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Framework for Learning from Home – Stage 3 For some of the below activities you may need your parents help. Show each completed activity to your parents to check. These activities

are designed to be started on Wednesday and continue until the end of Term 1.

If you are unable to access the internet for any activities listed, please complete an additional word work grid task or one of the

activities/ideas for home from the NSW DoE.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Morning English

Reading: DEAR reading for 20 minutes

From the last chapter you just read during DEAR, write your response to the chapter. Use these questions to guide your answers:

a). Are there any words you do not understand? If so, write them down and use a dictionary to find the meaning of the word/s. Then put the word/s into a sentence each.

b). Summarise the key events from the chapter.

c). How has a main character from the story inspired you?

d). Make a connection with

English

Reading: With parent/ carer guidance, look at some headlines in a magazine or newspaper.

Respond: Write a letter to the journalist with further questions you would have asked in regards to the story they wrote.

Viewing: Watch ‘Behind the News’ at 10am on ABC Me or online at https://www.abc.net.au/btn

Choose your favourite story. Write a summary of the story.

English

Reading: DEAR reading for 20 minutes

Spelling: complete a task from the Word Work grid using your core word list.

Writing: Write a persuasive text: ‘Why movies are/are not better than books.’

Gratitude Journal

Complete the next page of your gratitude journal (copies supplied if you left it at school)

English

Reading: Read one chapter of your DEAR novel. Take apart of the story that you have read and turn it into a comic strip. (template provided)


Start with Unit 1

Writing: Write a Haiku Poem about a chosen topic. If you are uncertain about what a Haiku is research for clarification and examples. (example of poem has been included in your package)

Line 1: 5 syllables

Line 2: 7 syllables

Line 3: 5 syllables

English

Reading: Read one chapter of your DEAR novel. Write a diary entry for one character in your book. (Pretend you are that character)

Journal writing: Create/draw a meme to describe your home learning experience. Write a short explanation to explain your drawing


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a situation in your life that relates to the chapter.

e). Predict what will happen next.

Any other comments or thoughts

2. From your novel, find and record the following:

a) 5 proper nouns

b) 3 noun groups (adjectives + noun)

c) 3 verb groups (verb + adverb)

d) 2 compound sentences

3. Illustrate a descriptive passage from your novel.

Additional Reading (optional)

5/6S & 5/6FM - 2 Literacy Planet tasks or 2 ReadWorks tasks

4/5H - ReadWorks

The Mermaid of Kona

Read and complete comprehension activities

(See Google Classroom)



4/5H - ReadWorks

The Spookiest Attic





4/5H - ReadWorks

A Kid in a Candy Store



Illustrate

Week 2 Poetry

Using the same topic, create a shape poem. (example included in package)



4/5H - ReadWorks

The Echoinng Green (poem)





4/5H - ReadWorks

The Chicken & the Egg



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Break Break Break Break Break Break

Middle Mathematics:

1.Starter: go to link below and do the activity that corresponds to the day’s date

https://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/

2. Renaming: Our number for today is 1346. How many different ways can you write/represent this number. Next week, choose a new number and repeat.

Complete the Mathletics activities set by the teacher.

or

Complete one page of the Daily Maths Problems for your grade (included in package)

Mathematics:



2. Look at the weather forecast for this week. Design a line graph to reflect the maximum temperature on each day.

(see example of line graph in package)

Science and Tech

What factors affect the movement of objects?

Investigate: Using household supplies build a ramp. Find an object to roll down the ramp (toy car, tennis ball etc.) Measure how far the object rolls. Adjust the angle of the ramp and repeat. Graph your results and explain your findings.

Challenge: Vary the

Mathematics:



2. Complete the Mathletics activities set by the teacher.

or


PDHPE

Design a small fitness circuit with at least 4 different activities. (check out your Best You Can Be booklet for ideas. – copy of page provided in pack) Complete the circuit every day this week. Do two circuits per session

Challenge someone in your family to compete with you or just do it on your

Mathematics:



2. Measurement:

Find a recipe in a newspaper/magazine. Double the quantities and rewrite the recipe showing the new metric measurements.

Challenge: If you served this to your family how kilojoules (energy) will each person get in their serving?

Week 2: Find a recipe in a newspaper/magazine. Half the quantities and rewrite the recipe showing the new metric measurements.

Challenge:

Work out total fat serving per person.

Mathematics:



2. Complete the Mathletics activities set by the teacher.

or


PDHPE

Complete your circuit

Gratitude Journal

Complete the next page of your gratitude journal

(copies provided)


















surface where you place your ramp and investigate the friction of different surfaces and how that changes the stopping distance of your object.

own.

Week 2:

Design another circuit that uses different activities at each station.

Make the recipe

Break Break Break Break Break Break

Afternoon PDHPE

Complete the circuit

Creative Arts: Visual Arts

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A8a8cb039-dee8-45e6-a1a8-16d955943461

Print off one of the templates at the link above, or draw your own. (copies also provided)

See if you can turn each shape into something unique.

Week 2:

Choose a different template from the one you did in Week 1.

PDHPE

Complete your circuit

Activities:

Complete an activity from the “activities and ideas for home for parents of primary learners” sheet on the back page of this booklet.

PDHPE

Complete the circuit

Activities:

Complete an activity from the “activities and ideas for home for parents of primary learners” sheet on the back page of this booklet.

Catch-up:

Finish any unfinished tasks from Monday –Thursday






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Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 Unit 6 Unit 7 Unit 8

list

rights

civics

habitat

outline

developed

culture

community

sources

foreign

reference

heritage

decision

ecosystem

environment

biosphere

influential

citizenship

biodiversity

sustainability

self

image

networks

peers

neglect

grief

consider

conflict

bullying

maturity

puberty

barriers

diversity

harassment

relevant

evaluate

negotiate

dependence

adolescence

independence

track

dance

control

offer

field

aquatics

awareness

concise

performing

racquet

manipulation

practice

routines

gymnastics

defensive

offensive

stimuli

contemporary

technique

proficiency

diet

habits

disease

conditions

prescribed

viruses

nutritional

physical

genetics

stimulants

advantages

emotional

spiritual

inoculate

disadvantages

depressants

resuscitate

communicable

contagious

anaphylactic

hockey

causes

social

struggle

patient

special

caveman

dinosaurs

complained

dictionary

occurred

official

quarrelling

evolution

extinct

crucial

reptiles

stationary

financial

extinction

artificial

permanent

catastrophe

commercial

hilarious

beneficial

homo sapiens

Neanderthal

bones

million

suggest

instead

elements

needle

happiest

mansion

mammals

either

excursion

vision

revision

ancient

statement

erosion

skilful

quarter

decision

prehistoric

referred

precision

survival

occasion

succession

Triassic

encyclopaedia

invasion

don’t

drift

fleecy

intend

unloaded

shining

amber

appear

tomorrow

fossils

contain

appeared

maintain

burglar

enormous

disappear

continent

maintained

containing

continental

disappearing

amazement

habitats

pronounced

geologist

ancestors

binoculars

Gondwana

film

basin

period

however

escape

fulfil

except

village

rely

evolved

toilet

dormant

glorious

skeleton

formations

volcanoes

minute

opportunity

symptom

shrivelling

weathering

definite

noticeable

geological

governor

palaeontology

palaeontologist

adaptation

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