Walt: make connections across a wide range of texts.

Instructions:

Follow ALL instructions

1. Read the instructions carefully.

2. Using google search for the Year 5/6 camp at Pt England School

• Choose one of the blog posts about the Year 5/6 camp.

• Create a new blog post.

• Summarise the authors thoughts about camp in their blog post in 1 paragraph.

• Write a second paragraph explaining how this might be similar or different to your experiences of camp.

3. Link the authors blog post to your blog post.

4. Give a shout out to the author on your own blog.

5. Leave a comment on the authors blog.

Texts:

Khaia's Camp Recount Collin's Camp Recount

Lucy's Camp Recount Stevenson's Camp Recount

Walt: take part in discussions around a text, ensuring we listen to others and respond to them.

Text: Rūaumoko Rages

Extended Text:

Auckland volcanic field

Rangitoto Island sampling

Instructions:

• 1. Read the text, Rūaumoko Rages.

  2. Discuss this text with someone else in your group. Try to make connection with other texts about volcanoes that you have read this term.

  3. Work on your volcano animation, making any changes required based on what you have read.

Walt: identify written language features and understand why they are used.

Instructions:

• 1. Read the text, The Secrets of Rangitoto Island.

  2. Identify a range of adjectives, verbs, and adverbs in the text.

  3. Imagine you are writing a tourist guide, promoting Maungarei (Mt Wellington). What adjectives, verbs, and adverbs could you use to describe Maungarei and the experience of visiting it?

  4. Write a paragraph or two, promoting Maungarei.

Think about:

• Appearance (what it looks like): size, colour etc.

• What the experience of walking/running up it would be like.

• View from the top.

• Popularity of visiting.

Text: The Secrets of Rangitoto Island

Walt: use strategies to process and understand the text

Walt: identify and evaluate a variety of language features the author has used in the text.

Instructions:

• 1. Read the text, Swimming with Sharks by Feana Tu'akoi.

  2. Listen to the extended text (you will need headphones).

  3. In groups, write down some questions about the sharks of Mo'unga'one, which you could ask someone from Mo'unga'one. Use this planning doc. You could ask them about:

• Their experience with sharks

• How they feel about swimming with the wild sharks

• The story of the fighting chiefs.

4. Now write down some questions for someone who was born and raised in New Zealand, about how they would feel if they were swimming in the sea with sharks. You could ask them about:

• Their experience with sharks

• How they would feel about swimming with wild sharks

5. In your groups, take turns having one person as the interviewer and another as the interviewee. Video, or voice record the two interviews which you have planned.

6. Upload your video/ voice recording onto your blog. Write down the WALT and something you have learned from the process.

Text: Swimming with Sharks

Extended Text (listening):

The Man from Mo'unga'one by Jack Taylor

Walt: work together to deconstruct a narrative text into it's main parts: characters, setting, problem, resolution.

Text: The Pink Umbrella

Extended Reading:

Spirit of the bird by Ben Brown In a library book you are reading at the moment, find a description of:

• A character

• The setting

Instructions:

• 1. Read the text, The Pink Umbrella by Lani Young.

  2. As a group, discuss the setting, characters, problem, and resolution of the story and fill out the table to show your understanding of the form of a narrative.

When writing your answers, think about:

• • 5 senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch).

• Feelings/ Emotions of characters.

3. Develop a poster, using google drawings, which you can refer back to when writing your own narrative! We will talk about how you will go about doing this, and what you should include in it. Check out this example to get you started!

4. Write a short blog post explaining what you have learned through reading this text (relate back to our WALT) and include your poster.

Finished all of this?

5. Write a quiz for your classmates, using google forms, based on the story, The Pink Umbrella. Here is an example of a quiz!

6. Spirit of the bird drawing based on the sentence: "The hunting trail takes them deeper into the valley, where the mountains begin to rise and the river starts it's journey..." (School Journal, Level 3, August 2015, Brown, p2).

Walt: identify the main ideas in the text by using a variety of strategies.

Walt: work with our peers and contribute to discussions.

Instructions:

1. Read your story carefully

Google Mapping New Zealand Volcanoes

2. Read and follow these instructions carefully.

3. Follow these instructions to begin your Google maps task.

4. This task is on going, so you can add more to it throughout the term! Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining the task and what the main thing was that you learnt about 'Whakaari'.

Text: Taupō

Māori rock carving by Tom Hall, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

Extended Reading:

The Great Lake

Caldera

Walt: find specific evidence in the text

Instructions:

1. Read your story carefully

2. Creating an Info Poster

- You are going to choose some key information or details from your story and create a poster that teachers others about what you have learnt.

- Put the information that you find on THIS DOC

- Turn this information into an Info Poster. Look at the examples below to help you.

- Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining what the task was and what was the main thing you learnt about volcanoes.

Text: Understanding Volcanoes

Mount Wellington, by Bhutt, is licensed under public domain.

Extended Reading:

Ring of Fire