Week beginning – 11 May 2020

Every day you can choose a task to complete from each of the sections below: Reading, Writing, Maths, Inquiry and Wellbeing. These tasks needed to be completed in your scrapbook.

Reading

Learning Intentions:

We are practising reading independently by stopping and saying the first sound of unknown words.

We are learning to use the vocabulary we know to tell a story about the pictures.

We are learning to recognise our high frequency words automatically.

We are learning to sequence a story by identifying the beginning and end of the story.

Tasks:

• This week in independent reading (10 minutes), we are going to focus on getting your mouth ready to say the first sound of a word. When you are reading and you get to a word that you don’t know straight away follow these steps:
                                     
  
  
• Look at the words below. Get your mouth ready and point to the first letter.
  Practise making the first sound in the word. Then, use the pictures to help you figure out the word by asking yourself, ‘Does this word make sense with the picture?’
  Now that you have used your letter and sound knowledge to work out words, choose words to fill in the blanks for the template below.
  Say some sentences out loud to a family member. How many sentences can you make?
  Do all your sentences make sense? Which sentence is the silliest? Which sentence is your favourite?
  (20 minutes)
               
  

• Use your favourite sentence to make up a story.
  For example, Once upon a time a small mouse was in a tree trunk house.
  For ideas on making up a good story listen to the online resource from Story Salad. Tell your story to a family member, friend, or even a cuddly toy.
  After you have told your story, draw a picture to illustrate your story.
  If you would like a challenge, you could play a game where you and your family members go around in a circle each adding a new sentence to the story!
  (20 minutes)
  
  

• Last week, you listened to the story ‘Twig’ and found out what happened at the beginning. This week, we will look at the end of the story.
  Listen to the story again and focus on what happens at the end of the story.
  What did the classmates make for Heidi?
  How did she feel?
  Draw the ending of the story in your book. 
  You might like to make Heidi using a twig and other materials you have at home.
  (20 minutes)
                                                     
  
  

   

• ‘Searching for Treasure': Become a pirate (You can put on a pirate hat if you have one!) and search for treasure as you read high frequency words.
  Just like last week, put your high frequency word cards in a path - you might like to do this inside or in your backyard. Think of the treasure that could be at the end of your path.
  Use your imagination to decide what could be along the path - do you have to jump over a creek?
  Is there a big rock to climb over?
  Do you go under a huge tree?
  Imagine all of the things you might see along your path.
  As you go through your path, make sure you step on each word and read it aloud.
  Once you have read all of the words, return to your learning space.
  In your book, draw a map to show what your pirate path looked like and write the words on the map, showing where you found them.
  (20 minutes)
                                     
  
  

Writing

Learning Intentions:

We are learning to write the letters for the sounds we hear.

We are learning to write the letters for the sounds /r/ and /d/.

We are learning to correctly write the lowercase letters e and s (anti-clockwise).

Tasks:

• Complete the Inquiry task ‘make you own robot’ before completing this writing task.
  Look at your robot. Tell Mum/Dad or a teddy what materials you used to make your robot.
  Have a go at writing a list of materials you used in your workbook.
  Think about the sound you hear at the start of each word. What letter do we use to write that sound?
  If you can hear other sounds in the words have a go at writing the whole word.
  (20+ minutes)
                                
  
  

• Look at the two pictures below and talk about what you can see.
  Find things in the pictures that start with the sounds we have been practising /r/ and /d/. 
  Say the things out loud so you can listen for their initial sounds.
  In your workbook, draw a picture of the thing you have found and then try and write the word next to it.
  If you can just hear the sound at the start write that down.
  If you can hear the middle or even the end sounds write them down too. 
  (20+ minutes)
                 
  
  

• Create a name tag for your learning space, using a blank piece of paper.
  Make sure you write your name clearly, giving your name a capital letter at the start.
  You can decorate your name tag after you have written your name.
  You could even try and make a name tag for all of your family.
  (20 minutes)
  
  

• Log into Sunshine Online (Username: laburnumps Password: laburnumps).
  Choose ‘Learning Space 1’ and then click Alphabet and choose a game to play for letter e or s.
  In your workbook, practise drawing 3 buzzing bee loops and 3 silly snakes like the example below.
  When you have finished these, practise writing at least 10 lowercase e’s and 10 lowercase s’s in your neatest handwriting. Tick your neatest ‘e’ and ‘s’.
  (15 minutes)
              
  
  

Maths

Learning Intentions:

We are learning about familiar two-dimensional shapes.

