Spelling words Week 5 and 6

 SPELLING/VOCABULARY

LIST #3, 2016

Must know	Moderate	Hard	Novel Words
1. squash	1.relevant	1. ridiculously	1. elective
2. quantity	2.observant	2. nonsense	2. supposably
3. swap	3. insolent	3. blatantly	3. dude
4. waffle	4. strident	4. ignorance	4. interrupt
5. wander	5. truant	5. unbelievable	5. palate
6. swamp	6. resistant	6. ludicrous	6. laughter
7. squabble	7. reluctant	7. clearly misinformed	7. squeeze
8. watched	8. stagnant	8. undeniably	8. pursuing
9. swan	9. pungent	9. undoubtedly	9. precept
10. yacht	10. ligament	10. ultimately	10. stadium
11. scene	11. valiant	11. preposterous	11. vehicle
12. depot	12. component	12. appalling	12. telescopic
13. often	13. diligent	13. thoroughly	13. Australia
14. muscle	14. consultant	14. nauseating thought	14. Barcelona
15. fascinate	15. prominent	15. atrocious	15. Brazil
16. glisten	16. despondent	16. shameful	16. Manchester
17. disguise	17. pheasant	17. regrettably	17. Copenhagen
18. vague	18. consonant	18. essential	18. apologise
19. wrestle	19. opulent	19. laughable	19. headache
20. wrinkle	20. indignant	20. farcical	20. tortoise
		Persuasive words

Homework Week 5

MONDAY
Spelling. Parents test. List words 1. Complete syllables.
Reading - allocated chapters of Boy Overboard 35, 36 and 37.
Maths - any allocated homework from Maths teacher.
Reminder to students who haven't brought their Term Accounts in yet to bring them in.

TUESDAY
Swimming Carnival - Challenge Stadium
Spelling. Dictionary meanings of 20 words.
Reading - free choice reading.
Maths - any allocated homework from Maths teacher.

WEDNESDAY
Spelling. Parent test. 10 word meanings.
Reading - free choice reading.
Maths - any allocated homework from Maths teacher.
Catching up with buddies.

THURSDAY
Band
Spelling. 10 sentences from moderate list.
Reading - free choice reading.
Maths - any allocated homework from Maths teacher.

FRIDAY


NEXT WEEK:
Making volcanoes
Science Homework due for Mr Butler (Tuesday)

Coding

This week we started our coding program, which our class seem to be really enjoying. We are starting with basic coding using www.code.org Students are given a set of instructions and work their way through different levels of a task, continuing to build upon each skill. At the end of each task they have created their own outcome, such as their 'Flappy Bird' game.

I encourage students who want to have a go at home to create their own accounts, the website is free! Please don't use your school log ins at home because we relate the coding activity we are currently doing to other classwork and discussions.

Have fun coding everyone!

Posters and spelling test

Well done to everyone in the class who completed their posters about the '6 events that shaped my life'. It has been so lovely to learn more about each child, but most of all see their gorgeous photos of when they were younger.

Thank you to all students for being so open and honest with their stories. The posters are now displayed up the back of our classroom where students have been learning more about each other. Any parents who would like to come in and see the posters are more than welcome to as well.

Don't forget, tomorrow is also the spelling test! Try hard to beat your previous score and remember to do your parent tests tonight!

Also, remember Mr Butler, not Mrs Geelhoed will be in tomorrow.

Swimming Carnival

Just a quick reminder to everyone that our Swimming Carnival will be on next Tuesday at Challenge Stadium. Everyone is expected to come and all students will be in an activity or event. The Year 6's are obviously the leaders of the school and we look forward to seeing them not only battle it out in the pool, but also help the younger students in our school get organised and feel like part of their faction.

We look forward to seeing as many parents as possible to come help out or just support their child.

Homework and diary dates Week 4

Monday
Spelling - Parent test and free choice
Reading - Boy Overboard allocated chapters/free reading. *Don't forget to write in your diary!

Robotics 10am

Tuesday
Spelling - 10 definitions of the most difficult words.
Reading - Boy Overboard allocated chapters/free reading. *Don't forget to write in your diary!
Maths - write in throughout the week depending on what your maths teacher gives you.
Ukulele's for music today.
Mrs G is in today!

Wednesday
Spelling - Parent test. 5 sentences of the most difficult words.
Reading - Boy Overboard allocated chapters/free reading. *Don't forget to write in your diary!
Maths - write in throughout the week depending on what your maths teacher gives you.


Thursday
Spelling - Parent test of all your columns in preperation for the test tomorrow. Any words you get incorrect write out 3 times each.
Reading - Boy Overboard allocated chapters/free reading. *Don't forget to write in your diary!
Maths - write in throughout the week depending on what your maths teacher gives you.
Parent Maths meeting 3.15 in your child's Maths teacher's classroom.

Friday
Spelling test today! 
Mr Butler is in today!
Bring in play dough for Science.

Spelling list Week 2 Term 1

Should Know	Moderate	Hard	Novel Words
1. bald	1. treasure	1. directory	1. Afghanistan
2. bawled	2. measure	2. authority	2. government
3. brows	3. pleasure	3. dictionary	3. dumbstruck
4. browse	4. feather	4. secretary	4. slither
5.manner	5. leather	5. sympathy	5. armour
6.manor	6. weather	6. society	6. yoghurt
7.least	7. pear	7. vocabulary	7. ancestors
8.leased	8. wear	8. properly	8. frantically
9. sword	9. ahead	9. wallaby	9. debris
10.soared	10. breadth	10. salary	10. disposal
11. hanger	11. haunt	11. activity	11. responsibility
12. hangar	12. flaunt	12. assembly	12. performance
13. rained	13. launch	13. theory	13. embarrassing
14. reigned	14. author	14. boundary	14. bizarre
15. sealing	15. autumn	15. comedy	15.  bazaar
16. ceiling	16. pause	16. aviary	16. border
17. marshal	17. jaunty	17. singular	17. boarder
18. martial	18. laundry	18. plural	18. fazed
19. coward	19. fauna	19. forehead	19. muscles
20. cowered	20. audible	20. forecast	20. mussels

Inquiry, writing and Geography

INQUIRY:
For our first mini home assignment, Year 6 students will be creating a poster about '6 events that shaped my life'. Today in class, we discussed including borders, titles, subtitles, colour and information on our posters. We all selected a piece of A3 coloured paper, however if all their work won't fit on one sheet they are encouraged to come collect another sheet as well.

We started our paragraphs today and emphasised that in Year 6 students should be writing around 5 sentences per paragraph. Some prompts we discussed were What is the event? How did it shape your life or impact on your life? Why did you choose it? Who else did it impact on?

This poster will be due on Friday.

WRITING:
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about narratives and how to improve our own writing. During the first week of school, students wrote a narrative about 'The day I had super powers'. Last week we edited our writing using VCOP and wrote goals of how we wanted to improve. Today we have written a new plan for the same topic, explored how to start our narratives in interesting way and figurative language. We will continue to discuss strategies to help with our writing across this week, but it may be a great conversation starter with your child to talk about their narratives and what vocabulary they might be able to include.

GEOGRAPHY:
As part of our Events that shaped the world theme students will be mapping the tectonic plates. Below is an introductory video that we watched today, as well as, a couple of other interesting videos relating to the topic you may like to watch from home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_UBLFUpYQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPghqnnTVk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvIDxu7twpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW23Z94yf24