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Watch this Space!
Family Feelings
Earth Paints
Emily's Hens
Too Many Mangoes
Saving Planet Stripe
Harry, Head in the Clouds
Friends
Where's the Driver?
Good Spotting!
Friends
WALT: use clues in the text to help us answer questions accurately.
WALT: identify which sentence best describes the picture
Instructions:
Make a copy of your activity
Look through each slide carefully
Think about what is happening in each picture
Use the words you have thought about to find one sentence on the page
Write one sentence under each picture
Do not copy the whole page
Check your work with a buddy from your group
Activity: Friends
Saving Planet Stripe
Walt: Use expression and fluency when reading out loud
Act in character
Activity: Play Reflection
Instructions:
Make a copy of your activity
You are going to describe what each character looks like and how they behave in the play
Remember that every image you use must have attributes for it and free to use or share
Watch this video as this is based on a play. Take notes of what could be improved and how the actors played their parts.
Emily's Hens
Walt: Use clues in the text to help us accurately answer questions
Understand the author's point of view
Listen here for Instructions
1. Read the article again carefully to yourself
2. Make a copy of your activity
3. Read each statement carefully
4. Think, would the author 'Rosie Boom' agree or disagree with the statement
5. Find the proof in the text, take note of the page number
6. Write a sentence as evidence from the page (do not copy the whole page)
7. Write 2-3 sentences in your blog to explain what you learned about the text
8. Use sumopaint to draw a picture of a hen and a rooster
9. Check your answers with a buddy
10. Upload your picture and activity with the WALT and sentences to your blog
Check the Literacy Blog log, do you have any tasks that need finishing? Finish them now.
If your blog log is complete, spend 15 minutes on your animations
Spend 15 minutes on Reading Eggs
Activity: Emily's Hens
Article and photographs by Rosie Boom (School Journal Pt.1 No.2 2006)
Family Feelings
WALT: use clues in the text to help us answer questions accurately.
WALT: use fluency while reading out loud
Instructions:
Make a copy of your activity
Answer all the questions
Use sumopaint to draw a picture of your family
Upload two sentences about your family and picture to your blog.
Here is an example from Alex:
Activity: Family Feelings
Where's the Driver?
Walt: Use expression and fluency when reading out loud
Act in character
Instructions:
Make a copy of your activity
You are going to describe what each character looks like and how they behave in the play
Remember that every image you use must have attributes for it and free to use or share
Watch this video as this is based on a play. Take notes of what could be improved and how the actors played their parts.
Fast Finishers: Draw a picture of your character using sumopaint.
Screenshot and insert into a google drawing.
Write a reflection on how well performed your part in the play. Did you do well? Why/ why not? What could you do next time to improve?
Harry Head in the Clouds
WALT: use clues in the text to help us answer questions accurately.
WALT: understand and create comic strips
You are going to re-create the cartoon written by Derek Webb in Junior Journal 26 but instead of Harry as the main character, you are going to be in each slide.
Instructions:
1. Make a copy of your activity and follow each instruction
2. Take images using your camera app to match the sentences on each slide
3. Add speech bubbles or thought clouds where necessary
4. Write in each bubble/ cloud
5. Re-read your work back to yourself
6. Get a buddy to check your work before posting to your blog.
JJ38 Too Many Mangoes
Walt: Use expression and fluency when reading out loud
Act in character
1. Use sumopaint to draw your character
2. Insert a speech bubble
3. Write in one of your lines from the play
4. Use an ipad to record a short part of the play
5. Upload your google draw and movie to your blog
Earth Paints/ At the Okitu Store
Walt: use clues in the text to help us answer questions accurately
Use our prior knowledge to help us understand new words
Instructions:
Answer the following questions: (Use the book to help you)
1. What is meant by Earth Paints?
2. List all the places that the children found soil to make paint with
3. What did the children do before they mixed the powder with water?
4. What did Aboriginal painters use to stop paint from drying up and falling off?
Take one part of the comic - At the Okitu Store and recreate it again using your camera like the example below.
1. Choose a comic box from the story to recreate
2. Open your camera app - take a screenshot of your box
3. Recreate your image - you can use props
4. Take a picture of it
5. Insert both images in a google drawing
Watch this Space!
Walt: Find and use relevant parts of the text to accurately answer questions
Understand what a mural is
Instructions:
Answer the following questions:
Explain what a mural is
Why had concrete walls been built?
Why were there lots of drawings of water by the children?
What was the purpose of the mural?
Activity Two
Create a mural for our wall in the porch area. You can use google draw or paper. You need to be able explain what your mural is about and the meaning behind it.
Text:
Extended Reading:
Activity Two can be done on google draw or paper
Links for murals:
Examples of murals
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