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Miss West
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Rongoā
Walt: make inferences as we read.
Walt: use our understanding of the text to help us to understand unknown new/ unknown words and phrases.
Attributions:
Predators, pests, and other threats
Walt: share information in our own words.
Walt: make inferences as we read.
Walt: share our learning in new ways.
Instructions:
1. Read this week's first text.
2. Meet with Miss West to discuss this text.
3. Read text 2 and 3.
4. Complete the follow up task: Letter to Lily.
5. Add any new vocabulary to the vocab padlet.
If you have finished all of this, continue with
- Tuhi mai, Tuhi atu blog commenting.
- Completing your blog log.
- Poem/ rap/ song.
- Animation and Voice over
Attributions:
Video: Youtube video: Kiwibank, the department of conservation, & predator free NZ trust join forces (Kiwibank), 14 Sept 2016.
Supporting our wildlife
Walt: read for a particular purpose and synthesise information
Instructions:
1. Read this week's first text.
2. Complete the task after reading the first text.
3. Read text 2 and 3.
4. Add any new vocabulary to the vocab padlet.
4. Continue working on your poem/ rap/ song.
Fast finisher?
Read blog posts of our Tuhi mai, Tuhi atu buddy classes and leave some positive comments!
1. Return of the Moa? (Quinn Berentson)
(School Journal, Oct 2015, pg 12)
Attributions:
Video: Feeding New Zealand's Birds (Ecology Ngātahi, youtube) (21 Nov, 2015)
Pt England Bird Sanctuary google map - no details provided as to the owner.
Native Plants and Tahuna Torea
Walt: read for a particular purpose and synthesise information
Instructions:
What is our environment like in Pt England?
What native plants are likely to thrive in our environment?
By the end of the week:
1. Read this week's texts
2. Add interesting words to the Environment Vocab Padlet
3. Complete the follow up task.
4. Complete any learning on the blog log.
Fast finisher?
Read blog posts of our Tuhi mai, Tuhi atu buddy classes and leave some positive comments!
Remember to add new vocab to this padlet!
Our environment - Native Plants
Walt: read for a particular purpose and synthesise information
Instructions:
What is our environment like in Pt England?
What native plants are likely to thrive in our environment?
By the end of the week:
1. Read this week's texts
2. Add interesting words to the Environment Vocab Padlet
3. Use the texts to create a letter to Mr Burt asking him of the possibility of planting native plants around school.
4. Complete any learning on the blog log.
Fast finisher?
Read blog posts of our Tuhi mai, Tuhi atu buddy classes and leave some positive comments!
Choose 2 other native plants from the DOC website which you think would grow well around Pt England. Why do you think this?
Remember to add new vocab to this padlet!
Attribution:
Youtube video: Top 5 Native Plants of New Zealand by Rural Design NZ
Our environment - Pollution and Estuaries
Walt: research a topic and display findings in our own words.
Walt: synthesise ideas from more than one text.
Instructions:
What is our environment like in Pt England?
How can our actions effect these environments?
What can we do to help?
By the end of the week:
1. Complete your magazine cover from last week.
2. Read this week's texts
3. Add interesting words to the Environment Vocab Padlet.
4. Create a WANTED poster for someone who is having a negative impact on the environment and post it on your blog along with a task description.
Fast finisher?
Read blog posts of our Tuhi mai, Tuhi atu buddy classes and leave some positive comments!
Attributions:
Video: Te Karere, TVNZ
PES Responsibility poster - Garth Jacobsen (2017)
Our environment - New Zealand
Walt: research a topic and make connections to our own lives.
Instructions:
What is our environment like in New Zealand? What about our environment at Pt England?
How can our actions effect these environments?
Below, you will find three texts and some tasks to work through which you will then be able to share on your blog .
By the end of the week:
1. Take a photo somewhere around school which represents 'Te taiao o tāmaki.'
2. Using this image, create a magazine cover about our environment.
- What would be the main topics in the magazine?
- How would we draw our audience in?
Let's start thinking more about our environment...
Find out about:
Text: Forest and Bird: Te reo o te taiao
- Find out about protection of some of the wildlife by clicking the links.
- What might protection of the environment look like?
- How does this link to our community at Pt England?
Attributions:
Video: WWF International
About my group - Maungakiekie
Walt: research a topic and display findings in our own words.
Instructions:
Welcome to your reading page for 2017!
This week you are going to be finding out about your reading group, Maungakiekie.
Below, you will find three texts and some tasks to work through which you will then be able to share on your blog.
By the end of the week:
-Post your follow up task onto your blog with an explanation of your learning.
Teacher Notes
Maungakiekie - One Tree Hill
Trees planted on Maungakiekie - 2016
Find out about different types of volcanoes.
Attributions:
Video: 'Maungakiekie-One Tree Hill - roadside stories', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/maungakiekie-one-tree-hill-roadside-stories, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 18-May-2016
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