100 Task Cards for Early Finishers - Years 1-2 by Teacher Superstore

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100 Task Cards For EARLY FINISHERS: YEARS 1-2

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Teachers’ Notes This resource includes 100 separate activity cards aimed at students in Years 1 and 2. These activity cards can be photocopied and laminated for reuse. It is suggested that you store these cards in the classroom so that your students have easy access to them. Students will possibly use the cards for extension activities when they have completed their set classroom tasks.

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Cards are linked to the core subject areas of: English, Maths, Science, History and Geography. It is expected that students will complete their responses to the activities in their workbooks or on blank sheets of paper. To make life easy for the teacher and student, minimum equipment is needed to complete the cards. Occasionally, the internet is needed and when this is the case, a picture of a computer indicates this.

Both classroom and relief teachers will find these cards ideal because they keep students busy and engaged. Also available are task cards for other year groups.

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Secret Agent Recount

Agent Fox has just completed a dangerous mission. He has stolen a precious diamond from the Queen's palace - but not before he was almost caught by some guards!

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Pretend that you are Agent Fox. Write a recount about your dangerous mission. Include:

1. Write the correct spelling for each word in your workbook.

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2. Create a sentence using these words.

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Poetry

1. Recite this poem to yourself.

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L – I – T – T – L – E, once I climbed a little tree. L – I – T – T – L – E, once I saw a little bee. L – I – T – T – L – E, the bee bit me on the knee!

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2. Now write your own poem like the one above but use a different word, e.g. B-I-G.

Compound Words

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A compound word is two words put together to make a bigger word.

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Combine the words below to make compound words, then write a sentence for each.

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Writing Sentences

Write a sentence to match each picture in your workbook.

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Draw a picture to match each sentence in your workbook.

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The big, bad wolf with pointy, sharp teeth is hungry.

The pink pig is eating a giant cupcake with a cherry on top.

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Storytime

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Look at the picture. What is each animal saying to the bird? Write it down in your workbook.

1. Write a synonym for each word in your workbook.

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Five Words That Describe You

1. Trace around your hand on a blank piece of paper.

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2. Write five words that describe you.

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Choose a book from the classroom that you have read and write a book review. 1. Write down the title of the book. 2. Write down the name of the author. 3. Write a sentence to describe the story. 4. What is your favourite part of the story? 5. How many stars do you give this book?

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle The Caterpillar eats lots of food and turns into a butterfly. When the caterpillar eats the apple.      10

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Three Wishes

1. Imagine a fairy gives you three wishes. Write your three wishes in your workbook.

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Here are my three wishes:

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That I could fly.

2. Can you write three wishes for your family or a friend?

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Calligrams are words made to look like their meaning. They can be a lot of fun!

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Rhyming Words

What words rhyme with the words below? Make a list in your workbook.

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Busy means there is a lot going on. A city is usually a very busy place.

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What Makes A Great Friend?

Read the ingredients needed for a great friendship below, then write your own in your workbook.

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Friendship Recipe

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A friend is:

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The Great Unjumble

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1. Unjumble these sentences so they make sense.

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got Everyone ice-creams swimming after.

2. Write a sentence about what you like to do at the beach.

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Acrostic

An acrostic poem is a poem where the letters at the beginning of each line spell out a word. Look at the example below. Read the poem, then have a go at writing your own.

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What makes you happy? Write a list and draw pictures of the things that make you happy.

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Make A New Word You will need

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Rearrange the letters of the following words so that each one forms a new word:

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Imagine that you could have any animal in the world for a pet. In your workbook, describe what it eats, where it will sleep, and what games you will play together. Look at the example below.

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What it eats: insects Where it sleeps: my bedroom Games: hide and seek 15

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Sharing

1. I have 12 lollies. How many ways can the lollies be shared evenly? Draw a picture in your workbook to help you work it out.

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2. What if I have 24 lollies? How many people can I share them with evenly? Write your answer in your workbook. Did you get the same answer as your friend?

