Senior School Home Learning

week 4 & 5, Term 3, 2021

Wonderopolis

Use the Wonderopolis site to complete the activity below https://wonderopolis.org/

You will need to pick the word list that best suits your current ability.

Free Choice Board

Recipe Writing

• See if you can make something at home with an adult. Afterwards have a go at writing up the recipe!

Writing ‘hooks’

• Carefully read the examples of different hooks on the ‘Hook Menu’ above. Then have a go at writing different types of hooks for the pictures below.

Complete the Amazing Race and Today’s Number Activity below. You can pick a number yourself or ask an adult to give you one (make sure you challenge yourself though, don’t pick a number you know will be easy for you).

Open Ended Maths Problems

• A reminder that these problems have more than one possible answer.

Addition and subtraction word problems

1. If Arav has $42 and wants to buy a game that cost $88. How much more does she need to save?

2. If you had 59 stickers, then got given 25 more, how many would you have altogether?

3. There are 175 kids at a school camp. Another 46 join them. How many kids are at the school camp?

4. There were 138 kittens at an animal shelter. Another 55 were born. How many kittens were now at the animal shelter?

5. Isabella scored 277 points in a ping pong tournament. Sarah scored 125 points. How many more points did Nico score than Sarah?

6. There are 365 kids at a school camp. Another 36 join them. How many kids are at the school camp?

7. Israel counted 82 cows in a paddock. She counted again later on and there were only 56 cows. So how many cows had left the paddock?