Week 3 Full Control

Subject
Shared reading
Reading Groups
Use comprehension
strategies to build literal and
inferred meaning and begin
to evaluate texts by drawing
on a growing knowledge
of context, text structures
and language features

(ACELY1680)

Writing Letters
Plan, draft and publish
imaginative, informative
and persuasive texts
demonstrating increasing
control
over text structures
and language
features and selecting
print,and multimodal
elements appropriate to
the audience and purpose
(ACELY1682)

Lesson Content
MONDAY
Jesse Tree Read and discuss allocated
stories
o Children to work on their reading
groups
o Focus group reciprocal teaching the
nativity story
Activity One Computers: Christmas
around the world
Activity Two Comprehension: Abraham:
The Promise
Activity Three - Vocabulary: Compound
word game
Activity Four: Procedural text: elf yourself
o Activity Five Reciprocal reading:
Nativity
o Students to gather on the floor and
discuss whether they have ever written
a letter before
o What do we have to include in a letter?
(Greeting, address, factual information,
closing greeting, name of the writer,
date)
o Show the structure of a letter, students
to identify the different features of a
letter in the example
o Ask students what they might include
in their Christmas letter to their mum
and dad
o Students to go and write a draft of a
Christmas letter to mum and dad
o Ask students to come back and share
their letters to the class
o Students to give critical feedback to
their peers
Structure:
Date, opening greeting, factual
information, paragraphs, closing greeting,
name of writer
Language features:
o Tradition greeting, capital letters for
proper nouns, pronouns

Assessment

Anecdotal notes

Students can identify a range of

features needed in a letter
Student can include a variety of
information appropriate for a
Christmas letter to their mum
and dad
Students can use paragraphs to
sort their letter in logical order
Students can write a coherent
piece of writing

MUSIC
Maths Graphing
Collect data, organise into
categories and create
displays using lists,
tables, picture graphs and
simple column graphs,
with and without the use
of digital
technologies (ACMSP069
)

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Play around the world asking

students different maths questions
Children to be in groups of 4 each
group to get a packet of starburst
babies
Students are to use the starburst
babies to create a graph of their choice
ie bar, column, pie
Students to write at least 3 statements
about their graphs
Those who finish early to create
another graph based on the starburst
babies ie pose

o Students can use a tally to help

them collect their data

o Students can accurately draw a

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graph depicting the colours of

the starburst babies
Students can correctly label
their graph (x,y axis, title)

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TUESDAY 1.12.15
Science
Reading

Excursion to the wetlands

Rotation of reading groups

Reciprocal Teaching Nativity story

(ACELY1680)

Writing Letters
(ACELY1682)

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Children to finish off their letters

Publishing on the computers
Focusing on proof reading their work

Inquiry

Students finishing off their cyber safety

video
Rehearsing and filming

Students can proofread their

own work focussing on their
spelling, grammar and
punctuation
Group collaboration

WEDSNESDAY 2.12.15
Reading
(ACELY1680)

Jesse Tree
Reading groups rotation

Maths AFL measurement

activity

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Writing
Explanation

(ACELY1682)

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Art Christmas Card

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ADVENT MASS PRACTICE

Around the world time table activity
Introduce the students to the AFL
ticket problem (100 tickets short)
Explain to the class that they need to
design the last 100 tickets for the
match
Discuss what I need to design my
ticket
e.g. length, width, area, perimeter
Students are to complete the ticket
problem in their workbook using the
traffic light system
Sharing
Explanation on how they celebrate
Christmas at home
General topic statement series of
what, how and why statements
conclusion main idea
Show children a plan of how my family
celebrate Christmas
Children to use the explanation plan to
tell how their family celebrate
Christmas at home and why
Sharing their plans critical feedback

Children to create a Christmas card for

their parents
Using a twig students are to glue that
onto a piece of paper
Then using the cut out coloured paper
children are to create a Christmas tree
like figure
THURSDAY 3.12.15
PLANNING

Reciprocal teaching the nativity

story
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Students can accurately draw a

rectangle and label the length
and width
Students can find the area of a
rectangle
Students can find the perimeter
of a rectangle

Students can use the provided

plan to identify what their family
does on Christmas day
Students can use a range of
factual information, personal
information to help their
explanation
Students use paragraphs,
correct spelling, grammar and
punctuation
Students include a general topic
statement, series of what/ how
and why statements and a
conclusion

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Reading
(ACELY1680)

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Jesse Tree
Reading Group Rotations

Writing

Children to finish their plan if they

havent already
Show students my draft of my
explanation narrative
Drafting their explanation narratives
Focus group on how to make a good
paragraph, Capital letters, punctuation,
spelling

(ACELY1682)

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Students can use the provided

plan to identify what their family
does on Christmas day
Students can use a range of
factual information, personal
information to help their
explanation
Students use paragraphs,
correct spelling, grammar and
punctuation
Students include a general
topic statement, series of
what/ how and why
statements and a conclusion

ADVENT PRACTICE
FRIDAY 4.12.15
Reading
(ACELY1680)

Writing
(ACELY1682)

Maths
Measurement
Measure, order and
compare objects using
familiar metric units of
length, mass and capacity
(ACMMG061)

Art

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Jesse Tree
Reading Rotation

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Reflection on wetlands excursion

What they learnt
What they knew before
What they now know
Personal reflection on how they felt

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Play around the world with the class

Children to finish the AFL ticket activity
If they finish early they can complete a
money Christmas activity

Children to create a hessian Christmas

tree to take home to their family

Christmas Hessian
Tree

Advent Practice
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Criteria
o Students can use the
experience of their excursion to
the wetlands to write a
reflective piece of writing
o Students can use paragraphs,
correct spelling, punctuation
and grammar in their writing
o Students can use a range of
adjectives, nouns, adverbs,
pronouns in their writing
o Students can include in their
writing what they learnt, what
they knew before, what they
now know and how they felt
o Children can accurately label
their diagram
o Children can use their
multiplicative reasoning and
apply it to the questions
o Children can use their additive
thinking and apply it to
questions