Week+Eight+T1+2014

morning circle-(calendar, paddle pop stick, date) change jobs. phonics & worksheet (Es1-l, S1-oi) news & writing introduce sight words ||  ||
 * =Monday 17th March= ||  ||
 * **9:15- 11:00** || Peer reading
 * **11:00- 11:30** || **Recess** ||  ||
 * **11:30- 1:00** || TEN- diffy towers pg 119. Students work in pairs. The first student rolls a dice and takes the corresponding number of blocks. The next student does the same. They then compare the number of blocks. The person with the larger tower keeps the difference.

Discuss: half, quarters, eights. Question: do the parts need to be equal? what could we cut into half, quarters etc? [|Pizza Party] ES1- [|halves activity] K Math Plus pg3

S1- [|S1 halving groups activity] Math Plus 1 pg 15 ||  || Watch the following video and get the students to join in: [|Heads, shoulders, knees and toes] - discuss what other parts can you name - go through the following set of videos and activities as a class. [|body parts interactive] - Play simon says using external body parts just learnt. Students take turns leading the game. ** Homework ** ||  ||
 * **1:00- 1:45** || **Lunch** ||  ||
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **Quiet reading**
 * PDHPE**
 * PDHPE**
 * **3:00- 3:10** || **Pack up and bus** ||  ||
 * || **Dismissal** // Natasha Dunn 17/3/14 // ||

phonics & worksheet (ES1- f, S- ue) sight words activity spelling activity ES1- find the correct beginning sound, S1- find the correct end sound. book study: Get the students to get out their passage and follow along as the teacher reads once and then read together.
 * =Tuesday 18th March= ||  ||
 * **9:15- 11:00** || morning circle

Before Reading: - review the title of the book ad identify the author and illustrator - revisit the text. discuss the key events and characters - revisit what an authors job is. - Discuss who is Mem Fox, what do you know about her, why do you think she wrote this book? - Look at Mem Fox profile. [|Mem Fox Bio] [|Mem Fox Video] (watch up to 1:30). Google Zimbabwe on google maps. Discuss where she was born and where she grew up. Discuss how this might effect her writing. discuss that this is the best selling book in Australia ever, why do you think that is?

After reading: - discuss has it changed your idea in who Mem Fox is after learning about her - did you notice anything different when reading this book after knowing more about Mem Fox. ||  || ES1- halves activity booklet
 * **11:00- 11:30** || **Recess** ||  ||
 * **11:30- 1:00** || halves or quarters

S1- Students are presented with problems that require a knowledge of fractions to solve. Possible problems include: - half of the children in the family are boys. Draw what the family could look like. - if you cut a ball of plasticine in half, how could you check if the parts are equal? -one half of a flag is red and the other half is blue. Draw what the flag might look like. -one quarter of the square is blue, 1 quarter red and 1 quarter green. ||  ||
 * **1:00- 1:45** || **Lunch** ||  ||
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **Quiet reading**
 * Science **
 * Science **

**Select** one image and answer the following: **Play true or false** with the statements below: **Watch** Behind the News clip Wild Weather **Add** to the weather word wall. **Draw** a picture of the weather you like the best and the weather you like the least and label it with the things you do in this type of weather. ||  ||
 * Read/view **a recent news weather report and **record ** as many words about the weather as you can.
 * [|weather report] **
 * Share ** what you know about these words. **Create** a weather word wall with words **Examine** the following images and **label** them with the type of weather that you can see. [|activity 1]
 * Where might this place be?
 * What might the weather be like here?
 * What clues did you use?
 * How might the weather here affect daily life?
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #595959; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Cyclones only happen in Australia.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #595959; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Floods only happen once every 100 years.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #595959; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Weather changes all the time.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #595959; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">All places have four seasons (summer, winter, autumn, spring).
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #595959; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Droughts can happen in any place.
 * **3:00- 3:10** || **Pack up and bus** ||  ||
 * || **Dismissal** // Natasha Dunn // ||

phonics & worksheet (Es1- b, S1- ue) S1 writing & ES1 sight word sentences book study:
 * =Wednesday 19th March= ||  ||
 * **9:15- 11:00** || **<range type="comment" id="496501546_1">peer reading**
 * morning circle**
 * phonics song**
 * Get the students to get out their passage and follow along as the teacher reads once and then read together.**
 * Before reading:**
 * - review the title of the book and identify the author and illustrator **
 * - revisit the text. discuss the key events and characters**
 * -review who the author is and what we know about her.**
 * - Question the students- which country do you think the book is set in? why? which countries did Poss visit? what did he eat?**


 * During the book: Get students to look for things that tell you where the book is from. Record these on the smart board.**
 * After Reading:**
 * Sort the list into things you can eat and places you can go.**
 * - show a map of Australia and get the students to find all the places they went and highlight.**
 * Discus:**
 * - what did you learn?**
 * - what do you know about Possum Magic now?**
 * - Do you like the book? why or why not.</range id="496501546_1">** ||  ||
 * **11:00- 11:30** || **Recess** ||  ||
 * **11:30- 1:00** || Discuss: what are 3D shapes? where can you see 3D shapes? what does 3D mean?

Watch skwirk>3D shapes and complete activity.

Bag full of shapes. Students take turns putting their hand into the bag and pulling out a shape and describing how it feels, showing the class and then discussing. complete skwirk worksheet if time permits. ||  || read the text - A is for Aunty - During reading use a chart of Then and now
 * **1:00- 1:45** || **Lunch** ||  ||
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **Quiet reading**
 * HSIE**
 * HSIE**

//Then// billy carts handmade marbles, peg dolls pet possum swimming in the river milking the cows

//Now// bikes and scooters computer games cat, dog beach or pool. buying milk

- Rule your book page into two. Choose one change to focus on. Draw a now and a then picture. - after reading discuss whether the changes between now and then are positive or negative. - discuss how changes in liefstyle between then and now can effect the environment. eg purchasing goods from supermarkets instead of milking cows. wathcing tv instead of playing outside. ||  ||
 * **3:00- 3:10** || **Pack up and bus** ||  ||
 * || **Dismissal** // Natasha Dunn // ||

revise phonics & sight words hand writing guided reading & reading eggs. ||  ||
 * =Thursday 20th March= ||  ||
 * **9:15- 11:00** || peer readingmorning circle
 * **11:00- 11:30** || **Recess** ||  ||
 * **11:30- 1:00** || Discuss: what is a 3D shape?Look at one 3D shape at time.Hand the shape around the students. For each 3D shape as a class fill in a table with the following columns: name, we see, looks like.

As a class: 3d shape sort [|3D shape sort] ||  ||
 * **1:00- 1:45** || **Lunch** ||  ||
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **Quiet reading** ||  ||
 * **3:00- 3:10** || **Pack up and bus** ||  ||
 * || **Dismissal** // Natasha Dunn // ||
 * || **Dismissal** // Natasha Dunn // ||