Prep Home Learning Term 3 Week 9  - Beginning Monday 7th September - 

Welcome to our fifth week of online learning at home for Term 3. 

Class Access Codes for Epic Reading Program! Prep M: azs5199 Prep T: vhn8468 Prep B: brg1016

Login Details for Storybox Library: Username - Ranfurly Password - ranfurly

Google Classrooms - Don’t forget to login to Google Classrooms and to use Google Meet

You don't need to complete all activities. 2-3 hours is recommended per day and can be completed at any time of the day on 

any of the days. If you have any issues with this or need help with anything else, please contact your child’s teacher: 

If you have any questions, please contact your child’s classroom teacher: 

frances.bell@education.vic.gov.au (Miss Bell Prep B) 

clare.taylor@education.vic.gov.au (Miss Taylor Prep T) 

tania.mcdonald@education.vic.gov.au (Mrs McDonald Prep M) (Mon-Thur) 

kim.anstey@education.vic.gov.au (Mrs Anstey Prep M) (Friday)   

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Reading  Writing  Numeracy  PE 

Assembly 8:50am 

Learning Intention – To learn about the letter Yy in the alphabet. Success Criteria – I can say the name and sound for the letter Yy. I can find some things that start with the ‘Yy’ sound. Mini Lessons 1. Phonemic Awareness lesson 11 with Miss Taylor https://youtu.be/XNggVxyEAyU 2. Practise the Alphabet Chart https://youtu.be/N3CUcmQuDXQ

Shared Reading: Watch the Letter Y Introduction with Mrs Mc https://youtu.be/QOSjpxiXE-U

Independent Reading: 4. Read the book: My Y Book *Use Eagle Eye to look at the pictures, then look for high frequency words you know. *Talk about these High Frequency words “Here, is, a, yes, said, look, at, the” *Circle these words in the book. *Read the book 3 times. Use Tracking Tiger. *Colour the pictures. Independent Activity * Letter Y Detectives: Look around your house, find some things that start with the sound y. (You could write a list or take a photo of the things you find - share on Class Dojo.)

Learning Intention – To write a recount about the weekend. Success Criteria – I can use an uppercase letter at the beginning of my sentence, spaces between words and a full stop at the end. Watch this video to help remind you how we write a recount: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8PQ3kMLR4Y

Writing a recount Happy Father's Day! Draw a WOW picture and write a sentence or two about what you did for Father’s Day. What did you buy or make your Dad, Grandparent or carer? Did you have a special meal?

*Share your sentence with an adult. *Draw a picture. *Practice listening for the first sound in each word and any other sounds you can hear in the rest of the words. *Don't forget full stops and spaces.

Warm up - 10 minutes 

Counting to 100 Exercise! Have fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc 

Activity - Birds on the Wire and Bird Battle Learning Intention - To develop our automatic recall of number facts to 10. Success Criteria - I can say some of the friends of ten. Practice your Friends of Ten. https://youtu.be/ch7KzI3n2Zk Birds on the Wire Use a coat hanger and 10 pegs (like in the photo) to figure out all the ways to make 10. Move the pegs to make different combinations. We call these the parts of ten or friends of ten or number bonds. Eg. 4 and 6 make 10. Record all the combinations you found on the number bonds worksheet below or in your workbook: or 6 + 4 = 10 Now you can use your knowledge of the friends of ten to play Battle of the Birds. 1. Use the Birds on the Wire and start with 5 birds each. 2. Use a block for a dice and put 1, 2 or 3 dots on the faces. You will need 2 faces with 1 dot, 2 faces with 2 dots and 2 faces with 3 dots. 3. Take turns rolling the dice and move that many birds to your end of the wire. 4. Tell your partner the friends of ten you now have on the wire. eg If you rolled a 2, you would take 2 birds from your partner and you would say, “I have 7, you have 3. 7 and 3 are the friends of 10. 5. Take turns rolling the dice, moving your birds and sharing the friends of ten you have made. 6. The winner of the game is the player who ends up with all the birds.

LET THE BATTLE BEGIN :-)  

Until these facts become automatic, encourage your child to use the count on strategy rather than the count all strategy to work out how many birds. They know they have 5 blue birds on their side of the wire, so they do not need to count these, rather they should trust the count and just say 5, then count on the pink birds. In the example above where there are 5 blue birds and 2 pink birds, they would start by saying 5 then count on. eg. 5. 6, 7. The work we have done previously on subitising will also come into play during this game. If your child begins to count all of the birds, remind them to subitise and count on.

