Quiz

Around the World

TERM 3

It's just the Weekly Quiz and Aspire Revamp this week!

TERM 2

WEEK 9 -> You have no basics this week, only LEVEL UP

Wk 7 & 8 - Spelling ... well, sort of

This week is a little different. Instead of spelling this week, you need to work on your typing speed! Click on this website, record in your book your initial typing speed. Practice typing by visiting this site and running through each activity. This is about showing progress, so record your scores as you go. Soon, you will be a typing genius but make sure you are using a computer!

Wk 6 - Spelling ... well, sort of

This week is a little different. Instead of spelling this week, you need to work on your typing speed! Click on this website, record in your book your initial typing speed. Practice typing by visiting this site and running through each activity. This is about showing progress, so record your scores as you go. Soon, you will be a typing genius but make sure you are using a computer!

Wk 5 - Spelling

Here are your spelling words for the week. These words have come from your Around The World Task and are directly related to the content you will be reading this week. Make sure you know how to spell them by this Friday - you will be tested on them!

1. Excursions
2. Museum
3. Memorial
4. Informative
5. Featured
6. Neighbourhood
7. Shore
8. Architectural
9. Monuments
10. Statue

Activities:

• Break the words into syllables
• Learn how to spell the words
• Select any 5 words from the list above and put them in a sentence that shows your understanding of the word’s definition.

WEEK 4

Here are your spelling words for the week. These words have come from your Level Up task and are directly related to the content you will be reading over the next couple of weeks. Make sure you know how to spell them by this Friday - you will be tested on them!

1. Motivator
2. Evolutionary
3. Chaos
4. Boisterous
5. Their
6. There
7. Coincidence
8. Prophet
9. Here
10. Hear
11. Phlebotinum <-- ONE bonus point if you spell this word correctly. TWO bonus points if you can use it correctly in a sentence.

Activities:

• Learn the spelling words
• Break the words into syllables
• Identify the parts of speech eg: is the word a noun/verb/adjective etc

WEEK 3

Here are your spelling words for the week. These words have come from your Level Up task and are directly related to the content you will be reading over the next couple of weeks. Make sure you know how to spell them by this Friday - you will be tested on them!

1. Handle
2. There
3. Appearance
4. Revealed
5. Modified
6. Source
7. Transfer
8. They’re
9. Alternatively
10. Circumstance

Activities:

• Identify and list the conjunctives in the list
• Break the words into syllables
• Explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS why the word they’re, has an apostrophe.

WEEK 2

Here are your spelling words for the week. These words have come from your Level Up task and are directly related to the content you will be reading over the next couple of weeks. Make sure you know how to spell them by this Friday - you will be tested on them!

1. Genetics
2. Accident
3. Mutant
4. Character
5. Especially
6. Impervious
7. Their
8. Empowered
9. Initiating
10. Invoke

Activities:

• Identify & list the nouns in the list
• Break the words into syllables
• Use as many of the words as possible to create a compound, complex sentence that actually makes sense!

WEEK 1

Here are your spelling words for the week. These words have come from your Level Up task and are directly related to the content you will be reading over the next couple of weeks. Make sure you know how to spell them by this Friday - you will be tested on them!

1. Existence
2. Explanation
3. Origin
4. Probably
5. Alternatively
6. Motivated
7. Competence
8. Renders
9. Associated
10. Combination

SPELLING ACTIVITIES:

• Identify the part of speech each words belongs to eg: noun, adjective etc
• Select 6 of the 10 words and find their definition - write it in your OWN WORDS
• Learn to spell all 10 words (you need 8 or more out of 10 in your test on Friday, or you will be writing each incorrect word, correctly, 8 times each)

Week 11

There's no spelling this week --> work on your Level Up after you have finished the Weekly Quiz.

Week 10

Learn to spell these words:

1. convenience
2. correspond
3. courteous
4. descendant
5. dilemma
6. disappearance
7. discipline
8. ecstasy
9. exaggerate
10. exception

Complete the following activities with the words for the week

• Break each word into its syllables
• Write your own definition for each word
• THERE WILL BE A SPELLING TEST ON FRIDAY!

Week 9

Something a little different - it's a Simple Sentence Evolution Challenge! How many SHORT simple sentences (2 words - remember, it must contain a subject and a verb eg: 'He died.') can you write with the subject - 'We'.

How many sentences did you get? Match yourself against the standards below:

10-15 Sloth

16-30 Cold lizard

31-45 Water dragon

46-60 Merecat

61-70 Coyote

81-90 Cheetah

91-100 Lion

101-120 Einstein

121+ Unicorn

Week 8

Learn to spell these words:

1. arctic
2. assassination
3. believable
4. category
5. cemetery
6. collectible
7. committed
8. conscience
9. conscious
10. controversy

Complete the following activities with the words for the week:

• Break the words into their syllables
• For each of the words above, spell them correctly using pyramid words...
  • EG: P

PA

PAS

PASS

PASSI

PASSIO

PASSION

Week 7

Learn to spell these words:

1. awkward
2. bizarre
3. committee
4. compliment
5. continuous
6. criticise
7. curiosity
8. cylinder
9. definitely
10. description

Complete the following activities with the words for the week:

• Break the words into their syllables
• Complete 3 spelling tests to prove your spelling skills (any words spelt incorrectly - write out 3 times each)

Week 6

Here's your words to learn this week:

1. absence
2. achieve
3. anniversary
4. apologise
5. apostrophe
6. apparently
7. appearance
8. appreciate
9. autumn
10. awkward

Complete the following activities with the words for the week

• Break each word into its syllables
• Write your own definition for each word
• Complete at least 1 spelling test

You will be tested on the spelling of these words on Friday - make sure you know how to spell them!

Week 2

You have a free pass week! No spelling!!!! Make the most of this feeling ....