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Teaching and Learning Activities – Stage 1

Term 2 Week 3 – All activities can be completed in your homework book. Parents please monitor

your child’s use of YouTube. Don’t forget to login to Google Classroom to interact with your teacher and check for the weekly tasks.

Monday

Year 2 at School Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday Year 1 at School

Friday

Task Have a go at tying up your shoes.

Can you help make dinner tonight?

Have you cleaned your teeth in the morning and night?

Could you help bring in the clothes?

Are you able to help fold the clothes?

Morning English Practise your Magic Words if you have any. Please email the school if you need the next level sent to you. You might like to upload a video to google classroom of you reading your magic words. Spelling: Unit 13 Soundwaves access: Year 1: spot148 Year 2: sand206

English Practise your Magic Words if you have any. Spelling Pick three of your spelling words and write a sentence using those words. Rhyming words Year 1: Complete activity 3 page 30 Sound Waves Year 2: Complete activity 5 page 30 Sound Waves a_e words - In these words a_e makes the long a sound and the e is silent at the end of the word. Year 1: Complete activity 4 page 31 Sound Waves Year 2: Complete activity 3 page 30 Sound Waves Read the words when you have filled in the missing letters.

English Practise your Magic Words if you have any. Spelling Year 1: Complete the cut and paste activity - Match the picture to the word and to the rhyming word. Complete activity 5 page 31 Sound Waves. Year 2: Complete the cut and paste activity - Match Up: Words to Clues. Complete activity 7 page 31 Sound Waves. Reading Choose a book to read on Wushka or a book at home that you have not read before. Before reading the book have a look at the

English Practise your Magic Words if you have any. Spelling Complete weekly segmenting of your spelling words using Sound Waves kids or the attached worksheet. Reading Choose a book to read on Wushka. Before reading, choose one of the sentence stems to write a question you have about the book. During reading, stop after a few pages and choose a different sentence stem to write another question about the book. After reading, choose another sentence stem and

English Practise your Magic Words if you have any. Spelling Finish off the weekly Sound Waves sheets. Year 1: Activities 6 & 7 page 31 Year 2: Activities 4, 6, 8 & 9. Read the rule before completing activity 6. Can you think of any more examples of homophones? Write these in your book. Play some spelling games in Sound Waves kids. Reading Choose a book to read on Wushka that is different to the book you read yesterday.

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Extension

Brainstorm at least ten words with the long a (ai, ay, a_e, a) sound in them. You can listen to the sound of the week by clicking on “sound info kit”. Read your spelling list words for the week. Complete Sound Waves activities 1 & 2 on page 30. Reading Choose a book that you enjoy reading, this might be a book that you have at home or a book on Wushka. Set a timer for 1 minute and record yourself reading the book using smooth reading on a phone or tablet. After the minute is up watch the video and rate your reading using the following scale. 1: Robot reading. 2: Smooth reading without expression. 3: Super smooth with expression! Awesome!

Reading Our Super Six comprehension focus this week is Questioning. Choose a book to read on Wushka or a book from home. Write down three questions you would ask the author about the book. Don’t forget to put a question mark ? at the end of each question. Grammar Look at the verb slide lesson two and follow the instructions. Writing Write down three things you can do to help yourself feel happy. Then write down three things you can do to help make someone else feel happy. Complete editing task 7 below “Dinnertime”.

front cover. Write down 2 ‘I wonder’ questions’ about the book. E.g. - I wonder if this book is about _______? - I wonder if the girl and boy on the front cover are friends or siblings. After reading the book, write one more ‘I wonder’ question. Challenge: When you are halfway through your book, stop and write an ‘I wonder’ question you have about the book so far. Grammar Look at the verb slide lesson three and follow the instructions. Writing Keep a list of all the different fruits and vegetables you eat today. Which one did you like the most? Which one did you like the least? Did you manage to have 2 serves of fruit and 5 serves of vegetables? Complete editing task 8 below “Sunday Outfit”.

write one last question about your book. Sentence stems: I wonder who… I wonder if… I wonder why… I wonder where… I wonder what… I wonder why… Tip: Highlight the sentence stems you have used. Grammar Look at the compound sentence slide lesson one and follow the instructions. At the bottom of the instructions it says “Go to the next page please”. Instead of turning the page please see the instructions below. Now it is your turn to write 3 compound sentences. Finish these sentences and write them in your book. My room was messy because…. The dog was barking because… My ball was covered in mud because… Writing

Before reading, choose one of the sentence stems that you haven’t used to write a question you have about the book. During reading, stop after a few pages and choose a different sentence stem to write another question about the book. After reading, use the remaining sentence stem and write one last question about your book. Sentence stems: I wonder who… I wonder if… I wonder why… I wonder where… I wonder what… I wonder why… Writing Design the perfect playground. Draw your creation and describe its features. What would be your favourite part?

