Home Learning week 2
This Saturday we have a carwash and sausage sizzle at Bunnings next Saturday (2nd August) please
let me know if you and/or your child can help anytime between 9am-3pm.
We need running shoes on Monday and Wednesday as we have cross country practise on those
days.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thurs
Spelling:
Maths
Problem solving tasks
Use the digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 so that
you have 3 correct answers
_____ + _____ =
_____ - _____ =
_____ x _____ =
Add in two plus (+) signs and two minus (-)
signs to make the answer true.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 100
Date
Book
Sign
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Current Events:
What am I?
Bought without money, spent with friends and
sometimes free;
Saved without a rescue, I don’t die but you can kill
me’.
Dawn is 12 and her brother is 8. How old will
Dawn be and how old will her brother be when
the sum of their ages is 40?
SPEECHES
Our hands on home learning for the next four
weeks is to write a speech for the school
speech competition.
Speeches are to be approximately 3 minutes
long and you choose the topic. You need to
decide whether you are writing an
informative or persuasive speech.
The criteria has been sent home along with
this home learning sheet.
KIWI KWIZ 2014 TERM 3 WEEK 2
Question One: What is New Zealand doing to combat the rat population?
a) Dropping poison on our forests
b) Placing rat traps on street corners
c) Releasing cats into the wild
d) Hiring six pied pipers
Question Two: In which recent ‘event’ was New Zealand controversially eliminated?
a) The 427th Quidditch World Cup
b) The 78th Hunger Games
c) The 16th World Disco Champs
d) The 131st Vampire Hunt
Question Three: In 2012, Earth got lucky when..?
a) Martian invaders took a wrong turn and got lost
b) a meteor shower cleaned the atmosphere
c) Venus blocked the planet from a wave of asteroids
d) a severe solar storm narrowly missed the planet
Question Four: Why did three men break into Wellington Prison?
a) To rescue Kim Dotcom
b) To have a party in the cells
c) To eat three square meals a day
d) To get a good night’s sleep
Question Five: Why is Latin a dead language?
a) Because it is a killer to learn
b) Because no-one remembers how to speak it
c) Because the Romans destroyed it
d) Because nobody speaks it as a native language
Question Six: What must you do to win a Screaming Mi Mi?
a) Yell at the top of your voice for twenty seconds
b) Watch horror movies non-stop for two days
c) Make one of the world’s hottest sauces
d) Scare a room full of cats
Question Seven: What recently sold in New Zealand for 1.5 million dollars?
a) A wooden surfboard
b) A wooden squash racquet
c) A wooden hockey stick
d) A wooden golf club
Question Eight: The South American country of Bolivia has..?
a) lowered the marriage age to 14
b) raised the school leaving age to 16
c) lowered the working age to 10
d) raised the voting age to 19
Question Nine: Which sports were not selected for this year’s Commonwealth Games?
a) Judo and Shooting
b) Tennis and Synchronised Swimming
c) Triathlon and Table Tennis
d) Badminton and Lawn Bowls
Question Ten: The United Nations has had a debate about..?
a) evil computers
b) home-made dinosaurs
c) invisible werewolves
d) killer robots