Term 4 Week 2 Date: ___________

PHONOLOGICAL VISUAL THEME

1. shrub 11. nephew 21. geologist

2. shrug 12. nasty 22. volcanic

3. shred 13. hospital 23. rotate

4. shrank 14. goes 24. translate

5. shrimp 15. mainly 25. reflect

6. shriek

7. shrewd ETYMOLOGICAL CHALLENGE

8. shrine 16. eastward 26. reconcile

9. shredder 17. forward 27. opportunity

10. shrivel 18. downward 28. rejection

19. handsome 29. information

20. lonesome 30. spirituality

Spelling Activities

Monday Dictionary Definitions Use a dictionary to define each word:

shrank shrivel shrine lonesome

Tuesday Syllables List all the spelling words that have two syllables:

Wednesday Paragraph Write a paragraph using as many spelling words as you can!

Wednesday Write synonyms for the following

nasty shrub forward rotate

Thursday Adjectives Choose an adjective to describe each word: eg.

shattered concrete volcanic shrimp hospital

Thursday Illustrations Create a small drawing for each word: shredder nephew geologist

Term 4 Week 2 - Write the list each day

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

English-Monday

The Great Kapok Tree

A page from the book:

Several anteaters climbed down the Kapok tree with their young clinging to their backs. The striped

anteater said to the sleeping man: “Senhor, you are chopping down this tree with no though for the

future. And surely you know that what happens tomorrow depends upon what you do today. The

big man tells you to chop down a beautiful tree. He does not think of his own children, who

tomorrow must live in a world without trees”.

Answer the following based on the above.

Name _______________________________ Date ________________

Book Companion: The Great Kapok TreeSave the Forest

Directions: Persuade people to save the forest from the perspective of a rainforest animal. Draw an illustration and write a persuasive paragraph.

Rain Forest Animal Please don’t cut down our Kapok tree because…

The Sinking of the TitanicThe Titanic, with over two thousand people on board, left England on 10 April 1912 bound for New York. Five days later, this luxurious ocean liner lay at the bottom of the sea with 1514 lives lost.

The Titanic, built in Ireland between 1909 and 1911, was the largest ship afloat at the time. Its interior was spacious and luxurious. There were libraries, swimming pools, restaurants, comfortable cabins and a gymnasium. There was also a powerful wireless telegraph for the use of passengers and crew.

Near midnight on April 14, the Titanic struck an iceberg in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. The hull buckled inwards and opened five of its sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. Over the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually filled with water. The wireless operator sent out an SOS. Passengers were loaded into lifeboats, but there were not enough for everyone. A little after two o’clock in the morning of April 15, the ship broke up and sank, bow first. There were still over a thousand people on board. Most perished within minutes of entering the freezing water. The 750 survivors were rescued by the ship the Carpathia a few hours later.

The wreck of the Titanic was discovered in 1985 on the ocean floor, 4 kilometres below the surface. Thousands of items were recovered and put on display in museums across the world. The Titanic, gradually rusting away on the seabed, has become the most famous ship in history.

Read the text and shade a bubble or write an answer to each question.

1 What was the Titanic’s destination? making connections

Africa Newfoundland the USA France

2 What is a liner? making connections

a long boat a passenger ship a large sailing ship a small steamship

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3 Name four things provided for the comfort and pleasure of the passengers. monitoring

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4 What was the wireless telegraph used for? summarising

listening to the news phoning friends and family recording the weather sending and receiving messages

5 The Titanic struck an iceberg. This means: making connections

it hit a floating chunk of ice it ran into floating ice cubes it ran aground on a glacier the captain lit a match to see the ice

6 What part of a ship is the hull? monitoring

the lower deck the engine room the outside shell the back end

7 Which is the odd word? monitoring

chamber compartment caramel cubicle

8 Which words would describe how the passengers probably felt when the ship was sinking? making connections

calm terrified desperate optimistic

9 The ship sank bow first. What part of the ship is the bow? making connections

front back right side left side

10 Why was the Carpathia able to find the survivors? predicting

11 Give one reason why so many people died. making connections

12 Why do you think the wreck of the Titanic may never be raised from the sea floor? predicting

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The Tale of TiddalikThe tale of Tiddalik is an Aboriginal Dreamtime story. It originated with the people of South Gippsland, Victoria and has become a much-loved tale by children all over the world.

