Tolkeins

Term Four: 2021

Week 7: Read "No Girls Allowed", Journal November 2020, Level 3:

Contractions are what?

Write these words in your reading book and beside each write what the mean:

can't; it's; I'm; couldn't; don't; they'd; you're; you've; we've; wouldn't:

Week 6: Read "The Coprolite Hunter", Journal November 2020, Level 3:

1. What is coprolite?

2. How did the scientists get to the Euphrates caves and why did they use this form of travel?

3. What does karst mean?

4. What is DNA?

5. What does studying coprolite tell the scientists?

6. What was one of the predators that killed many birds and how did they affect the native population of birds?

7. What is a palaeontologist?

8. What are some of the birds mentioned in this article? Find pictures of them.

Week 5: Read "Tuitui Shampoo"

1.What does the tuitui tree look like?

2. Where would you find them growing?

3. Explain the process of making the tuitui nuts into shampoo.

Week 3: Read "My Opo Summer"

1. Draw a picture of a dolphin. What classification do they come under? (Start from Kingdom and go to family). Find out as least 10 facts about them.

2. Where would you find dolphins?

3. How do dolphins communicate? What other animals use this form of communication?

Week 2: Find out the different levels of spheres, explain what satellites are, find information about Sputnik1, Apollo 1, Apollo 11, the first man and the first woman into space.

Week 1: COMPOUND WORDS: Words that are made up of two separate words:

After reading "Poppa's Present" write down these words, then split them into their separate words

e.g. anywhere = any + where

something everyone wheelbarrow deckchair cordless helicopter baseball myself about anything

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