Year 6Term 3 Week 2- Beginning 19th July 2021
NB: Highlighted activities need to be submitted on the specified day.All underlined words are hyperlinks.
Google Classroom is abbreviated to GC.
Learning from Home – Weekly Timetable
Announcements
Happy Birthday!
none this week
Additional activitiesDue this week
Mon: Geography Pretest
Tues: Science and Tech Pretest
Wed: Matharoo
Thurs: Word Definitions
Fri: A highlighted, edited Big
Write
Submit activity to GC or Seesaw
6M Announcements
What wonderful work you showed last week - keep it up!
Virtual Success CardsSuccess cards for effort for last week’s learning go to the whole class! Our first week of learning from home and you all showed some learning. Well done everyone!
Class Codes for the online programs are: Epic: pzb0068Soundwaves: chop916
Term 3 Week 2Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Morning welcome
EnglishIndependent Reading(20 minutes) record in your wellbeing journal
Reading: STARS
Spelling - Questions (Q) 1-4
Speaking and Listening: part A
Independent Reading(20 minutes) record daily
Reading Strategy
Spelling - Q 5-7
Grammar and Punctuation
Speaking and Listening: part B
Independent Reading(20 minutes) record daily
Reading Eggspress
VCOP Activities
Spelling - Q 8-9
Speaking and Listening: HomeTalk
Independent Reading(20 minutes) record daily Choose 5 interesting words from what you read and write their definitions.
Library
Spelling - Q 10 onwards
Big Write
Independent Reading(20 minutes) record daily
Big Write Edit
Spelling - Challenge and online activities
Speaking and Listening: own choice
Typing Tournament OR 10 Fast Fingers
PDHPE Wellbeing - Ms Kwan Wellbeing Journals Wellbeing Journals Wellbeing Journals Wellbeing Journals
Middle session
Mathematics Mentals: Unit 18 Set AMaths OnlineMaths Stars - 10mins
Mentals: Unit 18 Set BMaths activities
Mentals: Unit 18 Set CMatharoo - see GCMaths extension: optional - see GC
Mentals: Unit 18 Set DMaths activitiesMaths Stars - 10mins
Mentals - bottom sectionMaths OnlineMaths activities
PDHPE PE Choice board PE Choice board PE Choice board PE Choice board PE Choice board
Afternoon session
Other KLAsGeography Science and Technology PDHPE Creative Arts Add to your Learning
from Home Journal
English - S3Reading: STARSLI: To use a variety of strategies to comprehend texts.SC: I can use all 12 reading strategies to comprehend texts accurately.
Log in to CARS and STARS to complete your reading comprehension. More details on GC.
Reading StrategyLI: To make predictions about what would probably or most likely happen in a text.SC: I can use evidence from the text to justify the predictions I’ve made.
View the poster then log in to CARS and STARS to complete your STARS activities for Making Predictions. More details on GC.
GrammarLI: To identify active and passive voice.SC: I can use active and passive voice.
Watch the following Powerpoint.
Complete the worksheet. Answers will be posted on GC the following day.
PunctuationLI: To understand the punctuation features apostrophes and quotation marks.
SC: I can punctuate direct speech using quotation marks and commas and understand correct use of apostrophes.
Watch the following Quotation Marks and Apostrophes powerpoints and complete the worksheets.Answers will be posted on GC the following day.
SpellingLI: To develop spelling skills through phonemic awareness. SC: I can identify sounds/phonemes and sound patterns in words.Look at the powerpoint and complete Soundwaves Unit 19 student activity pages. Online activities - password: chop916Answers will be posted to GC on Fridays at 1pm.
English: Writing S3Writing - Big Write: Informative - Factual Recount: MigrantLI: To use connectives when writing a factual recount.SC: I can use five connectives to link ideas in my writing.
❏ Read a Yr 6 example or Yr 7 example if you want to challenge yourself.❏ Use the historical recount checklist to ensure you include all that is
needed.❏ Use the resources on Inquisitive.
https://www.inquisitive.com/class/ca3/login Passcode: 3558❏ Scroll down to the stimulus resources and view the video ‘A Migrant’s
Story’ and read the eBook ‘This is Your Life - Nick Standish’.❏ Use this information to plan your writing. Use the scaffold if needed. ❏ Write a factual recount of Nick Standish’s life, particularly his migration
to Australia.
Big Write - EditLI: To improve my writing by editing and uplevelling.SC: I can edit my writing to add connectives, uplevel vocabulary and include high-level punctuation in my writing.
❏ Read your Big Write again - editing spelling errors, sentence structure and punctuation as you read.
❏ Use the historical recount checklist.❏ Highlight VCOP. ❏ Improve your writing:● If you don’t have at least five connectives
then add information or link two sentences to add connectives
● Uplevel at least five words (e.g. instead of using ‘hard life’ change hard to challenging, difficult, disruptive, etc)
● Use high-level punctuation: can you include a semi-colon or dash in your writing?
❏ Submit your edited and uplevelled Big Write to GC or Seesaw.
VCOP Activities W2 S3
Part A: SpeakingVideo yourself presenting your
Olympic Athlete speech. Please stand up when giving your speech, look
towards to camera to show your eye contact, remember to use pace and
pausing and deliver your speech with expression and intonation.
On GC open the Olympic Athlete slides, embed your video in your own
slide, adding your name in the heading at the top.
Home Talk:● Explain what you know about Nick
Standish to a family member● Brainstorm high-level vocabulary
that you could use in your writing● Talk about how you can use the
following connectives in your writing: however, meanwhile,
eventually, fortunately, subsequently, meanwhile, despite.
Listen to stories by a famous author:
David WalliamsMem Fox
Part B: ListeningWatch 3 other students' speeches
and add feedback on the right-hand side of their slide on GC. Add your name at the end of your comment.
