Stage 1 Term 4 Week 2- Learning Activities Thank you for your continued efforts. Please remember that it is okay to complete one

activity from each section, and you can pick one or two favourites from the day to share on SeeSaw.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Morning English

Spelling Sound search

Writing Persuasive

English Reading

Character interview Writing

Persuasive

English Spelling

List words Writing Exciting

Sentences

English Library

From Miss Compton

Writing Dressing Up a

Sentence

10 am Livestream

10:30

10:30

10:30

Break Middle Mathematics

Warm-up Fractions of a

collection

MathematicsWarm-up

Fractions of a collection

MathematicsWarm-up Symmetry

MathematicsWarm-up Symmetry

Break Afternoon Mindfulness

Smiling Minds or mindfulness

task Science

Earth and space

Mindfulness Smiling Minds or mindfulness

task Music

From Mr Stevens Science Weather journal

Science Weather journal

Mindfulness Smiling Minds or mindfulness

task Art

Kandinsky's Circle Art Science Weather journal

Mindfulness Smiling Minds or mindfulness

task PE

From Mr Killingworth

Science Weather journal

Equipment overview for the week Every day you need:

Your workbook A lead pencil Coloured pencils Monday

Paper Paper clip Blocks Tuesday

A Story book Blocks Small bag or cup Wednesday Range depending on your choices for Wellbeing Wednesday.

Thursday

Paint and paintbrushes Paper Or crayons

Friday

A piece of string Assorted materials Empty water Small ball bottles such as lego, pegs,

beads, leaves or flower petals

Or ribbon

Monday

English Spelling - sound search Log into soundwaves UNIT 28 (picture of yoyo) Year 1 access code - shirt259 Year 2 access code – green235 Focus sound search and practice spelling the list words or if you want a challenge, the extension words. The sound this week is “y“ for yoyo also spelt with “i" “ew” “u” “eau” “ue”. Watch Miss Somerville’s SPELLING VIDEO to explain this phoneme (sound) and the graphemes (letters) that go with it as it can be a bit tricky. List: yap, yet, yes yell, yelled Yellow, yoyo, year

Yard, yawn, you

Extension beautiful,

Computer, duty, huge, million, musical, nephew, pupil, rescue

Stew

Writing In persuasive writing opinions are important because it is where you begin your argument but it is not enough. You need to give reasons or examples. Reasons are where you will persuade your audience. Watch this video of Mr Adam explaining the task.

Which example below would most likely change your mind? I think summer is better than winter.

OR I think that summer is better than winter BECAUSE I can spend more time playing outside and having fun.

You are going to choose your opinion on the topic below and then brainstorm all the reasons why you believe this. Then choose your three favourite reasons and turn them into a sentence using your opinion sentence starters and your opinion.

The topic is:

Which are better, dogs or cats?

Mathematics Warm up Write a word problem for 3 of the numbers below. Use your knowledge of addition and subtraction facts, groups of, fractions and place value to write your word problems. Do your best to think creatively when writing you word problems! Here is a video of Miss Marnoch giving you a few ideas for the activity.

8, 10, 12, 17, 35, 46, 64, 88 e.g. Josie had 6 choc chip cookies but her brother had double what she had. How many cookies does Josie’s brother have?

Fractions of a collection- For this lesson you will need: -paper and a paperclip to make a spinner -blocks or Lego How to make a spinner:

Fold a piece of paper into

quarters. Unfold it and use a

texta to trace over the folded

lines.

Then fold it into quarters

again

Unfold it and use a texta to trace over the folded lines.

Year 1 spinner- add the fractions

Year 2 spinner - add the fractions

Use your pencil to hold the

paper clip in place. Flick the paper clip and it will spin to

land on a fraction.

Here is Miss Humphrey explaining this lesson What to do: Year 1 investigate these numbers: 12, 16, 20, 24 Year 2 investigate these numbers: 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 30 1) Count out your number using your blocks. 2) Use your spinner to find out what fraction you need to split your collection into. Remember, that your fractions need to be equal. If all of the groups are not the same amount, you cannot split that number into that fraction. 3) Record what you found in a number sentence

e.g. ½ of 10 is 5. You cannot split 13 in ½ 4) Spin again to repeat using the same number of blocks.

