Kempsey West PS Grid Stage 2/3 Term 3, Week 8

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Kempsey West PS Grid – Stage 2/3 Term 3, Week 8

This week you will have access to some online Zoom activities (if you can access the internet) from different places we would have visited on

our Canberra excursion. Each day a different venue will offer a zoom session. The links and activities can be found attached in this booklet.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Morning

CANBERRA

10am – Zoom National Museum of Australia

2pm – Zoom –Museum of Australian Democracy

(Links Attached)

Reading

Sustained Reading

Using your School magazine or other reading source, choose a narrative. Time how long it takes you to read the articles and complete the Reading Log.

Comprehension

“The Most boring street in the world “

story by Bill Nagelkerke , illustrated by Tohby Riddle

CANBERRA

10am – Zoom National Gallery of Australia

2pm Zoom National Film and Sound Archive

Reading

Sustained Reading


Comprehension



CANBERRA

10am – Zoom Australian War Memorial

2pm- Zoom – National Portrait Gallery

Reading

Sustained Reading


Comprehension



CANBERRA

10am Zoom – Parliamentry Education Office

2pm Zoom – Questacon

Reading

Sustained Reading


Comprehension



CANBERRA

10am Zoom -Royal Australia Mint

Reading

Record yourself reading this week’s text.


If you can, record yourself using Seesaw and post it.

Spelling

Have someone test you on your spelling words

Quick Write

CSO - Character, Setting, Object.

Look at the Quick Writes page and choose one character, the setting and an object to write about.

Success Criteria has been included for you.

https://theschoolmagazine.com.au/resources/the-most-boring-street-in-the-world

https://tohby.com/


https://tohby.com/


https://tohby.com/


https://tohby.com/

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Reading Strategy: Prediction

Before Reading: Complete the Prediction Flowchart about what the reading might be about. Look at the picture linked to this story

During Reading: Highlight any new words you are unsure of.

After Reading: Revise your predictions on the Flowchart.

Spelling

Copy your list words into your spelling list and complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.

Option: Find 5 words from your writing to include in your Spelling list as personal words.

Quick Write

CSI - Character, Setting, Incident

Look at the Quick Writes page and choose one character, the setting and an incident to write about.

Reading Strategy: Building Vocabulary Knowledge

Using the words, you highlighted yesterday from the story “The most boring street in the world”, complete the word investigation chart attached.

Spelling

Look Say Cover Write Check your list words and complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.

Quick Write

CSI - Character, Setting, Incident

Look at the Quick Writes page and choose one character, the setting and an incident to write about.


After writing, edit your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Also, remember to be descriptive by packing the

Reading Strategy: Questioning

When reading ask yourself these questions and write down your answers.

Spelling

Look Say Cover Write Check your list words and complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.

Quick Write




After writing, edit your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Also, remember to be descriptive by packing the noun.

English – Writing

Reading Strategy: Summarising

Using your text from this week, create a summary of the text.

Spelling

Look Say Cover Write Check

your list words and complete a

spelling activity from the spelling

grid.

Quick Write





English – Writing

Similar to yesterday, you are


English – Writing

Edit the sentences you have written this week for:

1. Spelling 2. Grammar 3. Punctuation

Read each sentence aloud to make sure it makes sense.

Publish some of your sentences in neat, cursive handwriting.

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English – Writing

In Term 1, we learned about packing the noun before and after the noun to add more detail and be descriptive.

Let’s use the sentence ‘The dog walked into the shed.’

When we pack the noun before the noun, we add adjectives in front of dog and shed to describe them.

The lonely, miserable, filthy dog walked into the dark, cold, empty shed.

Re-write the following sentences with adjectives to pack the noun before the noun.

1. There is a frog in the pond.

2. The truck is on the road.

3. The cat is on the mat.

noun.

English – Writing

Similar to yesterday, re-write the following sentences to pack the noun before the noun.

Use adjectives in front of the noun to add more detail and be descriptive.