Week 9 Home Olympics - “Paper Plane Javelin” Event This week we will be doing our fifth event for our Home Olympics. The event is “Paper Plane Javelin”. Watch the video below: https://youtu.be/gIdXCJOCgCk Or read the instructions below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gbg8rSoI4YxPyfLpMsRC1Oz8x4FNRWMC-t7pPzRV5vU/edit?usp=sharing Or read the information in your Class Dojo. Upload a video/photo to the PE task on your Class Dojo so Miss Shore can comment on your work. Please remember that videos cannot be longer than 30 seconds.

 

 

 

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Reading  Writing  Numeracy  Y.C.D.I 

Learning Intention – To use our knowledge of a book, to make a prediction before reading and during reading. Success Criteria – I can make a prediction about what will happen in the story. I can change my prediction after getting more information from a Picture Walk. 

Mini Lesson 1. Practise the Alphabet chart https://youtu.be/N3CUcmQuDXQ

2. Australian Phonics: A-Z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzrpSUsBe04

Shared Reading: (Click on the picture of Mr McGee before the picture walk) Getting our Knowledge Ready: Big Book Day 1 Video:https://youtu.be/xUvjGvqrjTQ

Independent Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTK1B2ndnM * Read: Focus on Stretchy Snake and Chunky Monkey Reading Strategy for 10-15 mins from Epic Reading Online or your own book from home. https://www.getepic.com/sign-in (Access Code on front page)

Independent Activity 1. Practise your Magic 100 Word lists. (Whichever colour you are up to! If you need the next colour of words - email your teacher and we will email you a copy) or 2. Starfall Sight Words Memory: https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-lv-i/match-sw/?t=303700323

Learning Intention – To use our knowledge of a book, to write a prediction before reading. Success Criteria – I can make a prediction about what will happen in the story.

Brain Break Just Dance Ghostbusters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izMJDiHQBH0&list=PLJX_NbXD9IBc_BQp-6WglFiCdhKxAwvzT

Writing - Click on the picture of “Mr McGee”

Write a Prediction about the text BEFORE you read the story. Think about the picture; What characters and objects do you see on the front cover? What are they doing, thinking or feeling? Where is the main character going? Why do you think the story is called Mr McGee? What do you think is going to happen in the story?

● Use Eagle Eye to find clues in the picture.

● Write your prediction on what you think the book is about.

● Draw a picture to match your writing. ● Upload a photo of your writing to your

ClassDojo portfolio.

Warm up - 10 minutes https://youtu.be/3tx0rvuXIRg - 7 Days in a Week Song.  

Activity - Days of the Week Learning Intention – To say the days of the week in order.  

Success Criteria – I can say the days of the week in the correct order. I can say the day that comes before or after another day.  

Watch the lesson then play the games. Days of the week - Telling Time Game | Turtle Diary Activity Telling the time - o’clock Learning Intention – To tell o’clock times on an analog clock. Success Criteria – I can tell o’clock times on an analog clock. Watch this video https://youtu.be/EIxaxnageTo Play this variation of ‘What’s the Time Mr Wolf?’ Each time the Wolf says what the time is, make that time on the clock. Interactive Clock for Kids | Online Analog Clock eg. Child - “What’s the time Mr. Wolf?” Wolf (Adult) - “Four o’clock.” Child shows 4 o’clock on the virtual clock.

Focus: Connie Confidence Learning Intention – To understand that when we use confident self talk it helps us to feel and behave confidently. Success Criteria – I can think out loud 2 different examples of self-talk that can help me look and sound confident. Watch Sesame Street VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBGcQ_gKvBc Discuss with your child what the plant in the video said to himself to become more confident to share his ideas. (Eg. I can do it). Remind your child that being confident helps you to be happy and successful. Show your child the poster in Tuesday’s Resources & discuss what “Connie’s Confident Self-Talk” means. Say each phrase 3 times while you march around the house:

- This is hard but I can do it. - I am not afraid to make mistakes,

that’s how I learn. - I am likeable.

Student Activity: Self Portrait Using your confident self-talk, have a go at drawing a picture of yourself - a “self portrait”. Even if drawing is a bit hard, or you make a few mistakes, I know you can do it! There is a self portrait frame on page 6 that you might like to use, otherwise any piece of paper will do! When you are all finished and it is your best go at a WOW picture, send in a photo on Class Dojo!

Be just like Connie Confidence!