Cities have lots of different buildings that are made up of many different shapes.

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Design your own city using as many different shapes as you can. Draw it in your workbook. You might like to give your city a name, e.g. Star City.

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Uncle Art

Uncle Art has just learned to paint. He has painted three paintings called ‘Tree’, ‘Pig’, and ‘Dog’. Uncle Art wants to hang his paintings on the wall in a straight line but he can’t figure out which order to put them in.

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2. If Uncle Art hangs the paintings in the shape of a triangle, how many different ways could he hang them? Draw your answers in your workbook.

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Mum and I went to the shops.

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1. How many different ways can you order Uncle Art’s pictures? Draw your answer in your workbook.

“Ok what’s on the list?” asked Mum. I had a look. “First on the list is bread,” I told her. So we headed to the bakery. “That will be $2.65,” the lady said. I watched as mum pulled out the exact amount of coins from her purse and handed them over.

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What might the coins be that my Mum pays with? Write your answer in your workbook.

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Number Patterns

Look at these numbers. What comes next? Write the answers in your notebook.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, _____

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, _____

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10, 8, 6, 4, _____

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Sam is helping his Dad re-tile the bathroom floor. Sam’s Dad wants to use a tile shaped like a hexagon.

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1. Draw the tiled floor using eight hexagons in your workbook. 2. Colour in your pattern using three colours.

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Draw Smallest to Tallest

Meet the Charter family! There is Mum, Dad, Ella, Mike and Shane. They are all different heights.

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or eBo st r e p ok u S draw what they might look like based In your workbook,

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Ella is taller than Mike.

Mike is the shortest.

Shane is taller than Ella.

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on the information below. Dad is the tallest.

Shane is shorter than Mum.

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Dad

There are 24 cookies on a tray ready to go into the oven. How could they be arranged on the tray? Draw the possibilities in your workbook.

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Balloons For Sale

Read the information below, then answer the questions.

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Bobo the clown is selling seven round balloons and one heart shaped balloon. The seven round balloons are the same price and total 70c altogether. The total of all eight balloons is $1.00.

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big heart balloon in your workbook. Write the price of each balloon inside it.

2. If Bobo wants to double his money, write the price of each balloon (use a different colour).

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In your workbook, write how many shapes in each box are coloured in.

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Pizza Puzzle

Crazy Joe made pizzas in four different sizes: small, medium, large and jumbo. Joe cut his jumbo pizza into 12 pieces, he cut the large pizza into nine pieces, the medium into six and the small pizza into three.

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or eBo st r e p ok u 2. How many pieces S is there if you buy a small and a large pizza?

3. How many more pieces does the large pizza have than the small pizza? 4. If each pizza piece costs 50 cents, how much does each pizza cost?

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Answer the questions in your workbook. 1. Which was the largest pizza?

Use your ruler and measure how long each line is. Write your answers in your workbook.

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Double Up Look at each set of shapes. Draw twice as many shapes for each set in your workbooks. Write down the number of shapes that you have drawn.

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Large numbers can be counted more quickly and easily if they are grouped into tens first. E.g. There are 10 white beads and 10 black beads on this string. 2 x 10 = 20.

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answers in your workbook.

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Counting At The Beach

Here is the Smith family on holiday on the beach. Count how many you can see of each object. Write the answers in your workbook.

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a. children

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Abacus

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An abacus can be used to represent a number and show how many hundreds, tens and ones make up the number. For example, the abacus (right) represents the number 217. In this number, there are 2 hundreds, 1 ten and 7 ones.

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Hundreds

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A Walk To The Park

It is a bit of a walk to get to Sarah's closest park. She turns left out of her house, takes the next right and then the third left and the park is at the end of that street.

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How do you get to your closest park? In your workbook, draw a map and show the path that you take .

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Answer the questions below in your workbook.

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1. Draw three ways to make a dollar using Australian coins.

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2. What is the least amount of coins you could use to make $1 without using a $1 coin? make $1?