Mindfulness Smiling Minds www.smilingmind.com.au Use the app/website to pick and choose any age-appropriate session depending on your mood on the day.

Mindfulness task Going to the beach switches on our senses. They come alive as the waves roll in. Imagine you are at the beach. What can you see, hear, smell, touch and taste? Write and draw about all that you sense at the beach.

Science This term we will be looking at changes that occur in the sky and on the land? Does anyone know -How and why the sky changes? In what way does the moon change? What parts of the land change? How does this impact our lives? If you don’t know the answer to these questions that is okay! This term we are going to find out.

In today’s lesson we are going to learn about the weather and how it affects us. Watch Miss Somerville’s Video on weather to find out more. Weather rules our life everything from where we go to what we do, depends on the weather outside. Sometimes it’s freezing and other times its scorching hot. Our big question today is... What is weather?

What is weather? Weather is a description of what's happening with the air, sun, rain and wind when you go

outside. Three things make up the different parts of the weather. They are the sun, air and water.

Meteorologists are people who research and study the weather. They do this by looking at

patterns such as air pressure, temperature, wind, humidity and sky conditions. They use tools to understand and predict what is happening. Can you be a meteorologist this week?

ACTIVITY 1: Think of as many words as possible that relate to weather and create a weather word wall with pictures to match.

ACTIVITY 2: Use your weather word wall to monitor the weather each day. You can print one here weather diary . Or make your own, like the one below.

Tuesday Reading – Character Interview Today you are going to impersonate a character from a book of your choice. You will be interviewed on the 9am news. Choose at least 5 of the 10 questions below to answer as your character. Remember to use full sentences when answering your questions. Make sure to stay in character the whole time! Use adjectives, similes and correct punctuation. You may like to film or voice record yourself answering these questions. Watch this video of Miss Marnoch explaining the task.

Don’t forget to introduce your character and book before you start.

Questions What is your favourite food? What is your favourite colour? Why? What does an average day look like for you? Do you play any sports? What was your favourite subject in school? If you could go on a holiday anywhere, where would you go? What is your greatest achievement? Who is your best friend? What is your greatest fear? If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be and why?

Persuasive Writing In persuasive writing, we need to think about who we are trying to persuade (the audience). Who the audience is, will change what reasons or evidence you choose. For example the reasons you could use to convince your teachers to have a longer lunch would be different to the reasons you give your friends and friends to have a longer lunch at school would be different. When we come back to class we will be more relaxed and better behaved. (Great to convince your teacher, not great to convince your friends) A longer lunch means more time to play. (Great to convince your friends, not great to convince your teacher). Pretend you want to watch your favourite movie but you need to convince either your parents or your friends. Choose your audience then brainstorm as many reasons to convince them.

1. Choose your movie and your audience. Parents or friends? 2. Next brainstorm all the different reasons you can think of to

persuade your audience. 3. Finally if you have time, you can choose the other audience

(parents or friends) and brainstorm different ideas to convince them.

Watch this video of Mr Adam explaining the task.

Mathematics Warm up Write a word problem for 3 of the numbers below. Use your knowledge of addition and subtraction facts, groups of, fractions and place value to write your word problems. Do your best to think creatively when writing you word problems! Here is a video of Miss Marnoch giving you a few ideas for the activity.

6, 14, 18, 22, 30, 44, 78, 93 e.g. Peter Pan had a bag of jewels that he planned to share with 6 of his friends. Each friend received 5 jewels. How many jewels were in Peter Pan’s bag to start with?

