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YEAR 4 WEEKLY OVERVIEW

Week 4, Term 2 2020

MONDAY

Welcome to Week 4! This week most of you will have one day where you are Learning At School and all the teachers are very excited to see you again! On your Learning At School day please bring your booklet and Blast Off School Magazine with you.

If a sheet is not already provided in the booklet, please complete activities on a spare piece of paper.

This week, you will be submitting a History task which is highlighted and marked with an asterisk * . Please submit this task to your class teacher by Friday May 22nd at 3pm. You will also be writing an information report that needs to be submitted in person in week 5.

Mathletics: Check your Mathletics account for three activities, set by your class teacher.

MORNING SESSION

English Writing: (30 minutes) *This week your writing lessons are in a sequence. You will need to follow the sequence. If today

is your ‘At School’ day, you will do a Sizzling Starts writing lesson with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home tomorrow.

Lesson 1 Today you are going to learn to take notes from an Informative Text. Watch this instructional video on ‘Taking Notes’ by Miss Maclaine and Miss Marks.

https://youtu.be/c4G1MA3a2LA

When you have finished watching the video, have a go at taking notes by completing the ‘ Research

Skills – Note Taking worksheet about Sharks’ in your booklet.

Fast Finishers: Use your dot point notes to create a poster about sharks.

Reading: (60 minutes)

Note: If today is your ‘At School’ day, you will do the Friday reading activity with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home on Friday.

Independent Reading

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Read a book of your own choice for 15 minutes, record the name of the book and then spend 10 minutes completing the ‘Making Connections’ activity on the ‘ Independent Reading’ page of your booklet. Shared Reading You will need to access an informative text called Will Wonders Never Cease? Carnival in Ivrea – Prepare for Battle. It is from Blast Off 2019. Use this link. https://theschoolmagazine.com.au/ Click on the ‘Students’ tab and enter the class code which is: B16005 Choose the Yr 4 Wk 4 Classroom. Inside there are five tiles. Each tile is a direct link to an article needed for this week’s reading activities. When re-reading and taking notes, some people use a graphic organiser to record their ideas. Read Will Wonders Never Cease? Carnival in Ivrea – Prepare for Battle Re-read the text, taking note of the key words and ideas. Record your keywords on the graphic organiser in your booklet called ‘Reading, Re-Reading and Taking Notes of Key Ideas’ Mrs Chapman's Library Book Club! Optional Join in and discuss new and old books via Google Classroom. We will have weekly discussions and complete online activities based on books from our Library. No purchasing of books required! The Google Classroom code is: Stage 2: bjifoco

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Maths: (60 minutes)

Mass

Note: If today is your ‘At School’ day, you will do the Friday Maths activity with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home on Friday.

Starter: (5-10 minutes)

Complete Set 1 (Monday) of your ‘Maths Mentals ’ page in your booklet.

Lesson: (40-50 minutes)

Watch this introductory instructional video about ‘Mass’ by Mrs Richardson. https://youtu.be/ZRSrotdGfhg

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In addition, watch these videos and then complete the tasks : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPnUA1Z8FTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeiN3dpp1Pw

Complete the Monday Mass pages in your booklet :

- ‘Mass - using different weights’ - ‘Mass - kilograms and grams’

Fast Finishers: (10 - 15 minutes)

Complete ‘ Metric units of weight: grams and kilograms’ page #1.

Personal Development: (20 minutes)

The world is a better place when we display kindness and empathy. Kindness is actually a natural human response however it is something that we should practise regularly so that it travels with us from childhood into adulthood.

Kindness activity:

What was something kind you have seen someone do lately? It can be big or small.

1. On a blank piece of paper list make a list of the kind acts you have witnessed recently.

2. Draw a picture of your favourite act of kindness.

3. Write about why this was kind and why it is your favourite.

LUNCH

Science: (60 minutes)

INQUIRY: Does the size of the push or pull effect the movement of an object?

1. Follow the directions in your booklet, ‘Week 4 Monday Science’ to make a prediction.

2. Complete Investigation 1 in your booklet. This includes doing the activity and answering the questions. PLEASE NOTE: For this investigation, you need to run and walk over at least a 10m distance so go outside or use the Hallway.

