Multiplication group
Learn your 4 and 6x tables for a test on Friday.
Division group
Learn your family of facts for 6 and 7x tables.
Both groups
Practise addition compensation strategy (when we borrow to tidy one of the numbers)
1. 17 + 43
2. 27 + 73
3. 65 + 185
4. 177 + 53
5. 608 + 222
Monday, August 29, 2011
Room 12 Homework Term 3 week 5
Speech
Put your speech onto cue cards and practise saying your speech at home.
Current Events
Many overseas visitors will be visiting NZ soon. Make a list of all the places you think would be interesting for them to visit.
Design an ad for one attraction on your list. Make it persuasive, interesting, detailed and colourful.
Put your speech onto cue cards and practise saying your speech at home.
Current Events
Many overseas visitors will be visiting NZ soon. Make a list of all the places you think would be interesting for them to visit.
Design an ad for one attraction on your list. Make it persuasive, interesting, detailed and colourful.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Room 12 homework Term 3 week 4
Speeches
If you like you can take your speech home and work on it for homework. Your parents might have some good ideas and can help out a little. All speeches must be written by Friday this week.
Inquiry
Take home your questions and ask the volunteers to answer them.E.g. coaches, parents.
Find a piece of news and write a paragraph about it including who, what, when, why, where?
If you like you can take your speech home and work on it for homework. Your parents might have some good ideas and can help out a little. All speeches must be written by Friday this week.
Inquiry
Take home your questions and ask the volunteers to answer them.E.g. coaches, parents.
Find a piece of news and write a paragraph about it including who, what, when, why, where?
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Friday 19 August--Maths mufti day
On Friday the 19th of August the students have been asked to come to school in mufti. We would like the students to have a maths theme. There is no charge.
Some ideas are-
geometrical shapes, symmetry, rugby shirts with the number on it, equations pinned to your clothes,mathematical words pinned to clothes, parallel stripes.
Do not go to too much effort, this day is to finish off Maths week. Remember the house assembly will be about maths week so please come along and enjoy.
Mrs Foot
Some ideas are-
geometrical shapes, symmetry, rugby shirts with the number on it, equations pinned to your clothes,mathematical words pinned to clothes, parallel stripes.
Do not go to too much effort, this day is to finish off Maths week. Remember the house assembly will be about maths week so please come along and enjoy.
Mrs Foot
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Room 12 Homework term 3 Week 3
Maths
Do the problem solving on room 12 maths, week 3. They're fun and challenging so give them a go!
Grammar
Paragraphs
Paragraphs are groups of sentences having a common topic or main idea. Every sentence in a paragraph should support the theme of that paragraph. When a writer wants to use a sentence that doesn’t meet that requirement, it’s time to start another paragraph.
Which one of the two sentences that follow each paragraph belongs in that paragraph?
1. Ryan is very athletic for a three year old. He can run faster than most kids twice his age. He throws and catches a basketball with ease. He is an accomplished tennis player and golfer. _______________________________
a. Ryan can even roller skate backwards on one foot.
b. Ryan can even read second grade level books.
2. Don’t be so quick to buy an SUV. They are more expensive than many equally comfortable automobiles. ___________ ____________________ They consume fuel faster than you can say, “Fill ‘er up!” These trucks are clearly not for everyone.
a. They tend to be much safer in collisions than other vehicles.
b. They are less stable and harder to control in emergency situations.
3. Yes, I confess, I’m a beef addict! I can’t drive past a Burger King without stopping in for a Whopper. I have filled my freezer with steaks and roasts and mountains of ground beef. No steer is safe if I’m in his neighborhood. ______________ _________________
a. I am very unhappy if I can’t eat mushrooms with my beef!
b. The Cattleman’s Beef Association should make me its poster boy!
4. The penguin is another bird that cannot fly. Its “wings” are flippers that carry it through the water instead of the air. _______________________________
a. Swimming is the penguin’s version of flight.
b. An ostrich is no better at flying than a penguin.
Antonym Search
Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
Underline the two antonyms in each sentence. The first one is done for you.
1. A famous author wrote this story at a time when she was still unknown.
2. Running shoes are too casual to wear at such a formal event.
3. It’s the same thing every four years: Karen and I always have opposite opinions about the election.
4. Andrew believes that you sold the faulty parts that he purchased on the Web.
5. How could such a dull man write such an exciting book?
6. Which is more dangerous for that spacecraft, the ascent or the descent onto the desert runway?
7. Michelle should never have told her little sister to always wear shoes on her hands.
8. If he’s really innocent, why does he look so guilty?
Do the problem solving on room 12 maths, week 3. They're fun and challenging so give them a go!
Grammar
Paragraphs
Paragraphs are groups of sentences having a common topic or main idea. Every sentence in a paragraph should support the theme of that paragraph. When a writer wants to use a sentence that doesn’t meet that requirement, it’s time to start another paragraph.
Which one of the two sentences that follow each paragraph belongs in that paragraph?
1. Ryan is very athletic for a three year old. He can run faster than most kids twice his age. He throws and catches a basketball with ease. He is an accomplished tennis player and golfer. _______________________________
a. Ryan can even roller skate backwards on one foot.
b. Ryan can even read second grade level books.
