Week beginning - 20 July 2020

Welcome back to Term 3!

This term we would like you to upload some specific tasks to the Sentral Parent Portal.
These tasks will give your teachers the opportunity to provide feedback on your learning.
This week we are asking you to upload a writing task.

Every day you can choose a task to complete from each of the sections below: Reading, Writing, Maths, Inquiry and Wellbeing.
Please write the date in for each activity completed.

Reading

Learning Intention: We are learning what good readers do.

Task:

• Think about what a good reader does. They sit in one place, look at the pictures and read the words they know.
  Think about where you like to read. Perhaps you’d like to create a nice reading space.
  Draw a picture of all of the spaces you like to read.
  (10 minutes)

Learning Intention: We are learning to monitor our reading by asking ourselves ‘Does it make sense?’

Task:

• This week in independent reading (10 minutes every day), we are going to focus on what to do when we come to a tricky word when reading. What strategies do we already know?

1. Look at the picture for a clue
2. Look at the initial sound
3. Get your mouth ready
4. Have a go, then think “Did that make sense?”

For example:
        

The bird has the _____.
I am going to get my mouth ready. I can see a /b/ here. What could this word be?
Now I need to look at the picture. What is in the picture that begins with a /b/?
“The bird has the balloon” Does this make sense? No! I’ll try again.
“The bird has the ball”. That makes sense!

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the vocabulary we know to tell a story about the picture.

Task:

• Point to the animals in the picture and say what they are doing. Think about why the boy on the bed looks sad.
  The fox is wearing socks and the llamas are in pyjamas!
  Why do you think the animals are wearing clothes? What do you think has happened?
  Use the picture to make up a good story. You may want to start your story with, “Once upon a time…”
  Tell your story to a family member or a toy.
  (15 minutes)
                              
  

Learning Intention: We are learning to recognise our high frequency words automatically.  

Task:

• Make a game of bingo using the high frequency words you’re working on at the moment.
  Ask a family member to read out a word and when you find it put a tick next to the word.

For example:
                       

When you are finished, try to find your high frequency words in one of your books.
Don’t forget that the books in your library on Bug Club are just like your independent reading box at school.
You can read them again each day as a warm up book.
(15 minutes)

Writing

Learning Intention: We are learning to write from left to right using spaces.

Task:

• This week we are learning to add spaces between words when we write a sentence. Make your own spaceman by cutting out a strip of paper approximately the width of 2 fingers and draw a spaceman or woman on it (see below for an example).
                                                     

Write a sentence beginning with ‘I like…’ Use your spaceman or woman between each word to remind you to leave spaces. Remember, when we write we start at the left side and write towards the right. What do you like to do? What food or colour do you like?

To be successful in this task:

• I start writing on the left side of the page and move right.
• When I get to the edge of the page, I start on the left side underneath where I began.
• I add a space between each word.

                  **Please take a photo of the above task and send it to your teacher through the Sentral Parent Portal.

Learning Intention: We are learning to write the letter for the sound /m/.

Task:

• This week we are learning about the letter m and we will have a Webex Essential meeting to explore this sound on Tuesday.
  The word ‘mouse’ starts with the sound /m/.
  Log in to Sunshine Online and play the letter getter names for the letter m.
  Listen carefully to the sound this letter makes. Play the games after the story too.
  (10 minutes)

Learning Intention: We are learning to correctly write the lowercase letter m.

Task:

• Practise writing the lowercase letter m 10 times in your book.
  Make sure you start writing the letter in the correct place.
  In your book draw at least 5 things that start with the /m/ sound.
  Use your letter sounds to label each picture.
  (20 minutes)
                                                 
  

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our fine motor skills.

Task:

• Make a mouse for the letter m. Cut out a capital M.
  Add ears, a nose, eyes and whiskers to your M to make a mouse.
  Look at the example below for inspiration.
  (20 minutes)
                                                                   
  

Learning Intention: We are learning to write from left to right using spaces.