1. The teacher ate her lunch.

2. The truck rolled down the hill.

3. The horse galloped through the forest.

Extension activity:

After adding adjectives to pack the nouns, find synonyms for your adjectives.

Replace some of your adjectives with synonyms to see if this improved your sentences even more.

In Term 1, we also learned that we can pack nouns after nouns by using relative pronouns (who, that, which, whose, whom).

If we looked at the sentence, ‘The lonely, miserable, filthy dog walked into the dark, cold, empty shed.’ we could add even more detail by using relative pronouns after dog and after shed.

e.g. The lonely, miserable, filthy dog that had a broken chain attached to its collar walked into the dark, cold, empty shed that was almost falling down.

By using a relative pronoun we can add more information about the nouns.

Re-write the same sentences from Monday by using a relative pronoun after the noun to add more detail.

Bonus points if you keep your adjectives in front of the noun from Monday’s lesson as well!

1. There is a frog in the pond.

2. The truck is on the road.

3. The cat is on the mat.

going to re-write sentences to pack the noun after the noun by using a relative pronoun.

Bonus points if you keep your adjectives from Tuesday’s lesson as well!

1. The teacher ate her lunch.

2. The truck rolled down the hil.

3. The horse galloped through the forest.

Example:

The quiet, kind, caring teacher who had just sent her students out for their break ate her delicious, steamy, sweet-smelling lunch that was last night’s leftovers and had been reheated in the microwave.

Nouns – teacher, lunch, microwave, students

Adjectives – quiet, kind, caring, delicious, steamy, sweet-smelling

Relative pronouns – who, that

Break Break Break Break Break Break

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Middle Mathematics

Number Sense

Mental Maths

Complete the Monday Mental Maths Questions

Length Activity

Use Length Worksheet 1 to record your work:

Find 15 items from around your home, e.g. spoon, shoe, a bottle, remote control, etc. and measure the length of each item using your ruler. You need to record the length of each item in both centimetres (cm) and millimetres (mm).

Mathematics

Number Sense

Mental Maths

Complete the Tuesday Mental Maths Questions

Length Activity

COMPARING LENGTH

Remembering that:

1cm = 10mm

and

1m = 100cm

Complete the Comparing

Measurements worksheets.

You may need to use your

ruler to help you compare

some of the measurements.

Online extra

Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watc

h?v=djTNUp4XIRo for a fun

Mathematics

Number Sense

You need to look closely at the PATTERNS in each sequence to work out how to make the next number.

Mental Maths

Complete the Wednesday Mental Maths Questions

Length Activity

How tall is that tree?

Think about how you might work out the height of a very large tree without being able to measure it. Use diagrams/pictures/drawings to show how you might do this.

Mathematics

Number Sense

Mental Maths

Complete the Thursday Mental Maths Questions

Problem Solving Activity

On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs.

The great planetary explorer Nico, who first discovered the

Mathematics

PUZZLE TIME

Complete the number puzzles attached.

Remember you DO NOT have to solve the problems correctly on your first attempt!

These are PUZZLES. They are not meant to be easy! See how many you are able to solve and once you have solved them, colour them in!

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2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djTNUp4XIRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djTNUp4XIRo

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little tune to remind you of

length conversions. Ignore the

spelling in the clip as it is

American!!

There is no right or wrong answer, so remember to have a go!

planet, saw a crowd of Zios and Zepts. He managed to see that there was more than one of each kind of creature before they saw him. Suddenly they all rolled over onto their backs and put their legs in the air.

He counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there? Do you think there are any different answers?

Use the CUBES strategy to help you solve this problem.

BONUS TASK: Draw what you believe ZIOs and ZEPTs could look like (don’t forget to give them the correct number of legs!).

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Break Break Break Break Break Break

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Afternoon

PD/H/PE

Chomp like a champion !

This week you need to record your daily food and water intake and complete the food journal attached.

GEOGRAPHY

Look at the World Map Worksheet.

Label the 7 continents.

