Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Plays

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups
to practise and perform a plays. This is using our oral
language and reading skills in literacy. Our key
competency focus is participating and contributing.

For writing your task is to summarise the main
events in your play in three paragraphs.
You must plan your writing first but it is up
to you how you do your planning.
 You must also write a fourth paragraph about your
experience of practising and performing your play.

Yr 6
I am learning to organise my text into paragraphs which
begin with a main idea and contain supporting information/detail.
I am learning to make links across paragraphs.
I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately.
I am learning to use dialogue punctuation accurately.

Yr 7
I am learning to use a range of different planning styles.
I am learning to plan my writing to suit the purpose of my writing.
I am learning to organise my ideas into paragraphs where the
ideas are clearly related and where there are links within and between paragraphs.
I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately in my writing.
I am learning to use complex punctuation to enhance my writing e.g.
colons : and semi-colons ; , and parentheses ().

Success Criteria
I will be successful when I can/have
-summarised the play in three paragraphs
-made links across my paragraphs
-used some basic and complex punctuation correctly (speech marks).
Once you have finished your writing highlight these success
criteria green if you have met them and can show them in your work.
Highlight green in your work where you have met these success criteria.

  


The Three Little Pigs!

In the first part of The Three Little kunekune (pig/s)s, Mother pig tells her
three children: Bill, Ben and Bert, to move out because they are to big to live
in with her any more. They agree to move out and build their own houses:
Bill made a house made out of straw, Ben built a house made out of sticks and
Bert made a house made out of bricks.

In the second part of this story they have lived happily until a wolf comes to town
and he was hungry for bacon.   Bill the youngest kunekune
(pig/s), who lived in the house made of straw, got a knock
on the door. It was the wolf, he chanted, ”Little pig, little pig let me come in”.
 Bill replies, ”No, not by the hair of my chinny chin chin”.
 So the wolf the n huffed and puffed and blew the house made
of straw down.  Bill then ran to his brothers house,
ten. Ben had made a house out of sticks.  The wolf visited
Ben and the same process happened.

At the end of the Three little Pigs, Ben and Bill ran to Bert’s house.
Bert was the oldest and wisest brother. He built a house made out of bricks
. The wolf tried to blow Bert’s house down but Bert’s house was too strong.
The wolf had an idea; he was going to climb to the roof and slide down the
chimney and have his supper. The kunekune (pig/s) cried ,
”What shall we do”? Bert said, ”Let's not sit around and cry”,
because he had a plan. ”We shall put boiling water at the bottom of the chimney”.  
The wolf went down the chimney and landed in the boiling water and became the kunekune (pig/s)s supper.


When my group did our play one thing we did really well was practicing .
My group participated and contributed very well. Next time we can
work on facing the audience and being louder . WE work well with
our props we made and putting on voices.

Friday, 10 August 2018

Keeping Ourselve Safe

WALT:
how to keep ourselve safe. Some of the local police came to our sschool and help us with this topic. Here are some of the thing Ihave learnt.

Monday, 2 July 2018

Space

Weeks 8-10 Space Literacy  Tasks


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Term 2 Weeks 9-10


Purpose of these reading activities is to:
increase our knowledge of space exploration
and understand how our knowledge and ideas about
space have changed over time (science). We are also learning
to read non-fiction texts and use our
writing skills to share our understanding of
this topic and our ideas (literacy).
Throughout this task we will need to use the skills of\
‘Thinking’ and using ‘Language, Symbols and Text.’


Learning Intentions
I am learning to skim and scan text to identify the main ideas.
I am learning to locate the key sentences and questions in texts.
I am learning to use sub-headings to guide me to the main ideas in text.
I am learning to summarise the main ideas in the texts I read.
(from the Karoro Programme of work for Reading)


I am learning to write well structured paragraphs.


Success Criteria
I will be successful when I can show….
-I have have scanned text to find key ideas.
-I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.
-I have put my answers in chronological order.
-I have written two well structured paragraphs \
explaining how some of our ideas about space have changed
over time (introductory sentence, supporting detail, concluding sentence).





