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Jandals are the typical Kiwi summer footwear. Don't forget them when you're going to the beach and walking on that hot sand!
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Jandals
Best Mates
The Special Ride
Our Rocks Rock!
A Bit of a Laugh
More than a Mountaineer
Good Spotting!
Best Mates
WALT: Use prior knowledge with information from the text to help our understanding
WALT: Identify the problem and offer appropriate advice
Best Mates is a story found in School Journal August 2015 and written by Paora Tibble
Activity One - An Advice Column. Here are some examples.
Your job is to identify the problem. Pretend you are Mana and write a letter to advise that you need help and why.
Then you are to come up with a solution by writing a letter back giving Mana appropriate tips and ideas on what he could do to solve the problem.
Fast Finishers: Complete any unfinished literacy tasks, animations, blog commenting and Reading Eggs
More than a Mountaineer
WALT: Use relevant parts of the text to help us answer questions
WALT: Use cues and prior knowledge to help us understand new words
Activity One - Using the facts you've read so far create a fact file about him. Why is he famous? How old is he? How old was he when he climbed Mt Everest? And any other interesting facts.
Share your facts on this google draw card and create a 1:30 second movie of these facts. Both movie and google post to your blog with the WALT and a brief paragraph that explains your learning.
Useful Links here: Wikipedia
A Bit of a Laugh
WALT: Make inferences and respond to key information from the text
Activity One
Use google maps to find out more information about Mt Taranaki
Where is it? How big is it? When was the last time it erupted?
Activity Two
What was the main message from the story?
What did the author David Hill, want us to learn from this story?
What is the deeper meaning of the text?
Our Rocks Rock!
WALT: Use relevant parts of the text to help us answer questions
WALT: Use cues and prior knowledge to help us understand new words
Match the word with the meaning by using the line tool to connect them. Discuss them with a buddy in your group.
Our Rocks Rock!
The Special Ride
Walt: Identify the main ideas in the text
Find which sentence best shows the picture
Answer the questions
1. Explain (1 sentence) what a ‘bike track’ is
2. Why did they ride their bikes in single file along the track?
3. Explain where their track started and finished
4. List three main ideas that you have read so far
Use sumopaint to draw a picture of a bike track insert an image of a mountain bike. Post your pictures and your questions and answers to your blog with the WALT.
Activity Two:
What was the problem in the story?
Explain what a flying fox is
Complete the activity. You will need the book for this to show your understanding and proof.
Jandals/ Camouflage
Walt: Find out more interesting facts about Jandals
Instructions:
Complete all parts of your activity and post to your blog
Copy your URL code to the Literacy Blog Log
Camouflage:
WALT: Read and understand why creatures are camouflage and how it helps them in it’s environment
You have three parts to your activity. Read all instructions carefully.
Complete all parts.
Part One: Questions and Answers
Part Two: Fact File
Part Three: Sumopaint picture
Blog Posting Instructions:
Give your post an appropriate title
Write a short paragraph with 3-5 sentences that explains what you have learned about Crocodile Creche
Embed your Fact File presentation and your image to your post
Copy your URL and paste it into Miss Lavakula’s Literacy Blog Log
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