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Continuation of Learning Resource
Thursday April 9th 2020 Dear Families, We thank the St Aloysius School community for the manner in which staff, students and families have worked together during these very challenging times. As you would be aware, our school has at all times carefully monitored and followed the advice of the experts including; Adj Clin Prof Brett Sutton the Victorian Chief Health Officer and advice from the Department of Education and Catholic Education Commission of Victoria. As families will be acutely aware, the situation involving the spread of COVID-19 changes rapidly each day. In order to prepare for a period of ‘Learning from Home’, staff have produced a resource that can be easily accessed by our families. This resource contains activities and learning links for students at all levels of learning. Staff have also shared a unique email address (below) which can be utilised by parents to clarify any questions relating to the resource. The suggested home learning timetable is included. We understand that each family will need to adapt this timetable to suit their individual home situations. On average, we expect children to complete a minimum of 2hrs 30min of home learning from Foundation to Year 2 and 3hrs 45min for Years 3-6. Staff have designed the Continuation of Learning resource with the following parameters in mind;
● Curriculum and Level Based activities are included for each year level. ● Independent- Students and families should be able to complete tasks independently with some school staff support. ● Accessible- With hard copy or digital formats available, we aim to increase accessibility for all.
Students will also be provided with some basic resources for use at home. These may include an exercise book, pencils, copies of school prayer etc. If families do not have access to these resources or suitable ICT (computers or IPads) we ask that you contact the school office (ph. 53358177) to discuss ways in which we can support you. Those students who attend school during this period (according to the agreed guidelines) will complete the home learning activities under staff supervision. Again, we provide this resource to support a Continuation of Learning during times of school closure or self-isolation. We hope it helps to guide learning and is of assistance to families.
Communication with School regarding ‘Continuation of Learning’ During self-isolation, teachers should be contacted through the special email links below.
Leadership Michael Kennedy Narelle Cox Bernadette Lynch
Foundation Watts Georgia Watts [email protected]
Foundation Hare Kaitlin Hare [email protected]
1/2 Munro Natasha Munro [email protected]
1/2 Peterken Katherine Peterken [email protected]
1/2 Gaylor Leah Gaylor [email protected]
3/4 Bruty Hannah Bruty [email protected]
3/4 Baxter Bev Baxter [email protected]
3/4 King Shay King Tamara Wilson
5/6 Enright Anne Enright [email protected]
5/6 McCrow Mitch McCrow [email protected]
5/6 Townsend Jo Towsend Bec Atkinson Tamara Wilson
Regards Michael Kennedy and Staff of St Aloysius Redan
St.Aloysius Home Learning – P-2 Daily Schedule
9.00am Good Morning!
1. Set up your desk space. Make sure you have your device, headphones, books,
pencils and water bottle ready.
2. Send a ‘Hello’ message to your classroom teacher via the home learning email
address (above) to let them know you are on line.
9.10 -
9.40am
Literacy Learning - Reading Read for 10 minutes.
Complete the reading activity on your daily plan.
9.40am Fruit Break
10.00 -
10.30am
Literacy Learning - Writing Complete the writing activity from your daily plan.
10.30-11.00 Inside Play activity Puzzles, Using blocks or lego to create something, Tell a story using puppets or toys
11.00 -
11.40am
Lunch Break Go outside and have a play if it’s not wet – play a ball game, make up a dance routine,
draw with chalk, have fun!
11.40 -
12.30pm
Mathematics Learning 10 minutes of number games (add dice, cards, snap etc)
Complete the mathematics activity from your daily plan.
12.40 -
1.40pm
Religious Education
Inquiry Learning
Physical Education
Complete a learning task from your daily plan.
1.40 -
2.20pm
Afternoon Break Go outside and play if it’s not wet – make a cubby, write a song, design an obstacle
course…this is your time to be creative.
2.20 -
3.20pm
Quiet Play Choose an activity that shows your skills in building, drawing, collecting or writing...this is
an activity that you can do on your own.
St. Aloysius Weekly Home Learning Plan Foundation
Term 2
Week 1
MONDAY 13/4/20
TUESDAY 14/4/20
WEDNESDAY 15/4/20
THURSDAY 16/4/20
FRIDAY 17/4/20
9:10 - 9:40am
EASTER
MONDAY
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Literacy Learning - Reading
Read a book with an adult for 10
minutes.
Have a go at reading your golden or
red words.
Become a detective and look for these
common words in the book you have
read with your adult.
Make a list of words you have found.
- What word is in the book the most?
What words are not in the book?
- Can you find these words in other
books?
Literacy Learning - Reading
Read a book with an adult for 10
minutes.
Have a go at reading your golden or
red words.
Go on a scavenger hunt. Cut out one
list of your golden or red words. Have
an adult hide each of these words in a
different spot. See if you are able to
find all of the common words without
any clues. As you find each word you
can have a go at reading the word.
Once you have found all of your
words, can you put them in
alphabetical order?
can you choose the ones that have
the same letters in your name?
Literacy Learning - Reading
Read a book with an adult for 10
minutes.
After reading the story with an adult
choose your favourite sentence. Have
a go at copying this sentence on a
piece of paper.