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Read the three paper based reading activities given to
you about Stephen Hawking,  Galileo Galilei and The
Telescope. You will be put with a buddy to do this work.
We will mark and discuss our answers together as a class.


Link to Galileo reading.               
  

To add to our learning we will watch/
read and discuss these following videos or articles.
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After we have completed these reading activities
and viewing and discussing the above materials your
task is to write at least two well structured paragraphs
explaining how our ideas about space have changed over time.



Write your paragraphs here.


How Our Knowledge About Space Has Changed Over Time!


Over time people have created instruments that have caused
different ideas about space. Firstly, a Dutchman called Hans
Lippershey invented the first refracting telescope which allowed him
to look into our solar system. But the quality of his telescope was poor.
The following year Galileo Galilei built the first astronomical telescope
to look into the night sky. Galileo discovered, when looking at Jupiter,
he saw four objects orbiting the planet. He decided they were moons orbiting
Jupiter.  When Galileo announced his ideas people didn’t believe him and thought
the four objects were stars. Galileo also argued the the earth went around the
sun rather than the sun going around earth.The local church disagreed with
that and they put him under  house arrest. Later scientists over time proved
Galileo was correct. Over time people have been improving everyone designs
on the telescope, like Niccolo Zucchi (1616), Sir Isaac Newton( late 1600s) and
throughout the 1800s, telescopes( instrument ) grew in size. Over time the
technology has improved and that has allowed our thinking about space to
improve.


Over thousand of years our ideas have changed about
our position in our solar system. Firstly, people used to
believe we were the centre of the universe because they believed we
were gods creatures and therefore we were the centre.
In the second century a man named Ptolemy discovered that earth
was the centre of the Universe (this is what he thought at that time).
He thought that the sun/ Rā and all the planets were in a circular
orbit around Papatūānuku(earth). Then Nicolas Copernicus
(1473– 1543) reconstructed Ptolemy’s model of our Universe.
He discovered that the sun was the centre of our solar system and
all the  other planets orbit it. Later on scientist like Galileo have proved
we move around the sun. This shows that over time the the ideas about
our position in space have changed.













Self assessment


I have an introductory sentence for each paragraph:Image result for tick symbol


I have at least three sentences giving supporting detail:Image result for tick symbol

I have a concluding sentence: Image result for tick symbol

Friday, 22 June 2018

Pear And Apple Crumble

This week for the technology challenge we got to  choose what we made.
We made apple and pear crumble. We had to decide who was bringing what for
Friday. I worked with Nevey, Summer and Wairini but Wairini was away.
This is our recipe!



Apple Crumble Recipe


2 Cups Of Sliced Apples/Tin.


¼ Cup Of Water.


Crumble


1 Cup Of Flour.


½ Teaspoon Of Baking Powder.


½ Cup Of Brown Sugar.


50g Of Butter.

Sift flour and baking powder, add sugar, rub ( grate ) butter Spread
over apples. Bake for about 30 minutes at 190’c ( 375’F )


Billie : Cups, Bowl , Base. Tin Apples.


Nevey: Plain flour and baking powder.


Summer: Butter and plain ice cream.




Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Space Timeline




Space timeline Reading tasks.




Term 2 Weeks 5-6


Purpose of this reading activity is to: increase
our knowledge of space exploration and understand
how our knowledge and ideas about space have
changed
over time (science). We are also learning to
read non-fiction
texts and use our writing skills to share our
understanding
of this
topic and our ideas (literacy). Throughout this task
we will
need to
use the skills of ‘Thinking’ and using ‘Language,
Symbols
and
Text.’


Learning Intentions
I am learning to skim and scan text to identify the main
ideas.
I am learning to locate the key sentences and questions
in texts.
I am learning to use sub-headings to guide me to the
main ideas in text.
I am learning to summarise the main ideas in the texts I read.
(from the Karoro Programme of work for Reading)


Success Criteria
I will be successful when I can show….
-I have have scanned text to find key ideas.
-I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.
-I have put my answers in chronological order.

