Homework Tasks Week 1 term 4.
Oh I know, getting back into the routine, how hard is it going to be. Just 1 more term and it will be the end of term 4 and 2009. Lets not wish it away.

I hope you enjoy the opportunity to follow the homework instructions straight from our blog site. Saving paper and utilising your computer skills.

Homework tasks are to be completed in your homework book as usual please.Homework books are due to be handed in on Friday 16th. We always check though them as a class, so please ensure yours is there on Friday.

Mathematics: Mr Harrison has been able to secure the Matletics programme for our class for the term. Lets take advantage of this opportunity. I have identified which activities I would like our class to complete. Please spend 15- 20 minutes each night on the site using the math skills we have worked on. You will need to use your log on and password which are on the notice, pasted into your homework book.Please make a log of the weeks activities that you have been involved in. Date and time need to be recorded. Make a comment specific to the math skills you used for the task and how well you managed it.

Spelling/Word Study: There are 8 words in the topic task that have been highlighted orange within the green text.
Task 1: Find meanings for the 8 words.- definitions.
Task 2: Identify what word class they are.
Task 3: Take each word and write it out as a shape word to practise its spelling. You may like to do it in the shape of a fern.
Task 4: Put each word in a sentence to show you understand its meaning.

All About NZ: This week we are looking at one of New Zealand's icons, the Silver Fern and related information. Again all tasks are to be completed in your homework book. How you present and publish the information is up to you.

Match the name of the fern with the correct clues:

Hen and Chicken
Kidney Fern
Black Tree Fern
Bracken
Maindenhead
Tangle Fern
Prince of Wales
Crown

This fern is the largest tree fern known in NZ.
The Moari used the white pith of the trunk as food and steamed it in a hangi.
The pith is also a poultice for sores and wounds.
People take the reddish gum for worms and diarrhoea.
The trunk can grow 20 metres tall and fronds can be 5 metres long.
Frond stalks are black and very thick.

This is a creeping fern with wavy edged fronds.
It is glossy and translucent and has an interesting shape.
It grows on the forest floor like a mat.
When it gets hot in the summer it curls up to avoid loss of moisture.
Early Maori used it for perfume.

This fern is a tufted ground fern.
The trunk is only waist high.
It grows in wet forest areas of the South Island.
The fern tapers gracefully at both ends and looks very royal.
It is fluffy to touch.

This fern creeps and knots all over the ground.
It grows in swampy and poor soil areas.
It looks good in flower arranging.
Often its stems are twisted together to form groups, or woven for mats.

A tufted ground fern with feathery fronds.
It gets its name because little plants grow from its fronds.
The Maori used to eat the little shoots for they were tasty when cooked.

A very, very common New Zealand fern.
A creeping ground fern.
It spreads by underground rhizomes.
It has a chestnut brown stem.
Harsh fronds to touch.
Fiddleheads are covered in fine, pale brown hairs.
Was the Moari's most important vegetable food.
Regarded by some gardeners as a nuisance.

This is a very common fern in New Zealand.
A very graceful frond with fine black hair-like stalk.
The Romans and Greeks claimed that it could make a beard or hair on the head grow!
Some people have it as a pot plant.

This fern is commonly found New Zealand wide.
Particulary like dry lowland forest areas.
Has a royal connection.
Grows between 50 - 100cm tall.

Ponga - the Silver Tree Fern

Where is this fern found?
What does it look like?
What was it used for by the Maori?
What is it used for now?
Write three facts about this famous fern.

Draw the leaf showing it's underside.

Draw three objects that have the Silver Fern on them as their logo.

Make a rubbing of a coin that has the fern on it.

Reference: Lesley Redmond the New Zealand A - Z research book.