Monday - Zoom your class at 9am. Introduction to Reading Eggs Block One Blocks Two and Three Block Four

English Maths Physical Activity Play Based Learning - SWIM

You have 45-60 minutes for English. During this time complete SOME or ALL of these activities.

Remember, it is better to do fewer activities and to do your best learning.

Reading Eggs Log on to Reading Eggs using the code your teacher has sent you on Seesaw. Complete the placement test and enjoy exploring Reading Eggs

Writing Use your writing book that you brought home with you from school and write independently for 15-20 minutes. You may like to write a: ● Weekend Recount ● Continue with your animal report Then please upload your writing to Seesaw for some feedback.

Oxford Spelling Write your next 3 spelling words using dot writing then write them in your best handwriting.

Soundwaves Watch the video of Mrs Morrison introducing the letter Xx. Read the list words and circle any words that contain the x sound. Can you think of any other words that start with or end with the letter x.

You have 30-45 minutes for Maths. During this time complete some or all of these activities. Remember, it is better to do fewer activities and do your best learning. Mental Maths Complete the first page of your Mental Maths booklet, writing all of the numbers that come before, and then colour and decorate the title page. Making Collections (Place Value) Choose two of the 2-digit numbers below to work with. Make each number into a collection of Tens and Ones, using Lego, blocks, dolls, jellybeans, MnMs, etc. Once you have made the two numbers you chose, choose one of your numbers and swap the digits around to make a new number. For example, if you chose the number 56, swap around the digits to make 65 – and make this number into a collection of Tens and Ones using your materials.

Select 2 activities to complete from the activity list. 15 min. Movement Monday Juggling Watch the attached video on juggling. First attempting with scarves or some fabric, then moving onto tennis balls. Can you juggle two scarves/balls? Can you juggle three scarves/balls? How many scarves/balls can you juggle? What other items lying around your house can you juggle? https://youtu.be/QxzSHRbLAx4 Film your juggling and send it to Mr Rankin using the FARL website.

Natural Weaving. The Wurundjeri people are the traditional

owners of Melbourne. Their language is Woiwurrung.

This activity will: help children to understand

how Aboriginal people created gathering tools. It will also help to promote children’s curiosity and wonder to connect them with the natural world.

Background Information:The Wurundjeri

women were very skilled in many practical crafts. They used plant material for weaving and making twine. The grass they used for weaving was known as lomandra (karawun) in Woiwurrung. The grass fibres were used to make string for clothing, adornments, nets, carry bags, baskets and mats.

● Find a natural outdoor space that your children can explore.

● Prepare a loom structure that children can use to weave their natural treasures into.

● Ask children to weave their natural treasures into their individual or the group loom.

Inverloch and Kongwak Primary Schools

Week 7 - Prep

Tuesday Block One Blocks Two and Three Block Four

English Maths Physical Activity ART

You have 45-60 minutes for English. During this time complete SOME or ALL of these activities.

Remember, it is better to do fewer activities and to do your best learning.

Reading Enjoy exploring the library on Reading Eggs or find a book to read from your home library or Epic!. Please record what you have read in your yellow diary.

Handwriting Using your best handwriting, complete the next page of your WritingTime Handwriting Book, letter Xx. Practice this letter using the correct formation in your Kid Writing book, using the lines. Then create a drawing using pictures that start with this letter, for example ‘The fox was on the box wearing red socks.’ Oxford Spelling Put your 3 spelling words into separate sentences. Remember to use a capital letter to start the sentence and a full stop to end it.

Soundwaves Again using your Sound Mat, sing the chant for the letter Xx. Now write a list of words that end in -ix by only changing the first sound. Eg. fix, mix, six... Can you read these words? Are they real words, or are some nonsense words? Now look at fix. What do we need to change to make this fox? Now can you make a list of words that end in -ox?

Tech Maths: Koala counting – Click on the numbers that match the collections of dots in the ten frames: https://www.hoodamath.com/games/koalakartscounting.html Finding numbers to 20 (or up to 100): https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue Sequencing numbers – Click on the ‘Sequencing’ button and then drag the numbers to their correct place in order: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/chinese-dragon-ordering Place Value Basketball – Click on the numbers that match the collections of Tens and Ones: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball Shark Numbers (Place Value) – Click on the numbers that match the collections of Tens and Ones: http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html Place Value Charts – Make the numbers at the top of the screen by clicking on the Tens and Ones to match: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts

Select 2 activities to complete from the activity list (found on FARL website). 15 min.

