Teaching & Learning Activities – Stage 3 Term 2 Week 2

Please complete the activities in your homework book.

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Morning English

Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 knowledge question.

Writing – Write a review of your favourite movie. Make sure you include a short summary of the movie, the reasons why the movie is your favourite and who would you recommend this movie to.

Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to access this week’s activity sheets. If you are able to print out the brainstorming page for this week’s sound, h and j (unit 12).

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English

Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 comprehension question.

Grammar – Spoken text

Watch the two videos below.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuP4WXHtqMo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLB1IUNdoSE

After watching, write a definition and give 3 examples in your book.

Watch ‘Behind the News’ at 10am on ABC Me. Choose your favourite story. Write a summary of the story.

English

Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 application question.

Writing – Write the ingredients and the steps to making your favourite recipe. Make sure you include the quantities of each ingredient. Look at the recipe below to see how they are set out

Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to access this week’s activity sheets. If you are able to print out activity pages or you could copy them into your book (page 28).

English

Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 analysis question.

Handwriting – Using your best cursive writing copy this poem into your book (From A Railway Carriage)

Remember: Take a new line when the poet does and write the poets name

Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to access this week’s activity sheets. If you are able to print out activity pages or you could copy them into your book (page 29).

English

Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 synthesis and evaluation question.

Use the

https://www.kidsnews.com.au/ to read a story or article that interests you, there is a quiz at the end of the story.

Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to print out games sheets or complete the online games available for this week’s sound.

Challenge Accepted

Balance a pencil on the palm of your hand whilst reciting the alphabet. Time yourself to see if

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Library Choices

Mrs Bedingfield has included some interesting library activities for you. Please refer to the Library Choices page below.

Spelling: Use the soundwaves login to access this week’s activity sheets. If you are able to print out the segmenting page or complete it online for this week’s sound (unit 12).

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Middle Mathematics

This week’s focus is data.

Data is information that we collect through observations or by conducting surveys. Data can be categorical or numerical.

Categorical data: is information that is collected based on two or more categories. For example, favourite colours in a classroom. The categories are blue, red, green, etc.

Numerical data: is information that is measureable and is always collected in number form. Numerical data can be ordered. For example, the times in a 100m sprint. The numerical data might be

Mathematics

A table is a tool that is used to organise data (Example is provided below).

Create two tables to represent the data collected yesterday.

Instructions to create a table:

1) Name your table 2) Figure out how many

columns and rows are needed.

3) Use a pencil and ruler to draw your table. Draw a large rectangle as the outside of your table and add lines through the rectangle for your rows and columns.

4) Label your columns. 5) Fill in the data you

Mathematics

Construct a column and line graph to represent the data from your tables (Example is provided below).

Use a column graph to represent the data on your wardrobe/drawers.

Use a line graph to represent the heights of your family or celebrities (whichever one you chose to do)

Instructions to create a graph.

1) Name and label the horizontal and vertical axes (example,’ T-shirt colours’ and amount or T-shirts.

2) Choose a title to describe the data represented.

Mathematics

A two-way table is commonly used to organise data in two categories (Example is provided below).

Look at the two-way table below to answer the following questions.

1) How many males chose football as their favourite sport to watch on television?

2) How many females chose baseball as their favourite sport to watch on television?

3) How many people in total chose basketball at their favourite sport to watch on television?

Play ‘Bin Ball’ with one or more family members.

Mathematics

Look at the side-by-side column graph below (Sport Choices). Answer the following questions.

1) What sport did the boys select the most?

2) Which sport tied for how many boys and girls liked it?

3) What sports did the girls like more than the boys? (There may be more than one answer)

Look at the column and line graph below named ‘Average Allowance’. Answer the following questions.

1) Which graph do you think is best to represent the data? Provide reasons for your answer.

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16 seconds, 18 seconds, 19 seconds etc. These times can be ordered from fastest to slowest times.

Collect data for the questions below. Record the data in your workbook.

1) What are the heights of all members in your household or extended family (call or message if you need to) in metres and centimetres?

Or Look up the heights of 6 of your favourite movie stars or celebrities in metres and centimetres. 2) Look in your

wardrobe or clothes drawer. What colours are the t-shirts in your room and how many do you have of each colour. For example I have 7 blue t-shirts, 4 red and 8 white. If you have a t-shirt that is 2 or more colours choose the

collected.

Challenge

If you have Microsoft word or Excel at home, try and create a table using one of them using the information collected.

Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.

PDHPE

Throwing and catching skills.

Use small balls /frisbees to practise throwing and catching by:

*Throwing at a target from both left/right sides

* throwing to a stationary/moving player

* running and passing forwards/sidewards and backwards

* lobbing a ball in the direction of a nominated place

3) Create an appropriate scale for example, 1cm = 1 shirt.

4) Mark equal spaces on the axes.

Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.

To play ‘Bin Ball’, you need something to throw and a target, e.g. a ball and a bin, or a scrunched up sheet of paper and a bucket.

Each player has 15 throws. Record how many throws went in and how many throws missed on a sheet of paper.

Create a two-way table representing how many throws went in and how many throws missed for each player.

Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.

2) What are the advantages and disadvantages of each graph?

Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online

activities.

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Pen flipping brain break

• Take a pen and flip it one revolution.

• Now do the same thing with your other hand.

• Now get a pen for both hands and try to do both pens at the same time.

• If you really are good at that, then try to throw the pens up into the air and catch them in opposite

hands. This is tough.