3. Complete Investigation 2 in your booklet. This includes doing the activity and answering the questions. PLEASE NOTE: For this investigation, ask a parent/carer for permission to get from the cupboard, 2 same size, shape and MASS cans of food e.g. tinned tomatoes, baked beans, peaches, tuna, etc.

4. Follow the directions in your workbook to revisit your earlier prediction.

5. Read ‘How is speed affected by the size of the force?’ in your booklet and answer the related questions.

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If you have finished your learning and would like to be extended, look at these activities on our Extension site. https://sites.google.com/view/stage2extensionhomelearninglps/home

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YEAR 4 WEEKLY OVERVIEW WEEK 4, TERM 2 2020

TUESDAY

MORNING SESSION

English

Writing: (30 minutes)

English

Writing: (30 minutes) *This week your writing lessons are in a sequence. You will need to follow the sequence. If today


Lesson 2 Over the next few lessons you are going to start to plan, research, write and publish an Informative Text about an animal of your choice. Step 1: Using https://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/home#animalsworld pick one animal that you are interested in and would like to find more information about. Step 2: Once you have picked your animal, you will use the template - ‘Fact File - Animals’ to write down your facts using dot points. Fast Finishers: Complete further research to find more information about your animal. Here are some websites you might use; https://www.natgeokids.com/au/ https://www.coolkidfacts.com/animals/

Spelling: (15 minutes)

Use the ‘Spelling Week 4’ pages in your booklet. Complete the ‘Look, Cover, Say, Write, Check activity’.

Find out the meaning of any words you do not know.


Note: If today is your ‘At School’ day, you will do the Friday reading activity with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home on Friday.

Independent Reading

Read a book of your own choice for 15 minutes, record the name of the book and then spend 10 minutes completing the Summarising activity on the ‘ Independent Reading’ page of your booklet. Shared Reading

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You will need to access an informative text called Hello Olinguito. It is from Blast Off 2019. Use this link. https://theschoolmagazine.com.au/ Click on the ‘Students’ tab and enter the class code which is: B16005 Choose the Yr 4 Wk 4 Classroom. Inside there are five tiles. Each tile is a direct link to an article needed for this week’s reading activities. When expanding notes into your own sentences, it is good to think about synonyms for words in the text. After reading the information report called Hello Olinguito , complete the page in your booklet called ‘Using Synonyms’ Mrs Chapman's Library Book Club! Optional Join in and discuss new and old books via Google Classroom. We will have weekly discussions and complete online activities based on books from our Library. No purchasing of books required! The Google Classroom code is: Stage 2: bjifoco

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Maths: Mass

Note: If today is your ‘At School’ day, you will do the Friday Maths activity with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home on Friday.


Complete Set 2 (Tuesday) of your ‘ Maths Mentals’ page in your booklet.

Lesson: (30-40 minutes)

Watch these short videos and then complete the tasks

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNcA-bD7F68

Complete ‘Reading Scales’ page in your booklet

Complete ‘Reading Scales to Measure in Grams’ page in your booklet

Fast Finishers: (20 minutes)

Complete ‘ Metric units of weight: grams and kilograms’ page #2


Kindness activity:

1. Watch the following videos on kindness;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7f1hTmIAQ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwelE8yyY0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdYJr03eJjE

2. Have a discussion with somebody about whether you have seen a random act of kindness.

3. In your discussion answer this question; Do you think in times of crisis such as bushfires, floods and even Covid-19 we see more random acts of kindness than normal? Why do you think this?

LUNCH

* History: 60 minutes

Our journey continues…...last week we looked at the overcrowded prisons and the overcrowded prison hulks in London. The conditions were filthy, disease ridden and overcrowded. Something had to be done with all of these convicts! But what? The solution was TRANSPORTATION to the Great Southern Land that is now known as Australia. The Convicts were sentenced to 7 or 14 years transportation to Botany Bay in NSW. Perhaps you might want to look up where Botany Bay is on the map of NSW.

Today you are going to read all about Transportation, then you are going to answer questions about transportation. You will also write about how it would feel to be sent away from England to live in Australia, remember, only Aboriginal people lived in Australia at that time! Finally, you will design a convict ‘love token’.