Trick shot Tuesday

This will be your opportunity to create and complete your own trick shot.

Can you create a different shot to the one you did last week?

Think:

● Table tennis ball in a cup

● Basketball shot from a distance or over your head

● Football/soccer kick into a bin from around a corner

● Frisbee through two trees

● Tennis ball throw - knocking over a bottle

● Behind the back throwing

● Golf putt or chip ● or check some of

these out

Floating, Hanging, Weightless Art

Have a look at Teamlab’s amazing environment of hanging, floating, weightless art using orchids:

https://youtu.be/brtqGLQb4fY

Make your own hanging art using natural found objects and some string. See my example photos and the video for how I made mine and the sorts of things you might like to find and use to make

yours. Or simply follow steps 1-3 here:

1. Find some organic found objects like seaweed, sticks, shells, native blossoms,

flowers, stones, sticks, bark, natives grasses, cuttings, banksias, seed pods,

etc 2. Using a long piece of string, twine or

wool, tie them on one at a time to form a hanging arrangement of your objects.

It can be either vertical or horizontal. 3. When tying you can wind the string

several times around each object before making secure knots and if you need to

add more string simply tie extra onto the end of the bit you’re using.

You can share your artwork by uploading a photo of your finished piece on the specialist page of

the website where it says show Miss Reark your art! I look forward to seeing and sharing what

you create.

Check out the FARL website for more techno art by Teamlab.

Wednesday - Zoom your class at 9am and create a class list of reptiles! Block One Blocks Two and Three Block Four

English Maths Physical Activity Well Being Wednesday

You have 45-60 minutes for English. During this time complete SOME or ALL of these activities.

Remember, it is better to do fewer activities and to do your best learning.

Reading Eggs Explore Reading Eggs and create your very own avatar! Will it look like you, or a character of your own design?

Report Writing - Reptiles! Choose an animal from the list your class created this morning on Zoom! In your Kid Writing Book, draw that animal in its natural habitat. Write 3 facts, including its habitat, body covering and life cycle. Do all reptiles lay eggs? Do they all have scaly skin? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/ https://youtu.be/NU4ugBhihEg?list=PLDP58nenCzbQwcHYdKN180qu4WfU_IkWK

Oxford Spelling If it’s not raining, go outside and make your words using leaves, sticks, pebbles, or even just write it in the dirt with a stick. If inside use sequins, lego, beads, playdough or string to make your words.

Soundwaves Log onto Soundwaves and go into Discovering Graphemes. Find the X icon (kite and seal for ks sound) and complete the Student Book Activity.

Mental Maths Complete the second page of your Mental Maths booklet, writing all of the numbers that come before.

Learning about Sharing – Play either of the following games to learn about sharing equally:

‘What’s My Share?’ Game: The instructions and materials needed to play the game can be found on the School’s home learning website. Answer these questions each time you share a collection:

- How many groups do you have? - How many are in each group?

The Sharing Game: The instructions and materials needed to play the game can be found on the School’s home learning website. Answer these questions each time you share a collection:

- How many groups do you have? - How many are in each group?

Share your learnings / games with your teacher on Seesaw.

Optional Learning Complete one of the Colour by Number activities to practise your addition and counting skills.

Select 2 activities to complete from the activity list (found on FARL website). 15 min.

Wiggling Wednesday

On Wednesdays we dance!

You may remember some of these dances from the last time we were at home learning.

This week: Modern

https://youthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5D4R3aFwVE&feature=youtu.beu.be/k5D4R3aFwVE

Guided Relaxation Sometimes our emotions and feelings can become so strong that we feel them in our bodies, not just

our minds. They may feel or look like: difficulty sleeping, crying, fast heartbeat, headaches, or

tummy aches.

To manage this, we often need a way to physically calm ourselves. A guided relaxation is one way to do this. (From Resilience, Rights and Respectful

Relationships).

Below is a Guided Relaxation story, called 'The Magic Shell' that you could ask a member of your

house to read to you. Alternatively, go to the Well-being Tab on the Home Learning page to listen to

Mrs Eldred reading “The Magic Shell"

This week’s Community Connection Event is ‘CAMPING WEEK’

For more information go to the Well Being Page.

AND – For more OPTIONAL Family Fun Activities and Positive Coping Strategies,

please go to the Well Being Tab on the IKPS Home Learning Website.

Remember to have some time off screens every day and head outside

whatever the weather!

