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Year 5/6 Week 8 – Term 3
Monday 13th - Friday 17th September
Distance Learning Guidelines for Whanau
Year 5/6, Term 3 Week 8
Dear Parents,
As teachers we appreciate your concerns as to how the recent
coronavirus outbreak might impact schools and your child’s
learning, so we will continue to provide you with some ideas to
help you continue your child’s education during school closures.
We also are aware that keeping children engaged in their
learning whilst at home is not easy and your children may be
feeling anxious or unsure at this time. We have prepared
activities for your child that can be completed both
independently and with adult support. Students may complete as
many or as few of the suggested activities within a week of
learning as is appropriate for them.
We appreciate your continued support during this time.
Complete this Literacy Distance Learning before moving on to Sunshine Classics.
Literacy This week is Māori Language Week. To celebrate our Māori culture, we have included texts with some Te Reo.
Activities 1 & 2
Reading - Level 2 Writing - Level 2
Try these links to some Studyladder activities to help you improve
Day 1
your writing:
Read the journal entitled, ‘A Hoe’.
• Developing language
• Use the text to try and answer the comprehension questions in
• Extending Vocabulary 1
full sentences.
• Extending Vocabulary 2
• Comprehension questions HERE
• Remember to use capital letters and full stops and don’t start
any of your answers with ‘because’. Activity:
Have you got a favourite animal?
Day 2 Most people have. Usually, they are
Read the journal entitled, ‘A Hoe’ again. pretty normal animals like
• Use the link below to open a table that includes 10 Te Reo elephants, tigers and monkeys.
Maori words taken from the text. Use the text and its glossary We aren’t interested in these
to help you define some of them and use an online Te Reo animals. We want you to write
dictionary for the others. about the weirdest animal you can
• Link to table HERE find.
Create a report telling us what it is
Te Reo Definition
called, where it lives, what it eats
hoe waka
and any other interesting
tangihanga
information you can find!
mana
If you need help on how to set it
kūmara
out, take a look at this link.
whakairo
waituhi
Activities 1 & 2
Reading - Level 3 Writing - Level 3
Day 1 Try these links to some Studyladder activities to help you improve
Read the journal entitled, ‘Kura Huna’. your writing:
• Use the text to try and answer the comprehension questions in • Developing language
full sentences. Remember to use capital letters and full stops and • Extending Vocabulary 1
don’t start any of your answers with ‘because’. • Extending Vocabulary 2
• Comprehension questions HERE
Activity:
Day 2
Every child should go to school,
Read the journal entitled, ‘Kura Huna’ again.
every child should learn to swim
• Use the link below to open a table that asks you to use the text to
and every child should eat their
make connections between Reweti Arapere using the text and
vegetables.
yourself and own experiences in life so far.
These are things I’m sure you’ve
• Link to table HERE
heard lots of adults say to you
• You could also use the text to think about your own journey in
and I’m sure that you don’t always
life so far and create a cardboard 3D artwork with pictorial
agree with them.
representation of your journey somewhere on it. You could build
What we want to know is what do
a house, an animal or something that is your taonga.
you think every child should not
have to do.
Convince those pesky grownups
that they are very wrong by
writing a persuasive argument
outlining the one thing that you as
a child should not be expected to
do.
If you need help on how to set it out, take a look at this link.
Activities 3 & 4
Writing - Level 2
Reading - Level 2
Try these links to some Studyladder activities to help you improve your
Day 1 writing:
Read the text ‘Ngati Kuri Proud’ • Developing Language
• You can also listen to the story HERE to help with the • Grammar 1
pronunciation of the Māori words. • Grammar 2
• Use the text to understand the meaning of the Māori
words and complete the table HERE
Activity:
Word Meaning Sentence
Everyone is stuck at home in lockdown
mokopuna in Auckland at the moment. What
Pūkana sorts of things might be going on in
your neighbourhood?. You might be
pā
seeing people out walking that you
waka have never met before. You can
tūpuna probably hear sounds you don’t
usually hear – kids playing or
kurīmoana
screaming, parents playing or
Āe screaming. Write about what you
think might be happening in your
neighbourhood or even just over the
fence. I wonder sometimes if the
Day 2 people living over my fence are from
Re read the text ‘Ngati Kuri Proud’ another planet by the strange flashing
• Use the text to answer the comprehension questions. Try lights and machinery noises.
to answer with full sentences. .