4. I made $2 using exactly 5 coins. What coins might they be?

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Number Satellites

Copy these number satellites into your workbook and then solve them. The first one has been done for you. Arrange the numbers a. Arrange the 4,5,6 and 7 so that each numbers 3,4,5 and line adds up to 14. 6 so that each line adds up to 11.

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b. Arrange the numbers 5,6,7 and 8 so that each line adds up to 17.

Measurement

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Traditional Aboriginal Peoples did not measure objects using rulers and tape measures. Instead they used everyday objects to calculate lengths.

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pencil sharpener, then measure the c. work book items (right) using the small object d. desk that you have chosen. Write the measurements in your workbook, e.g. a. pencil = 5 paperclips

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Same But Different

2. A cat and a bird are different because …

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Here are two living things. Write a sentence to describe how a cat and bird are the same but different.

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Our most important needs are:

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water

1. In your workbook, rank the basic needs above from most important (1) to least important (7). 2. Can you think of another basic need? Draw it in your workbook. 28

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Rainbow Colours

1. Write out the seven colours of the rainbow in your workbook.

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When you see a rainbow the sun is always behind you and there is rain in the direction of the rainbow.

2. Draw yourself, the sun, a rainbow and the rain.

Sun, Moon, Earth

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The Sun is so big that you could fit more than 1 million Earths inside of it. The Sun measures more than a million kilometres across. It takes four moons to cover the diameter of the Earth.

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99 Draw the sun, moon and earth in your workbooks. 99 Which is the biggest? 99 Which is the smallest?

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The girl is an energy source.

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The swing is an energy receiver.

Draw another energy source and energy receiver in your workbook. Write three sentences like the example above.

Glass

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In your workbook answer the following questions.

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1. List three things in your classroom that are made from glass.

o c . chthat 2. Translucent means you can see e r e o t r through something. Opaque means that s sup r e you cannot see through something. Is glass translucent or opaque?

3. Describe what is good about a cup being made of glass. 4. Describe what is bad about a cup being made of glass.

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Kitchen Rules

Look at the picture below. Write three rules when preparing food in the kitchen.

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Our bodies need sleep to rest, restore energy and grow.

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things often go wrong.

2. List some of the things that might happen when you are tired.

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Saving Water

Water is scarce. We should save as much as possible. Make a poster about ‘Saving Water at Home’. Choose your water saving ideas then check that you have included:

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Pet Pooch

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You are going on holidays and leaving your dog with a friend. You have packed a bag for your dog but your friend doesn’t know what to do with all the things you’ve packed.

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Write a note in your workbook to your friend explaining how to look after your dog.

Dear Friend, Every day you will need to …

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Senses

1. Write down which parts of the body we use to …

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Smell or eBo Touch st r e p ok u S Hear

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2. Draw a picture of your favourite things to see, smell, touch, hear and taste.

A New Habitat

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Animals live in different places. These places are called habitats.

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o c . che e r o r 1. In your workbook, write ap liste st su r Incy Wincy Spider is looking for a new habitat.

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of all the places Incy Wincy might like to live. Think about what Incy needs.

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Natural And Built

A tree and a lake are natural.

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or eBo st r e p ok u A road and aS house are built or made by people.

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1. In your workbook, draw two more natural things.

2. In your workbook, draw two more things made by people.

Push And Pull

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Pushing or pulling objects can make them move.

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The man is pulling the carrot.

The woman is pushing the swing.

Draw other pictures of pushing and pulling in your workbook.

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What Do You See?

In your workbook, describe what you see in each of the pictures, then answer the questions.

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3. What is different?

2. How do you know?

4. What is the same?

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Natural And Human Made

Look at the materials below, then answer the questions in your workbook.

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The natural object is the ______________, this material was used to make the ____________.

2. Can you think of three more natural materials and what can be made with each? Write them down in your workbook.

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In your workbook, write down the sources of light in each picture.

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Your family is a group that you belong to. There are many different types of families all around the world.

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Every job has special responsibilities. Choose a job. In your workbook, write a short description of what that person does. Draw a picture. Look at the example below.

