Stage 3 Learning from Home Term 3, Week 1

Stage 3 Learning from Home

Term 3, Week 1

Please use Class Dojo to check in with your teacher every day

to mark your attendance! You can always use Class Dojo to ask your teacher a question if you don’t understand something!

Suggested Timetable

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

7:30am

–

8:50am

Wake up – Breakfast

– regular morning

routine!


– regular morning

routine!


– regular morning

routine!

Wake up – Breakfast –

regular morning

routine!

9:00am Check in Check in Check in Check in

9:10am Spelling

Reading

Writing

Spelling

Reading

Writing

Spelling

Reading

Writing

Spelling

Reading

Writing

10:40am Lunch/1st Break Lunch/1st Break Lunch/1st Break Lunch/1st Break

11:20am Number Work

Math

Number Work

Math

Number Work

Math

Number Work

Math

1:00pm Recess/2nd Break Recess/2nd Break Recess/2nd Break Recess/2nd Break

1:30pm Other Learning

Areas

Other Learning

Areas

Other Learning Areas Other Learning Areas

2:30pm Fitness/Backyard

Fun

Fitness/Backyard

Fun

Fitness/Backyard Fun Fitness/Backyard Fun

Learning from Home

Paper Online

• Pick up a Learning from Home booklet

from the school

• Student check in every day on Class

Dojo by 8:50am.

• Complete all work in a booklet,

workbook or spare paper.

• Access to the Learning from Home

material via School Website / Class

Dojo.

• Student check in by 8:50am every day

on Class Dojo.

• Use Class Dojo to submit answers/take

photos of work.

• Or, use Microsoft Word/Powerpoint

and send files through to Class Dojo.

Work to be dropped off at school on

Monday 19th July.

Work to be submitted DAILY.

***ANYTHING HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW MUST BE COMPLETED***

Spelling (Paper & Online)

YOU MUST COMPLETE ONE ACTIVITY PER DAY. It has been highlighted for you. Once you have completed your

must do, you can do a fast finisher/backyard fun. Your spelling words have been attached.

Make sure you look, cover, write and check your words EVERY DAY.

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Write all your words into

interesting sentences.

Make sure your sentences all

have a different start!

Write your spelling words in

order from least amount of

syllables to the most.


alphabetical order.

Write three clues about four

of your spelling words. Ask

someone to try and guess your

spelling words using your clues.

Create your own word

search/find-a-word using all the

words on your spelling list.

Use a dictionary

(Google/online) or your own

understanding to write

definitions for each of your

words.

Sort the words on your spelling

list into three different

categories of your choice.


different directions, filling up

the whole sheet! Use different

colours and types of writing

for each word.

Write a sentence for each of

your spelling words using as much

alliteration as possible.

Write a story using as many of

your spelling words as you can.

Underline each of your spelling

words.

Split your words into their

sounds just like we do in our

SMART Spelling Grid! Don’t

forget the tricky part!

For each of your words, write

another word that is a synonym

(means the same) for your

spelling word.

Write antonyms (words that are

the opposite) to your spelling

words.

Write a letter to a friend

using as many spelling words in

your letter as you can.

Make a special code for each

of your spelling words and see

if someone can break it!

Write out your spelling words

in your very best handwriting

that’ll make your teacher say

10 out of 10!

Reading (Paper & Online) YOU MUST COMPLETE

ONE ACTIVITY PER DAY. It has been highlighted for you. Once you have completed your must do, you can do a

fast finisher/backyard fun. If you don’t have something to read, there are comprehension tasks attached.


**Every day read for 20mins




Read the attached article

about NAIDOC week.

Answer the questions.

Find a picture book and

read it out loud to a

sibling, parent/carer or a

pet.

Use lots of expression.

Describe one of the main

characters of the book

you have read. Include how

they act, look and any

interesting facts about

them.

Go to the kitchen and look

through packets of food.

Read the labels and

identify the words used to

convince people to buy the

product.

Read the main headline in a

newspaper or magazine,

(online or off) predict what

the article might be about.

Read the article and see if

you were correct!

Complete the NAIDOC

week cloze passage

activity

Find some reading material

in your house and read it

out loud, pretending to be

a character from a fairy-

tale.

Write a book review about

what you have been

reading this week.

Writing (Paper & Online)

YOU MUST COMPLETE ONE ACTIVITY PER DAY. It has been highlighted for you.


Recount: Write a recount

about what you did during

the school holidays.


about a dream that you

once had.


about your last birthday.


about your favourite

holiday.

