Week 5

Past and Present

Learning Intentions

Students will:

  • explain how some aspects of daily life have changed over recent time while others have remained the same.
  • respond to questions about the recent past and familiar and unfamiliar places by collecting and interpreting information and data from observations and from sources provided
  • share stories about the past, and present observations and findings using everyday terms to denote the passing of time and to describe direction and location.

Past and Present Education

  • Discuss with parents / grandparents what schooling was like when they were at school.
  • What the teachers were like?
  • What the classroom looked like?
  • Differences of bags / stationery / uniform?

ACTIVITIES:

Past and Present

  • Color, cut and paste

School Past and Present

  • cut and glue onto venn diagram
  • Venn Diagram –
  • See the source image

Games to play at home

Early Years Throwing Skills Game | Learning 4 Kids

Mrs Breen’s dad sending Morse Code

WATCH THIS VEDEO TO SEE WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEFORE MOBILE PHONES

In the past, before telephones were invented, Morse Code was used to send messages. It was lots of sounds that made up words. To most people it just sounded like beeping noises but to a Telegraphist it was many words that made up sentences.  It was used during the war to send messages to soldiers families and was the main form of communication. Mrs Breens’s  father, Kevin, was one of these people who sent and received Morse Code.

In the video clip I was at a Morsecodians Reunion with dad and he was sending me a message saying hello Denise and telling me about the function we were at in Sydney.

Dad was present when the final Morse Code message was sent.

So different to the way we communicate these days.

MORSE CODE SYMBOLS AND A MORSE CODE KEY