Year 3/4 - Learning @ Home,Term 3 Week 2 (Wed-Fri)Remember, a happy and harmonious life is the most important thing. Take your time and do your best. If you

have any questions you can ask them at our Google Meets or post them on the Google Classroom stream.Every morning, we will be having a Google Meet via Google Classroom. Please press the camera symbol on

your Google Classroom or join the meeting at 9.30am via the link below.

There will also be an open flexible meeting at 11:00am on Google Meet for anyone who needs some help.

Google Classroom

Class Class Code Google Meet Link

3/4TC Tammi rbqs62u https://meet.google.com/lookup/dxq6nxs56p

3/4CM Carol z35hncd https://meet.google.com/lookup/cwioi2ylrc

3/4RW Rhianna wrwshdr https://meet.google.com/lookup/h4hes4jfpp

3/4TH Trami cinxsp4 https://meet.google.com/lookup/aru46xpepo

3/4AD Ann-Maree zgk2g5m https://meet.google.com/lookup/b4uidmmuiv

3/4JM James lkeao62 https://meet.google.com/lookup/ac2qeemc7e

Please find some suggested tasks for the week

Weekly Focus

Reading Reading Comprehension

Writing Procedural Texts

Maths Percentages

Big Question Time How can we live in space?

Grammar Proper Nouns

STEM Paper Rockets

**Please upload the following task onto Google Classroom for your teacher to give you feedback**

Thursday Writing- Procedural Writing

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Day 3 - Wednesday 21st July

Reading Read a novel for 30 minutes.

Choose 4 different questions from yesterday and answer them in your exercise book.

Writing Activity:

Here is an example of another procedural text that we would like you to follow. If you don’t

have all the materials in your house, substitute for what you have. Follow the instructions

carefully.

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Reflect on the instructions given. Were they easy to follow? Would you change anything?

Maths Fractions, Percentages and Decimals

1. Click on this link https://www.visnos.com/demos/percentage-fraction-decimals-grid to access theonline hundreds grid.2. Using the paintbrush at the top of the page, draw a virtual picture.3. Now figure out the fraction, decimal and percentage of the colours in your picture.4. Click on the coloured squares on the right side to check your answers.

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Health EmotionsWe all know that being in lockdown and having to participate in remote learning is stressful. Wealso know that feeling angry, annoyed and really sick of things is very normal and happens toeveryone. What is important is for us to be able to deal with our emotions.

Activity: Read the short story below and answer the questions.

Question 1: There were 3 triggers for Chelsea’s anger: she lost her soccer game; she feltun-heard in group time; and her free-time on the tablet had to stop. What triggers you to feelangry?

Question 2: An iceberg consists of what you can see above the water as well as what’s beneaththe surface. In the same way, anger is often what is seen by others, but it may be caused byother emotions. What other emotions might be causing Chelsea to get angry?

Question 3: List some of the strategies used in this comic to manage anger.

Question 4: What other strategies have you used to calm yourself when you are angry?

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Day 4 - Thursday 22nd July

Reading Read a novel for 30 minutes.

Choose 4 different questions from the boxes below and answer them in your exercise book.

Writing Procedural Writing

Activity: Today, we want you to choose a job around your house and write the procedure for

how to do it. We want you to choose something that will help your family. For example, how to

make your bed, how to take the rubbish bins out, how to empty the dishwasher, put your

clothes in the dirty clothes basket, sweep/vacuum the floor, look after your pet etc.

You can write this out in your Remote Learning Book using the headings:IntroductionMaterialsSteps

BrainTeaser

Swimming Fish

Challenge: Turn the fish around by moving only 3 matches, no overlapping.

If you don’t have matches at home, you can use spoons, straws, pencils etc.

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STEM How to make a Paper Rocket

Activity: You will need to create/design a rocket and see how far you can launch it.Materials for making Paper Rockets:Sheet of paperSticky tapeTextas/pencils to decorateScissorsRocket template (optional)

Steps:1. Design a rocket or use the template provided below on page 8.2. You will need to make a small pipe and attach it to the back of the rocket. You can roll upsome paper to replicate a thin straw, to fit the length of the rocket and tape one end shut so it’scompletely sealed. This will replicate a pipette. A pipette is a slim tube attached to orincorporating a bulb, for transferring or measuring out small quantities of liquid, especially in alaboratory. Attach it to your rocket with glue or tape. (See images below)

3. Roll up a piece of paper (must be thinner to fit into your pipette) and slip it into the pipette(at the back of your ricket), and you’re ready to launch!4. Give your paper cylinder a big puff of air and watch it take off!

Things to consider:- How does the angle you launch your rocket affect the distance it travels? Try out

different angles and record the results.- Can you design your own rockets to attach to the pipette? Which designs work better?- Try adding another fin to your rocket with tape. How does it affect the flight of your

rocket?

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DramaGrade 3/4

Here is your Drama Lesson for the week. This is a virtual classroom link.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12hgyRXCc41Vw2e3qDQnFqX7jxYH6DIsR3mev5kKpji4/edit?usp=sharing

It is designed to be completed independently by the students. Once you open the link you willneed to press present. If you see a play icon on the page this is me (Michelle) speaking andgiving you instructions. Thanks for all of your hard work in Drama. Michelle

This link will also be sent to you on google classroom. If work needs to be submitted, you will doit on google classroom.

