Week 10
Week 10
Myanmar
Mingalarbar Room 11!
Last week of Term 1. What better way to end the term by looking at the "Republic of Myanmar"
We will research and learn about their New Year, which is called "Maha Thingyan" is one of the largest and most widely celebrated holidays in Myanmar. it used to be called Burma. Myanmar is the largest country in South East Asia that is not an island. It is also part of South Asia. Myanmar Teacher Notes
understand and use words for common classroom objects
understand and respond appropriately to some classroom instructions
WALHT: Look at a picture prompt carefully and use what we have learned to write interesting stories for an audience.
Instructions: Whole class activity.
This week you will write interesting stories about 3 different picture prompts.
Things to remember Who is in your story? what is the problem in your story? Where is this happening in your story? How was the problem solve in your story?
WALHT: write a descriptive piece of writing we describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind.
Instructions: Whole class activity.
This week we will be focusing on describing clouds, bees and spiders and learning and understanding how to use adjectives, verbs similies to help paint a picture in the readers' heads. We will then begin to write a story about these things making sure we have a beginning, middle and end.
WALHT: write a descriptive piece of writing we describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind.
Instructions: Whole class activity.
This week we will be focusing on describing clouds, bees and spiders and learning and understanding how to use adjectives, verbs similies to help paint a picture in the readers' heads. We will then begin to write a story about these things making sure we have a beginning, middle and end.
WALHT: write a descriptive piece of writing we describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind.
Instructions: Whole class activity.
This week we will be focusing on describing clouds, bees and spiders and learning and understanding how to use adjectives, verbs similies to help paint a picture in the readers' heads. We will then begin to write a story about these things making sure we have a beginning, middle and end.
WALHT: write a descriptive piece of writing we describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind.
Instructions: Whole class activity.
This week we will be focusing on describing clouds, bees and spiders and learning and understanding how to use adjectives, verbs similies to help paint a picture in the readers' heads. We will then begin to write a story about these things making sure we have a beginning, middle and end.
WALHT: celebrates the identity, languages, and culture of students from the Cook Islands and helps all New Zealanders journey towards shared cultural understandings.
Instructions:
Whole class activity. This week we will focus on language, cuisine, history, storytelling, and art. We will work through each activity throughout the week together.
'Ātuitui'ia au ki te au peu o tōku kāinga
" Connect me to the traditions & culture of my homeland"
WALHT:
Instructions:
Whole class activity.
WALHT:
write a story to tell an audience about something in great detail.
Instructions:
Click on this week's writing link. Read and listen to the instructions carefully. Write one story a day then post this to your Blog with a task description. There are links to words you might like to use on the first slide.
Tasks
Friday FIOP
WALHT:
understand and work through our team Rubric
Instructions:
Whole class activity. We will examine how to work through our team Rubric as a class. We will look at ways we have been thinking positively, acting positively and being positive in our day-to-day learning.
Tasks
Friday FIOP
WALHT: be creative in writing using examples of writing prompts. The ideas that come out of our own individual life experiences and from our imagination will help and encourage our creative writing ideas.
Instructions:
Whole class discussion.
Writing Task. Verbs & Adverbs