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Worship
Worship
Watch Part 2 of Mojo's respect lesson:
Watch Part 3 of Mojo's respect lesson:
Read the Golden Rule from the Bible: Matthew 7:12
Reading
Reading
Learning Objective: draw on experiences, knowledge of the topic or context to work out the meaning of unknown words and to improve understanding of the text
Learning Objective: draw on experiences, knowledge of the topic or context to work out the meaning of unknown words and to improve understanding of the text
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?
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Objective: Learn the meaning of new words, which improves our understanding of texts and so that we can eventually use these words in our own writing.
Objective: Learn the meaning of new words, which improves our understanding of texts and so that we can eventually use these words in our own writing.
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.
The Peasant Prince - bleak, quiver, survive, peasant.pdfMentor Sentence
Mentor Sentence
Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
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.
I was one of the worst students, and I felt so shy, lost in an ocean of loneliness.
I was one of the worst students, and I felt so shy, lost in an ocean of loneliness.
Adverbs
Adverbs
Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
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.
Editing Skills
Editing Skills
Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Complete the editing task The Gecko or Be Sunsmart in your workbooks.
Spelling
Spelling
Handwriting
Handwriting
Learning objective: to explore forming letters in such as way as to prepare for cursive/running writing later in the year
Learning objective: to explore forming letters in such as way as to prepare for cursive/running writing later in the year
Catch up on any pages in your Handwriting Conventions book that are not finished.
Writing
Writing
- Complete your Geography "Travel Around the State" slideshow
Practise how to present it by reading each slide out loud.
When you have finished, go on with the following activity:
2. Activity:
2. 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?
3. Look at this picture
3. Look at this picture
Write either a NARRATIVE or a PERSUASIVE text using this picture and ideas from the book "Flotsam".
Narrative MODIFIED graphic organisers - simple and regular.docxPersuasive graphic organiser final.docxMaths
Maths
Interactive Clock
Catch up on any Time activities where you didn't finish or need more practice.
PE - Fitness running or...
PE - Fitness running or...
Capture the Flag
Capture the Flag
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.
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