Persuasion: Write a letter the

Tahmoor community, and convince

them to reduce, reuse and

recycle their rubbish.

Persuasion: Write a letter to

school, explaining why we

SHOULD or SHOULD not

attend school during lockdown.

Persuasion: Write an exposition,

arguing reasons FOR or

AGAINST learning a musical

instrument

Persuasion: Write an exposition,

arguing reasons FOR or

AGAINST sending people out

to space.

Narrative: using the following ideas:

Setting: Beach

Main character: Whale

Complication: Tsunami

Resolution: Make your own


Setting: Graveyard

Main character: Skeleton

Complication: Empty grave



Setting: Farmyard

Main character: Rooster

Complication: Missing eggs



Setting: Backyard

Main character: Bird

Complication: Injury


Explanation: Do 20 star jumps.

Explain what happens to your

body during this activity and

after the activity.

Explanation: Write an

explanation, on what happens

to ice if you put it in a bowl of

warm water.

Explanation: Fill a cup to the top

with water, drop a waterproof

item into the water. What

happens? Write an explanation.

Explanation: Write an explanation

on why an animal has a specific

adaptation. For example,

explain the reason a wombat

has a backwards facing pouch.

LIBRARY : Please write a reply to your penpal

Maths (Paper & Online)

YOU MUST COMPLETE AT LEAST ONE ACTIVITY PER DAY. It has been highlighted for you.

Practice your times tables OR division tables EVERY DAY.


Using geometry, play Simon Says. Have family members create acute, obtuse and right

angles with their arms. Try having them make parallel and perpendicular lines.

Write and solve 5 expressions that require order of operations, e.g. 6 + 3 x 5 - 7.

Explain each expression and the order of operations to a family member.

Create a restaurant menu with appetisers, entrees and desserts. Use multiplication and division expressions instead of dollar amounts to show the price, e.g. instead of

$15, use $5 x $3.

Roll a die 2 times. The first roll is your numerator. The second roll is your

denominator. Use this fraction to complete the Fraction Fact File sheet. Show it to a family member when you have finished.

Choose a number between 1 and 100. Create a riddle about that number for your family to solve, e.g. I am a two-digit, even number. My second digit is a zero. If you divide me by two, I am 5 times as much as 5. What number am

I? 50!

Vowels are worth $50 and consonants are worth $40. Can you make a word that is

worth $280? How about $620? How much is your name worth?

Create a poster that shows the connection between multiplication and division. Use picture models and two-digit numbers.

Present the poster to your family.

Make a how-to guide for dividing a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number. Have a family member solve a division problem using the

guide you created.

Create a multi-step word problem that involves online shopping and has an answer of

$16.75. Have a family member solve the problem.

Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast triangles and quadrilaterals.

Include at least 2 similarities and 2 differences.

The answer is 1/3. What could the question be? Create 3 word problems that

have 1/3 as an answer. Have a family member solve them.

Draw a pizza on paper. Cut it into fourths. Give each slice a different topping. How many pizzas do you need for each family

member to get 2 slices with the same topping? Repeat and cut the pizza into

sixths. Play a game of Rock Paper Scissors with a

partner. Hold up numbers with your fingers. The first person to say the product of the

numbers gets a point. The first player with 10 points wins. Try playing using two hands!

Grab 10 forks and 10 spoons from your kitchen. Create as many 2D shapes as you can with them. Can you make 3 different

by shapes using all 10 utensils?

The answer is $12.75. What could the question be? Write 2 multi-step word problems, one using addition and one using subtraction, where the answer is

$12.75. Have a family member solve both problems.

Create a poster that shows 4 examples of how we use decimals in everyday life. Use

illustrations to show your examples. Present the poster to your family.

Number work (Paper & Online) YOU MUST COMPLETE ALL FOUR ACTIVITIES EVERY DAY

Place Value: What is the

value of the number in

BOLD

Expanding numbers:

Expand the following

numbers

Write and solve as many

addition and subtraction

algorithms as you can with

the following numbers

Solve these number

sentences and write

them as a word problem

Tuesday

267, 839

63,765

324 496

82

820 892

(3 x 7) – (2 x 3) =

Wednesday

937, 903

50,542,400

324 496

82

820 892

½ + 2 ¼ =

Thursday

903, 810,938

99,402

324 496

82

820 892

(18 – 5) + (3 + 7) =

Friday

4,892,760

342,802

324 496

82

820 892

( 25 ÷ 5 ) – ( 9 ÷ 3 ) =

*** Optional extra : Get a pack of cards and use as many as you like to create a number sentence using addition,

subtraction, multiplication or division

Other Learning Areas (Paper & Online) YOU MUST COMPLETE ONE ACTIVITY PER DAY. It has been highlighted for you.


