SAPS Year 5 Homework: Term 3 Week 5

All homework is due this FRIDAY Week 5 (19/8)

Don't forget you must do study ladder each week. You are to achieve a minimum of 60% of the activities set for you.

How is your Word Mania going? Some students have cracked the 2000 point mark! Wowsers.

Spelling Words for the week

The definition of a plural is: More than one person or thing. There are many rules to follow to spell a plural correctly. This week we will be looking at adding "s" as it is the plural rule for most nouns.

Spelling rule- Adding "s" to make a plural	Your list- Adding "s" to make a plural	5 Words from novel and KLA
snakes
classrooms
students
miners
bucketfuls

HSIE Panning For Gold.

When you go to Bathurst you will get the chance to pan for gold! Wouldn't it be great if you knew some background knowledge and basic skills before you left?

Alluvial Panning

Your challenge for this weeks homework is to learn some interesting facts about alluvial panning and create your own pan.

First of all we want you to understand and explain the following:
alluvial
Fool's gold
Other interesting facts or words that you have learnt in class.
Panning technique. (How do you pan for gold? Think of a type of text you could use to present it)

Include all your info on a sheet that you can hand in with your pan.

There is so much information online about gold panning that this time we are not going to give you any links to information or videos to watch. What you research is up to you.

TIP: Remember, not everything you read on the internet is 100% correct. Make sure you have 3 sites/sources to verify your facts!

Secondly, you are to make your own pan! You can use any resources you want to create it. There are many different styles of pans, so do some research and find the type you like.

Some ideas for resources include:

plastic plates
cardboard
plastic
caps or covers
old baking trays
paint
rocks.....

Your pan needs to look used. It also needs to have something in it. Maybe some gold and some rocks....

Both your pan and your info sheet will be displayed in your room. Some may even be chosen to be displayed in the school office....

SCIENCE What's The Matter?

Next week in Science we are going to be doing something that is very interesting! Play these games during the week to help you reinforce your learning of matter.