• Remember to use capital letters and full stops and don’t
start any of your answers with ‘because’
Use THIS template if you need some help.
• Comprehension questions HERE
Activities 3 & 4
Writing - Level 3
Reading - Level 3
Try these links to some Studyladder activities to help you
Day 1
improve your writing:
Read the text ‘Hana Koko’
• Developing Language
• Use the text to answer the comprehension questions. Try to use
• Grammar 1
full sentences for your answers.
• Grammar 2
• Comprehension questions HERE
Day 2
Re read the text ‘Hana Koko’ Activity:
• This story was based on a real event. Read and compare this You have left school and are now working for the NZ Herald as a
fiction story with the News article HERE on Nelson’s Santa reporter.
Parade. Identify the central theme (Nan’s statement about Your assignment is to interview a person and write an interesting
tradition) in both stories and compare how it plays out. Use the article about them. The person may be someone in your bubble or
table to help you make the comparisons. another friend or family member you can speak to.
Prepare your questions first so as not to take up too much of their
News article Hana Koko story
time.
Central Issue
Remember, a news article needs to capture the audience so include
People’s responses
a catchy title. Use the planning draft HERE to help you.
Resolution
Poetry
Reading: Oral Language:
Read the Poem ‘Words’. Read the Words poem to someone in
• Use the poem to do the follow up activities your bubble. If you want to share you
HERE can record yourself and send it to your
teacher.
If you normally attend Mrs Parkes’s classes, please email your learning from this page to her. If you do not attend Mrs Parkes’s
classes, please email your learning from this page to your class teacher.
Mrs Parkes at esol@student.owiroa.school.nz or Mrs Jenning8s at esolassistant@owairoa.school.nz from 9am to 3pm, Monday
to Friday.
Tokyo - Host of the 2020 Olympics and Paralymics
Well, the Paralympics have finished but weren’t those athletes incredible!
This week’s challenge is to create your own Google slides presentation about Tokyo. It should include some of the information covered in the
video links below. Mrs Jennings has started a sample to give you some ideas. Click this link HERE to see Mrs Jennings example.
It would be great to share some of your work at an assembly when we get back to school.
• If you don’t have access to a device, you might prefer to create your own brochure.
Links to videos for information: Here are some ideas to include in your slides or brochure. Choose some that
• Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Host interest you
• Japan – National Geographic • National symbols (green pheasant, cherry blossom, flag)
• Pacific Ring of Fire (earthquakes)
• Mt Fuji
• Main producers of cars, robotics, electronics, robotics & computer games
• Food (examples such as sushi, tempura, teriyaki)
• National animals (snow monkeys, flying squirrels, wild cats & beers)
• Bonsai
• Disneyland
• Bullet trains
• Sports (sumo wrestling, martial arts, baseball)
Maths
Maintenance Basic Facts Geometry
Complete this Maths Distance Learning
Link to Maintenance HERE Link to Basic Facts HERE Link to Shapes- āhua HERE
before moving on to Studyladder.
Link to Number Knowledge HERE Link to Ngā Tau HERE Link to Transformations HERE
Follow the link to Prototec, and you can practise naming numbers, colours, body
parts and dates in Te Reo Maori.
https://learning.prototec.co.nz/languages
Spelling See all Unit 23 spelling words and activities HERE
By following the Engineering Design Process HERE, attempt to solve the problem.
ISTEAM
Maori Kites
Ancient Māori have flight embedded in their traditions. They saw kites as
connectors between the heavens and the Earth. Kites were believed to be
messengers, and like birds, Māori felt they had spiritual connections with the
gods. Tohunga (priests or men of knowledge) saw kites as a means of
communicating with the gods. These kites or manu atua (literally, bird gods)
were operated by several people and, using kilometre-long ropes, went into the
clouds.
Last week in science we looked at the physics of kites. Now we’re going to try
creating a manu atua.
You most likely will need to substitute Raupō leaves for paper.
Maori Poi
Have a go at creating some Poi. See the
video HERE to help you with making some
DIY Poi.
