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Teaching & Learning Activities – Stage 3 Term 2 Week 2
Please complete the activities in your homework book.
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Morning English
Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 knowledge question.
Writing – Write a review of your favourite movie. Make sure you include a short summary of the movie, the reasons why the movie is your favourite and who would you recommend this movie to.
Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to access this week’s activity sheets. If you are able to print out the brainstorming page for this week’s sound, h and j (unit 12).
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English
Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 comprehension question.
Grammar – Spoken text
Watch the two videos below.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuP4WXHtqMo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLB1IUNdoSE
After watching, write a definition and give 3 examples in your book.
Watch ‘Behind the News’ at 10am on ABC Me. Choose your favourite story. Write a summary of the story.
English
Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 application question.
Writing – Write the ingredients and the steps to making your favourite recipe. Make sure you include the quantities of each ingredient. Look at the recipe below to see how they are set out
Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to access this week’s activity sheets. If you are able to print out activity pages or you could copy them into your book (page 28).
English
Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 analysis question.
Handwriting – Using your best cursive writing copy this poem into your book (From A Railway Carriage)
Remember: Take a new line when the poet does and write the poets name
Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to access this week’s activity sheets. If you are able to print out activity pages or you could copy them into your book (page 29).
English
Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 synthesis and evaluation question.
Use the
https://www.kidsnews.com.au/ to read a story or article that interests you, there is a quiz at the end of the story.
Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to print out games sheets or complete the online games available for this week’s sound.
Challenge Accepted
Balance a pencil on the palm of your hand whilst reciting the alphabet. Time yourself to see if
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Library Choices
Mrs Bedingfield has included some interesting library activities for you. Please refer to the Library Choices page below.
Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to access this week’s activity sheets. If you are able to print out the segmenting page or complete it online for this week’s sound (unit 12).
you can beat your friends.
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Middle Mathematics
This week’s focus is data.
Data is information that we collect through observations or by conducting surveys. Data can be categorical or numerical.
Categorical data: is information that is collected based on two or more categories. For example, favourite colours in a classroom. The categories are blue, red, green, etc.
Numerical data: is information that is measureable and is always collected in number form. Numerical data can be ordered. For example, the times in a 100m sprint. The numerical data might be
Mathematics
A table is a tool that is used to organise data (Example is provided below).
Create two tables to represent the data collected yesterday.
Instructions to create a table:
1) Name your table 2) Figure out how many
columns and rows are needed.
3) Use a pencil and ruler to draw your table. Draw a large rectangle as the outside of your table and add lines through the rectangle for your rows and columns.
4) Label your columns. 5) Fill in the data you
Mathematics
Construct a column and line graph to represent the data from your tables (Example is provided below).
Use a column graph to represent the data on your wardrobe/drawers.
Use a line graph to represent the heights of your family or celebrities (whichever one you chose to do)
Instructions to create a graph.
1) Name and label the horizontal and vertical axes (example,’ T-shirt colours’ and amount or T-shirts.
2) Choose a title to describe the data represented.
Mathematics
A two-way table is commonly used to organise data in two categories (Example is provided below).
Look at the two-way table below to answer the following questions.
1) How many males chose football as their favourite sport to watch on television?
2) How many females chose baseball as their favourite sport to watch on television?
3) How many people in total chose basketball at their favourite sport to watch on television?
Play ‘Bin Ball’ with one or more family members.
Mathematics
Look at the side-by-side column graph below (Sport Choices). Answer the following questions.
1) What sport did the boys select the most?
2) Which sport tied for how many boys and girls liked it?
3) What sports did the girls like more than the boys? (There may be more than one answer)
Look at the column and line graph below named ‘Average Allowance’. Answer the following questions.
1) Which graph do you think is best to represent the data? Provide reasons for your answer.
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16 seconds, 18 seconds, 19 seconds etc. These times can be ordered from fastest to slowest times.
Collect data for the questions below. Record the data in your workbook.
1) What are the heights of all members in your household or extended family (call or message if you need to) in metres and centimetres?
Or Look up the heights of 6 of your favourite movie stars or celebrities in metres and centimetres. 2) Look in your
wardrobe or clothes drawer. What colours are the t-shirts in your room and how many do you have of each colour. For example I have 7 blue t-shirts, 4 red and 8 white. If you have a t-shirt that is 2 or more colours choose the
collected.
Challenge
If you have Microsoft word or Excel at home, try and create a table using one of them using the information collected.
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.
PDHPE
Throwing and catching skills.
Use small balls /frisbees to practise throwing and catching by:
*Throwing at a target from both left/right sides
* throwing to a stationary/moving player
* running and passing forwards/sidewards and backwards
* lobbing a ball in the direction of a nominated place
3) Create an appropriate scale for example, 1cm = 1 shirt.
4) Mark equal spaces on the axes.
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.
To play ‘Bin Ball’, you need something to throw and a target, e.g. a ball and a bin, or a scrunched up sheet of paper and a bucket.
Each player has 15 throws. Record how many throws went in and how many throws missed on a sheet of paper.
Create a two-way table representing how many throws went in and how many throws missed for each player.
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.
2) What are the advantages and disadvantages of each graph?
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online
activities.
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main colour. .Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.
Pen flipping brain break
• Take a pen and flip it one revolution.
• Now do the same thing with your other hand.
• Now get a pen for both hands and try to do both pens at the same time.
• If you really are good at that, then try to throw the pens up into the air and catch them in opposite
hands. This is tough.
