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Instructions:

As this is the final week of Term 4 2017, we have reached the end of our 2017 learning journey in Room 9. Even so, there are many opportunities to continue learning over the summer - cooking at home, exploring the outdoors, visiting the library and blogging as part of the Summer Learning Journey. This week there will be the chance to explore the 2016 Summer Learning Journey and create a blog post to prepare for this summer's learning journey.

Remember to register for the Summer Learning Journey to be in to win prizes!

Question: why do you think I have chosen this video?

We want our writing to

share our ideas clearly for our audience:

* give information to meet the challenge

* read carefully to check it makes sense

* read again to check spelling, punctuation and spacing

* include labels and a title for each blog post

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

What an amazing experience watching Kiwi Kapers yesterday! What did you see? What did you experience? What did you enjoy?

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

2. Use our template to plan your ideas. Then, write your ideas in full sentences underneath your plan.

4. Read your writing carefully to check that each sentence makes sense.

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

6. Create a drawing/image to show who you are at the concert.

7. Publish your writing and image to your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Musical Madness, Kiwi Kapers.

We want our writing to

be imaginative and exciting for our audience to read.

Extra Activity: Word Picture

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

Story time ... here is the beginning of a story. What happens next? It's time for your imaginations to fly ... You have been given the character, setting and the problem. How is the problem going to get sorted out?

What ideas will you and your buddy come up with? Write what happens next in the story together. How will it end? One buddy will make a copy of the template. Share this with your buddy. Write your ideas together. Take care to finish it off properly!

Finished? Read your story again. Does it make sense? Punctuation! Happy? Okay, draw a picture to match your story using Pixlr.

Publish your story to your blog with your picture. Choose a title. Labels: 2017, Writing, Narrative, Story Starter, That Really Stinks, [name of your buddy]

We want our stories to

* be funny and exciting for our audience to read.

* have sentences of different lengths.

Teacher Notes

Link to Film Festival 2017

Instructions:

Yesterday we travelled to Sylvia Park for the 10th Manaiakalani Film Festival. What did you see? What did you experience? What did you learn about? 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. Publish your writing to your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing,

Recount, Film Festival

We want our recounts to

share our personal experience and be exciting for our audience to read.

Finished: Write a quality blog comment for one or two movies. Remember to share the link to your comment in our comment tracker.

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

Our end-of-year writing assessment will take place on Tuesday. This week we will also explore music by making our own instruments and checking out what sounds we can create with them. We will create a poem to describe our instrument and its sounds .

1. Prepare for the test: lots and sleep and take time to breakfast before school.

2. We will watch the video to learn how to make a harmonica. Take a photo of

your harmonica when it is finished.

3. What sounds does your harmonica make? We will brainstorm words that

describe the sounds, music and instrument together.

5. Using the writing template, create an acrostic poem about your harmonica.

4. Read your words carefully to check the flow and your spelling.

5. Publish your poem to your blog with your photo:

Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Poetry, Musical Madness, Harmonica.

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

This week we will explore music by making our own instruments and checking out what sounds we can create with them. We will write about our experiences afterwards.

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

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

3. Read your writing carefully to check that your ideas match your plan.

Then, read it again to check that it each sentence makes sense.

4. Publish your writing to your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Recount,

Musical Madness, Making pan pipes.

We want our recounts to

share our personal experience and be exciting for our audience to read.

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

Fakaalofa lahi atu! It's Niuean Language Week. Welcome to Term 4. What an exciting assembly this morning! What did you see? What did you experience? What did you learn about? 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 your writing and image to your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Recount, Immersion Assembly, Musical Madness

We want our recounts to

share our personal experience and be exciting for our audience to read.

Teacher Notes