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

• Find antonyms (words that mean the opposite) of five of your list words

• Complete the Editing task on Google Classroom

Reading

• The Super Six Reading Strategy for this week is Summarising

• Read Theory activity

• 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 Maths - Division

Year 4 Maths - Division

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

It's National Science Week!

Today's Activity of the Day is all about friction.

Friction is the resistance that one object or surface encounters when moving over another. It is a big reason why engines need oil - without oil the friction of the moving parts of an engine will not work properly and will cause damage. We can feel friction when we move our hand over a table or with our feet on the carpet or tiles.

Today's task is to use friction to our advantage to lift a bottle full of rice.

You will need:

• A clear plastic bottle

• A funnel

• Rice

• A pencil (or a long skinny object such as a chopstick could also work)

Instructions:

• Place the funnel in the bottle

• Fill the bottle all the way to the top with the rice

• Insert the pencil down to the bottom of the bottle

• Try to lift the pencil

• If the pencil slips free, try to gently tap the bottle to settle the rice against the pencil

How it works:

The friction between the rice grains and the pencil becomes so strong that you can lift the whole bottle.

Try for yourself:
You might like to try a few different sizes of bottles, different objects inserted into the rice or different things to put in such as sand and see if these work as well.

Take some photos of your experiments and add them to your Google Doc.