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Term 2 Week 6 Welcome to week 6, I hope Queen's Birthday weekend was enjoyable for you.

There are some changes this week with how homework is going to be organised. The changes have been put in place to help the students manage their time more wisely. Also I have become increasingly aware of how little some students are doing, SO homework this week is as follows:

//**Tuesday 2nd June**// No spelling practice this week as we will be doing some mid year testing!
 * 1) Complete Kiwi Quiz Questions one and two
 * 2) Read and record - in your homework book as we discussed in class
 * 3) Complete your Queens Birthday Acrostic Poem - have it ready for the wall tomorrow
 * 4) Complete the first 10 addition sums - algorithm style like we did in class today. If you can't do it in algorithm format try any other way you know how.

KIWI QUIZ Question One: What do Kate Sheppard, Edmund Hillary, Apirana Ngata and Ernest Rutherford have in common? a) They went to London to see the Queen b)They participated in the first ever 40-Hour Famine c)Their children climbed Mount Everest d) Their portraits appear on New Zealand banknotes

Question Two: What is missing from the streets of Palmerston North? a)Footpaths and walkways b)Graffiti and litter c)Houses with the number 13 d)Street lights

//Wednesday 3rd June// > > > Kiwi Quiz Question Three: Blabby, Crabby, Dizzy, Jaunty, Lazy, Shifty and Gloomy were..? a) the seven cartoon starfish from //Finding Nemo// b) names for the seven dwarfs that were rejected by Walt Disney c)seven cats adopted by Lisa in episode 284 of //The Simpsons// d) the original names of the seven main hobbits in //The Fellowship of the Ring//
 * 1) Complete Kiwi Quiz Questions three, four and five
 * 1) Read and record - in your homework book as we discussed in class
 * 2) Work on your grass poem, you should get the draft done tonight ready to work on it tomorrow
 * 1) Complete 5 more maths equations - remember SHOW YOUR WORKING!
 * 2) WHAT DOES YOUR SCIENCE GROUP NEED YOU TO DO???????

Question Four: Which fifty year-old Auckland landmark took four years to build? a)The Harbour Bridge b)The Southern Motorway c)The Sky Tower d)Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic Encounter and Underwater World

Question Five: The French Open is the only ‘grand slam’ tennis tournament that..? a)is played indoors b) uses orange tennis balls c)uses electronic umpires instead of humans d) is played on clay

// Thursday 4th June // > KIWI QUIZ Question Six: The Queen’s birthday was six weeks ago, so why was the Queen’s Birthday holiday last Monday? a)In 1926, the doctors made a mistake on the Queen’s birth certificate b) In June, the weather in the United Kingdom is usually fine c)The Queen’s coronation ceremony was in June 1953 d) To avoid a clash with Waitangi Day celebrations Question Seven: Which American has a state, a city, a mountain, a lake and a bridge named after him? a)Elvis Presley b) Martin Luther King c)George Washington d) Abraham Lincoln Question Eight: Which of the following claims is false? a)You have about a one in 800,000 chance of being struck by lightning b) Lightning never strikes the same place twice c)Forked lightning is a type of lightning d) Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity Question Nine: Last week, a Scottish tourist in the South Island had his passport stolen by..? a)another Scottish tourist b) the Mayor of Milford Sound c)a remote control toy helicopter d) a New Zealand alpine parrot Question Ten: In the Scripps National Spelling Bee, what does it mean when the bell rings? a) A contestant has been eliminated b) A word with at least ten letters has been spelt correctly c)A contestant needs a toilet break d) A word must be spelt backwards
 * 1) Complete Kiwi Quiz Questions
 * 1) Read and record - in your homework book as we discussed in class
 * 2) Complete all the maths equations - remember SHOW YOUR WORKING!
 * 3) WHAT DOES YOUR SCIENCE GROUP NEED YOU TO DO??????? WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR TOMORROW??????
 * 4) Spelling test tomorrow