Stage 2 Home Learning Grid – WEEK 3 - Term 2 2020

Dear Parents and Carers of years 3 and 4 students, the work below covers week 3 of Term 2 in a grid-like structure. It covers all key learning

areas (KLA) and reflects the work that students will be working on at school within their classrooms. It is a continuation of the current

programs that teachers have been using, although adapted for student directed learning. We have given you guidance as to which lessons you

might do on which days, but it is fine to mix it up and do different lessons on different days if it works better for you. Please work through

it at your own pace. We advise that you use a lined A4 workbook should you not have access to a digital device with access to the internet.

Student check-ins – Students should check in with their teacher each day on OneNote on their student check-in page in their Collaboration

Folder. If students have a question about their learning, they can ask their teacher on OneNote. If students do not check-in within a few

days, school staff will call you at home to check on their ongoing learning.

Learning on OneNote - We love seeing our student's achievements and the work they are completing at home so we can offer feedback. We

encourage students to complete their work in their digital folders (the one that has their name on it) on their class OneNote daily. It makes

our day that extra special, knowing they are enjoying learning from home.

Remember - Log onto Reading Eggs using the details provided by your teacher and continue with your level or read some books and make up

some stories with your family. It is important to get up, move about and keep your mind and body healthy too! Take advantage of brain breaks

throughout the day. Most importantly take time out to enjoy each other’s company, the sunshine and your backyard.

KLA English Lessons

Choose a digital or non-digital task per lesson depending on what you

have access to

Additional Work

If you have finished your lessons,

you can complete an activity

from below

Learning help

If you require any learning

help, follow the links below

English

MONDAY

Digital - Looking at the following cover of The Tin Forest by Helen

Ward, make predictions on what you think the story may be about and

write your reflections in your digital folder on your class OneNote.

Think about the use of colour, the way the pictures are drawn and

what they are depicting.

Hold a spelling test with yourself

and a sibling (or parent/carer).

Get your sibling/parent/carer to

say random words and try to

spell them on a piece of paper,

mini whiteboard etc. See how

many you get correct. If you get

any wrong, try and find out

where you went wrong so the

next time you spell the same

word you will get it correct.

Some questions to think about

and help you with this task:

Look carefully at the cover

illustrations. What is the

purpose of the main

illustrations?

How does the illustration

relate to the title of the book?

Non Digital – Complete the same activity as above in your A4

workbook.

Why do you think the

publisher chose this cover?

Do you think the cover

illustration suggests a theme

of the novel? If so, what do

you think the theme might

be?

Are symbols used in the cover

illustration? What do you

think these symbols might

represent?

TUESDAY

Digital – Watch a reading of The Tin Forest using the following link:

https://youtu.be/IQkxDMrYszY. Write a letter to your teacher

describing the setting trying to make as much use of your 5 senses as

possible. So, if you were in the setting as set out in the book, what

would it look like, feel like, sound like, taste like, hear and smell like?

Post it up in your digital folder on your class OneNote.

Non Digital – Choose a book at home with a setting of a forest or just

think about being in one. Complete the same activity as above in your

A4 workbook.

List all the smaller words that

you can find inside this big one:

Intelligence

Examples:

See: wild flowers blooming

Feel: leaves crunching

beneath Smell: scent of roses,

rain

Taste: salty, like wild berries

Sound: rustling bushes, insects

crawling, birds calling

WEDNESDAY

Digital – Watch the following video on a forest environment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7M-hZDvoz0. Write down 3

things you notice that are different between the forest environment in

Create an acrostic poem about

your favourite character from a

book that you have recently read

or a movie/cartoon series you

have recently viewed.

Try using a Venn diagram to

compare and contrast.

The Tin Forest and the forest in the video, and write 3 things you find

similar. Post it up in your digital folder on your class OneNote

Non Digital – Think about the following two pictures and complete the

same activity as above but in your digital folder:

The picture above is from the video on a forest environment.

