Week 9, Term 3

REMINDERS
Colour Run- Fund raising ongoing at the moment
SAPSASA Fun Day - Notes are needed back with the small payment so we can prepare for the day out
Museum Excursion - Week 10 excursion (all free) but we need the consent note returned

READING
Please find the time to read everyday for 10 minutes or more.
Your challenge this week is to also try and get a cheeky snap of you reading in a spring weather setting. (be artistic if you dare)

(Get a picture and email it to Mr Whitehead if you can)(stevewhitehead@ardps.com)

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 (HD)
Factors Sheet and Practise the 6xtables
Factors Steet - Complete the factors sheet to assist the work we are doing in class.
Table groups will be given rewards for homework completed
6xTables - Don't forget to speed up your 6xTables for the weeks challenges.

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 8 on the following two sentences:

Nan sai desu ka?

Watashi/Boku wa ____sai desu.

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

Week 8, Term 3

REMINDERS
Colour Run- Fund raising ongoing at the moment
SAPSASA Fun Day - Notes are needed back with the small payment so we can prepare for the day out
Museum Excursion - Week 10 excursion (all free) but we need the consent note returned

READING
Please find the time to read everyday for 10 minutes or more.
Your challenge this week is to also try and get a cheeky snap of you eating while you read.
Reading while you eat. Can you get a photo reading with a favourite snack, at the dinner table or any other time that you are enjoying a munch.

(Get a picture and email it to Mr Whitehead if you can)(stevewhitehead@ardps.com)

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 (HD)
No new maths this week but you must have your homeloan application submitted and documents emailed to your teacher.

Home loan Application link (If not already done)

Email the documents listed below to your teacher:

• Google Drawing Mud Map of your house
• Floor Planner Design
• House Calculations Document
• Up to Date Budget

Examples Below:

House Calculation

Google Drawing Mud Map (With Measurements)

Current Budget

Floor Planner Screenshot

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 8 on the following two sentences:

Nan sai desu ka?

Watashi/Boku wa ____sai desu.

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

Week 7, Term 3

REMINDER/Notes coming home
Colour Run 
SAPSASA Fun Day
Museum Excursion

READING
Try and get a chance to take over the job your parent is doing and make them read to you while you do the job.
For example: Dad is vacuuming, or Mum is servicing the car. You take over the job and they read out loud to you)
Encourage them to use voices and make the book more exciting with their own expression. If someone gives you a funny look or says that you should be quiet, ask them to join and speak for a character with your parent
(Get a picture and email it to Mr Whitehead if you can)(stevewhitehead@ardps.com)

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 (HD)
This week you must make sure that you have your house project files ready for email submission. You will need a screenshot of:

• Google Drawing Mud Map of your house
• Floor Planner Design
• House Calculations Document
• Up to Date Budget

Examples Below:

House Calculation

Google Drawing Mud Map (With Measurements)

Current Budget

Floor Planner Screenshot

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 7 on the following two sentences:

Nan sai desu ka?

Watashi/Boku wa ____sai desu.

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

Week 6, Term 3

REMINDER
Book Week. Don't forget the Friday Assembly.
Please return the personal information sheets to make sure we have all the correct details. If no changes then please still return the forms

READING
Enjoy reading in a weird position.
Use voices and make the book more exciting with your own expression. If someone gives you a funny look or says that you should be quiet, ask them to join and speak for a character.
(Get a picture and email it to Mr Whitehead /Mr Wheaton if you can)

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 (HD)
This week you begin the design of your own new house
Make a birds eye view mudmap of your house.
When designing your mudmap you need to take into consideration:

• The block of land you has is 50m x 20m (L x W)
• You have a 'House Cost Calculator' sheet in your Civics folder.
• You must have 20% deposit for your loan by Week 7, Tuesday.
• You need to be able to make repayments of around 5% per year.
• Complete your Map on Google Drawing. (If not possible please use paper)

Show in metres and centimetres.
Use arrows to show from where to where
Refer to the example below from Havana.

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 6 on the following two sentences:

Nan sai desu ka?

Watashi/Boku wa ____sai desu.

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

Week 5, Term 3

REMINDER
Book Week. Don't forget the Friday Assembly.
Please return the personal information sheets to make sure we have all the correct details. If no changes then please still return the forms

READING
Enjoy reading to your teddy or family members.
If you have a younger sibling, take home a picture book and read it together or you read it to them.
Use voices and make the book more exciting with your own expression.
(Get a picture and email it to Mr Whitehead if you can)

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 (HD)
Measure your House
Make a birds eye view mudmap of your house.

Show in metres and centimetres.
Use arrows to show from where to where

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 5 (BA, NU, KO). There will also be a test on these words:  kazoku, okaasan, otousan, oneesan, oniisan, imouto, otouto, akachan.

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

Book Week Theme (Room 8)

The Book Week themeis Your Treasure
Room 8 are teaming up with their buddy classes (Rooms 19 & 20)
Our treasure is our Teddies and our costumes are our PJs (nightwear)
We have had a good chat about this theme and how it is a great example of a treasure we have as kids, perhaps our most valuable item. Our parents the take that treasure as it holds such wonderful memories.
As the older examples and mentors we are for our young buddy class we all thought their choice was a good one.
If a teddy is an issue please ask as my son has too many on his bed. Trackies, uggies, dressing gowns, onesies etc are all fine. Just make sure they are warm enough
Steve

Week 4, Term 3

REMINDER
WRITER'S FESTIVAL is this week, and room 7&8 had an engaging presentation from Deborah Abela and Dan McGuiness this morning.

READING
This weeks questions are from the pdf in your civics folder 'Civics wk1 and wk2' pages 9,10 & 11. Complete activities titled 'Definitions 1', 'Definitions 2' and 'Quiz'. They all relate to last weeks reading activities. To answer the questions you may need to use some of the reading skills you have learnt such as scanning and skimming, going back over the reading material to help find an answer. 

Use the document created in week 1 to answer the questions, include a heading 'week 4 homework' and a date.
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

• On a treasure map I found, the instructions were: From the palm tree, take two steps North, then four steps East. Where might I have started and where would I finish? Show this on a grid map that also uses one or more quadrants from the cartesian plane. Think carefully about how you would represent this information accurately on a  map that uses cardinal directions. 
• Spend a few minutes discussing with an adult about how the DPS or SEXTANT* (for deep space navigation) might work. *N.B this is not the other kind of sextant primarily used for ocean navigation...but maybe they're related.

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 Wednesday week 4 (A, TSU, HA, RE, MO, YO, SO, ZO, YA, CHI). There will also be a test on these words:  samui, hare, kumori, atsui, kyou.

DRAMA

'What skills are neeed to be a good mime?' (2-3 sentences)

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

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