Find and Label

Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, PapuaNew Guinea, Indonesia, India, Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.

GEOGRAPHY

Choose 3 of the countries you

labelled on your map

yesterday and draw their

national flag.

Find out the meaning behind

the design of each flag.

CREATIVE ARTS

Your favourite book is going to be turned into a puppet show and you have been chosen as the costume designer!

Choose a character or two, from your favourite book and create puppets using things around your house.

You might use an old pair of socks, boxes, aluminium foil, cardboard, string, felt or even some old fabric. See the puppet idea for inspiration.

Take a photo of your puppet/s and upload to Seesaw.

Reflection

Complete the activity attached and Reflect on the week you have had.

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The Most Boring Street in the World


AUSTIN STOOD BY his front gate.

He looked one way. Then he looked the other. ‘This has to be the most boring street in the world,’ he muttered to himself.

A voice at his shoulder surprised him by saying: ‘No, it isn’t!’

The voice belonged to a girl. ‘I’m Jade,’ she said. ‘I live two houses down. I saw you when you moved in last weekend. What you said isn’t true, you know. We live on a very interesting street.’

‘Yeah, right!’ said Austin. ‘It’s nowhere near a mall. It’s not on a bus route. There’s no skate park. And everything’s old. What’s there to do? A great big fat nothing. BORING!’

Jade looked at him. ‘Come with me to the end of our street,’ she said. ‘I might be able to change your mind.’

‘Not likely,’ said Austin.

But he had nothing better to do, so he followed Jade anyway. Two houses down he saw a parked car with a trailer attached. Big letters on the back of the trailer said: DIG THIS! GARDENING SERVICES.

‘My mum looks after other people’s gardens,’ Jade explained.

The end of their street joined up with more streets.

‘Well?’ said Austin. ‘What’s there to see?’

‘Look up there,’ Jade told him.


https://tohby.com/

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Austin looked up. The sky was blue. Clouds drifted overhead. Everything was exactly the same as it had been all during the long summer holidays.

‘No, not up as high as that,’ said Jade. ‘There.’

‘There’ was a lamppost with signs of the street names attached.

‘I don’t get it,’ said Austin.

‘Our street is called Meteor Street,’ Jade said.

‘So?’

‘Some people say The Meteor was the name of a ship,’ Jade continued. ‘But not just any old ship.’

She paused. Austin took the bait.

‘What sort of ship was it then?’

Jade lowered her voice so Austin had to bend forward to hear her reply.

‘Some people say it was a pirate ship.’

‘Oh,’ said Austin, showing a glimmer of interest. ‘For real?’

‘That’s what some people say. Now, what’s the name of that street?’

Austin read the sign. ‘Skeleton Bay Road.’

Jade nodded. ‘Exactly. That road goes all the way to Skeleton Bay. Some people say The Meteor was scuttled in the bay.’

‘Scuttled?’ asked Austin.

‘Sunk,’ said Jade. ‘By its pirate crew. Some people say the crew mutinied because their captain went back on his word to share out the stolen treasure.’

‘Treasure?’ said Austin.

‘Gold coins, precious stones, necklaces, rings. All sorts.’

‘And it’s still there?’ said Austin, excitement creeping into his voice. ‘In Skeleton Bay?’

Jade shook her head. ‘Way better than that,’ she said. ‘Only the old bones of the ship are still in the bay. Whenever there’s a storm at sea, some people say you can hear the timbers of The Meteor rattling and groaning, like the voices of ghosts. You see, the story goes that when the crew came to demand their share of the treasure, they discovered the captain had escaped ashore in the longboat, taking the treasure with him. They scuttled his ship in revenge.’

‘But what happened to the treasure?’ asked Austin. ‘Did the captain get away with it, or did his crew track him down?’

Jade pointed to another street sign. ‘What does that one say?’

‘Sunset Way,’ Austin read.

‘And what colour is a sunset?’ asked Jade.

