In your groups, use the following link http://www.culture.gov.au/articles/indigenous/ to find out as much as you can about early Indigenous inhabitants of Australia. Then explain what you think is meant by the following passage.
| YEAR 6 | YEAR 7 | ||
| war | swollen | weird | quarterly |
| we’ll | quest | welcome | extinguish |
| wheel | question | welfare | overwhelm |
| waste | request | whether | weariness |
| worst | meanwhile | whisper | equivalent |
| forward | equipment | wasteful | wilderness |
| wayward | whistle | whistling | quotation |
| swam | twilight | equipped | acquaintance |
| await | whether | qualify | acquisition |
| weight | wearily | worship | consequently |
| aware | wonderfully | suede | linguist |
| wealth | equivalence | persuade | silhouette |
| nowhere | | adequate | |
| Each week you are to complete the spelling and maths activity below. You need to read for at least 10 minutes each night and have a parent / carer sign your reading record. You are then to select one activity from the table below. Each activity can only be completed once. When you complete an activity, shade that box and write in the week you did the activity. | |
| SPELLING - each week you will need to write your spelling words out 3 times. | MATHS – Practice your times tables – write them out, sing them, have someone test you. |
| Write a recount of the first five years of your life. | Read a junior fiction book and write about it. Make sure you include the title, characters, setting and the plot. |
| Watch a DVD and write about it. You will need to write about the setting, characters, music and the storyline | Create a wordsearch using this weeks spelling words. |
| Create an information page (A4 size) about oil spills in the ocean. | On an A4 page tell me about your pet (if you don’t have one tell me about one you would like to have). Include it’s name, the type of pet it is, how you care for it, and a photo. |
| Create a scrapbooking page on one of your relatives. | Read a junior fiction book and then write an innovation of the story. |
| Design an advertisement for your favourite food. | Read a newspaper article. Glue it into your book and write your opinion about the article. |
| Each week you are to complete the spelling and maths activity below. You need to read for at least 10 minutes each night and have a parent / carer sign your reading record. You are then to select one activity from the table below. Each activity can only be completed once. When you complete an activity, shade that box and write in the week you did the activity. | |
| SPELLING - each week you will need to write your spelling words out 3 times. | MATHS – Practice your times tables – write them out, sing them, have someone test you. |
| Write a recount of the first five years of your life. | Read a junior fiction book and write about it. Make sure you include the title, characters, setting and the plot. |
| Watch a DVD and write about it. You will need to write about the setting, characters, music and the storyline | Create a wordsearch using this weeks spelling words. |
| Create an information page (A4 size) about a former Prime Minister of Australia. | On an A4 page tell me about your pet (if you don’t have one tell me about one you would like to have). Include it’s name, the type of pet it is, how you care for it, and a photo. |
| Create a scrapbooking page on one of your relatives. | Read a junior fiction book and then write an innovation of the story. |
| Design an advertisement for your favourite food. | Read a newspaper article. Glue it into your book and write your opinion about the article. |