Phonics Week 4 Thursday - demonstration

Watch this video to help you spell words for the activity and hear the word for each picture. 

Phonics Week 4 Wednesday - demonstration

Watch this video to help you spell words for the activity and hear the word for each picture. 

Phonics Week 4 Tuesday - demonstration

 Watch this video to help you spell words for the activity and hear the word for each picture. 

Estimating Volume - Friday

Estimating Volume

Just to review, remember

Volume is the amount of liquid in a container

Capacity is how much the container can hold

Estimating is a rough guess

1. Choose a container and a cup

2. Estimate how many cups of water it will take to fill up the container

3. Record your estimation

4. Fill up the cup with water and start to pour the water into the container

5. How many cups did it take to fill up the container

6. Record your answer

Watch the video above to see this experiment and explain exactly what you need to do.

Drawing of Container and Cup	Estimation Estimate how many cups of water you will need to fill up the container	Answer How many cups of water did it actually take to fill up the container

Volume and Capacity - Thursday

Volume and Capacity

Just to review, remember

Volume is the amount of liquid in a container

Capacity is how much the container can hold.

Today you will be ordering the volume in containers that have the same capacity.

1. Choose three containers that have the same capacity (that means they are the same size)

2. Pour some water into those containers. 

3. Order the containers by looking at the volume of water in each container

4. Which container has the MOST volume of water?

5. Which container has the LEAST volume of water?

6. Which container has the MEDIUM volume of water?

   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Phonics Week 4 Monday - demonstration

Watch this video to help you spell words for the activity and hear the word for each picture. 

Descriptions Week 4

Description

The purpose of a description is to describe a person, place or thing so that the reader can form a picture in their mind. 

To make our writing interesting and engaging we give lots of details by using our five senses. 

What does it look like?   What does it feel like?  What does it smell like?  What does it taste like?   What does it sound like?

Task:

Imagine you are one of the Australian gold medalists in this picture. 

Write a description about this moment. 

What can you see?

How do you feel? 

Can you taste or smell anything?

What can you hear?

Swimming is better than soccer - Friday Week 4

Persuasive

Swimming is better than soccer 

When writing persuasively, we are trying to get the reader to believe what we believe. We are trying to convince them of something. 

High modality words can be used when trying to persuade or convince a reader. They are strong, powerful words. Here is an example, 

Opinion: I definitely think that swimming is better than soccer. 

Reason 1: Swimmers are always moving and soccer players stand around sometimes.

Here a list of words that can help you with your persuasive writing:

My Favourite Holiday - Wednesday Week 4

Narrative

Writing a story (narrative) can be tricky! There are 4 important parts to writing a story:

1. Orientation: The beginning of the story. 

2. Problem: What went wrong? (This makes a story interesting)

3. Resolution: How did the characters fix the problem?

4. Ending: Finish off the story.

Here an example of a narrative that shows the 4 important parts: 

Writing a Recount - Tuesday Week 4

Recount

When we write a recount there are some key things we need to do. Let's focus on just one of those things in this post, time connectives. 

Time connectives are words which are used to tell a reader WHEN something is happening. For example, 

This morning I ate a banana for breakfast. 

Here are some examples of time connectives that you can use in your recount:

Area on a Farm

Area is the space within a shape. Use the grid paper and follow the instructions to draw the different areas of the farm. 

Here's an example.

Grid Paper for 'Area on a Farm Activity'

Can you make a farm that has these areas?

• The pigs need an area of 4 boxes

• The horses need an area of 10 boxes

• The chickens need an area of 5 boxes

• The tractor needs an area of 10 boxes (but it can’t look the same as the horses’ area

• The farmhouse needs an area of 20 boxes. 

Challenge: Can you make another farm that has these area?

• There  are 2 pigs, the each need an area of 3 boxes

• There are 8 horses, the each need an area of 2 boxes

• There are 10 chickens, they need 1 box each

• There is 1 tractor, it needs 2 different areas. One with 5 boxes and one with double that

• The farmhouse needs an area of 20 boxes.

Grid Paper for 'Area on a Farm' Activity'

Drawing Area

Area is the space inside a shape. Use the grid paper to draw a picture and write down the area of each part (for example, the bow, the present, the ribbon). You can show us their area by telling us how many boxes you used.

For Example;

Grid Paper for Area Activity

How to Measure Area

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 Video 1:

Video 1

Video 2:

Video 2

Copy of Activity Sheet

Writing a persuasive text together with Miss M!

This video is aimed at Year 2 students (filmed in 2020). It may help you to understand what persuasive writing is! We read the book: Bin Chicken by Kate Temple, which is all about the native Australian bird, the ibis.

If you want to try writing like this, you can challenge yourself and give it a go. Just make sure you write about our activity, not the ibis. Otherwise, you can do persuasive writing like last week and look at our other blog post on persuasive writing.

If the video doesn't open, click here.

Writing factual texts: Year 1 style

 

Writing a factual text about your favourite sport or activity:

What is your favourite sport or activity? Do you like to play soccer or dance? Do you play an instrument, like the piano or the recorder?

We would like you to share some information (or facts) about it. Think about the following questions when you are writing:-

What - what is your favourite sport or activity? what equipment do you need?

Who - who can play it? who do you play it with?

Where - where do you play it?

When - when do you play?

How - how do you play it? Does your sport have any rules? What is one rule?

