Week 5, Term 2 (please +1 if you receive this)

This weeks homework includes all the information for the student History projects.

Year 5 and Year 6 students have different curriculum focus topics.

We have attached the homework assignments and assessment rubrics below.

Year 5's focus is - Investigating Colonial Life in Australia.

Assignment

Rubric

Year 6's focus is - Contributions to Australian Society.

Assignment

Rubric

Although this is an individual assignment and we will be spending a considerable amount of time in class working on it and explicitly teaching aspects, we are hoping that students take the opportunity to extend their work and presentation skills using their homework time. 

Obviously we don't want parents doing the majority of the assignment for their child but we both encourage that parents take particular interest in this assignment and assist the students with: 

• Researching - locating quality information and visuals (photos and videos)
• Writing - Making sure that the information on their website is in their own words (not copied)
• Website - Helping from a users point of view. Is the website easy to navigate, engaging and informative?

MATHS
This week's focus is fractions. In the LSCWC book (on the page opposite this weeks LSCWC) please create a numberline from 0 to 1.
Place the following fractions in the correct spot.

• 1/4, 3/4, 2/8, 1/5, 1/10, 1/2, 7/10, 3/8

SPELLING
Complete your look, say, cover, write, check in their LSCWC small notebook.
The 4 boxes in their LSCWC book need to be completed by Thursday.
It is best that they complete a LSCWC on separate nights. Some kids have shown great improvement with a practice test also given by their parents on one night. Please get them to slip/staple any extra practice evidence into their book, to show us.(LSD)

READING
Read for ten minutes every night or twenty minutes three times in a week.
Please find a way to quietly read to yourself near a heater. (PLEASE get photo evidence)
Write a journal each week about your weeks reading. Please try to write an entry that details the developments over the week and be descriptive so that a person who has not read the text can clearly imagine the story. (In your LSCWC book by Friday morning)
You may want to include details like: 

• Character developments 
• Describing the setting
• Plot changes
• Predictions of future events

We will be asking students to share their journals throughout the weeks.
Also thank you for all of the photos being emailed to us. Don't stop. We are still collecting the photos for a school presentation.

JAPANESE

Begin hiragana character recognition/practice.

(SD) - Studyladder Dojo
(LSD) - LSCWC Dojo
(SpellD) - Spelling Dojo
(HD) - Homework Dojo
(B) - Brave risk