Grade 5/6 Home Learning Term 3, Week 9, 2019Task 1: This week’s focus is English. We are beginning to look at information reports, so for

this week’s home learning you will research a topic of interest. You are to choose a topic that you know little about so that you can discover new information through your research.

If you cannot think of a topic, you can choose one of the following to look into:

Black holes Halley’s comet A planet The northern and southern lights (Aurora Borealis) An Apollo mission A person of interest An animal (Australian, extinct)

The information report only needs to be one page in length. Consult the following pages on how to construct your report.

Week 9 Spelling words: This week we are looking at words with the prefix ‘auto’ and ‘mono’. Auto means ‘self’ and mono means ‘one/ single’.

autobiography autonomous autograph monochrome monologue monolingual

automatically autonomy autopilot monolith monorail monotone

Task 2: Record the dictionary meanings of each word and write them in a sentence or a super paragraph.

Manga High Challenges

Do 1, 2 or all 3.