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Instructions:

What activity did you do on Friday? Where did you go? Who were you with?

1. Have a chat about it with a buddy and as a class.

2. Use our template to plan and record the ideas you want to recount.

3. Write your recount in full sentences underneath your plan.

4. Read your writing carefully to check that your ideas match your plan. Then, read it again to check that it each sentence makes sense.

5. Ask a buddy to read your recount. Do they have any feedback for you?

6. Create a drawing/image to represent your experience.

7. Publish to your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Recount, Matariki

We want our recounts to

share our personal experience and be interesting for our audience.

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

How is your animation looking? Have you thought about what you are going to say in your voice over?

During writing this week, you are going to work on creating a script for your animation. You will be able to turn this script into your voice over.

Remember to include:

- An explanation about your chosen technology and how

it has changed over time.

- What might it look like in future?

- Adjectives to make your writing interesting.

Read your script carefully to check that it makes sense. Read it again to check your punctuation (capital letters, full stops, question marks).

Finished? Share your animation script on your blog with a screenshot from your animation.

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Instructions:

How do we make a paper helicopter?

We will work together to create our paper helicopters. How will they fly?

Then it is time to write to explain how you did this using our writing template. Read your writing carefully when you have finished. Does each sentence make sense? Ask a buddy to read your writing. Do they have any feedback for you?

Share your writing on your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, making a helicopter, Explanation

We want our writing to

explain how to make something for our audience.

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Instructions:

What can you remember about riding a bike? How does a bike work? We will watch these two videos and share our ideas.

Then, please create a drawing of a bike (Task 1) following the instructions in the drawing.

Next, it is time to write your ideas about how a bike works using our Task 2 template. Read your writing when you have finished to check that it each sentence makes sense. Ask a buddy to read your writing. Do they have any feedback for you?

Share your drawing and your writing on your blog in one post: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Bicycle, Explanation

We want our writing to

explain how something works for our audience.

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

What did you do when you went swimming? What did you enjoy?

1. Have a chat about it with a buddy and as a class.

2. Use our template to plan and record the ideas you want to recount.

3. Write your recount in full sentences underneath your plan.

4. Read your writing carefully to check that your ideas match your plan. Then, read it again to check that it each sentence makes sense.

5. Ask a buddy to read your recount. Do they have any feedback for you?

6. Create a drawing/image to represent your experience.

7. Publish to your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Recount, Swimming

We want our recounts to

share our personal experience and be interesting for our audience.

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

You have thought about yourself and told your story through your mihi. Now it is time to think about creating a story of your own to tell others.

Some stories have been passed down over time as myths, legends and fairy tales. We read mystery stories, science fiction stories and, sometimes, horror stories. Whatever kind of story, there is always a problem to be sorted out by a main character.

What kind of story will you tell?

We will talk about our template together. Read your story to a buddy. Share to your blog. Labels: 2017, Writing, narratives, once upon a time.

How do we choose interesting words to add to our writing? Let's do some activities to help us!

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

Welcome to Term 2! This term is all about thinking! What is technology? How has technology changed our lives over time? How do we use technology to communicate? Back in the day, how did people find out who was who, and what was happening?

Well, Māori traditionally share the history of who they are, their whānau and their tūpuna by saying a mihi or pepeha.

This week, we are going to share our history through our mihi. You can either create your Year 5 mihi or your formal mihi:

1. Choose the writing template for the mihi you want to create.

2. Who are you and where do you come from? Have a chat to your family.

3. Share your history by writing your mihi in English, Māori and, if you want, your

first language.

4. Practise reading your mihi to a buddy. Can you remember it off-by-heart?

5. Either:

a. Create a drawing to share your mihi using your photo and your writing.

Check out the example. Share your drawing on your blog; or

b. Record a screencast of yourself saying your mihi. Share to your blog.

Labels: 2017, Writing, mihi, all about me.

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