Homework Term 2 Week 6

Please make sure that you...

• Read for at least 15 minutes every night
• Use a text you have read in the past and improve the noun groups within it. Please re-write it, highlighting the nouns and adjectives you have used. Remember to pay close attention to word order. (opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin and material/location)
• There were three children who visited their grandma regularly. The eldest child visited every five days. The middle child visited every four days. The youngest child visited every three days. How many days would have to go by before they all visited their grandma on the same day?

Here's some more you can do...

• View this video about how the colour of a material can affect how much heat it absorbs

• Add a comment to the Google Classroom page, posting to a response a teacher has added

Homework Week 5

Year 3 Homework Term 2, Week 5 2016

Please tick off the tasks that you do this week

Please make sure that you...	Here’s some more you can do...
Read for at least 15 minutes every night Using the planning of noun groups from last week to write an imaginative story Time yourself completing everyday tasks. Record five tasks and how long they took you to do.	Visit physics4kids.com and record a definition of heat transfer, gravity and friction. Link it to an experiment we undertook last week in Science. You will also find the link on our blog http://stanthonysyear2.blogspot.com

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Homework Term 2 Week 4

Please make sure that you...

• Read for at least 15 minutes every night
• Pick an everyday object to write about, pay particular attention to noun groups
• Draw and label 5 2D shapes and list their properties eg. Number of sides, number of angles, lines of symmetry.

Here's some more you can do...

• Look through the list of Traditional Catholic Prayers. Write down the names of the prayers that you have heard of before, or that you already know. Choose a prayer that you don’t know and practise it at home.

Year 3 is in the News!

With the NAPLAN tests on this week, the Sydney Morning Herald came to St Anthony's to speak to Mr Lendvai and Zoe, Mokshada and Aryan in Year 3.

Read the article on the Herald's website

Homework term 1 Week 10

Year 3 Homework Term 1, Week 10 2016

please tick off the tasks that you do this week

Please make sure that you...	Here’s some more you can do...
Read for at least 15 minutes every night Do at least half ¾ of a page of “surprise writing” - Character: a cat, Location: the school, Object: a pen Make a 3-digit number using digit cards.  Write the number, then count by 2’s from this number.  Record the next 10 numbers in the sequence. Do you notice any patterns?	Write a recount of our Excursion to the Museum. What did you learn? Who would enjoy visiting the Museum? If you could change something about the Museum, what would it be and why? for an easy way to get to these links, visit our blog, http://stanthonysyear2.blogspot.com.au/

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How Has Exploration Changed Australia

This term, our unit of enquiry in Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE) explores the question, How Has Exploration Changed Australia?

One question that Year 3 raised at the beginning of the unit was about how Aboriginal people already lived in Australia, and why Europeans thought it was okay for them to establish a colony on Aboriginal land.

This past week, we learnt more about this, and how it has influenced how we understand Aboriginal land rights today, by viewing this news story:

 

View the full story with transcript and other resources on the Behind the News page

Homework Term 1 Week 9

Please make sure that you...

• Read for at least 15 minutes every night
• Do at least half ¾ of a page of “surprise writing” - Character: a dog, Location: the park, Object: a torch
• Make a 2-digit number using digit cards. Write the number, then count by 2’s from this number. Record the next 5 numbers in the sequence. Do this at least 10 times.

Here's some more you can do...

• View the animation of the Last Supper

• Have a look through the convict database and see what types of crimes convicts were transported for.