Moa
TERM 4
Week 9
Read the following article.
Give the article a title.
Create a presentation about the article. Give your opinion about the article and rubbish in general.
Week 1:
Describe
Week 2:
Answering
Week 3:
Features of a
Narrative
Week 4:
Using prior knowledge and making predictions
Week 7:Using prior knowledge and making predictions
Week
Week
Week
Walt:
a. use our prior knowledge to better understand a text.
b. Make thoughtful predictions about the outcome by making connections to our own lives.
Evidence of learning
1.Before reading the text, copy this presentation and answer the questions. Place your copy in the Hand-in spot.
2. Once you've finished the presentation, work on the Grammar Worksheet.
Week 1:
Describe
Week 2:
Answering
Week 3:
Features of a
Narrative
Week 4:
Using prior knowledge and making predictions
Walt:
a. use our prior knowledge to better understand a text.
b. Make thoughtful predictions about the outcome by making connections to our own lives.
Evidence of learning (use a copy of this presentation)
1.Once you have been with Miss Hockly, copy the presentation below and answer the questions.
2.Don't forget to file your work on the Completed Work area.
3. When you have finished, work on the grammar worksheet.
Week 1:
Describe
Week 2:
Answering
Week 3:
Features of a Narrative
Walt:
a. identify features of narrative texts
- character, setting, problem, response, outcome and theme
b. justify our thoughts using ideas from within the text or by inferencing
c. that commas separate words that offer further explanations of an idea
Evidence of learning (use a copy of this presentation)
1.Before you read, look at pages 2 and 3 and discuss with a partner what the story might be about. Tell them why you think that.
2.Read the story to yourself, then answer the questions on the presentation below.
Week 1:
The Secret Underground
Week 2:
Walt:
a. ask questions about a text from the title and cover page, and find answers to our questions.
b. describe a character in the text.
1. Read, with Miss Hockly, the story 'The Abominable Snowman'.
2. Once text has been read - answer the questions in the presentation.
Week 1:
The Secret Underground
Walt:
a. describe the specific conditions that characterise a cave environment
b. describe how the physical adaptations observed in cave-dwelling animals help them to survive in a challenging underground habitat
c. compare the anatomy of a cave-adapted animal with the anatomy of a closely related species that lives about the ground
Evidence of learning (use a copy of this presentation)
1. Read the articles 'A trip to Nikau Cave' and 'The Secret Underground'. Connected 1, 2007.
2. Complete the presentation as evidence of your learning.
3. Begin your first DLO for term 4 - design your animal.
THINKING SPACE
Walt: Make Inferences when reading Poetry.
Instructions:
1. Read "Hide and Go Seek" with Mrs. Moala
2. Complete the "Hide and Go Seek" questions as a group.
3. Pick any other poem from the slideshow to read and complete on your own (or with a partner).
Boy on a Bike
Walt: Summarise the events in the text using the TREE model.
Instructions:
1. Teacher (Monday): Group Vocabulary/Pre-Reading Discussion
2. Buddy Read "Boy on a Bike"
3. Teacher (Wednesday): Complete the TREE Model Graphic Organiser for the events in "Boy on a Bike"
4. Watch this movie
How to Design Your Own Logo
Walt: Support answers in a text using examples found within the text as evidence.
Instructions:
1. Complete Slides 1-8
2. At 10:30, complete a Managing Time Rubric and blog it in order to leave class on Monday (Week 7).
3. Slides 9-12
4. Begin WeVideo Assignment on Slide 13.
Wants vs. Needs (Please complete if you were unable to during Week 5)
Walt: Describe the difference between a want and a need.
Instructions:
1. With a partner (from a different reading group), read the text.
2. By yourself, complete the Wants vs. Needs quiz. To be completed by 10am on Monday.
How to Design Your Own Logo
Walt: Support answers in a text using examples found within the text as evidence.
Instructions:
1. Complete Slides 1-8 BEFORE class begins on Wednesday. You will be completing a Managing Time Rubric at the beginning of class Wed.
2. Continue working on Slides 9-12. These should be completed by the end of class on Monday (Week 7).
3. If time, you may begin working on slide 13.
Wants vs. Needs
Walt: Describe the difference between a want and a need.
Instructions:
1. With a partner (from a different reading group), read the text.
2. By yourself, complete the Wants vs. Needs quiz.
How to Design Your Own Logo
Walt: Support answers in a text using examples found within the text as evidence.
Instructions:
1. Complete Slides 1-6 before you leave class on Monday. Put a link to your assignment on the turn in page for Week 5.
2. Continue working on Slides 7-8. These are due by 10am on Wednesday!
The Basics of Logo Design
Walt: Support answers in a text using examples found within the text as evidence.
Instructions:
Complete questions from "The Basics of Logo Design." This is due before you leave class on Monday!
How to Design Your Own Logo
Walt: Gain Understanding when reading a Procedural Text.
Instructions:
Week 3: Wednesday
1. As a class, we will work to complete Slide #2.
2. Then, we will begin to discuss the process of Logo Design.
Week 4:
Complete the Assignments on the Slide show in the order that they appear. Use your time wisely to be sure you have enough time on HyperStudio when you are ready.
Sk8r Jam Apparel
Walt: Support answers in a text using examples found within the text as evidence.
Instructions:
Complete questions from Sk8r Jam Apparel. This is due before you leave class on MONDAY!
The Basics of Logo Design
Walt: Support answers in a text using examples found within the text as evidence.
Instructions:
1. As a class, we will discuss marketing and personal logos.
2. With a partner, complete slides 2-4.
Sk8r Jam Apparel
Walt: Support answers in a text using examples found within the text as evidence.
Instructions:
1. As a class, discuss the front cover of the text prior to answering slide #2.
2. With a partner, define the words on Slide #4. Be sure to write the definitions in your own words.
3. Read the text with a partner.
4. Answer the questions on the remaining slides.
TERM 2
Idea City
Walt: Identify the keywords in the article to help me understand how Christchurch communities used their ideas to help overcome problems after the earthquake.
Instructions:
1. Skim the text with Mrs. Moala. After making a copy of the presentation, list any words that you do not know.
2. With a partner, look up the words and write the definitions in your own words.
3. With a partner, read the article, and begin answering the questions.
Technology: Smart Suitcases
Walt: Compare what I have read in various texts-I use examples Text #1: Kiwi Kids News
from the text to show how different articles relay the same information. Text #2: Tech Times
Instructions:
1. Read the first text carefully with your group.
2. Read the second text carefully with Mrs. Moala.
3. As a group, begin completing the Compare/Contrast Venn Diagram.
4. With a partner, complete your Venn Diagram and post it on your Blog.
5. Under your Blog Post, be sure to discuss in 2-3 paragraphs:
a) what the articles were about
b) what you found most interesting (Explain why!)
c) whether or not you would want a Smart Suitcase (Explain why!)
d) Figurative Language: Write a Simile comparing the Smart Suitcase to something.
WW1 Mascot
Walt: Connect what I read - I use evidence in the text to support and make an inference. Reading between the lines.
Instructions:
1. Read story carefully independently then with a partner. Record yourselves and share with Mrs Moala.
2. Your thinking on display. This will include discussion, thinking and connecting of ideas between the story and your experiences.
**Copy this presentation and post on your blog once you have completed slides 1-7.
3. If you finish ahead of time, try to complete Slides 8-10 or check out the Extra Links below.
WALT: Find answers in a text.