Homework

Week 8

NO HOMEWORK 

for the remainder of term.

In class, our focus is now on revision and consolidating what we have learnt in numeracy and literacy over this year . We are now preparing for the second half of stage 3.  Mr Burgess

Week 7

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling.

1.     galaxy

2.     generation

3.    gesture

4.     gigantic

5.     glacier

6.     global

7.     gnawed

8.    goblet

9.     government

10.   graphics

11.   grumble

12.   guess

13.  gauge

14.   ghoul

15.   grandeur

16.  guaranteed

17.   guillotine

18.  goodness

19.  globe

20. great

Maths

• Go Maths Page 24 & 25

Week 6

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling.

1. famous
2. favourite
3. features
4. February
5. fellowship
6. fete
7. fibre
8. fiction
9. field
10. fierce
11. formal
12. formation
13. fractures
14. fragile
15. frenzied
16. frightened
17. furniture
18. further 
19. fascinating
20. fluorescent

Maths

• Go Maths Page 22 & 23

Week 5

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling.

1. easiest
2. edible
3. educational
4. eerie
5. effect
6. effective
7. emerged
8. endangered
9. energy
10. engage
11. engine
12. enjoyable
13. enormous
14. ensure
15. episode
16. especially
17. esteem
18. except
19. exciting
20. exert

Maths

• Go Maths Page 20 & 21

Week 4

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling.

1.     damage

2.     dangerous

3.    decided

4.     decision

5.     decorate

6.     defence

7.     delicious

8.    demolished

9.     demonstrate

10.   depot

11.   depression

12.   deprived

13.  deserts

14.   dessert

15.   designed

16.  detective

17.   digest

18.  disappear

19.  disappointed

20.   discover

Maths

• Go Maths Page 18 & 19
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

Week 3

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling.

1. calm
2. carriage
3. category
4. celebration
5. certain
6. character
7. cheques
8. chocolate
9. circuit
10. college
11. community
12. competition
13. complaining
14. complete
15. concerned
16. confidence
17. consider
18. considerate
19. continued
20. contraptions

Maths

• Go Maths Page 17
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

Week 2

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. barely
2. beautiful
3. behaviours
4. benefit
5. beware
6. bough
7. boulder
8. boundary
9. brake
10. break
11. breathless
12. brethren
13. brief
14. burglar
15. business
16. blind
17. block
18. bodies
19. bottom
20. bought

Maths

• Go Maths Page 16
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

Apologies .......ahhh slight technical glitch.


List words need only be completed for 3 nights this week.

Don't forget folks - netball Gala Day this Friday & Camp kicks off this Monday morn.

Week 6

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. oblige
2. observe
3. obviously
4. occur
5. ogre
6. omit
7. opportunity
8. opposition
9. optical
10. optimist
11. option
12. organise
13. origami
14. oxygen
15. obedience
16. obnoxious
17. obscure
18. observation
19. obsessed
20. obsessive

Maths

• Go Maths Page 16
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

Week 5

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. majestic
2. malt
3. martial
4. matted
5. mayor
6. measured
7. medicine
8. medieval
9. minerals
10. molecule
11. molten
12. moult
13. mucus
14. muscle
15. muscular
16. museum
17. mysterious
18. mystery
19. mystic
20. myth

Maths

• Go Maths Page 14
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

Week 4

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. language
2. league
3. library
4. lightning
5. litany
6. literacy
7. lullaby
8. lunar
9. lyrebird
10. lifelike
11. light
12. limb
13. little
14. live
15. living
16. local
17. loose
18. lose
19. loud
20. love

Maths

• Go Maths Page 14
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

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Week 3

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. jacket
2. joke
3. juice
4. jump
5. key
6. kitten
7. knee
8. knows
9. jeopardy
10. jettison
11. journey
12. kidnapped
13. kiosk
14. knowledge
15. just
16. keep
17. kid
18. judicial
19. kaleidoscope
20. kayaking

Maths

• Go Maths Page 13
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

Project Project Project Project

The following project will be the first of two this term. It combines what we are learning about in -

Writing: Procedure
Science & Tec: Recycling
&
Talking and Listening

Firstly, write a detailed procedure about how recycling happens in your house over each week/fortnight.
Next, create a sock puppet (yes a sock puppet).
Lastly, film your sock puppet reciting your written procedure.  (interview style)

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Welcome to Term 3 everyone. 
Over half way now - and I have no doubt this second semester will go even faster!
Two big events that we can look forward to this term are the Aussie Bush Camp, which will be an amazing experience, and  Naplan results (towards the end of the term).
Here are the areas of study that 5W will learning about one the next 10 weeks.

