For the rest of this week, in addition to Mathletics, Reading Eggs and reading your own books, here are some optional activities that you might like to try.
Together with a family member or by yourself, read about lions and tigers, and complete one or more tasks on the activity card.
Don’t forget there are also open-ended maths questions on the blog that you can do, as well as other activities on the STEM blog.
For the rest of this week, in addition to Mathletics, Reading Eggs and reading your own books, here are some optional activities that you might like to try.
Together with a family member or by yourself, read about pirates and complete one or more tasks on the activity card.
Don’t forget there are also open-ended maths questions on the blog that you can do, as well as other activities on the STEM blog.
Empathy is the ability to understand and care about what another person is feeling. When we feel empathy for others, we are more likely to act in a kind way. When you do something kind for someone else, you feel happy too.
Activity: How can you show empathy to someone in your family? Draw or write two examples.
Adapted from The Resilience Project. For more on empathy, click here.
Learning Intention:
Using the picture above or a place that you have drawn, write at least 3 sentences describing the setting in your Writing Journals. Remember to use lots of adjectives, and try to sound out the words on your own. Here are some examples:
Please wait until we have covered this lesson in our Webex sessions before completing the task. Also, don’t forget to send your teacher a photo of your work by Friday!
Modelled Writing
Learning Intention: To correctly identify the position of an object using ordinal numbers.
Ordinal numbers show the position or place of an object. For example, first, second, third, fourth, etc. They can also be written as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.
Option 1:
Option 2:
Try these online ordinal number games.
Verbs are action words. They tell us what a noun (person, animal or thing) is doing.
Activity 1:
Identify the verb in each sentence. In your Writing Journal, see if you can write your own sentence using the same verb. Don’t forget to sound out the words on your own!
Activity 2:
Take a video of yourself doing any of the following actions:
Can you think of other more creative verbs?
Please remember to send the videos to your teacher by Thursday.
Activity 3:
Click to play this online verb game.
So you now know that living things grow, reproduce and breathe. But what do they need to survive?
You might like to make a mobile to help you remember what animals need.
Or you could choose an animal and learn about what it eats, where it lives, and where it gets water from. You could write about your animal, or draw the animal in its home.
Gratitude is the ability to pay attention to what we have, instead of worrying about what we don’t have. We can practise this by noticing the positives that exist around us. When we practise gratitude every day, we elevate our mood and improve our mental health.
Practise gratitude at least three times a week by drawing/writing one of the following:
Adapted from The Resilience Project. For more information on practising gratitude, click here.
Learning Intention: To write sentences that start with a capital letter, have finger spaces between words, and end with a full stop.
What do you see in this picture? What do you think is happening? Write at least 3 sentences about this picture in your Writing Journals. Remember to use lots of adjectives, and try to sound out the words on your own. Here are some sentence starters to help you:
Please don’t forget to send your teacher a photo of your work by Friday.
Modelled Writing
Learning Intention: To correctly identify and name 3D shapes.
Option 1:
Colour in the 3D shapes following the colours shown in the key.
Extension: You can also practise reading the names and recognising the different 3D shapes by colouring in the correct words to match the shapes.
Option 2:
Using play dough, make different 3D shapes, paying attention to how many edges, faces (sides) and corners each shape has. If you don’t have play dough but would like to make some, here’s a recipe that you can try.
Option 3:
