What am I learning?

*I am learning to use my knowledge of financial literacy to create a budget.

How can I make sure I am successful?

*I can add and subtract cents and dollars.

*I can multiply money to identify the quantity.

*I can research prices of food for a budget.

Activity description/steps:

You have been given an amazing opportunity to HOST Alice’s Tea Party!

The Mad Hatter has given you a strict time limit to complete a budget no later than 2pm today for their tea party - and you must get it done fast before he feeds you to the Jabberwocky dragon!

Read through Chapter 7 and find out who will be attending the tea party - A Mad Tea Party

Create a list of:

1. Who will be there? (How many people)

2. What did they eat?

3. What food do you need to make these dishes? (sandwiches - bread, ham, carrot etc.)

4. What are the prices of these foods?

Get creative if you want and design some delicious treats of your own but you need to stick to the budget of $100!

Remember you have till 2pm today to send your budget through to the Mad Hatter - or you will become someone else’s lunch!

Check out this video that looks at how you can write out your budget - Grocery Budget

Adding and Subtracting money

Multiplying quantities - money

Check out PaknSave prices to fit your budget plan!

What am I learning?

To read a text, use our own knowledge and the hints and clues in the text to answer inference questions

*Watch the video again if you are not sure what inferences are

How can I make sure I am successful?

• Read a text

• Read the questions for each page

• Infer by using the hints and clues in the text

Activity description/steps:

1.Read the text quietly for understanding then aloud for fluency.

2.Check the page numbers below and answer the inferencing questions.

3.Use your knowledge and keywords to find the hints and clues to answer the questions.

Questions

Page 3 - Should the grasshopper be interested in preparing for winter? Why or why not?

Page 4 - Why do you think the ants didn't want to let the grasshopper in at first?

Page 5 - How do you think the ants felt when the grasshopper first came in and started munching on the leaf straight away? Why did they feel like this?

Page 6 - Why did the ants look at each other with disapproval when they first heard the grasshopper talking to the huhu grubs?

Page 7 - Was it a good deal the grasshopper ended up making with the huhu grubs in the end? Why or why not?

Reflection - Is this a good story for kids to read? Why or why not?

Extras for early finishers:

Reinvent the title page for this story with your own pictures and title.

Resources:

The ants and the grasshopper

What does it mean to make inferences?

What am I learning?

*I am understanding how language is used in a text to engage a reader.

How can I make sure I am successful?

*I can make sense of words / phrases I don't understand.

*I can express how I feel about a text and it’s genre.

Activity description/steps:

What does the phrase ‘Down the rabbit hole’ mean?

Where have you heard this before?

Read through the excerpt of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Chp 1’ and answer the questions below:

INFERENTIAL

How is Alice feeling when she comes upon the rabbit hole?

What happens when Alice falls down the rabbit hole?

How does the idea of a “portal” connect to this text?

What genre (type of story) is this text?

What feelings does the author want to elicit (bring out) of their audience in this chapter?

Your goal in reading is to understand the use of language used by the author to stir particular emotions in their readers.

Extras for early finishers:

Design the portal - poster or storyboard to show Alice’s experience while falling down and arriving at the bottom of the hole.

What am I learning?

To write a 6 sentence story with WOW words and correct punctuation

How can I make sure I am successful?

• Follow the structure for a 6 sentence story

• Make sure you use WOW words in each sentence (not boring words)

• Make sure you use the correct punctuation in your story (capitals, fullstops, commas etc)

Activity description/steps:

1.Open up and copy the template so that you know what to write for each sentence.

2.Go outside and find something NEW that captures your attention and would be cool to write about (an insect, animal, person, bird).

3.Follow the prompts for the six sentence story and write your narrative.

4.Go back to your story and see if you can make it more interesting by adding WOW words for each sentence.

5.Go back to your story and check if your punctuation is correct.

6..Read your story to a family member and ask them what they think about it.

Extras for early finishers

Write out the alphabet from a - z in a list like form:

A

B

C

Then time yourself for 10 minutes and list a country for each letter eg a - Australia, b - Britain c - Canada etc

Resources:

Pencil and paper

What am I learning?

*I am learning to communicate a story, using creative portals.

How can I make sure I am successful?

*Understand the purpose of a portal.

*Choose a topic of interest.

*Use my creative thinking hat to write a story based on fantasy.

Activity description/steps:

What is a portal?

Why are they used to tell stories?

What does it do for the reader?

Check out this video of “Fantasy portals” and video clips from kids movies that will give you an idea on how portals are used to inspire creativity!

Choose a favorite portal / scene from this video clip and create your own portal - tell your story!

Whether it’s opening the mirror cabinet in the bathroom at 10pm to find a wild path to the lost world or switching your bedroom light four times to be sunked into another time period - I want you to get creative!

Extras for early finishers:

After writing your story, create visuals to combine your portal!