The picture above is from The Tin Forest

Remember that acrostic poems

look like this:

Learn how to here:

https://www.youtube.com/w

atch?v=HeDVQbSpHac

THURSDAY

Digital - Log onto Soundwaves

(https://online.fireflyeducation.com.au/services/student_login/sound

waves) and complete Unit 14 (lizard) “l ll”

Year 5 - miss523

Year 6 - shut902

Captions are usually a sentence

or two that explain what is

happening in an image, drawing

or photo. Some photos are quite

funny to caption! Caption this

photo below in your digital

Example:

Non Digital - Go for a walk around your house/backyard and have a

think about what words have the following in them:

• l ll = make the ‘l’ sound (like life, always, hello, dollar, special)

Make a list of 20 words that you have found , 10 x words with the

single ‘l’ sound and 10 x words with the double ‘ll’ sound. Write this list

in your A4 workbook.

folder on your class OneNote or

in your A4 workbook:

FRIDAY

Digital – Think about what a persuasive text might look like. View the

video to understand more about persuasive texts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9arWXIddM

Try your best to write a persuasive text by choosing one the following

topics:

Tin forests should replace all real forests

OR

Real forests are all we need to live

Non Digital – Here is a quick example of a simply persuasive text on

why frogs would make fantastic pets. Write a persuasive text on ONE

of the topics above in you’re A4 workbook.

Impromptu speech presentation

is an important skill to have. You

basically need to ‘think on the

spot’ about a topic that you feel

is important. Give a 1-minute

impromptu speech to your

family about what kind of person

you want to be when you grow

up.

Does public speaking make

you nervous?

Watch this humorous video on

How To Be A Confident

Speaker:

https://www.youtube.com/w

atch?v=tShavGuo0_E

FRIDAY

SENTENCE A WEEK - Compound Sentences – using ‘because’

Rewrite these two sentences using the conjunction ‘because’. Highlight

the subjects in the sentence.

• Ally is not at school today. She is sick.

Do this in your digital folder in your class OneNote or in your A4

workbook.

Note taking is an important skill

to have. Click on the following

link to experience a talk by one

of the Taronga Zoo keepers:

https://www.youtube.com/watc

h?v=imjfSF2AKZ4 on the

corroboree frog. Don’t forget to

include key words. Look back at

your notes and see if they make

sense.

Test your compound

sentences knowledge with this

quiz:

https://www.proprofs.com/qu

iz-

school/story.php?title=compo

und-sentences_1

Need a brain break? Why not click on one of the following links, get up and move:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if8qfVjVFc8&list=PLUin3cXjioSb0aINtCqhwsDmw1GaHdObT

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KatoqA6EVK4&list=PLUin3cXjioSb0aINtCqhwsDmw1GaHdObT&index=3

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxKb_VHCYdc

No technology? No worries, why not do one of these:

• Go around 2 laps of your backyard doing the side gallop

• See how many sit-ups you can do in 1 minute

• Walk around your house and think about what materials it is made of, then list them.

KLA

English Lessons

Choose a digital or non-digital task per lesson depending on what you

have access to

Additional Work

If you have finished your lessons,

you can complete an activity

from below

Learning help

If you require any learning

help, follow the links below

Mathematics

MONDAY

Addition & Subtraction

What strategies do you use to add and subtract? Maybe start counting

from a large number, use doubles and near doubles, your known

addition facts to 10 and 20 or maybe even use algorithms.

Complete the following addition word problems in your digital folder

or in your A4 workbook. Don’t forget to underline the important parts

of the questions to help you understand:

1) This shop is open only on Saturdays and Sundays. They sell 85 rolls

of toilet paper on Saturday and 187 rolls on Sunday. How many rolls do

they sell altogether? How many rolls will they sell in 4 weeks, keeping

in mind they only operate on Saturdays and Sundays?

2) There are 144 red and 247 blue cars parked in Kmart’s car park. How

many cars are there altogether? 79 yellow cars and 17 trucks enter the

car park. How many cars are there now? How many trucks?

3) How many rulers were in the classroom if 47 were on the desks and

35 were still in the cupboards?