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Day 5 - Friday 23rd July

Reading Read the article “Why has nobody found any life outside of Earth?” below (page 10 and 11)

and answer the following questions:

1. What galaxy is our solar system in?

2. What are the components that make up water?

3. Why were scientists so excited to discover permanent liquid water on Mars?

4. What are some ‘sign of life’ clues that might mean there could be life on other planets?

5. What do you think is the main thing that is stopping scientists from finding the answer

to the “Life outside Earth” question?

6. Explain what the ‘Goldilocks zone’ is in your own words.

7. What do the following words mean? Use a dictionary, search on the internet, or ask a

parent if you aren’t sure and write a definition for each one:

abundant essential component interstellar

Grammar Draw a line to match the common noun to the proper noun.

Common noun Proper nounteacher Heart of Hallbeach Diary of a Wimpy Kidrestaurant Melissabook Mr. Haleschocolate Woolworthsstate Newport Lakes Primarypark Williamstown Beachgirl Cadburysupermarket New South Walesschool Wilsons Promontory National Park

Maths Activity: Fill in the grid below with times tables you would like to work on. Complete the gridand time how long it takes.

Goal: Time:

X 5

3 15

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BrainTeasers

1. Join all nine dots with four straight lineswithout taking the pencil off the paper. Youcannot go over any line twice.

2. What is the missing number in this table?

Indonesian Hai anak-anak.Click on the link for this week’s Indonesian lesson on the Olympic Games.Olympic Games

The lesson can also be found in Google classrooms.Class code: olo5thlHave funPak Ben

Music Hi Year 3/4’ s. Use the Google Classroom code bvk3sk7 to watch the video explaining yourmusic activities for this week.

Opening: The Treble Clef Notes

Click on the link to learn the notes on the treble clef and how to use your hand staff to practisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJuXKnQF0M . You can watch it more than once if youneed, or if you are confident you can stop when you get to 6 minutes.

Task 1: Mnemonics are used to help us remember new concepts. The most commonmnemonic is Australia for learning the notes on the treble music staff is ‘Every Good BoyDeserves Fruit’. Your first task this week is to create your own mnemonic to remember thenotes on the treble music staff.

Task 2: Go to the ‘Classics for Kids’ website and play the Note Names game.https://www.classicsforkids.com/games/note_names.php

Task 3: This term we will be exploring rhythms, percussion and body percussion. There are somany interesting patterns and sounds you can make with your hands and body. Your challengeis to learn this new hand pattern challengehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPWbD1dQM0&t=81s . If you need to slow down thevideo, go to the settings icon and change the playback speed to 0.75. Keep practising, we willtry and do this as a class when you come back.

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Day 5 Reading

Why has nobody found any life outside of Earth?

Astronomers are hunting for “Earth-like” planets, but they’re not easy to find. And the conditions needed forlife to exist have to be just right. It’s likely that if such a planet exists, it will be outside our Solar System, andit’s very hard to study planets so far away.

Our place in the Universe

Earth is inside our Solar System, along with the other planets (like Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter) orbiting a star

we call the Sun. But our Solar System is just one of many inside the huge Milky Way galaxy. And the Milky Way

is just one of many, many galaxies in the Universe. Plus, we have no way of knowing exactly how big the

Universe is beyond what we can directly see.

So while there may be life on other planets, it could be in another solar system in a different part of the Milky

Way galaxy. Or in another galaxy far, far away. We don’t have the technology yet to study such far away

planets. But we are still trying to collect what clues we can using the technology we’ve got.

What makes a planet liveable?

Much of the search for life has focused on trying to find liquid water, because it is essential for all life forms

here on Earth. Cells are mostly made up of water. And water is very common. In fact, the components that

make up water (hydrogen and oxygen) are the first and third most abundant elements in the Milky Way galaxy.

Oxygen loves grabbing onto other elements to make different chemicals. This means that we find water almost

everywhere we look, from the surface of planets in our Solar System, to the depths of interstellar space.

But for life as we know it to exist, you would need a planet where water exists in a liquid state. Otherwise yourcells would freeze or boil away. Earth is in a perfect position from our Sun to support water in a liquid state.Astronomers call this ideal location from a star the “habitable” or “Goldilocks zone”.

Scientists last year discovered that there is permanent liquid water on Mars, which made a lot of people veryexcited. Water is also inside craters on Mercury, and there are vast water oceans on some of Jupiter’s andSaturn’s moons. But we still haven’t found life on Mars, or any other planet in our Solar System.

What about outside our Solar System?Planets outside our Solar System are called exoplanets. They orbit their own stars (as you know, our Sun isreally just a big star). For example, there is an exoplanet called Kepler-22b, which is in the habitable zone ofanother star called Kepler-22.

Finding a world within a star’s habitable zone where liquid water can exist would be a great start to finding life.Unfortunately, we have not perfected the technology for it yet. But finding a planet with the right conditionsfor life isn’t enough; we need to be able to detect signatures of life itself. For example, we can look at aplanet’s atmosphere and see what gases are in it. If we found a planet with lots of oxygen, we can infer theremay be life there. At the moment, it is not possible to detect signs of life on Earth-like planets around otherstars.

One day hopefully scientists will develop the technology that makes all this possible, and will discover the firstinhabited world beyond Earth.

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