Week beginning – 20 April 2020

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P.E.

30-45 minutes per day

Monday

Warm-up- Go Noodle activity ‘Roller coaster’ Click here

Basketball Dribbling (if you don’t have a basketball, try and find a round object in your house that can be bounced)

Bouncing continuously on your dominant hand (the hand you write with) for 2 minutes

Repeat for your non dominant hand

If you have available space, try walking or jogging while bouncing

Can you bounce the ball between your legs?

How long can you bounce the ball in one spot before the ball moves off that spot? Can you beat that time?

Tuesday

Warm-up - Go Noddle activity ‘Run the red carpet’ Click here

Throwing and catching skills

Find a suitable ball in the house or fold a pair of socks to make a ball or blow up a balloon.

Practise throwing the ball up above your head, let it hit the ground and then catch it.

Can you throw the ball up with your left hand and catch it in your left hand? Or throw with your right and catch with your right? Now try going from left to right and right to left.

Try throwing under arm against a brick wall and catch.

Practise bouncing the ball and catching it before it hits the ground again.
What do you notice when you throw it hard or softly into the ground?

Wednesday

Warm up

Can you position your body in these poses and hold for 20 seconds? Don’t forget to keep taking long slow breaths in and out.

Marble Tube Targets

Use an empty paper towel tube and one marble to roll and hit as many targets as possible.

Spread out a bunch of different targets around the floor.

Pick a spot to roll from.

When you hit a target with the marble collect and add it to your pile.

Alternatively, if you don’t have a marble at home, you could find something in your house such as a small bouncy ball, or any type of small round object that can fit through a paper towel tube.

Thursday

Fitness Circuit:
After each activity have a 30 second break.
After completing all four activities, allow a one minute break.
Try and complete four cycles.

• Cycle legs - Lay on the floor on your back and pretend to ride your bike. Hint, hold your tummy muscles tight! Cycle your legs for 30 seconds.
• Superman - Lay on the floor on your tummy, keeping your legs together and arms straight on the ground in front of your head (like superman flying), then gently lift your arms and legs about 10cm off the ground and hold for 20 seconds.
• High knees - Stand up tall, bend your elbows and place your hands out at waist height, then alternate lifting your knees up to each hand. Continue for 30 seconds.
• Plank - Hold your body horizontal to the ground by resting your toes and elbows on the ground. Keep your body straight (don’t bend at the waist). Hold in this position for 30 seconds.

Friday

Warm up

Keeping both your feet together at all times, jump from the lounge room into the kitchen. Repeat 3 times.

Cup stacking

Use plastic cups for this challenge! Stack and then restack to see if you can beat our records.                                                                                                 

*If you don’t have access to plastic cups you can try making your own by making a cone out of paper - see below.

Challenge 1: Ms Yue’s record = 9.19 seconds,  Mr M’s record = 10.10 seconds

Challenge 2: Ms Yue’s record = 13.50 seconds, Mr M’s record = 11.34 seconds

Spanish

30 minutes per week

El cuerpo- The Body (Vocabulary)

Create some flash cards using different body parts to last week.

Draw a picture on the cards to help you remember.

Use these to play a game of Snap or Memory with someone in your family.

Los codos (loss coh-dohs) - elbows

El estómago (ell es-tom-ar-go)- stomach

Los ojos (loss o-hos)- eyes

Los dedos (loss de-doss)- fingers

La lengua (la len-gwa)- tongue

Los dedos del pies (loss de-doss dell pee-ess)- toes

Music

60 minutes per week

Make your own musical instruments! Think about how we make percussion sounds in the music room – we hit things together, we shake things, we move one part of the instrument across another.

Some ideas on how to do this:

• Fill most of a small container with rice, sand or pasta and shake it (don’t forget to put the lid on). You can experiment with different materials.                                                                                                        
• Which sounds do you like best?
• Hitting different bowls or pots with a wooden spoon (please ask permission from your parents before doing this – there may be certain ones that are just too important to use!
• Thick sticks can be used to make a musical instrument called claves.                                                                          You could paint or decorate them any way you like, just think about the sound they will make.

Activities with your instruments:

Play the beat and rhythm for songs on the radio, and any of the songs we have learnt over the past term.

The songs we have learnt:

Year 1: Lucy Locket, Bounce High, 5 Fat Frogs

Year 2: Chicken on a Fencepost, Apple Tree, Icka Backa, One a Penny

Art

60 minutes per week

Kandinsky was an Expressionist painter in the early 1900’s who painted to illustrate music.

_{Blue Segment 1921 Wassily Kandinsy}

Trace some of the lines and shapes with your finger, quickly then slowly.
Can you find some music that suits the rhythm in these lines?
I’ll give you a clue: he liked Wagner’s Lohengrin (classical).
Listen to this music yourself, if possible, and draw to the music on some large paper.
Colour your lines and shapes later.
Make another drawing to some music of your own choice. Let your pencil lines and colours ‘dance’.

Library

30 minutes per week

Read a non-fiction book of your choice or read this book from EPIC library click here

Share some interesting information that you learnt from reading your non-fiction book.
You can draw or draw/write about this information.
Include as many facts as you would like.
Here is an example: If you read a non-fiction book about owls these may be some facts you would write about.