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Totara

Challenge level 3

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Term 3 Term 4 Week 8 NL: point of view
	Read	Learn	Create	Share
Must Dos
May Dos

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Totara - Term 4: Week 7, N.L: evaluate and summarise

Must do:

May do:

Learn

Vocabulary

Create

Play Grammar Gorillas

Play Free rice

Read/watch these texts:

Create a timeline Timeline examples

Using a digital tool or paper create a timeline using all the facts and information you have learnt this week about the migration of the godwit.

Things to think about:

-Are you using months, week or seasons as markers on your timeline?

-Where are they different times of the year? What are they doing there?

-Use picture and diagrams to add detail to your timeline.

Share your timeline and your DLO to your blog.

Share:

Unscramble these 5 words from the book. Record the word and find the meaning and write them into your literacy book.

tiinladtw

tesseuira

orpd

xteehusad

teidgs

Read and watch videos down to watch this video.

Get this book from your group box. Read pages 8-13

What is meant by ‘hitch a ride’?

DLO CREATE

Using a digital tool of your choice create a DLO (digital learning object) that shares what you have learnt about godwits. Include their migration, habitat, looks, diet and any other information you have learnt.

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Term 3 Term 4 Week 6 NL: point of view
	Read	Learn	Create	Share
Must Dos
May Dos

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Term 3 Term 4 Week 5 NL: point of view
	Read	Learn	Create	Share
Must Dos
May Dos

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Term 3 Term 4 Week 4 NL: point of view
	Read	Learn	Create	Share
Must Dos
May Dos

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Totara - Term 4: Week 3, N.L: Point of view

Learn

Vocabulary

Create

Share

Must do:

May do:

Read these texts:

Share both your Vocabulary Google Doc and your DLO to your blog.

Create

Form a group and read the play together:

Read the above text and write these words in your literacy book and colour them red if you don’t know it, and green if you know the meaning.

Search and write the meaning to the words you have coloured red.

Greenhouse gases

Vegetation

Ozone layer

Emissions

Nitrogen

Microbe

Agricultural

DLO CREATE

Create a DLO (digital learning object) that informs people about global warming.

Your DLO could be from the animals point of view, or even the ocean’s point of view. If animals and the ocean could talk to humans about global warming, what do you think they would say to us?

You could use Google Draw, Google Slides, or another tool of your choice.

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Term 3 Week 2 Term 4 NL: point of view
	Learn	Vocabulary	Create	Create	Share
Must Dos	Read these texts:	Traffic light. Write these words in your literacy book and colour them red if you don’t know it, and green if you know the meaning. Search and write the meaning to the words you have coloured red. Disaster Pollutants Breached Nautical miles Tainted Toxins Hydrocarbons Maritime Debre	Effects and points of view Make a COPY of this document and fill in it. DOC LINK Save in your reading folder.	DLO CREATE Using a digital tool of your choice to create a DLO(digital learning object) that shares what you have learnt about the Rena Disaster and how boat disasters impact the environment in general. Could use google draw, google slides, or other tool of your choice.	Share Post a picture of your traffic light words, Your point of view DOC and your DLO to your blog.
May Dos

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Term 3 Week 3 Term 4 NL: point of view
	Learn	Vocabulary	Create	Create	Share
Must Dos	Read these texts:		Play Form a group and do a play or perform the poem	DLO CREATE Using a digital tool of your choice to create a DLO(digital learning object) that shares what you have learnt about Could use google draw, google slides, or other tool of your choice.	Share Post a picture of your Your point of view DOC and your DLO to your blog.
May Dos

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Term 3 Week 1 Term 4 NL: to identify and critique points of view
	Learn	Vocabulary	Create	Create	Share
Must Dos	Read these texts:	Homophones (words that sound the same but have other spellings or meanings ). Play this scratch game.	Create a flipgrid video reponse to the questions on flipgrid. “We must preserve and protect our outdoors at all costs.” Comment on at least 3 other student videos using ‘I agree with you because...’ ‘I disagree with you because...’ ‘I also felt that...’	A copy of this doc and answer the questions. LINK	Share your favourite page from one of the books onto your blog.
May Dos

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Term 3 Term 4 Week 6 NL: point of view
	Read	Create	Share
Must Dos	Learn how to identify each of these birds
May Dos

Shore Plover

Pukeko

Myna

Starling

Task 1: Make a 10 question True or False quiz about how to identify these birds.

