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Competition in the environment
Walt: make connections to prior knowledge.
Walt: self correct.
Instructions:
1. Read your text.
2. File --> Make a copy of your task.
3. Complete your task and post it on your blog.
Fast finisher?
Finish off blog log for this term.
Attributions:
Video: Youtube video: Yellow-eyed penguins (Dunedin NZ), 21 May 2012
The importance of plants
Walt: make connections to prior knowledge.
Walt: self correct.
Instructions:
1. Read your text.
2. File --> Make a copy of your task.
3. Complete your task and post it on your blog.
Fast finisher?
Write a poem/ rap/ song about our environment at Pt England or in NZ, and all the wildlife that might live here.
Animation + Voice Over
Shared Reading
Rata and the Waka: A tale from New Zealand (Jephson Gibbs)
Aotearoa: A StoryWorld Collection
Attributions:
Video: Youtube video: Rata & The God of the forest, Richard Lloyd, 9 Dec 2007.
The importance of plants
Walt: read/listen/look for meaning.
Walt: recognise and use blends in new words to help with meaning.
Instructions:
1. Read your text.
2. File --> Make a copy of your task.
3. Complete your task and post it on your blog.
Fast finisher?
Write a poem/ rap/ song about our environment at Pt England or in NZ, and all the wildlife that might live here.
Attributions:
Video: Youtube video: Kiwibank, the department of conservation, & predator free NZ trust join forces (Kiwibank), 14 Sept 2016.
Wildlife and our environment
Walt: read/listen/look for meaning.
Walt: take part in discussions around what we have read.
Instructions:
1. Read your text.
2. File --> Make a copy of your task.
3. Complete your task and post it on your blog.
Fast finisher?
Write a poem/ rap/ song about our environment at Pt England or in NZ, and all the wildlife that might live here.
Lizard loses his tail (Beverley Randell)
Speedy Bee (Jenny Giles)
A Map of Sunny Hill (Sally Cowan)
At the Pool (Janice Marriott)
The Big Helicopter (Annette Smith)
Create & Share
A Tree Horse (Mandi Rathbone)
Attributions:
Video: Living things change: Crash course kids #41.1, Crash course kids (2016) (Youtube)
Plants and Animals
Walt: self correct while we read
Walt: use a number of strategies to help us understand the text.
Instructions:
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been reading texts about animals which need protecting and animals which are a danger to other animals. We can link this to our own environment.
1. Complete the task for your first book for this week. Post it onto your blog.
2. Think about how the different animals/ plants we have read about over the last couple of weeks may have adapted to their environment to help them survive.
Lizard loses his tail (Beverley Randell)
Clever Fox (Beverley Randell)
Katie's Butterfly (Jenny Giles)
At the Pool (Janice Marriott)
The Ant and the Grasshopper (Dawn McMillan)
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Attributions:
Video: Living things change: Crash course kids #41.1, Crash course kids (2016) (Youtube)
Making Connections
Walt: self correct while we read
Walt: recognise a range of punctuation
Instructions:
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been reading texts about animals which need protecting and animals which are a danger to other animals. We can link this to our own environment.
1. Complete the task for your first book for this week. Post it onto your blog.
2. Complete your writing task for this week - writing a letter to Mr Burt about planting native trees around school
Run, Rabbit, Run! (Beverley Randell)
Sally and the Sparrows (Jenny Giles)
The Gardener's Maze (Dot Meharry)
Attribution:
Youtube video: Top 5 Native Plants of New Zealand by Rural Design NZ
Making Connections
Walt: read for meaning and make connections to our own lives.
Walt: develop our vocabulary around a topic.
Instructions:
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been reading texts about animals which need protecting and animals which are a danger to other animals. We can link this to our own environment.
1. Complete the task for your first book for this week. Post it onto your blog.
2. Create a wanted poster for a predator we might find at Pt England Beach.
- What is the animal wanted for?
- How will you recognise the animal?
- What can we do?
- Reward for the animal's capture!
Kitty Cat and Fat Cat
Brave Father Mouse
The Nest on the beach
(Adapted from week 3)
Attributions:
WANTED poster activity adapted from: The reading activity handbook - Sheena Cameron (2009), NZ, p. 42, Reward Poster.
Looking after the environment
Walt: read for meaning and make connections to our own lives.
Walt: discuss the author's message
Instructions:
Listen to your instructions here.
What is our environment like at Pt England?
How can our actions effect these environments and the animals that live there?
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 and listen to 'Kaitiaki of the Stream.'
3. 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.
Sally and the Daisy (Beverley Randell)
Sam's Race (Annette Smith)
Ten little garden snails (Beverley Randell)
Attributions:
Video: Te Karere, TVNZ
PES Responsibility poster - Garth Jacobsen (2017)
Our environment
Walt: read for meaning and make connections to our own lives.
Instructions:
Below, you will find texts and tasks to work through to start thinking about our environment
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 cover for a magazine about our environment.
- What would be the main topics in the magazine?
- How would we draw our audience in?
Hedgehog is Hungry (Beverley Randell)
Pepper's adventure (Beverley Randell)
The Baby Owls (Beverley Randell)
Joey (Beverley Randell)
Create and Share - Magazine Cover
Attributions:
Video: Department of conservation
About my group - Maungawhau
Walt: read for meaning and retell what we have read.
Instructions:
Welcome to your reading page for 2017!
This week you are going to be finding out about your reading group, Maungawhau, as well as a number of other Volcanoes in Auckland.
You can also read a number of stories and complete a task to show your learning.
Teacher Notes
Have you read today's text?
Attributions:
Video: ManatuTaonga