Religion:
Literacy: Recording Information ie information reports, procedures and explanations.
Maths:
HSIE:Democracy
PDHPE: I Like Me
Creative Arts: The Living Landscape
Science & Technology: Recycling

After speaking to many parents and students alike, homework will go back to Monday to Friday. 
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Week 2

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. illegal
2. imagination
3. imaginative
4. implicate
5. improvement
6. including
7. inexpert
8. information
9. informative
10. insane
11. insolent
12. insurance
13. intelligent
14. intention
15. interesting
16. interrupt
17. invisible
18. irrational
19. issue
20. imaginative

Maths

• Go Maths Page 12
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

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Week 10

NO HOMEWORK 
for week 10

Again, a big thank you to those families that set aside their 3L milk bottles. 

Please keep them coming.

A reminder that Monday of week 1 next term is a student free day. All teaching staff will be attending a professional development day at the CSO in Newcastle.

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Week 9

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. hammock
2. haphazard
3. haste
4. haul
5. healthy
6. heir
7. herd
8. hesitated
9. hilarious
10. history
11. hoarse
12. honest
13. horrified
14. hostel
15. humorous
16. hurriedly
17. hygiene
18. humans
19. hundred
20. hunted

Maths

• Go Maths Page 12
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

HSIE

LAST WEEK!!

Matrix task

(for matrix see week 5)

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Week 8

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. galaxy

2. generation

3. gesture

4. gigantic

5. glacier

6. global

7. gnawed

8. goblet

9. government

10.          graphics

11.          grumble

12.          guess

13.          goodness

14.          globe

15.          great

16.          green

17.          ground

18.          group

19.          gauge

20.     ghoul


Maths

• Go Maths Page 11
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

HSIE

Matrix task

(for matrix see week 5)

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Attention, Attention!

Homework for week 7 is cancelled.

If you have already started, then you are ahead for week 8!

My apologies to all those who got on with it regardless.

                                     Mr Burgess

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Apologies for not having homework up till Wednesday. Report writing, sick children and life are my excuse. 

As a result, homework is not due till Wednesday of next week. 

A reminder that unless homework is accompanied by a note from Mum & Dad, anything short of 100% completion is considered not done. 

Since NAPLAN, I am ticking the 'YES' box for only half the class. This will be reflected in reports for Semester I.

Week 7

Due Tuesday (week 8)

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. famous
2. favourite
3. features
4. February
5. fellowship
6. fete
7. fibre
8. fiction
9. field
10. fierce
11. formal
12. formation
13. fractures
14. fragile
15. frenzied
16. frightened
17. floor
18. flower
19. fly
20. followed

Maths

• Go Maths Page 11
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

HSIE

Matrix task to be done and handed in on Monday (week 7)

(for matrix see week 5)

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Week 6

Due Monday (week 7)

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. easiest
2. edible
3. educational
4. eerie
5. effect
6. effective
7. emerged
8. endangered
9. energy
10. engage
11. engine
12. enjoyable
13. enormous
14. ensure
15. episode
16. especially
17. esteem
18. except
19. exciting
20. exert

On a separate A4 piece of paper, write one simple, one compound, and one complex sentence that each incorporates a word from the spelling list and relates in some way to rain forests. This will be displayed in out classroom, so please pay attention to layout and overall appearance. ensure your name is clearly placed on it.  

Maths

• Go Maths Page 10
• (optional)  do not forget there is NEW extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

HSIE

Matrix task to be done and handed in on Monday (week 7)

(for matrix see week 5)



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Week 5

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. damage
2. dangerous
3. decided
4. decision
5. decorate
6. defence
7. delicious
8. demolished
9. demonstrate
10. depot
11. depression
12. deprived
13. deserts
14. dessert
15. designed
16. detective
17. digest
18. disappear
19. disappointed
20. discover

Maths

• Go Maths Page 9
• (optional)  do not forget there is extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

HSIE

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(week 5)

