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Name: ___________________________ Independent Learning Matrix Term 2 Weeks 9 & 10 KLA: Literacy Novel: When You Reach Me History : State and Federal Governments Science : Change Detectives Year 5 Year 6 Year 5 Year 6 Week 9 – words from Italian origin Week 9 – ending in ch add es Week 10 – revision Week 10 – revision figurine broccoli lottery umbrella orchestra dictionary foreign disappoint amount scale churches beaches sandwiches patches watches property particular current shoulder industry lengthen junction registration fairest mischief accidently ghastly farewell photograph broccoli innocuous compelling foreshadowed transportati on succession aggression vivacious conceptual superficial sandwiches Learning Intentions for Writing Writing Intentions Week 9 Writing Intentions Week 10 Text Type Focus: Poetry Text Type Focus: Poetry Grammar Focus Punctuation pg 116 Pronouns pg 44 Possessive Pronouns pg 46 Interrogative Pronouns pg 47 Indefinite Pronouns pg 48 Reading and Comprehension Log Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Week 9 Chapters 1, 2 Chapters 3, 4 Chapters 5, 6 Chapters 7, 8 Chapter 9, 10 Week 10 Chapters 11, 12 Chapters 13, 14 Chapters 15, 16 Chapters 17, 18 Chapter 19, 20 Discovery Activities Activities about … When You Reach Me Activities about … New York Activities about … State and Federal Governments Speaking and Listening When you Reach Me Book Reviews Using Google, search for book reviews on When You Reach me by Rebecca Stead. Find a review and read it. After reading it, write a short reflection on what you thought about the book review (half a page in length) in your English book. The Statue of Liberty On our class blog, find your way to the Literacy Term 2 page. Watch the video about the Statue of Liberty. Write down 10 interesting facts. Share them with Mr Welham and post them onto your blog. Free and Fair Read the information on the worksheet titled Free and Fair. It contains information about making elections and voting free and fair to everyone. After reading, see Mr Welham and get a copy of What makes an election free and fair. On a blank piece of paper, turn it landscape and fold in half. Then write What makes an election free and fair across the top. Label the first column Fair and the second column Unfair. Cut and glue pictures that belong in the appropriate column. Writing Manhattan Schooling Use the sheet Manhattan Schooling to complete the following activity. Imagine that it is your first day at your new school in Manhattan (New York). Look at the picture below and write some feelings you would have, then write a sizzling start about going to the school for the first time. Things to do in New York With a partner, research 10 things you want to do if you got the chance to go to New York. While you research, write a list of the things you would like to do as well as give a brief explanation as to why you and your partner would like to do that thing. School Leader Imagine that your school is looking for a new school captain. You are to prepare a speech that goes for no more than 2 minutes. Your speech must talk about why students should vote for you, what qualities you have as a leader and what action you will take at school to be an effective leader. Creating and Thinking AirPano Manhattan Go to our Literacy page on the class blog and find the section titled AirPano Manhattan and look at the different views of Manhattan in New York by clicking on the web link. In your English books, write the title AirPano Manhattan and make two columns (fold page in half in you wish). Label one column nouns and the other adjectives. In nouns, list all the different things you can see from above Manhattan. In States of America Complete the worksheet ‘States of America’ by using a tablet or computer to research where the states of America are on a map. Bonus Points: Locate and label New York city. Make your own ballot paper. Google what a ballot paper looks like in Australian elections. Choose no more than 8 friends from the class. Using Microsoft Word, see how close you can make a replica ballot paper like the official ones used in Australian Elections. You must include the names of your friends as the politicians. You may wish to make up Political Party names for them Developed by Mitchell Welham - NSW Department of Education 2016
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Name: ___________________________ Independent Learning Matrix Term 2 Weeks 9 & 10
KLA: Literacy Novel: When You Reach Me History: State and Federal
GovernmentsScience
: Change Detectives
Year 5 Year 6 Year 5 Year 6Week 9 – words from Italian origin Week 9 – ending in ch add es Week 10 – revision Week 10 – revision
figurinebroccolilottery
umbrellaorchestra
dictionaryforeign
disappointamount
scale
churchesbeaches
sandwichespatcheswatches
propertyparticular
currentshoulderindustry
lengthenjunction
registrationfairest
mischief
accidentlyghastlyfarewell
photographbroccoli
innocuouscompelling
foreshadowedtransportation
succession
aggressionvivacious
conceptualsuperficial
sandwiches
Learning Intentions for
Writing
Writing Intentions Week 9 Writing Intentions Week 10Text Type Focus: Poetry Text Type Focus: Poetry
Grammar Focus Punctuation pg 116
Pronouns pg 44 Possessive Pronouns pg 46
Interrogative Pronouns pg 47 Indefinite Pronouns pg 48
Reading and Comprehension
Log
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday FridayWeek 9 Chapters 1, 2 Chapters 3, 4 Chapters 5, 6 Chapters 7, 8 Chapter 9, 10
Week 10 Chapters 11, 12
Chapters 13, 14
Chapters 15, 16
Chapters 17, 18
Chapter 19, 20
Discovery Activities
Activities about …When You Reach Me
Activities about …New York
Activities about …State and Federal Governments
Speaking and Listening
When you Reach Me Book ReviewsUsing Google, search for book reviews on When You Reach me by Rebecca Stead. Find a review and read it. After reading it, write a short reflection on what you thought about the book review (half a page in length) in your English book.
