Homework

Holiday Work

READING:

Read every day. Try to read at least 30 minutes a day. You may have a book from the library or a book from home. Other reading material could involve:

• tourist brochures
• street directories
• information pamphlets from places that you visit
• restaurant menus and so on

VISUAL DIARY:

Take an exercise book and write a journal entry of the day’s events each afternoon. Include photographs and postcards and remember to write captions to provide more details for your entries.

Write and explain in some detail a highlight for your day and also a low light.

Other journal entries could include:

• description of a new place you have seen
• details of an event that occurred
• describing the interesting people you have met

Take care with your sentence structure and take some time to edit your work. Ask mum and dad to check your work.

MATHEMATICS:

Practise your basic facts addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Practise the strategies you have been learning at school. Don’t just recite them out loud. Use the environment around you – the car, train and even plane travel. There will be numbers everywhere. Make up simple sums using them such as adding the digits on passing cars’ number plates.

USING MONEY

• Practise exchanging money. When buying something, calculate the change you should receive – were you correct?
• Is the cost of everyday things the same – are they more expensive or less expensive? By how much?
• If overseas, what are the conversions for the currency you need to use? How much of the new currency would you receive for 10 Australian Dollars, $100, $1000?

Telling Time

• How far have you travelled each day, each week?
• How far do you still have to travel?
• How much time will pass until we get there?
• How long before we stop for lunch?

Reading Maps

• Be responsible for giving the driver directions on where they need to go?
• Look at the scale on the map, measure this and work out how far it is in real distances