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Weekly Poem - Happy Diwali
Last week many families in New Zealand and across the world celebrated Diwali. Have a go at reading this poem about the important celebration:
Monday: List two activities that happen during Diwali:
Tuesday: Can you think of another word that the writer could have used instead of children and presents? Fill in the space with your different word:
__________________ play
_________________________ are given
Wednesday: Zoom in to the word smell. Can you think of any rhyming words for smell? E.g well, spell. Write down all the words you can think of.
Thursday: Have you seen firecrackers before? Watch this video of a firecracker display during Diwali last year.
What words could you use to describe these fireworks? E.g huge, magnificent.
Friday: We can see beautiful rangoli art during the week of Diwali. Use some crayons to design your own colourful rangoli.
Books for this Week
Book - Mrs Muddle Mud-Puddle
Login Sunshine Online: Learning Space 2, Level 15
Read ‘Mrs Muddle Mud-Puddle’ on Sunshine Online and complete the activities.
Answer the comprehension questions:
Where did Mrs Muddle go instead of her friend’s house?
Why do you think Mrs Muddle thought that the wild dragon was a nice doggy?
How did the ghost feel about being hung up as a curtain?
Who did Mrs Muddle think that the bony skeleton in the chair was?
Why did she want Bert to eat some cakes?
Imagine that Mrs Muddle came across these scary creatures on her trip out of the house! Uses your imagination to draw a picture and describe what Mrs Muddle might think the creatures are instead:
Mrs Muddle could think that the big, bad wolf is a __________________________________________________
Mrs Muddle could think that this monster is a __________________________________________________
Complete the word search below:
Book - The Poor Sore Paw
Login Sunshine Online: Learning Space 3, Level 17
Read ‘The Poor Sore Paw’ on Sunshine Online and complete the activities.
Answer the comprehension questions:
How did Dog get stuck?
Why did the Cow want to get home?
What did the Farmer do when he couldn’t cross the bridge?
Who were the heroes in this story? Why?
Describe what this story is about in a simple sentence.
This story is about __________________________________________________________________ .
The title of this story has an example of two homophones. Homophones are two or more words that sound the same but they have different meanings. Can you find the homophones in the title?
Match these homophones together. The first one has been done for you:
Book - Dinner for Greedy Cat
Ready to read online story, Dinner for Greedy Cat, Level 17
You can click on the ‘play’ button beside the story to hear it being read and you can also click on the TEXT (brown button) to download the story and read it yourself.
Before you read this story, have a look at the picture on the front cover. Where is Greedy Cat? What do you think he’s going to do?
Have you ever been to a barbeque before?
This book has two Maori words. Ngeru, which means cat, and nui which means big.
Comprehension Questions
What are Mr Rata and Anaru having for dinner?
Where did they go before the story started?
Near the end of the story, Mr Rata says “Haere ra, ngeru nui” What does this mean?
At the end of the story, Mum says “Don’t worry, I think he will be just fine.” Why do you think Mum says this?
If you lived next door to Greedy Cat, would you feed him? Why/Why not?
Use the clues in the pictures and words of the story to complete a table describing Anaru’s feelings through the book. The first one has been done for you.
Activities
Draw a picture of a cat with a big tummy, then cut and paste the pictures from out of a grocery mailer to show what Greedy Cat might like to eat.
Write down all the WOW words in the story and challenge yourself to use at least one in your story writing. Here are some of the WOW words I found.
Book - The Bag of Smiles
Login Sunshine Online: Learning Space 3, Level 18
Read ‘The Bag of Smiles’ on Sunshine Online and complete the activities.
Answer the comprehension questions:
Is this book fiction or non-fiction?
What was the new law that the King made?
Why did he make this law?
On page 5, how do you know that the man and woman were happy all of the time?
Where do you think the five chicken's smiles went?
Look at these pictures of animals smiling. Write a short sentence that describes why you think they are so happy :)
The dog is happy because _________________________________________________ .
The cow is happy because _________________________________________________ .
The piglets are happy because _________________________________________________ .
Match the words with their opposites. The first one has been done for you:
Skill Activities this Week
Nouns
A noun names a person, place, animal or thing.
Draw up this worksheet for Nouns. Think of a person, place and thing and then draw a picture of them in the circle then write what they are on the lines underneath.
Read the sentences below and write down the nouns on a paper or circle the nouns you can see.
Adjective Hunt
Read the cards below and write down any adjectives that you find in the chart:
Word Hunt Chart - how many adjectives can you find?
Verbs
A verb is a word that conveys an action, occurrence or state of being
Verbs warm up - using a dice, roll it and whatever number it lands on do that action. Have fun!
Fill in the gaps with the appropriate verb.
Long Vowels
There is more than one way to make the long ‘e’ sound. For example, bee, tea, and me.
Read these words that have the long ‘e’ sound, then fill in the missing gaps on the bottom line
Long vowel sound /oa/
Read each word before revealing the hidden image.
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