Week 9, Term 2

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

CLASS CELEBRATION
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 6,7 & 8.(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.

MATHS
This week's focus is decimals. In the LSCWC book (on the page opposite this weeks LSCWC) please replicate the table below.

Find the amount saved for each BMX (estimate every bike before calculating)

	Full Price	Percentage off	Estimated Amount Saved	Amount Saved
Haro Pro Tribute	$900	20%
Mongoose Supergoose	$1300	30%
Redline	$700	15%
GT Free Style	$480	10%
Free Agent Ambush	$550	5%

b.  Which will be the cheapest Bike?

c. Which one would you buy?

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 9 (E,U,MA,RO,DO,GI). There will also be a test on these words:  kita, minami, higashi, nishi.(directions NSEW).

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

Week 8, Term 2

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

READING
Read and answer the Gold Rush comprehension PDFs in their Google Drive. Pages 4 & 5.(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.

MATHS
This week's focus is decimals. In the LSCWC book (on the page opposite this weeks LSCWC) please create a numberline from 0 to 10.
Place the following numbers in the correct spot.

5.5       0.5      4/2      24/3    7.5      9/10      60/10   

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
Continue with project.

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 8 (RI, KI, NA, NI, MI).

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

Reports have come home with all students today.

Just a reminder that all reports have come home today. Each reports also have a reminder for the interview bookings for Weeks 8 & 9.

Week 7, Term 2

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

This week students are expected to continue with their 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 decimals. In the LSCWC book (on the page opposite this weeks LSCWC) please create a numberline from 0 to 1.
Place the following numbers in the correct spot.

1/10     0.75     1/4    0.8     0.5    2/8     0.01


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 and answer the Gold Rush comprehension PDFs in their Google Drive. (History folder)
Students have created a new document in their History folder to answer all questions on. 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.

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 Monday week 8 (RI, JI, TO, O, DO).

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

Week 6, Term 2

This week students are expected to continue with their 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 decimals. In the LSCWC book (on the page opposite this weeks LSCWC) please create a numberline from 0 to 1.
Place the following decimals in the correct spot.

0.75     0.25     0.8     0.5     0.1     0.01


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 in a sunny place (inside or out). (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

Prepare a slides presentation displaying all the characters we have learnt so far.

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

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

DanceEDU Sessions After School

*Note sent out during NAPLAN chaos, may have been missed*

It is beginning to look like we have enough interest for afterschool DanceEDU Sessions. Contact Kellie ASAP, if you are interested in dancing on Monday afternoons. (0400241106 or see flyer for email etc)
If you've never really danced before or you're a seasoned pro, you'll love the fun approach and learn a new dance every week.
If you enjoyed the DanceEDU sessions at school, then you will love the after-school classes.
Hope to see you there.

Week 4, Term 2

Week 4, Term 2
Reminder that Year 5 students will be doing their NAPLAN catch up tests this week. Due to this our regular daily timetable will be slightly different. Also the use of Chromebooks by students who are not being tested will be limited until Wednesday.

TIMES TABLES
This week's focus are the 5 & 9 times tables. Be creative. Be able to show/demonstrate and explain to us how you practised.
e.g. Can you say them aloud, first using odd ( 1x9, 3x7...) then even (2x7, 4x7...). Or saying them backwards.

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
Each day, read one of the online texts that are provided in our students History folder within their Google Drive.
Monday & Tuesday is Convict Labourers
Wednesday & Thursday is Domestic Servants

We will be discussing these in class and using the texts within History writing over the next 3 weeks.

JAPANESE

Begin hiragana character recognition/practice.

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

Week 3, Term 2

Week 3, Term 2
Reminder that Year 5 students will be doing their NAPLAN tests this week. Due to this our regular daily timetable and homework will be different. Also the use of Chromebooks by students who are not being tested will not be possible.

TIMES TABLES
This week's focus are the 3 & 7 times tables. Be creative. Be able to show/demonstrate and explain to us how you practised.
e.g. Can you say them aloud, first using odd ( 1x7, 3x7...) then even (2x7, 4x7...). Or saying them backwards.

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
Each day, read one required comprehension sheet and answer all questions. We will be discussing the text the following day to look at how to improve reading and comprehension skills.

JAPANESE

Begin hiragana character recognition/practice.

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

Week 2, Term 2

Week 2, Term 2
Reminder that Year 5 students will be doing their NAPLAN tests in week 3. Due to this our regular timetable leading up to and during the tests is likely to vary - possibly at short notice.

TIMES TABLES
This week's focus are the 6 & 9 times tables. Be creative. Be able to show/demonstrate and explain to us how you practised.
e.g. Can you say them aloud, first using odd ( 1x6, 3x6...) then even (2x6, 4x6...). Or saying them backwards.

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
Each day, read one required comprehension sheet and answer all questions. We will be discussing the text the following day to look at how to improve reading and comprehension skills.

JAPANESE

There will be a short test in week 2 on the maths words and sentences we have been using. Please use the document shared with you Japanese in the Classroom to help you learn.

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