Continuity of Learning

School 2 You

Term 3, Week 5

Year 6 & 5/6

Name: __________________ Class: ________

Dear parent,

The Continuity of Learning booklet provides your child with a range of learning

activities that can be completed at your own pace. They can be spread out

over the day and completed in a way that best suits you and your child. There

is also a wellbeing challenge and some other great ideas to support learning

through an activity matrix.

We encourage students, where possible, to continue learning online. This

learning will be the same content as the paper-based learning. Students can

access these learning resources through the Bentley Park College Website,

student email, and online programs.

How to Access Online Learning:

1. Go to webmail.eq.edu.au 2. Log in to your child’s email with the username and password 3. Read the instructions on the email from your child’s teacher

Online programs and other resources include:

• Math Seeds / Mathletics

• Reading Eggs

• Soundwaves

• Education Queensland learning@home

If you require any assistance or would like to contact your child’s teacher,

please call 4040 8104.

Kind Regards,

Primary Leadership Team

Well-being for BPC

‘Tricky times’ mean we need to be resilient.

We can be resilient this week by focusing on:

1. Our RULE = BE SAFE ✓

2. Our GEM = BE AWARE (Emotional Literacy) ✓

3. Our CHALLENGE = What can you do to help someone in your home be

safe? ✓

How do your feelings keep you safe? ✓

How can you help others with their feelings? ✓

Matrix Madness Choose an activity and colour in the star once completed.

Design – a Cross Country course in your yard or home

for ants. Make a map.

Is it safe? How long would it take

them? Try it out

(Target = 30mins)

Language – speak:

Teach someone in your family how to speak Chinese.

e.g. ‘Ni chi le ma?’ → ‘Chi le’. → ‘Meiyou’.

(target = 10mins)

Art and design Look around your yard or house for a piece of nature e.g an interesting leaf, a piece of patterned bark, a shell or rock. Using your design knowledge, make a pencil drawing showing shape, line and shade.

Write a list of the reasons you are grateful to live in Australia.

Culture – do :

Show someone in your family how to count to 10 using one hand only (like the Chinese).

Do you remember how?

(target = 10mins)

Endure – how many steps can you take around your home within 15 minutes?

Count. Endure.

Can you do 30 mins?

(Target = 15mins)

Read for 20 mins (or more)

each day.

You could read aloud to a

younger brother or sister.

English – Tuesday Read ‘Letter from Matilda to Tommy’. Identify the following:

• Language that evokes a sense of time and place

• Objective and subjective language

• Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

Dear Tommy,

I hope you are well. I am really, really sorry I cannot visit you. I hope you got my

last letters too. I will find some other way to send this letter in case you did not.

Mr Drinkwater took the letters to post but I do not trust him. He lives next door,

except next door is about five miles down the road.

My father had a little money in his swag but I will have to make some more

soon. I think I can make the money mending; there area lot more men than

women here and their clothes look like they need mending. I do not like sewing

much but it is better than the jam factory.

It is very beautiful near my house, I wish you could see it. It is not like a painting

of the bush, there is no green except the trees. The cliffs are brown and the dust

is white. There were kangaroos up at the spring this morning but Auntie Love’s

dog chased them. Auntie Love is a native, she stayed here last night because she

had a stroke, I think, but she is getting better. It is nice to have a dog around,

they made Mum sneeze.

It hurts to think of Mum and Aunt Ann and Dad, but I am trying to do what they

would want me to do, and it doesn’t hurt as much.

I will write again before I post this, so I only have to pay a penny for both letters.

Your loving friend,

Matilda

1. Is the language used formal or informal?

2. Do you feel Tommy and Matilda know each other well?

3. What words tell you this?

Maths – Tuesday

Remember ordered pairs

– x axis before the y axis

(across before you go up

or down)

English – Wednesday You are to write a reply letter from Tommy to Matilda. Imagine you live in a big city today, and you have recently moved there from a farm in the country. Write the first paragraph of a letter to your friend who still lives on a farm close to where you used to live. Your paragraph should convey one of the following:

• the excitement of your new life

• how much you miss life on the farm

• how confusing life is in a city

• how interesting life is in a city

Indicate (tick or highlight) what parts of the below marking guide you have used in your letter

Maths – Wednesday

Flip Slide ¼ turn

clockwise

½ turn

clockwise

English – Thursday You are to write a letter to a student from another country. Your letter will be read by the student and needs to convey a sense of what it is like to live in Queensland and your town. Include the historical context of when you write your letter.

Choose three topics that allow you to provide meaningful information and that convey a sense of the historical context in which the letter is written.

• school experiences

• interests and hobbies

• food you eat

• transport

• sports and/or music activities

• TV shows and movies

• family

• technology

Each paragraph should include facts, feelings and thoughts.

• facts (a place, an experience, a thing or an event)

• feelings (about each fact that you have chosen to describe and share with your reader)

• thoughts (about each fact that you have chosen to describe and share with your reader).

Remember, you need to evoke a sense of time and place.

Refer to the marking from Wednesday’s lesson.

Introduction

Give a greeting or salutation to the audience.

Introduce yourself and the reason for your letter.

Establish a sense of time and place.

