Manor Lakes P-12 CollegeTerm 1 - Grade 3: Home Learning Grid Week 9

Reading:

Students are encouraged to read daily for enjoyment and practise their reading goals which have been communicated through Compass.

When reading students can respond to the question stems provided below. You may wish to also complete the attached Reading Log to track reading.

If texts are not available at home, or you can not visit the library there are a range of digital resources you can utilise: www.getepic.com, www.natgeokids.com/uk/, www.storylineonline.com,

Week 8 and 9 Reading FocusIn addition to reading texts of personal interest, students are encouraged to read a range of persuasive texts which are provided below and focus on:

● Summarising:○ The main idea and

purpose of the text.○ The authors arguments

and supporting details and examples.

● Analysing:○ Persuasive language and

devices.

Persuasive Writing Mentor Texts: (You can find and watch these texts on YouTube)

● ‘I Wanna New Room’ and I Wanna Iguana’ by Karen Kaufman Orloff.

● ‘My Brother Dan is Delicious’ by Steven L Layne.

● ‘Mrs La Rue’ by Mark Teague● ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew

Daywalt.● ‘If I was Prime Minister’ by Robin

Feiner.

Writing:

Students are currently learning about persuasive texts. These may be structured as a letter or an essay but their purpose is to convince the reader to take the writer's point of view, take some action, or improve some aspect of the world.

Persuasive StructureStudents will include:

● A title or opening that tells the reader what is being argued or explained.

● A series of clear arguments in paragraph form, with reasons facts or examples to support their opinions.

● A conclusion or concluding statement.Students will use:

● Language to elicit feelings from the reader.

● connectives (words that link ideas and clarify meaning) such as: although, however, therefore, though, unless, whenever.

● Persuasive Devices such as: Alliteration, power of three, personal experience, basic emotive language, call to action.

Persuasive Writing Prompts:Students can choose a topic of their choice or an example from below:

● We should not have a school uniform.● Pets should be allowed at school.● There should be no homework● I should get pocket money.● I should be able to go to bed later.● I should be allowed to get a pet (or

another pet).● Everyone should have to exercise

everyday. ● I should be able to stay at home on my

own. Other Writing ActivitiesQuick Write:

● Access the Writing Resource Pobble365.com for interesting pictures and prompts to stimulate writing.

● To add to the writing prompts provided you may use the below thinking routines to stimulate writing (See, Think, Wonder, Name, Describe, Act).

Writers Notebook Activities:● Brainstorm a list of

○ Things you want/need○ Rules you think need to be

changed● Write about a time where you had to try

to convince or change someone's mind .

Maths:

Angles:Watch the following video with your child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RTM418qfdI

Investigate and record the angles that you can see in your bedroom, house, backyard (record in your book).

Angle Name

Angle Real Life

eg: Acute

Acute

Right

Obtuse

Straight

Reflex

Revolution

Time:Complete analogue time activities (attached).

● Telling Time (Half Past)● Telling Time (Quarter Past)● Telling Time (Quarter To)● Telling Time (To the Minute)

Convert between units of time. a) How many seconds in a minute? ____ b) How many minutes in an hour? ____ c) How many hours in a day? ____ d) 2 minutes = _____ seconds e) 2 days = ____ hours f) 1 year = _____ weeks g) 1 year = ____ days h) How many days in a leap year? ___

Fluency and Counting Goals:Students are to practise their Maths Goals that are published to Compass. In addition, attached below is the Fluency Continuum (Counting Caterpillar) that may help to guide further practise of counting skills.

Digital Resources:www.khanacademy.orghttps://www.prodigygame.comhttp://cleverlearner.com/telling-time/tell-time-quarter-past-the-hour-worksheets.html

Handwriting / Spelling:

Spelling We are learning to say, sound and spell words

● With the graph /y/ making the sound “i” as in pyramid.● With the digraph /or/ making the sound “er” as in worm.● With the graph /y/ making the sound 'E' as in pony.

Spelling activities

● Find words in books and magazines that have the sounds.● Write the words in a fancy way (curly, bold, colourful).● Put the words in a sentence.

HandwritingUsing the Victorian Cursive Handwriting book, students are to complete pages 23 and 24 focusing on the letters i, u, l, b, v, w, x, z. Using the dirt, sky, grass exercise book students are to write the following sentences.

Write 3 more sentences that your child can copy into their dirt, sky, grass book ensuring they are following the correct formation of each letter. The above two pictures can be used as a guide to how the letters should be written.

Integrated:

Discuss with your child what is democracy and the different ways we are democratic at school and at home. What choices can we make, when do we have a say? When have you given your opinion or shared when you didn’t agree with something?

Definition of democracy to use when discussing with your child what democracy is.Democracy is a system of government where citizens are allowed to participate in the suggesting and creating laws.

Making decisions democratically allows everyone to have a say and allows for equal presentation of viewpoints.

Examples:

● When developing our classroom expectations we all worked together to develop classroom rules input from everyone in the class). ● You were given the opportunity to place an expression of interest for class captain, in which the class later voted for a class representative who will

be responsible for expressing the views of that class in a P-6 context (SRC).

With your child watch the following BTN about democracy and how it came about.

Video: https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/what-is-democracy/10524786

After watching the BTN video, use the graphic organiser below to explore their knowledge on this topic and consider what they would like to know and learn. Students are to complete the KWL in their reading book.

What do I know?

What do I want to know?

What have I learnt?

How will I find out?

After completing the KWL have a discussion with your child about why it is important for everyone to be able to ‘have a say’ on different topics. Also discuss How would our lives be different without democracy?

Teacher Signature:____________________________

Resources

Reading Comprehension Stems -

SMART Spelling:

Weekly Spelling SheetFocus: Name:

Say the word, write the word Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Red Spelling Wordspyramid

gym

lyric

myth

Egypt

symbolOrange Spelling Words

crystal

mystery

cygnet

physics

syllable

EgyptianGreen Spelling Words

homonym

synonym

mysterious

gymnastics

synthetic

chlorophyll

Weekly Spelling SheetFocus: Name:

Say the word, write the word Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Red Spelling Wordsworm

word

work

worth

worst

worldOrange Spelling Words

rework

worthy

worship

worse

earthworm

artworkGreen Spelling Words

worksheet

unworthy

worldwide

workmanship

homework

worthless

Weekly Spelling Sheet

Focus: Name:Say the word, write the word Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Red Spelling Wordspony

baby

many

happy

tidy

lollyOrange Spelling Words

any

silly

angry

lucky

party

DaddyGreen Spelling Words

Mummy

family

nobody

twenty

thirty

forty

Writing - Persuasive Mentor Texts

Writing - Persuasive Text Structure

Writing - Persuasive text (Transition Words)

Maths - Fluency Continuum

Maths - Fluency Goals

Maths - Telling Time (Half Past)

Maths - Telling Time (Half Past)

Maths - Telling Time (Quarter Past)

Maths - Telling Time (Quarter To)

Maths - Telling Time (To the Minute)