Week One Silent Reading | Picture Book

Picture Books: read at least three picture books from within the classroom. Write a paragraph about  your favourite book. Remember to include the storyline and the illustrations in your response.


One of my favourite books that I read last week was Badjelly The Witch. Which is about two kids that have to go on a journey to find their cow that went missing and on their way they meet enchanted forest creatures. Then they get captured by Badjelly The Witch then they get rescued by an eagle and then God intervenes when they escape and the witch gets destroyed when she attempted to scratch Gods eye out. I enjoyed this book the most because there was multiple sentences on each page instead of one sentence on a page. And there was quite a lot of pages.
Another reason why this book was my favourite one is because there was also lots of pictures which made it not boring.

Manu Information Report

What it is

A  Piwakawaka (Fantail) is a small bird that is endemic (only found in one place) to New Zealand.

What it looks like

A Piwakawaka looks like a small bird that has a brown chest and a darker brown body.
Its face is dark brown and white.  A Fantail gets its name from the shape of its tail because it looks like a fan.

Where does it live

Fantails are found in the North Island, South Island and the Chatham Islands.       

They can also be seen in forests and scrub. It does not migrate to other places.

Feeding Behaviour

Fantails eat by holding its food in their foot against a perch and then they repeatedly peck their food. To get their food they flush insects out of the bush and then catch
them. Fantails mainly eat small insects like moth, flies, beetles, and spiders. They often follow humans because they disturb insects for them.

Reproduction

Fantails breed in, August, September, October, November, December, January, February and
March. Fantails build a cup-shaped nest near the water. In a good year, they will have up to four sets of
babies

Social Behaviour

In fine weather Fantails search for food in overhangs of the ground.
They can often be found associating with flocks of other forest species.

Threats

Fantails threats are Rats, Possums, Stoats, and other mammalian pests. The pests mainly go for the eggs and chicks.

Nathan. K

Where To Next?

Where To Next?  Connected, Level 4

Turning Old into New

Literacy

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around us
and the negative of positive impact our actions can have on these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify and explain some of the issues facing our environment today
• identify some of the negative impacts humans are having on the environment
• identify some positive actions people are taking both here and
• around the world to try and help look after our environment.  
• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in our
• own lives to help our environment.
• learn about our local bush track and creek and identify
• some ways in which we can help to look after (kaitiakitanga) these areas.

Reading Learning Goals

-I am learning to use sub-headings to guide me to the main ideas in text.

-I am learning to use illustrations, text boxes, charts and graphs to
\ help me make inferences so I get more information from the text.

-I am learning to use more than one text, in print or electronic formats, to
gather and check the accuracy of information.

-I am learning to read a wide range of texts (e.g. encyclopaedias, websites,
newspapers)  to gather and check information on a topic.

-I am learning to explain why the author has written a text.

-I am learning to read and understand text that contains academic and
topic-specific vocabulary.

Read the text, ‘Turning Old Into New’ and then complete the following activities.

1. Why is recycling a good idea?

Recycling is good because it reduces pollution and can be made into new things.✔️

2. How many tons of rubbish do New Zealanders send to landfills every year?

New Zealand sends away 2.5 million tons of rubbish to different countries.✔️

3. When rubbish breaks down what gas does it produce?
4.  What environmental problem does this contribute to?

When rubbish breaks down it releases toxic gases including co2 and methane gas.

The gases release co2 into the atmosphere and contributes to global warming.

✔️

4. Complete this sentence:  Everything we use is made from
5.  Earth’s       Natural Resources

✔️

5. Explain where these resources come from;

Wood: Wood comes from trees or plants. Some
woods like wood from pine trees, are considered
renewable because they can grow back.✔️

Metal: Metal comes from rocks that are mined from the ground. It’s
nonrenewable because there is a limited amount available on Earth.✔️

Plastic: Plastic is a little more complicated. There are many different
kind of plastics, but most of  are all made of the same natural resource- oil.✔️

6) How does oil form?

Oil forms from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
The plants and animals were covered by mud and sand. Over millions of years,
the mud and sand built up into layers and turned into rock. The heat and pressure
from the rock turned the plant  and animal matter into oil and gas.✔️

7) What are some of the things glass can be recycled into?

Glass can be turned into countertops, flooring, tile landscaping stones and bricks.✔️

8) What are some of the things cardboard can be recycled into?

cardboard is used to make chipboard like cereal boxes, paperboard, paper towels,
tissues and printing or writing paper.✔️

9) What can plastic with the number 1 be recycled into?

Plastic #1 is recycled into soda and water bottles.✔️

10)  Attach a google drawing here that explains how number 1 plastics can be turned into clothing.

11) What are microfibres and what is the problem with them?

Microfibers are tiny fibers from our  clothes there problem is that they kill our underwater life.✔️

12) What is Earth Overshoot day?

Earth overshoot day is a concept created by the global footprint network.It marks
 the date each year when people have used all the resources that planet can
regenerate in that year

✔️

Glossary - Write what these words mean

Atoms:The smallest particle of a substance that can exist by itself  or be
combined with other atoms to form a molecule.✔️

Carded:(relating to fibres) aligned in the same direction.✔️

Global Warming:A gradual increase in Earth’s average temperature due to increased
levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.✔️

Malt:Barley or other grain that has been  used for brewing beer✔️

Natural resources:Materials found in nature that can be used by people,
such as air, water, plants, animals and rocks✔️

Synthetic:Something that is made by people and is the result of combining
different chemicals.✔️]

In class we will be working on projects looking at issues around
rubbish and what we can do to help reduce this problem.  

Video Links

NZ Recycling Crises

Diver Filming Swimming Through Plastic

The Pacific Garbage Patch

Infographic - Reducing Waste In Our Lunch Boxes

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around
us and the negative of positive impact our actions can have on these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in
• our own lives to help our environment.

Literacy

Task: Create an infographic showing people how
they can reduce their waste in their lunchbox.   

Our co-constructed success criteria:

-Have a strong title/hook

-Use convincing language and images

-Have simple things people can do

-Use images (free to use)

-Use bullet points/ short sharp information

-Use correct punctuation and spelling.