We are learning to:
• identify the main ideas;
• make connections between the different parts of this text;
• understand and explain some of the ideas about why harakeke is important to Māori.
School Journal, PART 2 NO.3 2005
This recount describes a special celebration dedicated to the harvesting of flax planted seventeen years earlier as a community project. The children at this school learn about the tikanga (protocols) for harvesting harakeke (flax) and about how it can be used.
Complete at least 2 activities about Puanga and Matariki
Comprehension Activity - Google Docs
Create a poster sharing at least 5 interesting facts about Puanga and Matariki.
OFFLINE
Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui word find or vocab sheet
What does a quality blog post need?
Include images, examples from the text and links to the Young Ocean Explorers website to support your answers.
FINISH YOUR BLOG POST THAT YOU STARTED LAST WEEK
This is a real life recount about what happened when a farmer stepped on a wasp nest.
WALT increase our vocabulary by identifying how the writer has used descriptive language to tell the story.
Discuss the differences between bees and wasps, For example: that bees only sting once and only when provoked, whereas wasps can be aggressive and can sting multiple times.
Read the story to yourself, read the story with your group. Listen to the audio.
MAKE A COPY of the google doc and save it in your reading folder.
WALT find out some interesting facts and information about wasps.
Look at the glossary, the diagrams, and the maps that support the topic related vocabulary.
What do you know about wasps?
Use the glossary at the end of the article.
Read the article to yourself, read the article with your group.
Title - Seals
Create a poster using google slides, docs or drawing to share the following information
Click on the link for the poem Summer Sounds
Can you name all the things that make summer sounds in the poem?
What sounds do they make?
What do the following words mean?
slung, percussive, asphalt, blare, insistent
(Complete TWO of the following activities in your red book or online)
Write down 5 interesting or tricky words and find out what they mean.
Write 2-3 sentences about what the poem is about.
Practice your handwriting - copy 10 lines from the poem as tidily as you can.
Draw a picture to illustrate the poem
This is a chocolate tarantula!!!
What do you think Daithi?
Which one would you choose?
Look at all the insects to eat!
What do you know about the drought in the Far North?
Has it affected you in any way?
What changes have you noticed at home, at school in the community?
What does a quality blog post need?