Reading

Reading should take place every day. It should be enjoyable with only a couple of ‘tricky’ words.

Before Reading       

• Think about and discuss what might happen in the book. Include your reasoning behind it.

During Reading       

• Come up with questions about the story “I wonder if… I wonder why… How come…”
• Look for verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns, pronouns or adverbs.
• Make connections between the text and yourself, other books and the world.

“The book reminded me of…”

After Reading

• Retell the main events.
• Describe/ draw characters.
• Revise any predictions made.
• Record facts from non-fiction books.

You can also complete these activites after listening to a story (link at the bottom of the page for online stories). 

Spelling

Use words that interest you from books you have read or from your class

• Break words up into sounds (sh-ar-k)
• Break words up into syllables.
• Write words in sentences.
• Write words using different colour for the different sounds. 

Writing

• Write a letter to someone.
• Write a short story.
• Write a recount of somewhere you have been or something you have done.
• Write your own newspaper article (link at the bottom of the page)
• Write your own comic (link at the bottom of the page)
• When writing include punctuation:
  • Commas
  • Exclamation marks
  • Talking marks
  • Apostrophes

Maths

Number

• Practise counting by 1 forward and backwards
• Practise skip counting (counting by numbers other than 1, for example 5,10,15,20,25)

Money

Look through catalogues and:

• Add up the cost of items you would like to buy.
• Write down the notes/ coins needed to buy it.
• Give yourself $1000, $100 or $10 and work out the change after buying an item/items.

Multiplication and Division

Write out and practise multiplication facts.

You can also write down the fact families for example:

5x7 = 35        35 ÷ 7 = 5

7x5 = 35        35 ÷ 5 = 7

Online Activities

There are lots of fantastic learning tasks that can be completed online, some of these include:

• Writing your own Newspaper article: https://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
• Writing your own Comics: https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/
• Online stories: https://www.storylineonline.net/

ABC Education has 100s of online learning activities, you can use the filters to chose activites at the approprate level of your child/ren.

https://education.abc.net.au/home#!/games