Week beginning - Monday 20 July

Welcome to Term 3 and a return to Learning from Home!

Please do as many tasks as possible.
It is super important that you complete your personal timetable/planner first (see first Maths task) and set up your learning space to be ready for independent study.
We look forward to seeing you in our Webex meetings this week.

Webex Essential Schedule

Below is a list of the work you will need to complete and bring along to our Webex session:

Monday: Review Learning from Home plan

Tuesday: Maths ‘Create a Healthy Weekly Timetable’ task - share your personal study timetable

Inquiry ‘Australian History’ task - discuss timelines and pose history questions

Wednesday: Maths ‘Fermi Problems’ task - discuss and justify solutions

Writing ‘School Mascot’ task - share your idea for a school mascot

Thursday: Reading ‘My Favourite Book’ task - share your persuasive arguments

Friday: Self-Reflection ‘Goal Setting’ and choice tasks - share your Webex goal and a favourite piece of work

Wellbeing

RESILIENCE - BOUNCING BACK: (20 minutes)

Learning Intention: We are learning to use resilience to ‘Bounce Back’ into Learning from Home again.

Task: Watch this fun video about Bounce Back on ClickView.
Next, brainstorm a list of positive thoughts about Learning from Home and how you can use them to bounce back when things don’t go the way you had planned.
Remember to use the value of resilience to assist you with this task.

Example: If the computer does not work right away, I can use my past experiences and try some known strategies to get back on.
Name these strategies. i.e. Check that the microphone is on before speaking.

Reading

HOME READING: (60 minutes total over the week)

Learning Intention: To develop independent reading habits.

Task: Choose a text from Bug Club and Rapid Readers for this week’s home reading.
Remember to complete the ‘Bug’ quizzes as you go by clicking on the bug pictures.
Your teacher will be able to see your understanding of each text based on these responses.

Although there are a number of texts set for you, you are not expected to read them all in one week.
We expect 1-2 books per week if you are reading for comprehension.

SET UP YOUR VIRTUAL BOOK BOX: (40 minutes)

Learning Intention: Set up your Learning from Home book box for the next six weeks.

Task: Access Storybox Library, Sunshine Online, Epic!, Audible, Bug Club and Rapid Readers, or sign up to your local library for online borrowing.
Make a list of 10 Just Right books that you intend to read over the next few weeks and how you will source them (i.e. note which website you found it on so you can find it again in the future).

*Extra Reading Sources: Use your Whitehorse Library membership to read/listen to a range of digital books. You can do this by clicking on the hyperlinks and downloading the Libby or BorrowBox app. 

Your parents can join Whitehorse Library online here.

HOW AUTHORS PERSUADE US: (40 minutes)

Learning Intention: To identify how an author tries to persuade the reader.

                                         

Task: Watch the following video about Persuasive Writing on ClickView.

Read the text ‘101 Things to do in Australia’ in Bug Club and Rapid Readers and do the following:

1. Describe what the author is trying to persuade the reader to do or think.
2. Note all the strategies the author uses to convince the reader to agree with them.
3. List visual features that are used to engage the reader.
   
                                                          
   
   MY FAVOURITE BOOK: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To persuade someone to read a book.

   Task: Time to go searching on Epic! again. Find a new book (fiction or nonfiction) that really interests you.
   Make a list of as many reasons that you can think of for why the people in your class should also read this book.
   Your reasons need to convince the class and teacher why this book should be read.

   You will share this during Thursday’s Webex Essential.

   
   Success Criteria:

   I can choose books appropriate to my reading level

   I can identify reasons why I enjoy a book

   I can describe a book’s strengths

   
   UNDERSTANDING VISUAL TEXTS: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To respond to a visual text.

   Task: Watch this video, ‘Internet Safety’ on ClickView Interactive. Click on your class below to watch the video (this is important so that your teacher can see your responses, instead of another Year 5 teacher)

   5A     5C      5D      5J      5R

   While you watch, you will have to answer questions about the topic. Answer to the best of your ability.

    

   Writing
   
   

   SCHOOL VALUES MASCOT: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To represent our school values with a symbolic mascot.

