Framework for teaching – Year 4 Term 4 Week 2

Online and offline activities to support student learning at home.

Breaks The framework does not mention break times however, we recommend regular breaks for all students such as a ‘Fruit & Reboot’ break, morning tea break, lunch break and some movement and mindfulness breaks. Suggested Movement Breaks Suggested Mindfulness Breaks Do a movement break 1. Go to gonoodle.com 2. Click on ‘Channels’ 3. Click on ‘Show All’ 4. Choose a channel to click on and then choose a video to watch/follow

Do a mindfulness activity 1. Go to gonoodle.com 2. Click on ‘Channels’ 3. Click on ‘Show All’ 4. Choose the ‘Flow’ or ‘Think About it’ channel and then choose a video to

watch/follow

Must Do vs Can Do and Turn it in Tasks “Must do” tasks are those that the grade teachers deem as core learning for that day/week and are most important to be completed. “Can do” tasks fit with the teaching/learning themes of the week and are offered for those families/students who are looking for more experiences, but it is not essential that these are completed. “Turn In” tasks are the examples of your child’s learning and achievements that the teachers would like “turned in” uploaded or sent to them. These are indicated on the framework with the wording Turn it in highlighted in yellow Please note that we are catering for a wide variety of students and Learning From Home circumstances. Children work at different paces and families have different “Learning From Home” routines. Distinguishing between the work in the way described above attempts to cater for these differences.

Zoom Year 4 Zoom sessions will be held each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:15am. Your teacher will post a message on Google Classroom if they need to change to another day.

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Must Do Learning English: Reading Vocabulary Must Do Task: Complete Monday’s vocabulary worksheet by choosing three words from the following list and giving meanings (from the video), drawing a picture, writing synonyms and giving a sentence (this is explained in the video). Vocabulary from the story:

- nuisance - accomplish - vertigo - suggested - grovel - retrieve - disgrace - horrid

Information: Listen to the story of Princess Smartypants (the video is in your Google Classroom). Mrs Appleton will discuss new vocabulary along the way in the video and explain the task. Can Do Task: Write a list of as many fairy-tales as you can think of. Share this list with your teacher.

English: Reading Turn In task Must Do Task: Your teacher has assigned a Reading Eggspress lesson for you to complete. Can Do Task: Select another book to read from the Reading Eggspress Library.

English: Reading/Grammar Must Do Task: Complete the Facebook profile worksheet about Princess Smartypants. It is a good idea to listen to the story again. You might like to turn the sound off and read it yourself. Use the following points to guide each of your answers: My name is: Princess Smartypants. I live in: Use the setting of the story and your imagination to answer. My birthday is: Use the setting of the story and your imagination to answer. Recent posts: a short post about something that has happened to your character recently. Who Am I? Describe the character in looks, interests and personality. Important choices I have made: What is important to me? What do I want from life? Quotes: Choose a quote from the story that you think sums up your character (you will need to listen to the story again). Friends: Describe what your character is looking for a in a friend.

English: Reading Must Do Task: What tense is ‘Princess Smartypants’ written in? Watch Monday’s video again and record at least ten past tense verbs on a Google Doc or on a sheet of paper. Information: Adapted stories are usually written in the past tense. Can Do Task: Watch the following adapted fairy-tale and write a list of the ways it is different from a traditional fairy-tale. Tangled Ever After: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkbG_grLcY8

English: Reading Turn In task Must Do Task: How is Princess Smartypants different from other traditional female fairy-tale characters (such as Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc)? Why do you think the author wrote this book? Complete the worksheet to share your ideas about Princess Smartypants. Information: Adapted stories take traditional characters and change them to make them more modern. For example, if the story of the Three Little Pigs was written today, the pigs might be communicating on their i-Phones or installing sensor lights and CCTV in their houses to keep that pesky wolf away! Adapted fairy-tales are also written to challenge gender stereotypes. For example, girls and women were usually shown to be weaker, and spent their lives waiting around for a prince to marry. Can Do Task: Think of a character from a traditional

What the future may hold: Predict what might happen in the future of your character (use clues from the text). Information: Adapted stories are written about great characters. Authors give more detail about characters as the story progresses. Use the information from the story to answer the questions on the profile. Draw a picture in the top left corner.

fairy-tale. Make some changes to the character and complete a Facebook profile for that character.