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who works at a school. He/she has a class full of students who they look after and teach.

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Rock Art

Rock art is an important part of Aboriginal history.

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People choose to belong to groups. For example, maybe you are part of a swimming or arts and crafts group.

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Think of a group you are in or have been in. Answer the questions below in your workbooks. Look at the example. belong to?

2. When do you meet? 3. What do you do there? 4. Why it is great to be a part of this group?

2. I go to karate on Thursday at the gym. 3. Kicks and jumps. 4. I love to jump high.

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Stranded!

If our needs are met, then we can survive wherever we are. Pretend that you are stranded in a desert for one week on your own. Complete the questions in your workbook.

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Some chores that we do in the home have changed and some have stayed the same.

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Technology And Travel

Technology has changed the way that we travel. Complete the questions below in your workbook.

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Technology has changed the way that we listen to music. Complete the questions below in your workbook.

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2. Write down all the items you can listen to music on at home and at school.

3. Draw the item you like to listen to your favourite song on.

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Indigenous Australians do not write things down to remember the past, instead they pass on stories by telling them. These stories are known as The Dreaming.

Look at the two scenes above from a Dreaming Story which explains how a lake was formed. What do you think happened? Write it in your workbook.

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Tiddalik the frog has drunk all the water and the animals have nothing to drink. The animals have planned to make Tiddalik laugh so he will spill the water back out.

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Artefacts

Artefacts are objects that can tell us about the past.

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important to lots of people, or it might be special for just you and your family. Draw your special place in your workbook and say why it is special.

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Merit

Job: Music Teacher

A Big Thank You For All The Work You Do

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Think about all the people who work at your school. Choose one person to write and present a merit certificate to, to thank them for the work that they do. Create the certificate in your workbook.

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Similar And Different

The two pictures below show the same place. Picture A is much older than Picture B. Can you date them? B. Australia Today

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A. Before European Settlement

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An area of local bushland is about to be cleared and developed into a housing estate. Imagine you are one of the animals that live in the bushland. Write a speech against the development from your point of view.

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Tracking The Past

Photographs can tell us how things have changed over time.

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1. Look at the two pictures. In your workbook, write a sentence to say how technology has changed over time.

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How Old Is Your School?

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There are many places that tell us a story about the past. Your school is one of these places.

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Find out how old your school is and complete one of the following in your workbook: Draw something that has changed about your school. Imagine you are going to interview a student that belonged to your school a long time ago. List five questions. Create a poster to celebrate the history of your school. 48

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We expect to find certain objects in a place.

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1. Look at each picture set below. In your workbook, write down which place each set of pictures belong to. 2. Draw something else that belongs to each place.

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Advertising Local

Choose a place in your local community that you think a tourist would like to visit, e.g. a special playground or a community garden. Create a poster to advertise it in your workbook.

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Animals Around The World

Different animals live in different places all around the world.

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Help Ben Get To 'Right Park'

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Ben went to the wrong park to meet his friend. In your workbook, write one way he can get from 'Wrong Park' to 'Right Park'.

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89 Rivers • pencil • sheet of paper/workbook

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When snow on the top of a mountain melts, it forms little streams. These little streams meet to create a larger river. This is known as the source of a river. The water from the river runs into the ocean. This is known as the mouth of the river. Copy the diagram into your workbook and use the labels to label it.

Hills and mountains are both natural features that are not made by humans.

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A managed feature is a natural feature which is managed by people. For example, a mowed lawn or a watered plant are managed features.

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Draw a timeline in your workbook to show the sequence of the seasons, beginning with summer.

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A Favourite Country

The world is a big place! Do you have a favourite country or have you visited another country?

Favourite Country

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Write three points about your favourite country in your workbook. Think about:

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95 It's A Sign! You will need

Signs tell us where places are. You probably saw a sign on your way to school. There will be many signs located around your school as well.

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3. Design a flag with a new symbol for your house or faction.

