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RFL Term 2 2021, Team News

Welcome to Wednesday!

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Hi 3/4s, it was great to catch up with everyone in their small groups. We really enjoy seeing your smiling faces and hearing your joyful voices. Plus, so many great pets. Many also shared their stories created from the prompts, very imaginative and entertaining.

If anyone has any pictures of their drawings, models, stories or working outs please remember you can email them to your teachers.

Today:

  • All students are to join their small group Webex meeting. If you can’t join the group at that time, please let your teacher know!
  • Click here to check the time for your Webex groups for this week.
  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm – Your teacher’s Webex room will be open if you want to pop in to ask a question or have a chat!

Scroll down below for todays lessons, including a link to Nancy’s Italian blog! Again, once you’ve finished your lessons you may want to check out:

Finally, don’t forget to get out and move around, even if it is just bouncing a ball on your head.

 

RFL Term 2 2021, Team News

Terrific Tuesday!

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Hi 3/4s, nice to see such positive feedback for Monday’s lessons. Many of you were particularly excited by the writing task. Such interesting prompts, we look forward to reading what you came up with.

Today there is no whole class meeting, but our teacher’s Webex room will be open if you want to pop in to ask a question or have a chat!

For the next three days, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:

  • All students are to join their small group Webex meeting. If you can’t join the group at that time, please let your teacher know!
  • Click here to check the time for your Webex groups for this week.
  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm – Your teacher’s Webex room will be open if you want to pop in to ask a question or have a chat!

Scroll down below for todays lessons! Again, once you’ve finished your lessons you may want to check out:

Say hello to your families for us and we look forward to seeing you in the small groups.

Reading, RFL Term 2 2021

Reading – Monday 31/05/21

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Goal: I can track my thoughts as I read.

Read a short story from your collection of books at home. If you don’t have a short story spend twenty minutes reading your chapter book.

First, while reading track your thoughts as you go. You can do this with sticky notes stuck to the page you are reading, or write your thoughts straight into an exercise book.

You might include your thoughts about one or more of the following:

  • A prediction
  • A question you are wondering about
  • A connection you can make
  • An inference about the character or story

Next, draw a visualisation of a scene in the story and try to include all the details that you can picture in your mind.

Finally, write a short summary of what the story was about!

RFL Term 2 2021, Writing

Writing – Monday 31/05/21

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Goal: I can plan and draft a short story.

In class we have been looking at the writing process. We’ve created seeds, then planned, drafted and edited a short story.

Today plan and draft a short story.

First, plan your story. Don’t forget to include a list of characters and settings. Also jot down some notes on the beginning, build-up, problem, resolution/conclusion.

Next, write your draft. Remember to make your writing interesting and think about your word choice. You may also want to think about other strategies you may know such as a sizzling start or show not tell.

You may want to use your own idea for your story or one of the following word prompts or pictures:

  • Look what I found in my Grandparent’s secret cupboard.
  • It was the strangest experience I ever had.
  • The secret world at the bottom of the garden.
Maths, RFL Term 2 2021

Maths – Monday 31/05/21

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Goal: I can practise skip counting.

First, choose a skip counting pattern you are going to practise.

Next, set a timer for 1 minute.

Then, write it in your exercise book, or you could colour in the sequence on the chart. You can visit www.mathplayground.com/interactive_hundreds_chart.html if you would like to use an online hundreds chart.

As a challenge you may want repeat the exercise trying to beat your previous attempt for how far you can count in 1 minute. 

Remember to focus on the final digit pattern to make your counting more efficient!

Mindfulness, RFL Term 2 2021

Mindfulness – Monday 31/05/21

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Goal: I can practice mindfulness.

Very simply, mindfulness is a way of thinking. It’s training your brain to pay attention and focus. It’s learning to direct your attention to what is happening in your present experience, including your mind, body, and environment.

First, some thinking for you – What activities do I enjoy and love to do? 

Next, take some time to colour, read or simply spend time in your favourite space in your home. As you do so think about all of the things you are enjoying in that moment. It may be picking the colours as you colour in, the movement of the pencil across the page. It could be curling up with a new book, or picking an old favourite. A book where the characters or events in the story are new and exciting, or as familiar as your own family. Or it could simply be sitting in your favourite comfy chair, wrapped in your cosiest blanket, as the sun streams through your window.

Either way relax into the moment and just pay attention to what is happening in your present experience. The thoughts in your mind, the sensations in your body, and the sounds and movements in your environment. All the while just let your breath simply flow in, and then out, in, then out.

Finally, if you are looking for some follow up mindfulness activities, check out the following pages on the MPPS mindfulness blog:

RFL Term 2 2021, Team News
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Hi 3/4s, we will have learning tasks for you here on Monday.

Monday:

  • 9:00am – 10:00am – All students are to join their class Webex meeting.
  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm – Your teacher’s Webex room will be open if you want to pop in to ask a question or have a chat!

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:

  • All students are to join their small group Webex meeting. If you can’t join the group at that time, please let your teacher know!
  • Click here to check the time for your Webex groups for this week.

Meanwhile, have a relaxing weekend and don’t forget to take a moment to dance.