   Task: Choose a symbol, animal or historical figure to represent Laburnum Primary School as a mascot
   (e.g. a magpie is the mascot of Collingwood Football Club).
   Think about the school values of Respect, Resilience, Integrity and Curiosity. 
   Draw your mascot, and write a persuasive paragraph with at least five reasons why it is suitable.

   
   You will share this during Wednesday’s Webex Check-in.
   If you feel proud about your work, please send a copy to your teacher’s Sentral mailbox so we can share it with the Year 5 teachers, Dr Dray, Mrs Verbi and Ms Braden.

   
   Success Criteria:

   I can reflect on our school values and vision

   I can link our school values to a person, animal or symbol

   I can explain my reasoning

    

   THE PURPOSE OF A PERSUASIVE TEXT: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To identify reasons for writing persuasive texts.

   Task: Complete a table like the one below to show the different uses of persuasive writing
   
   

                
   
   

   Challenge: How many more persuasive writing texts can you think of or find? Add them to the above table.

    

   RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To use rhetorical questions as a persuasive technique.

   
   A rhetorical question is a question that is so obvious that an answer is not expected.
   It is used to force the reader to agree with you, which helps convince them to come to your side of the argument.

   Example: Do you want to injure your brain? So then you must agree that wearing a helmet is completely necessary!

   Example: Who would want to have skin cancer? No one! So please, be sun smart and wear sunscreen everyday!

   To disagree with either of these statements would be ridiculous; no one would want a brain injury or skin cancer, so the writer has forced you to agree with them, and then followed that up by restating their position.

   
   Task: Write at least five rhetorical questions that force a reader to agree with a statement.
   Here are some topics you could use - cruelty to animals, smoking, giving money to charity or exercise - and choose some of your own topics as well.

   
   FREE WRITING: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To express yourself with free choice writing.

   Task: Choose a text type and complete a piece of free choice writing. You might write a narrative, information report, comic, poem, a song, or anything you want!

   Spend 5 minutes planning before you begin and make at least 3 improvements when editing.

    

   
   Spelling

   UNCOMMON PLURALS: (20 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To investigate unusual plural words.

   
   Many words are pluralised by adding an ‘s’ to the end. For example: trees, monkeys or homes. But many other words are more difficult to pluralise.

   Words that end in f, you need to drop the f and add ‘ves’:

   Wolf - wolves         Knife - knives

   
   Words that end in sh, ch, z or x, you need to add ‘es’:

   Wish - wishes       Watch - watches   Quiz - quizes   Box - boxes

   
   And many other words have an ‘irregular’ plural form, where a whole new word is needed:

   Person - people       Mouse - mice       Datum - data

   
   Task: Find at least ten examples of uncommon plurals that match one of the categories above.

   Success Criteria:

   I can pluralise words by using the rules described

    

   
   Maths
   
   

   CREATE A HEALTHY WEEKLY TIMETABLE: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To design a timetable with a balance of school work and healthy living.

   Task: As you begin another term of Learning from Home, you will need to plan your study time, including a healthy home life.
   Watch this ClickView video about 'Healthy Habits' and think about what you would like to include in your personal weekly timetable. Below are some examples:
   
   

                         
   

   Once you have completed your timetable, write a paragraph reflecting on your balance of work and healthy habits.
   Are there actions you could take to improve your healthy lifestyle?

   You will share this during Tuesday’s Webex Essential.

   
   Success Criteria:

   I can plan my week so that I complete my school work while staying healthy and happy

   I can write two to three healthy habits involving my diet, sleep, physical activity

   I can find the balance between Learning from Home and other areas of my day/week.
   (Remember you can add these to your individual timetable)

    

   
   FERMI PROBLEMS: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To use our problem solving strategies to approach a difficult problem.

   
   Task: Fermi problems are named after a physicist named Enrico Fermi. He was interested in solving problems that may be impossible to solve. What is important in a Fermi problem is not the answer, but the STRATEGIES you could use to ATTEMPT to solve it. There will often be more than one way to do this.
   When completing a Fermi problem you need to use creativity and be able to explain your thinking.

   
   The problem you are going to solve today is - How many books are read by children in our class in one year?

   One way to solve this would be to count every single book that every single student has read at the end of the year, but would you really want to actually do this? It would be tedious and take a lot of time. So what other strategies could you use?

