Egg Sitting

Please remember to bring a tissue box or a different container to school on TUESDAY so that we can begin or egg sitting challenge.

Storybird Homework Assignment

Your task is to use Storybird to come up with a children’s book. This book should target students from Year 1-3.

Your story must be at least 10 pages long, use correct formatting and spelling, be creative and be at least 400 words long to get top marks. You must also include at least two similes / metaphors, direct and indirect speech and use alternatives to the word ‘said’.

For this assignment, you are free to write about anything you want BUT it must be fiction and your own work.

You cannot retell another story, or use characters from another book. You will need to log in to Storybird and complete the assignment that is set up.

CLICK HERE for the rubric for this assignment.

This story must be completed and PUBLISHED (publishing involves clicking on Publish on the website), by MONDAY, September 2.

If you have any questions, please post them below.

Mental Maths Homework

Mental Maths homework is BACK!

Below are links to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems.

You are required to rule up your HOMEWORK books into 3cm columns and write the answers in these (25 lines down). You can print out the sheets if you would like, but you do not need to.

Click on the following link to open the worksheets.
ADDITION (one column due each MONDAY)
SUBTRACTION (one column due each TUESDAY)
MULTIPLICATION (one column due each WEDNESDAY)
DIVISION (one column due each THURSDAY)

Column 1 due Week 6
Column 2 due Week 7
Column 3 due Week 8
Column 4 due Week 9
Column 5 due Week 10

Please time how long it takes you to do a column and record it at the bottom. If it takes you longer than THREE minutes, you are able to stop.

Other columns are optional. If you cannot open these files (You will need Adobe Reader) you must see Mr Sim BEFORE it is due.

Homework- What causes a volcanic eruption?

Some students were at Wakakirri Practice during science today, or did not finish their work. This means that it needs to be done for homework. Remember: If you are involved in EXTRA activities (eg Wakakirri, Choir, Leadership) you are expected to catch up on missed work. If this is not done it may prevent your participation in these activities into the future.

It should be completed in your SCIENCE book by Thursday. The information is able to be found in this week’s fluency text.

Click Here for the list of questions. You will need to copy down any questions that are written in blue. You do not need to copy down anything in red. Questions 2 and 6 should be written as FULL SENTENCE ANSWERS.

DUE: THURSDAY

Favourite Children’s Books

What is your favourite children’s book?

Your task is to bring your favourite children’s book (picture book) to class. They should be picture books that are aimed at children from about 5-8 year olds (not novels or comics!).

It is important that your book is FICTION and tells a story. It must have a beginning, a middle (climax of the story) and an ending (resolution).

You need to bring in the book by WEDNESDAY (August 7). If you do not have a book you need to borrow one or get one out of the library at recess.

Here are some of my favourites! What are yours?

Home Electricity Use

Your task is to find out how much electricity your house uses each day (in kWh).
You are not required to find out how much it costs, but how much is used on average each day. This should be listed on your household electricity bill.

You also need to list in your homework book the items in your house that would use the most electricity (TVs, computers, heaters, fridges and pools)- Including their sizes. You should also include which items are connected to gas, solar and electricity.

You also need to record the number of bedrooms and bathrooms you have.

Please also record the TIME OF THE YEAR the information is from (For example- June / July).

This is due on FRIDAY.

Family Tree Homework Task

Below is the homework task that was set today. This task involves investigating your family tree and where each member of your family was born (Either the country or state). If you are unable to complete any part of your family tree, please leave it blank.

The second part of the homework task is to investigate WHY members of your family migrated to another country (or state). You are to record WHY members of your family migrated to Australia (or another country) in your homework book.

We will then use this information for our next part of our lesson on the pull and push factors of migration.

THIS TASK IS DUE ON MONDAY AUGUST 5.

CLICK HERE if you need another copy of the family tree.

If anyone finds out anything interesting about their family tree or can remember what a PUSH and PULL factor of migration is, please comment below.

Shoe Boxes

Please remember to bring in a shoe box AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, so that we can begin out T & E Project early in the week.