Week beginning – 20 April 2020

[If you want to see last week's Specialist pages again, click here]

 

P.E.

30-45 minutes per day

Monday

Warm up

Sit on the floor with your back against a wall and feet flat on the ground. Without using your hands try to stand up. Repeat 5 times.

Cup stacking

If you don’t have any of these cups shown in the video you can use any styrofoam/plastic cups from the supermarket. Keep track of your time and always try to beat your best time!

#2 Rapid Fire

Click here for a video on rapid fire speed stacking

#3 One handed stacking

Click here for a video on one handed speed stacking (Dr Dray can't wait for you to show her this!)

 

Tuesday

Warm-up

Keeping your feet together, jump back and forth over a line on the ground. Keep going for 1 minute!

Kicking

Use a soccer ball, AFL football or make your own ball from newspaper or socks to practise your kicking skills.
If possible, you could practise kicking to someone in your family.

You might be able to set up some goals in your backyard.

 

Wednesday

Warm-up - Jump, squat, turn

Click here for the Go Noodle video to lead you through this exercise

 

Tennis racquet skills

If you don’t have a racquet at home get creative or even just use your hand!

• How many times can you bounce the ball on the racquet face in a row?
• Bounce the ball on the ground using the racquet without stopping.
  Count the number of times you can bounce the ball in 30 seconds? Can you beat it?
• How many consecutive shots can you hit against the wall for? What is your best score?

 

Thursday

Warm-up - Roller coaster

Click here for the Go Noodle video to lead you through this warm-up

 

Basketball Dribbling

Bouncing continuously using your dominant hand (the hand you write with) for 2 minutes

• Repeat using your non-dominant hand
• Try walking or jogging while bouncing
• Can you bounce the ball between your legs?
• How long can you bounce the ball in one spot before the ball moves off that spot? Can you beat that time?

Friday

Warm-up

Fitness stations

1 minute rest between each activity and complete each activity once:

• 1 minute of star jumps
• 1 minute of sit ups
• 1 minute of squats
• 1 minute of sprints
• 1 min of step ups 

 

Foot Mini Golf

Use items at home to create your own mini-golf hole or course.

Use a small ball of any kind as your golf ball and your foot as the putter. (That's the golf club that gently taps the ball). Keep count of how many ‘hits’ it takes you to get the ball in the target. Try to beat your score.

 

Spanish

30 minutes per week

Vocabulary Builder- Let’s label it! (Our house- Nuestro casa)

Create some labels in Spanish and blu-tack them onto the following things in your house.

Chair – la silla (lah-see-ya)

Table – la mesa (lah mess-ah)

Bed – la cama (lah car-ma)

Stairs- las escaleras (lass ess-kal-air-rass)

Computer – la computadora o el ordenador (lah comm-poot-a-door-a o ell or-den-a-door)

Toaster – la tostadora (lah toes-ta-door-a)

Washing machine – la lavadora (lah lah-bva-door-a)

Bathroom - el baño (ell ban-yo)

Bedroom – el dormitorio (ell door-mit-or-ee-o)

Kitchen- la cocina (lah ko-see-na)

 

Music

60 minutes per week

Make your own musical instruments! Think about how we make percussion sounds in the music room – we hit things together, we shake things, we move one part of the instrument across another, we move the instrument around, we pluck strings.

Some ideas on how to do this:

• Fill most of a small container with rice, sand or pasta and shake it (don’t forget to put the lid on).
  You can experiment with different materials. Which sounds do you like best?
  
  
• Hitting different bowls or pots with a wooden spoon (please ask permission from your parents before doing this – there may be certain ones that are just too important for you to use!)
  
  
• Thick sticks can be used to make a set of claves. You could paint or decorate them any way you like, just think about the sound they will make.

• Pulling different sized rubber bands over a cookie cutter. How does the thickness affect the sound?

Activities with your instruments:

Play the beat and rhythm for songs on the radio, and any of the songs we have learnt over the past term.

 

The songs we have learnt:

Year 3: Tideo

Year 4: I’ve Got a Car

 

Art

60 minutes per week

 

Year 3

Mandalas

Do you know what a mandala is? Have a guess and then look it up if you can.

Buddhists create mandalas that reflect the idea of kindness radiating out from one small act like the ripples in a pool from a stone.

Use a plate to trace and cut a circle from a piece of paper.
Then fold neatly into four quarters.
Use a pencil or fine-liner to decorate one quarter from the point outward, growing a pattern with details to the rounded edge.

Trace your pattern onto each quarter of the circle, folding back and leaning your page against a window.
Be sure to trace onto the correct side of your circle.
When completed, your circle will be decorated symmetrically. Half shapes become whole and patterns doubled when the circle is unfolded again.
Colour when complete.

Is there something else you might be able to learn about the Buddhist mandalas?
What are they made of and why?

Find a mandala to print for mindfulness colouring in, or to help with your own design.

 

 

Year 4

Cardboard building, continued from last week

Find a small cardboard box from some cereal packaging or biscuits.

Undo the ends, find the join seam and gently take it apart as cleanly as possible. Your parents may help you. 

Lay the inside of the box out flat and consider what kind of building you will create (a shop, a café, a motel, a bank, a factory or perhaps a block of flats).

 

Draw the details and layout of the outside of your building using a pencil and ruler.

Find a scrap of paper or cardboard to practise cutting windows, balconies and doors.
You can also consider how to make some design aspects for the outside of your building such as a fire escape, stairs, a roof-top garden, a clothes line or anything else you might imagine. Once you have mastered this, you can cut out the shapes you’ve drawn on your box.

 

Remember to tape on the printed side of the box so it is hidden inside when you glue your box back together.

After you have cut and folded your details, you can glue your box together again inside out, at the join seam.

When your box is standing you can add the outside details.
Remember we are looking at your clever details built on, not drawn on.

Don’t forget to take a photo.

Look at the artwork of cardboard artist Daniel Agdag for inspiration and to be amazed.

Library

30 minutes per week

 

Create a poster recommending the book genre of humour. (THIS TASK WILL BE COMPLETED OVER TWO WEEKS)

 

Watch the link to learn how Andy Griffiths works with his illustrator Terry Denton. This video is about 30 minutes long, so plan to spend this time: Click here

Think about other authors that write humorous stories for children. Can you list some of them?

Use the information below if you need some ideas.

Your recommendation CAN include:

• What the genre of the book means
• Names of the main characters from this genre e.g. When reading these books you will be enthralled to meet characters like Captain Underpants who is a superhero in disguise, Andy and Terry who live in a tree house, Greg Hefley who has two brothers who drive him crazy
• Why you recommend this genre of book
• What age group it is recommended for?
• Some of the series of books that fit into this genre
• Who some of the authors and illustrators are and if they have written any other books
• if any of the books in this genre have been made into movies or received any awards
• What you would rate this genre out of 10

 

Don’t forget to make your poster bright, colourful and appealing.
Be sure to add some ‘catchy’ phrases, e.g: funny, action packed, fun-filled, page turner, eye catching.
Add any other important information such as quotes from the author or books.
Use your imagination to add any other details to your book recommendation to make it stand out.

 

Mrs Keogh can't wait to see your posters so keep them safe. She will need some new library displays at school.