Homework for Term 4
I suggest you experiment a few times at home.
You will only have one egg.
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/projects/eggdrop.html <-- This site gives you lots of ideas on how to protect your egg.
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/freefall.html <-- This website gives you an idea of how to make a parachute.
Go online, check out a range of videos and then you will be able to test it out.
1. Draw a sketch of what you will be doing.
2. Explain why you chose this method for your egg.
3. You will need to write down the times you failed.
No memory foam (squishy foam) or bubble wrap
Week 2: Have your eggsperiment ready to be trialled.
Homework for Term 3
Shark Tank Homework Project
You have had the opportunity in Term 2 to explore Shark Tank. Your task this term will be to work on a sales pitch/presentation about a product or service of your interest. A few rules:
Rules About the Product:
- You may invent a product or service from scratch.
- You may take an existing product or service and change it slightly in order to improve it. If you choose to do this, you may not use the same name as the original product (e.g. a Band Aid improvement cannot be called Band Aid).
Groupings:
- You will work in groups of 1, 2 or 3 of your choice.
- You will not be allowed to swap groups with anyone else. By now, you should know who you work best with.
- You will be expected to have a joint Google doc whereby you share your ideas. Refer to what you have to hand in every week.
The Project Itself:
- Your task will be to present your product to Mirs Elchaar, Mrs DiBona and Mr Lima (The Sharks) by the end of the term. Your initial pitch/presentation will have to be between 2-4 minutes.
- You will then have to ask for an investment (to borrow a certain amount of money) from "The Sharks".
- After that, you will have to either allow "The Sharks" to touch/use your product or provide an example of your service.
- You may choose to use a Powerpoint, Google Presentation or Prezi to help you, however you are not allowed to read from the screen. You will have to know your presentation so well that you can just talk about it, not memorize it.
- The Sharks will ask you questions such as:
* Why should I invest (let you borrow my money) in your product?
* How will I make money from your product?
* How many have you sold or how much money have you made so far?
* How long have you had the business?
How You Will Be Marked:
You will be marked based on how often you hand in your homework, how original your product or service is, how well you present and persuade The Sharks and how prepared you are.
What to Hand in Every Week:
Week 1: Answer the following questions in your homework book:
1. What have you learned about Shark Tank so far?
2. What must the presenters do in order to be successful?
3. What has let down some of the presenters from the episodes you have watched?
Week 2:
1. In your homework book, write down 2 products or services you may be thinking about presenting and explain why you have chosen this product or service. This needs to be half a page and may include a diagram. Each person in the group must do this.
2. Create a Google doc with the title "Shark Tank - (the name of the people in your group). On this Google doc, just write down some of your ideas. No more than a paragraph is required.
Week 3:
In your homework book write down the answer to the following question:
1. What role is each team member doing? (If you are by yourself you may skip this question)
2. How does your product or service work. Please write this as 1,2,3 etc.
Week 4:
1. Take a picture or draw a diagram and then take a picture of your product or service and upload it to your Google doc page.
2. Answer the following question in your homework book: 1. What makes your product or service different and better than others?
Week 5 & 6: (Hand this in at the end of week 6)
1. In your homework book, write down your presentation. For example, write down what you will be saying when you come to presenting. We will expect no punctuation errors.
2. Write down an answer to when The Sharks ask you: "Why should I invest in your product or service?"
Week 7 and 8:
1. Create a logo for your product as well as a website for your product or service. For your logo, we suggest you use http://www.designmantic.com/ and http://www.wix.com/ for your website. Please upload the links to your logo and your website into your Google doc page.
Week 9 and 10:
These weeks you will be presenting to The Sharks.
Questions to help you
RE Quiz Answers
Term 2 Homework Structure:
- You must complete at least 6 Mathletics activities.
- Spelling: Write the definition of each word into your book and put it into a sentence: You must write out your words 3 times a week. Refer to the Spelling page.
- Lexile quizzes to be completed.
Week 2 and 3
Week 1: Draw and write your prototype and explain why you have chosen this method.I suggest you experiment a few times at home.
You will only have one egg.
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/projects/eggdrop.html <-- This site gives you lots of ideas on how to protect your egg.
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/freefall.html <-- This website gives you an idea of how to make a parachute.
Go online, check out a range of videos and then you will be able to test it out.
1. Draw a sketch of what you will be doing.
2. Explain why you chose this method for your egg.
3. You will need to write down the times you failed.
No memory foam (squishy foam) or bubble wrap
Week 2: Have your eggsperiment ready to be trialled.
