Weekly WALT

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TERM 4 WEEK4

Writing - Use editing tools to support the rechecking and re crafting of our writing.

Writing - Edit our sentences so that they make sense.

Reading - Work independently on a personal interest project.

Term 4 Week 1

• Reading - Summarise important information in our own words.

• Writing - Use summarising skills and key vocabulary to write a paragraph relating to the text.

• WOW - Research the word phenomena and learn it's meaning. Find different natural phenomena around the world and plot it on a Google Map. Choose one phenomena and create a mosaic drawing to illustrate it.

• Postcard - recount a memory from our holiday and write a short summary for a friend.

Term 3 Week 9

• WOW - Research the word renewable energy is and learn it's meaning. Find ways on how we can create energy that is collected from renewable resources.

• Reading - Synthesize texts with your own prior knowledge to develop new ideas and understandings.

• Writing - Write a report .

• Writing - Write an introductory paragraph and a conclusion paragraph.

• Writing - Use the TEXT structure to write a quality paragraph.

Term 3 Week 8

• WOW - Research the word carbon footprint and learn it's meaning. Find ways on how we can reduce our carbon footprint.

• Reading - Synthesize texts with your own prior knowledge to develop new ideas and understandings.

• Writing - Write a report .

• Writing - Write an introductory paragraph and a conclusion paragraph.

• Writing - Use the TEXT structure to write a quality paragraph.

Term 3 Week 7

• WOW - Find the word 'climate' and 'weather' in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Find the causes and effects of climate change.

• Reading - texts with your own prior knowledge to develop new ideas and understandings.

• Writing - Research facts about climate change and write synthesis statements about the effects of climate change.

Term 3 Week 6

• WOW - Find the word 'idyllic' in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Think about how you feel in the ‘yellow’ Mana Potential zone. Think about your ‘go to’ place and design your own idyllic setting.

• Reading - Read narrative texts and engage higher order thinking skills.

• Reading - Make inferences using the clues in the text along with your own experiences to help you figure out what is not directly said.

• Writing - Plan and create an movie for a specific purpose and audience using the theme Life in Lockdown

Term 3 Week 5

• WOW - Find the word 'autobiography' in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Identify famous people who have written autobiographies. Find an autobiography in our library.

• Reading - Read narrative texts and engage higher order thinking skills.

• Writing - Plan and create an movie for a specific purpose and audience using the theme Life in Lockdown

Term 3 Week 4

• Writing - Plan and create an movie for a specific purpose and audience using the theme Life in Lockdown

• Writing - Generate ideas for our movie.

• WOW - Find information on a famous NZ actor (Russell Crowe).

• Reading - Read literature texts and engage higher order thinking skills.

Term 3 Week 3

• Writing - Plan and create an movie for a specific purpose and audience using the theme Life in Lockdown

• Writing - Generate ideas for our movie.

• WOW - Find information on a famous NZ actor (Russell Crowe).

• Calendar Art - Create 3D digital images on Google drawings and a blended background for calendar art.

Term 3 Week 2

• Writing - Plan and create an movie for a specific purpose and audience using the theme Life in Lockdown

• Writing - Generate ideas for our movie.

• WOW - Find information on a famous director (Sir Peter Jackson).

Term 3 Week 1

• Reading - Synthesize information from short movies to develop new ideas and understanding.

• Reading - Classify and compare different camera angles.

• WOW - Find a word in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Label the different parts of a tripod.

Week 11

• Reading - Make connection from text to self

• Reading - Grasp and deeper understanding of COVID19 through the media

• Writing - Plan and create an advert that for a specific purpose and audience

• WOW - Find a word in the dictionary and learn it's meaning, create a mnemonic to learn a spelling rule.

Week 10

• Reading - Make connection from text to self

• Reading - Grasp and deeper understanding of COVID19 through the media

• Writing - Plan and create an advert that for a specific purpose and audience

• WOW - Find words in the dictionary and learn it's meaning, find words with the same suffixes,

Week 9

• Reading - Identify key aspects and information that is shown over a range of visual posters

• Reading - Analyse target audience and purpose

• WOW - find words in the dictionary and the thesaurus and to understand 'personification' as a figure of speech.

Week 8

• Reading - Identify key aspects and information that is shown over a range of visual posters

• Reading - Analyse target audience and purpose

• Writing - Write a thank you letter following a formal letter structure

• Writing - Choose appropriate vocabulary

Week 7

• 12 days - Create a song to share our experiences of our COVID-19 lockdown.

• Reading - Read graphs, tables and text and listen to video clips to find key information

• Writing - use editing tools to support the rechecking and re crafting of our writing.

• Writing - Write for a particular audience and purpose.

• WOW - find words in the dictionary and the thesaurus and write in complex sentences.

• Google Drawing - create a portrait using the drawing tools on Google Drawings.

Week 6

• Reading - Skim and scan to find information

• Reading - Read graphs, tables and text to find main ideas

• Reading - Analyse the target audience for a range of texts.

• Writing - Write a formal thank you letter following the correct structure.

• Writing - Write for a particular audience and purpose

• WOW - Celebrate the mahi Dr Ashley Bloomfield has done by creating a poster all about him.