Cut this sentence up between each
word and see if you are able to put it
back together.Look at the first sound
and letter in each word to help you.
Can you read this sentence using
your tracking finger and only
reading the word as you point to it?
Can you jumble it up again and
teach another family member how
to put it back together?
9:40am
FRUIT BREAK
10:00 -10:30am
Literacy Learning - Writing
Draw a picture of how you celebrated
Easter. Was it with your family? Did
you go on an Easter egg hunt?
Once you have drawn your picture
have a go at labelling the different
parts of your drawing. Listen to the
first sound in the word and write down
the letter that matches those sounds.
- How many different objects can you
label in your drawing?
- Can you hear all of the sounds in
the word? Use your stretchy arm to
help you.
Literacy Learning - Writing
Draw a picture of something you
enjoyed doing on your holidays. Have
an adult write a sentence about what
you did and what is in your picture.
Copy that sentence making sure you
leave spaces between your words.
Use your tracking finger to read each
word.
- Can you read what you have written
to all the members of your family?
Can you read it to some of your
toys?
- Can you have a go at writing your
own sentence? Listen to the sounds
you can hear in each word and
have a go at writing those letters.
You might like to have a go at using
your stretchy arm.
Literacy Learning - Writing
Draw all the members of your family
and what they like to do. Choose a
family member and write a sentence
about them. For example ‘My Mum
likes to work in the garden.’
An adult might like to help you write
the sentence or you can have a go at
listening to the sounds and what
letters might match those sounds.
Can you start from the left side of
the page when you write?
Can you use lowercase letters?
(abcdefg….)
10:30 - 11:00am
Play
Here are some ideas:
- Puzzles
- Using blocks or lego to create
something
- Tell a story using puppets or toys
- Perform to your family or toys your
favourite book or movie.
Play
Here are some ideas:
Draw a picture of what you would
like to be when you are older.
Count how many blue (pink, orange
etc.) things you can see in your
house
pretend to be the teacher for your
toys and teach them something
new.
Play
Here are some ideas:
- Write the letter of the alphabet on
card and put them in order
Draw some of your friends from
school Make finger puppets and put on a
play.
Put on some music and enjoy a
sing or dance.
11:00 - 11:40am
LUNCH BREAK
11:40 - 12:30pm
Mathematics Learning
Number of the days I have been
learning maths at home! Just like the
number of the day in the classroom.
- What is the number?
- Write the number as a word. (one)
- What is the number before? After?
- Can you collect that many objects?
- What does it look like on your bead
kebab or on a tens frame?
Practise writing the numbers from
0-10 on single pieces of paper. Make
sure your numbers are written the
correct way. Lay the numbers on the
group in the correct order to make a
number line. Jump from each number
and only count when landing on that
number. Have an adult or older sibling
call out any number for you and jump
on that number. Call out the number
before and the number after.
- Can you start at a number that isn’t
1 or 0 and still count forwards and
backwards?
Have a go at exploring and playing
some of these online maths games:
https://www.splashlearn.com/counting
-games
Mathematics Learning
Number of the days I have been
learning maths at home! Just like the
number of the day in the classroom.
What is the number?
Write the number as a word. (two)
What is the number before? After?
Can you collect that many objects?
What does it look like on your bead
kebab or on a tens frame?
Use the numbers you created
yesterday to make the number line
again. Practise counting forwards and
backwards. You might like to use a toy
to do the jumping this time. Start at
any number and see how far you can
jump.
- Did you miss any numbers? How
many?
- Can you do it backwards?
-
You might like to send your teacher a
photo of your work via email/seesaw.
Have a go at playing some of these
online maths games:
https://www.splashlearn.com/counting
-games
Mathematics Learning
Number of the days I have been
learning maths at home! Just like the
number of the day in the classroom.
What is the number?
Write the number as a word. (three)
What is the number before? After?
Can you collect that many objects?
What does it look like on your bead
kebab or on a tens frame?
Have a go at drawing ten little Indians
and a teepee for them to live in. Cut
them out. Listen to the song ‘Ten Little
Indians’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur
dg94V7NLE
As you hear the words to the song,
make the little Indians come out of the
teepee at that time.
- Can you stop the song and see how
many are left in the teepee?
- How many are out and how many
are in the teepee?
- How many all together?
12:30 - 1:30pm
Religious Education
Setting up a prayer/reflection space
Find a small space in your home that
you can use as a prayer space, you
could use a small table and put some
special things on it. You could start
with a white or gold cloth to represent
the Easter Season. You could then
find a favourite book, a cross, a photo
of your family, some flowers from the
garden.
Ask an adult to write ‘In the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit’ and then you can draw a
picture of a cross. Place this in your
prayer space.
Last Sunday was Easter Sunday,
draw a picture of something you know
about Easter.
Inquiry Learning
The inquiry topic for Term 2 is
investigating our environment. We will
be exploring the question: ‘How is my
environment changing and what can I
do to look after it?’
Go out into our backyard. What can
you see, hear or smell?
Draw a picture of your backyard and
talk about some of the natural objects.
