Great news everyone....This week we will be starting a project! Below are a copies of both of the choices for your project. Thats right...you have a choice between two.

You will have to complete one (not both)! The good news is, you will have all of this week and the week after to complete it.

This means we will be expecting them to be of a high quality. This will also give you a good chance to work on your organisational skills and plan out what you will do each day to complete the project. If you plan to do a little each day it wont take very long at all.

This is an additional project to all your other subjects so you are still expected to upload all of your Reading, Writing, Math and Spelling each day....and work on this also.

TODAY--We suggest you have a really good look through both of the projects and make a decision on which one you would like to complete.

Make a list and plan out what you plan to do each day to complete your project.

L.I. I am learning to build answers that are full sentences, and that include words from the text and deeper thinking.

S.C.

• I can write answer that restate the question, and are full sentences

• I can include words from the text in some of my answers

• I can show deep thinking in my answers, by adding a personal reflection or thinking beyond the text

Task 1: 20 minutes of silent reading

Task 2: Watch the teacher video which explains our learning focus and how to be successful in today’s task.

Instructions for today’s task:

In your literacy workbook add to your vocabulary page.

Catch up on Chapter 13, 14 vocabulary by adding these words to your Vocab Page: peering, grimly, jarred, haste, wry, ominous

Read Chapter 15 of The Giver.

You can choose to either listen to the audio book video (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5VHoQfEeAI), or read chapter 15 independently (link to online version of The Giver text: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxjbGFzc2FsYmVydGl8Z3g6NzE3OTEzYzE0YTgxYzUyZA - scroll down to page 122).

Task 3: Write the answer to the questions below in your literacy workbook. Make sure your answers allow you to meet the success criteria for today.

Upload a photo of your workbook answers to the Google Classroom Reading assignment for today.

Questions:

1. Why do you think that this chapter is so short?

2. At the start of the chapter, what made Jonas think that “it was a day when he would be sent away”?

3. How does Jonas learn the meaning of warfare?

4. Why does The Giver say, “Forgive me”?

Activity 1 – Writing Seed

Today we will be creating our own “Watermelon Moment” seed. This will include picking an important moment in our life and ‘zooming’ in on that moment. This is a fantastic way to describe our thoughts, feelings and small moments we may sometimes overlook in life.

The task will include drawing a watermelon with the heading ‘Watermelon Moment”. We must pick an important time in our life here.

Then we include a drawing of a slice of watermelon with the heading ‘Slice Moment’. This is where we unpack the original moment into more specific things that happened. At least THREE.

Finally, we include a drawing of the watermelon’s seeds with the heading ‘Seed Moment’. Next to each seed (at least THREE) is where we can include pinpoint examples of things that happened that we may not notice at first. These could include feelings and thoughts that we had.

LI: We are learning to use our online spelling program and select our 10 words for the week.

SC: We have 8 words from the list and 2 BOB words written in our spelling book

Activity 1: Login

How to login to SMART Spelling lessons with Michelle:

1. Go to https://www.smartspelling.com.au and at the top-right is a ‘login’ button

2. Login using the email address year6@smartspelling.com.au and the password 12345678

Activity 2:

Once logged in on the bottom left hand side of the screen click the red "Smart Spelling Lessons with Michelle" icon.

On the next screen on the left hand side will be course content. Click on Lesson 17: The trigraph /ssi/ making the sound "sh" as in discussion.

You will need to listen to Michelle as she reads the words out. As she reads you will need to select 8 words that you will use as your spelling words for this week.

Write your words down in your Spelling Book.

Add 2 BOB words to our spelling list- You could find them in your own writing or search through a dictionary to choose some challenge words for yourself.

The spelling list for this week: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10nOLA6219UNlZIn9lH9f0z2vvQoxpj6m/view?usp=sharing