Weekly Plan 17th-21rd of March

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Session One
8.45am-9.45am

Writing: persuasive conclusion.

Reading Response on a Narrative

OWI

Read Aloud: Harmony Day

P.E.

Fruit Session Two

9.45am-10.45am Independent Reading + Reading Response Writing: Narrative Writing: Narrative Inquiry: Harmony Day Trial Naplan (Lyn to take).

Recess 10.45am 11.15am Session Three

11.15am-12.15pm Maths ART Computers Maths Rotations (Julie to take) Independent Reading LIBRARY 12.45pm 1.15pm Maths Rotations

Session Four
12.15pm-1.15pm

Technology

Maths on Demand (computer lab)

Football Clinic (12.30pm, lunch at 12pm)

Writing: Narrative

Lunch 1.15pm 2.00pm Session Five

2.00pm-2.30pm Art: Harmony Day Inquiry (Harmony Day) Football clinic Mental Maths UNIT ASSEMBLY

Session Six
2.30pm-3.00pm

Art: Harmony Day

Inquiry (Harmony Day)

Football Clinic

AUSLAN

UNIT SPORT

Monday
Notes:
Session Learning Intention Success Criteria Activity Writing: Persuasive. Talk over the persuasive pieces from last week. Review structure. Go through steps: 1. Finally; 2. Summarise argument; 3. End with a bang. Shared writing of conclusion on board. Have students write out the conclusion in their writing books. Understand the structure of a conclusion in a persuasive writing piece. Be able to construct a conclusion for a persuasive writing piece. Bring students back to mat, talk about what we need in a persuasive piece again. Write the topic up on board. We are going to do a plan for this topic. What do we need to think about? Draw some pictures and write some words down on the board from student responses. State that planning will only take ten minutes. If there is time, have students do the planning in their writers notebooks or on a blank sheet of paper. Reflection Fruit Independent Reading + Reading Response. Bring students together on the mat and talk with them about characteristics again. What did we learn about characteristics? What are some of these? Show them the anchor chart about the difference between feelings and traits. During independent reading today, I want you to look for some of the character traits of the characters in your book. Students to use the hand out to write down any characteristics about one character in their Discussion answers, student work. Assessment Notes

Topic: It is cruel to keep animals in cages. Be sure to have a response from every child for this session.

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Good authors use strong words to describe their characters.

Locate strong words that authors use to describe their characters.

Go round and conference with students about their reading goals. Use the template provided and listen to students read. Create goals for each student conferenced with, write on sticky note. Student work.

Make copies of hand out and conferencing sheets. Write up anchor chart. Make up Chrysanthemum chart after school, get paper to bring home.

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Understand the rules of rounding.

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Technologists think about the design of what theyre making carefully before beginning making it.

book. 20 minutes reading time. Share some of the traits found to the class. Bring students back together and read Chrysanthemum. This reading is mainly for enjoyment, but talk a little about Chrysanthemums character traits. Recess Maths. Rounding activity. Discuss with Complete the students about when we did estimation, talk rounding about the rounding down of the amount of worksheet and words in each line. That was called rounding. round numbers Discussion definition. Write up rules on board. Observation, worksheet. to the nearest ten Go through some example. Hand out in a game of worksheet for students. Have students memory. complete worksheet then come together for a quick memory game. Students to work in pairs. Technology. We are going to be making monsters today. First though, we need to design them. Show students what they will have to work with. Talk about what a good design has. Labels, shows what each part will Design and create be made out of etc. Use rulers to draw lines. a monster Students to write who their monster is going Discussion, observation. character. to be, demonstrate on board. State that they will be writing about their monsters tomorrow. Students design their monster in their tech books then use the available materials to make them. Bring students together and share their monsters. Lunch Create a mosaic similar to the ones found in Muslim Mosques. Inquiry Art. Discuss with students about some different religions they might know of. Muslim. Show students some pictures of mosaics in Muslim mosques. Have students create a mosaic on black card using bits of coloured paper. They are to create a pattern. Take notes and pictures for your assignment. Talk with students about their work.

Photocopy worksheet from book and memory cards. Cut up cards.

Find big ruler for the whiteboard.

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Different cultures express themselves in different ways.

Cut up bits of paper and get black card. Students can use their own glue.

After School
What was good about the session/s? Why?

What needs to be improved? Why? How?

Reflection

How did I feel about the session/s? Why?

What did I learn about learning and teaching from these sessions?

Mentor Teacher Notes

Tuesday
Notes: Parent/Teacher interviews.
Session Learning Intention Success Criteria Activity Assessment Notes Find a book with a definitive story line. This lesson may run short, start on the next one and have students make lists of their characters, setting etc.

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Narrative stories have a Retell the story specific in your own structure: a words. beginning, middle and end.

Read aloud and Reading Response. Read a picture story book to the class. Talk about what happened in the beginning, middle and end. What was the problem/solution? Have students retell the story in only three sentences. SLIP. Talk about how they might do this (idea is for them to write the beginning, middle, end). Underneath write about what the problem was and how it was solved. Fruit Writing: narrative. Go through the structure of a narrative with students. Draw up columns on board, come up with a beginning, middle and end of a class monster story together. Describe task to students. Stress that this is a plan, so no erasing or colouring in. Students to use black pen. Have students write up a plan for their stories on the sheet provided. To stick in book. Writing to go on front and picture to go in the middle. Share plans with class afterward. Talk about why students think it is important to plan. Recess Art.

Student work. Observations. Talks with students.

