Term 2 Online Learning

On the Home page, the button shown will take you to the page we will be using for our Term 2 Online Learning.

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Our core subjects are all on the same page for Term 2, to make it easier for you while you’re at home.

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Please email me if you have any questions:

gemmaf@kaingaroa.co.nz

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Term 1

Week 8

Text: Something Alive

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Group Leader: Lopala

Using your group modelling book, record your groups thinking - Work together to answer the following questions:

1. Where is your home?

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• What does ‘home’ mean?

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• Can someone have more than one home?

Create a storyboard that depicts your family life. e.g. family weekends, weeknights, events, etc.

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Upload both your family storyboard and your revised writing from yesterday.

In your reading book, write to discuss where you come from, what your family dynamics look like, and what home is to you.

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Note: you may choose the type of writing you produce, e.g. explanation, description, poem (haiku)

Using your group modelling book, record your groups thinking - Work together to answer the following questions:

• Why is family important?

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• What does ‘identity’ mean?

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• How does our family and background contribute to our personal identity?

Term 1

Week 7

Text: Something Alive

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Group Leader: Lopala

Using your group modelling book, find and record the definition of each word, in your groups’ own words.

Then, show your understanding by using the word in a sentence:

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1. Technically
2. Features
3. Ambiguous
4. Dreaded Question
5. Heritage
6. Lineage
7. Shrine
8. Pursue

Using your group modelling book to record your groups thinking - Work together to answer the following questions:

• Where is your home?
• What does ‘home’ mean?
• Can someone have more than one home?

Independently read the text.

Create a storyboard that depicts your family life. e.g. family weekends, weeknights, events, etc.

This must be saved and shared to your blog.

Use your reading book to answer the following comprehension questions:

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1. Why does the narrator compare herself to a badly translated haiku?
2. What do these phrases mean: “my features are ambiguous”, “current of voices around me”. Write them in your own words.
3. Why does the narrator feel ‘lost in both places’?
4. At what point does the narrator change point of view? How does this change come about?

In your reading book, write to discuss where you come from, what your family dynamics look like, and home is to you.

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Note: you may choose the type of writing you produce, e.g. explanation, description, poem (haiku)

Term 1

Week 6

Text: The Great Marble Challenge

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Group Leader: Kauri

Create a storyboard that shows what your group did during reading last week. Include aspects of the text - what was the text about?

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Insert your storyboard into your online reading book. Remember to include the date and WALT.

In your reading book, write to summarise the text in your own words.

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When summarising, remember the key information:

• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• How?

Term 1

Week 5

Text: The Great Marble Challenge

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Group Leader: Kauri

In your modelling book, record the definition in your groups own words and use the word in a sentence:

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1. Variable
2. Predict
3. Experimental probability
4. Range
5. Data
6. X-axis
7. Y-axis
8. Relationship

Work together as a group to create a summary of the events in the text.

Work together as a group to answer the comprehension questions about the text.

Split yourselves into two teams.

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Using a ruler and blocks, design a ramp that will allow a marble to roll exactly 1.2m from the edge of the ramp.

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Test your ramp for accuracy!

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Create a list of instructions for the other team to follow, so that the marble will roll exactly 1.2m for them as well.

Term 1

Week 4

Text: Kauri Dieback

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Group Leader: Kauri

In your reading book, record the definition in your own words and use the word in a sentence:

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• Pathogen
• Incurable
• Spores
• International
• Kauri Dieback

Work together as a group to answer the comprehension questions in your modelling book.

Use your spelling book to complete 3 spelling activities for each of your spelling words

Use storyboardthat to create a timeline of the events in the text.

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Maximum of 6 grids.

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Screenshot your storyboard and insert it into your online reading book.

Term 1

Week 3

Text: Kauri Dieback

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Group Leader: Dev

Write to describe Kauri Dieback and explain the effects or results of the disease.

Work together as a group to answer the comprehension questions in your modelling book.

Fill out the problem and solution chart.

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Find one problem in the text and identify possible solutions.

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You may work independently or collaboratively with one other person.

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Insert your chart into your reading book or online reading book.

Create a poster that describes what Kauri Dieback is and the issues surrounding it.

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Insert your poster it into your online reading book.

Term 1

Week 2

Text: The Subantarctic Islands

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Group Leader: Dev

In your reading book, record the definition in your own words and use the word in a sentence:

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• Ecosystem
• Endemic
• Pelagic

Write three sentences about the story using the correct word:

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1. Where
2. Wear
3. We’re

Write to summarise the text in your own words.

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Use your online reading book for this activity.

Check your understanding of the text by answering the comprehension questions.

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Use your reading book to complete this task.

Use storyboardthat to create a timeline of the events in the text.

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Maximum of 9 grids.

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Screenshot your storyboard and insert it into your online reading book.

Term 1

Week 1

Text:

Use this slide to -

• Introduce yourself, your hobbies & interests

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• Identify your strengths & what you’re good at

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• Record TWO goals (one must be an academic goal)

Design a label for your tote tray with the paper provided.

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Be creative! Remember, it will be there all year.