English
Writing an essay
What is a community?
In our inquiry, we are exploring our place in the world, and what it means to belong to a community. Is being part of a community important? Why?
Students can write their own essays, on which communities they belong to.
The first step will be to make a list of communities that they belong to.
Use their ideas to plan essay.
- Use three ideas for the introduction.
- Use three ideas to write 3 paragraphs for each idea.
- Summarise ideas in the conclusion.
Once you have finished your draft use the following checklist to make sure you have reread, revised and edited your writing.
Term 1: Essay Writing Goals Date: T1 W 3 & 4
| Goal | Tick | Goal | Tick |
| I can write down my ideas in my plan | I have revised my essay to make sure it makes sense | ||
| I can write an introduction using my ideas | I have edited my writing by checking my spelling | ||
| I can write paragraphs for each of my ideas | I have edited my writing by checking capital letters | ||
| I can write a conclusion for my ideas | I have edited my writing by checking full-stops | ||
| I have reread my essay to make sure it makes sense | I have edited my writing by checking conjunctions |
Maths
In maths this week, we are continuing to learn about place value and partitioning numbers, or breaking them up into their parts of ones, tens, hundreds and thousands to help us with our calculations.
Attempt the following problems:
The focus is on how we can use our mathematical thinking to make a start on the problem. Can you use drawing or modelling with objects to help with responding to the problem?
https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/6828/NRICH-poster_DecaTree.pdf
https://nzmaths.co.nz/sites/default/files/ReversingNumbers_1.pdf
Next, students can write their own worded problems and solve them, to practise each of the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Example: In 2016, 4918 households in Brunswick had one car. How many wheels would there be in total?
Additionally, students can choose problems from this page to help them practise their work on Place Value https://nrich.maths.org/13786
Inquiry / Projects and Provocations
Students are continuing their investigations into Lunar New Year and other cultural celebrations, and recording their findings. We are also responding to the provocation ‘Which cultural celebrations do I take part in, and how does my family celebrate these occasions?’
Additionally, students are looking at World Maps, and the Indigenous map of Australia and recording any questions that they have after looking at those maps. Following that, we are using the internet to research and record answers to those questions.