DPS Remote Learning: Year 4 Week 7 Week beginning Tuesday May 26th

Please complete all tasks by Friday May 29th. Please ensure your child actively engages in their learning by sending through work via FlexiBuzz, supporting them to ask questions and contribute through the FlexiBuzz chat function or if timetabled, attending a Webex Meeting before 3:4 each day to ensure your child is marked as ‘present.’ Please DO NOT contact teachers on Monday. It is a pupil free day.

❏ Tick the box when the task is complete.

Complete Purposeful Independent Reading Every Day

Tasks: Please complete one task each day Reading: ◻ 1 Adverbial Phrases

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF95vgjyp0c An adverbial phrase is a group of words that functions as an adverb. For example: Jack will sit in silence. The adverbial phrase "in silence" is functioning as an adverb of manner. It tells us how Jack sat.

1. What types of adverbial phrases are there? 2. List 5 examples of an adverbial phrase

Take a photo and send it to your teacher via Flexibuzz. ◻ 2 Adverbial Phrases in Procedural Texts

Adverbial phrases add detailed information (about how, when and where) in a procedural text. Find some procedural texts at home to use for this task.

1. List 5 adverbial phrases used in the procedural texts.

2. What types of adverbial phrases are they? 3. How do adverbial phrases help the reader

when reading a procedural text? Take a photo and send it to your teacher via Flexibuzz. ◻ 3 Prepositional Phrases

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvagXaFQGXM A prepositional phrase is a group of words that consists of a preposition, its object (which will be a noun or pronoun and any words that modify the object) and any words that modify or describe the object. For example:

Tasks: Please complete one task each day Writing ◻ 1 Procedural text - Aim/Goal

Watch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Md42y-8hoOGcuqdp9ocs4wh43MaGdFfV/view?usp=sharing Open ‘Writing Legends’ home page and click on the TO DO! icon at the top of the screen. Select one of the prompts and start writing a procedural text on ‘Writing Legends’. ◻ 2 Procedural text - Steps

Watch the following video to learn the importance of clear precise instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2RM-CHkuI Now watch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sr189aUI3F4PZF_7N3I_dzF97DIOwnMe/view?usp=sharing When writing the directions in a procedural text we need to think about who is the target audience, what is it that we exactly want the reader to do, have I been clear and specific and have I covered everything they need to know/use/do? Continue writing your procedural text on ‘Writing Legends’. ◻ 3 Procedural text - Chronological Order

Watch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k8LVuEaEiOXPk63KcaAuOV6M_voRKnRJ/view?usp=sharing As you write a procedural text on ‘Writing Legends’ make sure that everything is organised in the sequence

Tasks: Please complete one task each day Maths: ◻ 1 Designing a superhero

Watch: Strategies for solving the problems https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xoz72dccNqHVZVOWXxYGXP35271op_jx/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DowpZCan2Z2tofLo8diQHgnHDqL0wlas/view Template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HbGLxwFH__8k1bFRHjL7Az-LVfpi64Ti/view?usp=sharing You need to create and kit out your own superhero. Don’t use one that already exists, create your own! You need to use the superhero order form. Create items and their price (include prices with dollars and cents) and work out how much your superhero costs! Optional task: Draw the items of your superhero ◻ 2 Superhero Hideout

Watch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ri6G5kS44DC4aWO-6rkP9WnwRTbZxGh3/view Every superhero needs a hideout. You are to design a map for your hidden hideout, showing all the features it has. Use a key, legend and scale that you practiced last week. Make a list of the items in your hideout, create prices for them and calculate how much it will cost to make your hideout.

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The group hiked up the mountain. The preposition in this example is 'up,' and the object of the preposition is 'mountain’. The prepositional phrase is ‘up the mountain’. Find some procedural texts to use for this task.

1. List 5 prepositional phrases used in the procedural texts.

2. How do the prepositional phrases help the reader when reading a procedural text?

Take a photo and send it to your teacher via Flexibuzz. ◻ 4 Read a good fit book

Choose a good fit book to read. Use your predicting and questioning skills before, during and after reading. Record any predictions and questions that you come up with.

it is to occur and that each new step/rule begins on a new line. ◻ 4 Procedural Text - Diagrams

Watch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13YQQ2ChnQSI8vXY6oqptoaPVWJ-TWumS/view?usp=sharing You could use diagrams or pictures or photos to help the reader understand what to do in your procedural text! The images you use should be ordered sequentially and should be labelled or accompanied by a caption. Continue writing a procedural text on ‘Writing Legends’. Take a picture of diagrams that you have drawn for this procedural text. Send them to your teacher via FlexiBuzz.

◻ 3 Designing a Super villain Watch: Strategies for solving the problems https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xoz72dccNqHVZVOWXxYGXP35271op_jx/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DowpZCan2Z2tofLo8diQHgnHDqL0wlas/view Every superhero needs a super villain. Using the Supervillain order form, design your supervillain. Create items and their price (include prices with dollars and cents) and work out how much your superhero costs!

