A quick round-up!

How exciting - we've hit the half-way mark for the term! We've packed a lot in, with a lot more to go over the next five and a half weeks.

As a little update as to what we're doing in class at the moment - we have just started working on data (surveying, graphing and how to interpret graphs) in Mathematics. Here are some ideas for 'quick maths' tasks for homework if you are looking for a change:

- Design a question with three to five potential answers and survey twenty people (what to have for dinner, or a favourite sport, food or animal are popular options but creativity is welcome!). calling relatives, asking everyone at home or at sport, and having someone over 18 post the question to social media and relay the responses are great ways to collect data). Present the information as a bar or column graph. Have them interpret the data - how many people were surveyed in total? What was the most popular response? What was the least popular? What might a good action to take be based on the data?

- Use the paper, Weather.com.au or another similar site. Choose a city, and make a bar graph, column graph, or line graph tracking its temperature over a week. What was the hottest day? What was the coldest? What season is it there? If you didn't know the date, what might you observe there that would help you to know?

- Have a look at this graph about MnMs. Answer the following questions:
1. What kind of a graph is this and how do you know?
2. What is the x-axis title?
3. What is the y-axis title?
4. Which colour was least common? How many were there?
5. Which colour was most common? How many were there?
6. Which colour had nine MnMs in the packet?
7. How many MnMs were there altogether?
Bonus: you may like to buy a packet of Smarties or MnMs or something similar and make your own graph based on the colours you find.

In writing, we have been rounding up our unit on puns and spoonerisms before we go back to revise narratives. For pun practice, you may like to print or copy the words from this worksheet and see how many homophones/homonyms your child can identify, and what kind of puns they come up with! This can be done in place for spelling for one night but is not compulsory.

I hope this is useful! Bye for now. -Ang.