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Good authors plan their stories before writing them.

Plan your story about the monster you made using the template provided.

Discussion. Talks with students. Observations. Notes.

See above. Print out narrative plan sheets.

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SPELLING ON DEMAND.

Five There are many different cultures in the world.

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Lunch Inquiry. Kwl what is culture. Talk about that Harmony Day is coming up. What is it about? Show the videos on Harmony Day website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRE6poh1O9c (http://www.harmony.gov.au/schools/students/youngaustralians-talk/). Discuss culture and what it means. Show students the culture wheel and all the different things that can make up your culture. Students to break up into groups of three and talk with each other about what they saw in the videos and the culture wheel. Share answers with class.

After School

Parent teacher interviews. Ukelele 7.30pm

What was good about the session/s? Why?

What needs to be improved? Why? How?

Reflection

How did I feel about the session/s? Why?

What did I learn about learning and teaching from these sessions?

Mentor Teacher Notes

Wednesday
Notes: Parent/Teacher interviews. Staff briefing 8.20am
Session Learning Intention Success Criteria Activity OWI. Observe, Wonder, Infer. Show students the picture story book Tuesday. Have a discussion about how we know what is happening in the story. Ask students is they liked it or not. Discuss what owi is (only briefly touch on infer, tell students only going to be focusing on o and w). Demonstrate table ruling up on board. As a class, complete the o and w about the book. Students then to do the same in their books using the pictures on their desks, working in pairs. Each pair to come up and share what they observed and wondered. Fruit Writing: Narrative. Talk with students about what we need to do to write up our drafts of our monster stories. Talk about how to use your plan and character information. Talk about how to start off your story, sentence starters. Students to begin writing their monster story in their writing books. Discuss with students about how they think that their story is going, are they using the plan? Recess Computers. Finish off writing about themselves on word. Draft printed out and edited with coloured pens. Mathletics half an hour. Ten minutes live maths for everyone whos finished. Then place value at their level. Assessment Notes

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A picture can tell us a lot about the story.

Complete the O and W about a picture.

Discussion answers. Observations. Student work.

Hand out and go through work expectations. Place pictures from media book on desks.

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Authors write a draft of their story, using their plan to help them.

Use your plan to begin writing a draft of your monster story.

Writing, observations, discussion. Conference with students about how their writing is going individually, as well as with the whole class.

Comic strip for Tristan.

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Complete your writing piece about yourself. Work on Mathletics.

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Football Clinic

Lunch Five Football Clinic

Six

After School
What was good about the session/s? Why?

What needs to be improved? Why? How?

Reflection

How did I feel about the session/s? Why?

What did I learn about learning and teaching from these sessions?

Mentor Teacher Notes

Thursday
Notes:
Session Learning Intention Success Criteria Activity Harmony Day Read Aloud. Talk with students about work expectations. Read Chrysanthemum again, talk with students about the book. Discuss differences and revisit what Harmony Day means. Show students the anchor chart on her characteristics. What makes her different? What makes her special? Students to complete character study and paste into books. Fruit Inquiry. Students to trace around their hands and turn them into fish. Talk with students about differences, and review what culture is. Watch the short videos on the Harmony Day website. Have everyone share their fish. Discuss how they are all different, and unique. Recess Maths Rotations (Julie to take). The characters in a story are vital to our understanding of it. Read your book and discuss the characters in them. Independent Reading then Library (12.45). Talk with students about their characters. Who are they? What do we know about them? Their traits. Are they like characters from other books? Students to do 15- 20 minutes reading. Pack up and prepare for library. Library at 12.45 Lunch You have to be quick at adding up numbers to win the game. Play Twister Maths and help your team to win! Mental Maths. http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/twistermaths.htm Play Twister Maths using numbers written on the twister Observations. mat. Students can work in three or four teams, one person playing and the others helping them find out the answer. If Auslan teacher doesnt show, use this hour as a finishing Assessment Notes

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We are all different and unique.

Describe how Chrysanthemum is different and unique.

Discussion responses, student work,

Photocopy worksheet.

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We are all unique and have something to offer.

Create a unique fish for our Harmony display.

Discussion answers.

Cut sheets of paper in half beforehand.

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Discussion, observations, conferencing.

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Have Ethan roll the dice for the two number added together.

off hour. Bring in Twister mat, write the numbers on in whiteboard texta.

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Auslan.

After School
What was good about the session/s? Why?

What needs to be improved? Why? How?

Reflection
How did I feel about the session/s? Why?

What did I learn about learning and teaching from these sessions?

Mentor Teacher Notes

Friday
Notes: Marietta away.
Session One Fruit Two Trial Naplan, Lyn to take. Recess Three Maths Rotations (either Julie to take, or follow her plan). Writing: Narrative. Talk about what went well in the last lesson. Students to work on finishing Continue writing off their draft of their monster story. When the draft of your they have finished, they are to go through and monster story, edit and change some things. If everyone using your plan to manages to finish a rough draft, bring students help you. together to discuss what was successful about certain stories and what needs to be worked on. Lunch Learning Intention Success Criteria Activity P.E. Assessment Notes

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Authors write a draft of their story, using their plan to help them.

Discussion, observations, student work. Go round checking work while they are writing it.

Quite a lot needs to be worked on with narrativ

Five Unit assembly. Six

After School

Discuss week with Julie.

What was good about the session/s? Why?

What needs to be improved? Why? How?

How did I feel about the session/s? Why?

Reflection

What did I learn about learning and teaching from these sessions?

Mentor Teacher Notes