Lesson Name: The Rocky Shore: Who eats who?

Date: Week 1

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose:

To introduce the new inquiry topic: There’s something in the water

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WALT: write using a range of sentences: simple, compound and complex.

Achievement Objectives:

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Processes & Strategies:

• Creates a range of texts by integrating sources of information and processing strategies with developing confidence.

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Structure:

• Organises and sequences ideas and information with increasing confidence.
• Uses a variety of sentence structures, beginnings, and lengths

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Resources needed:

Slides with ‘research centre’

Animation Planner

Rubric (on animation planner)

Introduction of Lesson:

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Use answer garden to create a brainstorm of all the words we currently know which are to do with the ocean/ sea creatures etc.

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Writing time and prompts

1. Blog answer garden - explain that this is our first brainstorm about the topic we are going to be studying. Include inquiry poster in blog post.
2. Introduce research writing task. Give 15 minutes to explore sea creatures.
3. Come back to mat and share some of the sea creatures you are going to explore. Write chosen sea creature in blog log before moving off to start writing.

Wednesday - Introduce animation planner. Either chose the same creature (do further research) OR chose a new creature.

Sentences:

• Revisit sentence types before sending off to do step 3.

Lesson Name: Understanding the Rocky Shore

Date: Week 2

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose:

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WALT:

Understand the tidal zones

Summarise ideas into our own words.

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Achievement Objective:

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Science: Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental changes, both natural and human-induced.

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Literacy/ Writing:

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Creates a range of texts by integrating sources of information and processing strategies with developing confidence.

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Forms and expresses ideas and information with increased clarity, drawing on a range of sources.

Resources needed:

Content Knowledge

Home for a crab

Introduction of Lesson:

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The most dangerous writing challenge.

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Writing time and prompts

Vocabulary:

• Splash Zone
• Intertidal Zone

- High, Mid & Low

• Subtidal Zone

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Focus Points:

• Use the wall to introduce the names of the different tidal zones. Put labels up for each zone talked about.
• Introduce the planning/writing slides.
• Children to get into pairs and spend time exploring the resources in the research centre.

• Label the diagram.
• Children to draw a low tide and high tide scene, thinking about the zones which stay in and out of the water.
• Get into pairs to talk about what zones are impacted by this change in tide. Which zones and in and out of the water?
• Get into pairs to talk about the creatures in each zone and how they are impacted by change in tide.

Lesson Name: Habitats

Date: Week 3

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose: Learn how to write an information report;

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WALT:

Understand the various habitats of the rocky shore.

Summarise ideas into our own words

Achievement Objective:

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Resources needed:

Big paper, sticky notes, tape

Introduction of Lesson:

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Wonder Writing

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Read Houdini text (see link below)

Work in groups of 2/3 to work through questions on the sheet.

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Writing time and prompts

Ideas:

Give a number of habitats and creatures. Get children to write a “goldilocks and the three bears/ three little pigs” story about the creature finding its habitat.

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Myth/legend narrative about why a creature lives in it’s habitat.

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Lesson Plan:

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• Help! Can you outsmart an Octopus?

Read this to the children as the hook into writing for the week.

Use the questions on the sheet to brainstorm/ research AS A CLASS.

Design a tank for the octopus AS A CLASS. How would we design the tank to form the best artificial habitat for the octopus?

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Research Octopus: habitat, behaviour, features, adaptations etc - put information under the headings around the classroom (habitat, diet, behaviours/movement, special features)- 20 minutes

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Write these ideas up into an information report - Title (Common, Scientific & Māori name) subheadings are: habitat, diet, behaviour/how they move and special features (with a labelled diagram). Include intro and conclusion.

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Fast finishers - choose another creature - Crab, Shrimp, Kina

Lesson Name: Habitats

Date: Week 4/5

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose: Learn how to write an information report;

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WALT:

Understand the various habitats of the rocky shore.

Summarise ideas into our own words

Achievement Objective:

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Resources needed:

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Introduction of Lesson:

Wonder Writing

The Most Dangerous Writing Game

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Writing time and prompts

Ideas:

Give a number of habitats and creatures. Get children to write a “goldilocks and the three bears/ three little pigs” story about the creature finding its habitat.

OR:

Myth/legend narrative about why a creature lives in it’s habitat.

Lesson Plan:

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Complete Octopus writing from last week - Introduction and Conclusion.

Peer edit then post onto blog.

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Introduce next writing task - choose own creature from the rocky shore (one you are doing for your animation). Write an information report in the same format for your creature.

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Research your creature: habitat, behaviour, features, adaptations etc - put information for the headings around the classroom (habitat, diet, behaviours/movement, special features)- 20 minutes

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Write these ideas up into an information report - Title (Common, Scientific & Māori name) subheadings are: habitat, diet, behaviour/how they move and special features (with a labelled diagram). Include intro and conclusion.

Lesson Name: Food chain narrative

Date: Week 6

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose:

Engage children in writing using a range of vocabulary.

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Focus on peer editing their writing.

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WALT:

WALT understand food chains and food webs

WALT proof read our writing with a friend

Achievement Objective:

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Resources needed:

Otago resource

Introduction of Lesson:

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Writing time and prompts

Bring up the image of the food web. Get the children to share their ideas about what the food web shows (revision from inquiry learning last week).

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Children to discuss with a partner 1 food chain they can see from the food web. Share with the class.

• Discuss transfer of energy
• Producer, consumer (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore), decomposer

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Children to choose 1 food chain from the food web and write it into the boxes on their planning and writing doc.

Children to have 10 minutes to plan for their writing (characters, setting, problem, solution).

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Give children 20-30 minutes silent writing time to begin their writing, thinking about using a range of vocabulary.

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Continue writing time on Wednesday after sharing some work so far.

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Thursday: Peer editing using the rubric.

Lesson Name: Editing and proof reading our writing

Date: Week 7

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose: Proof reading our writing

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WALT: proof read our writing

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Resources needed:

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Introduction of Lesson:

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Writing time and prompts

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Lesson Name: Animation Voice Over

Date: Week 8

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose:

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WALT:

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Resources needed:

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Introduction of Lesson:

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Writing time and prompts

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Lesson Name: Cross Country Recount

Date: Week 9

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose: emphasis on proofreading and making changes to our writing. Be purposeful in using interesting vocabulary.

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Walt proofread and edit our writing

Walt use interesting vocabulary in our writing

Achievement Objective:

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Resources needed:

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Introduction of Lesson:

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Writing time and prompts

Dangerous writing - hook children in (5 minute writing challenge).

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Blog writing challenge.

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Tuesday: Discuss cross country. What did you enjoy/not enjoy? Discuss how a recount does not always have to be about a positive experience.

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Discuss some language you could use to describe some of your experiences in an interesting way. Share these back with the class.

20-30 minutes of silent writing.

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Come back and share/critique some writing with the class.

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Wednesday: More time for writing. Re introduce WALTs.

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Thursday: Proof reading

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Friday: sharing writing on blog with photos/ pictures.

Lesson Name:

Date: Week 1

Curriculum Level: 1-3

Purpose:

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WALT:

Achievement Objective:

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Resources needed:

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Introduction of Lesson:

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Writing time and prompts

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