* rebounding balls off wall/net for partner to catch
* using an overarm throw for height and distance with increasing accuracy
* using underarm throw (pitch) for accuracy over short distances and increasing the speed of delivery
* bowling overarm at target for accuracy
* spinning the ball on release
* using a chest/shoulder pass for accuracy over increasing distances
* using a bounce pass
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Afternoon Creative Arts
Choose a song or a piece of music that you like.
Make up a dance sequence to this song. You must include at least 5 different moves
Science and technology
Watch the following clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXiVGEEPQ6c
Design a poster on the planet Earth. Include any
History
Task 1 (with sources):
Analyse the attached sources. What do they tell you about the United Kingdom compared to Australia in the early 1900s? The Australian
Science and technology
Continue Tuesday’s activity.
PDHPE
Gender Expectations
Write down some statements that people expect from boys and girls. For example, boys shouldn’t cry and girls
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but they can be repeated throughout the song.
Practise your routine during the week and put on a performance for your family/friends on Friday.
relevant information you need such as what the Earth is made up of and what resources Earth has to enable humans to survive. Don’t forget to add a number of interesting facts.
Government assisted immigrants by paying the cost of ticket to Australia. How does the poster also convince people to immigrate?
‘Push’ factors are reasons people might want to leave their home country. ‘Pull’ factors are reasons people might like to immigrate to a new country. Write a list of both Push and Pull factors.
Task 2:
People often died whilst immigrating from diseases like measles. Research and make a timeline describing vaccination against childhood diseases in the 1900s. Investigate and write a paragraph about Typhus and Cholera. What were they and why were they a common problem aboard ships?
are better at reading.
Think about your favourite male/female characters in a computer game/movie/book etc.
Choose 1 male and 1 female character.
Record:
- Name of the character
- Physical qualities and skills
- Personality - Values - How the character
interacts with others.
What behaviours/value are made to seem normal?
What messages does the character give us about being a boy or a girl?
Does the character represent your experiences of what it is like to be a boy or a girl?
What do we need to be aware of when we view these games/movies/magazines etc?
Bloom's Taxonomy Book Review Questions
Knowledge
1 Point Each
Comprehension
2 Points Each
Application
3 Points Each
Analysis
4 Points Each
Synthesis
5 Points Each
Evaluation
6 Points Each
Week Score
Make a list of facts you
learned from the story
What was the problem in the book, and how was it solved?
Did this book remind you of anything that
has happened to you? What?
Why?
If your story happened in a foreign land, compare that
land to the Australia.
Design costumes for
the characters
Who do you think the author
intended to read this book
and why?
List the characters
and describe them
Did anyone in the book do
something you did not like?
Why?
Did this book give you any new ideas
about yourself?
Why?
If your story occurred long ago, compare that time with
today in a paragraph. If it was a modern
story, compare it with another time period and state what would be
different.
Using information
from the book about one of
the main characters, rewrite the
ending of the book.
If you could only save one character from the book in the
event of a disaster, which
one would it be and why?
List five new words you
learned in the book. Write down their dictionary
What kind of book is this?
List three evidences of
this
What would the main
character be likely to do if
s/he visited out classroom?
Think of a shape that fits with one
of the main character’s traits. Draw the shape. Then describe
Write another short story using the
same characters
Is the title a good one or a poor one and
why?
pronunciation and meaning.
the character inside the shape.
If your book was a
mystery, tell what the
mystery was and how it was solved
What was the author's
purpose or purposes in writing this
book?
If you were in a problem
situation like one in the book, how would you
have acted? Be sure to tell
what the situation is.
Decide which parts of the book include the five W's and How. Then write a
paragraph for a newspaper
article including these facts.
Name one character.
Rewrite the story from this
character's point of view.
Did you like the way the
story ended? Why or why
not?
List ten good words from
the book. Put them into a word search
If you could continue the story, what
events would you include?
Why?
What lesson did you learn
from the story?
Write a different ending to the
book. Tell why you changed it.
Write a poem about this
book.
Which character in
the book would you
choose for a friend? Why?
What problems
does one of the
characters have, and
how does he or she solve
it?
List the five major events in the story in the correct order.
Tell about a time something similar to what happened in
the story happened to
you or to someone you
know.
Tell five ways the main character is
like you
Design a poster for this
book.
What did you think was the
most interesting part
of the book? Why?
Where did the story take
place?
Tell in your own words the beginning of
the book
Write a letter to a friend
recommending this book.
Find one word that describes a character in your book very well.
Give five reasons for your choice of
words.
Pretend you are a librarian recommending
this book to someone.
Write a paragraph telling what
you would say.
Tell about the most exciting
part of the book being
sure to give at least three
reasons why
List the places
mentioned in the book.
Describe what is happening in
the first illustration in
the book
Pretend you are one of the characters in
the book. Write a diary entry
about the happenings in
your life.
In a good paragraph, state the main idea of
the book.
Make an eight-section comic
strip with captions
showing the main events of
the story
Which parts of the text could be improved?
What other books has this author
written?
How did the main character feel during the
book? Give evidences of
this.
List the places in the book
that are important. Make up a
map including these places
as you imagine they may look.
Compare this book with the last
book you read.
Make a radio announcement
to advertise the book. Write
it out.
Who would you
recommend this text for?
What is the time period in
which the book
happens?
What did the title have to do with the book?
What changes would have to be made if the book occurred
200 years ago?
Compare two of the characters in
this book.
The climax of any book or story is the exciting or
interesting part. Tell what you think is the climax of the
book and why.
If you were the main
character, how would you
have reacted to an event in
the book?
Table Column Graph
Line Graph
Two Way Table
Side-by-Side Column Graph
Source - Working class housing slum,
London, 1909
Task 1 source