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SPECIAL NOTES: Megan Student Teacher - Melbourne Polytechnic Lead Teaching

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WELCOME
BACK

PHYS ED

Show & tell/fruit snack

GUIDED READING:
New BB recount
See guided reading chart
new groups

WRITING

MATHS

Introducing new spelling

words spelling word
game

Warm up skip counting

Graphing holiday
activities

Discussing what we did

on the holidays
recording answers

MATHS
Warm up number line game

Revising time pre test to

determine what students
may already know.

WRITING
Writing our recounts in BIG
WRITE book from our plan.

PERFORMIN
G ARTS

GUIDED
READING:
See attached chart

ART

WRITING
Exploring as a group
different punctuation and
complete worksheets

Show & tell/fruit snack

WRITING
Planning our recount
Brainstorming what a recount
needs and completing a plan
(Big write talk)

GUIDED
READING:
See attached chart

Show & tell/fruit snack

Rotating maths group games see planner

Place value, skip counting, number
recognition, grouping and time.

GUIDED
READING:
See attached chart

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INQUIRY
Exploring what animals need
choosing an animal to
complete their project on

LIBRARY

MATHS

Show & tell/fruit snack

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SEA
(Miss Karlye)

Reading animal books

explore how to look up
information about animals
for projects

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INQUIRY
Filling out our project
planners Megan to provide
books and information sheet

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WRITING
Spelling test
Handwriting write
spelling words in a
sentence to practice
handwriting

GUIDED
READING:
See attached chart

Show & tell/fruit snack

MATHS

Computer Lab A
Inquiry
using Google
to find more
data/information on
chosen animal

Time work sheets

Making times on the
clocks

1 /2 W GUIDED READING CHART

Week: 1 Term 4
Grade: 1 and 2
Big Book text: Writing a Recount
Whole class focus: Recount features and structure (i.e. who, what, where,
why, when?)
GROUP
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
L5
TITLE: Baby Panda
Sathana 1. Memory game
2. Locate and
3. Write golden
Jayden
with magic words
record all
words in their
Fatima
children to say
golden words in
own sentences

magic word when

they find a pair
and put in a
sentence

L11
Kelsey
Naunidh

TITLE: Down by the

Sea

1. Rainbow write
any words in
wordbooks they
didnt know or
chose 10 words

L14 18* TITLE: Im big

Daniel
enough
Emad
1. Rainbow write
Sarah
any words in
Gurteshw
ar*

Indi*

wordbooks they
didnt know or
chose 10 words

Finish
And
Tidy

Week beginning:

3/ 10 / 2016

Megan
Martin
THURSDAY

4. Golden word
word finds

FRIDAY

5. Baby Panda
True or False

their readers
copy these
words in to their
workbooks
2. Story Elements
template

work sheet

3. Down by the Sea

who I am sheet

4. Word find

6. Fill missing letter

worksheet

2. Story Elements
template

3. Match up
worksheet

4. Word find

6. Fill missing letter

worksheet

L24
Millie
Willow
Harry

TITLE: The weirdest

pet day

1. Rhyming word
worksheet

L28+
TITLE: The
Aadit
weirdest pet day
Nemanja 1. Label the
David
butterfly
Kaavya
worksheet
Vrishank
Namande
ep
Comment

2. Story Elements
template

2. Nonfiction
reading
response
worksheets

3. Word making
worksheet

4. Make a word find

using words from
the book

6. Swap work finds

and complete

3. Write a short
report on the
most interesting
part of the book
in workbooks

4. Make a word find

using words from
the book

6. Swap work finds

and complete

Comment

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MATHS PLANNER
WEEK 1
Term 4

Session 1

Session 2
Use a number line to count by
halves and quarters.

Warm up
Fluency
practice
(5-10 mins)

Count by 2s, 5s, 10s from any

given starting point.
Sit down game in a circle we
count by 2s, 5s or 10s as a group
passing a ball (teacher to pick
starting number). When the
class reaches 100 the person
with the ball sits down and
chooses the next starting point.

Materials

Whiteboard
Mathematics workbooks

Number line game - on the

board create a number line.
Students take turns to move the
arrow back and forth following
the advice on a dice.

Pre-test worksheet
Clock

Session 3

Session 4

Count forwards/backwards by 1's from any starting point (up to 1000).

