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Read the Golden Rule from the Bible: Matthew 7:12
Have you ever taken ballet lessons, or do you know someone who does? Do you think it is easy? What do you think is important for someone to become a famous ballet dancer?
Your teacher will share the book The Peasant Prince with you.
The story of The Peasant Prince was written for children. Li Cunxin's story was written in a book for adults called Mao's Last Dancer.
Watch these two video clips. One is an example of Li Cunxin dancing in a ballet. The other is Li Cunxin telling his own story.
In Australia there is a famous art competition, called the Archibald Prize, where artists paint portraits of famous people. Here is a painting that one artist made of Li Cunxin the ballet dancer, in 2019.
What character values did Li Cunxin show? What character values do you think his wife showed?
Peasant - a peasant is a very poor person. Usually someone who lives outside of the city and who has to grow as much of their own food as possible because they don't have enough money to buy food
Quiver - something that quivers is shaking gently, either from fear or from the cold
Bleak - something that is bleak is gloomy and doesn't look very inviting or cheerful
Survive - to survive means to keep going or to keep living in difficult situations
Now complete your vocabulary sheet and glue it into your book.
Identify and colour code the nouns, verbs adjectives and adverbs in the sentence below.
Try to improve the sentence by adding WOW words.
Then try to write a sentence following a similar pattern for some writing of your own.
Adverbs tell us how, when or where actions happen - they describe the verbs/action words. They help to make our writing more interesting.
Try to find some adverbs in one of the books you are reading. Then complete the task below.
Complete the editing task The Gecko or Be Sunsmart in your workbooks.
Catch up on any pages in your Handwriting Conventions book that are not finished.
Practise how to present it by reading each slide out loud.
When you have finished, go on with the following activity:
Revise what we learnt about in regards to looking after our environment on both the Marine Discovery and Walkabout Wildlife Park excursions.
Watch the video of the story “Flotsam” by David Wiesner (he also wrote "Tuesday").
THINK: Should we clean up all flotsam from the ocean?
What if you found something interesting washed up on the beach?
Write either a NARRATIVE or a PERSUASIVE text using this picture and ideas from the book "Flotsam".
Interactive Clock
Catch up on any Time activities where you didn't finish or need more practice.
Dodging and chasing games such as poison ball, or Pacman will be played for practise prior to playing this game
The teacher will go through the rules of the game and how to play. Once all students are clear on how to play/the expectations you will have a game with the teacher refereeing.