Western City Library has 3456

books, Eastern City has 6789

books and Northern City has

9876 books. How many books do

they have altogether?

A list of different strategies

you can review or check your

knowledge against:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/

teaching-and-

learning/student-

assessment/smart-teaching-

strategies/numeracy/number-

and-algebra/addition-and-

subtraction/S2-addition-and-

subtraction

TUESDAY

Addition & Subtraction

Mel collected 9148 seashells in

the first week of her holidays

and 8797 in the second week.

Watch this video on addition

and subtraction word

problems and complete the

Complete the following addition word problems in your digital folder

or in your A4 workbook. Don’t forget to underline the important parts

of the questions to help you understand:

1) Each student is given 28 green balloons and 27 blue balloons for

their arts lesson. How many balloons will each student get?

2) 157 shirts were sold on Monday and 35 on Tuesday. How many

shirts were sold in these two days?

3) How many rulers were in the school if 147 were on the desks and

235 were still in the cupboards?

How many seashells did she

collect altogether?

practice questions to test your

strategies.

https://www.khanacademy.or

g/math/early-math/cc-early-

math-add-sub-20/cc-early-

math-word-problems-within-

20/v/sea-monsters-and-

superheroes

WEDNESDAY

Answer the following in our digital folder on your class OneNote or in

your A4 workbook.

Number of the week: 78

1. Is it an odd or even number?

2. What is 10 more

3. What is 15 less

4. Complete the pattern by adding 2: 78, …, …, …

5. What is the next even number?

6. What is the next odd number?

7. Is divisible by 2?

8. Round it to the nearest 10

9. Is it a prime or composite number?

10. What is in the units place value?

Practice typing or writing out

your 2, 3, 4 times tables and

time yourself. You can do this in

your digital folder in your class

OneNote or in your A4

workbook. Record your time.

THURSDAY

Time

Digital - Using a clock inside your room, find out how many minutes

there are between each numeral on the clock face. Watch the

following link on how to tell and write the time in analogue and digital

time:

There are 7684 rose plants in the

park. Park workers will plant

7845 more today and 9734

tomorrow. How many rose

plants will be in the park when

they finish?

Test and time your clock

reading ability with this

popular game:

https://teachingtime.co.uk/dr

aggames/sthec2.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAYiUZSRmk0. Play some time

games using this link:

http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/measures.htm#Time

Non digital - Using a clock inside your room, find out how many

minutes there are between each numeral on the clock face. Using a

page in your A4 workbook, create a routine for yourself from what you

do in the morning to when you go to bed. Next to each item, write

roughly what time you do each of the activities. You can write then in

digital form or as analogue by drawing a small clock face next to each.

It could look something like this:

FRIDAY

Time

Complete the following in your digital folder in your class OneNote or

in your A4 workbook:

• 60 seconds = ____ minute

• 60 minutes = ____ hour

• 30 minutes = ____ hour

• 15 minutes = ____ hour

• 24 hours = ____ day

Practice typing or writing out

your 5, 6, 7 times tables and

time yourself. You can do this in

your digital folder in your class

OneNote or in your A4

workbook. Record your time.

This video may help with

some of your conversions:

https://www.youtube.com/w

atch?v=ImVe0ed4fVM

• 14 days = 1 ___________

• 365 days = ____ year

• 366 days = 1 _______ year

• 12 months = ____ year

Need a brain break? Why not click on one of the following links:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=388Q44ReOWE

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2XVfTzel8E

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymigWt5TOV8

No technology? No worries, why not do one of these:

• Do some stretching away from your learning area for 2 minutes

• See how many star jumps you can do in 1 minute.

• See how many times you can punch the sky in 1 minute

KLA

Science & Technology Lesson

Choose a digital or non-digital task depending on what you have access to

Science &

Technology

MONDAY

Cottontastic

Visit the cotton Australia website and do a mini research project in your digital folder on your class OneNote or in your A4 Workbook.

Include the lifecycle of cotton, how many different products it can be made into and how it is changed into each product.

https://cottonaustralia.com.au/.

Use these posters to help you compete the mini research project if you don’t have access to the internet:

KLA

2nd Step Lesson

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to

Additional Work

If you have finished your lessons, you can complete an activity

from below

2nd Step

MONDAY

Digital – Let’s explore understanding complex feelings. Read the scenario’s

below and write two different feelings for each scenario and possible

reasons for those feelings. Post this work in your digital folder on your class

OneNote.

For example, Polly finds out she got the part she wanted in the school play.

Her best friend also auditioned, but didn’t get a part. Polly is feeling:

Happy because she got the part she wanted.

Sad because her best friend is upset.

Scenario 1: Eric has been invited to go skateboarding, but he has never

tried it before. His best friends are going and he doesn’t want to be left

out. He’s feeling:

_____________ because _____________________________________

_____________ because _____________________________________

Scenario 2: Jina has been invited to spend the night at a friend’s house, but

she won’t be able to go to the movies with her family. She’s feeling:

_____________ because _____________________________________

_____________ because _____________________________________

Non Digital - Complete the activity above in your A4 workbook.

- Think about the type of person you are and create a “little Miss

or Mr” version of yourself. Here are some examples:

KLA

Geography Lesson

Choose a digital or non-digital task depending on what you have access

to

Additional Work

If you have finished your lessons, you can complete an activity

from below

Geography

TUESDAY

Complete this activity in your digital folder on your class OneNote or in

you A4 workbook.

What would it be like to live in a different environment?

On a blank piece of A4 paper or in your A4 workbook, draw a

picture of what you think a family living ‘off the grid’ would look

like. Label all the parts that you have drawn.

Pretend that your family lived ‘off the grid’. Off the grid means to

generate your own electricity, have your own water, grow your own

food.

View the following 2 videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUXwXM6lyVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do1O5Avw_SQ&feature=youtu.b

e

(Play from the beginning to 4minutes and 17 seconds only to view the

family of 7 living off the grid)

Activity: Write a letter convincing your parents to live off the grid in a

rural setting. What are the benefits? How would it improve their quality

of life? How would it benefit the environment? What activities would

they do if they moved to a rural location?

KLA CAPA Lesson

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Creative &

Practical Arts

(CAPA)

WEDNESDAY

Strong movements

Strong movements require short bursts of energy and show resistance

What strong movements can you demonstrate in the space around the body, imagining that there is something to move against. Move

around the room or backyard making strong, light quality movements with different body parts like your hands, fingers, back, legs, feet,

nose etc. Now use strong movement like a stamp, air punch or lunge to move around the room or backyard.

See if you can put these strong movement into a form of a sequence to some music. Practise this in front of the mirror or your family if you

can.

KLA

PDHPE Lessons

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Personal

Development

Health &

Physical

Education

(PDHPE)

PDH THURSDAY

Think about why it is so important to look after yourself and your health. Make a list of 5 things that you should do to ensure that you are

healthy and happy by caring for yourself. You might like to include things like eating healthy foods, getting enough sleep, practicing good

hygiene etc. Post it up in your digital folder on your class OneNote or write this in your A4 workbook.

PE FRIDAY

Relays

Go outside or be in a space where you will not bump into anything. Take a stick, empty paper towel roll or empty drink bottle with you and

place it on the ground out of the way for now. Begin stretching your body, starting with your legs, arms, ankles, wrists. Now begin running

on the spot. If you have someone you can do this activity with, see if they can gently pass your object to you whilst you are running and try

not to drop it. This would be how runners pass a baton onto their partners in an actual circular relay in preparation for the athletics carnival.

The correct baton passing technique is:

• The receiver extends their hand behind them at just below shoulder height; palm up; fingers together; thumb out to the side. The

end of the baton is placed into the receiver’s hand using a downward motion.

• A non-visual pass with the receiver’s eyes to the front; the receiver to keep their hand steady; the baton to be placed firmly into the

receiver’s hand.