Create a ‘gratitude jar’ for your home. Find an empty jar and put the

Gratitude Jar Labels on it. Each day, have everyone in your family write

something they are grateful for. At the end of the week, read them as a

family.

Take a sensory safari outside. Walk slowly around the yard. Pick up a rock and feel the textures. Smell a flower. Listen to all of the sounds.

Pay close attention to all of the small details as you slowly walk

around.

Grab 6 pieces of paper. Draw a large, 2D shape on each page. With

your finger, slowly trace the perimeter of the shape while taking

deep, mindful breaths.

Stand up tall and put your arms out to the side. Slowly breathe in and lean to one side, stretching your

fingers to the floor. Slowly breathe out while standing back up. Do this for 2 minutes, switching sides each

time.

Create a silly creature. Cut out different body parts, decorate them

and put them together to make a creature. Use an empty cereal or

tissue box to make your creature 3D.

Think of a situation in nature where a plant provides shelter for an

animal. Draw a picture and explain the interdependence that takes

place between the two living things.

Measure your bedroom in lunges, bunny hops, and tiptoes. What other ways can you measure it?

Create a colouring page that contains a word explaining the

emotion you are feeling today. Fill each letter of the word with di-

fferent geometric shapes or patterns. When you are finished,

colour it in.

Get a piece of paper, a ruler and a pencil. Use the ruler to draw straight

lines from one edge of the page to the other. Draw lines in all directions. Decorate and colour each shape.

What famous landforms and/or national parks are in your state? Locate them on a map. Create a

brochure that describes each one and encourages people to visit.

Write a song or rap to describe what it is like learning at home. Be sure to add in as many descriptive

adjectives as you can.

Start at one end of your home. Walk heel-to-toe to the other end while touching your nose. Breath

slowly and calmly. See if you can do this in 3 minutes.

Create a physical education (PE) class for your family to participate in at the end of the day. Lead stretches, then

play a game.

Research the capital city of your state. Create a poster answering

these questions: How was it chosen to be the capital? Present the

poster to your family.

Stand in front of a ticking clock. With each tick, alternate touching your head, shoulders, knees, then

toes. Do this for 2 minutes.

Analyse how you and your family have adapted to being at home

together for an extended period of time.

Fitness/Backyard Fun Choose 1 or more activity every day!

Play a game with a

sibling/siblings!

Create an obstacle

course with the things in

your backyard!

Go on Youtube and find a

fun exercise activity OR

Cosmo Kids Yoga!

Play a game with

your pet/pets!

Jump on the

scooter/skateboard

trampoline/bike!

Play a game of

soccer/basketball/footy/

netball

Create a

cheerleading/dance

routine and put on a show

for your family!

Grab a skipping rope

or make your own

rope!

Do a quick fitness routine with the following exercises:

Do the following fitness routine:

5x star jumps

5x push ups

5x sit ups

5x burpees

Fast Finishers (Online) If you finish an activity early or would like extra time working try an online fast finisher.

Prodigy StudyLadder JustDance Typing Club

Hit the Button Behind the News

https://sso.prodigygame.com/game/start?rid=53431c86-623d-41ff-b3a5-e96db25a5379

https://www.studyladder.com.au/login/account

https://www.typingclub.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAO_FK7jh-M

NAIDOC week questions

1. On which date did Indigenous Australians first protest?

2. Why did they choose this date to hold their protest?

3. What name was given to the first event?

4. Why did the Indigenous Australians give the event this name?

5. Why wouldn’t the Australian government assist Aboriginal Australians?

6. Do you think William Cooper was Indigenous? Justify your answer.

7. What did NADOC stand for?

8. List three ways in which NAIDOC Week has changed since started.

9. Why is NAIDOC Week important?

10. How do you think Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples feel during NAIDOC Week?

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Term 3, Week 1, Stage 3 Tahmoor Public School Spelling List:

Year 4 Year 5 / 6 OC

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claim washable changeable

aim reliable interchangeable

rain lockable knowledgeable

reclaim stretchable saleable

sustain charitable hireable

abstain reasonable conceivable

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braid negotiable ** Find extra ible and able words

pain profitable

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Stage 3 Learning from Home Term 3, Week 1