DPS Remote Learning: Year 1 Week 8  Week beginning Monday 31st August - Friday 4th September.   

Please complete your daily learning tasks every day.  Then complete 1 Reading, Writing and Maths task each day, in sequence, from the activities on the second page.  Please make contact with us every day to show us you have started your learning. Please upload 1 of Reading, Writing OR Maths to your teacher each day through Sentral. **Make sure that by the end of the week, you have uploaded a minimum of 5 Essential Learning Tasks. 

Complete these daily learning tasks every day... 

INDEPENDENT READING for 15 minutes.  

Focus: Inferring  

 

Use a ‘Good Fit’ book from your take home readers, learning 

space and level on Sunshine online or F & P level on Epic.  

❏ Focus on your individual ‘reading goal’ whilst reading 

independently. 

❏ Use the ‘Comprehension Questions’ before, during and 

after you have read your good fit book. 

❏ Use the ‘Inference Sentence Starters’ to make 

inferences throughout your reading. 

- What might happen if …..? 

- How might the character feel about the 

problem in the story? 

 

Extension: Beyond the Text 

- What is the author implying?/What message is the 

author trying to give? 

WORD STUDY for 15 minutes 

 

3 times a week. Rainbow Words/Oxford Words 

❏ Read your Rainbow Words as flashcards for 10 mins 

❏ Practice spelling the words for 5 minutes 

 

Spelling Rainbow/Oxford Words 

❏ Select 8-10 words from your list 

❏ Complete an activity from the Spelling Choice Board  

 

OR  

2 times a week. Treasure Hunt 

Using your good fit book, be a detective and look for words 

that follow the word family patterns on the Word Family 

Chart (see link)   

Extension:  

Using your good fit book, be a detective and look for words 

on the the Long Vowels chart (see link)  

MATHS FLUENCY for 10 minutes 

 

3 times a week. Counting caterpillar  

❏ Continue to practise the skip counting goal you are 

working on in your Counting Caterpillar grid book  

 

❏ Write them on a whiteboard or long strip of paper 

leaving out missing numbers. 

 

❏ DON’T FORGET to get an adult to test you on 

your goal on Friday, using the script provided. 

 

OR  

2 times a week. Log in to Essential Assessments for 10 

minutes 

❏ Complete your assigned tasks in My Numeracy 

Practice your math’s skills in Sunset Maths 

Other learning tasks you may like to complete at home…  

MINDFULNESS- Morning Meditation for Kids Positive 

Energy-Focus, confidence and success 

❏ Find a calm and quiet space in your house 

❏ Choose your favourite blanket or pillow to lie or sit on 

❏ Close your eyes and settle in 

❏ https://safeYouTube.net/w/tNJT 

 

Blurb: Mindfulness helps you gain self-awareness and become 

more confident. The confidence develops naturally when you 

learn from your meditation practice that you don’t have to 

react to all of your thoughts and emotions – you can choose 

which ones merit your attention and response.  

 

 

STEM: Build a Lego Volcano (that really erupts) 

 

You will need: lego bricks, baking soda, red food colouring, 

white vinegar, baking tray or a dish with sides. 

 

1. Collect a large lego base and place it on a baking tray. 

2. Attach long skinny bricks around sides of base. 

3. Continue to build your volcano (in a pyramid shape). 

4. Tip Baking soda into the middle. 

5. Mix together vinegar and food colouring, tip into the 

volcano. 

6. Watch your volcano ERUPT! 

 

 

INQUIRY Big Idea: All Living things have needs that must be 

met in order for them to grow and survive. 

BUGS WITH A PURPOSE. 

At any given time, your garden might contain over 

2,000 species of insects. Some of these are pests, the 

kind you don’t want in your garden because they 

destroy your flowers and vegetables. But many others are beneficial 

insects, the kind you want to attract because they work with you to 

control pests and pollinate flowers.  

❏ Watch:https://safeYouTube.net/w/tH2U and 

https://safeYouTube.net/w/XH2U 

❏ Design: your own bug, draw and label its body parts. 

Discuss possible names, what they would eat, what is 

their habitat like, why they are good for the garden.  ❏ Make a 3D bug: Using materials from outside in the 

garden or from around your house, 

make your bug in a 3D form. Make 

sure it looks realistic and has a 

purpose in our gardens.  

DPS Remote Learning: Year 1 Week 8  Week beginning Monday 31st August - Friday 4th September.   