Tuesday YCDI Resources

Connie’s Confident Self Talk

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9th 

Sept 

 

 

Reading  Writing 

 

Numeracy Prep T Google Meet 10:30am: 

bring your favourite book 

Art 

 

Learning Intention – To learn new vocabulary (WOW word) from our Big Book. Success Criteria – I can tell a partner what the WOW word means. I can use the WOW word in a sentence.

Mini Lesson 1. Phonemic Awareness lesson 12 with Miss Taylor https://youtu.be/A68DqyxaZyc

2. Practise the Alphabet chart https://youtu.be/N3CUcmQuDXQ

Shared Reading: Getting our Knowledge Ready: Big Book Day 2 Video: https://youtu.be/fIyFHtGM1rg

Independent Reading: * Read: Focus on Stretchy Snake/Chunky Monkey Reading Strategies 10-15 mins from Epic Reading Online or your own book from home. https://www.getepic.com/sign-in (Access Code on front page)

Independent Activity 1. Letter Y Picture Sort page. Colour in the pictures that start with the sound y. Cross out the pictures that start with a different letter sound. (in pack that was sent home)

2.. Washing Line Rhyme Game http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/washing_line_rhyme_US.swf

10:30am - Prep T Google Meet

Learning Intention – To write a recount of our play. Success Criteria – I can use uppercase letters, spaces and a full stop.

Developmental Play Watch Playschool episode 5 - Tell Me a Story; https://iview.abc.net.au/show/play-school/series/0/video/CH1712H010S00

Writing about Play Choose an activity from the playschool episode “Tell me a story” or make your own activity; *Fruit and veg faces (20 mins) *Experiment with objects that float or sink (8:30mins) *Or retell a nursery rhyme or story using your toys and objects from outside or inside (13 mins) Watch Miss Taylor’s Experiment - Objects that float or sink https://youtu.be/VYC5kRG6d3s Before you test your objects, make or write a prediction about what will float or sink and why. Write about your play story including; When you played; “Today” Who played; “my sister and I” What did you do; “tested things that float or sink” Where did you play; “outside in a puddle.”

*Write about what you did/made and with who. Was your prediction correct? Did you enjoy the activity today?*

*Use uppercase letters at the beginning, spaces & a full stop. *Sound out all of the sounds you can hear in each word.

Warm up - 10 minutes 

Let’s Get Fit and Count to 100. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc

Learning Intention – To understand the meaning of capacity and compare the capacity of containers. Success Criteria – I can say what capacity means. I can say which container holds more and which container holds less.

Activity Measurement - Capacity Lesson introduction: https://youtu.be/mHK3D2Y_YU4 Tell an adult what capacity means. (How much a container holds) Now watch this short video clip to see if you were correct. https://youtu.be/EN_z-uUm1Ww Watch this clip from the beginning and stop at 1:08 after the capacity activity. Everyday Maths - Around the House Now copy the activity using containers at your home. Remember to tell an adult what you discovered about the capacity of the containers you are comparing. Send your teacher a video telling them what capacity means.

Visual Arts 

Let’s Draw a Cute 

Little Husky! 

 

This week we are 

going to be 

drawing a Cute 

Little Husky using 

colour pencils! 

Using the Three 

Levels of Drawing 

you get to choose 

how much detail 

you want to add 

in. 

YouTube – Let’s 

Draw a Cute Little 

Husky! 

https://www.youtube.c

om/watch?v=NqVlkRvvF

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Reading  Writing  Numeracy 12:00pm - Prep B Google Meet: Wear 

your favourite beanie :-) 

Integrated Studies 

Learning Intention – To learn how to use the Chunky Monkey Reading Strategy. Success Criteria – I can break the words into chunks that I know to work out the word.

Mini Lesson 1. Practise the Alphabet chart https://youtu.be/N3CUcmQuDXQ

2. Alphabet song clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq0ZxH-EKkQ

Shared Reading: Getting our Knowledge Ready: Big Book Day 3 Video: https://youtu.be/nDiB-MyTHmE Independent Reading: * Read: Focus on Stretchy Snake/ Chunky Monkey Reading Strategies 10-15 mins from Epic Reading Online or your own book from home. https://www.getepic.com/sign-in (Access Code on front page) Independent Activity 1. CVC word practise (Viking CVC words)

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/viking/index.html

Begin at Phase 2 (lgptrnea) and complete the first activity. *Click on the

waves at the front of the boat to hear the next word*

Learning Intention – To learn to write the letter Yy correctly. Success Criteria – I can write the letter Yy using correct handwriting.

Click the picture to learn a song about the letter Yy; - Draw or write 5 x “Yy” words.

