Work on a daily Timetable and general Weekly Plan. For more help on planning and models call Jason Caldwell.

Each day:

 

English Reading

Gr1 to 3 spend 25 minutes sharing simple picture books or early readers if you have them. Hold the book so all can see and ask plenty of open ended questions around the pictures to help involve the children in the story. Point to the words and encourage the listeners to read along with you. Keep it relaxed and fun!
 
Grades 4 to 8 (SSR) 30-40 minutes doing Sustained Silent Reading. Ensure the book your student is reading is levelled correctly for independent reading. At the end of this time have the student retell orally to you what is happening in the story so far.

-Then they can complete a reading log, recording pages read, what’s happening and an example of a good description.

Writing 30-40 Minutes Lesson on descriptive tools

each week. Start with personification, looking at the example and have a go at writing 3 or 4 of your own
descriptive phrases and use personification to describe a common object. Share these together and
publish the one you like the most.

Publish, using the computer for the text in a large font, but illustrate by hand. Illustrations should also
personify the object you have described. For example, if you have described a chair with human legs, your
creative illustration will show the chair with human legs.

Writing Alternative 30-40 Minutes

Writing a story from your real life experiences, focusing on the main event (not getting there and getting
home).  Work on this story across a week. Work back in the draft adding descriptive information where needed.

Mathematics

Each day spend 10 minutes on a 10x10 maths grid, practicing speed in the use of patterns. Depending on ability,
this grid may be an addition grid: (single digit + single digit), (single + double digit or double + a double digit).
If you are working on your multiplication the grid should give you opportunity to practice your tables.
For students who know their tables, double digits along the top should be used. Grid example:

X
 2
 4
 8
 3
 6
 12
 5
 7
 9
2 4                
5                  
4                  
7                  
10                  
3                  
8                  
9                  
11                  
      2x2=4


Date:

Time:                           

Date and time each grid and have a reward for every
time you improve on your personal best time.










Grid Page          (print this template page)

                   
Date:
                    
                                         
                   
Time:
                    
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                   
Time
                    
                                         
                   
Date:
                    
                   



                   
                   
Date:
                    
                                         
                   
Time:
                    
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                   
Date:
                    
                                         
                   
Time:
                    
                 



                     
                   
Date:
                    
                                         
                   
Time:
                    
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                   
Date:
                    
                                         
                   
Time:
                    

For more information on how to improve your time check out  Jason’s Maths Notes where you can
learn patterns and systems for all the times tables and any single digit times a double digit operation.

Students can also work on 1 or 2 pages of a Maths Book each day, using a text from  a previous  year. 
If you do not have a text that is at the right level please make use of the Maths Work Sheet Creator.
Social Studies Project
Topic: “My Family and I”

Task 1. Draw up a clear diagram showing your family tree. Research and collect information so that
you are able to display key information about each person. This could be published on an A3 page or a
large piece of card.

Task 2. Draw up a timeline that shows the sequence of important events in your family's history and in
your own life so far. You may have 20 or more events dated with a brief description placed along this
timeline. Choose 10 events and illustrate 4 or 5 events from before your birth and 4 or 5 events from your own life.

Task 3. Interview a senior member of your family.

Ask:

    What was life like when you were my age and what has changed?

    What were your future hopes for the family and subsequent generations?

    How has technology changed your life?

    Think of two or three questions of your own…

Use a tape recorder for your interview and write a report. Younger students
will report on the main points discussed in the interview (around 100 to 200 words for Grade 4). Older
students will work in greater depth (around 600 to 800 words for Grade 8).

                       

Science
Complete 1 to 2 interactive science experiments per week. Students in Grade 4-6 should select from
 Junior Science Home Experiments.  ( this is not a Christian site, so please preview the material as there is
referece made to Evolution and "old age eath") Grade 7 and 8 should choose from this site also but might wish to
ask your own experimental question and design your own experiment to find an answer. If you
are new to experiments try to follow the process model below.
 

Write a report on each experiment covering: Topic, Question, Hypothesis, Method, Observation,
Result and Conclusion.

An example done by a Grade 5 student appears below:

Topic: Recovery Rates 

Question: What happens to your heart rate after exercise?
How long does it take for your heart to return to normal after exercise?
Research: We know the heart speeds up to supply the body with oxygen.

Method:
We will send Donnelly and Sam for a run to speed their heart rates. We will take their pulse rate
before and then after to find their beats/minute for every 30sec after the run.

Hypothesis:
We think that it will take about 1or 2 minutes for Donnellys heart to go back to its normal speed
and Sam’s about 4 minutes to go back to normal.


Data collection table:
Don                                                             Sam

Time since ex.
 Beats per 15 sec
 Beats per min
   Time since ex.
 Beats per 15 sec
 Beats per min
0 38 152   0 35 140
0.5 19 76   0.5 33 132
1       1 25 100
1.5       1.5 27 108
2       2 26 104
2.5       2.5 22 88
3       3 24 96
3.5       3.5 22 88
4       4 21 84
4.5       4.5 20 80
5       5 18 72
5.5       5.5 19 76
6       6 20 80

graph
Report on graph:
This graph shows that Sam’s heart rate went down a couple of beats and then went up again.
Sam must have been breathing a lot harder than he normally does. Sam’s heart rate went back to
normal after about six minutes. 
Donnelly’s graph shows that his heart rate went down quite fast and after about one minute his
heart was back to normal.

Results:
Our hypothesis was almost correct.

Conclusion:
We found out that Sam is not as fit as Donnelly. We found this out by sending Donnelly and Sam
for a run around the top field, and when they got back we measured theie heart rate. This study
shows that not everybodys'  heart rate turns back to normal straight away because everybody has
different levels of fitness. We could have improved this study by measuring the course that Sam
and Donnelly ran. We could also have improved this study by having different people at different
points along the run so that Sam and Donnelly could have run the same distance.  


Note: The Science and Social Studies assignments will run across 2-3 weeks.
This work will need to be monitored by you, the Parent, and will be marked by your teacher.
Please send in your assignments when you have finished.