Home Learning week 4
Thank you to all of you helped at the disco. This week is maths week and we are investigating which
water gun is the best. If you have a water gun we can borrow for the week we would appreciate it.
Swimming on Thursday at 11:30am, Cross country practise Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thurs
Spelling:
Maths
Problem solving tasks
How many different designs can you make that
are 3/6 red, 2/6 blue and 1/6 yellow?
If you add two 2digit numbers the answer is
59. What are the possible questions? (eg 10 +
49)
Basic Facts
Date
Book
Sign
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Current Events:
What am I?
Clue One: ‘For 100 years I’ve been seen;
Sometimes red, sometimes green;
Clue Two: ‘Approach me fast, approach me slow;
Wait your turn and I’ll let you go’.
1. 16 x7 =
2. 4 x 6 =
3. 17 x 8 =
4. 6 x 7 =
5. 19 x 6 =
6. 9 x 5 =
7. 16 x 5 =
8. 3 x 4 =
9. 14 x 7 =
10. 5 x 6 =
SPEECHES
Our hands on home learning continues to be 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.
Drafts can be brought to school to practise
at oral language time.
Last weeks “what am I? Answer is a hole.
KIWI KWIZ 2014 Term 3 WEEK 4
Question One: What can you buy for just 5.8 million dollars?
a) Every house on Stewart Island
b) A New Zealand space rocket
c) A 49 percent stake in Kiwi Kwiz
d) The largest dairy farm in the Waikato
Question Two: Once upon a time in Aotearoa, there were..?
a) large snakes that lived underground
b) trees without trunks
c) dragons that dwelt in caves
d) giant plant-eating dinosaurs
Question Three: Who are the best of friends?
a) Homer and Bart
b) Brutus and Popeye
c) Asterix and Obelix
d) Sherlock and Moriarty
Question Four: What won the top prize at the 2014 National Contemporary Art Awards?
a) An empty toilet roll on a stick
b) A broken butterfly on a wheel
c) A computer submerged in jelly
d) A broken fluorescent bulb on a shelf
Question Five: What’s at the centre of the Earth?
a) A ball of iron
b) A lake of fire
c) A ring of gas
d) A city of emeralds
Question Six: In the world of sports, ‘Drongo’ was..?
a) an energy drink that didn’t work
b) a racehorse that never won a race
c) a batsman who never wore a helmet
d) a gold medallist at the first Olympics
Question Seven: Who owned a magic mirror that never lied?
a) Cruella de Vil
b) The Wicked Witch of the West
c) The Evil Queen
d) The White Witch
Question Eight: This month has..?
a) five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays
b) five full moons, five half-moons and five new moons
c) five king tides, five spring tides and five ebb tides
d) five leap seconds, five lost seconds and five nanoseconds
Question Nine: When do you make your swansong?
a) When you don’t get what you want
b) When you enter the stage for the first time
c) When your career is at its end
d) When the boos are louder than the cheers
Question Ten: What was so loud it was heard in France?
a) A fireworks display in Hong Kong
b) A moaning whale in Scotland
c) A classical music concert in Canada
d) A fart machine in England