What am I learning?

Review and practice of multiplication practise

How can I make sure I am successful?

• Review part 1 & 2 times tables

• Complete the activity

Activity description/steps:

1. Have you been practising each day?
   Keep going guys you got this!!

2. Use your multiplication chart to help you practise the times tables you have learnt this week

3. Ask whanau to help you practise until you know them all

4. Complete this activity to help you learn your multiplication here

5. Play this multiplication game here

Extras for early finishers

Practise, Practise, Practise!

Resources:

Pencil and paper

What am I learning?

*to use forms of direction and orientation

*to use coordinates to describe the location of something.

How can I make sure I am successful?

*I know where the ‘X axis’ is.

*I know where the ‘Y axis’ is.

*I can cross reference to locate something.

Activity description/steps:

1. Check out the worksheet above.

2. Grid Maps can be used as ways to locate things. Similarly, an Atlas uses grid mapping features known as longitude and latitude.

3. There are three tasks to complete with detailed instructions and guidelines to support you.

4. Task 1: Use the Grid Map Coordinates to locate the corresponding shapes.

5. Task 2: Use the grid map coordinates to identify where room furniture is located, and to break a SECRET CODE!

6. Task 3: Create your own Grid Map of your room, and show the coordinates of certain pieces of furniture.

Once you have completed, double check your work and submit to your teacher by email or class dojo.

Resources:

Worksheet

What am I learning?

To read with fluency and recall interesting facts about Niue.

How can I make sure I am successful?

Read the information report to yourself, then a family member using your fluency skills and then answer the questions about Niue.

Activity description/steps:

1.Read the article about Niue to yourself quietly in your head and identify any words you don't know. (Write them down if you can and use your syllables or chunks to try and work the word out). This is a

2. Ask a family member to help you with the unknown or hard words.

3. Re-read the article about Niue to a family member using your fluency skills (Sounds “nice” and flowing, stop at fullstops and use expressions).

4.Answer the following questions about Niue.

1.Where is Niue?

2.What is the capital of Niue?

3.Where do most Niue people live?

4.Who was the first palagi/european to see Niue and when did he get there?

5.What does the word Niue mean?

6.What is interesting about the coconut crab?

7.What colour is the Niue flag?

8.How do you say hello in Niuean?

9.What did captain Cook call Niue and why did he call it that?

10.What do you think about all of the school kids getting free laptops and internet in Niue? Why do you think this way?

Extras for early finishers

Complete one of the activities for the competition for Niue language week and upload a picture or video and send it to Miss Karaka by 5PM today.

Resources:

Niue facts for kids article

Pencil and paper

Materials and resources for competition for Niue language week IF you wish to do the extras for early finishers

What am I learning?

*to read confidently

*to read with expression

*to read with fluency

How can I make sure I am successful?

*I change the tones of my voice to make the reading more interesting.

*I read without rushing, and attend to punctuation.

*I restart the sentence when I have made a mistake.

Activity description/steps:

1. Read the text once to yourself.

2. Using a video camera, record yourself reading the entire story for the second time. Then upload the video to the class dojo, or by emailing your classroom teacher.

You may complete the following questions in written form, or a video recording of yourself presenting your responses.

Questions to complete:

1. Where do you think the setting of the poem takes place? There are a number of clues. Explain your answer in detail. (40-60 Words)

2. Create a list of detailed and descriptive sentences from the poem, that included parts of the body or face.Think about how you could organise these tidily and logically.
   

3. This poem is very visually descriptive. This means it is easy to picture what is happening in your head while reading or listening to the story. Can you illustrate this poem in one picture, and include all of the specific details?

Check you have your recorded video of yourself reading as well as your 3 follow up tasks send to your teacher via email or on class dojo.

Resources:

Text - The Game

What am I learning?

Rewrite a narrative/story and follow the writing process (Publish)

How can I make sure I am successful?

Rewrite a story using keywords and ideas and know/follow the parts of the writing process

Activity description/steps:

1.Show a family member your DRAFT WRITING from yesterday and ask them if they can see any EDITING mistakes you missed.

1.Using your DRAFT WRITING that you and your family member have EDITED, PUBLISH your story onto good lined paper.

2.When we PUBLISH it means we do not miss lines, this must be your best handwriting and your neatest presentation. So make sure you have organised paragraphs and all of your wonderful EDITING is copied.

Extras for early finishers

Using your sketches create a beautiful image or images to go with your rewritten narrative.

Resources:

Pencil and paper

Family member for editing

Colour or pencil for images

What am I learning?

*to brainstorm, prepare and organise my narrative writing

*to write a narrative

How can I make sure I am successful?

*use my plan as a guide

* be sure to include all features of a narrative in my story.

Activity description/steps:

1. Look at the image closely and begin a brainstorm to create a narrative piece.

2. Begin a plan using this template which includes all features of a narrative. Writing Templates .pdf

3. The writing template is a small part that will help you prepare for a larger amount of writing with detail and description.

4. Once you are happy with your plan, begin writing your narrative piece including punctuation and paragraphs.

5. Check that you are following your plan as you write, this will include proof reading to yourself.

6. Use your plan as a checklist - once you have completed this. Proof-read and edit.

7. Share your edited version with your teacher. There is no publishing required for this activity.

Resources:

Writing Templates .pdf

Warrior Image