Handwriting - watch this video about Cosmic Cat and where to write letters on our dotted thirds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcGPNszKNhM

Watch video on how to write the letter Yy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ7s0OGE1n0

Practice writing the letter Yy; in the sand outside with a stick, in a tray of salt, with playdough, on the table top with your finger or in another creative way. Complete your Letter Y handwriting sheet from your home learning pack. Colour pictures and glue into scrapbook.

Colour, cut and paste your Letter Yy Yak craft inside your scrapbook.

12:00pm - Prep M Google Meet: Wear your favourite hat or beanie Warm up - 10 minutes 

Practise writing numbers. Make sure you start writing each number in the correct place and go in the correct direction. This will help you write numbers correctly. Follow the link and sing the song to help you write the teen numbers correctly. https://youtu.be/1W5aYi3lkho  

Activity -3D solids Learning Intention – To investigate if 3D solids roll, slide and stack. Success Criteria – I can say which 3D solids can roll, slide and stack.

Activity 

https://youtu.be/2cg-Uc556-Q 3D shape song.

1. Find an example of each 3D solid around your house. 2. Test each 3D solid to see if it will roll, slide and stack. 3. Record your discoveries in the worksheet below.

To finish the lesson play Mystery Shape, using the poster from previous weeks. Describe one of the 3D solids using its properties/features. Your child guesses which 3D solid it is. It may help to have examples of the 3D solids there to check its properties. I have 0 vertices and 0 edges. I have a curved surface. I am the shape of a Jaffa. What 3D solid am I?

I have 2 flat faces that are a circle shape. I have 0 vertices. I have 1 curved surface. I have 2 edges. I look like a can of baked beans.

Learning Intention – To learn about the four different seasons Success Criteria – I can draw what I might wear and do on a hot summer day.

Integrated Studies - Seasons Watch this song about seasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tot

B6fCAgGg

Watch this video to learn about

why there are 4 seasons; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6

SSOoEMwAA

Think about;

What season are we in now? ● On the worksheets on the next

page, circle and colour in the

clothes you might wear on a hot

day.

● What season might you wear these

clothes in?

● Draw and colour what you might

wear in summer in the picture at

the bottom of the page.

● Glue the worksheet into your

scrapbook.

● Take a photo of you wearing

clothes you might wear on a hot

day.

● Upload a photo of your work and

photo of you in your hot weather

clothes to Dojo.

*Send a photo of your growing

seeds to ClassDojo

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Reading  Writing 

 

Numeracy  Performing 

Arts 

Learning Intention – To read our story with fluency. Success Criteria – I can read the story without sounding like a robot. I can read the story smoothly. I can use the punctuation to help me read fluently.

Mini Lesson 1. Phonemic Awareness Lesson 13 with Miss Taylor https://youtu.be/lUsKHcwfYOY

2. Practise the Alphabet chart https://youtu.be/N3CUcmQuDXQ

Shared Reading: Getting our Knowledge Ready: Big Book Day 4 Video: https://youtu.be/eRtqNXojGp4

Independent Reading: * Read: Focus on Stretchy Snake/ Chunky Monkey Reading Strategies 10-15 mins from Epic Reading Online or your own book from home. https://www.getepic.com/sign-in (Access Code on front page) Independent Activity 1.Phonics Pop: Pick a set of sounds https://www.ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html

or Clifford the Big Red Dog Sound Match: http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/phonics/index.htm

Read a story with Miss Taylor https://youtu.be/wlnFWXQZsFE

Learning Intention – To write CVC words following the Sounds-Write program. Success Criteria – I can write CVC words sounding out each letter as I write the sound.

Watch ABC ME 10am-10:20am

ABC ME Live Stream

Click on the picture to follow the Sounds-Write lesson;

Watch this video on finding High Frequency words which help you with reading texts; https://abcspla.sh/m/3564884  

CVC words - practice writing short “a” vowel 3 letter words https://www.starfall.com/h/word-machines/word_machine_a/

Can you come up with any “_a_” CVC words of your own?

Warm up - 10 minutes 

Skip counting by tens. Choose a link to sing along with the song to practise counting by tens. https://youtu.be/uYRTtwZGwj8 https://youtu.be/yQSdKlNvrmw https://youtu.be/W8CEOlAOGas Learning Intention – To count on to add two numbers. Success Criteria – I can count on from the biggest number to find how many there are altogether.

Activity: In and Out 1. Spill a handful of pom poms or other small objects (no more than 20 but less depending on your child’s ability) from a cup onto the In and Out mat. 2. On the recording sheet, write how many pom poms landed in the diamond and how many landed out of the diamond. 3. Count on from the largest number to find the total. Eg. There are 5 in and 4 out. Start with 5 and count on the pom poms out of the diamond. 5. 6, 7 8, 9. 4. Write your answer.

