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Term 1 Week 5 - Reading Activities

 WALT: We are learning to make predictions using visual cues and our prior knowledge on the topic or title and by reading the text.

SUCCESS CRITERIA: I am able to confirm my prediction by reading the text.

Title: Giving a Shot

1. My Predictions Are: That she is going to keep trying to do what she is doing.

2. Keywords: Winners, Runner, Bronze, Presenter

3. Vocabulary and meanings: - Write at least 5  words down and its meaning.

1.Emboss: carve a design on a surface or object

2. Emerge: move out of or away from something and become visible.

3.Infomercial: An advertising film that shows a product.

4.Necessary: Has to be done

5. Unbeatable: Impossible to beat.

4. My question and answers: Why didn't she share her biscuits with her little sister.
5. Answer: She was greedy and told her sister to get lost  

5. Summary: My Summary is that she is going to be a great sports woman.

Read Activity - One City Two Earthquake

This week my reading group and I were reading about One City Two Earthquakes. My friend and I were Christchurch earthquake. One The first  

one happened in September 2010 and the second one happened in February 2011. The February Earthquake did more damage although the September one had a higher magnitude of 7.1.

Pop and pie (Story Map)

Story Map

Title:Pop and pie

Author: June peka

Characters:Pie, grandpa, and mom

Setting: the story took place outside

Conflict:Pie keeps on picking the cabbage plants of the ground

Resolution: Grandpa built a cage for Pie so he can't get

Beginning: Grandpa grows gigantic vegetables. Sometimes he evens gets prizes for the biggest vegetables

Middle: Grandpa’s garden was going the right but when his friend vet gave him a magpie, everything changed. Even the magpie took the cabbage plants from the ground

End:So grandpa decided to build a little cage for the magpie so he can’t pull any cabbage plants from the ground.

TEST TEST TEST

TEST TEST TEST

I felt tired because the test was very long. I manage to get over that test and blog this

in time.

Story Map

Story Map

Title:Gifs from the sun

Author: John O’Brien

Characters:The man

Setting:The beach

Conflict:The sun can sun burn you

Resolution: He put on sunscreen

Beginning:The sefer was surfing

Middle:The unwelcome things from the sun and the welcome words from the sun

End:The man stop surfing and cover himself

Gifs from the sun

Gifs from the sun

1. List the welcome and unwelcome gifs from the sun ?: The cold water as the unwelcome gif, and the sun as the  welcome gif.

2. What would happen if the sun stop shining ?: The world would be very very cold and the sea would be frozen as ice

3. Explain the ozone layer : The ozone layer is the layer that protects the earth from the sun light. If we did not have the ozone layer people will burn to death

4. Does the writer protect himself on a

cold day: Yes. Why: because the sea is very very cold . So he needs somewhere warm the stay.

5. What are the harmful effects UV radiation ?: UV radiation can make you have cancer cells.

6. Draw a picture of a welcome sun
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