Home Learning Week 8

The Changing Face of Planet Earth

Click on the link to watch a fascinating video of how our Earth is changing. This has been recorded on NASA satellites. Write a comment about one thing you noticed changing and what has caused this change.

Youtube - Changing Face of Planet Earth

Home Learning Week 7

Here is the link to the quiz we did today for Topic. It will help you with your Home Learning this week.

River Quiz

The Water Cycle - Video by Caleb, Teeshan and Jadon.

Home Learning Week 6

Do some research and find out about how rivers are formed.

Write a comment that shares one interesting fact - make sure it's different to everyone else's!

Week 5 Home Learning

Some help for your Home Learning this week.

Check out this website: Easy Science for Kids

Write a comment about one thing you have learned through looking at this website.

Home Learning Week 4

Here is the poem 'The Town' written by James K Baxter, that we are basing our Memoir writing on this week.

Read the poem and identify:

one structural feature (how the sentences are put together) or 

one language feature (verbs, adjectives, nouns) etc.

that is used in this poem.

"The town was usual enough; it had

A creek, a bridge, a beach, a sky

Over it, and even a small tin church

I never went to. My brother, my cousins and I

Did what boys do - dozed in the hot

Schoolroom, made bows and arrows, dodged the mad

Boatbuilder, crept like rabbits through the black

Under-runners with a weak torch,

Burnt dry rushes, wrestled or swam

Doing nothing important"

- James K. Baxter

Home Learning Week 3

Memoir/Personal Experience Writing

We are going to begin Memoir writing this week. An important part of writing an excellent Memoir is choosing the appropriate vocabulary and using a variety of sentence lengths. 

Read the following piece of writing and make a comment about what you liked about it and why. Also comment on how this example can help you with your own writing.

(This is from the NZ Curriculum English Exemplars on the TKI website)