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 7
Task 4
Next week is parent teacher
goal setting interviews.
Think carefully about the way you
work at school and how confident
you are in different areas of
your schoolwork.
Set yourself a goal that you want
to achieve by the end of Term 2
or the end of the year and write
it neatly in your book.
E.g My goal is to learn my basic
facts so I can be getting 90 or
more each week in my basic facts
test.
Dear parents,
Please sign your child’s
homework!
• Goal setting interviews
are coming up. Please see
the school newsletter for
details. If you have any
problems with booking
online please see the
teacher concerned.
• Suter visits next week.
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.