Fractions of a collection What you need: -coloured pencils -small pieces of paper - little bag or a cup -blocks in two different colours Here is Miss Humphrey explaining this lesson What to do: Round 1- Halves, quarters and eighths 1) Write your fractions onto the small pieces of paper and put them into the bag. Fractions: 1/2, 3/4, 1/4, 1/8, 3/8 2) Get out 8 blocks of the same colour. 3) Pull a fraction out of the bag. 4) Swap some of the colours of your blocks so it matches the fraction you pulled out. 5) Record the fraction and blocks in your workbook.

e.g. 6) Change your blocks to your starting colour and repeat until you have pulled out all of your fractions. Round 2- Year 1 Repeat using 16 blocks Round 2 – Year 2- thirds and sixths 1) Write your fractions onto the small pieces of paper and put them into the bag. Fractions: 1/3, 4/6, 2/6, 2/3, 3/6 2) Get out 12 blocks of the same colour. 3) Pull a fraction out of the bag. 4) Swap some of the colours of your blocks so it matches the fraction you pulled out. 5) Record the fraction and blocks in your workbook. 6) Repeat until you have pulled out all of your fractions. Round 3- optional 1) Put all of your fractions into your bag. 2) Choose your own number of blocks. 3) Investigate if can you use your blocks to create the fractions.

Mindfulness Smiling Minds www.smilingmind.com.au Use the app/website to pick and choose any age-appropriate session depending on your mood on the day.

Mindfulness task Sometimes we get so busy inside our heads, we forget that our bodies are attached. Have you ever felt this way? Draw yourself at a time when your head and body are working in partnership. What are you doing and how are you feeling? Think of some emotion words to add to your drawing.

Music- from Mr Stevens

The Drill Sergeant is back

Watch this video and learn the drill sergeant’s new song. In it you will hear call and response which is a musical technique where a leader sings the first part and other singers sing a reply.

Composition Corner

Write your own marching song that you can perform while keeping the beat with your feet. Your composition needs to contain call and response in the lyrics.

Science Fill in your weather journal with today’s weather.

Make a type of

transport from

recycling boxes.

Draw a treasure

map and have a

family member

find the treasure.

Design and label

a roller coaster.

Enjoy a picnic

outside in your

garden.

Create a quiz about

yourself and find out if a

friend can answer all

your questions.

Go for a bike

ride with an

adult/sibling.

Play a puzzle

with someone in

your family.

Write a letter to

a family member

and post it.

Go on a rainbow

treasure hunt. Can

you find something

for every colour?

Make a cubby

and enjoy

reading a book

inside it.

Build an obstacle

course outside. Time

how long it takes you

to go through it.

Use any scrap

paper/magazine

to make a collage

for your fridge.

Put on some music and

draw what you can hear

to create a soundscape.

Head outside to

collect some nature

items. Can you

make a creature

using the items?

Make a 'Thank

you' card for

someone that

you appreciate.

Put on a fashion show

for your family.

Stand outside.

What can you

see, hear, smell,

taste and touch?

Free drawing.

Make a phone

call to a friend to

see how they

are.

Make a jar of

dreams! Fill it

with ideas for

the future.Term

4 W

ellbeing activity

grid

Write the alphabet

down a page. Write a

type of food next to

each letter.

Help cook dinner

tonight.

Design a lolly-

themed board

game.

Create your own super

hero. Draw and label

them to describe their

super powers.

Paint a picture of

your family.

Thursday English Spelling Let’s get creative with our words today. Get some paper – lined is best but whatever you have, and let’s get writing. First of all, write your list words in your MOST BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT handwriting. Next, write all your list words in your MOST BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT handwriting but with your other hand! Now, write your list in your MOST BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT handwriting but with your eyes closed (no cheating!). I can’t wait to see how your words turn out. List: yap, yet, yes, yell, yells, yelled, yellow, yoyo, year, yard, yawn, you Extension beautiful, computer, duty, huge, million, musical, nephew, pupil, rescue, stew Here is a video of Miss P doing an amazing job of writing with her eyes closed Video - Spelling with your eyes closed. Writing – Exciting Sentences Listen to the song: ’Do you want to learn about adjectives?’ We use describing words such as adjectives and adverbs to make our sentences more exciting and to give the reader more detail. Look at the sentence below.