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Record yourself again and see if you can improve your reading score. Finish reading the rest of the book. Make sure you check Google Classroom as your teacher might ask you to submit your reading video! Year 2 children at school will engage in a reading task with their teacher. Grammar Look at the verb slide lesson one and follow the instructions. Writing Write a recount of what you did on the weekend. You might like to write about how your family celebrated Mother’s Day. Try to include a sizzling start to engage your reader. Rather than starting with On the weekend or On Mother's Day try to start with the moment of action or moment of change.

Write a conversation between two of your toys. What would they say when you are not around? Write the conversation in two different colours to clearly show who is speaking. Use speech marks if you can. Use the Super Sentence Checker to check your work.

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Break Break Break Break Break Break Middle Mathematics

Choose and play a card game activity listed in the attached document “Card Games”. Number cards have been attached if you do not have playing cards at home. Practise verbal skip counting forwards by 5s starting from 0 to 100. This week our learning will be mainly about addition and subtraction. Year 1: Watch the video about Number Combinations on Google Classroom. If you do not have access to Google Classroom see the attached ‘Year 1 Maths Concept Explanations’ sheet attached below. Write down all the number combinations that add to 10 using number sentences. You may like to use the ‘Rainbow to 10’ activity sheet attached below. Challenge: Write down all the number combinations that add to 15 using number sentences.

Mathematics Choose and play a card game activity listed in the attached document “Card Games”. Number cards have been attached if you do not have playing cards at home. Practise verbal skip counting backwards by 5s starting from 100 to 0. Year 1: For revision, re-watch the video about Number Combinations on Google Classroom. If you do not have access to Google Classroom see the attached ‘Year 1 Maths Concept Explanations’ sheet attached below. Make number cards 5-20. You can use post-it notes or scrap paper for this. Shuffle the number cards and turn them face down, spread out. Turn one card over at a time and say two or more combinations that make up that number. Once you have turned over all the cards, choose one and record all possible number combinations using number sentences in your book.

Mathematics Choose and play a card game activity listed in the attached document “Card Games”. Number cards have been attached if you do not have playing cards at home. Practise verbal skip counting forwards by 2s starting from 0 to 50. Year 1: Look at the ‘Turn around facts’ explanation on the attached ‘Year 1 Maths Concept Explanations’ sheet. Look at a domino you have around the house (there are dominoes attached below if you don’t have any). Write the matching number sentence for the domino and then write the turnaround fact underneath. Choose two more dominoes and repeat the process. You may also like to draw the matching domino above each number sentence. Reminder: Count on or count the dots on the domino to find the total. Challenge: Think of a

Mathematics Choose and play a card game activity listed in the attached document “Card Games”. Number cards have been attached if you do not have playing cards at home. Practise verbal skip counting forwards by 2s starting from 50 to 100. Year 1: Revision of turn arounds. Complete the ‘Addition -Turn arounds’ activity attached below. Year 2: Look at the ‘Inverse Operations’ explanation in the attached ‘Year 2 Maths Concept Explanations’ sheet attached below. Use a dice or the dice net attached below. Roll the dice twice to make a 2 digit number and then once more to make a 1 digit number. These numbers make up your addition number sentence. Work out the three other related number sentences and write them underneath. E.g. If I rolled a 2 and a 7 and then a 6 my first

Mathematics Choose and play a card game activity listed in the attached document “Card Games”. Number cards have been attached if you do not have playing cards at home. Year 1: Practise skip counting forwards by 2s starting from 0 to 50. Now write these numbers in your book. Remember to form all the numbers neatly and correctly. Ask mum or dad to check that you haven't written any numbers in reverse. Year 2 - Today you will be practising inverse operations with addition and subtraction. Complete the ‘Know your numbers’ activity sheet attached below Year 1 and Year 2: Log on to Mathletics

https://login.mathletics.com/ Complete 2-3 tasks that your teacher has set.

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Year 2: This week you will be learning about an addition strategy that uses your knowledge of place value. Today’s lesson will be place value revision and an introduction to the split strategy. Complete the 2 digit place value sheet as a warm up. Next, get a dice or use the dice net attached below and roll it three times to make a three digit number. Record this number in your maths book and draw the blocks you would use to build the number next to it. E.g. If I rolled 3, 2 and 6 I would write 326 and draw 3 hundreds, 2 tens and 6 ones blocks next to it. Repeat this for 5 different 3 digit numbers you roll.