   Once you have found a reasonable answer you could try these problems:

   How many pages would your class read by the end of the year?

   How many books would our whole school read?

   You will share this during Wednesday’s Webex Essential.

   
   Success Criteria:

   I can identify a strategy to find a reasonable answer to an unanswerable problem

   I can record my working out on paper

   I can explain my thinking to a family member or my classmates

    

   
   S.T.E.M. CHALLENGE: (40 minutes)

   Learning Intention: To experiment with flying paper objects.

   Task: To design and create the ‘best’ flying paper object. But what does ‘best’ mean?
   It could be the distance it can cover, the way it flies, how long it can float - you get to decide.

   You have to draw a design that includes diagrams and measurements and make the final object to share with your class.
   
   

        

       Success Criteria:

       I can explain what qualities make a paper plane ‘the best’

       I can create a blueprint of my design
      

MY NUMERACY: (40 minutes)

Learning Intention: to practise personal Mathematics learning goals.

Task: Log onto Essential Assessment and complete any assigned assessments (addition, subtraction or whole number).
If there is time, complete the Number and Algebra My Numeracy tasks assigned to you.
Remember that these tasks are set for you based on your response to the assessments you have done. They are unique to you and the learning areas that you need to work on, so apply yourself!

Success Criteria:

I can complete tasks set to my ability

I can reflect on my progress in Mathematics

Inquiry

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: (40 minutes)

Learning Intention: To show your prior knowledge for our new Inquiry unit.

Task: This term we will be investigating Australian History.
What do you know about the history of this country?
Look at the two pictures below. What important events do you think they represent?

Make a list of all the important events or people you can think of that lived between these historical moments as shown in the images above, then try to place them in order. Can you guess or remember the year these events took place?

Write three questions about Australian history that you would like to find the answers for this term.

Don’t do any research, this activity is just about finding out what you already know!

We will complete this activity together during Tuesday’s Webex Essential.

Success Criteria:

I can list the events I am already aware of in Australian history

I can place events in order on a timeline

I can formulate my own questions for Inquiry on the topic of Australian history

Science - Chemical Science

WHAT’S THE MATTER?: (20 minutes)

Learning Intention: To classify different materials in your home.

Task: This term we will be focusing on chemical science. This will include investigating states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes and materials.

Watch this video on ClickView about States of Matter.

Search your home for two or three examples of a Gas, Solid and Liquid.

You must also find one material that is difficult to classify, and describe what makes it difficult to classify.

 
Self-Reflection:

GOAL SETTING: (15 minutes)

Learning Intention: To reflect on my Webex behaviours and set new goals for Term 3.

Task: Read each of the positive behaviours on the Webex Matrix below. These will help us as we work together on Webex.
Reflect on how you used Webex last term. Using different coloured highlighters or pencils, mark the behaviours that you demonstrated:

• all of the time;
• some of the time;
• infrequently 
  (if you don’t print the planner, then categorise these into three columns in a table).
  
  Choose one behaviour that you demonstrated some of the time and one that you did not demonstrate often.
  Write these in your diary as your personal goals for this term.
  
                    

You will share this during Friday’s Webex Essential.

Success Criteria:

I can reflect on the Webex behaviours I demonstrated during term 2 Learning from Home

I can categorise my term 2 Webex behaviours into what I have demonstrated all of the time, some of the time, and infrequently

I can record two Webex behaviour goals in my diary to refer back to during Learning from Home

P.E./Movement breaks

Our focus this week is to develop our skipping skills.
Turn on your favourite music and make sure you find a safe space to practise.
To start, warm up with some forward skipping then practise the ‘Skier’ and ‘Bell’.
How many skips can you do in a row?
Can you beat it?
Good luck!

                

                 

                  

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Answers for Week 1

READING - HOW AUTHORS PERSUADE US

Q1. Describe what the author is trying to persuade the reader to do or think

A1. To visit Australia

Q2. Note all the strategies the author uses to convince the reader to agree with them.

A2. Rhetorical questions, strong adjectives, opinions, strong author’s voice, appealing to the reader, emotive language, humour

Q3. List visual features that are used to engage the reader.

A3. Thought bubbles, fact files, numbered lists, dot points, photographs, captions