The document provides homework instructions for students in Motutapu School Year 5/6 for Term 2 Weeks 1-4. It includes instructions for spelling, mathletics, reading, and filling in logs. It also mentions new quizzles each fortnight and provides a rubric with disaster-themed assignment options that students must complete one of each fortnight from categories A and B. The assignments involve writing news reports, making menus, researching facts, and creating presentations about historical disasters.

1. Motutapu Homework Year 5/6: Term 2: Week 1-4
Spelling: Learn your words
Mathematics: Mathletics for 10 -15 mins (4 nights a week)
Reading: 15- 20 mins (4 nights a week)
Remember to fill in your reading and mathletic logs.
Each fortnight there will be a new Quizzles for you to try and solve.
Disaster Rubric
You need to do one A and one B each fortnight.
A (Using Google Docs) B (using any app/software you want)
Write a radio newsflash! Research what sort of food they served on the
Imagine you were the first to arrive on the Titanic. Keep some notes on what you found
scene after Cyclone Bola hit the East out.
Coast, North Island, 1988. Make a menu for the passengers.
Give a description of what you see. Which class of passenger is your menu for?
Remember radio has no pictures so paint Which meal is your menu for?
away with words.
Read the newspaper (search:
NZ HERALD: Disasters) to find
an example of a recent
disaster. Rewrite the story
in your own words and
illustrate it.
Research and write a report about one of Tectonic Plates:
these disasters:
Find a map of the tectonic plates.
● Titantic
● Hindenburg Take a screenshot and then choose one of them to write
● Challenger Spaceshuttle 6-10 facts about it? Add some illustrations.
● Japan 2011 Tsunami
Write a descriptive paragraph for 3 of Make a 5-6 page Keynote in your own words about
the following disasters: one of the following NZ disasters:
flood Christchurch Earthquake 22 February 2011
drought Napier - Hawke’s Bay - 1931
mudslide Wahine - Wellington Harbour - 1968
bushfire Mikhail Lermontov - Marlborough Sounds - 1986
earthquake Mt Tarawera eruption - Central North Island - 1886
cyclone Tangiwai Railway accident - 1953
avalanche
Imagine you have been awarded a medal Make an TV advertisment to help people
for extreme bravery during a disaster. be prepared in a disaster.
Write a story of how you came to win this Make a storyboard first to show what
award. you are going to put in each shot.