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.
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