Rangitoto

Term 1

Week 9

WALT: increase our vocabulary knowledge


Instructions

  1. Read the text with your teacher.
  2. Re-read the text on your own.
  3. Complete the follow up activities or readings below.
  4. Share them on your blog.

Reading:

The Duel: The Inventor Awakens

Page 16-25

1.

Reading:

The Duel: The Final Challenge

Page 40-48

2.

Task

The Duel Vocabulary Follow up Task

Image Attributions:

1. School Journal Level 3, May 20162. School Journal Level 3, August 2016

Week 8

WALT: increase our vocabulary knowledge


Instructions

  1. Read the text with your teacher.
  2. Re-read the text on your own.
  3. Complete the follow up activities or readings below.
  4. Share them on your blog.

Reading:

The Healers' Apprentice

Page 42

1.

Task

The Healers' Apprentice - Follow up Task

Image Attributions:

1. School Journal Level 3, May 2016

Week 7

WALT: increase our vocabulary


Instructions

  1. Read the text with your teacher.
  2. Re-read the text on your own.
  3. Complete the follow up activities or readings below.
  4. Share them on your blog.

Reading:

The Pink Umbrella

Page 34

1.

Task:

The Pink Umbrella - Follow up Task

Image Attributions:

1. School Journal Level 3, November 2014

Week 4/6

WALT: find information in a text.


Instructions

  1. Read the text with your teacher.
  2. Re-read the text on your own.
  3. Complete the follow up activities or readings below.
  4. Share them on your blog.

Reading:

Where's Herbie?

Page 2

1.

Task:

Where's Herbie - follow up task

Reading:

Bonnie's Lucky Escape

Page 10

2.

Waitomo Cave

3.

Image Attributions:

1. School Journal Part 3, Number 1, 2010 (Cover)2. Favourite Icecream: A journal of young people's writing (1990)3. Waitomo cave entrance N, by Überraschungsbilder [Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic)]

Week 5 - Camp


Instructions

  1. See you all at camp
  2. Don't forget to bring your big bag to the hall
  3. Pack your lunch and togs in your day bag
  4. "Wooooooo"

Week 4 - Testing


Instructions

  1. Make sure you are going to bed early at night.
  2. Have a big healthy breakfast each morning.
  3. Read the questions carefully.
  4. Use all the time provided.
  5. Kia kaha

Week 3

WALT: find information in a text.


Instructions

  1. Read the text with your teacher.
  2. Re-read the text on your own.
  3. Complete the follow up activities or readings below.
  4. Share them on your blog.

Teacher Notes

Reading:

Plastic Fantastic?

Page 10

1.

Task:

Plastic Fantastic (By Philippa Werry) - Follow up task

Image Attributions:

1. School Journal Part 3, Number 3, 2007 (Cover)2. seegraswiese [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Week 2

WALT: find information in a text.

1.


Instructions

  1. Read the text with your teacher.
  2. Re-read the text on your own.
  3. Complete the follow up activities or readings below.
  4. Share them on your blog.



Reading:

Listening eyes, speaking hands

Page 10

2.

Reading:

Just like everyone else

Page 14

3.

Task:

Listening eyes, speaking hands

Listening eyes, speaking hands (Rangitoto follow up task)

Image Attributions:

1. Youtube video: NZ Sign Language Alphabet (9 Feb 2008, Reflecting Hands)2. School Journal Level 3 November 2018 (Cover)3. School Journal Level 3 April 2012 (Cover)

Week 1 - Waitangi Day

WALT: know what the expectations and routines are for reading time.

1. Koroki, Māori king in the 1930s


Instructions

  1. Read the text with your teacher.
  2. Re-read the text on your own.
  3. Complete the follow up activities or readings below.
  4. Share them on your blog.

Reading:

The Fisherman (by Ben Brown)

Page 20
2.

Resource:

Google map - find Waitangi (yellow pin), Ōpua (red pin), School (purple pin)

Reading:

Te Tiriti o Waitangi (by Ross Calman)

Page 10
3.

Task:

The Fisherman - Character Description

Image Attributions:

1. Taken by an unidentified photograper. Location unknown. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons2. School Journal Part 3 Number 2, 2008 (Cover)3. School Journal Level 3 August 2017 (Cover)