This is an example:-

My favourite sport is tennis. You need a racquet and a tennis ball to play. Tennis can be played with another person. You play tennis on a tennis court. I have tennis lessons after school. You play tennis by hitting the ball over the net. One rule is that you must stand behind the white line to serve the ball. 

How to write a simple story: Year 1 style

Narratives

Writing a story (narrative) can be tricky! There are 4 important parts to writing a story:

1. Orientation: The beginning of the story. 

2. Problem: What went wrong? (This makes a story interesting)

3. Resolution: How did the characters fix the problem?

4. Ending: Finish off the story.

Our expectation for year 1 is that students would have at least 1 sentence for each part of the story. That is the minimum, and I would encourage all students to push for more. A good goal would be 2 sentences for each section.

You could use scholastic story starters to give you some ideas! 

Scholastic Story Starters

Scholastic story starters will ask you to do something different from my task so please only use the ideas for characters, setting (place) and problem.

Writing Descriptively

When writing descriptively, the most important thing we can do is include adjectives. 

Adjectives help us to describe people, places and things (objects). 

Raya from the movie Raya and the Last Dragon, is a person that I really like. Lets use this video and picture to brainstorm some adjectives.

Click to watch video on youTube

Here are some words I can use to describe her:

brave, strong, young, truthful, friendly, caring, funny, fierce

Look at the picture again. Can you see the background? What kind of place is she in?

I think it is:

dark, scary, green, rainy, wet, tropical, wild

Let's look at the picture one more time. I'm looking at a 'thing' or object now... I wonder if you can guess which one it is when I tell you my words?

It is:

delicate, soft, warm, fuzzy, pretty, red

Did you guess? 

Here are some examples of descriptions:

Warm:

My favourite Disney character is Raya. She is brave and caring. She goes on an adventure through a scary forest. Raya wears a soft, red cape. 

Hot:

My favourite Disney character is Raya from Raya and the Last Dragon. She is fierce, brave and strong. Her hair is dark brown and so are her eyes. She wears a pretty, yellow top and a soft, warm cape to keep her warm. Raya goes on many adventures, through dark, scary forests and wet, tropical storms. 

Fiery:

My favourite Disney character is Raya from Raya and the Last Dragon. She is fierce, brave and strong but also friendly, funny and caring. Her hair is long, dark and brown. She wears an enormous straw hat which protects her from the sun. Raya also wears a delicate, fuzzy cape to keep her warm. She goes on many adventures, through dark, scary forests and wet, tropical and wild storms. 

How to Structure a Recount

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When we write a recount there are some key things we need to do. Let's focus on just one of those things in this post, structure. 

Learning Intention: I am learning to write recounts.

Success Criteria: 

- I can use all 6 key parts of a recount

- I can use the 6 key parts in the correct order

Structure:

There is a special pattern we use when we write recounts. Here are the 6 key parts of a recount in the correct order:

1. When

2. What

3. Where

4. Who

5. How

6. Why

Let me show you some examples:

Warm example:

On the weekend, I played soccer at the park with my friends. I kicked goals. It's fun to play soccer.

Hot example:

On the weekend, I played soccer at the park with my friends Niall and Kiara. We were running fast and kicking goals. I scored a goal when Niall was goalkeeper. We love playing soccer together so I look forward to it every weekend. 

Fiery example:

On the weekend, I played soccer at Olympic Park with my best friends Niall and Kiara. Niall usually plays goalkeeper and Kiara helps me with scoring goals. Kiara and I ran super fast and passed the ball to each other. Then, I kicked the ball really hard and it flew into the top of the goal. It was incredible. Niall wasn't sad though, he said it was an awesome kick! I love playing soccer with them and I can't wait to do it again. Next time I'm going to play goalkeeper!

All of the examples meet the success criteria, but the students have challenged themselves in different ways. I can't wait to read your recounts! Have fun with your writing!

How to use Ten Frames for Subtraction

 Watch this video to help you with using Ten Frames for subtraction:

Using Number Lines for Subtraction

 Watch these videos to help you with number lines. 

Video 1:

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Part 1

Video 2:

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Part 2

Video 3:

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Part 3

Here is a number line for you to use on your screen:

Here is a number line for printing if you would like to use printed number lines for this lesson:

Number Lines from Miss Giraffe

How to write a simple procedure:

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When writing a procedure it's important to do a few things:

1. Give it a title that tells the reader what they are going to do.

2. Tell the reader what materials they will need.

3. Use numbers to clearly show the reader what the steps are.

4. Be very clear and simple with the instructions.

Here is an example:

Remembering and writing facts in your own words:

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When we write down information it's important that we only talk about facts. That means we don't write our own feelings or opinions. 

To keep things simple, you could choose 5 things you learned from the video and write those things down. Sometimes, when I need to learn something new from a video I will write down a word or draw a picture to help me remember the important things.

For example:

I watched this video. While I was watching the video I wrote down 5 words to help me remember some facts. See my words underneath.

 

1. Biggest

2. Heart

3. Mammal

4. Ocean

5. Over 80 species

Then I will write down the facts in my own words. If I can't remember something important, I can go back and watch the video again. 

For example:

1. The whale is the biggest animal ever. It is bigger than even the biggest dinosaurs were.

2. An adult whale has the same size heart as a car!

3. Whales are mammals. That means they breathe air like humans.

4. Whales live in the ocean. 

5. There are more than 80 species of whales.