Senior School
week 8, Term 3, 2021
reading
writing
monday
Launch
Task
Choose one of the following tasks:
Describe the setting at the opening of the video. Use a variety of language features in your work such as; similes, metaphors, personification, rhyme, or onomatopoeia.
Rewrite the ending of the video. Maybe the explorer goes with the Professor and sees his workshop and where he has been living.
Extension: Rewrite the video as a series of diary/journal entries, recounting the most important events.
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
North Pole, Adventure, Frozen, Wasteland, Explorer
tuesday
Launch
They had been travelling together for days. One boy and his trusty companion, trekking tirelessly through the misty mountains of Asia. He was searching for something special, something that he was told he wouldn’t be able to find. But he believed that it was there...
Task
Choose one of the following tasks:
Using the sentence starter above, finish the story with a satisfying ending. Be sure to make clear for the reader what the main character was looking for and whether he found it or not.
Write a description of what walking through the mountains of Asia would be like. You can do some research for this if you want. Remember to use your 5 senses in your writing.
Extension: imagine you are the ‘trusty companion’. Write a narrative about the journey from their perspective - what have you seen, heard, and experienced?
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Companion, journey, adventure, travel, seek, discover, struggle, mountains, survival.
wednesday
Launch
Cat and Miss Mouse become involved in a round of uneasy54q
hospitality when Miss Mouse accepts Cat’s dinner invitation.
Task
Choose one of the following tasks:
Rewrite the story in your own words, using as much descriptive language and interesting vocabulary as you can.
This is a story about friendship and manners. Explain why it is important to support your friends and to use your manners in everyday life.
Extension: imagine you are Cat before inviting Miss Mouse over for dinner. Write a diary entry about your plan to invite Miss Mouse over for dinner and why.
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Friendship, manners, respect, clever, cat, mouse, animals, manners, companions, support, protect, love.
thursday
Task
You are the farmer whose animals are missing from the farm and you are wondering what’s happening to them?
Possible start for shared writing: Standing on the patio looking over my farm, I felt something strange………...
This book uses rhyme to tell a story about farm animals. Create your own piece of writing that uses rhyme to tell a story. You can write about anything you like, but it has to rhyme.
Extension: Imagine you are one of the animals that the Old Bloke swallowed. Write him a letter complaining about your experience and persuade him not to do anything like it again.
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Humongous, giant,strange, suspicious, mysterious, investigate, weird, froze, shocked
friday
Launch
Notice that this poem uses repeated lines to help make it easier It also helps give the poem a shape and structure.
Hey Winter
I like that
Notice the poem is broken into 4 paragraphs, this helps break the poem up and adds structure too.
Seasons Poem
Poems can be fun to write
Here is poem about Winter
Hey Winter,
How are you old friend?
You are gloomy and grumpy,
But when I’m inside,
I feel warm and happy,
I like that.
Hey Winter,
You like to freeze me
With your rain and wind,
But I wear my warm
Water proof jacket,
I like that.
Hey Winter,
Your days are short,
And your nights are long.
In the darkness I see
The glowing full moon,
I like that.
Hey Winter,
Soon you will decide to change into Spring,
I like that.
Task
Using the example above, write your own poem about Spring.
If you want to you can write a poem about all the seasons.
Use repeated lines to help you make your own cool poems.
What do we need to be successful writers?
Word bank
Season words, words that describe temperature, colours, feelings, emotions.
maths
Multiplication and Division Word Problems
Mrs Wells has bought 72 pear trees for Puhinui School. She wants to plant them in 4 lines. How will Mrs Wells plant the trees so that each line has th same amount of trees?
Mr Tuli puts some chickens and some rabbits in a cage. There are 20 heads and 64 legs in the cage. How many chickens are there? How many rabbits are there?
Ollie has a piece of wood that is 32cm long. He wants to cut it into 8 evenly sized pieces. It takes him 1 minute to cut one piece. How long does it take him to finish cutting all 8 pieces?
In one Ninja’s tool kit there are 3 swords and 5 throwing stars.
How many ninjas could there be in a group if there are:
24 swords?
12 swords?
30 swords?
If there are 9 swords found in a dojo how many ninjas are training inside?
36 swords?
15 swords?
6 swords?
My teacher decided to reward us with a pizza party at the end of the week. There are 21 people in my class, and each person is allowed 3 pieces of pizza. A pizza has 7 slices. How many pizzas does my teacher need to buy?