Circle counting in a circle give the students a number and going around the
person next to them states the next number. If you make it all around then the
next person pick s number alternate between counting backwards and
forwards.

Place value bingo game

Skip counting worksheets
Multiplication card game set
Go Fish cards
Month worksheets

Session 5
Introduce the times-tables
begin to develop automatic
recall.
Multiplication Team Tag
see below

Interactive whiteboard and

stop the clock game
Worksheet

Victorian
Curriculum
Content
Descriptors

Mathematical
Focus
Learning
Indent
Success
Criteria
Whole class
Intro
(10-15 mins)

Vocabulary
Main Activity
(20-30 mins)

Grade 1
1. Choose simple questions
and gather responses
(VCMSP101)
2. Represent data with objects
and drawings where one
object or drawing represents
one data value. Describe the
displays (VCMSP102)
Grade 2
1. Collect, check and classify
data (VCMSP127)
2. Create displays of data
using lists, table and picture
graphs and interpret
them (VCMSP128)

LI Create a graph to
represent what my peers did
on the Holidays
SC Students are able to
formulate questions and
create a graph to represent
their data
Refresh what a graph is and
how to make one. Roll model
how to create one on the
board.
Role model questions that
they might ask to show how
they should match the graph.
Data, questions, unit,
represent
Students to create their own
graph in their workbooks and
create a series of questions to
ask their friends.
Students to survey the rest
of the class and record the
results on their task

Grade 1
Tell time to the halfhour (VCMMG096)
Grade 2
Tell time to the quarter-hour,
using the language of 'past' and
'to' (VCMMG117)

LI Demonstrate what you

know and what you may
need assistance with
SC Students complete the
pre-test independently

Using the clock revise what

the hands of the clock mean
briefly
oclock, time, minutes,
hours, afternoon, morning,
night, analogue, digital
Students to work
independently of their pretest work sheets.

Grade 1
Count collections to 100 by
partitioning numbers using place
value (VCMNA088)
Develop confidence with number
sequences to and from 100 by ones
from any starting point. Skip count
by twos, fives and tens starting from
zero(VCMNA086)
Recognise, model, read, write and
order numbers to at least 100. Locate
these numbers on a number
line(VCMNA087) Describe duration
using months, weeks, days and
hours (VCMMG097)

Grade 2
Group, partition and rearrange
collections up to 1000 in hundreds,
tens and ones to facilitate more
efficient counting (VCMNA105)
Investigate number sequences,
initially those increasing and
decreasing by twos, threes, fives and
ten from any starting point, then
moving to other
sequences (VCMNA103)
Recognise, model, represent and
order numbers to at least
1000 (VCMNA104)
Name and order months and
seasons (VCMMG118)

LI To enjoy a rotation of mathematical games that increase

knowledge, skills and understanding
SC Students enjoy themselves and explore the variety of activities

Explain the games and activities at each station and divide the
students into groups (use table groups)

Place value bingo game students flip two sets of cards to make two
digit numbers and fill out a bingo card.
Skip counting worksheets Students to work at the table
independently to complete their worksheets
Multiplication card game set students to turn over a multiplication
card and the student with the highest answer wins provide
calculators for the children to check answers
Go Fish cards students use a pack of cards to play go fish and make
pairs

Grade 1
Tell time to the halfhour (VCMMG096)
Grade 2
Tell time to the quarter-hour,
using the language of 'past' and
'to' (VCMMG117)

LI Create times on both

analogue and digital clocks
SC Students are able to
demonstrate their learning

Play "stop the clock" together

on interactive white board.
http://www.oswego.org/ocsdweb/games/StopTheClock/sthec2.html

oclock, time, minutes, hours,

afternoon, morning, night,
analogue, digital
To be decided once I have the
results of the pre-test

Month worksheets students to fill in the month of the year in the

correct order and draw a representation of each season
Reshaping the
Main Activity
How can you
modify the main
activity to suit
your different
learners?

LOW
HIGH
Share Time
(5-10 mins)

Low Can copy the graph

off the board and then survey
the class
High Students to write a
sentence that captures what
the graph shows
Students to share their
findings with the group

Low Offer assistance with

completing the test but
record on test what help was
needed

Teacher to offer assistance as needed at each activity or with particular

children if a need arises.