Challenge for Miss Bell’s Maths Group: Using a hundreds chart, add 10 to the 1-digit numbers (0 - 9). Interactive Hundreds Chart Now play In and Out by adding a 10 to the largest number. Then count on to find the total. For example - the largest number is 5. Add 10 which makes 15. Say this number, then count on the pom poms outside the diamond. 15. 16, 17, 18, 19. Record your addition equation 15 + 4 = 19

**What do you notice about the number sentences in your first game and the ones in the second game?**

 Music: 

Singing with a 

Microphone  

 

Learning Intention 

– To sing songs while I hold a microphone.  

Success Criteria – I can use things from home as a microphone and sing some of my favourite songs.  

Everything you need is in your Class Dojo and right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0D8OcCn_tU and here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KYLdlDXYLvDA5VcRU2tE5Rl2cDpzJ9kz/view?usp=sharing 

 

Break a Leg!  

Some ABC EDUCATION Programs that might be of interest

Monday 7th September

● 9:30 English Wallykazam! Castle Cafe - Wally opens a restaurant in the castle and Libby Light Sprite is the waitress.

● 9:55 Science Bushwhacked! Bugs Jack Jumper Ant - Kamil meets 12-year Dimitrios as they seek out one of the most lethal ants in the world!

● 9:55 English Learn A Word Went - Learn to spell and write the word WENT. This series demonstrates some fun ways to learn common words in

English. 'Learn a Word' is informed by the Australian National Curriculum.

● 10:00 Maths Numberblocks Ten's Place - Welcome to Ten's Place, where trainer Ten puts her friends through their paces with a high energy

number workout.

● 10:05 Science I'm A Fish I'm A Gold Fish - We meet Goldfish in his tank, where he shows us where he came from and he explains their three month

memory and unique ability to see in colour. Goldfish explains they are social animals who love much bigger spaces.

● 10:05 Science Minibeast Heroes Meet The Pollinator: European Honey Bee - Minibeast heroes each have an amazing superpower. Take to the skies

for fun facts about this incredible bug that supplies a third of the world's food!

Tuesday 8th September

● 9:30 English Grandpa Honeyant Storytime Mr. Billy's Goat - Mr Billy's goat was hungry and when Mr Billy goes to town to buy new trousers, he fed

all the animals except the goat with disastrous consequences.

● 9:37 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History and Culture - Little J And Big Cuz Picnic Day - Tin rollers are the latest school craze, and the school

picnic race will be Little J's chance to prove his roller is the fastest.

● 9:57 Science I'm A Fish I'm A Crab - In this episode Crab sideways walks in to tell us that there are nearly four thousand species of crab like him

coming from far and wide and living in both the water and on land.

Wednesday 9th September

● 9:55 Maths Numberblocks I Can Count To Twenty - The Numberblobs challenge Twenty to a singing count-off.

Thursday 10th September

● 9:30 English Grandpa Honeyant Storytime Our Big Island - Cody, Napuru, Nangala and Sheila a little blue heeler, are Old Uncle Max's brave

shipmates as they all set sail around the island's shore.

● 9:35 English Learn A Word Not - CLearn to spell and write the word NOT. This series demonstrates some fun ways to learn common words in

English. 'Learn a Word' is informed by the Australian National Curriculum.

● 9:35 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History and Culture Little J And Big Cuz Goodbye Swooper - Little J, Big Cuz and Levi find old magpie

Swooper lying on the ground. Little J's hopeful they can make him better, but sadly he dies. Nanna encourages the kids to give him a good send off.

● 9:57 Science I'm A Fish I'm A Catfish - At the bottom of the river we meet the Catfish who, with his bony, flat head, is a very successful bottom

feeder.

● 10:15 Health The Mindfulness Tool Kit Mood - Let's talk about Mood! Did you know that recalling a happy memory can make you feel better

straight away? Watch this episode to find out how the chemicals in our brains work to make this happen.

Friday 11th September

● 9:55 Maths Numberblocks Heist - Can Sixteen to Twenty sneak past the robot guards at the Museum of Numbers?

● 10:00 English Play School Story Time Stephen Curry: Alpacas With Maracas - Stephen Curry shakes things up at the Story Time couch with a story

about a fun alpaca duo and some maracas! Join him and Play School's Little Ted to read Alpacas With Maracas, by Matt Cosgrove.