Walt: make connections across a wide range of texts.

Instructions:

Follow ALL instructions

1. Read the instructions carefully.

2. Using google search for the Year 5/6 camp at Pt England School

• Choose one of the blog posts about the Year 5/6 camp.

• Create a new blog post.

• Summarise the authors thoughts about camp in their blog post in 1 paragraph.

• Write a second paragraph explaining how this might be similar or different to your experiences of camp.

3. Link the authors blog post to your blog post.

4. Give a shout out to the author on your own blog.

5. Leave a comment on the authors blog.

Texts:

Khaia's Camp Recount Collin's Camp Recount

Lucy's Camp Recount Stevenson's Camp Recount

Walt: listen to other points of view and offer our own point of view within group discussion, thinking and responding in a critical way.

Instructions:

• 1. Read the text, The Legend of Tāmaki Makaurau.

  2. Complete the table.

  3. In a pair, choose a statement which you gave different responses to. On your blog, share how you both responded to the statement and what you learned from this task.

Text: The Legend of Tāmaki Makaurau

Extended Reading:

Walt: use strategies to process and understand the text

Walt: identify and evaluate a variety of language features the author has used in the text.

Instructions:

• 1. Read the text, Southern Lights, Tama-rereti and Te Kurakura o Hine-nui-te-po, a traditional story retold by Moira Wairama.

  2. Using the descriptions and language features in the text, draw Tama-rereti's waka travelling at some point in the journey. [Hint: use descriptions of the waka, and the particular setting you choose].

  3. Use this template. Under your illustration, make a word bank of descriptive words from the text which you used to help you create this illustration.

  4. Put this on your blog, along with the WALT and a description of which part of the story your image represents. You may choose to draw by hand, or use an online drawing tools.

Text: Southern Lights

Extended Reading:

Natural folklore: The Northern and Southern Lights

Aurora facts

Walt: work together to deconstruct a narrative text into it's main parts: characters, setting, problem, resolution.

Instructions:

Text: The Sons of Ma'afu

Extended Reading:

Spirit of the bird by Ben Brown In a library book you are reading at the moment, find a description of:

• A character

• The setting

• 1. Read the text, The Sons of Ma’afu, retold by Feana Tu’akoi.

  2. As a group, discuss the setting, characters, problem, and resolution of the story. Look at this table to help with your understanding of the form of a narrative.

Think about:

• • 5 senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch).

• Feelings/ emotions of characters.

3. Develop a poster, using google drawings,which you can refer back to when writing your own narrative! We will talk about how you will go about doing this, and what you should include in it. Check out this example to get you started.

4. Write a short blog post explaining what you have learned through reading this text (relate back to our WALT) and include your poster.

Finished all of this?

5. Write a quiz for your classmates, using google forms, based on the story, The Sons of Ma'afu. Here is an example of a quiz!

Walt: identify the main ideas in the text by using a variety of strategies.

Walt: work with our peers and contribute to discussions.

Instructions:

1. Read your story carefully

Google Mapping New Zealand Volcanoes

2. Read and follow these instructions carefully.

3. Follow these instructions to begin your Google maps task.

4. This task is on going, so you can add more to it throughout the term!

Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining the task and what the main thing was that you learnt about 'Whakaari'.

Text: Whakaari

“Aerial view of Whakaari/White Island volcano in New Zealand” by x-oph is licensed under Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

Extended Reading:

White Island

Walt: find specific evidence in the text

Instructions:

1. Read your story carefully

2. Creating an Info Poster

- You are going to choose some key information or details from your story and create a poster that teaches others about what you have learnt.

- Put the information that you find on THIS DOC

- Turn this information into an Info Poster. Look at the examples below to help you.

- Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining what the task was and what was the main thing you learnt about volcanoes.

Text: Understanding Volcanoes

Mount Wellington, by Bhutt, is licensed under public domain.

Extended Reading:

Ring of Fire