Scienceworks https://museumsvictoria.com.au/scienceworks/at-

home/

Thursday Block One Blocks Two and Three Block Four

English Maths Physical Activity Spanish

You have 45-60 minutes for English. During this time complete SOME or ALL of these activities.

Remember, it is better to do fewer activities and to do your best learning.

Reading Eggs Can you find a nonfiction book in the Reading eggs library at your level, that describes reptiles? Remember to record this in your yellow reading diary. OR Listen to the story of The Caterpillars Shoes. In your Kid Writing Book, write down what you liked about this story. How did it make you feel?

Writing and spelling Today use your spelling words to build word families from common morphemes. A morpheme is the base word. (play, plays, playing, played, playground) Discuss tense - past, present, future. For example, “I like to play outside. We played in the park. I am playing with my brother.” Use run, ran, running in sentences. Children at this age often say ‘runned’. Model an example of ‘I ran, We ran, I am running,’ to explain past tense.

Oxford Spelling Rewrite your 3 Oxford words. You get to choose: Bubble writing, block writing or pyramid writing.

Warm Up Using a deck of playing cards (or number cards that you have made yourself), flip over one number at a time and answer the Number Warm Up questions (found on the School’s home learning website).

Problem Solving Work your way through these task cards (found on the IKPS Remote Learning website) and answer the questions. You could draw each problem and write your answers into a workbook or onto a piece of paper to help show your thinking. You may like to use Lego, pebbles, dried chickpeas, sticks, leaves, etc. as counters to help you.

Select 2 activities to complete from the activity list (found on FARL website). 15 min.

Throwback Thursday

Thursday is all about playing games that your parents played when they were kids. Below is a list of games that I can think of that I played as a kid. You can play one of these or ask Mum, Dad or whoever is at home for one of their favourites.

Play a different game to the one you played last week.

● Elastics. Research a new song that you could sing.

● Hopscotch ● Marbles ● Totem tennis ● Backyard cricket (or

any sport in the backyard)

● Pitch and toss ● 40-40 home ● Hide and seek

Let’s set sail!

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard

our deluxe cruise ship, sailing through the

West Indies, past some of the world’s

most beautiful tropical islands, and

making our way to the extoic Dominican

Republic.

This week, our journey will have us visit

‘La Republica Dominicana’, directly north

from Venezuela, in the Carribean Sea.

Download the ‘Choose your own

Adventure’ page, and decide with your

family which Dominican adventure you’re

interested in. Maybe you’ll be designing

the perfect swimming pool, or you could

try out a crisp, salty snack. Dance around

to ‘merengue’ music, learn how to braid

hair, or take a trip to a coral reef.

Remember you can complete just one or

as many of the activities as you like!

Then, fill in another page of your

‘Pasaporte’. Add the date, a picture of

the flag, and then draw or write about

your stay in paraside.

Friday - Zoom your class at 9am Block One Blocks Two and Three Block Four

English Maths Physical Activity Music

You have 45-60 minutes for English. During this time complete SOME or ALL of these activities.

Remember, it is better to do fewer activities and to do your best learning.

Reading Eggs Enjoy exploring the library on Reading Eggs. Please record what you have read in your yellow diary.

Daffodil Day Writing Today is Daffodil Day. To celebrate and get ready for Spring, create your own daffodil by selecting one of the craft activities on the IKPS Prep page or designing your own. Once completed, write a report in your Kid Writing Book all about Spring!

Spelling Test your spelling! Hopefully there is someone at home who can read out your 3 words to you while you write them down. Highlight the correct words on your Oxford Sheet in your small spelling book and then write out your new (or same) 3 words for next week.

Soundwaves Log onto Soundwaves and go into Discovering Graphemes. Find the qu icon (kite for k sound, web for w sound) and complete the Student Book Activity page.

Mental Maths Complete the third page of your Mental Maths booklet, writing all of the numbers that come after. *Keep your booklet handy for your learning next week, as more Mental Maths pages will be sent out then for you to add.* Game Time – Play either of the following games: Snakes and Ladders Addition: The game board, dice and playing counters can be found on the School’s home learning website. Addition Bump Game: Read page 2 of the Addition Bump Game file for instructions on how to play (found on the School’s home learning website. Then print one of the following:

· Page 3 for Addition to 12 (using 2 dice) · Page 4 for Addition to 18 (using 3 dice) · Page 5 for add on 10 (using 2 dice + 10) · Page 6 for add on 20 (using 2 dice + 20)

Select 2 activities to complete from the activity list (found on FARL website). 15 min.