The shiny, orange fish was swimming energetically in the fishbowl.

Use the following pictures to write some exciting sentences of your own. Use the above table to help you. REMEMBER ~ All sentences start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.

Adjectives: big, round, bright, shiny, colourful, slow, green, old, noisy, tiny, new, cute, red, fast, speedy, athletic, majestic, golden

Mathematics Warm up Write a word problem for 3 of the numbers below. Use your knowledge of addition and subtraction facts, groups of, fractions and place value to write your word problems. Do your best to think creatively when writing you word problems! Here is a video of Miss Marnoch giving you a few ideas for the activity.

9, 11, 20, 35, 51, 63, 72, 97 e.g. Milo, Monte and Max grabbed a handful of MAB blocks each. Milo grabbed 3 tens blocks, Monte had 4 tens and 3 ones and Max had 2 tens blocks and 4 ones. What did the blocks equal when the children added them all together?

Symmetry Something is symmetrical when it is the same on both sides. A shape has symmetry if a central dividing line (a mirror line) can be drawn on it, to show that both sides of the shape are exactly the same. A line of symmetry is an imaginary line that divides a figure in half and symmetry is also referred to as mirror image. Symmetry is found in nature, in art, in common objects, in letters and more. Here is a butterfly. Notice that you can draw a line right down the center of the butterfly and one side will match the other side. The butterfly has 1 line of symmetry.

Here is the letter H. Notice that you can draw a line right down the centre of the letter vertically and both sides will match. You can also draw a line down the centre horizontally and both sides will match. The letter H has 2 lines of symmetry.

Watch Mrs Oakes introduce Symmetry and explain today’s task. Neatly write all the letters of the alphabet in capital letters. Draw any lines symmetry on each letter. Hint some letters have no line of symmetry and others have more than one. How many letters have 0 lines of symmetry?

• How many letters have one line of symmetry?

• Write your name in capital letters and see how many letters have symmetry.

• Can you write any words that are completely symmetrical horizontally?

Mindfulness Smiling Minds www.smilingmind.com.au Use the app/website to pick and choose any age-appropriate session depending on your mood on the day.

Mindfulness task Draw yourself in a photo frame doing something that switches on your five senses. What can you see, hear, smell, touch and taste?

Art - Kandinsky’s Circle Art

What you need: • cardboard or paper • paints (primary colours –

red, blue, yellow) • paintbrush • container of water to

wash your brush • oil pastels (if you don’t

have paint) • a variety of music

What to do: 1. Watch this video about the famous artist Kandinsky and his noisy paint box! The video

looks at the colours and sounds of Kandinsky’s abstract art. ‘Abstract’ means he painted shapes, lines and colours, he didn’t paint things that looked realistic.

2. Look at the example of Kandinsky's work. He used squares with concentric circles. 3. Explore concepts of colour and how different colours can evoke different emotions.

For example: What emotions do you associate with red? (anger, embarrassment) What emotions do you associate with blue? (sadness, loneliness, calm) What emotions do you associate with yellow? (happiness, contentment, warmth) etc...

4. Fold a large sheet of cardboard or a piece of paper into six or eight squares. 5. Squeeze a small amount of each paint into an empty egg carton and mix the colours

to make some new colours. (For example: yellow and blue make green, red and yellow make orange, blue and red make purple.)

6. Listen to a variety of music and create concentric circles (in each section) based on how the music makes you feel. Remember to wash your brush before changing colours.

Science

Fill in your weather journal with today’s weather.

Friday English Library- from Miss Compton Watch the video of Miss Compton reading There’s No Such Thing by Heidi McKinnon and complete the following activities. (If you are unable to see the story it is still possible to complete the activities.)

Fiction Versus Non-Fiction

Fictional texts are stories made up by an author. They are not true.

Non-Fiction texts teach, inform, and explain real things.