Complete these activities on your ‘ Transportation’ and History Activity’ pages of your booklet.

Please take photos of your written reflection and love token design. Email the photos to your teacher on Friday May 22nd or bring to school on your day at school.

Extension activities- https://sites.google.com/view/stage2extensionhomelearninglps/home

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WEEK 4, TERM 2 2020 WEDNESDAY

MORNING SESSION

English

Writing (45 minutes)

*This week your writing lessons are in a sequence. You will need to follow the sequence. If today is your ‘At School’ day, you will do a Sizzling Starts writing lesson with your teacher. You will

need to catch up on the following activity at home tomorrow. Lesson 3 Today you will begin planning your Informative Text. Using the facts you recorded on the ‘ Fact File Animals’ dot points page you worked on yesterday, you will now use the ‘ Informative Text Scaffold’ in your booklet to write your text. Remember your Information Report needs:

- An introduction: If you have learnt how to use a ‘Sizzling Start’ for an information report try to use one in this report! Or you can use a general statement about the animal like in this example: Sharks are a type of fish. There are over 450 species of shark on the planet. Most sharks live for approximately 20-30 years in the wild.

- A description : a series of factual paragraphs describing the animal For example- Appearance, Diet, Habitat, Movement, Life cycle, Other interesting facts

- A conclusion: a final statement about the animal. For example : Sharks are fascinating creatures who inhabit oceans all over the world.

Hint 1 - Remember your learning from last week about how to write a paragraph? - A topic sentence - State facts - Concluding sentence

Hint 2: Your written text flows better when you start your sentences in different ways. For example : alternate between the name of your animal and ‘they’. ‘Tigers are carnivores. They eat…….’ Once you have finished, carefully edit your work. You may wish to use a different colour pencil. Focus on;

- Spelling : use a dictionary to look up the spelling of words. - Punctuation: full stops, capital letters. Have I used capital letters to begin a new sentence or

applied capital letters to proper nouns ? For example Tigers. - Sentence structure. Does it make sense? Am I missing any words?

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Spelling: (20 minutes)

Use 10 of the words in clear sentences that show the meaning of the word. Make these sentences interesting.


Note: If today is your ‘At School Day’, you will do the Friday reading activity with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home on Friday.

Independent Reading

Read a book of your own choice for 15 minutes, record the name of the book and then spend 10 minutes completing the Visualising activity on the Independent Reading page of your booklet. Shared Reading You will need to access an informative text called The Life of a Japanese Snow Monkey. It is from Blast Off 2019. Use this link. https://theschoolmagazine.com.au/ Click on the ‘Students’ tab and enter the class code which is: B16005 Choose the Yr 4 Wk 4 Classroom. Inside there are five tiles. Each tile is a direct link to an article needed for this week’s reading activities. 1.Skim read the text. Read it quickly, looking at headings, key words, first and last sentences of paragraphs. Write a paragraph about the general idea of the text in your booklet on the page called ‘Skimming and Scanning - The Life of a Japanese Monkey’ 2. Complete the scanning activity. Mrs Chapman's Library Book Club! Optional Join in and discuss new and old books via Google Classroom. We will have weekly discussions and complete online activities based on books from our Library. No purchasing of books required! The Google Classroom code is: Stage 2: bjifoco

RECESS

Maths: Mass

Note: If today is your ‘At School Day’, you will do the Friday Maths activity with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home on Friday.


Complete Set 3 (Wednesday) of your ‘ Maths Mentals’ page in your booklet.

Lesson: (30 - 40 minutes)

Watch this short video and then complete the tasks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkO9M8um6I

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Complete ‘ Comparing and Ordering Measurements of Mass, Volume and Capacity’ page in your booklet.

Complete the ‘Mass Challenges’ page in your booklet.


‘Money Measure’ page in your booklet.


Kindness activity:

1. Watch ‘ Have you filled a bucket Today? ’ on the following link;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEg38zCOMgk

2. Have you filled a bucket today?

3. If your answer is YES – on a spare piece of paper, write about what you did, how it made you feel and how it made the other person feel. Draw a picture.

