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Prep Learning Tasks Term 2 Week 8 WEDNESDAYREADING - Comprehension Strategy: Visualisation

Learning Intention:I can use the visualisation strategy to help me comprehend poems.Success Criteria: I have drawn the picture I see in my mind.

Learning Resources Required:Workbook and pencils.

Parent Note:At school we use this poster to explain what visualisation is.

Learning Task:1. Talk to your child about what visualisation is. Show them the poster above (they have seen

it at school).2. Make the below poster with your child as a reminder to keep in their house.

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3. Read the following poem to your child.

4. Ask them to close their eyes and use their ‘mind’s eye’ to make a picture as you read thetext.

5. Students are then to record (draw and/or write) in their workbook about what theyimagined in their minds.

Extension Task:Share a leveled reader with your family. Go through your sound book.

WRITING- AUTHORS STUDYLearning Intention:I can use rhyming words to create a couplet poem.Success Criteria:I have used rhyming words and syllables to create a rhyming couplet.

Learning Resources Required:Workbook and pencils.

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Learning Task:1. Remind students about the rhyming couplets we found in Green Eggs and Ham yesterday.

Explain that we will be writing another rhyming poem today. But they have to choose adifferent set of rhyming words!

2. Read the rhyming lists from Monday’s writing lesson. You can use these as a prompt tosimplify the task. But choose a new list for today’s poem.For example; if they used the -at words yesterday they will have to work from a differentlist today. all, ball, fall, wall, tall, stall.Could turn into My brother stole my ball

So I pushed him off the wall!3. Share with your child the couplet definition. 2 lines, same number of beats per sentence,

and rhyming words at the end.4. You may like to rewatch the video from yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0yZ-Rc51z45. Choose two new rhyming words and brainstorm some examples of how to turn them into a

couplet. As you say them clap out the beats to help your child match the meter of yourpoem. Remind students that the syllables in a word are like the chunks we break words intowhen we are reading. We used syllables when we wrote haikus with our grade 6 buddies.There is a support video below you may like to watch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7DY2lgJlU

6. Get your child to write their favourite couplets.Please note: Children may have issues with the beats or meter of the poem, but as this isthe second attempt, support them to get it correct today.

Please Note: Have their sound book or Jolly Phonics prompt card available to help the link lettershape to the sounds they hear. depending on their personal writing goal, your child may be writingsentences OR only hear the first and last sounds, that is fine. We only record the sounds we know,encourage spaces after each word and always place a full stop at the end of each sentence.Extension Task:

- Can you extend your poem, so that you follow the idea and use more rhyming words?My cheeky rat stole my hat.So my cat squashed him flat!I ran through my house with a bat.And chased away that naughty cat!

BREAK: Ensure students have a well-earned break with a snack, rest and a game/physical activity.MATHS - PROBLEM SOLVINGLearning Intention:I can identify different features of shapes.Success Criteria: I have discussed similarities and differences in shapes.https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/odd-one-out

Learning Resources Required:Workbook and pencils.

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Learning Task:1. Have a look at the four shapes in the picture below.2. Can you point to the square? Can you point to the circle? Can you point to the box? Can

you point to the pentagon?3. What can you tell me about the different shapes? How many sides do they have?

4.5. Read the problem above.6. Discuss which shape you think is the odd one out and why you think that?7. Record your thinking in your workbook. You can write or draw.8. Can you think of any more differences between the different shapes?

Extension Task:- Can you find objects in your house? What makes them different? What makes them the

same? How many different ways can you sort them?

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY -

Please choose an activity from the grid provided.The grid is available on Compass under the ‘Prep > Term 2 RESOURCES’ folder.

BREAK: Ensure students have a well-earned break with lunch, rest and a game/physical activity.ITALIAN

Learning Intention: I can learn the vocabulary for clothes.

Success Criteria: I have listened to, practised the words, labelled and illustrated them.

Learning Resources Required:Workbook and pencils.

Learning Task:

1. Using the link below click ‘open with google slide’2. In the slide, click ‘present’ button on the top righ-hand corner. Click to move to the next

slide, and ‘esc’ on the keyboard to get back to the top.

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3. Click the link here to view L’abbigliamento’ (Clothes).https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wP36qUo_bD6eY9YcoTjlzEwjLJWawOkj/view?usp=sharing

4. Listen to the spoken Italian and practise saying them until you feel confident. If you click onthe speaker icon the voice will play again!

5. Draw a picture of a boy or girl wearing some of the clothes and label them in Italian.