Sunday, 26 March 2017

T1 Week 9

Homework Term 1

Week 9


All Homework is due on this Friday.

English-
Reading
Minimum 20 minutes a night. Record title and pages read in your diary.
Your reading targets should be set in your library lesson soon.
English- Spelling
Spelling Matters: Unit 8
Mathematics
Mathletics 20 minutes
English- Grammar
English Skills Book: Unit 8
English - Grammar
Read the introduction and watch some short clips to assist you in completing task one and two on the doc. 

INTRODUCTION
Active and Passive Voice
A sentence is written in active voice when the subject of the sentence is performing the action.
A sentence is written in passive voice when the subject of the sentence has something done to it by someone or something.
For example:
Active voice: The cat was chasing the mouse.
In this sentence, 'the cat' is the subject, 'was chasing' is the verb and 'the mouse' is the object.
Passive voice: The mouse was being chased by the cat.
In this sentence 'the mouse' has become the subject which is having something done to it by the cat.


A reminder that diaries will be checked on a Friday so have them signed.

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Sunday, 12 March 2017

T1 Week 7

Homework Term 1

Week 7



All Homework is due on this Friday.

SPORT UNIFORM WEDNESDAY!


English-
Reading
Minimum 20 minutes a night. Record title and pages read in your diary.
Your reading targets should be set in your library lesson soon.
English- Spelling
Spelling Matters: Unit 6
Mathematics
Mathletics 20 minutes
English- Grammar
English Skills Book: Unit 6
English - Reading
Instructions:
Read the Aboriginal Dreamtime story and answer the following questions
You can also watch a version of this story: Watch: How the Kangaroo got its tail.

How Kangaroo Got His Tail By Greg Quinlivan
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Long ago, kangaroos had no tails and wombats had high, round heads.
Mirram the Kangaroo and Warreen the Wombat were good friends. They lived in a hut but Mirram liked to sleep outside and made fun of Warreen who always slept inside.
"Come, Warreen, sleep outside with me," said Mirram. "You can look at the stars and listen to the wind in the trees."
"It's too cold," snuffled Warreen, "and sometimes it rains."
Mirram disagreed. "Your bark hut is dark and smelly. It’s much better to sleep in the clean air under the stars!"
"No, thank you," said Warreen. "I will stay in my hut."
When winter came the wind became colder. At first, Mirram didn't mind. He snuggled up to a tree to protect himself.
But one night he got so wet and cold, that he hopped slowly towards the bark hut.
"Let me in!" screamed Mirram, banging on the door.
 
"No!" yelled Wombat. "There isn't enough room."
He became angry and forced the door open. "I'm inside now - and you aren't big enough to throw me out!"
"H'mmph," snorted Warreen. "Well, sleep over there in the corner. You're all wet."
Mirram lay down in the corner, but there was a hole in the wall and the wind and rain came in.
Next morning his body was stiff and sore. He limped outside and picked up a large rock. When he came back, he dropped it on Warreen, flattening his forehead and making his nose curl around.
"That is for not helping me get warm and dry," said Mirram. "From now on, you will always live in a dark, and damp hole.”
After that, Warreen and Mirram didn't speak or play together, and Warreen planned revenge.
He made a big spear and waited until Mirram was busy. Then he threw it hitting the kangaroo at the base of his spine. Mirram yelled and tried to pull it out, but it was stuck.
"From now on, that will be your long tail," yelled Warreen, "and you'll never have a home to live in!"
That is why wombats now have flat foreheads and live in dark, damp burrows, and why kangaroos have long tails and always sleep outside, under the stars.
 


 
TASK ONE- COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:
  1. Where did the kangaroo and wombat live?
  2. Why didn't Warreen like to sleep outside?
  3. What reasons did Mirram give for sleeping outside?
  4. Which one do you agree with? Would you sleep outside?
  5. How did the kangaroo get its tail?
TASK TWO
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  • Read: The Rainbow Serpent  (There are two suggested activities to do on this story at the end of the page.)
  • Watch a version of the Rainbow . Discuss why there would be differences and the overall purpose of this story.
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A reminder that diaries will be checked on a Friday so have them signed.

Sunday, 5 March 2017

T1 Week 6

Homework Term 1

Week 6


All Homework is due on this Friday.


Reading
Minimum 20 minutes a night. Record title and pages read in your diary.
Your reading targets should be set in your library lesson soon.
Spelling
Spelling Matters: Unit 5
Mathematics
Mathletics 20 minutes
English
English Skills Book: Unit 5
History  
Extension: Governments of the World

Types of Government Systems – Comparing and contrasting. A form of government is a system by which a state is governed.  Australia is governed by a Representative Democracy. Explore a range of websites and complete the points below for the following forms of government. You may like to record this in a table.

Communism          
Dictatorship
Monarch           
Republicanism      
Totalitarianism
  • Give a definition of this form of government
  • List the advantages and the disadvantages of this form of government
  • Provide examples of countries which are governed using this form.