* rebounding balls off wall/net for partner to catch

* using an overarm throw for height and distance with increasing accuracy

* using underarm throw (pitch) for accuracy over short distances and increasing the speed of delivery

* bowling overarm at target for accuracy

* spinning the ball on release

* using a chest/shoulder pass for accuracy over increasing distances

* using a bounce pass

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Afternoon Creative Arts

Choose a song or a piece of music that you like.

Make up a dance sequence to this song. You must include at least 5 different moves

Science and technology

Watch the following clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXiVGEEPQ6c

Design a poster on the planet Earth. Include any

History

Task 1 (with sources):

Analyse the attached sources. What do they tell you about the United Kingdom compared to Australia in the early 1900s? The Australian

Science and technology

Continue Tuesday’s activity.

PDHPE

Gender Expectations

Write down some statements that people expect from boys and girls. For example, boys shouldn’t cry and girls

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but they can be repeated throughout the song.

Practise your routine during the week and put on a performance for your family/friends on Friday.

relevant information you need such as what the Earth is made up of and what resources Earth has to enable humans to survive. Don’t forget to add a number of interesting facts.

Government assisted immigrants by paying the cost of ticket to Australia. How does the poster also convince people to immigrate?

‘Push’ factors are reasons people might want to leave their home country. ‘Pull’ factors are reasons people might like to immigrate to a new country. Write a list of both Push and Pull factors.

Task 2:

People often died whilst immigrating from diseases like measles. Research and make a timeline describing vaccination against childhood diseases in the 1900s. Investigate and write a paragraph about Typhus and Cholera. What were they and why were they a common problem aboard ships?

are better at reading.

Think about your favourite male/female characters in a computer game/movie/book etc.

Choose 1 male and 1 female character.

Record:

- Name of the character

- Physical qualities and skills

- Personality - Values - How the character

interacts with others.

What behaviours/value are made to seem normal?

What messages does the character give us about being a boy or a girl?

Does the character represent your experiences of what it is like to be a boy or a girl?

What do we need to be aware of when we view these games/movies/magazines etc?

Bloom's Taxonomy Book Review Questions

Knowledge

1 Point Each

Comprehension

2 Points Each

Application

3 Points Each

Analysis

4 Points Each

Synthesis

5 Points Each

Evaluation

6 Points Each

Week Score

Make a list of facts you

learned from the story

What was the problem in the book, and how was it solved?

Did this book remind you of anything that

has happened to you? What?

Why?

If your story happened in a foreign land, compare that

land to the Australia.

Design costumes for

the characters

Who do you think the author

intended to read this book

and why?

List the characters

and describe them

Did anyone in the book do

something you did not like?

Why?

Did this book give you any new ideas

about yourself?

Why?

If your story occurred long ago, compare that time with

today in a paragraph. If it was a modern

story, compare it with another time period and state what would be

different.

Using information

from the book about one of

the main characters, rewrite the

ending of the book.

If you could only save one character from the book in the

event of a disaster, which

one would it be and why?

List five new words you

learned in the book. Write down their dictionary

What kind of book is this?

List three evidences of

this

What would the main

character be likely to do if

s/he visited out classroom?

Think of a shape that fits with one

of the main character’s traits. Draw the shape. Then describe

Write another short story using the

same characters

Is the title a good one or a poor one and

why?

pronunciation and meaning.

the character inside the shape.

If your book was a

mystery, tell what the

mystery was and how it was solved

What was the author's

purpose or purposes in writing this

book?

If you were in a problem

situation like one in the book, how would you

have acted? Be sure to tell

what the situation is.

Decide which parts of the book include the five W's and How. Then write a

paragraph for a newspaper

article including these facts.

Name one character.

Rewrite the story from this

character's point of view.

Did you like the way the

story ended? Why or why

not?

List ten good words from

the book. Put them into a word search

If you could continue the story, what

events would you include?

Why?

What lesson did you learn

from the story?

Write a different ending to the

book. Tell why you changed it.

Write a poem about this

book.

Which character in

the book would you

choose for a friend? Why?

What problems

does one of the

characters have, and

how does he or she solve

it?

List the five major events in the story in the correct order.

Tell about a time something similar to what happened in

the story happened to

you or to someone you

know.

Tell five ways the main character is

like you

Design a poster for this

book.

What did you think was the

most interesting part

of the book? Why?

Where did the story take

place?

Tell in your own words the beginning of

the book

Write a letter to a friend

recommending this book.

Find one word that describes a character in your book very well.

Give five reasons for your choice of

words.

Pretend you are a librarian recommending

this book to someone.

Write a paragraph telling what

you would say.

Tell about the most exciting

part of the book being

sure to give at least three

reasons why

List the places

mentioned in the book.

Describe what is happening in

the first illustration in

the book

Pretend you are one of the characters in

the book. Write a diary entry

about the happenings in

your life.

In a good paragraph, state the main idea of

the book.

Make an eight-section comic

strip with captions

showing the main events of

the story

Which parts of the text could be improved?

What other books has this author

written?

How did the main character feel during the

book? Give evidences of

this.

List the places in the book

that are important. Make up a

map including these places

as you imagine they may look.

Compare this book with the last

book you read.

Make a radio announcement

to advertise the book. Write

it out.

Who would you

recommend this text for?

What is the time period in

which the book

happens?

What did the title have to do with the book?

What changes would have to be made if the book occurred

200 years ago?

Compare two of the characters in

this book.

The climax of any book or story is the exciting or

interesting part. Tell what you think is the climax of the

book and why.

If you were the main

character, how would you

have reacted to an event in

the book?

Table Column Graph

Line Graph

Two Way Table

Side-by-Side Column Graph

Source - Working class housing slum,

London, 1909

Task 1 source