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Teaching & Learning Activities – Early Stage 1

Term 2, Week 3 – All activities should be completed in your homework book or in

Google Classrooms.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Task

Choose one book from Wuskha to read to someone at home. Get some help to complete the quiz.

Listen to ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ read by Mrs Bedingfield. This can be found on Google Classroom in Story Time. Leave a comment under the video for Mrs Bedingfield.

Reread the same book from Wushka that you read on Monday.

Choose one book from Wuskha to read to someone at home. Get some help to complete the quiz.

At school day

Morning Daily Task: Complete the daily calendar in Google Classroom. English *Check your homework sheet for your new High Frequency Words for this week and write them into your workbook. Write a sentence for each of

Daily Task: Complete the daily calendar in Google Classroom. English *Use the sentence stems to write 4 different sentences. Choose your favourite sentence and draw a picture to match. Take a photo and upload it onto Google Classrooms in

Daily Task: Complete the daily calendar in Google Classroom. English * Practise writing your HFW using pencils, crayons, textas, pens and chalk. * Complete the Soundwaves page for ‘z’.

Daily Task: Complete the daily calendar in Google Classroom. English *Complete the guided writing sentence sheet (Where are you going with the baby?). Complete the handwriting page for

Daily Task: Complete the daily calendar in Google Classroom. English Revision of e and u. Complete the 2 ‘Look, Sound, Colour & Write’ worksheets on the sounds e and u.

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the words. * Complete the Soundwaves page for ‘Ww’. You will find an instructional video in your Google Classrooms to assist you with your learning. Take a photo of this ‘w’ page and upload it into Google Classrooms in the English Activities folder. * Think of 5 words that have the ‘w' sound. E.g web, shower, witch. Draw a picture to match each of the words. *Complete the handwriting page for ‘w’. You will find an instructional video in your Google Classrooms to assist you with your learning.

the English Activities folder. * Read a non-fiction book to a parent/carer OR read a book of your choosing from Wushka. Write a sentence about something you read. Draw a picture to match. * Log into Google Classroom and complete the ‘Initial Sounds Week 3’ task. This can be found in the classwork folder under English Activities. Don’t forget to turn in your work when you have completed the slides. OR Complete the ‘Picture sounds’ worksheet. Colour the pictures that match the beginning sound.

* Think of 5 words that have the ‘z' sound. E.g zebra, zoo, zipper. Draw a picture to match each of the words. * Log into Google Classroom and complete the Unjumble The Sentences Week 3 task. This can be found in the classwork folder under English Activities. Don’t forget to turn in your work when you have completed the slides. OR Complete the unjumble the sentence sheet. Cut out the words, glue them in the correct order and write the sentence on the line underneath.

‘z’. You will find an instructional video in your Google Classrooms to assist you with your learning. * Log into Google Classroom and complete the ‘Sight Word Keyboards Week 3’ task. This can be found in the classwork folder under English Activities. Don’t forget to submit your work when you have completed the slides. OR Complete the sight word keyboard sheet. Write the sight word in the box, colour the correct letters on the keyboard. Write a sentence with the sight word on the line.

* Brainstorm things you have been doing at home. Complete the writing sheet - At home I……………. Draw a picture to match your sentence. Handwriting Complete the handwriting sheet ‘e’. Post a picture of your handwriting sheet into Google Classroom.

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Middle Mathematics * Log into Google Classroom and complete the ‘Numeral Identification Week 3’ task. This can be found in the classwork folder under Maths Activities. Don’t forget to turn in your work when you have completed the slides. OR Complete the ‘Count the ten frames’ worksheet. Count the counters on the ten frame and circle the correct number. *Complete the number of the day worksheet for the number ‘13’. You will find an instructional video in your Google Classrooms to assist you with your learning.

Mathematics *Practise counting to 30 to a family member. Put your number flashcards in order. See how quickly you can do it. (Can you beat last week's time?) Ask someone to jumble these up and use them as flashcards to test you. Do you know all these numbers? *Roll a dice. Draw the side of the dice that is facing up. What is the number after the number being shown? Do this 5 times. * Log into Google Classroom and complete the ‘Before and After Week 3’ task. This can be found in the classwork folder under Maths Activities. Don’t forget to submit your work when you have completed the slides. OR Complete the before and after number worksheet. Write the number before and after the number provided. Complete the Mathletics task. Ordinal Numbers

Mathematics *Play a game of UNO or another card game like ‘Go Fish’. When you have a snack and your lunch at home, write down the time that you start eating and when you finish eating. Write down some activities that you do at home that take about the same time as washing your hands. Write down some activities that you do at home that take about the same time as eating you recess. Complete the ‘long time/short time’ Mathletics worksheet.

