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 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.

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.

Homework Term 1 Week 8

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 timer, Location: Hawaii, Object: a computer
• Make a 2-digit number using digit cards. Write the number, then count by 10’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 video The Easter Story

• Using the skills you practised responding to Dead Insect, write a personal response to something that you have viewed (eg an artwork, a television program, a movie, etc.).

Homework Term 1 Week 7

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 frog, Location: the river, Object: a trophy
• Make a 2-digit number using digit cards. Write the number, then count by 5’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...

• Try the Change Maker activity
• Imagine you are one of the disciples. Tell the story one of the days of Holy Week from their perspective

Homework Term 1 Week 6

As discussed at our recent parent night, we will now send the coming week's homework home on Friday.  It is up to your discretion as parents and carers to decide when you want and/or need to do homework so that it is completed for Friday.

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 musician, Location: a park, Object: bicycle
• 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...

• Watch the Behind the News story about the First Fleet
• Print off and complete the On the Road to Easter Word Search

Can't find the digit cards that you used last week?

Download another copy

Homework Term 1 Week 5

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: monkey, Location: museum, Object: handbag
• Make a 2-digit number using digit cards. Write the number, then count by 5’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...

• Try the Better Buddies spot-the-difference
• Try the Maths activity Place Value Charts

Can't find the digit cards that you used last week?

Download another copy

Homework Term 1 Week 4

Please make sure that you...

• Read for at least 15 minutes every night 
• Write down 5 questions that you have after reading a text at home this week
• Make a 2-digit number using digit cards. Write the number, then write the number that is 10 more and 10 less than that number. Do this at least 10 times

Here's some more you can do...

• Try the Better Buddies word find
• Try the Maths activity The Number Partner

Digit cards

You will see that the Maths task under Please make sure that you... requires digit cards to make numbers.  Each student will be provided with a sheet of digit cards to be cut up and used at home during the year, but in case they don't make it home, or you need another set you can download them here:

• Digit cards