Must Do Learning Zoom @ 10:15am

Must Do Task: Please join your class on Zoom today.

Information: We will be talking about the ‘turn in’ tasks for the week, so please be prepared with any questions that you have.

English: Spelling

Must Do Task: Syllable sort Can Do Task: Using your list words, highlight or underline all the vowels in each word. Add them up...How many vowels are there? Information: Sort your list words by the number of syllables that each word contains. Use the syllable sort worksheet in today’s attachments to organise your words into syllable lists.

Zoom @ 10:15am

Must Do Task: Please join your class on Zoom today.

Information: Your session today will focus on History.

Zoom @ 10:15am

Must Do Task: Please join your class on Zoom today.

Information: Your teacher will be giving feedback session on lessons from the framework.

English: Spelling

Must Do Task: Lie Detector Can Do Task: Using your cheerleading or robot dancing skills, call out ten of your list words. Make sure you spell them correctly!!! Information: Write a true or false statement about ten of your list words. Ask a parent/carer or sibling to see if they can correctly identify if the statement is true or false (you may need a dictionary for this one). For example: Stray means: not in the right place.....T or F? Viscous the concrete was very viscous....T or F?

Must Do Learning English: Spelling Must Do Task: Vowels and Consonants Information: Write out fifteen of your list words and circle the vowels in blue and the consonants in red. Can Do Task: Score your words: if each vowel is worth 5 points and each consonant is worth 2, work out what each of your list words is worth. Which word scores the most points?

English: Writing Must Do Task: Answer the following questions after watching the videos and reading the information below:

1. What makes a good story?

2. What makes a good character?

3. Who are our favourite characters in the story of Cinderella? Why?

4. Who are the bad characters or villains? Describe them.

5. What are the main messages in the story?

6. Do you know of any other texts that involve Cinderella or a ‘Cinderella like’ character?

7. Why were fairy tales written?

Information: A fairy tale is a short narrative Watch the following link: https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-fairy-tale-definition-characters.html Please note you will need to use Google Chrome as your browser for this link.

English: Writing Must Do Task: Look at the front cover of these adaptations of Cinderella: Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella

Prince Cinders

1. Do you think the

storyline will be modified from the original Cinderella?

2. What do you notice about the front cover?

3. List at least 5 ways these stories may be different from the original Cinderella?

English: Writing Turn In task

Must Do Task: Using past, present and future tense verbs, complete the two worksheets in Thursday’s attachments. Information: Watch the instructional video on GC labelled ‘English Instructional Video Thursday’.

Science

Must Do Task: After watching the video, where the three states of matter (solids, liquids and gases) are explained, sort the items on the Solids, Liquids and Gases Sorting Cards in today’s attachments and write them on the worksheet in the correct column. Information: We are going to sort and describe a variety of materials/matter. We will compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases by sorting and describing the materials. Watch this video Matter and think about what you wrote in your pre-test last week. Can do tasks:

1. Make a collection of materials and display them in three groups - a group of solids, a group of liquids and a group of gases. Take a photo and send it to your teacher.

2. Make a collage of different materials by cutting pictures out of magazines or

Why were fairy tales invented? • Women created fairy

tales to emphasise their rights as women and to help teach children about right and wrong.

Explore: Read the original story of Cinderella or listen to the video at the end of the book. Can Do Task: Draw a story board for the fairy tale plan you did last week using the following template.

Listen to the following adapted Cinderella story. Sootface Answer the following questions:

4. Who is the intended audience?

5. What do you notice about the colour of the images/pages throughout the book?

6. How is this story different to the original ‘Cinderella’ story?

7. Are there any similarities between this book and the original?

8. How does the setting differ from the setting of the original Cinderella?

9. Is the language different in this version? Why do you think the language is different?

10. The purpose of this version Sootface, is to entertain. What other purpose might the author have written this book for?