Task 2: Create a game using a tool below to teach year 3-4’s how to identify these 4 birds.

Include:

Some of each birds features
Where to find them
A sample of the sounds they make

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Term 4

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Term 3 Week 10 NL: to summarise, to compare
	Learn	Vocabulary	Create	Create	Share
Must Dos	Read these texts:	Antonyms (Words that have opposite in meaning to another e.g. bad and good ). In your literacy book write down this list of words. Next to each word write down a Antonyms. Damage Include Settled Spinning Remembered	Create a flipgrid video sharing your thoughts about this question. How is climate change our biggest challenge?	Summarising Using the Stand up: A history of New Zealand text fill in the summarising DOC. Summarising LINK Make your own copy and save to your reading folder.	Take a picture of your antonyms and post to your blog. Upload your summarising DOC to your blog.
May Dos

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Term 3 Week 9 NL: to summarise
	Learn	Create	Learn	Create
Must Dos	Watch HERE: Find this series and watch an episode Read and research	Use screencastify to share with your audience What is the key message? Are there any similar ideas or themes? You could create a picture, video or write what you believe the stories are trying to tell us.	Watch and learn Create your own animation to teach someone else what te reo Māori you know. Or recreate an animation or story you watched. Do this task	Share to your blog Share to your blog
May Dos

Click HERE

And do the Haka activity in a group.

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Term 3 Week 8 NL: to summarise, to compare
	Learn	Vocabulary	Create	Create	Share
Must Dos	Read these texts:	Synonyms (Words that have the same meaning to another e.g. bad and awful). In your literacy book write down this list of words. Next to each word write down a Synonym. e.g. From Stand Up: Enforced Denied Divided Demonstrate Clash	Create a flipgrid video sharing your thoughts about this question. How would you explain what you have learnt this week to someone else?	Summarising Using the Stand up: A history of New Zealand text fill in the summarising DOC. Summarising LINK Make your own copy and save to your reading folder.	Take a picture of your synonyms and post to your blog. Upload your summarising DOC to your blog.
May Dos

Vocabulary	Synonym
happy	ecstatic

Read Pg16 Springbok Tour 1981

Listen to Ane

From Mirror Image:

Trudged
Hatched
Anticipated
Surged
Chargrined
Remnant
Cowering

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Term 3 Week 7 NL: to summarise, to compare
	Learn	Vocabulary	Create	Create	Share
Must Dos	Read these texts: Extra information about some of the protests in the book:	Antonyms (Words that have opposite in meaning to another e.g. bad and good ). In your literacy book write down this list of words. Next to each word write down an antonym. Conflict Agreement Right Destroy Leader Sacked Tough Native Negotiation	Create a flipgrid video sharing your thoughts about this question. Should people have the right to protest?	Summarising Using the Stand up: A history of New Zealand text fill in the summarising DOC. Summarising ODC LINK Make your own copy and save to your reading folder.	Take a picture of your antonyms and post to your blog. Upload your evaluation DOC to your blog.
May Dos

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Term 3 Week 4 NL: to summarise, to compare
	Learn	Create	Learn	Create
Must Dos	Read: Read	Create a summary of each text. Use “Who, did what, why” to write your summary What is the same about all of these websites? What is different?	Watch and think	Create a summary of each video. Use “Who, did what, why” to write your summary. What is the key message in each of these videos? Are there any similar ideas in these two texts? What is different about them? Share to your blog
May Dos

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Term 3 Week 3 NL: to summarise
	Learn	Create	Learn	Create
Must Dos	Read: Read	Create a summary of each text. What is the key message? Are there any similar ideas or themes in these two texts? You could create a picture, video or write what you believe the stories are trying to tell us.	Watch Read along	Create a summary of each text. What is the key message? Are there any similar ideas or themes in these two texts? You could create a picture, video or write what you believe the stories are trying to tell us. Share to your blog
May Dos

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Term 3 Week 2 NL: to summarise
	Learn	Create	Learn	Create
Must Dos	Watch: Read	Take the Fact or Fake Quiz Create a summary of each text. What is the key message? Are there any similar ideas or themes in these two texts? You could create a picture, video or write what you believe the stories are trying to tell us.	Watch Read along	Create a summary of each text. What is the key message? Are there any similar ideas or themes in these two texts? You could create a picture, video or write what you believe the stories are trying to tell us. Share to your blog
May Dos