If your answer is NO – on a spare piece of paper, write about how you could fill a bucket today, whose bucket would it be? Predict how you would feel and how the other person might feel. Draw a picture.

Physical Education: Watch this instructional video, ‘PE with Mr Elsely’ for Workout No.2! https://youtu.be/7rNtzcbwGFk

LUNCH

Visual Arts: (60 minutes)

This lesson we are looking at the art element COLOUR.

Click on this link to go to the google site for the lesson details.

https://sites.google.com/view/lps-s2-va-colour/home

You will be creating a colour wheel eye artwork.

Materials -

● Eye template - See pack page of booklet ● 1 piece of coloured paper for background (or colour a white piece of paper)

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● Black paper/cardboard (or plain paper coloured black) ● Scissors ● Glue ● Paint ● Paint brushes

If no paint is available use coloured crayons, pencils or textas.

Extension activities - https://sites.google.com/view/stage2extensionhomelearninglps/home

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WEEK 4, TERM 2 2020

THURSDAY

MORNING SESSION

English

Writing: (30 minutes) *This week your writing lessons are in a sequence. You will need to follow the sequence. If today


Lesson 4 Today you will publish your Informative Text. You may wish to use the lined paper provided or publish using ‘Google Docs’ or ‘Word’. If you decide to publish your writing on the computer, see if you can include pictures of your animal. When you are publishing carefully copy your writing as you have already edited your work to check for any mistakes. Once you have finished draw a picture of your animal. Remember to use colour and outline your drawing. Spelling: (20 minutes)

Go back in your booklet and find your ‘Spelling Week 4’ page, complete the ‘ Spelling Rule ’ activity for

Thursday.


Note: If today is your ‘At School Day’, you will do the Friday reading activity with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home on Friday.

Independent Reading

Read a book of your own choice for 15 minutes, record the name of the book and then spend 10 minutes completing the ‘Questioning activity on the Independent Reading page of your booklet. Shared Reading You will need to access an informative text called The Curious Kea. It is from Blast Off 2019. Use this link. https://theschoolmagazine.com.au/ Click on the ‘Students’ tab and enter the class code which is: B16005 Choose the Yr 4 Wk 4 Classroom. Inside there are five tiles. Each tile is a direct link to an article needed for this week’s reading activities. 1.Skim read the text. Read it quickly, looking at headings, key words, first and last sentences of paragraphs. Write a paragraph about the general idea of the text in your booklet on the page called ‘Skimming, Re-Reading and Taking Notes’

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2. Read the whole text. 3. Re-read and take notes on the ‘The Curious Kea’ text, Use dot points to record your ideas. Mrs Chapman's Library Book Club! Optional Join in and discuss new and old books via Google Classroom. We will have weekly discussions and complete online activities based on books from our Library. No purchasing of books required! The Google Classroom code is: Stage 2: bjifoco

RECESS

Maths: Mass

Note: If today is your ‘At School Day’, you will do the Friday Maths activity with your teacher. You will need to catch up on the following activity at home on Friday.


Complete Set 4 (Thursday) of your ‘ Maths Mentals’ page in your booklet.

Lesson: (30 - 40 minutes)

Watch these short videos and then complete the tasks

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptaVY3-vRZM

Complete ‘Mass - Grams and Kilograms A and B’ pages in your booklet.


Look at your ‘Money Measures’ from yesterday. Can you think of another way to solve the problem?

(Hint: there are at least two different ways to solve it).


Kindness activity:

Your goal for the rest of the week is to perform 3 acts of kindness. Take the time now to think about what they will be, who they will be for and plan how you will go about doing them. Good luck.

LUNCH

Drama: 60 minutes

‘Monologue’ comes from the Greek words monos (which means ‘alone’) and logos (which means ‘speech’) It is a speech given by a single character / actor in order to express his /her thoughts and ideas aloud. You are going to prepare a 1 minute free choice monologue. Spend 20-30 minutes planning what information you need to get across. Email your monologue to Mrs Burbage. Points to consider:

● Good eye contact

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● Not saying ‘um’ ● Interesting topics

Music ‘Zimbole’ is an African folksong Use this link to find ZIMBOLE https://youtu.be/zmrQY3akU7Q Stop at the end of the song. Listen to the song and learn the words. Repeat playing the song a few times, trying to sing, make the ‘sol fa’ hand signs and then, using the body percussion (clap, pat). If you play an instrument (drum/ bongo drum, piano or guitar) try playing along to that part as well!