Floating Ping Pong Balls
The brief: Make two ping-pong balls float in the air flow of a hair dryer at the same
time, without hitting each other.
Be a Scientist!
Materials:
Try to gather and understand
• Two ping-pong balls
information by asking:
• A hairdryer (on cool setting)
• What can you see? What can you
The Method:
hear?
1. Switch on your hairdryer, making sure it is on the cool setting.
• What does that mean?
2. Hold it with the nozzle pointing upwards.
• Can you use something other
3. Place one of the ping-pong balls into the stream of air.
than a ping-pong ball? Does it
4. Try and place another ball into the same stream of air – on top of
work? Why? Why not?
the first ball.
Extension:
• If you don’t have a ping-pong ball
at home, can you create something
that can stay levitated?
• Look into the physics of golf balls.
Why do they have those little
dimples?Education for Sustainability
Birds are vital to New Zealand’s biodiversity. You can make a bird feeder using some recycled
materials, and see if you attract different birds. You will need to provide different feeders for
nectar eaters, fruit eaters and seed eaters. Watch this video to see some ideas on how to make
Recycled Bird Feeders. Find out what birds come to your feeder by using THIS website. Using the
same website, try and find out the Māori names of the birds you see.
Enviroschools Values:
With it being Māori Language week, you may like to learn this super fun bi-lingual Māori and English song called “E Tū Tāngata
- Stand Together”. The lyrics in this song link well to our Enviroschools Values: Maori Point of View; Respect for all people and
cultures; and Empowering Students. It is certainly a song that will lift your spirits and get you moving!
Current Events Quiz
This week you can test your general knowledge about current events in New Zealand and the World.
Maybe other members in your bubble would like to test their knowledge too. Answers can be found at
the bottom of the page. See the Quiz HERE.
50 Maori Kupu (words) you might know:
Round 1: Play the video HERE speaking out the words as you go. Smile, as you realise how many words you
already know.
Round 2: Re-play the video and write down any words you didn’t know. Check, and learn, their meaning.
Round 3: Listen again, making sure you pronounce the words correctly. Pat yourself on the back.
Well done, you know 50!Music Visual Art
Check out ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ in Taniwha are mythical creatures that appear
The Arts Māori - sing along and join in with the actions. often in Māori traditions. Some are terrifying
predators, others are protectors and
See how fast you can do it!
guardians. Taniwha live near the water, in
Dance
oceans, rivers, lakes or caves. There are many
Poi is a form of dance, where weights on the ends stories of heroic Taniwha slayers
of tethers are swung through rhythmical Watch this video to learn how to draw a
patterns. The word “poi” comes from the Maori Taniwha.
people of Aotearoa (also known as New Zealand).
Poi dance is part of Maori cultural tradition.
Watch this video of poi dancing and try to follow
along. You might even like to make your own poi
- check out the ISTEAM section of this weeks
Distance Learning.
Drama
The pūrākau (legend) of Māui and Tīeke –
Imagine you are Māui. Mime the legend as you
listen and watch.Physical Education: Four-minute challenge.
This week’s challenge is to try and complete each of the exercises with in four minutes.
If you manage to do it record your time and share it during your chats to see who the winner is.
Do each of the routines you see below twice in under 4 minutes.
Day 1
Jump Start Challenge
Day 2
The New You Challenge
Day 3
High Volume Challenge
Alternatively, you can select
Day 4
one of these:
IMP Challenge
Joe Wicks workout:
https://video.link/w/u0K7c
Day 5
Black Widow workout:
Dungeon Crawler Challenge
https://video.link/w/L0K7cValues
Lifting your Spirits
At some point in our lives, we will feel sad,
it is a natural feeling. Learning what to do
when we feel sad to help us get out of the
rut is an important skill to learn.
Draw or jot down some ideas in the
diagram below that can help lift you out of
the blues.Distance learning is an innovative type of learning
designed to best meet the needs of your child at this time.
We understand that achieving some of the activities may
be difficult - just do your best! Remember learning can be
fun too :)
Should you have any queries or concerns regarding your
child’s learning, please contact their classroom teacher via
email from Monday - Friday between the hours 9am and
3.00pm. It is expected that you will receive a reply within a
24-hour time frame.
Happy Learning,
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