Watch the video about the Split Strategy for Addition on Google Classroom. If you do not have access to Google Classroom see the attached ‘Year 2 Maths Concept Explanations’ sheet attached below or watch the following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF-MWwuyid8

Year 2: Watch the video about the Split Strategy for Addition on Google Classroom. If you do not have access to Google Classroom see the attached ‘Year 2 Maths Concept Explanations’ sheet attached below or watch this you tube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF-MWwuyid8 Try and use the strategy to solve these number sentences. Show your working in your book. 37 + 32 = 41 + 27 = 63 + 36 = Challenge: Complete the ‘Split Strategy’ activity attached below. Year 1 and Year 2: Log on to Mathletics

https://login.mathletics.com/ Complete 2-3 tasks that your teacher has set.

number sentence with the answer being 20. Write the turn around fact. Year 2: Using the calendar attached calculate in months and days the difference between the following dates: - your birthday and someone else’s in your house - Easter (12th April) and Christmas (25th December) - 1st October - 17th November - 2nd January - 28th January Using the split strategy solve the following: 35+ 45 = 66 + 32 = 74 + 36 = Year 1 and Year 2: Log on to Mathletics

https://login.mathletics.com/ Complete 2-3 tasks that your teacher has set.

number sentence would be 27 + 6 = 33 I could then work out the three related number sentences and write them below. Repeat this process four times so you have written 5 fact families in total. If you would like an extra challenge, roll the dice two times twice to make both numbers 2 digits. Year 1 and Year 2: Log on to Mathletics

https://login.mathletics.com/ Complete 2-3 tasks that your teacher has set.

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Try and use the strategy to solve these number sentences. Show your working 33 + 24 = 52 + 46 =

Year 1 and Year 2: Log on to Mathletics

https://login.mathletics.com/ Complete 2-3 tasks that your teacher has set.

Break Break Break Break Break Break Afternoon Science and Technology

This lesson we will be focusing on natural changes around us and how they affect us. Watch ‘Seasons’ http://www.12canoes.com.au/ (5 mins) Click on the picture in the top right corner of your screen that has artwork that looks like a cross. Look out for how the sky changes as dawn breaks. Look for natural changes that happen over the seasons in Arnhem Land and how indigenous people see the changes that tell them what to do.

In your book write down what changes you see, feel and hear that let you know

PE Choose an activity to complete:

Cosmic Yoga Adventure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnlDBKD2S78

PE with Joe

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

There are 20-30 min exercise routines for kids (and adults) that are high energy and fun. There are different workouts each day. Choose one to complete.

Creative Arts Music: Percussion instruments are instruments such as drums, cymbals and chimes. You can create percussion beats and rhythms using your body. Watch the following YouTube clip and learn the body percussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2DY1OpgrI Once you have learned the rhythm, record yourself completing it on a phone or tablet computer. Next, look around your house for items that could make up the percussion section of an orchestra, e.g. a pot and a wooden spoon. Find two-three items that could be percussion instruments. Record yourself on a

History Write a list of meals that your family likes to eat for dinner under a heading FOOD IN THE PRESENT. Underneath your list draw a plate with your favourite meal on it. Draw the appliances in your kitchen that are used for cooking and cooling food. Write down who does the cooking in your house.

Optional extra If you have time you can start to gather some information for the next history lesson in Week 4. See below for details

A part of the lesson next week will ask you to write a list of meals that your parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles ate for

PDH Looking after yourself Think of something that makes you smile and feel happy. For example bike riding with your family, reading a book, or dancing to music. Draw this thing that makes you happy on the sheet provided. Have a think about the following questions: 1. Why is it important to look after yourself? 2. Why is it good to feel happy? Write your answers on the worksheet provided.

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it’s morning, lunch time, afternoon and evening. You might notice more birds are out and about during the day, you might notice where the sun is in the sky or even how the colours change. It can be anything (even that in the afternoon you start to smell your mother's cooking for dinner so you know night time is approaching). Feel free to add pictures and add labels.

Gross Motor: Ball Skills

Throwing & Catching - With a partner, practise throwing and catching a ball. The aim is to throw and catch the ball 10 times in a row without dropping it. If you do that then you can take a step backwards. If you don’t have a partner, throw it up in the air and catch it by yourself. Count how many you can do before you drop the ball.

Bouncing a ball - practise bouncing a basketball to another person (if possible) or against a wall. The aim is to bounce the ball and catch it, 10 times in a row without missing it. If you do that then you can take a step backwards.

phone or tablet computer showing how the items make sound and discuss which musical sound you like best and why. Extension: Use the instruments to make up a short beat or song, record your beat or song using your own symbols for the sounds so that someone else could perform your song. E.g. if you bang your drum twice then shake a maraca once (a cup with rice), you could draw a drum twice and then a shaker once.

dinner when they were younger. Also you will be asked to write or draw the appliances they had in the kitchen for cooking and cooling food and who did the cooking. Remember if you have some time you can start collecting this information now.

Include some additional physical activities outside during the week – take the dog for a walk, run around the back yard, fly a kite,

ride your bike, use a skipping rope, do some yoga.