Monday 19th July

Please take a photo of the work you complete and send it to your teacher via your Home Learning Code on your Class Seesaw app.

Webex meetings will be held each day at 9:30am to mark the roll and to clarify expectations of daily work.

3K

Meeting Link:

https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=m3ed557564e88a4907b54ac227fb14c84

Meeting Number: 165 952 8797

Meeting Password: 3K

3/4B

Meeting link:

https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=m5752c359c0c34d79c28d7a9017fbcd6d 

Meeting number: 165 971 5954

Password: woodford


Reading fluency (15-30 mins):

  1. Read to self or read to someone (pet, doll, teddy, younger sibling…).
  2. Choose a good fit book or Wushka text https://wushka.com.au/login/

Learning Intention:

We are learning to predict will happen in a story based on title, pictures, text and personal experiences

Success Criteria

SC1: I can make predictions based on the title of the book

SC2: I can make predictions based on the pictures on the cover of the book

SC3: I can make predictions based on writing in the book

SC4: I can make predictions using personal experiences

Tune in:

□ Independent Learning Task:

Choose a text from Wushka and complete the following sentences in your homework book.

  1. From the front cover I predict…
  2. From the blurb (reader description) I predict….
  3. From the first paragraph I predict…

After reading the text, check you predictions. Were you correct or did the author surprise you? Write a sentence outline if your predictions were correct.

  • My predictions were correct/incorrect because…

□ Spelling Fluency (10 minutes):

Spelling Sounds

Underline the syllables in your spelling words, then underline the individual sounds in each syllable.

Learning Intention:

We are learning to use descriptive language to create a main character

Success Criteria:

  1. I can use descriptive language to paint a picture of a main character
  2. I can extend my use of interesting vocabulary to engage the reader

Independent Writing Task:

Character Description

Create a main character or hero for a quest story. This could be a child, a knight, a magical creature. Close your eyes… What do they look like and sound like? What are their character traits? Write a paragraph describing your character. Remember to show, don’t tell!!

If you’d like you could draw your character too!

Write are least 5 descriptions.

Example:

Character Descriptions 

  • His chestnut brown hair was messy. It always looked like he had just woken up.
  • When he walked, he clumsily tripped over his feet or anything else that was in his path.
  • Soft and wobbly, his voice didn’t echo over the chatter around him.
  • His face was always flushed the colour of a pink lady apple and it was slightly rounded making him look younger than what he was.
  • His arms dangled lankily beside him, too long for the rest of his body.

Counting pattern fluency (10 minutes): 

Practice multiplication (times tables) facts. You could use dice or cards. 

Optional: Complete any IXL Year 3 Multiplication Skill Builder tasks.

Learning Intention:

We are learning to understand fractions

Success Criteria:

I can understand and model a half, quarter, third and fifth

Tune in:

Independent Learning Task:

Draw the following fractions.

1/2 (half)

1/4 (quarters)

1/3 (thirds)

1/5 (fifths)

Can you draw them in different shapes? Try squares, circles, rectangles etc. Remember that the parts have to be equal in size.


Squiggle Story: Draw a squiggle on some paper with your non-preferred hand; with your preferred hand create a drawing out of it and then mindfully colour in!

Thursday Week 7

Today Mrs Buckle & Mrs Kenwright will be completing a Professional Practice day. We will be busy planning, assessing and analysing during this time. If you have any urgent enquiries, we will try to get back to you as soon as we can. We will not be giving any feedback today. Thank you for your understanding.

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Big Life

Today you are lucky enough to have Mel from Big Life host a meeting at 10:00am!!

Click on the link below to join in!

https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=mdc8961999b01a688f30beb27a4ab7695

Meeting Number: 165 207 2974

Password: woodford

You will need a piece of paper and a pen/pencil for game during Big Life.

Below is the follow up activity. You can draw this in your book or complete on Seesaw. 


Reading fluency (15-30 mins):

  1. Read to self or read to someone (pet, doll, teddy, younger sibling…).
  2. Choose a good fit book or Wushka text (https://wushka.com.au/login/)

Learning Intention: 

  • We are learning to bring knowledge from personal experiences to help us understand a text.

Success Criteria:

  1. I can bring knowledge from my own experience to help me understand the author’s opinion
  2.  I can use text, world and self connections to help me understand the author’s opinion

□ Independent Learning Task:

The Ecological Footprint

Read the article The Ecological Footprint and make a text to text, text to self and text to world connection. Record your answers in your homework book. 

