Room 10 Winton School

Monday, July 16, 2012

TERM 3 Week 1
- Welcome back to Term 3! 
- We introduce the 'Country Cruiser' (CC) activity to our weekly Homework. If you are the CC of the week - you MUST still do Reading, Spelling and Dragon Maths.
Activity 1: Reading
- You are expected to read for at least 10 mins each night.
- Record your nightly reading in the back of your book.
- Remember to read a variety of genre (novels, newspapers, newsletters, internet articles etc)


Activity 2: Dragon Maths
Book 4 - page 97 and 100
Book 5 - page 99 and 100


Activity 3: Spelling
- You will have spelling words after our Essential List test on Monday. Some of you may only have a few words to learn...depending on how many you get correct in the test! 


Activity 4: Speeches
- You need to have your Speech topic chosen by Friday. It needs to be a PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT where you have to argue your point and persuade the audience of your view point.
- Create a MindMap of your topic in the middle and the main ideas, facts and information you can include around the outside.
- Start finding out facts and information for your speech.


Activity 5: Touch Typing Skills
Check out the cool new gadget added to our blog to improve your touch typing skills. Try and achieve Level 1 this week. The challenge is to keep your fingers on the CORRECT keys!



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