Stage 1 Home Learning Grid Dear Parents and Carers of Stage 1 students, the work below covers Week 2 of Term 3 in a grid-like structure. It covers all key learning areas (KLA) and reflects the work that students will be working on at school within their classrooms. It is a continuation of the current programs that teachers have been using, although adapted for student directed learning. Please work through it at your own pace. We advise that you use a lined A4 workbook or paper should you not have access to a digital device with access to the internet.

As you will see there are a selection of activities that we encourage you to engage in daily to allow for practise and consolidation of sound knowledge and reading skills.

We love seeing our student's achievements at home and we encourage you daily to upload 1 task that they have completed. It can be in the form of a photo, video recording or even a document they have been working on, on their device or computer. It makes our day that extra special, knowing they are enjoying your learning.

Just remember, it is so important to get up, move about and keep your mind and body healthy too! Take advantage of the fitness links and brain break links throughout the day. Most importantly take time out to enjoy each other’s company, the sunshine and your backyard.

Student check-ins – Students should check in with their teacher each day on Seesaw. If students do not check-in, school staff will call you at home to check on their ongoing learning.

Feel free to also access the Department of Education's free Education Live sessions being run daily from 10am. These are a great resource for students to watch:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/learning-from-home/learning-at-home

Week 2

English Daily Must DO’s

Grapheme of the Week: Unit 22 (seal image) Year 1 Graphemes: s ss se x(ks) c

Blends: sk, sc, sl

Year 2

Graphemes: s ss se ce x(ks) c

Blends: sk, sl, pl, st, nt

Complete one of the following activities daily using your grapheme of the week,

• Brainstorm a list of words with your grapheme and record these into your workbook. • Use 6 words you brainstormed with your grapheme and write a sentence for each one in your workbook, or type the sentences

onto your device making your sentences different by changing the font, colour and/or size. • Use your Soundwaves log in account to practise your grapheme,

Year 1 Students enter this code: shirt207 at www.soundwaveskids.com.au

Year 2 Students enter this code: brown178 at www.soundwaveskids.com.au Words of the week:

Year 1 Year 1 Extension Year 2 Year 2 Extension

miss missed missing cross skip

skate sleep sling scar scarf fox fix

cents said

mouse house

centre chance circle city

fence glass grass horse nurse sauce scare sister skirt

sleeve slippery slowly

mass sky just sleep sister horse house next ice nice place dance once cent

centre city

circle circus

sometimes something

cancel central cereal certain circular course guess

happiness ice-cream

juice lesson passed pencil postal scared sense

September serious since sound

Daily tasks: Practise reading by,

• Accessing Reading Eggs or Reading Express using your log in details • Choose a book from your bookshelf (OR pick a big book from Reading Eggs) and ask someone at home helping you to read it to

you or read it to yourself. • You could read your text daily to a parent, sibling, teddy bear, pet or even yourself in the mirror. You might even like to ring a

family member on the telephone and read it to them as a special surprise. • You could write a character profile for a character from the book you have read. Include what they look like, what they do in the

story, their personality and anything you would change about them.

Daily Fitness • PE with Joe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPXQcCyRFt0 • Kids work out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg84wx6PPPI • Take a walk or ride your bike or scooter (don’t forget your helmet) with an

adult. • Using a tennis ball play a game of handball with someone at home or if you

have a soccer ball practise kicking and dribbling the ball.

English Choose a digital or non-digital task per lesson depending on what you have access to

Monday Journal Writing

Look at the picture and write a story about it. You can use the ideas given or come up with your own ideas. Draw a picture when you are finished Digital – Record your learning in your workbook and take a photo of it and upload it to Seesaw. Non Digital- Record your learning in your workbook

TUESDAY The focus for our English unit is Narrative. Our theme is: Under the Sea. Prediction: Look at the cover of the text. What do you see on the front cover? What type of text do you think this will be – Fiction or non-Fiction. Explain your answer. Make a list of some of the words that you think will be in the text. Use these words to make a prediction. Your prediction should have a beginning, middle and end. Write three questions that you would like to know about the text. Digital – Write the Prediction and your questions in your book and share with your teacher on SeeSaw. Non Digital - Record your prediction and questions into your workbook.