In the telling of the tale, Tiddalik the frog woke one morning feeling very thirsty. He drank all the water in the creeks and rivers, all the water in the lakes and all the water in the swamps and billabongs. He drank until all the fresh water had gone. He grew bigger and bigger until he was so filled with water he couldn’t move. He dragged his swollen body onto a rock and sat there with his mouth shut. Leaves withered and creatures died from lack of water. The land was so dry, it became a desert. The animals, led by a wise, old wombat, devised a plan to make Tiddalik release all the water he had drunk. They tried to make him laugh. Kookaburra told his funniest story, kangaroo jumped over emu and lizard waddled about on two legs. But Tiddalik just sat on his rock with his mouth shut.

Then Nambunum, the eel began to dance. He twisted and twirled. He turned himself inside out and into knots. He looked so funny, the animals all laughed. The corners of Tiddalik’s mouth twitched … then he smiled … then he opened his mouth and laughed. All the water gushed out, filling the creeks and rivers, the lakes, the swamps and the billabongs. The water spread out over the land and turned it green again.

Read the text and shade a bubble or write an answer to each question.

1 Which word best describes Tiddalik? making connections

grumpy generous thirsty selfish

2 Billabong is an Aboriginal word for: monitoring

waterfall mud puddle dry creek bed waterhole

3 Why was Tiddalik’s body swollen? monitoring

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4 What problems did Tiddalik cause? summarising

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5 The animals devised a plan. This means they: monitoring

decided to talk to Tiddalik thought about what to do asked for help each had different ideas

6 Why did the animals want to make Tiddalik laugh? questioning

7 How did Tiddalik respond to the animals’ attempts to make him laugh? monitoring

he kept his mouth shut he frowned at them he turned his back on them he kept his eyes shut

8 What happened when Tiddalik laughed? summarising

9 Which word does NOT belong? monitoring

spurt surge gush gurgle

10 Number these events in order from 1– 4. summarising

The animals tried to make Tiddalik laugh.

Tiddalik drank all the water in the land.

The land became green again.

Suddenly the water gushed out of Tiddalik’s mouth.

11 Who first told the story of Tiddalik? making connections

12 Explain why you think the Aboriginal people called Tiddalik the flood maker. questioning

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Handwriting Term 4 Week 2 Skill: Joining u (remember to start a new line like below) Homework I started on my homework but my pen ran out of ink. My hamster ate my homework. My computer’s on the blink. I accidentally dropped it in the soup my mum was cooking. My brother flushed it down the toilet when I wasn’t looking. My mother ran my homework through the washer and the dryer. An airplane crashed into our house. My homework caught on fire. Tornadoes blew my notes away. I worked on these excuses so darned long my teacher said, “I think you’ll find it easier to do the work instead”. By Kenn Nedbitt

Nelson Handwriting ©Oxford University Press 2016. No sharing, copying or adaptation of materials permitted except by subscribers to Oxford Owl. Books 3 & 4

Guidelines Years 3 and 4Nelson

Handwriting

STEM Worksheet 1

Name:__________________ Class:_______

Think about the questions below and write a short response or dot points to answer each question.

How do people use bridges? _______________________________________________________

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Why are bridges important? _______________________________________________________

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What would happen if we didn’t have bridges? ________________________________________

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THINK: What bridges do you know? What do they help us cross? (Water, gullies?)

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Look at the picture of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. What shapes can you see? Circle one of each

shape and estimate how many of each shape you see.

Resource 1

WHAT MAKES BRIDGES STRONG?

Sydney Harbour Bridge The Sydney Harbour Bridge is strong because it has triangles. Triangles make for a strong structure because they work off compression and tension. Triangles on the Harbour Bridge are in the arch because the arch needs to be strong to keep the bridge up and carry the load. An arch is useful because it transfers the load instead of focusing the load on one spot. By encompassing these two features, it makes the harbour bridge a though arch steel bridge which is

designed to last long and hold a lot of weight.

Anzac Bridge

The Anzac Bridge is situated in Sydney. It is a cable-stayed bridge. It has cables attached to the roads to keep them up. The bridge has eight lanes. It carries bikes, cars and pedestrians. It is made up of steel and concrete. Its span is 805m and the highest point is 120m. It is a strong bridge because of the materials used and the cords situated throughout the bridge disperses weight effectively.

