Week beginning - 26 May 2020

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P.E.

30-45 minutes per day

Monday

Warm-up: Plank Challenge:

Find 3 plastic cups or small objects. Place them in a straight line on the floor.
Now lay down in the plank position so that the cups or your objects are in front of your hands.

To hold the plank position, start by laying flat on your tummy, lift your body off the ground so your forearms and toes are on the ground, holding your body up.
Keep your body in a straight line.
Once you are in the correct position, raise your body up from your elbows and onto your hands.

The challenge is to hold this position and use your right hand to move each object (one at a time) from the left side to the right side about 30cm.
Once you have moved all 3 objects to the right side, swap arms and use your left arm to move the objects back over to the left side.
Keep the objects in a straight line.

How many times can you move all 3 objects from one side to the other? Write your score down with the date so you can compare it for next time.

 

Obstacle Course:

Create your own obstacle course either inside or in your backyard.
Always consider safety when designing your course!

You could use chalk and draw objects on the ground or if you are inside, place objects on the floor.

Your obstacle course should aim to include the following skills: hopping, jumping, balancing, crawling, walking like a bear and leaping or any other moves of your choice.

Once you have created your obstacle course try the following activities: Fastest lap, most laps in 2 minutes or even turn your obstacle course into ‘the floor is lava’.

Questions:

How did you figure out how far apart to have each of your obstacles?

Did you have to change any of your obstacles or add things after you did your first lap?

How did you keep your balance when jumping and landing or hopping on one foot?

 

Tuesday

Warm-up

How long can you hold the wall sit position? Click here if you are not sure how to hold this position.
Mrs Yue-Lamb can hold for 4 minutes and 20 seconds and Mr M can hold for 6 minutes and 33 seconds.

Write down your time with the date and compare it to your last score.

Canadian Agility Test:

The Canadian Agility and Movement Skill assessment is a test that we will be using once we are back at school and we thought it would be a good chance to introduce you to it now.
It is a basic test to assess your fundamental motor skills and agility test, meaning your ability to throw, catch, kick, skip, jump and hop. When we do this test at school, we will need to measure the exact distances for the course and we will time you.

The points system is a combination of the score you get for the time that you complete the course and if you complete the skills correctly.

At this point, we just want you to watch how the test is completed by looking at the video click here.

If you would like to practise this test at home click here for the diagram and to find out how to score your test click here.

 

 

Wednesday

Warm-up

Click on the following link and have a go at 5 of the skipping challenges click here

Online session - Melbourne Victory

Melbourne Victory have published a free set of online videos to be completed while learning from home. Remember to be creative with your equipment if you don’t have any! 

 

The introductory video is below. (You can expand the screen to 'full screen' by clicking on the four arrows)                               

  

 

Click on the beginner’s level skills session below.   

 

OR this is the intermediate level.

 

 

 

Thursday

Warm-up

Practise completing the Canadian Agility test which was introduced on Tuesday. You may not be able to create the test exactly, so feel free to make any changes to suit your needs at home.

 

Mountain Climb - See if you can climb this ‘mountain’ by completing each exercise 3 times.
Remember to start at the bottom of the mountain and complete each exercise in the order as you climb up the mountain.

Good luck! Click here for the activity.

Friday

Warm-up

Click on the following link and have a go at 5 of the skipping challenges that you haven’t tried yet. Click here

 

Online session Melbourne Victory

Melbourne Victory have published a free set of online videos to be completed while learning from home. Remember to be creative with your equipment if you don’t have any! Check out the videos below to practise your skills.

 

Beginner level:

 

 

 

Intermediate level:

 

 

Spanish

30 minutes per week

Learning intention: We are learning vocabulary about our home environment.

 

En mi casa y jardín (In my house and garden) 

Draw a plan of your house and garden (if you have one).

Pretend you are a bird looking down from above to draw a ‘birds-eye’ view of your house.

Think of how many rooms you need to draw and what size they are.

What sorts of things are outside (a shed, play equipment, driveway, trees etc).

Label your picture with the following house words:

Bedroom - el dormitorio (el door-mit-or-ee-o)

Bedroom (alternative) - la alcoba (la al-coh-bah)

Floor - el suelo (el swe-lo)

Door - la puerta (la pwer-tah)

Kitchen - la cocina (la coh-see-nah)

Mailbox - el buzón (el boo-son)

Hallway - el pasillo (el pass-ee-yo)

Driveway - la calzada de entrada (el cal-zar-da de-en-trah-dah)

Living room - la sala (la sah-lah)

Furniture - los muebles (loss mwe-blez)

Laundry - lavandería (la lav-an-der-ee-a)

Window - la ventana (la ven-tah-nah)

Porch - el pórtico (el por-tee-coh)

Bathroom – el baño (el ba-nyo)

Trees - los árboles (los ar-bowl-ess)

Garden – el jardín (el har-deen)

 

Challenge yourself to learn as many of these words as you can this week.
How could you do this? Create a ‘flip-the-flap’ style plan?

Look, say, cover, write, check? Flash cards? Be creative!

 

 

Music

60 minutes per week

Learning intention: We are learning how nature can inspire music and poetry.

 

We will be looking at this music for the next 2 weeks.

Listen to the following music. You may have heard this song somewhere before: Click here

 

The composer is Antonio Vivaldi.
He wrote four songs based on the seasons and this one is about the season Spring.
Each of the songs takes its story from a poem about the season. These particular poems are called 'sonnets'.

This is the first part of the sonnet for 'Spring' that our music is based on.

The words in italics are what you will hear described by the instruments:

Joyful Spring has arrived,

The birds welcome it with their happy songs,

And the brooks in the gentle breezes

Flow with a sweet murmur.

The sky is covered with a black mantle,

Thunder and lightning announce a storm.

When they are silent, the birds

Take up again their harmonious songs

Write down at which times you can hear the different things happening.

What other things might you hear in a song about Spring?
Think about the differences between Winter and Spring to help you think about all the new things that happen.

Write a poem about what else you see and hear in Spring.
Write 2 stanzas and make each 4 lines long - just like the one above. Illustrate your poem.

 

Art
LPS online gallery of LFH Artworks

60 minutes per week

Learning intention: We are learning different ways of displaying artworks to enhance their meaning for an audience.

Consider the exhibition “BudgerigArt” Rebecca Keen made for her two budgerigars. Then look up the following artists and see if you can find the works Rebecca has copied or borrowed for this exhibition.

• Edvard Munch – The Scream
• Johannes Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Vincent van Gough - Sunflowers
• Vincent van Gough - Starry Night
• Michelangelo – The Creation of Man

Consider how she has changed these famous works and given them a new theme.
Do you think she was just having some fun and will the budgies like this work?

 

Create your own exhibition for a pet at home, copying three or more famous artworks.
If you don’t have a pet, imagine you do. What kind of pet do you have and how can you change some artworks to give them a relatable theme?

These works were made quite small for the budgies. Perhaps size is all that will change.

             

 

Library

30 minutes per week

Learning intention: We are learning to analyse some characteristics of a picture story book.

   

This Wednesday it is National Simultaneous Storytime where all around the world people share the same story at the same time.
2019 was the biggest and most successful NSS to date with over 1,138,000 participants at over 11,550 locations, including participants from New Zealand, Thailand, UK, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong.

This year the story chosen for National Simultaneous Storytime is ‘Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas’ written and illustrated by Lucinda Gifford. Click here to listen to the story on Story Box Library.

Choose at least two of the cards below and write a response to show your understanding of different components of the story.

                         

Optional: Click here to enter a haiku poem competition through ABC Education