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97 North, South, East And West We can use terms such as 'north', 'south', 'east' and 'west' to describe the location of continents in the world in relation to one another.

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E.g. Europe is north of Africa.

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Near And Far

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I live in Bayswater.

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Auntie Jo lives far away from me.

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Section 2: Maths

Task Card 1 - Secret Agent Recount Answers will vary - teacher to check.

Task Card 21 - Sharing 1. There are five ways that 12 lollies can be shared evenly. 2 people = 6 lollies each; 3 people = 4 lollies each; 4 people = lollies each; 6 people = lollies each; 12 people = 1 lolly each. 2. There are 7 ways that 24 lollies can be shared evenly. 2 people = 12 lollies each; 3 people = 8 lollies each; 4 people = 6 lollies each; 6 people = 4 lollies each; 8 people = 3 lollies each; 12 people = 2 lollies each. 24 people = 1 lolly each.

Task Card 2 - Spell It Right two, rain, monkey, wash Task Cards 3 -7 Answers will vary - teacher to check.

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Task Card 13 - Rhyming Words Suggested answers: Clap: app, cap, gap, lap, map, nap, rap, sap, tap, zap, flap, trap, wrap, snap, zap. Yell: bell, cell, gel, sell, tell, fell, shell, smell, spell, swell, well Peek: speak, beak, cheek, greek, leek, leick, meek, peak, seek, sleek, sneak, speak, squeak, weak

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Task Card 22 - Shaping Up To Be A Great City Answers will vary - teacher to check.

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Task Card 26 - A Hexagon Pattern Teacher to check. Task Card 27 -Draw Smallest to Tallest In order of tallest to shortest: Dad, Mum, Shane, Ella, Mike

Task Card 28 - Cookie Arrangement 24 cookies can be arranged in the following arrays: 8 x 3, 3 x 8, 2 x 12, 12 x 2, 4 x 6, 6 x 4 Task Card 29 - Balloons For Sale 1. 7 round balloons 10c each + 1 heart balloon 30c = $1.00 2. 7 round balloons 20c each + 1 heart balloon 60c = $2.00 Task Card 30 - Counting Shapes A.6; B.5; C.5; D.7

Task Card 40 - Measurement Answers will vary - teacher to check.

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Task Card 41 - Same But Different Answers will vary - teacher to check. Task Card 42 - Basic Needs Answers will vary - teacher to check.

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Task Card 31 - Pizza Puzzle 1. Jumbo 2. 12 pieces 3. 6 4. jumbo $6, large $4.50, medium $3, small $1.50

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Task Card 43 - Rainbow Colours 1. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet Task Card 44 - Sun, Moon, Earth Teacher to check.

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Task Card 37 - A Walk To The Park Teacher to check.

Task Card 38 - Money 1. Students could draw the following possibilities: 20c + 20c + 20c + 20c + 20c 50c + 50c 50c + 20c + 20c + 10c 20c + 20c + 20c + 10c + 10c + 5c + 5c + 5c + 5c 2.50c and 50c 3.20 x 5c 4.$1, 50c, 20c, 20c and 10c

Task Card 51 - Senses 1. See - Eyes, Smell - nose, Touch - hands, Hear - ears, Taste - tongue. Answers will vary - teacher to check. Task Card 55 - What Do You See? Answers will vary - teacher to check. Task Card 56 - Being Green Answers will vary - teacher to check. Task Card 57 - Natural And Human Made 1. The natural object is the sand, this material was used to make the glass. 61

Task Card 58 - Features Of A Pet Answers will vary - teacher to check. Task Card 59 - Sources Of Light Picture 1: lampshade, ceiling light, three candles Picture 2: candle, sun, torch Picture 3: fire, torch, moon Picture 4: stage and aisle lighting, watch

Task Cards 95-96 Answers will vary - teacher to check. Task Card 97 Europe is north of Africa. South America is west of Africa. Antarctica is south of Africa. Australia is east of Africa. Task Cards 98-100 Answers will vary - teacher to check.

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