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Year 3Term 2 Week 1 - Beginning 29th April

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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 - Page 30 Wellbeing Journals

Reflection on GC - Page 30

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/watch

?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 worksheet.Video -

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

Years 3 and 4 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ScAIK3uL_-

JJsczIdSPSUGFYaXDqD5sp/view?usp=sharing

Punctuation

LI: To punctuate questions,

commands, exclamations

and statements correctly.

SC: I can use !.? correctly.

Watch the following

Powerpoint and complete the

worksheet.PowerPoint -https://drive.google.com/file/d/17LHA9ZG-

kwlww7U60iwF4F4xRybTiwvW/view?usp=

sharing

Year 3 activitieshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1tl7aXh3w6

vkNQ0o9r1nQC7TVzDE5qf0W/view?usp=

sharing

Spelling

LI: To develop spelling skills through phonemic awareness

SC: Identify sounds/phonemes and sound patterns in words

Look at the powerpoint in the link and complete Soundwaves Unit 9 student pages.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xWgcMeZ9aCz0ALo6wFMCJ1KUN8YR-dRP

Log into Soundwaves Kids for the Student Activity Pages (same as the book) and more activities http://www.soundwaveskids.com.au/. The

password is roof819.

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?

Week 1: Writing Instruction

LI: To understand the purpose and features

of an exposition, including emotive

language.

SC: Identify at least 13/15 degrees of

certainty words.

Use the Interactive Exposition tool to learn

about Expositions (persuasive texts).

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

degrees of certainty words?

Read a Year 4’s student’s writing to see a sound achievement of

an exposition. 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:

Addition and Subtraction

LI: To use mental strategies for addition and subtraction of 2-, 3- and 4-

digit numbers.

SC: I can use the jump strategy with adding and subtracting.

I can accurately answer set questions in Maths Online and Mathletics.

Length

LI: Measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of

length.

SC: I can use cm and mm when measuring, selecting the best unit.

I can accurately answer set questions in Maths Online and Mathletics.

Answers will be posted on Google

Classroom:

Matharoo: Thursdays

Problem Solving: Fridays

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.

❏ Complete the Pre Test 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

Content Success Criteria

❏ Make two paper plane gliders. Keep these

planes for next week’s lesson. Write three

questions you have about how to make your

glider stay in the air for longer.

❏ Start collecting some recycled materials to use

in your Week 3 investigations: a ball of wool or

string, plastic containers, juice or milk bottles,

skewers, milk bottle tops, straws, other items

to make a car.

Paper Plane Glider Instructionshttps://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/2238616/how-to-

fold-the-squarosaurus-paper-plane

Unit Content Success Criteria

LI: to describe how contact and non-contact

forces affect an object’s motion

❏ I can describe what a force is.

❏ I can explain what a contact force is

and give an example.

❏ I can explain what a non contact force

is and give an example.

❏ I can identify pushes and pulls as

contact and non-contact forces.

❏ I can identify the following forces:

❏ gravity

❏ friction/air resistance

❏ normal force

❏ applied force (e.g.

pulling/pushing/kicking)

❏ I can investigate how forces and

materials interact in a product or

system to perform a function.

Skills Success Criteria from Lesson

LI: to question, plan and conducts scientific

investigations, collects and summarises, data

and communicates using scientific

representations

❏ I can question

LI: to select and use materials, tools and

equipment to develop solutions for a need or

opportunity

❏ I can select and use suitable equipment

to develop solutions.

LI: to describe, follow and represent algorithms

to solve problems.

❏ I can follow the step by step algorithm to

make a paper glider.

Science and Technology (Week 1 - Lesson 1)

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.