When we show compassion, we show empathy towards others.
Watch this video on empathy.
Did you show empathy towards someone over the holidays?
Discuss with a partner what you did over the holidays and say whether someone helped you or you helped someone else in some way!
Let's pray that we can show empathy towards each other this term.
The slide show below gives you a hint of what our book is going to be about this week.
You will read the book Snowflake Bentley. This is a true story of his life - a biography. Notice the way the book is set out - it is set out a little differently from most of the stories we have read.
Here are two of Snowflake Bentley's own photographs of snowflakes.
You can also watch a couple of videos about snow.
How amazing to learn about God's creativity with snowflakes and how each one is different! I can't begin to imagine how it is possible for each of the many billions of snowflakes to all be different!
I also love how Snowflake Bentley didn't allow all his struggles and failures to stop him from eventually achieving his goal. Can you think of examples of when you have shown that type of perseverance? Maybe today is a time when you can decide to persevere with something that you are struggling with.
You may already know how to make paper snowflakes or you can follow the instructions below. Have a go and see if you can make some different snowflake designs. Try making two or three different snowflakes.
Think about the character of Snowflake Bentley. Your teacher will give you a piece of paper that looks like the shape on the right.
Draw a picture of Snowflake Bentley in the middle square.
Choose a different character trait that you think describes Snowflake Bentley and write it in texta at the top of each of the other squares. Think back to the story. Choose from the following traits: careful, patient, smart, observant, persevering, curious, generous, stubborn, hard-working.
Underneath your character trait, explain the evidence in the book that helps you know that he is that kind of person.
Glue this into your Literacy books
Now organise all the events in this list into the order that they happened, to create a timeline for Snowflake Bentley's life.
Have a look at these words that come from Snowflake Bentley.
Annual Something that happens every year.
Intricate Something that is complicated or very detailed.
Moisture Another word for dampness.
Observe To watch or look closely at something.
Then answer these questions:
Can you name an annual event in your life?
What was intricate in the Snowflake Bentley story?
Give an example of when moisture is a bad thing.
Who needs to observe things closely?
Now complete the worksheet.
Use one of the sentences below to highlight the different parts of speech and to notice anything that makes it an interesting sentence. Then try to model one of these sentences in your own writing.
OR
Identify the parts of speech of different words from Snowflake Bentley.
Remember:
Noun - is a person, place or thing
Verb - is an action or a word that describes "being"
Adjective - is a word which describes a noun
Adverb - describes how, when, where something is done
Put the words below that are found in Snowflake Bentley into 4 columns - Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb on Seesaw.
See if you can complete some of these other activities below about Snowflake Bentley.
Remember a Fact is something that is true for everybody. An Opinion is what somebody thinks about something, and may or may not be true.
Cause is what happens. Effect is something that changes because of the first thing that has happened.
Complete The Black Mamba editing skills task.
Gain more practice by catching up on pages in your Handwriting Conventions book.
Complete Lesson 1, Unit 19 of Soundwaves and the first page activities in your workbooks, including Segmenting Words. Write your segmenting words into your Segmenting Words book.
Our sound for this week is in Unit 19. It is the 'oa, o_e, ow, o' sound as in ‘boat, rose, window, comb’. Make a list or think of as many words as you can that have a ‘oa’ sound in them. Try and read through the words in your spelling list.
low
slow
grow
throw
rode
bone
nose
broke
road
float
cold
sold
toe
window
closing
joking
only
over
tomato
October
almost
loneliness
narrow
ocean
telephone
approach
moment
notice
overdue
toaster
donation
mosquito
noticeable
photograph
tomorrow
fellow
motivated
obeyed
suppose
volcano
Watch portions of these three short videos about snow:
What kinds of things do you see, hear and feel happening when you watch snow?
Make a list of action words - in what ways can snow move? Students brainstorm words under "action of snow" on the board.
Describe the snow - what do you see, hear, taste, smell, touch? Students brainstorm words under "description of snow".
Pretend that you are seeing snow for the first time - and you have NO idea what is causing it. What might be happening to make that in the sky? What could you compare snow with? Make similes under "snow is like".
Combine words and ideas from the three lists into lines. Use this question as a guide:
“Which action word goes with a description of snow, and what snow is like?” eg swirling, white, cotton wool
Make a list of words that work together.
Students to read alternate lines slowly. Take a photo with an ipad to view for the next lesson.
God created different seasons, and made something beautiful about each season.
We are going to do some revision of multiplication tables. Earlier this year we did some work on multiplication and understanding that finding how many items were in different rows or groups could be done easily by using multiplication. A shortcut that some people finding really helpful is learning their times tables.
Rock Paper TABLES!
Play the game Rock, paper, scissors - tables style!
Play this game like rock paper scissors, but instead of the normal hand signs, use your fingers as numbers! Each player puts out a set of fingers on their hand, multiply them, and the first one to call the answer wins.
In Class: Play with someone then switch and play around the room.
How many different ways could you work out the answer to this problem?
What is a fraction?
Re-read the sentence above carefully.
Watch the videos below.
Complete fraction workstation activities:
3C Monday and Wednesday
3P Tuesday and Thursday
3I Thursday (10:20) and Friday (10:20)
Now complete the worksheet below by cutting out the shapes and placing them into the first column if they correctly show fractions, and put them into the second column if they are not fractions.
Then complete the worksheet below.
Then follow the instructions for Khan's Academy.
Review fractions by looking at the following lessons:
Introduction to Fractions
Cutting Shapes into equal parts
Fractions are part of a whole shape, but they can all look very different. A square can be cut into quarters by drawing a vertical line down the middle, and drawing a horizontal line across the middle. Or a circle can be cut in half and then in half again to look like 4 pieces of pie. But if a fraction just means dividing a shape into equal parts, then there are many other ways it could be done.
Use the grid sheet provided by your teacher. How many different ways could you divide a cake into quarters? Imagine that this grid is a square cake. Be creative and colour in one quarter of the cake in different ways (only use one colour). Do as many different examples as you can in 5 minutes.
Take a photo and upload to Seesaw.
Squirrel Tag: All players but 2 are scattered in the playing area.
- Place 4 hula-hoops at the four corners of the playing area, which are safety zones. Players can stay 20 seconds in a safety zone, or until someone else steps into the hoop following them. Only one player is allowed in a hoop at a time.
- Place one in the middle, which is the squirrel's home. 2 players are chosen to be squirrels.
- On the go signal, the squirrels chase and try to tag someone (as if they are collecting nuts - as squirrels do!). If successful, they change places. The new squirrel must run to the centre hoop and yell "New squirrel!" before chasing others.
EQUIPMENT - 5 hula hoops