Learning intention: We are learning to locate information in a text.

We will be successful if we can: Answer the comprehension questions using the fact sheet. Skim and scan the text for key words and information.

Penalties for crime were very harsh in Alice’s era. Something that might be considered a minor offence by today’s standards could result in a sentence of many years of hard labour or even lead to death. Today we will be exploring convicts in Australia by reading the fact sheet and answering the comprehension questions. All the answers will be within the text. Set aside 35 minutes for this task to read the text and answer as many questions as you can within this time frame.

Step 1: Read the convict fact sheet. Convict Information Sheet

Step 2: Answer the comprehension questions in your exercise book or on the attached sheet (if you are able to print at home). Comprehension Questions

Step 3: Upload your work to Google Classroom.

Step 4: Complete independent reading if you have time.

YouTube video link: Reading Tuesday 18th August

LI: We are learning to write a historical recount from another person's perspective.

SC: We will be successful when we write a recount about a captains trip to Australia.

Today you will be writing from a captain’s point of view about your life at sea.

Step 1: First thing you are going to do is to write down all the things that come to mind when you think about a ship coming from Britain to Australia that is full of convicts. Draw little pictures to go with your words if you feel like it, get your brain thinking about what it would actually be like to be on one of these ships. Feel free to click on the 'Convict Record - Website' link below to get a sense of what these ships were like and who were on board.

Convict Record - Website

Click the link below to read letters that were written on board by convicts and surgeons!

Conditions on convict ships

Step 2: Read the Captain’s Recount by clicking the link below.

*Take note of the language used and underline any unfamiliar words.

Captain's Recount Example

Step 3: Open up the attached document below to write short diary entries from a captain’s point of view

Captain's Recount Template

. You can print and write them on the document if you want to but otherwise handwriting the entries into your writing book is just fine.

Step 4: Upload a picture of your diary entries onto google classroom.

Step 1: write your spelling words into the Tuesday column of your Weekly Spelling Sheet.

Step 2: Complete the spelling task ‘Snake’ by following the instructions below.

Spelling - Snake Example.jpg

Word Snake

1. Write down one of your spelling words in the middle of your page

2. Connect another spelling word using a letter that is in both words.

3. Continue connecting your spelling words until all words are connected.

**You may need to make 2 snakes if it becomes too difficult.

Learning Intention: We are learning to work out sale prices of items using our knowledge of percentages and subtraction/addition

We will be successful if we can:

• Calculate percentages of money

• Deduct (take away) these percentages from full prices items.

• Work out a budget of shopping items when finding out the sale price.

Explanation of finding percentages of money values

Finding a Percentage of a number

Warm up questions: Now you have watched the video of Miss Dunn explaining how to work out percentages of prices, and watched the tutorial as well, we would like you to have a go at these three warm up questions using the method we discussed.

• 15% of $350

• 25% of $56

• 15% of $240

• 20% of $544

Your main activity for today are the two worksheets about a garage sale and a shop that has a sale on. You need to fill out the sale prices by working out how much you are taking off the original price.

Shopping - Work out the sale price Activity - Complete in Maths Book or print if you can.

Extension: This one is a bit more challenging but it would be great for you to have a go.

Garage Sale Worksheet

This activity also allows you to find percentages of money values. Some questions you have to work out how much of a discount they have got (%) and some will ask how much money has been saved. Read the questions carefully to work out what it is asking you to do. Please do your working out in your maths book.