Tuesday 17 August

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

Spelling

• Choose 12 words from your Spelling List for this week

• Look, Cover, Write, Check each word

• 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 the definition of five of your spelling words

Reading

• The Super Six Reading Strategy for this week is Summarising

• Read to Self Journal - 15 mins reading and 5 mins summary

• BTN Article - Feral Species Cost (https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/feral-species-cost/13485576)

  • Who, What, Where, When

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

This week is National Science Week.

Today's Science Challenge is to investigate the best design for a paper airplane. Do some research into three different paper plane designs and follow the instructions to create each plane.

Go outside and throw each plane three times. Measure the distance of each throw and record your results in the Google Doc.

If you don't have a formal measuring tool (eg a tape measure), use a different measuring process such as your own feet, a broomstick or a cricket bat.