Rangitoto
Term 1
Week 11 - Taking Action
Texts:
Where do recycled items go? (Wonderopolis)
Vocab:
Recycle, single-stream recycling, hauled, Materials recovery facility, unload, divides, product, processing, recover, ferrous, mill, magnet, scan, solvents, degrades, insulation, molten,
Focus Points:
Read these 2 texts.
Create a video which we could show on PENN to teach the school about recycling. You will need an iPad or two.
Week 9 - Taking Action
Complete ‘forum’ with posters from last week. Laminate posters and put onto the wall once completed.
Text 1 : Turning Old Into New (Naomi Arnold)
Text 2: Reducing Plastic Bag Usage
Vocab: natural world, replace, recycle, pollution, material, landfill, natural resources, manufacture, renewable, non-renewable, limited, synthetic, reduce, sustainable, promotion, biodegradable, compost, research
Focus Points:
Comprehension Task - focus on scanning within a time limit - searching the text for a certain piece of information.
Create Task (begin this on Tuesday or Wednesday): Write a letter to Foodstuffs to communicate your feelings about what they are trying to achieve. Do you think they are doing a good job or do you think there is something they can do better? [Get learners thinking about ‘refuse’ - is it even necessary to have plastic bags at all?? What would happen if they just totally go rid of plastic bags? Would we cope?]
Week 8 - Respecting our environment
Read the second text: Ways to reduce ocean plastic pollution
Focus Points:
The rest of the group are a committee (Draw names out of a hat). In the committee, there are people who think there is an issue, and others who do not think there is an issue. Think about how you are going to convince the rest of the group to take action and make a change.
The committee:
The committee + their questions:
Professor L. Itter: I don’t see a problem with people dropping rubbish. We should each be responsible for our own mess. If someone makes a mess, it is their job to pick it up. Other people shouldn’t bother picked up rubbish after these people.
Mr C. Lean: We have a HUGE problem with rubbish ending up in our oceans. The poor animals are dying and are in trouble if we don’t make a change! We need to be making new laws to make this change and clean up our environment!
Mr H. Elp: Plastic is the biggest problem we have because it doesn’t break down. The poor animals in the oceans are eating the plastic and then getting really sick. I have some great ideas of how we can make a difference and stop the polluting of plastics!
Mrs O’Dear: The problem has got far too big and we are beyond help! There is no point in doing anything.
Ms U.N. Sure: I know there is an issue but I don’t know what to do about it. I don’t know if it is worth putting money in to make a difference or whether we are better to trust that people will do their part for society.
Sunshine books - Choice → Time to work through sunshine books of your choice
Read novel:Dinosaurs/ Time capsule/ Where to next?� ---> Create a chapter review and post this on your blog.
Week 7-8 - Respecting our environment
Volvo Ocean Race - Resources
Text 1: What is ocean plastic pollution?�Teacher support material
Focus Points:�1. Find one fact on page 2 which surprises you/ you find interesting/ concerning.�2. 71% - discuss what this means�3. Page 5: Look at the picture - how does it make you feel? Why? What is this man doing? Why do you think he is doing that?�4. Why is plastic harmful?�5. Page 8: Look at the diagram on page 8. What surprises you the most? How can we prevent this happening do you think?�6. Page 9: Search up - The North Pacific Garbage Patch. What comes up? Why has this happened?�7. Page 10: How does plastic get from your hand into the ocean?�8. Page 11: What does the volvo ocean race have to do with this?�9. Page 12: What scary fact have you learned about straws on this page?�
CREATE: Make a poster which campaigns for the removal of plastics from our oceans. Take photos/ draw pictures and use short/ sharp words and phrases to put your point across.
Week 5-6 - Respecting our environment
Text: Giving the Ocean a Voice��WALT recognise the overall purpose of a text and pull out the important information which is useful to us.
Vocab: good health, observing its health, opportunities, ‘what it has to offer’, Department of Conservation, cleanup, ‘giving the ocean a voice’, kaupapa, double-hulled, pristine, manoevre, systematic observations,
Focus Points:
Text 2: Testing the waterways
Read this text and then explore the safeswim website. Your task is going to be to explore how safe Point England Beach is to swim, in preparation for our school picnic at the beach on Friday and our Year 5 and 6 camp next week. You are going to write a letter to Mr Burt explaining whether the beach is safe enough or not and how you know this. Use ideas you have learned from the above texts as well as the information you find about Point England Beach.
Sunshine books
Week 3-4 - RESPECT - Kaitiakitanga i ngā wā katoa
WALT: make connections within and between texts.
Texts:
Respect towards others: New boots (SJ, L3, May 2017. ONLINE); Alvin and me (SJ L3, May 2017 ONLINE), The pink umbrella (L3, Nov 2014 ONLINE); How do you earn respect? (Wonderopolis)
Vocab: �Focus Points: (NEW BOOTS)�1. Which sentence best goes with the illustration on page 42, 47?�2. How do different characters show respect in this text? (Mr Ngaia, Charlie, Jason, Charlie’s Dad?)
Tasks: �Comp Task: Venn Diagram (or similar) showing similarities/ differences between characters, texts, big ideas.�Create Task: A journal entry (written or video): imagine you have met a character. What did this character teach you about respect? How?
Week 2 - RESPECT - Kaitiakitanga i ngā wā katoa
The Treaty of Waitangi
Waitangi Day: What has Waitangi Day got to do with Respect/ Kaitiakitanga i ngā wā katoa?�2017 Film Festival Movie - Glenbrae School - Te tiriti o Waitangi
Creating our own class treaty - art
Can we change our treaty into different languages important to us in our Ako? Tongan? Maori? Samoan? CI Maori? Anything else? Is it a good idea to do this? What would we have to be careful about?
Focus Points:�1. Was the treaty created in a respectful way? Why/ why not? (Use ideas in the texts to support you with your answer).�2. Why was a treaty created?�3. What vocab about the treaty of Waitangi suggests a respectful agreement?
Task: Create a poster to inform someone about the treaty of Waitangi - suggest how the Treaty of Waitangi demonstrated respect to others, to land, and to NZ as a whole. Suggest how some parts of the Treaty could potentially been made more respectfully. Are there any sections of the texts you have read which suggest some disrespect?
Week 2 - RESPECT - Kaitiakitanga i ngā wā katoa
The Treaty of Waitangi
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Wednesday:
WALT: think critically about ideas in a text
VOCAB: founding, document, missionaries, trading, “pressure was building”, “law and order”, empire, colonisation, sovereignty,