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Choose 2 of these activities to do each week. Make sure you choose different ones each week.

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Choose 2 of these activities to do each week. Make sure you choose different ones each week.

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Record what you have read in your diary.
Task 1
Make a time line of events.
Task 2
Explain what you think could happen next.
Task 3
Make a Picollage about the text.
Task 4
Make a family tree showing relationships in the story.
Task 5
Describe if the main character is a good or bad person and why.
Task 6
Rewrite the story into another genre.
Task 7
Write information that you can remember.
Task 8
What are the main ideas and themes of the text?
Task 9
Write a review of the book.
Task 10
Make an acrostic poem retelling parts of the story.

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Choose 2 tasks from the list below every week.

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Choose 2 tasks from the list below every week.

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Try to do 2 different activities every week.

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Write an interesting sentence on each of your spelling words.

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Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences | Learning English

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Can you find six more words that follow the spelling pattern in your list this week?

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Practise saying and writing your words and then ask a family member to test you. Did you manage to get them all right?
Which words do you need to work on?

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For each of your spelling words find 3 synonyms.

For example:
burning,
flaming,
blazing
smouldering

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Synonyms | Award Winning Synonym Teaching Video | What are Synonyms?

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Practise your spellings on Education Perfect.

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Practise the times table level you are at ready for your test on a Friday.

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Choose either a HaSS. or science activity to do every week to increase your knowledge, understanding and application of our topics.

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Choose either a HaSS. or science activity to do every week to increase your knowledge, understanding and application of our topics.

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View the video ‘Animal Adaptations’ and write what you have learnt in dot points. Find a picture (or draw a picture) of an animal that has adapted to their environment through physical and/or behavioural adaptation

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/animals/animal-adaptations.htm

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Draw up 2 columns and discuss what is a physical adaptation and what is a behavioural adaptation. Give examples of each in the Australian environment.

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View the video ‘Plant Adaptations’ and write what you have learnt in dot points. Find a picture (or draw a picture) of an animal that has adapted to their environment through physical and/or behavioural adaptation. Discuss how this plant has adapted to suit their environment.
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/plants/plant-adaptations.htm

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Students change the structures on a camel so that it would be able to survive in an Arctic climate.

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Research an ecosystem and choose an animal.
Identify the structural adaptations of the animal and the functions of each structure.
Create a poster (A4 size) that identifies the features and the similarities and differences.

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Choose either a HaSS, Design tech or science activity every week to increase your knowledge, understanding and application of our topics.

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Choose either a HaSS, Design tech or science activity every week to increase your knowledge, understanding and application of our topics.

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On a world map, show the locations of a particular natural disaster e.g. droughts.
Write a paragraph describing their location and explain if there is a pattern to their location.

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Choose the mat that is appropriate for your level to practise your grammar, spelling and punctuation.

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Choose a topic that you are interested in and research some facts about it. Then write an information report.

Remember to:
Record your sources.
Make a generalisation in the first paragraph.
Divide your report up into sections with headings.
Add in any maps, images diagrams etc to enhance your report.
Use the TEEL paragraph structure to write your paragraphs.

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Work on something that you found difficult this week in any of the subjects.

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Work on your typing skills on typing.com

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Complete your recommended tasks on Education Perfect.

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Watch the BTN video and answer the questions below.

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You'd have to be living under a rock, or many rocks actually, not to have heard that this big ole thing, the Great Barrier Reef, is in a spot of trouble. But, from pictures like this that may seem hard to believe. The reef covers two and a half thousand kays off the coast of Queensland, and two million people flock to it every year. All keen to check out the super colourful coral, and the more than 1,600 species of fish that call it home!

But all of this prettiness isn't the whole story. In some parts there's hardly any life left at all. So, what's to blame? Well, the biggest issue here is coral bleaching. That can happen when water gets too warm. See, what we know of as coral is actually cities, if you will, of tiny animals called polyps. Algae live in the polyps, and polyps feed off the algae. Working together, they're happy and pretty and colourful. Yay!

CHARLIE VERON, RESARCHER: The very, very essential thing about corals, is they build their own place to live. Corals, have got together with algae, to build things that nothing on earth could possibly rival. That's how they live, and I reckon that's as fascinating as biology can get.

But if the sea gets too warm, the algae's forced out, and the coral turns white. And if the sea stays warm for too long, algae never come back, and the coral can die. Bacteria and seaweeds take over. End of friendship.

Coral can recover if sea temps drop in time, but if it keeps happening, and happening too frequently, that becomes much less likely. And that's exactly what scientists believe is happening right now because of climate change...

TERRY HUGHES, MARINE BIOLOGIST: So, the interval, between pairs of, repeated bleaching events globally is shrinking.

So, climate change is a huge threat. But it doesn't just raise temperatures either. Another issue is ocean acidification. Oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If there is more of it in the air, more ends up in the ocean which makes it more acidic. That can affect sea life, as this again colourful, but slightly sad cartoon illustrates.

There are many more things being thrown at the Reef. Run off from the land can carry nutrients and sediments into the Reef, along with farm chemicals. That can lead to outbreaks of these little guys, crown of thorn starfish. They can eat their body weight worth of coral every day and have worked through large areas of the reef already. Another issue is cyclones and storms. They're not just damaging on land, they can destroy coral in shallow water, which can take hundreds of years to grow back.

So, they're just some of the threats facing the reef. And scientists say more needs to be done to address them as soon as possible. For us, and for the creatures that call it home.

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Great Barrier Reef Problems - Behind The News

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It's the biggest reef in the world but experts are really worried about how it's going. We take a look at the reef's biggest threats.