Extension: Find the meaning of the unknown words in the text. Look them up in a dictionary or on Google and write the meaning in your own words.


□ Spelling Fluency (10 minutes):

Sentences: Put each of your words into a sentence. Remember to include full stops, capital letters and correct spelling.

Example:

The echidna was tunneling into the ground.


Learning Intention:

We are learning to write a recount.

Success Criteria:

  • I can describe the event in sequence.
  • I can include key information such as dates and locations
  • I can include interesting details.

□ Independent Learning Task: 

Today you are going to publish your camp recount. You may choose to do this any way you like. You can hand write it, publish it on Seesaw, make a poster… Be creative!


□ Counting pattern fluency (10 minutes):

Practice multiplication (times tables) facts. You could use dice or cards. 

Optional: Complete any IXL Year 3 Multiplication Skill Builder tasks.

Learning Intention:

  • We are learning to represent and solve problems involving multiplication using efficient mental and written strategies 

Success Criteria:

  • I can represent multiplication as arrays
  • I can understand the language of rows
  • I can understand that the first number tells how many rows, and the second the number in each row
  • I can understand that an array contains the same amount in total whether shown as 3 fours or 4 threes

Tune in:

□ Independent Learning Task: 

Multiplication Worded Problems

Complete the following activities on IXL.

https://au.ixl.com/signin

Year 4 D.2 Multiplication facts to 10: word problems


 

Monday Week 7

Have a Great Week Ahead! | Wishes for a New Start

Please take a photo of the work you complete and send it to your teacher via your Home Learning Code on your Class Seesaw app.

Compulsory Webex meetings will be held each day at 10:00am to mark the roll and to clarify expectations of daily work.

3K: https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=mfc2081c83c06f4131fdc99fb189994ff

Meeting Number:

Password: 3k

 

34B: https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=mdc8961999b01a688f30beb27a4ab7695

Meeting Number: 165 207 2974

Password: woodford


Reading fluency (15-30 mins):

  1. Read to self or read to someone (pet, doll, teddy, younger sibling…).
  2. Choose a good fit book or Wushka text (https://wushka.com.au/login/

Learning Intention: 

  • We are learning to bring knowledge from personal experiences to help us understand a text.

Success Criteria:

  1. I can bring knowledge from my own experience to help me understand the author’s opinion
  2.  I can use text, world and self connections to help me understand the author’s opinion

Tune in:

□ Independent Learning Task:

Read the info graphic Water Overuse

Make a text to text, text to self and text to world connection. Record your answers in your homework book.

Extension: Write a summary of the main points in the infographic.


□ Spelling Fluency (10 minutes):

Complete spelling sounds activity listening for each individual sound your 6 words.

lunch    l   u  n  ch

countries   c ou  n  t  r  ie  s

Learning Intention:

We are learning to write a recount.

Success Criteria:

  1. I can describe the event in sequence.
  2. I can include key information such as dates and locations
  3. I can include interesting detail

□ Independent Learning Task: 

Today you are going to plan a recount of your camp experience using a mind map.

Remember you are not writing your whole story today, just organising your ideas.

You will need to choose 3 of your favourite activities to brain storm about. Think about what you did in each activity and what it sounded like, felt like and looked like. We want to use lots of ‘show don’t tell’ in our writing this week. Below is an example of what your mind map might look like.

_______________________________________________________________________

Counting pattern fluency (10 minutes): 

Practice multiplication (times tables) facts. You could use dice or cards. 

Optional: Complete any IXL Year 3 Multiplication Skill Builder tasks.

Learning Intention:

We are learning to represent and solve problems involving multiplication using efficient mental and written strategies

Success Criteria:

  • I can represent multiplication as repeated addition 
  • I can understand that the end point tells me how many items in all the groups 
  • I can explain that skip counting forward by each number adds another group

Tune in:

□ Independent Learning Task: 

Roll 2 dice and record the numbers you rolled. Use the numbers to write your repeated addition number sentences and find the answer.

You can rule up your homework book to look like the table below.

Repeat 10 times.

Repeated Addition Worksheet (teacher made)

Extension:

Add a zero to your second number…. what do you notice happens?


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Chinese is live on Zoom at 1:00 for both classes today. Click on your grade’s link to join the class

3K: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89625484685?pwd=b2tXQjRwSkxjcTlHRWxrQU5JM1FUZz09

34B: https://zoom.us/j/98292974901?pwd=ekcwODVENEQ2aE52UzV6NVBMVHlMZz09