Task:

• Look at your mouse, what colour is it? What sounds do mice make?
  What do you like about the mouse you made?
  Write a sentence about your mouse starting with ‘My mouse’.
  (15 minutes)
  
  

Maths

Learning Intention: We are learning to form the numbers 0 to 9 using the correct formation.

Tasks:

• Look at these number posters. Use them to help you practise forming the numbers 0-9.
  Remember your pencil starts where the red dot is.
  Write each number 10 times in your workbook and tick 5 numbers that you think are the best you have written.
  Optional: write the numbers in flour, sand, dirt, shaving cream or rainbow writing.
  (10 minutes)
  
  
  
• Using a blank page, draw at least 10 teddies just like the example below.
  On each teddy's tummy write a number, choose numbers from 0 to 9.
  If you would like a challenge you can choose numbers up to 20.
  When you are writing the numbers on each teddy’s tummy don’t forget to start each number at the right spot.
  (10 minutes)
                                              
  

Learning Intention: We are learning to count collections.

Task:

• Using the teddy board you’ve made, you are going to make collections of things using the amounts on each teddy’s tummy.
  You could collect rocks, lego pieces, gum nuts or toy cars, anything you have around the house.
  For example, I have collected 4 rocks and I have put them on top of the teddy with a number 4 written on its tummy.
  When you are counting, touch each object and say the number out aloud.
  (20 minutes)
                                             
  

Learning Intention: We are learning to order objects from shortest to longest.

Task:

• Draw and colour 4 snakes that are all different sizes.
  On a blank page draw a straight line across the bottom, like the example below. This is our starting line.
  Carefully cut out your snakes and order them from shortest to longest.
  Start with the shortest snake and order them from left to right.
  Make sure your snakes are all starting on the straight line.
  (20 minutes)
                             
  

Inquiry

Learning Intention: We are learning who is in our family.

Tasks:

• Listen to the story ‘Family Forest’ on Storybox Library.
  Our inquiry question for this term is: What is my family history?
  Talk about your family. How many people are in your family?
  (10 minutes)
  
  
• Who lives in your house? On individual squares draw a portrait of each of the members of your house.
  Create an outline of a house and add your family members to your house.
  Keep your drawing somewhere safe to share with our class at one of next week’s Webex Essential sessions.
  
  For example, this is Mrs. Kerner’s family:
                                            

Science

Learning Intention: We are learning to observe the weather.

Task:

• Go for a walk to look at the weather or look out the window. Consider what you see and what you feel.
  Do you see the sun or clouds? Does the air feel hot or cold?
  Make a frame with your fingers. This is your weather viewer. 
  Each morning, you will view the weather and draw a picture to record the weather.
  Label your picture or write a sentence and keep your observations to make a weather journal.
  (20 minutes)
                   
  

Wellbeing

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships ‘Stress Management’

Learning Intention: We are learning to identify our emotions.

Task:

• Listen to the story ‘Sometimes I Feel’ on Epic!
  Think of different emotions you have felt.
  When have you felt happy, excited, sad, proud, disappointed?
  Draw a picture of when you have felt each of these and complete the sentence ‘I felt ________ when _______’.
  (20 minutes)

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop self-calming and self-control strategies.

Task:

• Sometimes our body feels different emotions.
  You can use this strategy when your body is feeling angry or worried.
  Hold your muscles tight like an angry tiger. How do you feel when your body is tight?
  Now, pretend your body is an ice cube and let your muscles melt. How do you feel now that your body is relaxed?
  (10 minutes)

Self-reflection: At the end of the week, have a think about your learning. Did you try your best? Draw a face in your book to show how you feel.

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

P.E./Movement breaks

Our focus this week is to develop our skipping skills.
Find a safe space to practise spinning the rope over your head and jumping over the rope.
If you don’t have a skipping rope, you can use a hula hoop, a spare rope or simply jump back and forth over a line on the ground.
Once you are able to spin the rope over your head, practise forward and backward skipping.
How many skips can you do in a row?
Can you beat it?
Good luck!
 
       

        
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