Tenses are shown by the verb – past, present and future. Write a verb in each of the following spaces to complete this story. She _________ in a beautiful blue gown. Her hair _________ up high on her head _________ a golden band. “This ____ wonderful!” _________ Cinderella. Now read the story back to yourself. Check if your suggestions are in present tense, or in a tense that does not agree with the subject. Your story may not make much sense.

• Why do you think our story didn’t make sense?

catalogues. Group the materials into solids, liquids and gases. Eg. Ice, water and steam.

• Could we change any of the verbs so that they make sense? How?

Can Do Task:

Write a dialogue between Cinderella and the Prince in present tense. Don’t forget to punctuate the direct speech correctly.

Must Do Learning Mathematics: Must Do Task: Watch the video link in your Google Classroom titled Monday Maths Week 2. Try the worksheet in today’s attachments. Information:

You can find video on your Google Classroom Stream.

Can do Task: If you started with the worksheet with the one star icon, you could then try the one with two stars in the top right hand corner of the worksheet.

Mathematics: Must Do Task: Watch the video link in your Google Classroom titled Tuesday Maths Week 2. Try the worksheet in today’s attachments. Information:

You can find the video on your Google Classroom Stream.

Can do Task: If you started with the worksheet with the one star icon, you could then try the one with two stars in the top right hand corner of the worksheet.

Mathematics: Mathletics Turn In task Daily Multiplication practice: Visit this website https://www.timestables.com/ and choose some multiplication activities to practise recalling your times tables. Must Do Task: Please sign into your Mathletics account and complete the ‘Pair numbers to reach the product’ problem-solving activity assigned for today. Information: Students should know their Mathletics username and password. Please contact your classroom teacher if you require another copy. Can Do Task:

Mathematics: Assessment Must Do Task: Please complete the questions in the Google Form from the link below. Information: Google Form link https://tinyurl.com/3f3ppfth Please note you will need to use Google Chrome as your browser for this and you will also need to login with your education username and password.

Mathematics: Mathletics Must Do Task: Please sign into your Mathletics account and complete the ‘Multiplication Turnarounds’ task assigned for today. Information: Students should know their Mathletics username and password. Please contact your classroom teacher if you require another copy. Can Do Task: Choose another activity from Mathletics or plan to link up with a friend and verse them in an activity together!

Choose another activity from Mathletics or plan to link up with a friend and verse them in an activity together!

Can Do Learning Exploratorium lesson Can Do Task: An important part of learning is to reflect on what we achieve through the process of learning. Complete the PBL self-assessment rubric in today’s attachments, to reflect on how well you think you went in our Market Day PBL unit. Information: You can find the Year 4 PBL Self-assessment worksheet in today’s attachments.

History Can Do Task: Today, you will use photographs from the past, (which are a primary source), to engage your historical imaginations. Watch the instructional video and complete the worksheet as you go. Please make sure you read the important information below and watch the instructional video to fully understand this task. The photographs are also available on a separate Google Slide so that you can look at them closely. Information:

Historians use what is known as their ‘historical imagination’ to piece together our history. When you use your ‘historical imagination’ you are basically making inferences. You are being a detective and using clues to understand the past. The ‘clues’ that you will use are called sources. Historians use both primary and

Wellbeing Wednesday

Second Step

Can Do Task:

Complete Lesson 21: Dealing with peer pressure and complete the home task in the Wednesday attachments.

Discuss this social skill with your parents.

Information: Information on this skill has been included in the framework attachments to help parents facilitate discussions with their child.

Road Safety Pedestrian Safety Can Do Task:

1. Watch the ‘safe places to cross’ clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLL4evDjFo88tqz31ggg-oAIYaN-q-9nMp&v=M5_4VeG3oug&feature=emb_logo

Using your background knowledge and the information you gained from last week, explore the following questions: * What were the safe behaviours and/or environments shown in the clip? * What were the unsafe behaviours and/or environments shown in the clip? * What could the characters do to make the situation safer? If you can, discuss what you have seen and your answers with an adult. See if they agree with your recommendations or have any other advice to add.

Touch Typing

Can Do Task: Follow the link below to a touch-typing website to practise your typing skills. https://www.typingclub.com Scroll down and select one of the typing lessons. Information: Please use Google Chrome as a browser for this link. If you do not have Google Chrome or navigate through your Student Portal if you have a Chromebook from school.

secondary sources. Today, we will learn about primary sources.