Natural objects are things like trees,
stones, leaves, dirt, grass, animals,
insects.
Are any of the leaves on your trees
changing colour?
Where are some other places you
might find these things?
What is something from nature you do
not have in your backyard?
Physical Education
Can you use your backyard to be
active?
Create your own obstacle course
using things in your backyard.
Your obstacle course must include:
- something to go over
- something to go under
- jumping
- running
- crawling
It could look like something like this:
You may like to video your obstacle
course and upload it to seesaw for
your teacher to see.
Remember to always consider safe
play when outside.
1:30pm - 2:30pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
2:30pm - 3:20pm
Quiet Play
Here are some ideas:
Listen to music and draw.
Write a letter to your teacher.
Follow a cosmic kids yoga session:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Cos
micKidsYoga
Quiet Play
Here are some ideas:
- Practise your handwriting.
Watch a how to draw and follow the
steps:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Artfo
rKidsHub
Quiet Play
Here are some ideas:
Draw a picture of your favourite
animal.
- Go outside and draw the clouds you
can see.
- Read a book with your toys.
Foundation
Continuation of Learning - Optional Tasks
Continuity of Learning M T W Th F
Reading ● 15-20 mins extra reading a day ● Read your Golden and Red words ● Cut out lowercase and uppercase letters from
a magazine/newspaper and match them together
● Search for and cut out your Golden and Red Words from a magazine
● Use your toys to act out your favourite story
Writing ● Draw a picture and tell a story about it ● Practise writing lowercase letters every day ● Have a go at writing your Golden and Red
words in a list ● Practise writing your name every day
Creative time ● Building using blocks or boxes ● Drawing and craft
● Making music ● Make a puppet ● Record a story or an adventure you have had
Mathematics ● Count items around your home ● Look for numbers around your home - match
numerals and quantities. ● Help with the measuring when cooking ● Play a board game ● Find shapes in your house and draw them ● Use the mathematics packs to practise making
counting patterns.
Helping at home ● Help with jobs at home ● Clean your room
Quiet time ● Quiet reading or colouring ● Complete a puzzle ● Listen to quiet music
Practise a new skill ● Practise tying your shoelaces ● Practise hopping and skipping ● Learn a new song
Inquiry Learning Inquiry focus: How is my environment changing and what can I do
to look after it? At home inquiries: Investigate my backyard.
- What can we see? Hear? Smell? Feel? Can you draw your backyard?
Collecting items such as rocks, sticks, leaves.
- Where do these objects come from? - How might these objects be used by humans,
animals or creatures? - Why might these objects be there? - Make a picture with your objects.
Other environments.
- What are some other environments you have been to? Beach, river, bushland, city.
- Draw or create pictures of these places - Ask an adult to help you label these pictures
Our pet rock.
- Children are welcome to make their own pet rock, paint, name etc.
- Children are then able to have the rock accompany them during learning and other activities.
Peaceful Kids Revisit meditations: See web link below Make a Gratitude Journal: Each day draw three great things for which you are thankful. Finger Breathing: Hold up one hand. Use a finger from the other hand to trace. Trace up each finger-breathe in slowly, trace down each finger-breathe out slowly. Swap hands.
Religious Education Setting up a prayer/reflection space Find a small space in your home that you can use as a prayer space, you could use a small table and put some special things on it - a favourite book, a cross, a photo of your family, some flowers from the garden. School Prayer Ask an adult to help you say our school prayer As there will be no community celebrations of Mass or Liturgy, we encourage you to continue active participation in the life of the Church, through activities such as time in personal and family prayer, reflecting on the Scriptures, making a spiritual communion, or participating in a Mass online through www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass Holy Week and Easter Ask an adult to read you the Holy week and Easter stories, then draw your favorite part. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MR31bxG4hU4nq56Fp9Tu-2vQJ0u8RGa_/view?usp=sharing
Library Time It’s Time to Rhyme ABC Education Link Rhyming animal names - sing and dance 2.30 mins (what other rhyming words can you think of?)
Online Learning Resources for Foundation Students
Mathematics
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/quick-maths-jr/id926078360 Quick maths Jr is an app that allows children to explore numbers and their quantities. This will allow students to engage in numbers in a fun and exciting way while they build their monsters.
Sunshine Online
www.sunshineonline.com.au Sunshine Online offers animated and interactive learning in literacy. It can help make reading fun and engaging for all children. Username: aloysius Password: redan
Fuse
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au This amazing website allows children to watch videos, complete tasks and learn about English, Mathematics, Science, History etc. Children access the Primary Student or Early Childhood links. Be ready to share your learning when you return to school. (Create a file, project book etc).
Peaceful Kids
https://www.peacefulkids.com.au/ https://www.peacefulkids.com.au/meditations1.html
This website has amazing meditations which children have been accessing at school. Click on the ‘Meditations’ toolbar and off you go. Ensure your space is peaceful before you begin.
https://lent.caritas.org.au/page/students#blank Project Compassion is an extraordinary, ongoing demonstration of the faith, love and generosity of Caritas Australia's caring supporters, all in the name of justice and peace. This website can help us to learn about the needs of others.