Homework for Term 3
- Each week you must complete the Shark Tank activity.
- You must complete at least 6 Mathletics activities.
- Spelling: Write the definition of each word into your book and put it into a sentence: You must write out your words 3 times a week. Refer to the Spelling page.
- Lexile quizzes to be completed.
Shark Tank Homework Project
You have had the opportunity in Term 2 to explore Shark Tank. Your task this term will be to work on a sales pitch/presentation about a product or service of your interest. A few rules:
Rules About the Product:
- You may invent a product or service from scratch.
- You may take an existing product or service and change it slightly in order to improve it. If you choose to do this, you may not use the same name as the original product (e.g. a Band Aid improvement cannot be called Band Aid).
Groupings:
- You will work in groups of 1, 2 or 3 of your choice.
- You will not be allowed to swap groups with anyone else. By now, you should know who you work best with.
- You will be expected to have a joint Google doc whereby you share your ideas. Refer to what you have to hand in every week.
The Project Itself:
- Your task will be to present your product to Mirs Elchaar, Mrs DiBona and Mr Lima (The Sharks) by the end of the term. Your initial pitch/presentation will have to be between 2-4 minutes.
- You will then have to ask for an investment (to borrow a certain amount of money) from "The Sharks".
- After that, you will have to either allow "The Sharks" to touch/use your product or provide an example of your service.
- You may choose to use a Powerpoint, Google Presentation or Prezi to help you, however you are not allowed to read from the screen. You will have to know your presentation so well that you can just talk about it, not memorize it.
- The Sharks will ask you questions such as:
* Why should I invest (let you borrow my money) in your product?
* How will I make money from your product?
* How many have you sold or how much money have you made so far?
* How long have you had the business?
How You Will Be Marked:
You will be marked based on how often you hand in your homework, how original your product or service is, how well you present and persuade The Sharks and how prepared you are.
What to Hand in Every Week:
Week 1: Answer the following questions in your homework book:
1. What have you learned about Shark Tank so far?
2. What must the presenters do in order to be successful?
3. What has let down some of the presenters from the episodes you have watched?
Week 2:
1. In your homework book, write down 2 products or services you may be thinking about presenting and explain why you have chosen this product or service. This needs to be half a page and may include a diagram. Each person in the group must do this.
2. Create a Google doc with the title "Shark Tank - (the name of the people in your group). On this Google doc, just write down some of your ideas. No more than a paragraph is required.
Week 3:
In your homework book write down the answer to the following question:
1. What role is each team member doing? (If you are by yourself you may skip this question)
2. How does your product or service work. Please write this as 1,2,3 etc.
Week 4:
1. Take a picture or draw a diagram and then take a picture of your product or service and upload it to your Google doc page.
2. Answer the following question in your homework book: 1. What makes your product or service different and better than others?
Week 5 & 6: (Hand this in at the end of week 6)
1. In your homework book, write down your presentation. For example, write down what you will be saying when you come to presenting. We will expect no punctuation errors.
2. Write down an answer to when The Sharks ask you: "Why should I invest in your product or service?"
Week 7 and 8:
1. Create a logo for your product as well as a website for your product or service. For your logo, we suggest you use http://www.designmantic.com/ and http://www.wix.com/ for your website. Please upload the links to your logo and your website into your Google doc page.
Week 9 and 10:
These weeks you will be presenting to The Sharks.
Questions to help you
Questions the Sharks Will Probably Ask You Will Include the Following. Therefore, you should consider knowing the answer and showing them during your presentation:
- What is your product or service?
- What makes your product or service better than other products or services?
- How much does your product or service cost?
- How long have you been in business?
- How many products have you sold (or how much money have you made from your service?)
- How much do you want the Sharks to invest ( in other words, how much money do you want from the Sharks?)
- How much profit did you make last year?
- How much profit do you make on each sale? In other words, how much does the product cost compared to how much you sell it for?
- What are you going to do with the money?
RE Quiz Answers
Term 2 Homework Structure:
- Each week one social skill needs to be completed and signed by a parent.
- Each week the curriculum activity set our for the week needs to be completed and signed by a parent.
- Spelling words need to be written and learnt four times into your homework book.
- Lexile quizzes to be completed.
- Mathletics needs to be completed.
- Check the “Homework” page every week for extra homework activities. It will need to be completed for that week.
Stage 3 Social Skills Homework Activities – Term Two
Complete one activity per week ( Your parents must sign each week)
Communication
Go for a walk with an adult in your family. Discuss you day/ week. How was it? What were the pits and peaks for each of you?
