, are warm-blooded (they keep the same body temperature no matter how cold

or warm their surroundings are), have hair (even though it’s only a few bristles on whales) and have a four-chambered heart. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small

car. A human could actually crawl through its main artery.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever graced the Earth. It can grow to the length of three buses (30 metres), the weight of 35 elephants (190 tonnes) and the height of a two-storey building (6 metres). Although hunting blue whales has been banned worldwide for nearly

40 years, you could sail the oceans for a year and never see this magnificent creature.

Types of whales

There are about 90 different species of cetaceans. They are divided into two groups, toothed whales and baleen whales. Although all toothed whales have teeth, they do not

chew their food.

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They use their teeth only for catching or tearing apart prey, which they swallow whole and often alive. Toothed whales have only one blowhole. Other toothed whales include:

the dolphin, porpoise, orca (killer whale), narwhal, beluga, sperm and pilot whales.

Baleen whales are generally larger than toothed whales and, unlike their toothy cousins, they have two blowholes. Instead of teeth, these whales have a dense fringe of

blade-shaped plates called baleen. Baleen is made of keratin, the same protein material that makes up your hair and fingernails. The most common baleen whales are the

blue, bowhead, Bryde’s, fin, gray, humpback, minke, right and sei whales.

When these sea giants feed, they swim with their mouths open to take in up to 70 tonnes of water with krill and fish at once. Krill, a kind of tiny shrimp, is their favourite food.

The baleen acts as a strainer, keeping the catch in the whale’s mouth.

Since all whales are at the top of the food chain, they can build up huge concentrations of chemical pollutants. These and other wastes can significantly reduce a whale

population.

Whale babies

Whales reproduce slowly. Females carry their unborn young for nine to eighteen months. Most whales give birth to only one calf every two to five years. Calves begin to drink

their mother’s milk soon after birth. Cow’s milk may contain only two per cent fat, but cetacean milk is fifty per cent fat. A calf may nurse for up to two years and gain as much

as 90 kilograms a day. This is essential for its first journey to the feeding grounds. It can take four to eight years for a juvenile whale to become ready to have its own babies.

A long time between breaths

Whales breathe through nostril-like blowholes at the top of their head. Their blood can hold much more oxygen than ours can, and a whale’s heartbeat slows down when it

dives to help conserve air. A sperm whale can dive almost 2.4 kilometres deep—the height of five Empire State Buildings stacked on top of one another—and can hold its

breath for up to two hours. Then the whale returns to the surface and blasts out the stale air at about 480 kilometres per hour. If a whale can’t get to the surface, because it’s

injured or tangled in nets or lines, it can drown.

Singing for their supper

Whales have many ways to communicate. Although there are many unanswered questions about how whales communicate, scientists have recognised certain complex behaviours and their purposes. Sticking their heads out of the water (spy hopping), slapping the

surface of the water with a pectoral fin or tail fluke (lobtailing), and propelling themselves out of the water (breaching) are all forms of communication.

Like us, whales communicate with sounds—an incredible variety of squeals, clicks, whistles, moans and barks. But whales do not make these sounds with vocal cords.

Instead, they squeeze pouches of air near their blowhole. Vibrations inside their huge head cavities make sounds that can be heard hundreds of miles away. Humpback,

bowhead, blue and fin whales all ‘sing’ songs. The male humpback whale sings complex songs lasting up to thirty minutes, which can be repeated for more than twenty-four

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hours. Males sometimes use songs as threats and to keep track of one another. High-pitched songs also frighten fish into tight circles, allowing whales to catch them more

easily.

Ears like a whale

Whales can also receive sounds from over 1600 kilometres away, using earholes that are as small as the end of a pencil. Some whales use this sensitive hearing to locate

underwater objects. The whales make sounds that hit underwater objects and bounce back. This is called echolocation and it allows whales to ‘see’ with their ears for

navigation and hunting. Some scientists believe that ocean noise pollution can damage a whale’s inner ear. Military and oil-exploration vessels use LFAS (Low Frequency

Active Sonar), but this technology severely harms whales. If they become confused or lost, they may wash ashore and die.

Family life

Whales live in all the oceans of the world. Some remain in either the icy cold polar waters or the warm tropical seas all year long. Others migrate from place to place, mostly to

find food. Whales may travel alone, or in social groups called pods. Pods may have as few as three or as many as several hundred whales.

In spring, they head to the polar regions where the sun shines twenty-four hours a day and the cold waters bubble with life. The hungry whales gain twenty tonnes of fat,

called blubber. The bowhead whale has blubber more than half a metre thick! Before the polar waters freeze, migrating whales return to warmer waters to rest, give birth and

mate. Their blubber fuels these thousand-mile journeys, which last several months. One grey whale travels roughly the same distance, in its lifetime, as a return trip to the

Moon!

Protecting the ocean’s biggest inhabitant

Over the years, the whaling industry has killed millions of whales for their meat, oil and baleen. Now we understand that every species is essential to the balance of our

ecosystems. Whale hunting was banned by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. However, whale hunting is still practiced by some countries, such as Japan,

Norway, Russia and Iceland, which practice controlled whaling. Other threats to whales come in the forms of chemical and noise pollution and floating litter in the ocean

waters. All these threats are shortening the lives of far too many whales. Without these silent giants, our planet’s oceans would feel very empty.

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Spelling Groups – 2020

Carefully find your correct spelling group and words below.

5/6K - Group 3 4/5M - Level 3

5/6P - Red Group 5/6H - Dragons


5/6P - Blue Group 5/6H - Broncos


5/6P - Yellow Group 5/6H - Warriors

Rule: Suffix — ‘ion’ to base words ending in ‘e’ and ‘de’

conclude opposition

conclusion persuade

congratulate persuasion

congratulation(s) translate

decide translation

decision vegetate

devastate vegetation

devastation explode

explosion fascinate

fascination opposite

Rule: Prefixes — ‘di’, ‘dia’, ‘de’

develop dialogue

diagnosis diameter

debrief digest

decay dilate

decide direct

delay dissect

depend divert

deploy deport

depress diagonal

diagram dialect

Rule: Beginning complex consonant clusters —‘shr’, ‘thr’ and ‘squ’

shred thread

shriek three

shrink throw

shrill throb

shrimp thrash

square thrill

squash threw

squeal squint

squat squall

squid squib

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Spelling Words LSCWC Day 1 LSCWC Day 2 LSCWC Day 3 LSCWC Day 4

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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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Quick Writes – A Moment in Time Success Criteria

My Summer Challenge

I heard splashing and the other kids laughing.

I heard my brother say, ‘Hurry up, Troy!’

I saw the deep green river a long way down in the distance.

I felt the roughness of the rope swing.

I felt my heard pounding.

I wondered if my hands would slip on the rope.

I wondered if I would finally be able to do it this time.

Use the five senses to describe a different moment in time. You can use the same sense more than once.

I heard... I saw...

I felt... I smelt...

I tasted... (extra) I wondered...

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Number Sense Day 1 Number Sense Day 2 Number Sense Day 3 Number Sense Day 4

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Day 1 Maths

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Day 2 Maths

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Day 4 Maths – You will not be able to cut these out to use, but you should be using them to help you

create 3D objects for your design.

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Geography Activities

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