◻ 4 Supervillain’s Lair

Watch:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ri6G5kS44DC4aWO-6rkP9WnwRTbZxGh3/view Template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vDr4pcD4XG7qrZRbIMss-kQYsnLEmlN3/view?usp=sharing If a Supervillain is going to take on your superhero, they will need a lair to plot their schemes. You are to design a map for your hidden hideout, showing all the features it has. Use a key, legend and scale that you practiced last week. Make a list of the items in your lair, create prices for them and calculate how much it will cost to make your lair fit to take over the world.

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Daily Task: Spelling: Log on to Literacy Planet and work on your spelling activities for 10 minutes each day. The words you will be learning to spell have been especially chosen for you. Have fun playing the games! ◻ 1 Monday ◻ 2 Tuesday ◻ 3 Wednesday ◻ 4 Thursday ◻ 5 Friday

Inquiry: Watch this video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_W0KJOdnZztgixghYaaStUBuIhXWdZ5j When an object isn't moving, it has static friction. It will take a certain amount of force to get the object moving. The amount of force it will take depends on the surfaces and the weight of the object, among other factors. Follow the instructions for the Static Friction Experiment. As you are completing the experiment fill out the template and discuss what factors you have changed (e.g. surface), what you predict will happen and what actually happened. Here is an example.

Optional Task:

❏ Create a picture on a piece of paper and turn it into a puzzle. You could cut it into strips, puzzle piece shapes or just cut it into random shapes.

Mindfulness: ❏ Use the following websites and activities as ‘brain

breaks’ in between completing tasks. These tasks will help you stay focused on your learning.

● Mindfulness colouring or drawing ● https://family.gonoodle.com.au/ ● https://smilingmind.com.au/

Optional Online learning Task: SUCCESS To succeed we need to persist. Watch: https://youtu.be/SkVqJ1SGeL0 How did the Illama persevere to achieve his goal?

How does it feel when you are challenged while working

towards a goal?

Create a poster or background on your computer with things you can say to yourself when persevering towards a goal. Here are some ideas: “I can do this! It might be hard, but if i keep on trying,

I’ll get there”.

“I have the skills to succeed!”

“I can find strategies that work for me!”

Family Time Enjoy spending some special time with a family member. Here are some examples of things you could do together:

● Work in the garden. ● Listen to music. ● Bake a cake. ● Go for a bike ride. ● Walk at the beach. ● Play a card game.

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Specialist Grid

Art: Sandwich Collage

Week 7: Hello Year 4, thank you to all those who shared their artwork with me last week on Webex. For this week’s task we are exploring texture. Please click on the link. https://drive.google.com/file/d/171-54yOtbqSew1UDjZ6j_pOy3Klb1Y0D/view?usp=sharing

Indonesian - You will state your preference for the colour and size of an object. 1) Look at this page, choose your favourite pencil and write a sentence -

Pensil Favorit Saya.pptx Pensil favorit saya (colour) dan (size).

tua - dark ini - this muda - light panjang - long pendek - short

2 ) Imagine that you have been asked by a stationery company to design your own amazing pencil. Look at the words above and choose the colour

and the size. Illustrate your pencil design and complete the sentence below.

Pensil saya _______________ dan _______________.

e.g. Pensil saya merah dan panjang. ** If you would like to include different words when describing your pencil -

bergaris (striped) berbintik-bintik (spotted) berbunga (floral) Lagu (Song)

https://safeYouTube.net/w/kXwG

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Performing Arts: (Music Inquiry)

‘Recording different sounds I hear?’ Take a time during a Remote Learning day this week to make a list of the different every day sounds you hear that are different.

What sounds around your home would be great for a soundscape?

· What types of sounds do you hear? (natural vs. machine)

· Were you surprised to hear music in any specific places?

Task: Record some of the different sounds you can hear around your home.

E.g. A door shutting, footsteps (loud/fast), your pets, a scream, a hairdryer, birds etc

*We will use some of these later in the term when we create our own soundscapes.

Physical Education: The following tasks are to be completed over the next 2 weeks. Please read all instructions carefully. Parents

must give you permission to complete each activity. DPS Virtual Cross Country* You must have parents permission to complete this task. Watch this video for instructions.

Once complete, fill out this form to record your run, earn house points for participating and get a certificate! Outdoor Challenges Grade 3-4 Outdoor Challenge All instructions are in the document as well as a link to record your results and earn house points. Optional Challenge Trick Shots Read the instructions and watch the video (my favourite is the dice). *Please note: participation in this event is at your own risk. Please ensure you familiarise yourself with the current Victorian mandates & restrictions from SSV and the Department of Education & Training's advice to schools and the State Government of Victoria in regards Sport, Cultural & Recreational Activities restrictions. https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/Pages/NEWSCoronavirusandschoolsport.aspx https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/Pages/coronavirus-advice-schools.aspx https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/sport-cultural-and-recreational-activities-restrictions-coronavirus-covid19#sport-and-exercise