Body of letter

One key idea for each paragraph.

Focus on providing a sense of time and place.

Conclusion or ending of letter

Conclude letter.

Finish with a statement that sums up what you hope your letter achieved. For example, you could mention how the letter connects two students from two different countries.

Maths – Thursday

English – Friday Edit the following the letter. Use the marking guide to help you achieve a C or above.

Dear Amolika My friend Maddison and I were the students that found you time capsule containing your letter in it. On 25th of July 2059, we have read you letter and showed some friends. The letter is disgusting because the Orange juice that went off of July 2015 leaked all over the letter it smells the a dead rat and is covered in Mouldy Orange juice stains its utterly (really) disgusting. Of Couse we don’t use paper anymore its really hard to find in places we use laptops/computers I've only just found a piece if paper to write this on. In 2059 Tik Tok's name has changed its name to musically and all old people got kicked off the app its only kid friendly now. Facebook has kicked all kids of so only oldies can use it cause it was for oldies anyway, you can now call and text people on Tik Tok and its tells you if there online or offline. Its not very popular now Snap chat is very popular its and app where you can send photos to people call or text them, you also you have a little character you can make it look like yourself. Brisbane has not changed one bit only the houses there all two story and there are lots of hotels for the tourist's that come they only come for the zoo, wet and wild, movie world, sea world and dream world. There is a coffee shop called Starbucks it sells the best coffee and the best food its so good. Its only a 10 minute walk from my house and back. There are FLYING CARS amazing and you just say your location and it takes you there its amazing.in my opinion I would LOVE to be living in your time.

Maths – Friday

1. There were 4 apples on the tree. John eats ½ of them. How many does he eat?

2. There are 12 people on the bus. A ¼ are children. How many children are there?

3. Jason sleeps for 3/8 of every 24hours. How many hours is he asleep for?

4. Jennifer eats 3/4 of the 48 biscuits in the tin. How many does she eat?

5. There were fifteen biscuits in a tin. Kelly opened the tin and found 2/3 had been eaten. How many had been eaten?

6. Each box of chocolates contained 9 sweets. Kelly, Jason and Gary were each given a third of the chocolates. How many chocolates did they each get?

7. Steve got $60 pocket money. He spent 3/5 of his pocket money on comics. How much was the comic?

8. A piece of ribbon was 2m long, Jodie needed to cut 3/4 of the ribbon, many cms was her piece of ribbon?

9. Kelly baked a cake, she had a bag of flour weighing 450g. She used a 4/10 of the flour. How much flour did she use?

10. Tracey spent 6/10 of her pocket money ($5.55) on apples. How much did she

spend?

English – Monday Use the planner below to plan your assessment, ready to do when you return to school. Bring this page with you when you return to help you plan.

Topics Facts Feelings Thoughts

(Areas of information that you will expand on in your letter)

(Places, people, events, objects/things that you have chosen to write about)

(Your feelings about each fact)

(Your thoughts/opinions about each fact)

Use objective language. Use evaluative language.

Use subjective language.

Use evaluative language.

Use subjective language.

For example:

technology

‘I recently got a social media account.’

‘I am so excited about being able to post photos and messages whenever I want.’

‘I think you must be able to communicate much faster in the future!’

Maths – Monday

Science

Look at these scenarios. Use the Beaufort Wind Scale table to predict the wind scale. Explain why you chose that wind scale.

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HASS Comparing characteristics of Australia and Singapore

Country comparison table — Australia and Singapore

Australia Singapore

Demographic characteristics

Population 24 168 303 5 696 506

Population density (number

of people per km²) approximately 3 people per km² approximately 7736 people per km²

Average life expectancy 83 years 82 years

Cultural characteristics

Main languages spoken

(Top 3)

English (77%), Mandarin (2%),

Italian (1%)

Mandarin (36%), English (30%),

Malay (12%)

Main religions (Top 3) Protestant (30%), Catholic (25%),

other Christian (3%)

Buddhism (34%), Islam (14%),

Taoism (11%)

Ethnicities of people (Top 3) English (26%), Australian (25%),

Irish (8%)

Chinese (74%), Malay (13%),

Indian (9%)

Environmental characteristics

Land area 7.7 million km² 687 km²

Climate generally arid to semi-arid;

temperate in south and east;

tropical in the north

tropical; hot, humid, rainy;

monsoons

Terrain mostly low plateau with deserts;

fertile plain in southeast

low-lying central plateau

Natural hazards cyclones; severe droughts;

forest fires

non-specific

Environmental issues the Great Barrier Reef off the

northeast coast is threatened by

increased shipping and tourism

industrial pollution, limited natural

freshwater resources, smoke haze

from Indonesian forest fires

Data sourced from: WolframAlpha, https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Australia+vs+Singapore Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html

1. Identify and describe a cultural characteristic of Australia and Singapore that is similar.

2. Identify and describe a cultural characteristic of Australia and Singapore that is different.

3. Identify and describe an environmental characteristic of Australia and Singapore that is different.

4. Explain how an environmental characteristic influences a demographic characteristic in Australia and

Singapore.

5. Draw a final conclusion about how the characteristics of Australia and Singapore are diverse. Use

evidence from the table.