Homework

Homework – week ending 3rd April

1. English works - sheet 9

2. Spelling words from sheet 9

3. The Great Race - week 6   (questions are online on Sundays)

4. Photo a Week – all students are expected to have a journal for the start of term 2

5. Your week in a Sentence – the newest addition to our class blog.

Homework – week ending 27th March

1. English works - sheet 8

2. Spelling words from sheet 8

3. The Great Race - week 5  Northern Ireland (questions are online on Sundays)

4. Photo a Week – all students are expected to have a journal for the start of term 2

5. Your week in a Sentence – the newest addition to our class blog.

Homework – week ending 20th March 2009

1. English works – sheet 7

2. Spelling words from sheet 7 – write them down and then do LSCWC with them. Really look at the word and make observations about the spelling eg. is it a compound word? is there a smaller word in there? Is it er or ur? Does it finish with es? does it have a word ending like “tion”?

3. The Great Race – week 4. Take your time to research the questions properly. Aim for an award this week.

4. Photo of the Week journal entry

Homework – week ending 21st November 2008

1. Spelling city

2. Grammar Gremlins and Homonyms. I will hand out 2 sheets on Monday. Practise these at home. There  will be tests on these on Thursday.

3. Photo of the week – journals

4. Reading – update your reading wikis.

Homework – week ending 14th November 2008

1. Spelling city – learn your words – write them into your homework books, do LSCWC and then write them into sentences.

2. Photo boards – bring along your photos this week, to make your photo boards.

3. Photo a week Journals

4. Reading – 20- 30mins a night – and add to your reading wikis.

5. This week, go to this page on the English and Maths fun link and practice getting the right tense for your verbs. All of you need revision and practise in this area, so make sure you do the activities and save your certificate to paste into your homework books. You should be doing some sort of mental maths or literacy activity, every night.

Homework – week ending 7th November 2008
1. Spelling city – I have now added the H and I spelling lists to this site, so whatever words you would have been selecting from your lists, are now on the site. Select your list, write them into your homework books and do Look/say/cover/write/check on them. By the end of the week, you need to use these words in a sentence. This must be handed in on Friday. Use the Spelling city site to test your words and play games with your own word list.
2.Memories – have you completed your Graduation memories? If not, make sure you work on this at home
3. Photo a week
4. Reading – 20. – 30 minutes a night. Keep your reading wikis updated.

Homework – week ending 31st October

1. 15 spelling words – This week we are going to use Spelling City to learn our words. Click on one of the October lists for this week’s words. Until I can register our school, we will have to use the lists provided by the program. Do this every night. Also use your words in a sentence.
2. This week’s homonym game – http://www.manythings.org/wbg/homonyms_2-jw.html See how you go.
3. Photo a week
4. School memories. Start thinking about school memories under the following headings – funniest, saddest, most embarrassing, most exciting, best camp/excursion and why etc. We will work on these in writing time this week, but you can start jotting down some thoughts now.
5. Reading 20.30 mins – update the wikis.

Homework – week ending 24th October 2008
1. 15 spelling words from your lists. Use Look/say/cover/write/check and use each of the words in a sentence which demonstrates that you understand what it means.
2. Projects – we will be presenting this week.
3. Photo a week
4. For Champions – check out this link. It requires you to spell out the homonym for each word eg. The quiz will show you the word “new”. You must quickly type in “knew”. See how you go. It is a speed/spelling game.
http://www.manythings.org/wbg/homonyms_2-sw.html
5. Reading – 20 – 30 mins a night – update your reading wikis.

Homework – week ending 17th October 2008
1. 10 spelling words from your lists – Use Look Say Cover Write Check and use each of the words in a sentence which demonstrates your understanding of the meaning of the word.
2. Projects – you can work on parts of your project at home.
3. Create a Wordle – using words and ideas from the Poverty day / millenium goals etc. Post on your blogs
3. Reading – add to your reading wikis

Homework – week ending 6th October 2008
Use the following words correctly in a sentence.
1. there / they’re / their
2. too / to/ two
3. off / of
4. hear/here
5. where/wear
6. where/were
7. brought/bought
8. know /no
9. knew / new
10. lose / loose

Your holidays – show me don’t tell me (on the home page of the blog)
Reading – fill in your reading log wiki
Spelling words – select 20 words from the Melbourne spelling list below. Make sure they are words you are not comfortable with. Use LSCWC to practice your words and use each of them in a sentence. Use your homework books or reflective journals to do this.
MELBOURNE CAMP spelling words
where / were there/their/they’re comfortable
screen bridges remembrance
discovery lose/loose hear/here
back packer opened cockroaches
doonas presents Ararat
haunted busy pasta
constellations balcony separated
scenery severely extraordinary
donuts imagination building
different schnitzel wrapped
travelled whipped shining
excited O’Donnell friendly
strawberry countries elevator
delicious planetarium federation