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Term 3 Week 1 NL: to summarise
	Learn	Create	Learn	Create
Must Dos	Watch:	Pick 3 different persuasive techniques and find an example of each. Could be a a TV ad, digital or print (newspaper or magazine) ad. For example: Card stacking Could be for a beauty product, game, toy Of the advertisements you have found, which was the most effective and why?	Read and watch	From what you have learnt so far this week, do you think companies should be able to advertise to children? Use what you have learnt this week to find 3 reasons why or why not.
May Dos

SHARE on your blog-

Examples of advertising types
3 reasons for or against advertising to children.

Early finishers

Pick one company or product, e.g. Cadbury or Fortnite. Find as many of their ads as you can.

What do you notice is the same and different?

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Term 2

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Term 2 Week 12 N.L: find the main idea
	Learn	Create	Learn	Create	Create
Must Dos		Make a flip grid video Do you think Matariki should be a public holiday? Why or why not? Flipgrid click here	Read pages 1-15	Choose a whakatauki (Maori Proverb) from page 15 of the Matariki text. Use GOOGLE DRAW to make a beautiful image to share this whakatauki on your blog. Example:	Use a tool of your choice (slides, Doc, paper) to make a information booklet about Matariki for a visitor to NZ. Imagine they know nothing about it and you need to share as much knowledge as you can.
May Dos

Read: Should

Matariki be a public holiday .

SHARE-

Post your whakatauki to your blog and your information booklet.

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Term 2 Week 11 NL: find the main idea
	Learn - Rena	Learn - Deepwater Horizon	Create
Must Dos	Read Watch Read	Read Watch	Create a venn diagram or a table to compare the differences between the 2 events Then: Make a 6-7 question Kahoot about the environmental impact one of the events and share it with your class. Share your completed venn diagram or table to your blog
May Dos

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Term 2 Week 10 N.L: find the main idea
	Learn	Learn	Create	Share
Must Dos	Read Egypt LINK Read Greek LINK Read Zulu LINK	Read Maori LINK Read Venetian LINK Explore and research the links given below and find out about one more culture other than these.	Create a venn diagram or a table to compare any two cultures (Egypt, Greek.Zulu,Maori or Venetian) and say what was different about each one and what was the same. Then: After you researched about one different cultures. Write 5 important things you learned about that culture.(Based on their clothing,special occasions and lifestyle)	Share your completed venn diagram or table to your blog
May Dos

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Term 2 Week 9 N.L: find the main idea
	Learn	Learn	Create
Must Dos	Watch Read Read	Watch the video Read Click the picture	Choose one story you have read and tell us what you think the main idea is: Video yourself talking about it, you only have 1 minute. Write your ideas in a slide, you only have 100 words. Draw a picture, write or video yourself explaining how we can save Oceans.
May Dos

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Week 8- N.L: To find the main idea
W8	First	Next	Then	Last
Must Dos	Pick a play to focus on this week. You will be practising the play. You can use the journal, online or ask your teacher to make copies.	Practise the play with the others from your Ako Whanau group. You may have less people than the characters, some people can be more than one character. Remember: We work as part of a team We use friendly language We are problem solvers We can ask others to join in We support our buddies to do the right thing We are in the right place at the right time	When others in your group are in a clinic or not able to practise, work on these slides: Make a copy of these slides Everyone MUST have their own copy of the slides but you can discuss with your group what to include	When your slides are finished, upload them to your blog.
May Dos	Read a paper book Read online using: Play Grammar Gorillas Play Free rice

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Term 2 Week 7 N.L: find the main idea
	Learn	Learn	Create	Share
Must Dos	Watch Read Read	Watch the video Read Click the picture	Choose one story you have read and tell us what you think the main idea is: Video yourself talking about it, you only have 1 minute. Write your ideas in a slide, you only have 100 words. Do you have a treasure or story that that is special to your whānau? Draw a picture, write or video yourself telling us about it.	Share to your finished mahi blog.
May Dos

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	LEARN	Vocabulary	CREATE
Must Dos		Ancestor - Grieving - Ta‘ovala Sibling Rivalry Write each word in your literacy book and find a definition. Write the definition in your own words.	A video response to the Ancestors story. How would you feel if you were in Harry’s position? THEN EITHER A drawing of an ancestor using these examples Use google draw or pencil sketch in your literacy book OR An animation about a time you have spent with family
May Dos	Read online using: Play Grammar Gorillas Play Free rice

Term 2 Week 6 NL: to summarise what I read in my own words.

