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Week 2 : Term 4, 2021
reading
writing
monday
monday
Launch
Scarlett is a short animation which tells the story of a young girl's struggle following her battle with a rare form of bone cancer 'Ewing Sarcoma.'
Task
Choose one of the following tasks:
Create some inspirational quotes like the one above from Rev. Desmond Tutu.
Write letters from Scarlett to people who may need her advice.
Extension: Think about what Scarlett says to the boy sitting outside of the school at the end and create a passage of dialogue.
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Distress, Cancer, Unwell, Hope, Struggle, Battle
tuesday
tuesday
Task
Choose one of the following tasks:
Write a diary entry about your plans as to how you are going to the island and present your gift to the chief's daughter. Include the details of your sacred gift and who helped you prepare for the journey across the sea to the island.
Rewrite the ending of the legend in a positive way with a “they lived happily ever after” rather than a tragic one.
Extension: “Legends tells us that on one occasion he even began to build a bridge of stone to span the sea between Vatulele and Viti Levu and the remains of this bridge can still be seen jutting out to sea near the village of Votualailai.”
Write a paragraph about what you think made the handsome and dashing chief’s son to start on building a bridge.
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Gorgeous, brave, tragic, mystical, scornfully, arrogant, fearless
wednesday
wednesday
Launch
Task
Choose one of the following tasks:
Write a brief description of the hero, the landscape and the bear. Think about the scenes as you watch the video. What is the character doing? Where is she? How must she be feeling? Who is with her?
Write an extended narrative based on the trailer. Imagine yourself as the main character and write about your adventure and what your mission is.
Extension: Write a dialogue between you as the main character and the bear as the guardian of the forest. The setting would be “ the bear is trying to help you find the evil queen who wants to destroy the animal kingdom”
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Rugged, eerie, foggy, ruins, grizzly, galloping, stealthily, creepy
thursday
thursday
Launch
Task
Choose one of the following tasks:
Watch the video about Mammoths and using the prompt below write about the day your team of explorers found a frozen mammoth which came to life.
Slowly, a foot moved, then the trunk, then a loud growl shook the cavern…
Mammoths are the closest relative to the elephant. Read the two articles below and explain the similarities and differences between elephants and mammoths.
Woolly Mammoth, African Elephant
Extension: The bioscience and genetics company Colossal has raised enough money to recreate Mammoths and return them to the wild: Firm raises $15m to bring back woolly mammoth from extinction. Write a paragraph explaining your perspective on this idea. Is it a good idea to bring an animal back from extinction using science?
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Extinct, Bioscience, Genetic engineering, discovery, archeology
friday
friday
Task
Choose one of the following tasks:
Write an alternative ending – for example, he could go into the factory – it could be an amazing place like Willy Wonka’s factory or it could be a sinister place.
Write a diary entry for the robot focusing on the events in the film.
Extension: Show not tell – write about a being wandering through the woods, describing them and their surroundings without revealing what they are until the end.
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Lonely, Adventure, Miniscule, Peaceful, Terrified
maths - MEASUREMENT
Reading scales to measure litres and millilitres
Look carefully at the cylinders below and write down what the measurement the line is showing
Year 5
Year 5/6
Year 6
Measuring body parts
Year 5/6
Measuring body parts
If you are doing this online - draw out this table
Draw and Measure lines
Year 6
Measuring length and height
Year 5/6
Year 6
Here’s a challenge for the mathemagicians
topic
Word bank:
Frequency - Waves - Transverse waves - Mechanical waves - By Radiation - Crest - Trough - Wave length - Wave length - Electromagnetic waves
How to Set-up a Mould Growth Experiment
How to Set-up a Mould Growth Experiment
Supplies to Conduct a Mould Prevention Experiment
Supplies to Conduct a Mould Prevention Experiment
Baggies
Bread
Water
Various Additives (we used sugar, vinegar, oil, and salt.)
Warm location
1. Start by preparing your supplies. You need one bag per piece of bread, so we used a plain piece of bread, a bread with water added, one with vinegar, one with salt, one with sugar, and one with oil. Label all 6 bags.
2. Next add 2 tablespoons of our selected preventative to the slices of bread. For the salt and sugar dissolve 2 teaspoons in 2 tablespoons of water and add that to the bread.
3. Then take each slice of bread and place it in the appropriate bag.
4. Location is key for this experiment to work. It has to be warm or your mould will grow very slowly if it grows. We went with our large window where the afternoon sun shines in. My second choice would have been a warm, interior closet.
5. Tape baggies of bread in your selected location, so they will all have a similar exposure to the heat.
6. Watch daily and document any growth on table below.
Chemistry Quiz.
Try and work out the following questions:
1. What is the first element on the periodic table?
2. What is the centre of an atom called?
3. True or false? Acids have a pH level below 7.
4. What is the main gas found in the air we breathe?
5. True or false? An electron carries a positive charge.
6. Famous New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford was awarded a Nobel Prize in which field?
7. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
8. K is the chemical symbol for which element?
9. What orbits the nucleus of an atom?
10. At room temperature, what is the only metal that is in liquid form?
11. True or false? A neutron has no net electric charge.
12. A nuclear reaction where the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts is known as nuclear fission or nuclear fusion?
13. What is H20 more commonly known as?
14. What is the third most common gas found in the air we breathe?
15. What is the name given to substances that are initially involved in a chemical reaction?
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