WEDNESDAY

Listen to the story being read using this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QVlxYOZm20 After listening, you are going to use the ‘Five Finger Retell’ to tell the story to someone from your family. Five Finger Retell is:

Your Five Finger Retell should have: Characters, setting, problem, events and the solution to the problem. After retelling: Use the following questions to help you with summarising the text”

1. Who are the main characters of the story? 2. What happened?

3. Where did it take place? 4. When did it take place? How do you know? 5. Why is it important to the reader?

Digital – Record yourself retelling the story and share with your teacher on Seesaw OR Write the summary in your book and upload on Seesaw. Non Digital - Record your summary into your workbook.

THURSDAY

What type of story do you think ‘Finding Nemo’ is? How do you know? Draw a table in your book with three columns.

What I know about Narrative What I want to know What I learned

Use a dictionary to find the meaning of Narrative and write in your book. List at least two books you read recently that were a narrative. Write a summary about each book. What is same about all the books? Do they have the same structure? What do you think the structure of a narrative is? Digital and Non Digital – Record your learning in your workbook and take a photo of it and upload it to Seesaw.

FRIDAY

Let’s practise our handwriting today. Do you remember our song? In your workbook, using a lead pencil start with the long date Friday 23rd July 2021 Then complete the following letter practise. Do not forget your finger spacing, consistent size and shape when you are writing. V V V V V V V V V v v v v v v v v v v Victoria victory vivacious endeavour Eva dived victoriously over five waves. (illustrate with a line of waves).

Mathematics Daily MUST DO

Let’s practise 1. Number A Day – Visit this link each day https://mathsstarters.net/activity/numdaystudent

Choose a 2-digit or 3-digit option from the interactive grid each day. Digital – Complete the ten questions online and then snap an image of your answers to send on Seesaw to your teacher. Non-digital – Complete the questions in your workbook. Make sure you write down what your number of the day is.

2. TENS – follow the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahoD9b7ulFk to the TENS YouTube clip. Practice this activity daily. You may like to play with your mum or dad or siblings.

Mathematics

Choose a digital or non-digital task per lesson depending on what you have access to

MONDAY Time

Watch this video about telling time to the hour. Practice telling the time throughout the day and see if you can get the time right! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Posbu-VKxU Non-digital: Draw some clocks and draw the times you do things throughout the day. E.g. At 7 o’clock I wake up. At 8 o’clock I eat breakfast etc. Take a photo to send to your teacher on Seesaw. Digital: Complete the “Telling and illustrating time” activity on Seesaw.

TUESDAY Addition and Subtraction Digital: Let’s follow along with Miss James as she teaches us about solving worded addition and subtraction problems. https://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/3528563/maths-years-f-1-with-miss-james-worded-problems-with-addition-and-subtraction Complete the word problem activity on Seesaw. Non digital: Answer the following questions in your book/on a piece of paper. Don’t forget to show your working out! Henry works at a music store. 1. There are 4 violins in the store room and 3 violins on display. How many violins are there in total? 2. A new order of instruments comes in today. There are 8 guitars and 3 flutes from the order. Together with the 5 guitars that the store has, how many guitars are there in total? 3. 2 boxes of music books are sent in from another supplier. In one box, there are 6 music books. In the other box, there are 9 music books. How many music books are there in total?

WEDNESDAY

Patterns Patterns can be made of shapes, colours, and many other things. Patterns repeat and can have 2 or more repeating shapes/colours. For example: triangle, circle, triangle, circle. This is a 2-shape pattern. Digital – Use the rainbow fish template and create your own pattern of colours on him and upload it to Seesaw. Non-digital – Draw your own fish and create a pattern of shapes and colours in your book/on paper.

THURSDAY

Lines of symmetry A line of symmetry is a line that cuts a shape exactly in half. This means that if you were to fold the shape along the line, both halves would match exactly. Equally, if you were to place a mirror along the line, the shape would remain unchanged. A square has 4 lines of symmetry, as shown below.

