Specialists - Prep Week 4
Week beginning - 4 May 2020
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P.E.
30-45 minutes per day
Download the 60 Second Challenge Activity Tracking Sheet to track your progress! Click here
Monday
Warm-up
60 Second Burpee Challenge: Click here
Jumping
Find a safe space inside or outside your house.
Complete each of the following jumping actions for 30 seconds to a minute.
After 30 seconds, rest for 1 minute and complete the next jumping actions.
If you don’t have access to jumping spots, you can draw some spots outside on the ground using chalk, or you can use your imagination and pretend there are spots on the ground.
Can you think of another way to make spots to jump onto?
Can you create a jumping routine with music?
Challenge someone in your house to copy your jumping routine. Click here
Tuesday
Warm-up
60 Second Challenge - Air balloon: Click here
Juggling
Today you are going to practise juggling.
Juggling is a great way to improve your hand-eye coordination.
Find a safe space inside or outside your house.
Complete and practise each of the following juggling activities for 30 seconds to a minute.
After practising, have a rest for 1 minute and complete the next juggling activity.
For some of the activities, if you don’t have a partner to practise with, create your own juggling activity.
When you have finished practising all the activities, can you create a juggling routine with music?
If you don’t have any scarves to play with, you could use a small towel, tissues, a pair of socks, or any soft material or toy from your house.
Challenge someone in your house to copy your juggling routine. Click here
Wednesday
Warm-up
60 Second Challenge - Around the world: Click here
Stretching our Bodies
Today we are going to stretch our muscles.
Stretching is a great way to relax your body and improve flexibility.
Find a safe space inside your house.
Complete each of the following stretches for 1 minute.
After each stretching activity, jog on the spot for 1 minute and complete the next set of stretches.
Repeat this until you have finished all the stretching activities. Click here.
Once finished, think of a way you can stretch the following body parts (neck, feet and hands) Remember to be as creative as you can.
Challenge a family member to see who the most flexible person in your home is!
Thursday
Warm-up
60 Second Challenge - Bean bag throw: Click here
Balancing
Today we are going to learn how to balance.
Balancing is a great way to practise being a professional ballerina, ninja or statue.
Find a safe space inside or outside your house.
Complete the following balancing challenges.
What will you aim to be?
Perhaps you could be a ballerina, ninja or spy?
Click here to access your daily balancing challenges.
Do you have what it takes to be a master of balance?
Friday
Warm-up
60 Second Challenge - Bunny jumps: Click here
Jumping
Find a safe space inside or outside your house.
Complete each of the following jumping actions for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
After 30 seconds, rest for 1 minute and complete the next jumping actions.
If you don’t have access to jumping lines, you can draw some lines outside on the ground using chalk, or you can use your imagination and pretend there are lines on the ground. Sometimes you can even find lines outside on the concrete pavement.
Can you think of other ways to make lines to jump over?
Create a jumping routine with music and see if a family member can guess your jumping pattern? Click here
Spanish
30 minutes per week
Saludos (Greetings) – Hola and Adíos
Hola means “hello” and adios means “goodbye”.
Make the letters and words using Play-Doh, Lego bricks, string, blocks or beads.
Look at the individual letters in each word - do you know some of these letters?
H O L A A D Í O S
Listening activity: Your teachers have added a book called Canciones Español in your Epic! library.
Click here It’s a song about saying ¡Hola!
Music
60 minutes per week
The activities you have been doing over the past few weeks will help you with your lessons from this week on.
You will need the instrument you made from week 2, and your poster from week 3.
Listen to this piece of music called 'Hoe-Down' composed by Aaron Copland: Click here
A Hoedown is a dance that comes from country America.This song is about cowboys and a cowgirl.
Listen to the song again, and this time play along with the song using the instruments you made in your music lesson in week 2.
When you hear this music, what does it make you think of?
Can you hear the sound of the horse hooves in the song?
What speed are you moving in the song - slow or fast, or does it change sometimes?
Draw a picture of what you think is happening in the song.
Art
60 minutes per week
Zig zag fold a long narrow piece of paper into square sections (see photo below).
Decorate the sections with different patterns or drawings that tell a story (like a comic strip).
You can colour these and even draw pictures on both sides.
Mother’s Day Card
Next, try to make a folded card with a hidden surprise.
Zig zag fold into the middle of your paper so you have 4 even rectangles (see unicorn picture below).
While the page is folded up, draw your face on the front of the page.
Open it up and fill in the surprise long smile!
This may take some practise. Make a few until you have one you are proud of.
Choose your best card for Mum.
Remember to write HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY on the front and leave a message of love inside.
Below are a couple of links to competitions and Art Prizes for Learning from Home.
You can be part of a community of students creating, contributing and connecting from home.
Library
30 minutes per week
Use EPIC library to reread ‘ABC Nursery Rhymes’. Click here
What was your favourite nursery rhyme in this book?
Can you say Mrs Keogh’s favourite nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Which words sound the same?
How many rhyming words did you find?
Fold a piece of paper into 4.
In each segment draw the correct order of each sentence of the rhyme Humpty Dumpty or choose your favourite
nursery rhyme to draw in sequence.
See example:
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