📚Reading📚

Independent Reading 15 mins:

• Read a reader from your Take Home Book Bag
• Read your Speed Read Sheet x 2 (Cathy and Elisa’s Sounds Write group)
• Play the /ae/ Snakes and Ladders Game to practise words. (Jane’s Sounds Write Group).

Wushka Online texts  30 mins:

• Sign into Wushka https://wushka.com.au/login
• Select a book from the highest level you have access to.
• Read 2 books and answer the questions related to the books. (The children must answer these questions without any assistance.)

Read to Parent 10 mins:

• Read to your parent and talk about the important events in the book. See if you can talk about them in order.

Webex 10.30 am 

Literacy focus: Teacher to read a story. Retell (How character acts, feels, their dialogue)

This is also time for your child to check in, say hello to their classmates and ask any questions about the activities for the day.

1/2BL  – Meeting number: 165 750 5022 Password: happy
1/2K – Meeting number: 165 719 6343 Password: hello

📝Writing📝

Free Choice Writing – July Grid (see below)

Choose a writing task from the grid above.

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If you wish to print the grid, please click on the link above and print off the ‘July’ page.

Please use the lined paper provided. Write the date at the top of your page. When finished you can draw a picture to match. 

Year One – As a guide aim for your child to write roughly 1 page if they are grade 1, depending on the type of writing task.

Year Two – As a guide aim for your child to write roughly 2 pages if they are grade 2, depending on the type of writing task.

🔢Maths🔢  – 30 minutes

Warm up – Wishball Challenge.

Start with the Wishball Challenge Tens activity (link below). If you are managing this well, you can challenge yourself with Wishball Hundreds (link below).

Wishball Challenge Tens

Wishball Hundreds

Independent Task: Time

Listen and watch the Clock song video first (below):

Year One – PDF – clock faces – draw o’clock times and half past times. Write the matching digital time underneath.

Year Two – PDF – clock faces – draw o’clock times and half past times. Write the matching digital time underneath. Challenge – can you also draw some quarter past times and write the matching digital time?

clock template

Click on the ‘clock template’ link above to print off a worksheet. If unable to print a sheet trace get Mum or Dad to help you trace some small circles and draw some clock faces.

🤩Big Life GEM Activities🤩

Check in – roll and talk

With a partner take turns to roll a dice. Talk about the question from the picture below that matches the number on your dice. 

Repeat 3 or 4 times.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via Seesaw. We will be available from 9am until 4pm each day.

📚Reading📚

Independent Reading 15 mins:

• Read a reader from your Take Home Book Bag
• Read your Speed Read Sheet x 2 (Cathy and Elisa’s Sounds Write group)
• Play the /ae/ Snakes and Ladders Game to practise words. (Jane’s Sounds Write Group).

Wushka Online texts 30 mins:

• Sign into Wushka https://wushka.com.au/login
• Select a book from the highest level you have access to.
• Read 2 books and answer the questions related to the books. (The children must answer these questions without any assistance.)

Read to Parent 10 mins:

• Read to your parent and talk about the important events in the book. See if you can talk about them in order.

Webex 10.30 am 

Today’s focus: Place Value – Wishball

This is also time for your child to check in, say hello to their classmates and ask any questions about the activities for the day.

1/2BL  – Meeting number: 165 750 5022 Password: happy
1/2K – Meeting number: 165 719 6343 Password: hello

📝Writing📝 

Spelling Sounds~Write words (20 minutes)

Watch Mrs Barling’s Sounds~Write Spelling video. 

Use your current Sounds~Write Speed Read sheet:

• Initial code – ‘steps’ sheet
• Extended Code –  /ae/ Snakes & Ladders

1. Read the word carefully – ‘say the sounds and read the word’.
2. Cover the word.
3. Carefully ‘say the sounds and write the word’. 
4. Check carefully that you have written the word correctly.
5. If correct, go to the next word. If incorrect, go back and try to write the word again.
6. Complete as many words as you can in 20 minutes but remember to write neatly.

 🔢Maths🔢 – 30 minutes

Warm up – Wishball Challenge (This morning your teacher will show you how to play this game during WebEx).

Start with the Wishball Challenge Tens activity (link below). If you are managing this well, you can challenge yourself with Wishball Hundreds (link below).

Wishball Challenge Tens

Wishball Hundreds

Independent Task:

Time: Pre-test Activity (Year One and Two)

Without any help and no looking at a clock, draw a clock, showing what you understand about their features. 

Parents are not to assist with this activity as it is a pre-test. 

Show the time that you go to bed on your clock. Can you also write the digital time to match the analogue (clock face) time? 

Please send a photo of your clock to your teacher.

🤩Big Life GEM Activities🤩

Watch the video of Elmo to learn about how you experience feelings in your body.

Gingerbread Emotions F-2

Click on the ‘Gingerbread Emotions’ link above to print off a sheet (as shown below) to draw where you feel angry, sad or worried. If unable to print a sheet trace a body shape and fill this in instead.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via Seesaw. We will be available from 9am until 4pm each