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Conflict
Talk it out. Get together with someone you are having a conflict with at the moment. Take turns talking and listening to each other. What will help? Choose a plan. Do it!
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Responsibility
Clean up after a meal. Do the washing up or drying up or unload the dishwasher at least once this week.
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Cultural Understanding
What do you admire in another culture?
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Patience
Play a board game with your family or someone at home. Let them choose the game. Play till the end and concentrate on ways to make it fun and enjoyable for everyone.
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Kindness
Do something that would really help another person this week. If someone is looking upset in the playground go and check they’re ok.
If someone at home looks exhausted, ask how you could help them?
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Sustainability
Think of a way you can help at home to save the environment. E.g. turning off appliances at the power point when they are not being used.
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Responsibility
Help with the washing. Either hang out, bring in or neatly fold and put away a load of washing. Better yet, do all of these things!
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Positivity
Give 5 different people a compliment this week. It would be good if they are people you don’t always talk too.
You might tell someone how neat their work is or someone who cooked dinner how delicious it was!
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Current Events
Watch an episode of the news or read an article online. What was it about? How does this affect you or your community?
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Please complete each week and tick when completed
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Literacy Pro
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Mathletics
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Spelling – 4x/ week
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Curriculum Activities - Please record all work in your Homework book
Week 2: Writing
Choose a television show to watch. Keep a detailed list of eight different commercials you see during this show. These all should come from the same show: You must resist the urge to change the channel
Product name
Purpose of product
Persuasive techniques used
To what extent does this product appeal to you?
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Week 3: Geography
Explore a Country.
Students select a country to research. (In pairs or individually)
Name the continent the country is located?
Describe its geographical location using directional language
What is the country's climate zone?
Explore country's Natural Environment Features (land, water, flora, fauna)
Others features like population; language; etc
Include a satellite image of the country.
Students enter learnt information into linoit.com website to create a canvas of notes. (Username: STFyear6rocks Password: student)
One note colour per group.
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Week 4: English
When driving in the car count how many advertisement you see. Discuss it with someone in the car. |
Week 5: Geography
Complete an Australia think task card
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Week 6:
RE test Revision
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Week 7:
Sabbath week – Play a game, read a book or write a prayer of thanks with your family
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Week 8:
RE test Revision
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Week 9:
RE test Revision
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Week 10:
RE test Revision
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Homework Structure:
Students are expected to do complete activities every week:
1. Mathletics tasks
2. Literacy Pro https://educator-slz04.scholasticlearningzone.com/auth/intl/Login/AUSGY2W
3. Spelling (look, cover, write, check). This must be written four times a week. Then choose 3 words from the list and create three entertaining sentences (include one word in each sentence). You do not do the entire sheet as this will be done in Guided Reading.
4. Social activity (in their book). They only have to do one of the social activities per week.
Optional: You are able to go onto Study Ladder and do extra activities about the topics we are doing in Maths or you may try other activities. This is not compulsory but it will help you.
Compulsory Activities
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Choose an activity
Your parent must date and sign when you have completed it
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Learn how to play Articulate for Kids by going to:
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Choose your favourite all time story and then write down:
1.What happens at the start 2.What is the problem
3.What is the resolution
4.Why you enjoy this story
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Write no more than half a page about why you believe Apple products are better than Samsung products.
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Spelling
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Play either a board game or a card game with someone in your family and write:
1.What game you played
2.Who played with you
3.How long you played for
4.Why you enjoy that game
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Clean your room and another part of your house and write down:
1.The area you cleaned
2.What your parents said once you cleaned it
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Create a comic book strip about a story whereby either a girl or a boy has a problem they must solve. You must include at least 3 characters.
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Research what electronic devices have been invented in your lifetime and write about it.
OR
Research what new technologies are about to be created and write about it.
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Do an outside activity for half an hour and write down:
1.What you did
2.Who you did it with
3.What you enjoyed about it
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Pick something you love and tell write the following:
1.What it is
2.Why you like it
3.How does it work
4.When you started liking it
5.Anything you wish to add
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Create a small story. No more than 3 quarters of a page featuring your favourite celebrity. You may be that celebrity.
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Notice someone in need and help them and then write down:
1.Who you helped
2.why you chose to help them
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Literacy Pro
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Help cook dinner. Write down:
1.What you cooked
2.Who helped you
3.What you enjoyed
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Borrow an ebook to read from the school library and write down.
1.The book you borrowed
2.Why you borrowed that book.
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Pick an activity and tell us about it in less than half a page.
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