All activities for students in 3/4/5/6 can be found on Google Classroom

Spelling

• Look, Cover, Write, Check each word from your spelling list

• Complete your Word Sorts

  • Yellow Group - u-e, ui, oo, oddball

  • Green Group - ir, ire, ier

  • Blue Group - Final Syllable -er, -or, -ar, -ur

  • Orange Group - Prefixes uni, bi, tri, oddball

  • Red Group - Latin Prefixes micro, mega, hyper, super

• Create a Find-a-word of your list words from this week (or if you want to challenge yourself, create a crossword)

Reading

• The Super Six Reading Strategy for this week is Summarising

• Comprehension Activity - re-watch your BTN article this week and complete the final two questions - Why is this information important and How does it impact me?

  • https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/feral-species-cost/13485576

• Read to Self Journal

Writing

It is time to start preparing for the Small Schools Public Speaking competition. You have free choice for your topic to speak about.

There are three different purposes of a speech;

• To inform - this could be about something you have learnt about, something you are passionate about or something you are interested in. An informative speech is designed to improve the knowledge of the audience in your chosen topic

• To persuade - you might like to persuade those in the audience to agree with your point of view in a chosen topic. This could be anything you feel strongly about on a local, national or global issue that impacts us

• To entertain - your speech could be targeted at entertaining your audience, either through humour or with an interesting topic

Length of Speech -

Year 3 and Year 4 - two minutes

Year 5 and Year 6 - three minutes

Begin planning your speech this week. You first need to know your purpose - is it to entertain, to persuade or to inform? Once you decide on this, begin your preparation. You will need to research your topic, however be sure to use your own words and not those of your sources.

A good goal for this week will be to have your draft version written. It is better to have too much information than not enough so choose a range of sources for your information.

Year 3/4 Maths - Maths cards sent through Google Classroom - complete answers in your Remote Learning books or on a Google doc

Year 5/6 Maths - Rubric (at least three activities)

It's National Science Week!

Today's science experiment is Storm in a Glass

You will need:

• Shaving Foam

• A large glass

• Water

• Food Colouring

• A spoon

Instructions:

• 1/2 fill the glass with water

• Spray some shaving foam on top of the water until the glass is about 3/4 full

• Use your finger or a spoon to spread the foam evenly at the top. The top of the shaving foam should be flat.

• Mix 1/2 a cup of water in a separate glass with 10 drop of food colouring

• Very gently, add a teaspoon full of the coloured water to the top of the shaving foam. Keep adding a spoonful slowly and gently until the weight of the coloured water breaks through the shaving foam

How does it work?

Clouds in the sky hold onto water. Some bigger clouds can hold huge amounts of water. The layer of shaving foam is our pretend cloud in his experiment and it can also hold onto water. However, clouds can't hold onto water forever, and eventually the weight of the water becomes too much. This causes precipitation (rain, hail, sleet and snow). In our experiment today, the weight of water in the clouds becomes too heavy and it starts to "rain" into the bottom of the glass.

Further experimenting:

Try this experiment with more water or more shaving foam and see what the results are. Does one of them look more like a like drizzle, or more like a downpour?

Take a picture of your experiment and post it on the google doc.