High When complete

students to complete their
graphs or work on provided
worksheets.
Using the clock demonstrate
Ask the students what their favourite activity was and if they can
the times on the worksheet to
match the mathematical learning to the activity.
the students
Multiplication Tag Team Instructions

Put two equal stacks of flash cards on a desk in the front of the room.
Divide the students in two groups.
Ask the students to form two single file lines facing the desk. The first student in each line should be about 10 feet from the desk.
When play starts, the first person in line races to the desk, takes the first card in his or her pile, displays the card to the team, announces the answer, places
the card in a discard pile and then races to tag the next person in line.
If the student does not know the answer or gives the wrong answer, he or she puts the card on the bottom of the pile and selects the next card. This student
keeps selecting cards until he or she knows the answer to one or until five cards have been selected.
The two teams play simultaneously, and the first team to correctly answer all the multiplication facts in its pile wins.

Term 4 - Week 1

Writing Planner

Victorian Curriculum
1

Focus, Learning Intent

& Success Criteria

Grade 1 - Understand how to spell one and Focus:

To introduce the new spelling
two syllable words with common letter
words and practise spelling
patterns (VCELA182)
them in a game
Grade 2 - Recognise most lettersound
matches including silent letters, trigraphs, LI Practise this weeks
spelling words
vowel digraphs and common long vowels,
and understand that a sound can be

SC students are able to

Grade 1 / 2 W
Whole
Review the words on the
whiteboard and look at what
they have in common.
Say the words out loud
together

Part
Students to copy words into
their homework and word
bank books

Whole
Divide students into spelling
groups and have them form
lines.
Each team gets a chance to
spell a word and if correct the
team receive a point

represented by various letter

combinations(VCELA218)

correctly spell their words in

the spelling test at the end of
the week.

Grade 1 - Create short imaginative and

Focus:
Explore and brainstorm the
Recount writing a recount of concepts of a recount.
the school holidays
of appropriate text structure, sentenceDiscuss that the students
level grammar, word choice, spelling,
LI To be able to write a
may choose one event from
recount
by
understanding
the
their holidays.
punctuation and appropriate multimodal
features of a recount.
elements(VCELY194)
Role model
Grade 2 - Create short imaginative,
SC students are able to

who
complete their recount plans
informative and persuasive texts using

what

when
growing knowledge of text structures and

why
language features for familiar and some

where
less familiar audiences, selecting print and

how
multimodal elements appropriate to the
informative texts that show emerging use

audience and purpose(VCELY230)

3

Grade 1 - Create short imaginative and

informative texts that show emerging use
of appropriate text structure, sentencelevel grammar, word choice, spelling,
punctuation and appropriate multimodal
elements(VCELY194)
Grade 2 - Create short imaginative,
informative and persuasive texts using
growing knowledge of text structures and
language features for familiar and some

Students to work on
completing their recount
brainstorm worksheet plans

Students are able to share

their brainstorming with the
group dependant on the
time

Teacher to assist those who

need it and motioned
students understanding and
progress
Those that finish may begin
writing their recount in their
big write workbook

Discuss the series of events

Focus:
Discuss punctuation and how
Recount writing a recount of to use different types to
the school holidays
make your story interesting.
LI To write a detailed
recount in their big write
book
Practice their handwriting as
they write their recount
Explore punctuation and
editing their work

SC Students write a legible

less familiar audiences, selecting print and recount following their
brainstorms and concepts of
multimodal elements appropriate to the
a recount.
audience and purpose(VCELY230)
Students work is correctly
punctuated.

Share the success criteria for

the recount writing

Students to work from their

brainstorms and write their
recounts in their big write
workbooks.
As children finish they can
edit their work before
conferencing with a teacher.
Those that finish may draw a
picture to match their
recount.
Assist lower children with
their writing and all children
with spelling when asked.

Students to share their

recounts if there is time at
the end of the session.

