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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

JJ37 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)

Fast Finishers: Watch and listen to this podcast recorded by ex-students. Leave them a comment

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

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.

Where's the Driver?

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.

_‎(your name)‎___, Head in the Clouds

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

Answer the following questions and post this to your blog with your activity:

1. Why did elephant get stuck in the bog?

2. How did elephant get free of the bog?

3. Which animal helped elephant?

4. What did you learn from this story?

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

Earth Paints

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:

    1. Explain what a mural is

    2. Why had concrete walls been built?

    3. Why were there lots of drawings of water by the children?

  1. 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 One

Activity Two can be done on google draw or paper

Links for murals:

Kids rooms

Examples of murals