Read ‘Uncle Tino’ in your journal box

Reminder that we read every day for 15 min either a book or on epic.

AND�

We spend 10 minutes in a word game

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Term 2

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	LEARN	Vocabulary	Share	CREATE
Must Dos	READ- Max and Alice Online Click the picture WATCH	Traffic light. Write these words in your literacy book and colour them red if you don’t know it, and green if you know the meaning. Search and write the meaning to the words you have coloured red. slumped, concentrating, miniature, sniggered, supportive, clinging, crouched, grazed	Buddy discuss What is the Main ideas in the books this week ? What important messages did you take from the reading? Add your thinking to the group Padlet LINK	Use google slides or other tool you know will work to create a short book of your own. This book needs to send a message about accepting everyone, friendship, diversity, or how being different is good. Show the teacher and post your completed book to your blog.
May Dos	Read online using: Play Grammar Gorillas Play Free rice

Term 1 Week 8 NL: to make predictions and find main ideas.

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Term 1 Week 7 NL: find the main idea
	Learn	Learn	Create
Must Dos	Read Read What is the main idea in these readings?	Watch and think about the main idea Read	Watch this video to learn how to find the main idea Show what you think the main idea is by: a slide of pictures make a video explaining Write your thinking
May Dos

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Term 1 Week 6 NL: to make predictions
	Vocabulary Building		Learn	Explanation
Must Dos	Read the following poem On this week’s Reading slide Create a brainstorm of words and phrases that relate to the feeling of anger. E.g. you push back, Bright electric yellow	Read the article about how to show not tell about. Pick an emotion. On this week’s Reading slide How could you describe that emotion by showing not telling? What are some examples of what this emotion is? Use your senses to help.	Read the story about called A Silly Story On this week’s Reading slide Predict what will happen the next time Stan visits Bill. Think about what will Bill do? What will Stan do? Give reasons why	Next week you will be writing an explanation text of your choice. Here are some examples: ONE TWO THREE Pick a topic for your explanation to research and plan.
May Dos

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Week 5 - N.L: Work out unknown words
	Learn	Vocabulary	Create	Share
Must Dos	READ Mighty muscles SJ Part 01 No. 02 2011 Pages 26-31 Get the journal from your group box.	Traffic light. Write these words in your literacy book and colour them red if you don’t know it, orange if you have heard it but don't know the meaning and green if you know the meaning. Search and write the meaning to the words you have coloured red. gluteus maximus stapedius protein soya beans tightens contracts biceps triceps preventing Injuries flexible stretchy cramp heart rate	Mighty muscles ‘Question slides Make a copy of this slide show and save to your reading folder. SLIDESHOW LINK	Upload your completed slide show of answered questions to your blog with a description of your learning.
May Dos

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Week 4 - N.L: Work out unknown words
	Vocabulary	Learn	Create	Share
Must Dos	You will find the meaning of these words when reading this weeks stories, hunt them out! Edible Protein Diet Species Punga Entomophagists Optimistic Hormones Skeletal Muscles	Read Click the picture	Make a list of what each word means. Mix up the words that match and test a buddy! Create a picture or collage showing what the words are. Make a kahoot using the meanings of the words you have just learned. E.g. Which word means “can be eaten” a, b, c, d	Share to your blog Play Kahoot with a mate or two. Watch
May Dos

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Week 3 - N.L: Work out unknown words
	Vocabulary	Learn	Create	Share
Must Dos	You will find the meaning of these words when reading this weeks stories, hunt them out! Reserve Rongoā Kawakawa Ecosystems Researchers Mātauranga Traditional	Read Click the picture Book in group box	Make a list of what each word means. Mix up the words that match and test a buddy! Create a picture or collage showing what the words are. Make a video explaining what the words mean with a buddy.	Share to your blog Watch
May Dos