2. Don’t be so quick to buy an SUV. They are more expensive than many equally comfortable automobiles. ___________ ____________________ They consume fuel faster than you can say, “Fill ‘er up!” These trucks are clearly not for everyone.
a. They tend to be much safer in collisions than other vehicles.
b. They are less stable and harder to control in emergency situations.
3. Yes, I confess, I’m a beef addict! I can’t drive past a Burger King without stopping in for a Whopper. I have filled my freezer with steaks and roasts and mountains of ground beef. No steer is safe if I’m in his neighborhood. ______________ _________________
a. I am very unhappy if I can’t eat mushrooms with my beef!
b. The Cattleman’s Beef Association should make me its poster boy!
4. The penguin is another bird that cannot fly. Its “wings” are flippers that carry it through the water instead of the air. _______________________________
a. Swimming is the penguin’s version of flight.
b. An ostrich is no better at flying than a penguin.
Antonym Search
Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
Underline the two antonyms in each sentence. The first one is done for you.
1. A famous author wrote this story at a time when she was still unknown.
2. Running shoes are too casual to wear at such a formal event.
3. It’s the same thing every four years: Karen and I always have opposite opinions about the election.
4. Andrew believes that you sold the faulty parts that he purchased on the Web.
5. How could such a dull man write such an exciting book?
6. Which is more dangerous for that spacecraft, the ascent or the descent onto the desert runway?
7. Michelle should never have told her little sister to always wear shoes on her hands.
8. If he’s really innocent, why does he look so guilty?
Room 12 Maths Term 3 Week 3 - Botanydowns Maths Week Have Fun!
Place Value - Mystery Numbers
1. This mystery number has 4 digits. Every digit is an odd number. None of the digits is a 9. Every digit in the number is different. The smallest digit is in the thousands place. The greatest digit is in the ones place. The preceding describes two possible numbers. The mystery number is the greater of those two numbers. What is the mystery number?
2. This mystery number has 5 digits. There is a 4 in the ten thousands place. None of the other digits is a 4. What is the smallest number that this mystery number can be?
3. This mystery number has 6 digits. If you add one to this number it will be a 7 digit number. What is the mystery number?
4. This mystery number is one half of a billion. How many zeros are in this number?
Rounding Riddles
1. I am a number. If you round the number of days in October to the nearest ten and round the number of days in February to the nearest ten, I am half of the product of those two numbers. What number am I?
2. I am an amount of N.Z. money. I am the cost of five $ .88 hamburgers rounded to the nearest dollar. How much money am I?
3. I am a number. I am the difference between 800 rounded to the nearest 10 and 800 rounded to the nearest 100. How much am I?
4. I am a number. I am the missing number from each of two of the equations below. I am also the sum of 237 and 240 rounded to the nearest 10. Which two equations do I complete?
a. 1,782 - 800 =
b. 8 X 60 =
c. 480 + 20 =
d. 5,322 - 4,842 =
1. This mystery number has 4 digits. Every digit is an odd number. None of the digits is a 9. Every digit in the number is different. The smallest digit is in the thousands place. The greatest digit is in the ones place. The preceding describes two possible numbers. The mystery number is the greater of those two numbers. What is the mystery number?
2. This mystery number has 5 digits. There is a 4 in the ten thousands place. None of the other digits is a 4. What is the smallest number that this mystery number can be?
3. This mystery number has 6 digits. If you add one to this number it will be a 7 digit number. What is the mystery number?
4. This mystery number is one half of a billion. How many zeros are in this number?
Rounding Riddles
1. I am a number. If you round the number of days in October to the nearest ten and round the number of days in February to the nearest ten, I am half of the product of those two numbers. What number am I?
2. I am an amount of N.Z. money. I am the cost of five $ .88 hamburgers rounded to the nearest dollar. How much money am I?
3. I am a number. I am the difference between 800 rounded to the nearest 10 and 800 rounded to the nearest 100. How much am I?
4. I am a number. I am the missing number from each of two of the equations below. I am also the sum of 237 and 240 rounded to the nearest 10. Which two equations do I complete?
a. 1,782 - 800 =
b. 8 X 60 =
c. 480 + 20 =
d. 5,322 - 4,842 =
Monday, August 8, 2011
HOMEWORK Room 12 Term 3 Week 2
Maths
Make up a maths quiz comprising of 20 questions. Make it for someone who is in your maths class. Make sure you know the answers so that you can mark it. Do not make them too easy or too hard. Think about what you have been doing in class and use those types of questions.
Speeches
Find evidence to support your speech topic. Discuss ideas with parents, google ideas, etc.
Grammar
Write a persuasive letter to an M.P. stating why students should be paid to to attend school. Make sure your work is grammatically correct.We won't be sending them but we will share them with each other.
Make up a maths quiz comprising of 20 questions. Make it for someone who is in your maths class. Make sure you know the answers so that you can mark it. Do not make them too easy or too hard. Think about what you have been doing in class and use those types of questions.
Speeches
Find evidence to support your speech topic. Discuss ideas with parents, google ideas, etc.
Grammar
Write a persuasive letter to an M.P. stating why students should be paid to to attend school. Make sure your work is grammatically correct.We won't be sending them but we will share them with each other.
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