18 March 2020

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Stafford State School will continue to follow the directives and advice from Education Queensland

and Government Officials in regards to COVID-19. As the situation continues to evolve, parents

and caregivers are advised of the following School preparations.

Process for School Closure

In the event of a school closure before the end of the school term, parents will be notified by a text

from the school. Please make sure that your contact details are up to date with the school office.

If for some reason you do not receive a text, please visit our School Website.

Continuity of Teaching and Learning

We have put together a Resource Pack and additional Homework for learning at home. A hard

copy booklet will be sent home with written work as well as links to various websites and online

learning.

It is expected that students are doing some literacy and numeracy each day to maintain the usual

school routine. A suggested timetable has been designed with an overview of weekly work that

could be completed. The work being sent home caters for students from Prep to Year 6. Please be

mindful, it may have to be adjusted to suit your child’s needs.

We will also send Year Level text books home at a later stage if the need arises, with further

instructions. Teachers and myself are available via email, should you need to contact us.

I would ask all families to be extra vigilant about health and hygiene at this time. Thank you for

your ongoing support as we work together to keep our community safe and healthy, ensuring that

we do our best to limit the impact of any closure on the educational outcomes for our students.

Kind Regards,

Lee Martin

Principal

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

ENGLISH BLOCK Reading Writing – own choice/stimulus pictures Spelling/Sight words ONLINE: Pobble365 Scholastic Twinkl Starfall

ENGLISH BLOCK Continue with the English Block activities from Monday throughout the week

ENGLISH BLOCK ENGLISH BLOCK ENGLISH BLOCK Book report Movie report Spelling Test

MATHS BLOCK Number Facts Timetables ONLINE: Mathletics Tasks, Mathletics LIVE, Rainforest Maths, Videos

MATHS BLOCK Continue with the Maths Block activities from Monday throughout the week

MATHS BLOCK MATHS BLOCK MATHS BLOCK Number Facts Test Timetables Test

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Read and research different topics Watch documentaries ONLINE: Behind the News + resources of activities and focus questions

SCIENCE Read and research different topics Cooking Documentaries ONLINE: Make Me Genius – Science videos Bill Nye the science Guy - videos

GEOGRAPHY Map of Australia

Learn the States and Capitals

Read and research different topics

PHYSICAL ACITIVITY Get your body moving Mindfulness

ART Draw/Paint/Create/Make CHINESE

ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS (IF APPLICABLE) Soundwaves – one unit per week + learn Spelling words Lower Grades: Handwriting – two pages a week

MATHS TEXTBOOKS (IF APPLICABLE) Upper Grades: Mental Maths – one strip per day

ENGLISH WEBSITES:

Pobble365

http://www.pobble365.com/

(Writing/Picture stimulus/Activities)

MATHS WEBSITES

https://www.mathletics.com/au/

(Ensure you use the Australian site)

https://www.timestables.com/

SCIENCE WEBSITES

https://www.makemegenius.com/

https://billnye.com/

Scholastic

https://www.scholastic.com.au/

Learning Place

https://learningplace.education.qld.gov.au/

Behind the News – BTN

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/stories/

Teach Starter

https://www.teachstarter.com/search/?query=school+closure

What can you do with this number?

Add, subtract, multiply or divide

Skip count on or back from that number

What comes before and after

What is 10 more, 100 more or less etc.

Ascending / descending order

Is it odd or even

Think about fractions

Think about factors or multiples

Can it relate to time, days, weeks, months etc.?

Is the number used around your the house?

Write a number story using that number.

Palindromic numbers

Money

Measuring

Graph it, tally it.

MATHS ACTIVITY GRID

Grab your junk mail! Choose a page or an item. What can you do with this number? *

Write 10 addition sums (with regrouping if you can) Try subtraction, multiplication or division if you can.)

Pick any number and skip count on in 2s, 5s and 10s forwards and backwards. Choose a harder number if you can.

Choose 3 numbers what sums can you do using these numbers.

Choose up to 10 numbers and put them in ascending or descending order.

Write down you family member’s birthdays. What can you do with these numbers? *

What is your house number? Write down everything you know about it. Make as many sums as you can to equal this number.

Learn to read, spell, order the names of days, months and seasons. Relate to important events.

Google this day in history.

Make a timetable of today’s activities and check the clock to read the time.

Find up to ten different items and put them in order of length, weight or volume.

Work out the area or perimeter of a rug or mat at home. Try your bedroom.

Use directional language to make your brother or sister walk around the house.

Make your own obstacle course and write or draw the instructions.

Draw a bird’s eye view of a room in your house.

Find your house on Google Street View. What direction is your house facing? Draw a map of your street.

Draw things in the house that are the same as the 3D shapes eg. cylinder, cube, triangular prism.

Make a tally of your lego blocks. Use this information to create a graph.

Write out your rainbow facts or times tables in your team’s colours. Write them out in your favourite colours.

If there is an emergency, practice all of the information you need to know. (phone number, address, 000)

Find a menu on line and plan a meal for your family.

Choose an item on the menu and work out how many ways you can make up that amount.

Write 3 events that definitely happened to you yesterday; three things that might happen tomorrow and three things that would be impossible.

If you could only answer yes, no or maybe, what questions would you ask your friend.

Roll a dice 3, 4 or 5 times to make a large number. How many combinations can you make? Put them in order from smallest to largest.

Hundred board: 1 to 100

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80

81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Rainbow Facts to 10

0 + 10 = 10 10 + 0 = 10

1 + 9 = 10 9 + 1 = 10

2 + 8 = 10 8 + 2 = 10

3 + 7 = 10 7 + 3 = 10

4 + 6 = 10 6 + 4 = 10

0 10 1 9 2 8 3 7 4 6 5 5

Multiplication grid

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