Year 6Term 2 Week 1 - Beginning 29th April

NB: Highlighted activities need to be submitted on the specified day.

All underlined words are hyperlinks.

Google Classroom is abbreviated to GC.

Learning from Home – Weekly Timetable

Announcements

Term 2 Week 1Wednesday Thursday Friday

Morning welcome

EnglishReading Comprehension

Grammar

Spelling - Unit 9 Questions 1-5

Speaking and Listening

Independent Reading

(20 minutes) record in your diary daily

Library

Spelling - Questions 6 onwards

Writing Instruction

Independent Reading (20 minutes)

record daily

Reading Strategy

Writing - journal

Spelling - Challenge and online

activities

Typing Tournament

Independent Reading

PDHPE Wellbeing Activity - Looking on the

bright side!

Wellbeing Journals Wellbeing Journals

Reflection on GC

Middle session

Mathematics Mentals - Unit 11 Set A-B

Maths Online - Fractions and

Decimals

Matharoo - see GC

Mentals - Unit 11 Set C-D

Problem Solving - see Seesaw

Mentals - Unit 11 bottom section

Maths Online - Time

Mathletics

PDHPE PE Choice board PE Choice board PE Choice board

Afternoon session

Other KLAsPDHPE SISA videos Science see GC Classwork Creative Arts

MUSIC

EnglishReading Strategy

LI: To visualise a

descriptive text.

SC: I can draw a scene

accurately depicting the

text.

Watch the video and look at

the Visualising poster link

carefully.

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/wa

tch?v=g2qTCMprE2w

Read the activity and text in

the link and use the

visualising strategy to draw

an image related to what you

have read.

Reading Comprehension

LI: To accurately interpret

what has been read.

SC: I can read to

comprehend a text and get

most answers correct.

Use the Google form on GC

to read the ANZAC Day

comprehension and answer

the questions.

Check your email for

feedback on your answers

once you’ve submitted the

form.

Grammar

LI: To identify homophones and

homographs.

SC: I can explain what

homophones and homographs

are.

Watch the video at least two times

and complete the worksheets.

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=DxgKDWFTmck

Answers will be posted on GC the

following day.

Punctuation

LI: To punctuate

questions, commands,

exclamations and

statements correctly.

SC: I can use !.? correctly.

Watch the following

Powerpoint and complete

the worksheets.

Answers will be posted on

GC the following day.

Spelling

LI: To develop spelling skills through phonemic awareness

SC: I can identify sounds/phonemes and sound patterns in words

Look at the powerpoint and complete Soundwaves Unit 9 Student Activity Pages. Password: thong675

Answers will be posted to GC on Fridays at 1pm.

English: WritingWriting - Journal

LI: To create a primary source of information.

SC: I can make daily journal entries documenting

personal experiences.

Keep a journal of what’s happening in your life at the

moment. Try to find out some facts and statistics not only

about COVID 19 but also about the restrictions that have

been placed upon NSW residents, Australians and

people around the world. We are living through a

moment of time that will go down in history. Your

grandchildren may learn about this in school! Your

journal will be a primary source of information for them.

Consider the following prompts: What did the Australian

Government announce today? Does it impact your life?

Why or why not? What is open in your neighbourhood?

What is closed? How is today different from yesterday

for you, your family, our nation, the world? What does

your family need today that you might not have enough

of, or be able to acquire, in the future?

Wk 1: Writing Instruction

LI: To understand the purpose and features of

an exposition, including emotive language.

SC: Identify at least 12/15 emotive words.

Use the Interactive Exposition tool to learn about

Expositions (persuasive texts). You will need to

allow Flash Player. Click on the first page then click

on Exposition. Work your way through by clicking

on each tab on the left column and following the

activities on the screen.

Click on this icon when you’re finished each

screen.

Complete the activity. Could you find all 15 emotive

words without clicking on ‘hint’ on the final screen?

Read a Yr 6 student’s writing to show how an outstanding persuasive

can be written. Writing exemplar

Wk 1: CCT

OR Hold a contest to get the wildest idea

out first. Encourage everyone to think of the

absolute wildest possible solutions to a

problem. Which ideas are not that wild? e.g.

Ants as spies.

Wk 2: Home Talk

Task: Write a persuasive text to convince your

teacher that iPads are better than PCs. NB: You can

write it from the other perspective if you prefer ie:

PCs are better than iPads.

Persuasive Writing: Please discuss this topic in

preparation for the Big Write on Thursday. Discuss:

● What is your opinion?

● Do you agree or disagree?

● What are three reasons to support your opinion?

● What emotive words could you use in your

persuasive writing?

Wk 3: CCT

The acronym BAR can be used to improve the

design of almost anything. Make it Better by

Adding or Altering Removing or Replacing

Choose a sports game that you think is boring -

and suggest ways to improve it by changing the

rules or equipment using B.A.R.

Wk 4: Home Talk

Task: Write a persuasive text to convince

your teacher that reading a book is better

than digital reading. NB: You can write it from

the other perspective if you prefer. Please

discuss this topic in preparation for the Big

Write on Thursday. Discuss:

● What is your opinion?

● What are three reasons to support your

opinion?

● What emotive words could you use in

your persuasive writing?

Wk 5: CCT Optional listening tasks:

Listen to stories by famous authors:

David Walliams

Mem Fox

Listen to Squizkids podcast and take

notes on daily news.

Speaking and Listening

Mathematics

Log in to Maths Online

using the same

username and

password as

Mathletics.

Click on ‘Tasks’.

Click on the blue

maths topic (your set

task).

Your set task is here.

‘Tasks’ icon is here.

