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English Maths Other Monday READING:

Read a book with a parent/carer.

Retell what happened in the

beginning, middle and end of the

story.

WRITING:

On a piece of paper, write the name of your story. Next, draw a picture of the characters and write their names below.

SPELLING:

Sing the SoundWaves chants to your family (see below).

Find a round lid to trace 26 circles on paper or card. Write your letters in the circles using the Casey Caterpillar formation. Cut out your letters and keep them safe, as you will use them again.

NUMBER: 5 Warm Up - Jack Hartmann – Count to ten with our friends

Ask someone to help you collect 5 objects.

Practise counting your selection forwards and backwards.

Count how many steps it takes to get from your bedroom to the kitchen and back.

Play a board game with a family member.

SCIENCE – OBJECTS/MATERIALS

Suggested link if you have a computer – play this song first. 3C Materials song – YouTube

Choose 10 objects from around the house. Talk about the materials they are made of e.g. paper, wood, plastic, cardboard, metal.

Tuesday READING

Read a book with a parent/carer. Has

anything in the story happened in your

life? Does it remind you of anything?

NUMBER: 5 Warm Up – Jack Hartmann – Count to twenty and work out

Number Hunt – what are some numbers you can find in your home? Can you find all the numbers from 0

STEM

Design/draw a crazy hat – use a box, cardboard strip, etc. as the base. Talk about how you will join the different parts to your hat e.g. glue, sticky tape, staples, string, etc. Make it. Discuss which ideas for joining parts worked and which didn’t work. If you can/would like to, take a

Year Prep Learning @ Home: Term 2 – Week 1

SPELLING

Using your alphabet cards from yesterday make three letter words. For example: cat, hat, bat, mat, sat; pan, man, ran, fan, can.

WRITING

Write the CVC words you made. Can you write them in a sentence (i.e. I can see a fat cat.)?

-10? If this is too easy for your child, try the numbers to 20.

Trace the numbers 0 -10 (or 20) on your number card.

Represent the number 5 in 4 different see the example below.

photo of yourself wearing your crazy hat and email it to your teacher.

Wednesday READING

Read a book with a family member. How were the characters feeling at the beginning and then at the end of the story? What made them feel this way?

SPELLING

Sing along with Jack Hartmann – Working out to the letters and sounds.

WRITING

Make a list of fruit. It’s ok if you don’t spell the word correctly. Just write the sounds that you hear. Draw a picture to match.

Cut and paste the sentence using the sheet below (see example).

NUMBER: 10 Warm Up – Sing ‘There were 10 in the Bed’

Complete 10 (or 20) hops on each leg, 10 jumps and 10 claps.

Count how many forks you have in your cutlery drawer.

Write the numbers 1 – 10 (or 20) on a piece of paper, then draw the matching number of dots. Keep this for tomorrow’s activity.

ART – MUSIC Focus is on fast tempo.

See below for a music program from Mrs Mackay for some ideas.

Thursday READING

Read a book with a family member. Use the pictures to tell a story before reading (picture walk).

SPELLING

Using your alphabet cards from yesterday make three letter words (CVC): fit, hit, kit, pit, sit; big, dig, pig, rig, wig.

WRITING

Write the CVC words you made. Can you write them in a sentence (i.e. The big pig can see a wig.)?

NUMBER: 10 Warm Up – ‘Five little monkeys’

Cut up the numbers and dots you created yesterday. Mix then up then see if you can put them back in order from 1 -10.

Go outside and show ten in 3 different ways (e.g. 10 rocks, 10 leaves, 10 sticks). Take a photo and ask an adult to teach you how to email it to your teacher.

Thursday PE

Go outside and do some catching and throwing practice with your family.

Have a look at the grid below from Mr Moody for more ideas.

Friday READING

Choose a Mem Fox story to listen to https://memfox.com/books/

Draw a picture of your favourite part of the story.

SPELLING

Use your alphabet letters to make these sight words: am, my, see, can, look, the, at.

PATTERNS/ SHAPE/ MEASUREMENT: Warm Up – Watch Sesame Street ‘Patterns’

Collect some blocks, pencils, pens, etc. and use them to make some repeating patterns: AB – knife, fork, knife, fork

Draw your pattern on a piece of paper. Can you show an adult what you’ve done? Can they create a pattern for you to continue?

HASS

Talk about commemorations. What events do your family commemorate – e.g. birthdays, weddings, Easter, Christmas or other? If you commemorate Anzac Day, listen to the Anzac Ted by B. Landsberry online (e.g. Nana Kate’s Corner) and do a directed drawing of Anzac Ted.

WRITING

Can you write a sentence or two using the sight words?

OR listen to Lest We Forget by K. Brown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l30O--McAsU and make a poppy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe0uqc6ImgQ

Additional Information: Part of a successful day will be developing a routine that works for your family. Create a routine that includes some daily exercise, learning time, morning tea

and lunch breaks, outdoor play time, indoor free time and a regular bedtime routine.

ENGLISH:

If you have limited access to children’s stories there is a great variety of read aloud stories available YouTube. For example: The Very Hungry Bear series, Pig

the Pug series, and traditional fairy tales.

You can practice sight words using Spelling City. Feel free to write these words on pieces of card at home to play games such as snap, memory or go fish.