Complete 1 Reading, Writing and Maths essential learning task each day, in sequence, from the activities below. All videos and supporting resources can be found by clicking on the 

following link - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fadnq8_HPSqJaVB3O27CzHZuEQ28AJtZeiVKRQu1DoY/edit?usp=sharing  

 

Reading Focus: POETRY 

Activity 1: Word Families  

❏ Read the words on the ‘Word Family’ poster’ (see link)  ❏ Choose words that follow the same rhyming patterns and 

write them on flashcards e.g. hot/not or glad/mad 

❏ Jumble them up and rematch the rhyming pairs or chop the 

rhyming pattern off the end and rematch. 

Extension: Use the ‘long vowel poster’ (see link) to create rhyming 

pairs on flashcards e.g. sneak/ tweak or make/cake or neat/meat,  

 

Activity 2: Rhyming Patterns in Words 

Watch Green Eggs and Ham: https://safeYouTube.net/w/cm4U 

❏ Watch Instructional Video by Mrs Thompson 

❏ Read the ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ poem template (see link) ❏ Identify the rhyming pairs at the end of each sentence in a 

matching colour.  

❏ Illustrate and label the action scene from the poem 

Extension: Reread with fluency focussing on the punctuation you see 

throughout the book. Use intonation when you see a ? or ! 

 

Activity 3 Rhyming Patterns in Words 

❏ Using the rhyming words highlighted on the ‘Green Eggs and 

Ham’ poem from yesterday, write them out onto flashcards.  

❏ Write down 3-6+ more words on flashcards from the same 

rhyming word family that you can think of. 

Example; ham, sam, am,- dam, jam, bam, ram, Pam, wham, tram 

❏ Repeat for 2-3 more of the rhyming families e.g 

‘oat/ote’ or ‘ain’ or ‘ee/e’ or ‘ox’ or ‘ouse’ 

❏ Jumble up all the flashcards and rematch the rhyming sets. 

Extension: Read ‘Cat In The Hat’ and find rhyming families.  

 

Activity 4 & 5 - Recreate ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ rhyming poem 

Watch Green Eggs and Ham: https://safeYouTube.net/w/cm4U 

❏ Watch Instructional Video by Mrs Thompson 

❏ Using your rhyming flashcards (created yesterday) to recreate 

your own ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ rhyming story. 

❏ Use these sentence starters below. 

❏ You can use the template provided (see link) 

I will not eat them in a…….  I do not like them……. 

I will not eat them on a…...  I will not eat them with …... 

Example:  

I do not like green eggs and ham, (on template) 

I will not eat them Sam I am. (on template) 

I will not eat them with Pam, 

I will not eat them on a tram. 

Writing Focus: POETRY 

Activity 1: Handwriting with Jess (a and d) 

❏ Visit the link to be guided through the activity and 

access the resources. 

If you do not have access to a printer, use the dotted thirds in 

your Writing Book to complete the tasks. This week we have 

added a Progress Sheet, you may like to use. 

Activity 2: Awesome Acrostics 

An acrostic poem is made from a word or name, written vertically 

down the side of a page. The letters are used to begin each line of 

the poem. It does not have rhyme but is written to describe the 

word or person. See example. ❏ Using your own name, write an acrostic poem about 

yourself,then try another word or topic.. 

 

Activity 3- Laugh out loud Limericks 

❏ Watch Instructional Video by Ms Hoyne 

❏ Create your own limerick using the following 

structure.  

There once was a ________ named ______________, 

who thought _______________________________. 

S/he _____________________________________, 

Then _____________________________________ 

Until s/he _________________________________. 

 

Activity 4 - Colourful Concrete Poems 

❏ Watch:https://safeYouTube.net/w/LymV 

A concrete poem takes the shape of its subject.  

 

❏ Create your own concrete or shape poem. Think of a 

simple topic or object and be creative when presenting 

this poem.  

 

Activity 5-Resilience 

Resilience is not all or nothing. It comes in amounts. 

You can be a little resilient. You can be a lot resilient. 

You can be resilient in some situations and not others.  

And no matter how resilient you become today, you can become 

more resilient tomorrow.  

❏ Watch Instructional Video by Ms Hoyne 

❏ My Gifts and Qualities. Use the link to access 

instructions and resources for this task. 

Maths Focus: CONNECTING ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION 

Activity 1: Solving Subtraction Stories using Counting Back 

Last week Miss Howard showed you all how to Count Back. Counting back is a strategy we can use to help us take away or 

subtraction small numbers.  

❏ To practise your Counting Back skills, complete the 

activity (which will need to be printed) by matching 

the Subtraction Story to the Written Equation. 

*If you can’t print, read the stories and write out the 

equations. 

Extension: See the extension Activity links.  

Activity 2: Subtracting by Counting On Counting on is an addition strategy, but it is also a useful way 

to solve subtraction problems. See below for an explanation. 