Please be advised that homework will now run between 

Tuesday and Monday

This is to enable proper time to be given to marking and assessing homework. Previously with homework being due on a Friday, the marking of homework often gave way to testing and assessing of our literacy and maths outcomes for the week. The old routine is simply not viable if both routines are to exist on a Friday.
Starting the process on Tuesday gives the weekend and therefore provides (potentially) an extra two days for completion. Moreover, it allows Fridays to remain testing day. 
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Week 4

no formal homework is set

revision of discussion and exposition with parents
revision of maths

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Week 3

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. calm
2. carriage
3. category
4. celebration
5. certain
6. character
7. cheques
8. chocolate
9. circuit
10. college
11. community
12. competition
13. complaining
14. complete
15. concerned
16. confidence
17. consider
18. considerate
19. continued
20. contraptions

Maths

• Go Maths Page 8
• (optional)  do not forget there is extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

HSIE

Prepare a short (1/2  to 1page) summary on the Rainforests. This will need to be presented to the class on Friday (over the course of week 4).

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Week 2

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

1. barely
2. beautiful
3. behaviours
4. benefit
5. beware
6. bough
7. boulder
8. boundary
9. brake
10. breathless
11. brethren
12. brief
13. burglar
14. business
15. baulk
16. beige
17. belligerence
18. benefited
19. benevolent
20. blasé

Maths

• Go Maths Page 8
• (optional)  do not forget there is extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

HSIE

My sincere apologies re the Gold Rush homework for last week. This term we are studying Rainforests. Gold is next term's unit of work. 

All is not lost - the work that was done will be called upon at the commencement of Term 3.

5W's Assembly

This Friday (4th May), 5W will be presenting the Friday Assembly. this will be a hectic week with preparation as well as continuing with our studies.
Below are the two songs that we need to learn off by heart.

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Week 1

Welcome back everyone! Term 2 is here and we are half way through Semester 1.
Love & learning will abound if each of us continually strive to be attentive, intelligent, reasonable and responsible in all we do. On that note, here is the homework for week 1.

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling.

1. abandoned
2. absolutely
3. access
4. acknowledge
5. actually
6. adjusted
7. advantage
8. affect
9. agencies
10. agreeable
11. alien
12. allergic
13. amuse
14. annual
15. answer
16. area
17. assess
18. attachment
19. attempt
20. attention

Maths

• Go Maths Page 7
• (optional)  do not forget there is extension work on the 'maths practice' page.
• Practise you times tables with a parent.

HSIE

Prepare a short (1/2 page) summary on the Gold Rush in Australia.

This will need to be presented to the class on Friday (27th).

A reminder for this week - St Paul's Cross Country Tuesday 24th & ANZAC Day Wednesday 25th

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Week 10

Apologies to all. 

Homework will only be required Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.

We all have the night off tonight - don't get used to it folks LOL

schnitzel 

scientific 

seize 

sewage 

sewerage 

shoulder 

shrieked 

signal 

skeleton 

slaughter 

society 

sought 

spectacular 

stammered 

stomach 

submarine 

subsided 

success 

suitable 

summoned 

Week 9

talons 

travelled 

tarantula 

treasure 

taught

technique 

temperature

tension 

tentacles 

terrace 

terrible 

terribly 

territory 

telekinesis 


temperamental 


temporary 


therapeutic 


thoroughly 


tournament 


tsunami 

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling.

An amazing effort on the expositions written last week. The standard was very high. Well done!

This week we start learning to write a 'discussion' as opposed to an 'argument.' this is another critical skill for NAPLAN (and for life in general)

Maths

• Go Maths Page 7. Thank you to those who incorporated the extension work into their maths homework last week 

Week 8

waive 

wilful 

wondrous 

wraith 

wrought

wary 

weary 

wearisome 

weighed 

weight 

weird 

wholly 

witchery 

women 

wonderful 

wrapped 

wrinkle 

written

whose 
window

Literacy

• write out your list words as per usual (please ensure look, cover, write, and check).
•  Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling.
• On separate lined paper ( given out on Monday) plan and write an exposition of your choice. You can use the ideas provided below.

Maths

• Go Maths Page 6
• (optional)  do not forget there is extension work on the 'maths practice' page.

Week 7

List Words:

Literacy

·      Write out your list words each night

·                   on a separate A4 paper, choose and write a simple sentence.  As we did in class last week, build it into a descriptive paragraph.

·      Read out loud for 15 minutes each night to a parent or older sibling

Maths

Go Maths Page 5

·      Practice times tables with your parents each night

Other

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