Resource 2

BRIDGES IN CHINA

The Ruyi bridge, located in the Zhejiang

Province (China), was first revealed in

2017, before opening in 2020.

China’s new mega-bridge was officially

opened after 9 years of construction

(2018).

The 55-kilometre-long structure, which is

the longest over-sea bridge in the world,

crosses the Pearl River estuary to

connect the Chinese mainland to Hong

Kong and Macau. It’s 20 times longer

than the Golden Gate Bridge in San

Francisco.

In one section, the bridge transitions to

an underwater tunnel for 7 kilometres to

make way for ships to cross and planes

to take off from the nearby Hong Kong

International Airport.

About 400,000 tons of steel was used in the project, equivalent to eight times the amount used to

build the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The structure is supported by pillars embedded in the seafloor,

cables hanging from giant towers, and two artificial islands.

Resource 3

TYPES OF BRIDGES

Bridges, from Sydney Harbour to the Tower Bridge across the Thames to the Golden Gate, connect us and bind us together. They’re gateways to discovery — and the way many of us get to work each day. Whether they’re simple footbridges, functional toll bridges, or complicated drawbridges, they all serve an essential function.

Bridges can be the simplest structures or huge, stunning works of art — or anything in between. As long as it gets us across a span that would otherwise be difficult (or even impossible) to cross, a bridge serves its singular purpose.

7 Different Types of Bridges 1. Arch Bridge 2. Beam Bridge 3. Cantilever Bridge 4. Suspension Bridge 5. Cable-Stayed Bridge 6. Tied-Arch Bridge 7. Truss Bridge

Beginning with the first tree trunk laid across a creek bed, humans have created increasingly sophisticated bridge designs through the ages. Innovation has resulted in different structures and types of materials used to span waterways and canyons.

Now it’s common to see massive, intricate modern bridges that span shockingly long distances. The world’s longest bridge, the $8.5 billion Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge in China, carries a high-speed railway more than 100 miles.

Bridges work by balancing the forces of physics through a superstructure (girders, trusses, etc.), which bears the bridge deck and its load, and a substructure (pillars, abutments, piers, and footings), which grounds the load into the earth.

A bridge needs to resist movement so it can provide a stable surface to cross a divide. Correct engineering and bridge construction can strike the perfect balance to keep a bridge standing.

WHY TRIANGLES ARE A STRONG SHAPE

When engineers build structures, they want to make sure that the structure can bear weight. In other words, they do not want the structure to fall when a force is applied to it. For example, bridges must be able to hold up the materials that make the bridge, as well as all the traffic travelling across it. One of the shapes that can bear weight very well is the triangle. But what makes triangles so good at this?

Let’s look at how a triangle transfers a force.

When a force (the load) is applied to one of the corners of a triangle, it is distributed down each side. The two sides of the triangle are squeezed. Another word for this squeezing is compression. The third side of the triangle is pulled or stretched sideways. Another word

Let’s Talk Science). for this stretching is tension.

When a downward load is applied to the top corner of a triangle, the sides of triangle experience compression and the base of the triangle experiences tension

HOW TRIANGLES ARE USED IN BRIDGES

You often see triangles used to create bridges. Bridges combine multiple triangles. They apply compression and tension in different places.

Stereotypes

Stage 2 - Online Learning - Challenging Stereotypes

Meet Sally and Thomas!For the following statements, write down

whether you think the answer is Sally or Thomas.

Statement Sally or Thomas?

Plays with insects

Has a boy as their best friend

Likes to play dress ups

Plays with dolls

Loves football

Likes to climb trees

Plays with their baby sister

Plays in the mud

Has pink as their favourite colour

Is scared of spiders

What is a Stereotype?

Stage 2 - Online Learning - Challenging Stereotypes

What is the definition of a stereotype?

Write down two examples of a stereotype.

We all have these images or ideas that come to mind – it isnot a bad thing, as long as we do not let these stereotypes

affect our behaviour or attitudes towards others.

Lets Draw!

Stage 2 - Online Learning - Challenging Stereotypes

Under each of the headings on your worksheet, draw apicture that represents the person.

A Scientist

A Netball Player A Doctor

A Farmer

A Dancer A Football Player

ART YEAR 4

DRAWING A SUPERHERO

You will need: • lead pencil • felt-tip pen • coloured pencils/textas