‘Gold,’ said Austin, thinking about it. ‘Or sometimes red. Sometimes orange as well. Lots of colours.’

‘The colours of treasure,’ said Jade. ‘Some people say that the captain buried it along Sunset Way.’

‘But only old people live on that street,’ Austin said. ‘I’ve seen them.’

‘They do now,’ Jade agreed. ‘But back in those days there was no street there at all. The captain meant to come back for the treasure, but …’

At this point, Jade paused dramatically.

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‘His crew did track him down,’ Austin finished.

Jade didn’t say a word. She didn’t need to.

‘Did anyone ever find the treasure?’ Austin asked.

‘Don’t talk so loudly,’ Jade said. ‘We don’t want the whole world to hear. Some people say it would have been found years ago, but no-one knows for sure. It might still be here. Every chance I get, I dig and I dig. But nobody really wants you to leave holes all over their garden, so I have to pretend I’m grubbing out weeds. It takes forever, and I can only treasure-hunt in the holidays.’

‘I guess I could help you,’ said Austin. ‘But we’d have to split any treasure we find, fifty-fifty.’

Jade nodded. ‘I’m cool with that,’ she said.

‘When shall we start?’ asked Austin.

‘Tomorrow, if you like.’

‘You’re on,’ said Austin.

They went back up Meteor Street together.

‘See you tomorrow then,’ Jade said, as she went up her driveway.

‘I can’t wait!’ Austin replied.

* * *

Jade’s mum met her at the door.

‘Was that the new boy?’ she asked.

‘His name’s Austin,’ said Jade. ‘I think we might be friends.’

‘Nice one,’ said Jade’s mum. ‘It’s been pretty dull for you on the street with no other kids your age around.’

‘He thought our street was the most boring street in the world,’ Jade explained. ‘So I told him the story behind the street names.’

‘Which story?’ asked Jade’s mum. ‘The one about the captain’s treasure, or the dinosaur bone discovery, or the UFO sighting?’

‘The captain’s treasure, of course,’ said Jade. ‘That’s the best of the lot. But I might tell him the others if he ever gets bored again. After all, any one of them could be true. Not even the old people on Sunset Way know for sure.’

‘Hmm,’ said Jade’s mum.

‘We’re going to meet up again tomorrow,’ Jade said.

‘I’m paying you to help tidy Mrs Domanski’s garden tomorrow,’ Jade’s mum reminded her.

‘I haven’t forgotten,’ said Jade. ‘Austin’s going to come along and do some digging too. And we’ve agreed to split the treasure—my pay, I mean—

fifty-fifty.’

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Spelling Groups – 2021

Carefully find your correct spelling group and words below.

Group 3 Group 2 Group 1

Rule: Accented 2nd syllable

computer reveal

condition tomorrow

December unable

aspire uncommon

deliver unusual

election whoever

erosion imply

November oblige

October providing

reduction remember

Rule: Suffixes — ‘let’, ‘ling’, ‘ian’,

‘ship’, ‘hood’

inlet childhood

piglet likelihood

booklet parenthood

droplet pedestrian

leaflet electrician

duckling politician

gosling sibling

librarian musician

citizenship relationship

friendship leadership

Rule: Triple r-blends — ‘scr‘, ‘str ‘ and ‘spr’

scram sprain

scrap sprint

screw spring

screen spray

scream sprung

stretch sprite

street string

strip strap

stroll strop

stray stream

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Spelling Activities Grid

Write your list in Bubble

Writing

Write your list in Rainbow

Colours

Write your list in Graffiti

Write your list in

Alphabetical Order

Write each word once in

pencil, once in pen, and once

in crayon or marker.