Grade 1 - Recognise that different types of

punctuation, including full stops, question
marks and exclamation marks, signal
sentences that make statements, ask
questions, express emotion or give
commands(VCELA190)
Grade 2 - Recognise that capital letters
signal proper nouns and commas are used
to separate items in lists(VCELA225)

Focus:
Punctuation how to end a
sentence and use commas
when making a list.
LI Use correct and varying
punctuations to end a
sentence.
Use commas to write a list
SC Students are able to
complete the worksheets

Grade 1 - Understand how to spell one and Focus:

Practicing handwriting and
two syllable words with common letter
spelling words
patterns (VCELA182)
Understand how to use learned formation
patterns to represent sounds and write
words using combinations of unjoined
upper- and lower-case letters (VCELY196)
Grade 2 - Recognise most lettersound
matches including silent letters, trigraphs,
vowel digraphs and common long vowels,

LI Correctly spell words

from the weekly spell test
and write legibly

Have the children

demonstrate the Kung Fu
Punctuation moves

Students to complete the

punctuation
workbooks/sheets

If time correct the work

sheets together as a class.

Discuss each mark and how it Offering assistance to those

would be used.
who need it.
Using the interactive
whiteboard and the lap top
write a list of sentences
without punctuation. brainstorm together what mark to
use.
Undergo the spelling test by
reading out each groups
words one at a time use
each word in a sentence to
help.

After the spelling test ask

each student to write the
words in sentences
concentrating on their hand
writing and letter formation.
Briefly discuss using correct
spacing, punctuation and
letter size

Each student to share a

sentence that they created.

SC Students attempt all

spelling words during the test
and are able to use these
words in sentences.

and understand that a sound can be

represented by various letter
combinations(VCELA218)
Write words and sentences legibly using
upper- and lower-case letters that are
applied with growing fluency using an
appropriate pen/pencil grip and body
position (VCELY232)

Week 1 and 2 TERM 4

Inquiry Lesson Plans

Grade 1/2 W

Victorian Curriculum Connections

CRITICAL AND CREATIVE
THINKING
Identify, describe and use different
kinds of question stems to gather
information and ideas (VCCCTQ001)

Session
One

Session
Two
(Library)

Session
Three

Session
Four
(Compute
r Lab)

SCIENCE
Living things have a variety of
external features and live in
different places where their basic
needs, including food, water and
shelter, are met(VCSSU042)

ENGLISH
Rehearse and deliver short
presentations on familiar and new
topics, speaking clearly and varying
tone, volume and pace
appropriately, and using supportive
props (VCELY245)

VISUAL ART
Create and display artworks to express
ideas to an audience (VCAVAP023)

Focus

Group

Individual

Group

Lesson Focus To introduce

animals to the students
LI The students chose an animal
for their project and begin to think
about their projects
SC Students have picked an
animal for their project
Lesson Focus Learning how to
research
LI Reseraching their choosen
animal
SC Students are able to collect
some basic information/data
Lesson Focus Collecting data
and information
LI Discover how to use books
and fact cards to find information
and data
SC Students are beginning to fill
out their templates
Lesson Focus Using the internet
to research a topic
LI Searching the internet to find
the required information and data
SC Students have finished their
templates and are working on their

Read books about animals

Using animal cards students

choose an animal as their focus for
project and formulate questions or
idea about what data they need to
collect.

Share what animals they have

picked

At the library show students how

to look up information in books

Students to look up their animals

and see if they can find one fact
about what the animal eats or
where it lives. Record on Animal
Research Report Template.

Sharing our facts

Provide students with their project

planners mind map and explain
each question

Students can use a variety of

resources to work on their Animal
Research Report template and
begin their Animal Research
Information Sheet.

Role- model how to do a Google

search

Using the computer lab students

can continue their templates and
reports

Brain storm what animals may

need? What do different animals
eat?

Students to report on how their

project is going.

Session
Five

Session
Six

Session
Seven

reports
Lesson Focus Beginning our
dioramas
LI Understand what a diorama is
and how they will create it for
their project
SC Students begin their
dioramas
Lesson Focus Continuing our
dioramas
LI Understand what a diorama is
and how they will create it for
their project
SC Students finish their
dioramas
Lesson Focus Presenations
LI Presenting our finished
projects
SC Students present their
projects, information and dioramas

Show children the diorama

examples and brainstorm with
everyone how they will commence
their own.

Students to start building their own Conference with students on extra

diorama that show their animal
materials they may need.
habitats

Show students the student and

teacher rubrics for their dioramas
and presentations

Students to continue their

dioramas and work on their
presentations

Presentation of research and dioramas by the students

Conferencing and assist students

as they work on their projects