Digital- Use the butterfly template on Seesaw to create a symmetrical pattern on the butterfly’s wings. Non-digital- Draw your own butterfly and create a symmetrical pattern on the butterfly’s wings.

FRIDAY

2D Shapes Choose an Aboriginal artwork from google and look at the 2D shapes used. Look at various Aboriginal symbols and create your own drawing. Look at the examples of different Aboriginal symbols here to help you. Indigenous art- https://www.google.com/search?q=indigenous+art&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJg9SqpubxAhUs4zgGHR0-CPIQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1366&bih=625

Indigenous symbols

Learning help

If you require any learning help with your Mathematics skills, try one of these links. 2D shapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitk0Puvj2U Patterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBjjxSx45-Q

Let’s have a brain break. Click on one of the follow links and enjoy! Just dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTdI8VIyKAg Would you rather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOgcrNrtfpo GoNoodle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psUPYR235O8 Do some origami Write a letter to send in the mail to someone who is special to you.

KLA Choose a digital or non-digital task per lesson depending on what you have access to

PDHPE MONDAY

1. What is a balanced lifestyle? A balanced lifestyle requires us to make lifestyle choices that ensure health and well-being. This means having a good mix of sleep, fun, work, exercise, play and relaxation. In your workbook list the activities you do throughout the day. For example, sleeping, eating, watching TV, playing computer games, being active and travelling.

Write down how long you spend doing each activity, then answer the following questions: 1. On which activity do you spend the most time? 2. On which activity do you spend the least time? 3. Do you think that you have a healthy lifestyle? Why/Why not? 4. What could you do to improve your health? Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21s8-SMOSTY Digital: upload your list and answers to seesaw Non-digital: record your answers and drawings in your workbook.

2nd Step

TUESDAY Identifying Feelings Read together: Empathy means feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling. Noticing how others feel and understanding that their feelings change helps you have empathy. Practising helps your brain grow stronger so you can feel more confident about how well you do something. Try practising noticing how others feel and naming their feelings. Scenario: This is Rita. She just looked into her lunchbox and found her juice spilt all over her sandwich. Now it’s soggy and mushy!

1. How do you think Rita feels? 2. Look at her face and body. What clues help you know how she is feeling? 3. Why is Rita disgusted?

Disgusted is how you feel when something makes you feel yucky in your stomach and you want to avoid it. If something disgusts you, you will strongly dislike it. Show with your body how you might look if you feel disgusted. What did you do with your body that are clues to the feeling ‘disgusted’?

Write about a time you felt disgusted? What happened? What did you do to overcome that feeling? Complete the following: Today we learned about two things you can pay attention to in order to understand how a person might be feeling. One is their ___________ and the other is their ___________. Knowing how other people feel can help us get along.

Science & Technology

WEDNESDAY Prepare a table in your workbook:

Sounds we heard Inside our house

In the garden

You are going to listen to the sounds that are being made around you in your house. Predict what sounds you might hear. Close your eyes and sit quietly for approximately thirty seconds. Record what you heard in the table. Ask questions, such as: -What was the sound like? (Loud or soft, high or low.) -What do you think made that sound? - How do you think that sound was made? Next you will be going for a walk around your garden to listen for more sounds. Predict what sounds they might hear in different places around your house... (inside—telephone ringing, computer keyboard tapping; on grass—balls bouncing, sprinklers swishing, birds twittering.) If possible take photos/ draw pictures of the sources of sounds to use in your workbook. List responses of sounds you heard around the garden in the table. Discuss the sounds asking questions, such as: -Which sounds did you predict that you would hear? -Which sounds did you hear that you didn’t expect to hear? -How were those sounds made?

Choose one of the listed sounds in the table to draw. Ensure each of the sounds is represented. Use words to describe the sound next

to the drawing. List suggestions on how the sounds might be grouped, such as loud and soft sounds, sounds grouped according to location, sounds we like and sounds we don’t like. Digital – Upload your photo to Seesaw Non-digital – record your drawings and answers in your workbook

Creative & Practical Arts (CAPA)

THURSDAY Artistic Activity: Shape-o-saurus

What you need:

- 2 pieces of paper. One will be your canvas and the other will be used to make the artwork. - Scissors - Textas, colouring pencils or pens - Glue stick

Steps:

- Draw some geometric shapes onto your piece of paper. Use rectangles, triangles and squares. - Cut these shapes out. - Arrange your shapes on your canvas to make a dinosaur. - Then glue each shape.