We are learning to count backwards from any number between 1 and 10/20.

We are learning to create patterns with objects and drawings.

Tasks:

• Listen to this shape song on Epic, then go on a shape hunt around your house. Keep an eye out for squares, circles, triangles and rectangles. The Prep teachers loved going on a shape hunt in their houses!
  In your workbook, draw something that was the shape of a square, a circle, a rectangle and a triangle.
  (20 minutes)
                                            
  
  

• Play hide and seek with a family member or favourite toy. You must count backwards from 10 before calling out "Ready or not, here I come!" and searching for your partner.
  (15+ minutes)
  
  

• With an adult, find somewhere safe and suitable to write the numbers 0 to 10 or 0 to 20 with chalk, such as your driveway or the footpath.
  Jump or hop along them and then back, saying the numbers aloud as you go.
  If you do not have chalk or somewhere suitable to write the numbers, make number cards and jump along them within your house.
  (20 minutes)
  
  

• A pattern is something that repeats over and over again. Make a pattern using objects from around your house. You could use Lego, blocks, leaves from the garden or any other items from around your household. 
  (15 minutes)

Inquiry

Learning Intentions:

We are learning that people can affect our environments.

Tasks:

• Look at the Whitehorse recycling poster below or you can visit the City of Whitehorse website here.
  What rubbish in your house can you recycle? If you need to, look in your recycling bin with an adult. Can you find something made of paper, cardboard, plastic, aluminium or glass?
  Make a robot out of your clean recycled materials. You will need your robot for a Writing task this week.
  (30 minutes)
                                     
  
  
• Fold your page in half. On one side of the paper write ‘recycling’ and on the other side ‘rubbish’.
  Look at the pictures below. Draw the object in the correct area, deciding if it’s rubbish or recycling.
  For example, a chocolate wrapper cannot be recycled so it is rubbish.
  (20 minutes)
           
  

Science

Learning Intentions:

We are learning what we need to survive.

Tasks:

• Read the Epic! book about living things (Please note that the book is not interactive, you cannot drag the pictures).
  When you have finished the book, think about these questions:
  • What do you need to stay alive?
  • Why do you think you need those things?
  • What do you think would happen if you didn’t have those things?
  • Is there anything else you think you need to stay alive?
  • How do you keep safe?
  • Have a chat to a family member about your thinking.
    (10 minutes)
    
    
• Look at the template below. Draw a picture of yourself in the square in the centre then draw and write things in the circles that you need to stay alive.
  (15 minutes)
                                                         
  
  

Wellbeing

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships ‘Positive Coping’

Learning Intention:

We are learning to use self-talk techniques to manage our emotions.

Tasks:

• Have a game of statues with family members, where you have to freeze showing a different emotion.
  Practise using your whole body to show the emotion. You could try, happy, sad, scared, angry etc.
  What does your body look like?
  (15 minutes)
  
  
• Sometimes our feelings can feel pretty big and they can bubble up. It is important to learn how to manage these and have ways to calm ourselves down.
  Think about some ways you can calm down when you are feeling angry, upset, frustrated or disappointed.
  Draw these ideas in bubbles and remember to use them when you need to.
  (15 minutes)
                  
  

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Self-reflection:

One of our school values is integrity. Integrity is being honest with others and with yourself. It's about doing the right thing, even when nobody's watching.

At the end of the week look back over all your work.

Were there times when you rushed?

Were there times when you know you did your very best work and followed all the instructions? Draw a star next to a piece of work you are most proud of.

Can you find a piece of work and tell a friend or parent one thing you like about your work and one thing you could improve?

Please remember to save your work and bring it to school when you return.