Sort the titles into non-fiction and fiction. • The Big Book of Surfing • Davinia and the very silly goose • Super Kitten Saves the World • How to Bake Cookies • History of Narraweena

• My Teacher is a Space Alien • What is a bee? • Jeremiah and the very windy day • Visiting Kakadu • Fairies love flowers!

Optional: Choose one of these titles and design a book cover for it Writing - Dressing Up a Sentence Sentences don’t need to be dull. We can easily jazz up our simple sentences by including some descriptive details. Describing words (adjectives and adverbs) make our stories more interesting for the reader and help the reader to create pictures in their minds of what is happening in the story. Watch this video of Ms Cheney for today’s lesson. Now let’s jazz up the sentences below and make them more exciting. (REMEMBER ~ All sentences start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.)

1. The elephant stomped. 2. The girl laughed. 3. The snake slithered. 4. The fireman yelled. 5. The pig rolled. 6. The ice cream melted.

Example of a boring sentence: The bee was buzzing.

Adjectives Describe the noun.

Noun Who or what?

Verb and Adverb What did they do? How did they do it?

Where? Where did it

happen? hairy /bright /yellow bee /flower buzzing excitedly on a flower

Dressed up sentence: The hairy bumblebee was buzzing excitedly on a bright, yellow flower. Adjective examples: huge, grey, young, happy, school, cheerful, slimy, brown, old, energetic, enormous, dirty, cute, pink, hairy, lazy, chocolate, rainbow Adverb examples: noisily, heavily, angrily, energetically, loudly, happily, nervously, quickly, quietly, anxiously, nervously, excitedly, aimlessly, peacefully, slowly

Mathematics Warm up Write a word problem for 3 of the numbers below. Use your knowledge of addition and subtraction facts, groups of, fractions and place value to write your word problems. Do your best to think creatively when writing you word problems! Here is a video of Miss Marnoch giving you a few ideas for the activity.

5, 16, 25, 49, 58, 70, 83, 100 e.g. Luca got 100 dinosaurs for his birthday. He was so excited that he took all 100 of them to the park and played with them in the sandpit. When he got home later that afternoon, he realised half of the dinosaurs were still in the sand. He went back to the park the next day to look for them but only found 8. How many dinosaurs does Luca have now?

Symmetry Making Mandalas First watch this video demonstrating the activity. Collect resources You will need:

• a piece of ribbon or string • assorted objects to make the mandala (for

example pegs, leaves, beads, rocks, small stones.

What to do: • Collect objects from around your house. You will

need to collect a pair of each object (two objects that are the same colour, size and shape).

• Select a pair of objects (two objects that are the same colour, size and shape) and place one object down as your starting point.

• Create your own mandala using the objects you have collected by flipping, sliding and turning the objects.

• You can check the lines of symmetry using a ribbon to see if each side is a mirror image.

Reflection • What is a line of symmetry? • How many can you see in your Mandala? • Could you make more lines of symmetry if you

moved or added any other objects?

Science Fill in your weather journal with today’s weather.

Mindfulness Smiling Minds www.smilingmind.com.au Use the app/website to pick and choose any age-appropriate session depending on your mood on the day.

Mindfulness task Think of a time when you were using your whole body and feeling fantastic. Perhaps you were swimming or running or participating in a sports match. Draw yourself feeling great, moving mindfully and in the zone. Write some of the feelings you felt at the time.

PE- from Mr Killingworth Complete as many as you would like

How to run faster Video from Mr Killingworth

Wall sit challenge

How long can you wall sit for?

Indoor bowling

With a parent or a carer, create a level bowling ‘lane’ in your home for

this activity.

Collect items to use as pins such as empty water bottles or plastic cups. A

small ball such as a tennis ball or a handball works best for indoor

bowling.

Create a starting line and underarm bowl away.

Remember to control your throwing arm and keep your eyes focused on

the target.

Enjoy Years 1 and 2 ����

Burpee challenge How many burpees can you do in a row

before stopping? Vrikshasana challenge

Make the Vrikshasana (tree pose) stance and see how long you can balance for,

don’t forget your other leg!

Science Fill in your weather journal with today’s weather.