Mathematics *Practise counting to 30 to a family member. Put your number flashcards in order. Can you do it backwards from 30? *Log into Google Classroom and complete the Graph it Week 3 task. This can be found in the classwork folder under Maths Activities. Don’t forget to submit your work when you have completed the slides. OR Complete the count and graph sheet. Count the amount on the first page and then graph them on the second page. Use the pictures to help you. Draw a picture of something that you can complete quickly (brushing your teeth) and something that takes you a long time (cleaning your bedroom). Complete the Mathletics task. Days: Before and after

Mathematics *Practise counting to 30 to a family member. Put your number flashcards in order. Can you do it backwards from 30? Time- Rewatch the Pixar short Day/Night from Monday’s science lesson on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJz_noKP-Bw Complete the mathletics ‘daytime/nighttime’ worksheet. Fold a piece of paper in half. On one side draw a picture of a farm during the day and on the other side draw a farm during the night.

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Afternoon

Science and Technology Watch the Pixar short ‘day/night’ on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJz_noKP-Bw Think about some items you might only use during the day (school bag, soccer ball, lunch box) and some things you may only use at night (pillow, nightlight). Can you think of things you would use during both? (toothbrush, towel, TV) Complete the ‘What is in the sky’ worksheet. Complete the sentences: “When it is morning I see _” “When it is night I see ___”

PDHPE Superheroes need lots of healthy food to keep them strong. Draw yourself as a superhero with a mask and cape. Draw and label four of your favourite healthy foods that help to keep you strong. Complete the Food Choices cut and paste activity. Glue the healthy foods on the lunch box and glue the sometimes foods on the pantry shelves to save them for special occasions.

History Go to the YouTube link to watch the clip When I grow up by Andrew Daddo & Jonathan Bentley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE3OPA-VFM0 You can also find this video on your Google Classroom page under the Additional Activities folder. As we grow older, we change. On a page in your workbook, draw three different pictures of yourself. One as a baby. One as you are now. Then think about what you might want to be in the future when you grow up. Draw a picture of yourself in the future. Make sure you include any equipment you would need to do your job. Write and finish the sentence “When I grow up, I can be a ______.”

PDHPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_A_HjHZxfI Click or go to the link above for We're Going on a Bear Hunt | A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure! You can also find this video on your Google Classroom page under the Additional Activities folder. Have fun going on a bear hunt. Find a space in your home to watch and copy the yoga moves. In your backyard or inside, practise throwing and catching a soft toy or ball. How many times can you catch it without dropping it?

Creative arts Explore how many different ways you can sing the song Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star.

You might sing faster, slower, louder, softer, using different instruments, whispering the words or using a different voice.

Choose your favourite way and perform the song to someone in your house.

Complete the elephant craft worksheet. Colour in your elephant, cut it out and post a photo to your Google Classroom page.

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Additional activities

Task Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

* Complete the directed drawing worksheet for the whale.

* Go for a walk from your room to the fridge. While walking, count how many steps it takes you to walk to the fridge.

On the way back to your room, count how many steps it takes you. Do you count the same number or a different number?

* In your book, draw some of your favourite foods together.

Underneath draw some pictures of some foods that you do not like.

Make sure to label the foods by writing the name of the foods you do and don’t like next to the picture.

*Draw something that starts with each letter of your name. (e.g. Tim could be a train, insect and magnet).

Label each item you draw.

*Find different objects around the house that are made of different shapes. Draw these different shapes into your book. Make sure to label what each item was.

Wellbeing

Task Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Mindful breathing is a great way to focus your mind and make you feel calm and relaxed. Go to the following link and learn how to use five finger breathing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSgOW879jjA

Ma Vlast is the musical story of the journey of a river. It starts as a little trickle high up in the mountains. The river gets bigger with water crashing over rocks. It moves to wide, slow waters before finally joining with the ocean. Lie down, close your

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9PPH9h6sZY Go to Draw what you hear Woodlands TV. Watch the girl draw squiggles and lines to match what she hears. Have a go at drawing what you can hear in

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KIDS MEDITATION - FIVE FINGER BREATHING by Stop, breathe and think. Try and do five finger breathing each night this week just before you go to sleep. Does it help you get ready for sleep? You can use breathing anytime you need to focus or need to calm down.

eyes and imagine you are a little leaf floating on the river while you listen to the music. Can you picture the scene around you as the river changes? If you like, show the leaf moving by using your hand to match the music. Go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G4NKzmfC-Q Smetana ~ Moldau (Richard Britton)

your backyard.