Homework Week Three

Congratulations to those of you who checked out our class blog and found the answer to the challenge. Shannon and Lucy were the first to answer the question. Natasha even went so far as to find the original story and bring it to school. The author was Katherine Mansfield, a very famous New Zealand writer. The story was ‘At the Bay’. There is another exert challenge on the blog. Check it out and feel free to leave a comment. Room 6 have left one, interesting!

Thank you to those people who described your dream home. WOW! You do have fabulous imaginations. Share them with your family, a friend or a neighbour. You are focusing on using detail beautifully.

If you could design a school day, how would it begin? What would be the first subject and how long would it go for? What would you have for play lunch? What next? ... Write up a timetable for your ideal day.

Times Table focus is 9x. Try to mix them up, go up to 20, and divide by 9…

Collect ‘Earth’ big questions this week.

Word Study
Define and THRASS these words.
Earthquake, erosion, country, countries, instability, destruction, war-torn, political.

Blog challenge. Which Katherine Mansfield story is this taken from? ' she was a tiny wishbone of a child, with cropped hair and enormous solemn eyes - a little white owl.'
and 'Presently, looking along the road, she saw two little dots. They grew bigger, they were coming towards her. now she could see that one was in front and one close behind. Now she could see that they were the Kelveys.'
Answer by using the comment button only.