Week 2, Term 3

REMINDER
WRITER'S FESTIVAL is Week 4, starting with our visiting authors Deborah Abela and Dan McGuiness on Monday August 13th.  We have started reading 'Grimsdon' by Deborah Abela for our class novel.
Please pay for this incursion as soon as possible if you have not done so already. We consider this incursion to be very worthwhile, and extremely good value for money.
Table points (200/100) and class points (20 per student) if all payments made.

READING
Read and answer the Civics PDFs in their Google Drive: (Monday to Thursday)
For Week 2 the documents are:
1) Read PDF 'Australian Democracy' pages 1-11.
2) Read  'A Good Representative' + and complete activity on A4 paper. Make a 'Job Advertisement' poster.
What kind of skills would a federal representative need?

Use the document created on Monday to answer the questions, unless told otherwise.
We will check and mark all questions on Friday.

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)

MATHS
See Maths tasks at the end of the Drive Time document. There are three. We will look at the first one on Tueday morning. The rest by Friday.

JAPANESE

Continue to work on your own slides presentation that displays all the characters we have learned so far. Spend a few minutes each night reviewing the characters. There will be a test on Friday week 10 (NE, TE, DE, MU, I). There will also be a test on these words:  ii, tenki, desu, ne, migi, hidari, mae, ushiro.

DRAMA

Drama homework this week.


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

Week 1, Term 3

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 3
Hope you all had a relaxing holiday and you're now  re-energised for a fun-filled, action packed Term 3.

IMPORTANT REMINDER:
WRITER'S FESTIVAL is Week 4, starting with our visiting authors Deborah Abela and Dan McGuiness on Monday August 13th.  We have started reading 'Grimsdon' by Deborah Abela for our class novel.
Please pay for this incursion as soon as possible if you have not done so already. We consider this incursion to be very worthwhile, and extremely good value for money.

READING
Read and answer the Civics PDFs in their Google Drive: (Monday to Thursday)
What is democracy?
Democratic values - freedom
Democratic values - equality
Who we vote for

Use the document created on Monday to answer the questions.
We will check and mark all questions on Friday.

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)

MATHS
Divide the graph paper provided into four parts. Draw a cartesian plane in each section (4 altogether). In each cartesian plane draw the following shapes (triangle, square, pentagon, own choice - more than 5 points). There should be only one shape on each cartesian plane. Now record the co-ordinates for each shape.

JAPANESE

Continue to work on your own slides presentation that displays all the characters we have learned so far. Spend a few minutes each night reviewing the characters. There will be a test on Friday week 10 (NE, TE, DE, MU, I). There will also be a test on these words:  ii, tenki, desu, ne, migi, hidari, mae, ushiro.

SCIENCE

Science homework this week.

DRAMA

Drama homework this week.


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

(B) - Brave risk

Week 10, Term2

(Students will earn a privilege this week if their parent +1s this post)

CLASS CELEBRATION - Don't Forget this Wednesday
Room 7 & 8 have worked hard in Term 2 and deserve to celebrate their efforts and achievements. We will  celebrate with a shared lunch on Wednesday 4th July, Week 10.
We ask that students bring a plate of food to share:
Room 7 - savoury
Room 8 - sweet
Thank you.

READING
Read and answer the Gold Rush comprehension PDFs in their Google Drive. Pages 10,11 & 12.(History folder)
Students continue on entering answers in the document they created last week. Each question directly relates to the comic strip style pages that are also in their drive.
We will check and mark all questions on Friday.

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)

HISTORY
Add final touches and edits to their projects which will be graded this week. We recomend that students present the website to someone at home and answer questions about each of their pages and why they have created pages, added information and how they found their information.

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?

JAPANESE

Continue to work on your own slides presentation that displays all the characters we have learned so far. Spend a few minutes each night reviewing the characters. There will be a test on Friday week 10 (NE, TE, DE, MU, I). There will also be a test on these words:  ii, tenki, desu, ne, migi, hidari, mae, ushiro.

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

(B) - Brave risk