The Statue of LibertyOn our class blog, find your way to the Literacy Term 2 page. Watch the video about the Statue of Liberty. Write down 10 interesting facts. Share them with Mr Welham and post them onto your blog.
Free and FairRead the information on the worksheet titled Free and Fair. It contains information about making elections and voting free and fair to everyone. After reading, see Mr Welham and get a copy of What makes an election free and fair. On a blank piece of paper, turn it landscape and fold in half. Then write What makes an election free and fair across the top. Label the first column Fair and the second column Unfair. Cut and glue pictures that belong in the appropriate column.
Writing
Manhattan SchoolingUse the sheet Manhattan Schooling to complete the following activity. Imagine that it is your first day at your new school in Manhattan (New York). Look at the picture below and write some feelings you would have, then write a sizzling start about going to the school for the first time.
Things to do in New YorkWith a partner, research 10 things you want to do if you got the chance to go to New York. While you research, write a list of the things you would like to do as well as give a brief explanation as to why you and your partner would like to do that thing.
School LeaderImagine that your school is looking for a new school captain. You are to prepare a speech that goes for no more than 2 minutes. Your speech must talk about why students should vote for you, what qualities you have as a leader and what action you will take at school to be an effective leader.
Creating and Thinking
AirPano ManhattanGo to our Literacy page on the class blog and find the section titled AirPano Manhattan and look at the different views of Manhattan in New York by clicking on the web link. In your English books, write the title AirPano Manhattan and make two columns (fold page in half in you wish). Label one column nouns and the other adjectives. In nouns, list all the different things you can see from above Manhattan. In adjectives, list words that you would use to describe the experience of hovering above Manhattan.
States of AmericaComplete the worksheet ‘States of America’ by using a tablet or computer to research where the states of America are on a map.Bonus Points: Locate and label New York city.
Make your own ballot paper.Google what a ballot paper looks like in Australian elections. Choose no more than 8 friends from the class. Using Microsoft Word, see how close you can make a replica ballot paper like the official ones used in Australian Elections. You must include the names of your friends as the politicians. You may wish to make up Political Party names for them or ask them to come up with their own.Once you have finished, save your documents as a PDF. Then have a go at converting your PDF document to an image using www.smallpdf.com and post the final image onto your blog.
Technology(Laptops Only)
Time Travel EvidenceOn our Literacy page found on our class blog, there is a video about time travel. Watch it with a partner. After you have finished, you are to both write a post on your blog describing if you think the information in the video was real and whether you think time travel is possible. If it was, where would you travel to and what time period (past or future?).
New York Sports TeamsGo to ABC Splash and search for New York: the city that never sleeps and watch the video. In this video, there is a sports team. New York has many sports teams. w head to our literacy term 2 page on the class blog and complete the activity titled New York Sports Teams.
Complete a worksheet Use a computer
Complete in your book or blog
online
Complete as a group
Publish on a computer
Create a class display
Thinking Imaginatively and
Creatively
Expressing yourself
Listen to others (reflect) Use headphones Investigation Music or art
related
Developed by Mitchell Welham - NSW Department of Education 2016
Developed by Mitchell Welham - NSW Department of Education 2016
Name: __________________________________ Date: ________________________
States of America
Developed by Mitchell Welham - NSW Department of Education 2016
Name: __________________________________ Date: ________________________
Manhattan SchoolingTask: Imagine that it is your first day at your new school in Manhattan (New York). Look at the picture below and write some feelings you would have, then write a sizzling start about going to the school for the first time.
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Feelings
Free and Fair
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Developed by Mitchell Welham - NSW Department of Education 2016
Developed by Mitchell Welham - NSW Department of Education 2016
