Friday 18th March
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Each day you will be given 3 different tasks to complete. Along with these tasks, you are expected to attend the Google Meets calls linked on the poster below. There is two different calls - one for Year 3 & 4 students and one for Year 5 & 6 students. It's important to attend these calls so that you can recieve the awhi that you need. He waka eke noa! It is also important to share your awesome mahi with your classroom teacher by posting on your Class Dojo portfolio.
READING - Y3&4
READING - Y3&4
The Character
What am I learning?
To make inferences about a character.
How can I make sure I am successful?
Reading the story and making a conclusion about what the character is like and can describe them.
Infer means using the evidence in the story to support your opinion.
Activity description/steps:
Choose a story book you have at home. Must have at least one main character.
(If you don't have any books at home have a look at the readers here: https://sites.google.com/glenavon.school.nz/moana-team/readers )
Read the story in your head then once again aloud to yourself or someone at home. This helps to ensure you have comprehended the information about the character and what they are like.
PM21 Character inference chart.pdf - fill out this worksheet based on your chosen story.
If it is hard to answer these questions, go back through your story and read it once more, as you go through, ask yourself the questions on the worksheet and see if you can answer them as you read.
If you aren't sure about the characters thoughts and feelings you can write your own thoughts and feelings, how do YOU think the character is feeling?
Resources:
https://sites.google.com/glenavon.school.nz/moana-team/readers
READING - Y5&6
READING - Y5&6
Common and Proper Nouns
What am I learning?
*To understand the difference between a common and proper noun.
How can I make sure I am successful?
*Watch the Khan Academy video.
*Refer to the video if I need help deciding if nouns are proper or common.
Activity description/steps:
Watch the Khan Academy video about common and proper nouns.
Write two headings on a piece of paper, Proper Noun and Common Noun. Using this list of words, write the words under the heading they fit under.
Read through the poem River Swimming.
Write down any proper nouns that are used in the poem.
Write down any common nouns that are used in the first stanza.
Extras for early finishers
Write your own poem and use a different coloured pen or pencil for proper and common nouns.
Resources:
Khan Academy - Common and Proper Nouns
WRITING - Y3&4
WRITING - Y3&4
Free Writing Friday!
What am I learning?
To write to express my own ideas.
How can I make sure I am successful?
I can express my ideas through my writing.
Can write sentences telling my story.
Can draw a picture to support what I have written
Activity description/steps:
Today you can choose what you would like to write! Finish off the week by telling us a story.
Have a think about what your story will be about, maybe you want to brainstorm your ideas before you start writing.
Tell us your story, think about where you will add full stops or exclamation marks!
Once you have written as much as you can, go through and add in the full stops where you think they need to be to make your sentences and the CAPITAL letters after each one.
Finish off by drawing a picture to support what you have written.
WRITING - Y5&6
WRITING - Y5&6
A Bad Night's Sleep.pngA Bad Night’s Sleep
What am I learning?
*To use different sentence lengths to make my writing more interesting.
*To write about a time when I could not get to sleep.
How can I make sure I am successful?
*I have used a range of sentence lengths (short, medium and long) in my story.
*I have checked that my story makes sense by re-reading it.
*I have edited my story, checking my spelling and punctuation.
Activity description/steps:
Think about a time you could not fall asleep, no matter how hard you tried! Maybe it was too hot or too noisy…
Read the example A Bad Night’s Sleep to get some inspiration on how you can use different sentence lengths.
Write a short story describing a time you couldn’t fall asleep.
Re-read your story, checking that it makes sense.
Edit your story, checking your spelling and punctuation.
Extras for early finishers
Publish your work on Canva and share it with Miss Burke on kburke@glenavon.school.nz. She will print it out and give it to your teacher.
Resources:
Music - Y3&4
Music - Y3&4
Body Precussion
Body percussion
What am I learning?
*Use my body to make different sounds to follow a beat
How can I make sure I am successful?
*Listen carefully to the beat of the song
*Look carefully for the cues on the screen
*Copy the actions carefully
*Make sounds on the beat
Activity description/steps:
Practice from Monday, can you try another song today too.
-Click on link to play the song: Dynamite (BTS) https://youtu.be/mG1riceAIlI
-Listen to the song and copy the actions as the instructions show to make a beat using body percussion!
Extras for early finishers
Try these extra songs!
What Else Can I do (Encanto)
Try Everything (Shakira)
History - Y5&6
History - Y5&6
Kilikiti
Pate and Bat.pdfWhat am I learning?
*To understand the history of kilikiti in Sāmoa.
*To identify the sports played in my culture.
How can I make sure I am successful?
*Watch the video.
*Answer the questions using the information in the video.
*Compare the differences and similarities between a pate (kilikiti bat) and cricket bat.
Activity description/steps:
The presenter says kilikiti is 'a lot more than a sport.' What do you think she means by that?
What sports are played in your community? What are the similarities and differences between those sports and kilikiti?
Have a look at the pictures of a pate (kilikiti bat) and cricket bat. What similarities do they have? What differences do they have?
Extras for early finishers
Create a poster about a sport played in your community. It should include the rules of the game, the equipment you need to play and some pictures.
Resources:
Pate (kilikiti bat) and Cricket bat
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