Feedback should be positive - think 2 stars and a wish.
Listen to Squizkids podcast and take notes on daily news. After listening to one (or more) of
the stories/podcasts on this board, read a page from the novel you are
reading, using a digital device to record your voice when reading.
Speaking and Listening
LibraryReferencing your research.
When you do research it is very important to include references to show where your information has come from.Here are some reasons why referencing is so important:
● You cannot claim the work or ideas of someone else as your own.● Plagiarism is not just when you directly copy words from someone else's work. Plagiarism is also when someone else's work is
paraphrased or their ideas are used and claimed as your own.● Referencing has a positive effect and adds credibility to your work.
When you reference correctly, you are demonstrating that (a) you have read widely on the topic and (b) that you are supporting your hypotheses with comments from expert authors and/or reliable sources.
When you reference from a book you need to follow a particular format.
Task:In your student portal access OLIVER Library. Search for the following books and click on the titles to find the information to use in referencing.Use the document on GC to write the correct references for these books.
● My Australia by Julie Murphy● Asia by Charles Hope● China by Cameron Macintosh● Angel of Kokoda by Mark Wilson● Children just like me by Catherine Saunders et al.
Mathematics
Log in to MathsOnline.Click on ‘Tasks’.Click on the blue maths topic (your set task).
Your set task is here.
‘Tasks’ icon is here.
Mathematics Learning Intentions:
Addition and SubtractionLI: Select and apply appropriate strategies for addition and subtraction with counting numbers of any size.SC: Accurately answer set questions in Maths Online and worksheets.Area:LI:To compare perimeters of rectangles with the same area and areas of rectangles with the same perimeter.To solve a variety of problems involving the areas of rectangles.SC: I can solve problems involving the comparison of areas using appropriate units. I can investigate and compare the areas of rectangles that have the same perimeter.
Maths activities: Activity 1: Area and PerimeterActivity 2: Addition and Subtraction
Answers will be posted on:Matharoo: Thursdays
Maths Extension: Fridays
GeographyA Diverse and Connected World
This term, we will explore countries of the Asia region and the connections Australia has with other countries across the world. We will learn about the diversity of the world’s people, including the indigenous peoples of other countries and will explore and reflect upon similarities, differences and the importance of intercultural
understanding.
LI: To show my current knowledge and use map labelling techniques.S.C. I can label a map using correct features including font size and direction.
● Complete the pretest on Google Forms. The link will be on GC
● Make an A-Z list of all country names that you know
● Read the information on how to label a map.
● Label as many countries as you can on the blank map.
● If time, use an atlas to add other geographical features: oceans, mountain, deserts
Science and Technology S3This term we will be investigating the solar system and how the Earth compares to other planets. We will understand that Earth is part of a system of planets and other celestial bodies, orbiting around a star. We will also recognise how technologies developed to aid space exploration have changed the way people live, work and communicate.
1. First, complete the pre-test on Google Forms. The link will be on Google Classroom.
As this is a pretest for you to compare what you know now with what you know at the end of the unit, please use your current knowledge.
LI: To show an understanding of the solar system and the the Earth’s place in space.SC: I can show my current understanding of the solar system and how Earth compares to other planets.
2. Go to Google Classroom to complete the introductory lesson.LI: To investigate the solar system and how the Earth compares to other planets. SC: I can identify the locations of the planets and describe the major features and characteristics of the planets
Creative ArtsSelect one or more of the following activities:
● https://digital.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/
← Choral singing tipsLearn about the
fundamentals of choral singing, conducting and performing through this series of short videos.
STARS: Is it Art, or is it Maths?1. Without taking your pencil
off the paper, draw a star using 5 straight lines
2. Draw 2 triangles on top of each other to make a star
3. Connect the vertices of the shapes above. What shapes did you make?
Imagine Van Gogh living in the 21st Century. Draw what his room would look like.
Reader's theatreAsk your parents or siblings to join you in a session of reader's theatre, using the play included in the school magazine.
Take a photo of the sky. Compose a poem about
it.
Dancing with the STARSVisualise a 5-pointed star⭐ on the floor in front of you. Now use your two feet to tap each vertex,
in the order you would draw them.
How many stars can you draw with your feet in one minute?
Compare and shareHow does your room compare to Van Gogh's room? Design your ideal bedroom, complete with all the features you could
dream of - 2D or 3D.What would people living in
2121 (100 years in the future) say about it?
Create your own Olympic workout including push-ups,
squats, lunges, running on the spot, throwing and catching a
ball. Can you increase the number of repetitions?
Be in the moment with a Mindfulness activity
Create a keep fit circuit in your house:Follow a path that might include:o Step-ups on a stairo Climbing over a chair or other
obstacleo Commando crawl along a rugo 10 star jumps o Burpeeso Running on the spot, knees higho Plank for 30 secondsBe creative and use what you have. Try to get your heart rate up!
Dice Workout:Create 6 different exercises
such as star jumps, push ups, burpees, etc and give them a number from 1-6. Roll the die to see which
activity to complete.Roll the die two more times
and add the numbers together to see how many
times you need to complete the exercise.
PE Choice Board
1. Watch these video clips and notice what happens.
Rubber Ball Bouncing
Tennis Ball Bouncing
2. Activity: Have a go at bouncing your own ball and watch carefully what happens.
3.: Listen to the video lesson by Ms Kwan
Wellbeing Program - Ms KwanBouncing Back Intro Lesson
PDHPEWellbeing Activity
Click on the link above. Discuss the first two pages with your parents/guardians then complete the
following two activities. Can you think of any other scenarios?
Healthy lifestyle/Wellbeing Checklist
Click on the link above and answer the questions about your health and wellbeing.