Homework – week ending 19th September 2008
1. Melbourne Camp Spelling words
2. Your week / weekend in a sentence
3. Thought for the week
4. Awesome Alphabet
5. Reading – 20 mins a night – log into your reading log wiki.
6. Reflective Journals – make a list of what YOU are going to set for your own homework this week.
MELBOURNE CAMP spelling words
where / were there/their/they’re comfortable
screen bridges remembrance
discovery lose/loose hear/here
back packer opened cockroaches
doonas presents Ararat
haunted busy pasta
constellations balcony separated
scenery severely extraordinary
donuts imagination building
different schnitzel wrapped
travelled whipped shining
excited O’Donnell friendly
strawberry countries elevator
delicious planetarium federation

Homework – week ending 12th September 2008
1. This is new this week – the 4 sentence story. See how you go.
2. Thought for the week – what does it mean?
3. My photo a week project
4. 10 spelling words – add them to your blog
5. Reading – 20 – 30 mins each night – add details to your reading log
6. Reflective Journals – gel pens for the best reflective entries.
7. This one might take you 2 weeks. I want you to use a page in your Reflective Journals and write an Affirmative Alphabet. Come up with a word or words for each letter of the alphabet – but make sure they are affirmative or positive words. eg. A – awesome, amazing,
B – beautiful, bubbly C – cute, cuddly, etc You may wish to blog your alphabet. Check the spelling with each other or Ms Murnane.

Homework – week ending 5th September 2008
1. My week / weekend in a sentence.
2. Thought for the week - this week’s gel pens will be handed out for the most thoughtful response.
3. My photo for the week
4. 10 spelling words
5. Reading 20 – 30 mins each night
6. Reflective journals

Homework – week ending 22nd August 2008

1. My week / weekend in a sentence

2. Thought for the week  – what do you think it means?

3. My Photo of the week

4. 10 spelling words from Naplan list

5. Reading – 20 – 30 mins each night

Homework – week ending 15th August 2008

1. My week / weekend in a sentence – make your sentence interesting and informative. Remember to use – capital letter, fullstop, one conjunction and adjectives to describe the nouns.

2. My Photo a week

3. Create a mind map using bubbl.us – about nouns. Use the information below to create your own mind map. Paste this into your reflection journal

4. Thought for the week – what do you think it means?

5. 10 spelling words from your alphabet lists

6. Reflection Journals – rule up 3 columns and add to them over the week

Things I have learnt this week

Examples of things I haven’t understood

Things I am going to do to make sure I can understand it

Information for your mind maps – using bubbl.us

Common nouns – the name given to a person, place or thing

Proper nouns – the name given to a specific person, place or thing – which needs a capital letter

Abstract nouns – the name given to a feeling or emotion

Collective nouns – the name given to a group of people, place or things

Homework – week ending 8th August 2008
1. My week in a sentence
2. My Photo a week
3. Thought for the week – what does it mean?
4. Reading – for 20 – 30 mins each night.
5. Reflection Journals – write down questions to ask your teacher, about the work you don’t understand.
6. 20 spelling words from your personal list.

HOmework – week ending 1st August 2008
1. My week in a sentence
2. My Photo a week
3. Thought for the week – what does it mean?
4. Reading – for 20 – 30 mins each night.
5. Create a mind map for a topic in one of your subjects. Share it with your study buddy on Friday.

Homework – week ending 27th June

  • knew/new sentences
  • Your week in a sentence
  • A photo a Week
  • Grammar gremlins – revision for test on Friday. Use the sheet Ms Murnane hands out on Monday, to revise for Friday’s test.
  • Spelling words – another 20. Make sure that you include the words you got wrong last week, as your words for this week as well.
to Going to go somewhere, give something to someone,
too Too much, too heavy, too loud, too many o’s
two Number 2
here Here or there?
hear Hear with your ear
where Here, there, where??? All words contain “here”
wear Wear your jumper, wear some sort of clothes
there Here, there, where? If you are talking about over here or there, it must be the word that contains “here” in it.
they’re If you can say “they are” in the sentence, then you use this spelling
their If you are not talking about “over there” and you can’t say “they are” then it must be this one. Their belongings – something belongs to somebody. It is personal.
off The double “ff” gives this a soft sound
of This word sounds like “ov” a much harder sound.
where Where is that dictionary? Here, there or where? Another word to do with location – each of them contains the word “here”.
were Pronounced “wer” – not talking about the location of something. A verb meaning past tense of was.
brought Bring / brought – “br”. If you are talking about something you bring to school, you brought it.
bought To buy something.

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Week Ending Friday 23rd May:

  • Complete the two sheets on prepositions. Remember the hint for remembering what a preposition is? The word position, is in the word preposition. A preposition refers to position – on, over, under, between, across, beside etc.
  • Select 20 spelling words from the difficult or challenging spelling words, to test each other out on Friday in buddy spelling. Use Look Say Cover Write check to make sure you can spell these words correctly.
  • Use a dictionary to help you with the meaning of some of these words and then write each word in a sentence which demonstrates that you understand the meaning.
  • 30 minutes reading each night. Go to bed half an hour earlier so that you can read.
  • Watch the news so that you are up to date with google news each morning.