Homework

=Homework=

Term 4 Week 2 Follow this link to some really great daily Maths problems. Try to complete the problems before you look at the answers! [] This general knowledge quiz will need you to read the newspaper and possibly do some research on line. have a go and see if you can answer all the questions? []

Click on this link to open the homework for Week 9 :-) have fun!

Week 8 Term 2

**Some silliness to start the week**
Two snakes were crawling along when one snake asked the other, "Are we poisonous snakes?" The other replied, "You're darn right we're poisonous! We're rattlesnakes. Why do you ask?" To which the first replied, "Because I just bit my tongue."

A man goes into a pet store and asks the clerk, "Do you have any dogs that go cheap?" The salesman says, "No, we have birds that go cheep. Our dogs go BARK!" Week 2 Term 2 2012

**Reading**
For the next three weeks we are researching alternate ways of running our transport system. This week we are finding out all the different types of power systems there are? [] Please read through the wikipedia page and make a list of the different types of vehicles.

**Spelling**
Fuel vehicle car wind solar biofuel electricity liquid petroleum cell Use these words to make sentences about vehicles All the toilets in New York's police stations have been stolen. Police have nothing to go on.

I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.

Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.

Velcro - what a rip off !

Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy.

Venison for dinner ? Oh deer !

I used t think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

Be kind to your dentist. He has fillings, too.

Our Topic this Term is:

Spelling
We'll start with some topic words

electricity power circuit battery cell wire conductor computer appliance socket Use these words to make up questions about electricity you'd like answered and e-mail them to me at peter@harrisville.school.nz

Reading
Look at the local newspapers or [|www.nzherald.co.nz] find a story that interests you, read it and then retell the main facts of the story in your own words. Remember to look for: Who, what, where, when why, how and the so what? or consequence details too.

Maths
We are learning about time and how to tell the time on traditional clocks and digital clocks. Draw up a timetable for one day this week fill in the times everything happened and the duration(how long i took) for each activity. Eg. 10 minutes || 10 minutes || 30 minutes ||
 * Time || Activity ||
 * 8:50 || Bell rings, move to mat take roll share news
 * 9:00 || Maths basic facts
 * 9:10 || Work in groups on activty

You can use excel if you have it to record your information and even use it to create a graph.

Have fun
Week 10 Term 1 2012

Reading Follow the news of the Tropical Cyclone heading towards New Zealand by reading articles in the New Zealand Herald [|here]

Maths Next term we will be moving on from Additiona nd subtraction to using all our basic facts and times tables to solve more complicated sums. You can practise your tables and basic facts using the BBC Skillswise games [|here]

Week 7 Term 1 2012 What an exciting week! The arrival of the outdoor pool, parents coming in to watch reading lessons on Wednesday and exciting investigations in Topic time too. This week we are investigating renewable energy sources like wind farms and hydro-electric power stations. There will be a mini project to be done this week it has been glued into the homework books.

Homework will always consist of Reading, Spelling and Maths.

Term 1 2012
This week we will 1. Use our spelling words to make 5 sentences which explain what the words mean. 2. Reading, for 20 minutes per day either your library book or another book you have chosen. Remember to talk to mum and dad or your other whanau about the book you are reading. This will help them share your reading skills and will also help you understand the story better. 3. Maths practice you basic facts- this week we are focussing on 4,5 and 6 times tables. You could write them out in your hoimework book and practice them or go to []

Feel free to do your homework on the computer and e-mail it to me peter@harrisville.school.nz on Friday morning. Please put your name and the work homework in the subject line.