Week 9 - Fairy Tale Connections

WALT: make connections with our own experience as we read the 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.

Readings:

  • Egbert and the Princess (L3 Aug 2013)
  • Boss of the World (P3, N3, 1997)

Task:

My Duffy Book

Readings:

Egbert and the Princess

Task:

Making Connections

Task:

Connections Between Texts

Week 8 - Using my Imagination

WALT: make connections with our own experience as we read the 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.

Readings:

Atutahi's Imagination

Task:

Connections

Task:

Imagination

Reading:

The Lack of Pigeons

Week 7 - Cricket

WALT: make connections with our own experience as we read the 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:

An old game for a new millennium

Task:

Connections

Task:

Cricket

Reading:

Hitting the ball without seeing it

Week 6 - Camp!

WALT: make connections with our own experience as we read the 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:

Camp: According to the Kids

Task:

Connections

Task:

Advice Blog

Reading:

Ancestors

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 be 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 - Weather

WALT: use things I already know to help me understand a new reading.


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:

What Makes the Weather?

Resource:

Discussion Board

Reading:

New Zealand's Weather

Task:

Weather

Week 2 - Radios

WALT: use my prior knowledge to help me understand a new 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.

Readings:

1. Making Radio Waves School Journal October 2015


2. Staying Affect Connected Picture This Independent

Resource:

Discussion Board

Task:

Making Radio Waves

Task:

Staying Affect

Week 1 - What is a Triceratops?

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


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:

Saffron's Skeleton

Resource:

Padlet Discussion

Reading:

What is a Triceratops?

Task:

Fact Sheet