 

You will need: deck of cards, Maths book, 100s chart 

❏ Watch the Instructional Video by Miss Howard 

❏ Select two cards to get two numbers. Record the 

equation, taking away the smaller number from the 

larger number. Using your hundreds chart or a number 

line, count on to solve the problem. 

Extension: Put a 1 in front of the larger number to make it a 

‘teen’ number. 

Activity 3- Subtraction - Finding the Difference 

❏ Watch the Instructional Video by Miss Howard 

❏ Using the Think Board, create your own ‘Find the 

Difference’ story and show how you solved it. 

Activity 4- Finding the Difference - ‘All Out!’ 

You will need: deck of cards, counters (or 10 cent pieces, 

m&ms, skittles... anything you like), partner 

❏ Player 1 selects 2 cards from a stack of cards, they 

subtract the smaller number from the larger number, 

and pay up the difference to Player 2 (counters or 

m&ms etc), Swap. You continue playing until the first 

player is all out!  Activity 5 - Twinks 

You will Need: deck of cards, partner 

❏ Lay out 12 cards (in a 4 x 3 array). Take it in turns to 

make addition OR subtraction equations using the cards. 

When you remove the cards, replace the cards using a 

card from the deck. The winner has the most cards! 

DPS Remote Learning: Year 1 Week 8  Week beginning Monday 31st August - Friday 4th September. 

Specialist  activities: LOTE: Indonesian:

Halo Kelas Satu, Word of the Week – Enak (Delicious)

You have been learning about the Indonesian words for items in the classroom. Can you please draw the items that are in my Kotak Pensil (pencil case)? Look at the list and read the

quantity, the object and the colour.

Ini (this), saya (my/I/me), ada (there is/are), satu (one), dua (two), tiga (three).

Click on this link for the activity page. Kelas Satu - Kotak Pensil Saya..pdf

You can now watch Ibu Kas share the instructions to the Picnic Café Game. Play this game with someone at home.

You will need - 5 rugs or mats, 5 pieces of paper, 1 texta, some tape and 5 plates. https://safeYouTube.net/w/1QyU

ART: Hi Year 1 - this week in art I would like you to create an

overlapping shape pattern. Click on the link for the

instructions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DeL_AFrYgjpsIO J30JYDHIosvMq8C5GM47iv2rYak2M/edit?usp=sharing

Performing Arts: ‘Create a Weather Report’ How is the Weather where you are today?

Look out the window and explain what it looks like. We can use drama to describe and share weather, explore movement to show what the weather is doing. Let’s get started! Watch the picture storybook: ‘What will the Weather be like today?’ By Paul Rogers https://safeYouTube.net/w/yeGT 1. Brainstorm and recount all the different types of weatherE.g. sunny, windy, snow, rain, hail, hot,

cold 2. Can you move your body, make shapes and movements with your

arms or legs, use your facial expressions or sounds to represent or act out the following weather types:

Hot, rainy, cloudy, high seas with big waves, sunny, clear, snow, thunder storms and fog. 3. Create your own weather report: - Explain the high temperature of the day and the low temperature of

the day. E.g. Today will be a little cloudy with a low of 10 degrees and a high of 15 degrees in the afternoon.

- What type of day will it be? (Sunny, cloudy, rain or a chance of showers, cold- it’s up to you!)

- What will the next 2 or three days look like? (Include the day’s top temperature and conditions- Thursday will be 17 and mainly sunny.)

I have included some Weather Report video examples to give you some ideas: Jane Bunn Reads the Weather Channel 7: https://safeYouTube.net/w/yfGT Kindergarten Kid Reads the Weather: https://safeYouTube.net/w/zgGT Optional Activity: Find a song about weather and dance to it with your weather actions that show the different types of conditions. E.g. Weather with you- Crowded House SEE MR STEPHENS TASK VIDEO HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wJz32A0CVrWn0X4isi2zC7moTicImph6/view?usp=sharing

Physical Education: Pick and Choose (click for video) Equipment: One bean bag or object to throw per player and three buckets per group. Instructions: 1. Stand at an agreed throwing line. 2. Place a bucket 2m, 3m and 4 metres away. 3. The aim of the activity is to underarm throw the bean bag in the bucket to score points. 4. The closest bucket is worth 1 point, then 5 points and finally 10 points. 5. Students have multiple turns or played to time and then add up the points. Variations: Make the buckets larger or smaller or closer or further away. Gymnastics (click for video lessons) Each week there are videos to follow along with to practice your gymnastics skills at home. You can choose as many as you want to do. OPTIONAL CHALLENGE - Skills Bingo