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Homework Term 4, 2009 - Grade 6 || Dear 6B and 6G, Our weekly homework will run from Monday to Friday. You are expected to write your nightly reader in your diary and have your parents/guardians sign the diary after you have finished reading (we expect you to read 5 nights per week). We encourage you to read to someone several times a week, and discuss the book (comprehension is a big focus to ensure you understand what you are reading). The 2nd component of our homework is mostly open-ended questions (in these tasks there can be more than one answer – make sure you can justify/explain your answer!). We will continue using the Targeting Maths book in class, during Maths lessons. Please ensure your homework is completed by Friday, ready for correction in your grade. Use one of your document wallets to keep your homework neat and tidy. Feel free to complete the alternate tasks on the computer (unless specified). If you are unsure of a task, please see your teacher – it is imperative that you are supported through the homework tasks to help you complete them confidently. //Jodie Bates and Ash Graham// || **//__ Date __//** || **//__ Homework Assignments __//** || **//__ Resources __//** || Week 1 5th October ||  Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes. || Reader to read each night. || Week 2 12th October || Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes.  Write a text outlining what you hope to do in the future. . .what will your life be like in 20 years time. . .where will you be living? What did you do after high school? Have you travelled? Have you started a family? Do you work for someone? Do you own your own business? Type this in either Word or Publisher – at least half a page, size 14 font (maximum). Add some pictures if you want of some of the things you hope to achieve! || Reader to read each night. Netbook || Week 3 19th October |||| **__Phillip Island Camp __**  No official homework this week – take the week off! J    || Week 4 26th October || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Using Word on your Netbook, write about your experiences from camp – what did you like, what you didn’t like, which activities you got the most from, any suggestions for next time. . . <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Research and record on your Netbook what should go in a Remembrance Day Service. As a grade, we will decide what to have in our service on the Friday of this week – when everyone has done their homework. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: Arial; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">J <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reader to read each night. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Netbook || Week 5 2nd November || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Interview 5 family members or friends and ask them what Remembrance Day means to them. Record this on Audacity and then import those files into a Movie Maker file, and, using pictures from the internet make a short movie highlighting the importance of Remembrance Day. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reader to read each night. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Netbook – use Audacity and Movie Maker || Week 6 9th November || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">You will be creating a family tree on your netbooks in class. With a parent look at the tree and extend it as far as you can go. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reader to read each night. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Netbook or A3 Paper || Week 7 16th November |||| **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">English: __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Amienne; font-size: 29pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Energy Breakthrough <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 29pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">is on this week – have another week off! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 20pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: Arial; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">J <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || Week 8 23rd November || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Using Encarta Premium – go to “Explore Encarta by Subject”, then “People and Society”, then “Calendar and Holidays”. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Research a celebration of your choice and make a poster advertising it in Publisher. Include the date it is celebrated, some things to do during that celebration and the importance of it. Include some pictures, a matching heading – consider the layout of your page. Go to “Print Preview” to see how your page is looking while you put together the information. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reader to read each night. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Netbook – use Encarta Premium and Publisher || Week 9 30th November || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Compile a poster of family photos of Christmas over the years to show how you and your family celebrate together. In Publisher, make the page either Landscape or Portrait – and if you want to, make it A3 size. We will print these in colour at school to display around the room. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(If you need to, bring in photos to scan during the week to put your poster together) (if you don’t have enough family photos, you can get pictures from the internet, catalogues or even use some wrapping paper <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: Arial; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">J <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Remember to consider layout – heading, captions (maybe do some speech bubbles!), borders – go to Print Preview to check how your page is looking! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reader to read each night. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Netbook – use Publisher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Photos of Christmas celebrations || Week 10 7th December || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reading: Nightly Reading of your take home book for 20 minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Write a Christmas text – choose from the following genres (narrative [fact or fiction], argumentative or report). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Your text must be typed in Word – size 14 font and it must fill at least 75% of the page. Make sure the font is something like Arial or Times New Roman, something plain that is easy to read. The heading can be a fancier font. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Some ideas. . . <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. . . <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Should we give lots of presents to family or just 1-2? (Are we going overboard with our shopping – consider children of poverty areas) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Christmas Eve began like any other holiday. . . <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Get creative – get original!! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(you can use an idea from a known story, but again, make sure it’s your work) || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reader to read each night. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Netbook – use Word || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-AU; mso-ansi-language: en-AU; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-AU; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">
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