If your child has access to a computer or tablet there are a variety of both free and paid online programs for teacher reading. These include.

Reading Eggs, Teach your monster to read, Sunshine Online, Decodable Readers Australia (App).

MATHS:

Every day, you should count as far as you can. Can you count further than yesterday?

Each day look at the days of the week – what is the day today? What was yesterday? What will tomorrow be?

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Fabulous Fitness For Everyone

Choose your own adventure Choose one (or more if you like) to complete each day.

Work to your own fitness level. Smile and have FUN.

The Ball Handling Blast! Throw (underarm, overarm, chest and shoulder) and catch a ball against a wall. Challenge yourself by • Clapping once, twice or even three times before catching • Use different size ball • Allow ball to bounce

Create your own challenge !

Follow Me!

Create an obstacle course using natural and manmade materials. Create rules for what you can and cannot do. Invite a family member to complete the cause with you.

PE with Joe

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pe+with+joe Great for the whole family. Do as much or as little as you like.

Golfing Gurus!

Design you own five hole Golf course where you roll a tennis ball around obstacles. Play with siblings or parents.

Huffn’Puff! Create a circuit using five “fitness fun” activities. The number of repetitions needs to suit the age and fitness level of each participant.

Ta Ta Tabata!

Tabata training. 4 minute workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYRVSNz_VY

Skip-A-Long!

With or without a rope skip for 2min and repeat three times.

Casey Caterpillar

Combining the strokes to form letters

The following is the language that you would use to introduce the letters in written form. Once a child achieves

automaticity these instructions do not need to be used.

Letter Language a Open mouth and close, short stick b Tall stick, tunnel and close c Open mouth d Open mouth and close, up tall stick, down tall stick and kick e Twig, open mouth f Feeler, lift and twig g Open mouth and close, possum tail h Tall stick, tunnel i Short stick, dot at top j Possum tail, dot at top k Tall stick, twirly vine l Tall stick m Short stick, tunnel, tunnel n Short stick, tunnel o Open mouth, and close p Hanging stick, up the hanging stick, tunnel, close it. q Open mouth and close, hanging stick, kick r Short stick, half a tunnel s Snake shape t Stick, lift and twig u Cup, short stick v Cup and kick w Cup, cup, kick x Sloping stick, crossover sloping stick y Cup, possum tail z Twig, sloping stick, twig

Letter Jingle Action a Ants on apples a, a, a Make a fist and crawl ants on it with other

hand. b Bounce balloons b, b, b. Pretend you are tapping a balloon upwards. c Crazy kites c, c, c. Use 2 hands to mime pulling on kite strings d Ducks dive down, d, d, d. Place two hands together and dive them

forwards. e Empty eggs e, e, e. Mime breaking eggs with 2 hands. f Five fat fish f, f, f. Swim all 5 fingers in front of body. g Girls giggle g, g, g. Grin and tilt head side to side. h Happy house h, h, h. Make a roof over head. i In the igloo i, i, i. Hug body and shiver. j Jumping jellyfish j, j, j. Make a jellyfish by pointing fingers and thumb

down and bob up and down. k Crazy kites k, k, k. Use 2 hands to mime pulling on kite strings. l Lizards like lollypops l, l, l. Make a fist and mime licking a lollypop. m Mummy on the moon m, m, m. Slow motion walking hands like and astronaut. n Nanny has a net n, n, n. Mime using a butterfly net. o On the orange o, o, o. Make a fist and tap with the other index finger. p Pretty pink pig p, p, p. Make ears with both hands on top of head and

alternate up and down. q Queens on quilts qu, qu, qu. Make a crown with both hands on top of head. r Rusty robots r, r, r. Stilted robot dancing. s Seals swim, seals slide s, s, s. Use hand to slide down and swim across. t Trotting tigers t, t, t. Two fingers running on opposite palm. u Umbrellas up u, u, u. Mime putting up an umbrella. v Vase in a van v, v, v. Make a vase shape with hands. w Water on the web w, w, w. Trace a web with a finger and place drops

of water on it. x X-ray of foxes x, x, x. Make an x with fingers. y Yellow yo-yo y, y, y. Mime playing with a yo-yo. z Zebra in a zoo z, z, z. Use index finger and middle finger on each

hand to draw stripes on cheeks

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BRAIN BREAKS/UNPLUGGED ACTIVITIES TO DO IN BETWEEN TEACHING TIMES

RING A GRANDPARENT/OLDER RELATIVE

AND ASK THEM TO TEACH YOU A SONG

THEY USED TO SING.

PLANT SOME HERBS OR FLOWERS IN A

GARDEN. DO SOME COSMIC KIDS YOGA ONLINE.

DEVELOP A DAILY HELPING AROUND THE

HOUSE CHECKLIST. MAKE A MEAL WITH THE FAMILY. MAKE A CUBBYHOUSE.

SET THE TABLE WITH YOUR FAMILY. CREATE A SECRET HANDSHAKE WITH A

FAMILY MEMBER. PLAY A CARD GAME.

WATCH MR SQUIGGLE ONLINE AND DO

A DRAWING. WRITE A LIST OF THINGS YOU ARE

THANKFUL FOR. SEE HOW LONG YOU CAN BALANCE ON

EACH LEG.