Examples:

Digital – Upload a photo of your artwork to Seesaw. Non – digital – Display your artwork in a place where your family can see.

Drama Activity: Balloons

Today, you will be learning how to move your body to create a shape. You will also be developing a sense of spatial awareness.

Imagine that you are a gigantic, bright red, puffy balloon. Let’s start small (crawl into a curled position) and oh look! Someone is blowing into the balloon. Up, up, we go and wider, wider and bigger we go. I can’t see where my legs are anymore, I can barely move my arms too! My stomache is getting too big and oh no! I can’t move. I am floating in space and drifting with the wind.

Move your body as if you were a balloon getting squished and squeezed from different directions. At the end, you may pretend that someone has poked a hole in your body and pretend to deflate (take a deep breath in and breathe out slowly).

Be creative by using props or costumes. You may wear extra layers of clothing or add a pillow or cushion underneath your shirt before this activity.

Digital - Upload a video or photo of yourself as a balloon to Seesaw. Non - Digital – Perform this activity in front of an audience.

Personal Development Health & Physical Education (PDHPE)

FRIDAY Let’s practise catching and throwing a ball today. If you wish to watch how to catch/ throw a ball...watch : catch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPi7KFwwiJI Throw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mdyMVezRGc Go out into your backyard or to the local park and find a space that is big enough for you. Practise catching and throwing a ball with an adult. Make sure you keep your eyes on the ball!

- throw the ball/object up, a little higher each time, and catch it – how high can you go? - throw the ball/object up with one hand and catch it in the two-hand ‘nest’ - bounce or throw the ball/object and clap your hands then catch it - see which ways you can catch as you move around (e.g. one hand and then the other)

Practise to throw overarm;- - at a wall and catch it on the rebound - with right/left hand - at a target (hoop/skittle/line/gutter board) - from different levels – high/low/shoulder height - as high as you can

Challenge: see if you can throw the ball up in the air above you and catch it.

HSIE Look at these items from the past and present. Choose ONE or TWO and compare.

Compare the two items by completing a venn diagram like below. The item in the past will be on the left and you look at what is different. The one from the present is on the right and what is different. In the middle, write what things are still the same after all this time.

RECORD

• what is similar between the photos and what has changed? • what was life like then and how may have some been used? • Why is it different to now. Compare life, then and now?

Find 3 items in your house now and research through asking parents or grandparents or looking online to find what that item looked like in the past. Draw or share the items online. Write: How is the item better now?

Battle of the Bugs: Green Ants and a Scorpion

Text written by Peter Szekeres and illustrations by Dick Weigall

Special words live, lives, have, enough, full, some, when, which, would, could, half, they, their, one,

wound, through, chemical, juices, other

Gerty is a green tree ant. She lives in a colony of half a million

ants. Scarp is a tree scorpion. Like spiders, scorpions have 8 legs

and are easily recognised by their pincers and a segmented tail

that ends with a very nasty stinger, full of venom. In some

scorpions there is enough venom to kill a human being. One day

Gerty, a worker ant, was foraging for food on her own, when she

met Scarp. Although the scorpion was much bigger than her,

Gerty knew no fear. She attacked Scarp, biting him fiercely with

her serrated mandibles, then squirting formic acid from the tip

of her tail into the wound. Scarp was enraged as the pain shot

through his system. When he realized that this puny ant had

inflicted the wound, he turned around and stabbed her with his

stinger, killing Gerty almost instantly, but not before she had

sent a strong chemical signal to her sisters at the nest. The other

ants, realizing that Gerty had sacrificed her life for them, set

out to attack the scorpion and bring it back for food. They

followed the chemical trail left by Gerty and soon found Scarp.

They bit the scorpion until he had no resistance left. Then they

sucked up all his life juices as he lay dying and scattered his limbs

all around. They took the best bits back to feed others in the

nest.