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

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 first video is an introduction: (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

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!

Here is the beginner’s level skills session:

Click below for the intermediate level skills session:

Spanish

30 minutes per week

Learning intention: We are learning to locate cognate words in a text that relate to our Inquiry learning.

Natural Disasters- Volcanoes (Inquiry)

This week is a listening exercise about volcanoes. You will need a pen and your Spanish book.

It is also an opportunity to listen to a Spanish person read a text so that you are able to listen to how the words are pronounced.

Your task is to FIND words you ALREADY KNOW or can GUESS using your knowledge of what a cognate is.

Write these words in a list in your books.

Remember, a cognate is a word that sounds or looks the same in English as it does in Spanish.

To read (and listen to) Cuidado! Volcanes Click here

Music

60 minutes per week

We will be focussing on this music over the next 2 lessons

Learning Intention: We are comparing the elements of music used by different composers to create songs inspired by nature.

Click here and listen to the music.
Think about where you may have heard this song before and note it down.

This music was written by Antonio Vivaldi. He was a composer from the Baroque period who composed over 500 works.
The Baroque period is known for its vast amount of music (very much like today) where the audiences only wanted to hear the latest creations. Baroque music has a lot of flair and grandeur about it, and this music is no exception.

Vivaldi is thought to have written this piece around 1720, and what you are listening to is one part of four pieces, each about a season. This particular music is about the spring season.

Write down how Vivaldi has used elements of music (tempo, dynamics, instrumentation, texture, etc.) to create a song to sound like a season.

Vivaldi was not the only composer to write music about spring.
Click here to listen to the following excerpts and explanations of various spring pieces.

Despite the fact they are all about the same topic, they have sounds unique to them.

Choose 1 of the pieces and create a Venn diagram using Vivaldi's 'Spring' as the other piece of music.
Use your poster created in Week 3 to help you investigate the similarities and differences between the songs e.g. how is the instrumentation the same or different in the two songs?

Art
LPS online gallery of LFH Artworks

60 minutes per week

Learning intention: We are learning about appropriation and considering how ideas can be expressed to an audience.

Continue on with last week’s work and, if you have completed the work, have some fun with appropriation for the next 2 lessons.

All over the world people have been recreating works of art with found objects from home during quarantine.
It started with a challenge initiated by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Find an artwork at home, from a book or online.
Consider how you might recreate the work using ordinary objects and perhaps yourself, a family member or even a pet! Please take a photo of the original and of your appropriation, for sharing.

LPS can have our own Getty Challenge!

Some more Getty Challenge participants can be seen here.

   
             

Library

30 minutes per week

Learning Intention: We are learning to write persuasively for a particular purpose.

       

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.

Look at the list of previous books chosen for NSS here. How many of these stories have you read?

Think of a picture story book that you would like to see chosen as the 2021 NSS book.
Use the information from the NSS website below as a guide to write a persuasive paragraph explaining why your choice would be perfect.

You can browse through Story Box library to assist with finding books that you believe would be a great choice.

What do we look for in the National Simultaneous Storytime book?

The criteria for choosing the book include: a positive storyline; appeal to a modern and diverse audience; suitability for read-aloud (language and length); how well the book lends itself to craft and other activities

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