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Teaching & Learning Activities – Stage 3 Term 2 Week 1
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 – Research whether or not plastic bags should be banned or should be allowed. Write the information you find in dot points.
Brain Break
Book Balance
Balance a book on your head. Can you stand up, walk to the front door, walk back and sit down without dropping the book?
English
Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 comprehension question.
Grammar – Antonyms and synonyms. Watch the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBWm3-mxL1U
After watching, write a definition and a example for an antonym and a synonym.
Watch ‘Behind the News’ at 10am on ABC
English
Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 application question.
Writing – Write a persuasive text arguing whether or not plastic bags should be banned or allowed. Watch the video below to help with the structure of your argument. Provide at least 3 reasons for your argument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AG6js-KheQ
English
Read one chapter of a novel/text of your selection. Use the Blooms questions and complete 1 analysis question.
Sentence of the Day – Sometimes more than one word is needed to express the nuances of meaning of the verb (example: tried to establish, must have been thinking)
It is then called a verb group. Compound sentences have two verb groups e.g. we travelled to Bathurst to visit my Aunty Jane.
Jemima was running
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.
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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, u and 0 (unit 11).
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Me. Choose your favourite story. Write a summary of the story.
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 11).
Log onto Wushka and explore the site. Have a look at what books are available for you to read.
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.
Log onto Wushka and select a book to read. Read the book and complete the comprehension activities.
across the playground when she fell over.
Write a compound sentence:
- Containing the verbs sent and travelled.
- Containing the verbs were running and rang.
- Contains the verbs told and laughed.
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.
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Middle Mathematics
This week’s focus is whole number.
Partitioning is when we break up a number into
Mathematics
When we write numbers in word form, we write in groups of three and use commas to separate the groups. The groups of
Mathematics
In maths the letter ‘k’ can mean thousand e.g. 8k means 8000.
Convert the following
Mathematics
When a number is less than zero it is called a negative number.
Watch the video below
Mathematics
Answer the question: What happens if we subtract a larger number from a smaller number.
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its place value groups. For example the number 135 693 can be split into 100 000, 30 000, 5 000, 600, 90 and 3. Non-standard partitioning is when we break a number up in groups outside of their place value groups. For example, the number 135 693 can be split into 100 000 and 35 693.
Solve the following questions by partitioning numbers in non-standard forms e.g. 138 700 + 150 000.
Step A: 100 000 + 38 700 + 150 000
Step B: (100 000 + 150 000) + 38 700
Step C: 250 000 + 38 700 =288 700
1) There are 1 486 450 people in Tasmania. An additional 312 000 people are planning to
three includes the ones, thousands, millions, billions etc. So when writing the number 123 560 891in words, we write the first group of numbers as: one hundred and twenty three million. Then we write the next group of three, five hundred and sixty thousand. We finish with the final group, the ones – eight hundred and ninety one. Therefore the number in word form is one hundred and twenty three million, five hundred and sixty thousand, eight hundred and ninety one.
Refer to the statistics below about kangaroo populations.
Answer the following questions in word form.
How many Red Kangaroos (Macropus rufus) are there in NSW?
numbers to their values.
11k =
127k =
350k =
1650k =
Convert the following numbers using the abbreviation ‘k’.
68 000 =
575 000 =
710 000=
Watch the video below on how to round numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd-E18EqSVk
Round the following numbers to the place value specified
478 952 to the nearest ten thousand
1 568 987 to the nearest million
10 785 312 to the nearest thousand
about negative numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAoLCXpao6s
Continue the number patterns below.
12, 6, 0, _, _, _, _
36, 24, _, 0, _, _, _
17, 8, -1, _, _, _, _
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.
If we subtract a larger number from a smaller number, the result is a negative number e.g.
20 – 30 = -10
Refer to the number line below.
Solve the following questions.
25 – 37 =
62 – 84 =
125 – 210 =
Challenge
3 980 – 4 220 =
Students determine which number is larger. Watch yesterday’s video if you need to revise.
-367 or -267
25 or -5420
-8059 or -8095
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the
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move to Tasmania next month. How many people will live in Tasmania? Show your working out. 2) John earns $1 325 780 a year. He spends $213 450 on bills and supplies throughout the year. How much money does John have remaining at the end of the year? Show your working out.
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.
How many Eastern Grey Kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) are there in Queensland?
What is the total amount of kangaroos in Australia?
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.
PDHPE
Dribbling games – Using a ball of any size (whatever you have at home) try your skills at:
- Dribbling in a sequence e.g. 2x left hand, 3x right hand.
- To music (vary the tempo)
- For a specified period of time e.g. 2 minutes.
- For a specified number of times
Mathletics- Log on and complete activities set by your teacher every day. Have a go at the game and other online activities.
game and other online activities.
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e.g. 100 times - With various bidy
parts e.g. hand, foot.
- With a partner, following their partners shadow
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Afternoon Creative Arts
Anzac Day
Find a recipe for Anzac biscuits and follow the recipe to make some for your family. You can google a recipe or find one in a recipe book.
Google Anzac Day art/craft for kids and choose an art/craft activity to make. E.g. A wreath, poppies, Anzac silhouette. I found some ideas at: theorganisedhousewife.com.au
Pinterest.com
Brightstarkids.com.au
Science and
technology
Hundreds of years ago there was a major debate about whether the Earth was round or flat. Watch the following YouTube clip on whether the Earth is round or flat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4WjyTV98lg and read the
resource sheet attached below and write at least one paragraph summarising what occurred.
History
Watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teq__HPNpSI to give an overview of Australian immigration.
Investigate the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901. Write a paragraph explaining who introduced it, when and why, and what the ‘dictation test’ was. Find and write a description of a poster promoting the Act. Include how it attempts to convince people how they should feel.
Research your own
Science and
technology
Using the resource sheet attached below, answer the following questions:
1.How did the characters use information in their world to form their ideas?
2.What did Eratosthenes (Erra–tos–the–neez) suggest when they disagreed? Why?
3.Why do you think the companion listened to Eratosthenes’ ideas?
4.What evidence do we have now that would further support Eratosthenes’ ideas that
PDHPE
Create your own healthy lunchbox taking into consideration: * portion sizes
*Allergies/anaphalaxis
* food groups
Write down your menu and then draw your healthy lunchbox.
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family’s immigration. Draw a family tree with yourself, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. Record information such as year born/died and country of birth. Draw a basic world map and colour and label the countries they came from.
the Earth is a sphere?
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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?
If your story occurred long ago, compare that time with
today in a
Using information
from the book about one of
the main
If you could only save one character from the book in the
event of a
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Why?
paragraph. If it was a modern
story, compare it with another time period and state what would be
different.
characters, rewrite the
ending of the book.
disaster, which one would it be and why?
List five new words you
learned in the book. Write down their dictionary
pronunciation and meaning.
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 the character
inside the shape.
Write another short story using the
same characters
Is the title a good one or a poor one and
why?
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?
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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
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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?
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