Mathematics Learning Intentions:

Fractions and Decimals

LI: To multiply decimals (up to three decimal places) by whole numbers (up to two

digits).

SC: Accurately answer set questions in Maths Online and Mathletics.

Time

LI: To read and interpret timetables.

SC: Accurately answer set questions in Maths Online and Mathletics.

Answers will be posted on:

Matharoo: Thursdays

Problem Solving: Fridays

❏ Complete the science pretest by yourself on Google Classroom

❏ Have a look at your feedback from the marked work. Note which questions you knew and which questions

you need to learn information about, in the unit and relate them to the Unit Content Success Criteria below

❏ Open the slide It’s electrifying! Week 1 posted on Google classroom and complete the tasks:

1. Write a definition for electricity.

2. Find appliances in your home that use electricity. What is the electrical energy transformed into? Present

this information in either the mind map or table provided in the slide on Google Classroom.

Science and Technology (Week 1)

Unit Content Success Criteria

Learning Intention: To investigate how electricity is

generated and used in our daily lives.

Success Criteria:

• I can describe how electricity is generated from a

range of sources and transformed from one type of

energy to another.

• I can create an electrical circuit to can control

movement, sound, or light in a product or system.

Physical Education (Weeks 1-5)

SISA SKILLS Password: getfitnow

Week 1:

Watch ‘Fundamental Movement Skills’ video (02) Password:

getfitnow

Click on the START WATCHING button.

Watch ‘Fitness & Strength’ video (06) Password: getfitnow

Click on the START WATCHING button.

Can you practise some of the skills you’ve learned?

Can you use these skills in a game you create yourself?

Week 2:

Watch ‘Dance’ video (08)

Password: getfitnow

Click on the START

WATCHING button.

What are some of the dance

steps you found easy to learn?

Were there any dance steps

you found challenging?

Could you add these dance

steps to your favourite song?

Week 3:

Watch ‘Fundamental

Movement Skills’ video (02)

Password: getfitnow

Click on the START

WATCHING button.

Can you practise some of the

skills you’ve learned?

Can you use these skills in a

game you create yourself?

Week 4:

Watch ‘Athletics development 2’ video (04) Password: getfitnow

Click on the START WATCHING button.

Can you practise some of the skills you’ve learned?

Can you use these skills in a game you create yourself?

Week 5:

Watch ‘Dance - Hip Hop’ video (11) Password: getfitnow

Click on the START WATCHING button.

Watch ‘Aerobics 2’ video (09) Password: getfitnow

Click on the START WATCHING button.

Watch ‘Yoga’ video (05) Password: getfitnow

Click on the START WATCHING button.

1. Listen to “Misery Moo” by Jeanne Willishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrdWyv7kJ6Y

2. Watch video lesson by Mrs. Kwan. Discuss “looking on the bright side” and what it means. https://youtu.be/ZLg9hn3NKW4

3. Activity: Draw a circle in the middle of your piece of paper and write “Things I love about my family”.

4. Extension Activity: Do the same activity for “Things I love about my school.”

Wellbeing Program - Ms KwanWellbeing lesson 1

PE Choice Board (Weeks 1-5)

FITNESS & STRENGTH - SISA

WORKOUT

Password: getfitnow

After clicking on the appropriate

video (06) click on the START

WATCHING button at the top of

the screen.

Create your own workout

including push-ups, squats,

lunges, running on the spot,

throwing and catching a ball.

Can you increase the number of

repetitions?

YOGA - SISA WORKOUT

Password: getfitnow

After clicking on the appropriate

video (05) click on the START

WATCHING button at the top of

the screen.

Daily PE lessons to follow

along with: PE with Joe

Jump for Your Life!

· Roll die to make two numbers

(various number of dice depending

on the size of the number needed)

e.g. three dice = 3 digit number

produced

· Record the number on the ground

· Perform the place value number

with an exercise e.g. thousands =

star jumps, hundreds = lunge, tens

= hops, units = high knees

AEROBICS - SISA

WORKOUT

Password: getfitnow

After clicking on the

appropriate video (09) click on

the START WATCHING button

at the top of the screen.

Many people from different countries have come to live in Australia and brought along their music. This term we are going to be learning about some music from other countries.

Classroom

code: suitcase

Music: Lesson 1Learning Intention: To become familiar with the Musica Viva group Mara, their

instruments and their first song, Bir Mumdur/Yek Mumik.

Success Criteria: I can identify the four types of instruments each person plays.

I can sing the chorus of Bir Mumdur.

1.Log in to the Musica Viva Website: musicavivainschools.com.au Use the log

in: suitcase

2.Click on: Music in My Suitcase and then Intro Activity- Unpacking the

Show

3.Scroll down and watch the video. You do not need to read the text.

4.Reflect on the video: What instruments did you hear? Can you describe their

sounds? Where did the instruments come from? Where did the musicians learn their music?

5. Replay the video to check your answers.

6. We all listen to and play music, so we all have ‘musical’ suitcases, what might be in yours?

7. The first song we are going to learn with Music in my Suitcase is called One Candle. It is a traditional song sung at weddings

particularly in Turkish and Kurdish. It asks - How many candles will we light at the wedding? First we will learn the song in English,

then Turkish and finally Kurdish.

Click on: Sing the chorus of Bir Mumdur/ Yek Mumik. Scroll down to the video. Sing each phrase after Mara.

8. Do you, or anyone in your family know another language. You just need to know the numbers from 1-4, 14 and the word candle.

Try singing the chorus in yet another language. Click on: Learn the chorus in a new language. Scroll down to the video. Sing the

chorus in English, Turkish, Kurdish and your new language.