Term 1
2011 Kahikatea Homework
Act Now – Shape your future!
Inquiry Topic: What’s beneath our
feet?
• Key Idea
Fossils give us clues about life in the past
Many plants and animals that lived on
Earth in the past can no longer be seen
alive
Lines of Inquiry
• What is a fossil?
• How living things become fossils
• What can we learn from fossils?
Task 1. Spelling
1. Learn your Spelling words for
Friday’s spelling test.
2. This week’s spelling is also on Spelling
City.
Rm 5
http://www.spellingcity.com/sallyruss/
Rms 6, 7, 8 & 17
http://www.spellingcity.com/kahikatea/
Try some of the games and activities.
3. EACH night write 3 good sentences in
your Homefun notebook. Each sentence
should contain one of your spelling words,
and have a capital letter, full stop as well
as make sense.
Make sure you check your work yourself
when you have finished.
Task 2. Reading
Read a book of your choice for at least 10
-15 minutes EACH night!
Task 3. Basic facts
1. Each night learn 2 basic facts that you
got incorrect or didn’t do so that your
score improves each week!
Week 9
Tips for Quality Homework
* Make a colourful heading for
each section.
* Use HB pencil for writing and
coloured pencils for headings and
illustrations.
* Rule off neatly with a ruler
after each section.
* Try your hardest with spelling
and neatness.
Task 4
Recently we have been setting
goals for Term 2. This is also a
good time to reflect on Term 1
and its highlights.
Draw a colourful picture of what
you you think was a highlight for
you and write a few sentences
about it saying why that was a
highlight for you.
Highlights might include:
Swimming, Museum and Suter
visits, World maths day,
eLearning, Cross Country
practices, Miniball, Rugby League
training,
Dear parents,
Please sign your child’s
homework!
• It was great to see so
many parents at
interviews last week. We
hope you found it useful.
• Thanks also, t o those
parents who were able to
accompany our classes to
the Suter last week.