We will now read our book for this week - The Watchmaker Who Saved Christmas.
Read this poem aloud to a partner with the best expression you can. Then glue it into your poetry book.
Readers Theatre activities from Lion Witch and Wardrobe
Students to select a character from Lion Witch and the Wardrobe (link with reading unit) and retell an incident/event from their point of view - working in small groups. Use peer to peer feedback.
Identify as many different types of punctuation as you can in the book The Watchmaker Who Saved Christmas. Discuss why they are important, and what they show us.
Read through the Focus and Extension words and segment the words into your Segmenting Words book. Check your answers with the Segmenting Word tool from the Soundwaves site located on the home page of the Year 3 Website.
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Complete Lesson 1, Unit 34 th thong and Lesson 1, Unit 34 th feather 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 34. There are two sounds:
Core sounds for th include:
th as in thong
Extension sounds for th include:
th as in thong
Make a list or think of as many words as you can that have the 'th’ sound in them. Try and read through the words in your spelling list.
Core sounds for th include:
th as in feather
Extension sounds for th include:
th as in feather
the as in breathe
Make a list or think of as many words as you can that have the ‘th’ sound in them. Try and read through the words in your spelling list.
thing
thick
teeth
both
mouth
north
think
Thursday
anything
something
than
they
those
these
there
their
other
brother
that’s
they’re
anthem
authority
mathematics
thoroughly
thunder
authentic
breath
strength
thought
underneath
although
breathe
leather
smooth
weather
altogether
either
neither
themselves
whether
Book pages catch up + IT working on iMovie - see PDH program
When ready, take a photo of drafts and marked checklists then upload them together with good copies of your Persuasive Writing in Seesaw.
Make a newspaper page for a class newspaper about the news that Spring is coming to Narnia. You can use images of things that are mentioned in the book that are signs of spring, and you need to write in a newspaper style to explain what is happening.
Find the Pages icon on your iPad home page.
Click on the + sign at the top right of the screen, and go to the Choose a Template screen.
Scroll down till you come to a heading Newsletters.
Choose one of the 5 templates, and replace the pictures and writing with your own images and written text.
Below are four examples of pages done by previous students. Use your creativity to create your own newspaper headline and text, but make sure the information is true to what we have read in the book.
We will print up our own booklets of your different pages.
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ACTIVITY:
Revise what we learnt about in regards to looking after our environment on both the Marine Discovery and Walkabout Wildlife Park excursions.
Your teacher will read this book or you can watch the video of the story “Flotsam” by David Wiesner (he also wrote "Tuesday").
Ask: Should we clean up all flotsam from the ocean?
What if you found something interesting washed up on the beach?
Look at this picture.
Write either a NARRATIVE or a PERSUASIVE text using this picture and ideas from the book "Flotsam".
For further explanation you may want to show You Wouldn't Rubbish Your Home advertisement. Explain how this type of advertising is a great way to SHOW that polluting the earth is a bad idea. Showing rather than telling engages the emotions. This advertisement was more effective than simply:
Stating facts- “x number of people rubbish Australia”
Giving advice - “Never throw your rubbish in the pool as it will be hard to clean.
There are lots of different ways of presenting data, so that people can see at a glance, what the information is telling us. Last year, and earlier this year you learnt to use tally charts, pictographs, column graphs and dot plots. Examples.
As a class, work with your teacher to create all four types of chart for the number of fish that were caught by the four children.
Now make your own set of all four types of chart for the number of coins each student collected.
NEW BASKETBALL DRILL
Throwing skills - Students line up in 2 opposing lines and begin closely throwing the ball to opposing partner, increasing distance gradually to a large gap.
GAME - dribble relay. Set 4 equal groups with half the group at one end of the field and half at the other. Have the first person dribble to the other end and then back and forth until finished. The first team all done, is the winner!