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WEEK 4, TERM 2 2020 FRIDAY

MORNING SESSION

English


Independent Reading

Read a book of your own choice for 15 minutes. You have probably done the 'The New Inventors Club - Play reading’ on your ‘At School’ day. Instead, please catch up on your reading activities from earlier in the week that you would have missed. For example if you went to school on Tuesday, you will need to complete Tuesday's activities. If you did not go to school this week, do the following. Shared Reading You will need to access the play called The New Inventors Club. It is in your current School Magazine. Alternatively use this link. https://theschoolmagazine.com.au/ Click on the ‘Students’ tab and enter the class code which is: B16005 Choose the Yr 4 Wk 4 Classroom. Inside there are five tiles. Each tile is a direct link to an article needed for this week’s reading activities. 1. Read the play with your family members or class mates if you are at school. Pay attention to your fluency, reading clearly and with expression. Highlight and practise your lines before you read through together. 2. Complete the page in your booklet called Play Reading - The New Inventors’ Club’ by inferring the personalities of the characters in this play 3. Imagine that this play was going to be performed on a stage. How would you set up the stage? Imagine the stage set, backdrop and props. Draw a design for the stage set.

Writing:

Reminder- this week your writing lessons are in a sequence, today you will need to complete Lesson 4 of the sequence. Make sure you have completed the four lessons of note taking, planning, drafting and publishing your information report about an animal. Remember, you will need to bring a hard copy of your published information report to school when you return. We can’t wait to see your work displayed in the classroom! Handwriting: (20 minutes) Complete the pages in your booklet called ‘ Maintaining a consistent slope - Kakadu’. Take the time to make sure your handwriting is neat and clear. There are two pages.

Grammar: (30 minutes)

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This week our Grammar focus is on adjectives. An adjective is a describing word which tells us more about nouns. Adjectives describe things, people and places. Please read the ‘ WANTED Harry the Monster’ page and complete the two adjectives worksheets. Spelling: (20 minutes) Create a word search using any words that you have used this week. Choose words from your spelling list, the spelling rule or words from your information report, ‘Mass’ words, ‘Forces’ words, ‘Transportation to the Colony of NSW’ words.Use the Word Search page in your booklet. Mrs Chapman's Library Book Club! Optional Join in and discuss new and old books via Google Classroom. We will have weekly discussions and complete online activities based on books from our Library. No purchasing of books required! The Google Classroom code is: Stage 2: bjifoco

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Maths: Mass

You have probably done the 'Mass - Kilograms and Grams' activity on your ‘At School’ day. Instead, please catch up on your Maths activities from earlier in the week that you would have missed. For example if you went to school on Tuesday, you will need to complete Tuesday's activities. If you didn’t have a day at school, do the following activities today.


Complete Friday - ‘ Maths Mentals’ task in your booklet.

Lesson: (30 - 40 minutes) Watch this instructional video about Mass with Mr Gortley. https://youtu.be/7GqHMxqgiN4

Use the information that you have just learnt to complete the ‘ Mass - Kilograms and Grams’ pages in your booklet.


Complete any Mathletics tasks you haven’t finished this week or if you have, play 15 mins of Mathletics live.

LUNCH

Health: (40 minutes)

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Complete the Healthy Eating worksheets in your booklet.

PE: (60 minutes)

Watch this instructional video, ‘PE with Mr Elsely video 3’ https://youtu.be/3P2i8-Bd8AQ

PE with Mr Elsley – Video 3

Well done on completing Week 3 skills. If you have not completed those skills, please continue to practice these skills until you have completed them. New skills for Week 4 have been added to the skills checklist which you will find in your Workbook under ‘Week 4 Skipping’. You should have a log book and tick off skills you have done so far. Try to do them as a double bounce, single bounce and continuously before you tick off completed.

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