Flexible Friday Choose any activity that you wish to get your 30 minutes for the day.

● Ride your bike/scooter/skateboard/rollerblades.

● Play a game we have already played this week.

● Play something that we play in PE that you could play at home.

● Go for a vigorous walk.

● Explore our local beaches, walking tracks or bike paths.

● Build a cubby Have you ever been to “The Caves”? Go explore the local beach (on the coast road to Cape Paterson).

Below are some links to a variety of activities. Choose any or all of them, see if any one at home would like to join you. Remember to have fun and you can practice these anytime you like. The more you practice, the better you will get.

Singing (space songs) https://youtu.be/RpLw8VW-R7I

Listening/watching (unusual instruments)

https://youtu.be/dWeFT8b_JDc

(Can you make your own set of drums from things around the house and play something that sounds good? - remember to count the beat in your head. Post a photo or video of your creation if you would like.)

Dance: https://youtube/adjf8tjpots

(between 1.20 to 4.15 minutes are the instructions, feel free to pause and rewind different sections until you can get it right.)

Relaxing listening (kick back and take it easy)

https://youtu.be/eDhP-rBJZ4A

(I wonder if you recognise this song!? Can you remember the dance?)

Create a listening journal. Ask family and friends for the names of their favourite songs. Listen to a new song each week and write or draw how the music makes you feel.

Positive Coping

What is your coping style? Do you engage in energetic activity or self-calming

activities? Do you reach out to others in social activity? Do you like to shift your

attention or get organised? Choose an activity that matches your coping style.

GETTING ORGANISED

Write a ‘POST COVID’ to do list. Make sure there are five things on your list. Do you want to have a play date with a friend? Do you want to go camping? Dinner at a restaurant or watch a movie at the cinemas?

NOW CHOOSE ONE THING OFF YOUR

LIST AND GET CREATIVE! HOW CAN

YOU DO THAT ACTIVITY NOW?

Can’t have a play date with a friend… Could you organise a zoom date and play board games, like ‘Guess Who?’ or take it in turns to show each other your latest skipping rope routine?

IKEBANA ART

On your walk or in your garden pick a different flower for each

family member to symbolise them. Put your flowers in a jar, cup or small vase. Now you can make a

small sketch of your arrangement. Which flower is who?

GUIDED RELAXATION

The Magic Shell

The Pegasus Adventure

FRIENDSHIP

Being a good friend makes you feel great, and it also helps your friend to feel cared for and important.

You might like to make this Friendship Bracelet for a special friend, for yourself or for someone in your family. All you need is some wool, a toilet roll and some scissors. You could put it in the post with a handmade card.

Family Fun

With so many roles competing for our time, it is easy to lose sight of the work-

life balance. Carve out some time each week dedicated to having fun and

connecting as a family!

MRS JONES’ PIZZA

Ingredients:

Bread roll

Tomato paste

Salami/chicken

Additional Toppings- Capsicum, Olives, Mushrooms, tomatoes, spinach leaves, Greek fetta, tasty cheese, capers, and anchovies

Mrs Jones will show you how to make your pizza in the video below.

SONG AND DANCE

Get the family together to sing and dance along to…

DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY

Can you make up a family dance routine? Brave enough to share it

with family and friends?

Play Charades

Have a Wacky Photo Shoot

Have a ‘Sock Fight’

Have a Family Story Time

Make a Collaborative Drawing

Build Playdough Sculptures

Invent a new Mud Pie recipe to make out in the garden

Visit LEGOLND Live Stream

https://www.youtube.com

/watch?v=ysmO-o_uVAc https://melbourne.legolanddiscoverycentre.com.au/l

egoland-discovery-centre-live-streams-and-lego-fun/

I.K.P.S Community Connections – WEEK 7

Please remember these activities are OPTIONAL; choose one, all, or none.

Whilst we maintain physical distance to work collectively for everyone’s health and safety,

we also believe it is important for us to stay connected to our school and wider community.

This week it is...

Night Walk Grab torches, headlamps or glow sticks, and head out for a Night

Walk. How do your usual sights appear at night?

Can you spot any furry friends?

Can you spot any decorated yards?

Using just your night-eyes, what can you see? Do you see

more than when you do with a torch? Give it a minute. The world seems to be a different place after dark. Remember to keep

yourself safe by wearing light coloured and/or reflective clothing.

Light It Up Get out your Christmas Lights or solar powered

garden lights and decorate your front yard to

amaze those who head out walking at night!