It takes Japneet 24 minutes to ride her bike to school. On the way she stops at regular intervals to retie her shoelaces. She stops 4 times on her trip. How many minutes were between each stop?
How many tables are needed to seat 237 people when the tables seat 11 people each?
Packs of online game currency cost $5 each. How many can you buy with $156?
Danny had 56 candies. He shared them equally with some friends. Each friend got 7 pieces of candy. How many friends did he share candy with?
Remember to take a photo and share your work with your teacher
We’ll put the work up on the website
Problem solving -Open ended problems
Remember these problems have more than one answer - and use the videos in on Problem Solving on the school website to help you
Some people came for a sports day. When they were put into groups of 3 there was 1 person left over. When they lined up in rows of 4 there were 2 people left over. How many people might have come to the sports day?
I went to the pet store to see rabbits, puppies and kittens. I saw 36 legs. How many combinations of pets can you find
What are four numbers that can add to 17? What can these be?
The answer is 12 pizzas. What is the question?
Jo has 5 sheets of paper. On each paper there are 4 circles, in each circle there are 3 stars. How many stars are there altogether? Draw how you got your answer.
A bicycle shop is busy building bicycles to sell
How many wheels might they have in the workshop?
At a dance competition, the dancer receives a score of 60. Each judge has given the same score. How many judges could there have been?
A farmer had some cows, pigs and chickens on his farm. When I counted there were a total of 64 legs. How many cows, pigs and chickens does he have on his farm??
Remember to take a photo and share your work with your teacher
We’ll put the work up on the website
Fun Maths tasks
Fun With the Puzzle:
Here is an ordinary cross. You are allowed to make two straight cuts across it.
How do you cut it to make the most pieces? You can draw the cross on a separate piece of paper and cut it out to solve the puzzle.
Can you make the number 45 - using these numbers 8, 6, 9,7, 4, 5
Which of these also weighs 25grams?
4 tablespoons of flour
1 tablespoon of golden syrup
2 tablespoons of butter
All of the above.
4 lines challenge
This puzzle requires some imaginative thinking to solve but it is possible :)
Draw out your answer
Remember to take a photo and share your work with your teacher
We’ll put the work up on the website
science
ROCK CANDY EXPERIMENT FOR KIDS
Materials (per rock candy color)
2-3 cups of sugar
1 cup of water
Skewers
A jar or glass
A large saucepan
Clothespins
Optional additions:
Food colouring
Candy flavouring
Note: You can easily double and triple the above recipe. We wanted to make a rainbow of rock candy colors, so we ended up using 10 cups of water and close to 30 cups of sugar. As long as the sugar to water ratio is close to 3:1 the rock candy will grow.
Method
Combine equal parts of sugar and water in a saucepan and heat until all of the sugar is dissolved.
Then, slowly add more sugar and mix, slowly adding more sugar and mixing until the sugar will no longer dissolve in the water.
The water should start to look a little cloudy. That is when you know that no more sugar is dissolving and the perfect sugar-saturation has been reached.
The short version is that you are creating a saturated sugar solution, or a solution in which no more sugar can dissolve at a particular temperature.
The amount of sugar versus water used should be roughly 3:1. You can easily double & triple the recipe as long as you maintain a 3:1 ratio.
Add candy flavoring if desired, and then continue to heat the water until it comes to a simmer.
Remove the sugar-water from the heat and allow it to cool.
Preparing the Candy Sticks
Cut the skewers to a desirable size for the jar(s) that you are using. Then, dip the sticks in water and roll them in sugar.
Set the sugar-coated sticks aside and allow them to dry.
Prepping the Jars
Once your sugar-water is cool enough, pour it into jars, using one jar for each color of rock candy that you wish to make.
Once the sticks are dry carefully place them into the jar(s).
You want to make sure that the sugar-coated sticks are completely dry before placing them in the jars.
The rock candy needs the sugar on the sticks to grow, and if the sugar isn't dry it will dissolve in the water.
It is also important to make sure that the sticks are not touching the bottom or sides of the jar
The Experiment
It is now time to sit back and observe the jars! Rosie and Jewel loved checking on their jars each day. This is what our rock candy looked like after just one day.
After day three we could really see growth!
By day 5 my girls were dying to actually eat rock candy, haha. But, this was a great lesson in patience
After a week our rock candy was almost ready! Just look at those beautiful jars!
Enjoying Your Rock candy
After a week your rock candy can be removed from the jars and enjoyed.
You can extend the fun and grow your rock candy longer if desired.