Spell your list words out

using a ball

Write out the sound chunks

(syllables) in your words

Po-ta-to

Morph your words to their

base word

Fishing – Fish

Cut letters out of a

newspaper. Glue them on a

piece of paper to spell ten

words

Write each word vertically

and horizontally

Write a story using as

many list words as you can

Write opposites (antonyms)

for 5 of your list words

Write words that mean the

same (synonyms) for 5 of

your list words

Add prefixes to 3 of your

list words

micro-scope

Add suffixes to 3 of your

list words

depart-ing

Alliterate 1 of your words

seven silly salmon slept

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Spelling Words LSCWC Day 1 LSCWC Day 2 LSCWC Day 3 LSCWC Day 4

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Quick Writes Success Criteria: It was a dreary Sunday and the drizzle would just not stop. I decided to check out a movie to pass a bit

of time. Dragon’s Revenge was my only option, so I purchased a ticket and found a seat. I looked around and noticed I was the only person in the theatre. Suddenly the door bolted closed.

CSI (Monday and Tuesday) CSO (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)

Character Setting Incident Character Setting Object

Caveman

Teenager

Sister

Brother

Princess

Prince

Soldier

Animal

Time traveller

Dragon

Bunyip

Movie star

Alien

Unicorn

Friend

Mum

Grumpy bus driver

Elf

Rock concert

Tropical island

Outer space

School playground

Hospital

Movie theatre

Jungle

Desert

Birthday party

Prize-giving

Haunted house

Forest

Beach

Graveyard

Park

Volcano

Mountain

Theft

Won lottery

Missed the bus

Bee sting

Shark attack

Text message

Argument

Fight

Locked out/in

Lost something

Lost

Dog howling

Key turns a lock

Caveman

Teenager

Sister

Brother

Princess

Prince

Soldier

Animal

Time traveller

Dragon

Bunyip

Movie star

Alien

Unicorn

Friend

Mum

Grumpy bus driver

Elf

Rock concert

Tropical island

Outer space

School playground

Hospital

Movie theatre

Jungle

Desert

Birthday party

Prize-giving

Haunted house

Forest

Beach

Graveyard

Park

Volcano

Mountain

$100 note

Duck bath toy

Broken bike

Diamond ring

Mobile phone

Soccer ball

Letter

Rotten apple

Magic pencil

Crystal

One old shoe

Stray cat

Photo

Message in a bottle

Flag

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Day 1

Maths

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Day 2 Maths

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Day 3 Maths

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Day 5 Maths

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Geography Worksheet

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Puppet Ideas.

Creative Arts

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Canberra Online Excursion Links- You can find these links on Seesaw and Google Classroom

• Mon 30-Aug 10:00 National Museum of Australia

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84149823486?pwd=Z3p2VDdJWGRGdVVvbVd4NTlWWmpEZz09

meeting ID – 658 6486 5875

password – dart

• Mon 30-Aug 2:00 Museum of Australian Democracy

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraMOAD

Meeting ID: 69772746197

Password: dart

• Tue 31-Aug 10:00 National Gallery of Australia

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNGA

meeting ID – 676 9178 2190

password – dart

• Tue 31-Aug 2:00 National Film and Sound Archive

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNFSA

meeting ID – 637 4759 6285

password – dart

https://dartlearning.org.au/excursion/a-day-at-the-museum-where-our-stories-come-alive/

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84149823486?pwd=Z3p2VDdJWGRGdVVvbVd4NTlWWmpEZz09

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraMOAD

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNGA

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNFSA

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• Wed 1-Sep 10:00 Australian War Memorial

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraAWM

meeting ID – 666 5081 9172

password – dart

• Wed 1-Sep 2:00 National Portrait Gallery

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNPG

meeting ID – 665 1302 5037

password – dart

• Thu 2-Sep 10:00 Parliamentary Education Office

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraPEO

meeting ID – 652 8155 6562

password – dart

• Thu 2-Sep 2:00 Questacon

BOOKED OUT.

• Fri 3-Sep 10:00 Royal Australian Mint

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraRAM.

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraAWM

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraNPG

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraPEO

https://edu.nsw.link/DARTLearning/CanberraRAM

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Meeting ID: 630 0443 7323 Password: dart

Kempsey West PS Grid Stage 2/3 Term 3, Week 8

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