Can Do Learning Music-Mark Can Do Task: Discover what ROCKTOBER was when radio stations ruled the airwaves. Information: During the 1970s, younger people would regularly listen to the radio to hear all the latest pop and rock music. Sydney radio station 2SM would promote rock music throughout October with its ROCKTOBER tribute to rock music. They also held events, the 1979 rock concert held on the stairs of the Sydney Opera House being quite a legendary one which became known as ‘The Concert of the Decade” Imagine you were planning a big outdoor rock concert. Who would you invite to play? Where would you hold it? Would you promote it through the radio station? Write down some ideas and give reasons for your choices. Do you have a radio at home and do you ever listen to it or the radio in the car? Watch the YouTube clip Rocktober 1270 2SM

PE-Greg Can Do Task: The 2021 Tokyo Paralympics have just ended. You may have noticed that some of the sports are similar to sports played by able bodies athletes but with modifications. A modification means changing the game to make it playable by people with different capabilities. Swimming, athletics, tennis and canoeing are some of these sports. We have been practicing and improving our ball skills this term. Your task this week is to design and modify a ball game that can be played by people of all ages and abilities. The ball you use may be your tennis ball, a balloon, a beach ball or any other ball you have at home. You will need to think and write about: Rules Playing area Length of game Scoring Equipment Number of players How to make the game fair for all eg in Goalball, all players

Sport Can Do Task: Follow the link below to complete a Cosmic Kids Yoga session. Information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-BS87NTV5I

School Assembly

Can Do Task:

Watch the video in the stream of our Google Classroom uploaded today.

CAPA

Portrait painting - 2. Making the painting Can Do Task: Watch the link below to explore portrait paintings by sketching & painting. Build upon your sketch from last week by using some painting tips from the video link. Note: If you do not have paint at home, perhaps you could use pencils, crayons or markers to add colour to your sketch! Information: https://digital.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/art-bites-series/portrait-painting

1:07 Rocktober 1270 2SM - YouTube youtube.com

are blindfolded. Imagine your grandpa with a dodgy knee wants to play. How can you fairly include him? You can:

A. Design a new sport each day;

B. Design a new sport and refine it until you are happy with it;

C. Adapt a current Paralympic sport to create a new classification group. Eg Goalball for wheelchair bound athletes.

Weekly Spelling Words Spelling Rule: The combination ‘ai’ is never used at the end of a word; ‘ay’ may be in the middle of a word, followed by a suffix (payment) or compound word (daylight).

Theme Extension

prepay plain stray always Friday

daylight hairspray available everyday sway

payment

dismay

causeway

playwright

straightforward

liquid

gas

solid

states

viscous

ambassador

possession

vengeance

assimilate

beneficial

Monday Worksheets

Tuesday Worksheets

Wednesday Worksheets

Lesson 21: Dealing with peer pressure

Why This Lesson Matters

It can be difficult to say no to people we like. Students should learn that it is okay to say no and that they needn’t be upset when someone says no to them. Both giving and accepting an assertive refusal are skills. Learning how to resist going along with peers can help students avoid a variety of problem behaviors. The objectives of this activity are to:

• Demonstrate using assertiveness skills to resist peer pressure • Demonstrate using the Problem-Solving Steps to figure out ways to resist peer pressure

Lesson Concepts

• It is okay to say no to others, and it is okay for them to say no to you. • Negative emotions like guilt and remorse can be reasons not to go along with peer pressure.

Another kind of peer pressure that is not covered in this lesson but is often experienced, especially as students approach the teen years, is the internal pressure kids feel to go along with their peers in order to fit in or be cool. Even if others aren’t overtly trying to convince students to do something they know is wrong, they may feel compelled to participate in order to fit in. Help students understand that thinking about consequences and using positive self-talk can help them deal with these feelings. They can say things to themselves like “I don’t want to get in trouble” or “I’ll feel bad if I do that” to help counter the urge to go along.

See the home link task for your child to practise this skill this week.

Thursday Worksheets

Friday Worksheets