Lounge Room Campout Roll out the sleeping mats and bags, turn off the lights,

bring out the flashlights and turn on a nature soundtrack…

Spend a night sleeping in the lounge room!

Backyard Stargazing Rug up. Turn your lights off. Get comfy & relax…

Now gaze at the stars. Can you find the Southern Cross? The

saucepan? The Seven Sisters? Or will you be the first in your

family to yell “Spudnik” when you spot a satellite?

Be patient… you may get a chance to see a shooting star.

If you do, don’t forget to make a wish!

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Choose your own adventure!

Republica Dominicana ¡Elije tu propia adventura!

Snack lovers Adventure

Feeling hungry? A common snack in

La República Dominicana is ‘picadas’.

Picadas is a plate full of food you can eat in your hunt—little pieces of ham, cheese and salami, savoury biscuits, oilves and hard boiled eggs. You could add some other healthy favour-ites too.

Alternatively, you might like to try the recipe for Yaniqueques a popular savoury snack you can buy at little stalls at the beach. Follow the link on the Specialist Website for this recipe. As it involved frying in hot oil, make sure you have an adult helping out.

Designers Adventure

Warm weather, palm trees, crystal clear water, and nothing more to do than swim in the sea or a swimming pool—that’s the kind of holiday that people from all around the world find

when they arrive in La República Do-minicana

This adventure involves you designing a super-duper-fancy-deluxe swimming

pool for a new hotel in La República Dominicana. What would it look like—would you have different areas, water slides, or even some where you could sit and watch a movie from the water? Would it have water cannons, tropical fish or even tunnels to swim through? Could your pool have colour changing water, trampolines or a Nerf area?

You can:

Look at online images of pool de-signs

Make a model out of playdough, lego or other building materials

Draw a sketch of your design—add colourful flowers or precise meas-urements, whatever you please

Write an imaginative writing piece about your pool—you might like to use the Treehouse series of books as an inspiration!

Coastal Explorers Adventure

Click on the link on the website of a day trip to a reef off the coast, and take in the beauty of nature.

The Bunurong Coast is an amazing place to explore. Head out if the weather is fine and drive somewhere special on the coast road.

Dancing Adventure

Merengue and Bachata are two styles of music that are super popu-

lar in La República Dominicana.

Children learn these dance steps at home, and as part of learning at school. Click on the website and join the fun!

The Magic Shell From Meditations for Mini’s by Debbie Wildi

NOTES: This guided imagery script is for children and can help when worry and anxiety are a concern. When reading this script, please read slowly and calmly, and pause for about the count of 5 at the end of each sentence.

Place yourself in a comfy, cozy position. Close your eyes and take a long slow deep breath. As you breathe out, relax your body.

Imagine that you are standing on a beach. See the beach in your mind. Think about a beach that you may have visited, a favourite beach. Or you could use an imaginary beach if you like.

You can feel the sand beneath your toes and the sun is warm on your face. Look around you. In front of you is a huge ocean. It looks a silvery-blue colour and the sunlight sparkles like tiny stars dancing on the surface.

You look at the ground, and in front of you in the sand, is the most glorious shell you have ever seen. You pick it up. It feels warm. Notice how smooth the shell is. Feel it with your fingers. This is your magic shell. You can tell it your secrets and it will keep them.

You can also tell your shell any worries that you may have. Tell it about any problems that may be troubling you at the moment. No matter how big or how small they are. The shell wants to hear them.

Whenever you have worried feelings you can tell your shell about them and it will magically take those worried feelings and turn them into good ones.

Now see yourself holding the shell close to your mouth. In your mind silently tell it whatever you wish. No one else will know what you say. Only you and your shell! As you say your words they go right into the middle of the shell so that it can take them away for you. Tell your shell your worries right now….

Now you do not have to feel worried feelings anymore. The shell has made them disappear. Just like magic! They are gone!

As you hold your shell close all you feel is calm and happiness. You feel peaceful all the way from the tips of your toes, to the tip of your nose. Feel it right now. Notice how it feels.

It is important for you to know that you can imagine your shell whenever you wish to make yucky thoughts and feelings disappear, whenever you wish to feel calm. Your shell will always be there waiting in your imagination.

Of course, if you visit the beach you can always look for your own real magic shell. How will you know it is magic? Just choose the shell that feels right for you, this will be the magic one. You can also use a magic stone if you like.

Find one of these in your garden, or in the street.

Here is an idea! Keep your magic shell or stone under your pillow to take away bad dreams and always bring you a peaceful sleep.