Focus


We are looking at using non-fiction text to increase our knowledge in our
science topic;
SPACE. Your aim is to read and understand the timeline
reading and use this
knowledge to complete the reading activity below.

First, Read the timeline cards. Click here for the space timeline pdf

Second, We will discuss what you have read. This will be a good
time to ask questions about anything you are unsure of.


Third, do your reading tasks.


Fourth, complete your reading activity. Remember to proofread, check
spelling and punctuation. Then do a self assessment and a peer
assessment
. Check it with a teacher.














Reading Activity


View and read the space timeline on the classroom
walls.
Think about how how our theories/ideas and
understandings
about the universe and Earth’s place in it has
changed over time.


Answer the following questions.
Your answers need to be full sentences.
After you have answered all the questions
please put them in chronological
order (time order, oldest first)


1) What are two things that Galileo discovered?
1610, He made the first  telescopic
observation of the night sky,
discover jupiter moons
, lunar craters and the
different phases of Venus.

2) Who discovered the first asteroid?
1801, Nesa The frst asteroid, Ceres,
was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.

3) What was Sputnik 1?
1957, Sputnik 1 was a
satellite that sent signal.

4) In what year was NASA founded?
And what does NASA mean?
1958, National astronauts In Space administration .


5) Who was the first woman in space?
And where was she from?
1963, Russian cosmonaut Valentina
Tereshkova became the first woman in space.


6)Where did Mariner 4 fly past?
1965 , Mariner flew past mars.

7)In what year did apollo land on the moon?
1969, apollo landed on the moon.


8) What country launched
Voyager probes 1 and 2 into deep space?
1977, America launched
Voyager 1 and 2. They reached
juitper in 1979 and saturn in 1980.


9) What happened that led to all space
shuttles being grounded for 3 years?
1986, Space shuttle Challenger Exploded
after launch, killing the seven astronauts on board.
This led to all shuttles being grounded for 3 years.


10) When was the international space station
completed?
1986 The final part was finished in 2010.


11)How long did it take for the Cassini probe to arrive
at Saturn
2004, Cassini probe took 7 years to reach saturn.


12) What was interesting about New Horizon’s
information
about Pluto?2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft
arrived at
Pluto after
travelling for nine years and a total distance of 4.6
billion miles.
Data sent to the Earth showed that Pluto is fifty
miles larger
than
was first thought..



YOUR OPINION
After reading this information...


  1. Who do you think made the biggest contribution to
  2. our understanding of space? Why?
  3. (summarising key ideas)
I think Galileo Galilei because he made the first
telescopic
observation of the night sky with telescope he made.
Galileo
Galilei made the first telescope to look fuller than the
naked eye.
He discover Jupiter’s moons, lunar craters and the
different phases
of Venus.


    2) What do you think was the most
important machine or    
    invention in helping us investigate space?
Why? (summarising key ideas)
I think it was the space satellite because
it took pictures
of lots of the planets and the surroundings
of our solar system.
Also the probes because they reached further than
anyone could
go in our solar system and discovered our universe.   


    3) What would you like to investigate
about space? Why?
I would like to investigate the black holes in
our  universe and
why our skies are blue.


If you go/ near a black hole:
When you go into or go near a black hole your
feet feel a strong gravitational pull then your
head because they are
closer to the black hole .Then your body will
stretch apart you are so strong
that your body is completely torn apart .


Why are our skies blue:
Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air
in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other
colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves.
This is why we see a blue sky most of the time. ...
Also, the surface of Earth has reflected and scattered the light.
This information is from NASA space place.


Self and Peer Assessment.

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Self and Peer Assessment
Success Criteria


I will be successful when I can show….
-I have have scanned text to find key ideas.
-I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.
- I have put my answers in chronological order.

Success criteria 1: I have have scanned text to find key ideas
(I have been able to answer the questions).
        
                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved
Me




My partner






Success criteria 2: -I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.
      
                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved
Me




My partner





Success criteria 3: I have put my answers in correct chronological order.
        
                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved
Me




My partner



























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