Grade 5/6 homework grid for July 2010
W EEKLY ACTIVITIES
MONTHLY
DAILY
Diary- Due
Project: SCIENCE Getting Along our
Monday
Natural Disasters
Use all of your
Thinking Levels
and develop all of
your intelligences
Personal
reflection.
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Write at least
one whole
page. Rule up.
Write the
date.
Write about
what you did
at home with
your family
and friends.
Write about
what you did
at school.
X-tablesPractice
Weekly – Which ones
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Be tolerant of others
Make good choices
Think first
do you still need to learn?
Time yourself.
Sound waves
SPELLING
 Practice your weekly
spelling words.
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Assess yourself
with the diary
rubric. Be
creative. Check
spelling,
paragraphs,
punctuation. Does
it make sense?
Key to Success- Habits
of the Mind are:
Look Say Cover Write
Check
 Complete the
spelling activity
sheet.
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Individually
research a real life
natural disaster.
Explain how it
occurs. Prepare a
podcast . Due 18th
August
 Create a model of
your natural
disaster
Due 25th August
Due Friday
Don’t forget
your water bottle
and your healthy
snacks, rubbish
free lunch– brain
food!
Daily reading
Read to yourself, to a
Books Are
younger student, a parent
or friend. Think about the
Journal- Reflection Terrific.
meaning and infer.
Complete Weekly –Due Friday
about your
unfinished  Write
successes and
Use these tools to develop
school
Two book
strengths
and expand your
work
 What was hard?
reports &
thinking:
organisers
 Write about what you
activities each *graphic
*
FAT
information
need to do to become a
month.
* information process
stronger learner
5 Ws and H = Who,
Quote
Keep summary *What,
 Write about what you
Where, Why,
Read the
have been doing at
notes, chapter When and How &
quote
5
school to achieve the
by chapter, as the
carefully
Why’s.
keys to success
you read.
and then
 Are you achieving your
write an
REMINDERS
goals? What is your plan Refer to the
explanation
 21/7 Rubbish Free Lunch
for next week to
book
report
Day
about what
achieve them?
 30/7 Tree Day
rubric for a
it means to
HOME & FAMILY
 27/7 Excursion to
you.
Playing with, supporting and description of
Darebin Parklands
helping your family.
Give
 3/8 Athletics Day
expectations
How have you helped at home
examples this week? Write about at least and standards.  9/8 Curriculum Day- no
school for students
from your
life. Due Friday.
two chores you have
completed. Due Monday in
diary.
Due last day of the
month
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15/8 SCIENCE WEEK
17/8 Excursion to Science
Works Museum
Quotes for July: Do you agree with these quotes? What do you think? Give examples from your life.
Week beginning July 12th Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Week beginning July 19th The word impossible is not in my dictionary. - Napoleon
Bonaparte
Week beginning July 126th The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King
Jr.
Nothing great was
ever achieved
without
enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word
impossible is
not in my
dictionary.
-
Bonaparte
Napoleon
The time is
always right to
do what is
right.
Martin Luther King Jr.