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? Because after the material is broken down it can be
2. remade into something else. ✓

2. How many tons of rubbish do New Zealanders send to landfills every year? Every year
3. New Zealanders send 2.5 million tonnes of waste to landfills. ✓

3. When rubbish breaks down what gas does it produce?  What environmental problem
4. does this contribute to? When rubbish breaks down it produces toxic gas, co2 and
5. methane gas and that contributes to global harm. ✓

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

6. Explain where these resources come from;

Wood: Wood  comes from trees or plants.✓

Metal: Metal comes from rocks that are mined from the ground.✓

Plastic: Plastic is a little more complicated. There are many different kinds of
plastics, but most of them are all made from the same natural resources - oil.✓

6) How does oil form? Oil forms by the remains of plants and animals that lived millions
of years ago. ✓

7) What are some of the things glass can be recycled into? Glass can be turned into
jars and bottles. Some glass can be turned into glass create and glassphalt which is used
to make roads. ✓

8) What are some of the things cardboard can be recycled into? Cardboard can be
recycled into newsprint, toilet paper, writing paper and egg cartons. ✓

9) What can plastic with the number 1 be recycled into? Plastic with the number 1 can
be recycled into soft drink bottles, pillow and sleeping bag fillings, carpet and clothing.✓

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? Microfibres are really fine
synthetic yarn. The problem with microfibers is that they can be poisoning our underwater
wildlife, which has a knock on effects for the rest of the food chain - including humans.✓

12) What is Earth Overshoot day? Earths overshoot day is a concept by the Global Footprint
Network. It marks the date each year when people have used all the resources the planet can
regenerate in that year. ✓

Glossary - Write what these words mean

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

Carded: 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

A Plastic Free Lunch

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.

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.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

At School we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe. Constable Jos and Terri have been helping us with this learning. Here are some of the things We have learnt. 

Three Little Pigs Summary

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups to practise and perform a
play. This is using our oral language and reading skills in literacy. Our key
competency focus is participating and contributing.

For writing your task is to summarise the main events in your play in three
paragraphs. You must plan your writing first but it is up to you how you do
your planning.  You must also write a fourth paragraph about your experience
of practising and performing your play.

Yr 6

I am learning to organise my text into paragraphs which begin with a main idea and contain
supporting information/detail.

I am learning to make links across paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately.

I am learning to use dialogue punctuation accurately.

Yr 7

I am learning to use a range of different planning styles.

I am learning to plan my writing to suit the purpose of my writing.

I am learning to organise my ideas into paragraphs where the ideas are clearly related
and where there are links within and between paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately in my writing.

I am learning to use complex punctuation to enhance my writing e.g. colons : and
semi-colons ; , and parentheses ().

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can/have

-summarised the play in three paragraphs

-made links across my paragraphs

-used some basic and complex punctuation correctly (speech marks).

Once you have finished your writing highlight these success criteria green if you
have met them and can show them in your work. Highlight green in your work where
you have met these success criteria.

The First part of this story, Mother pig thought it was time her sons Bill,
Ben and Bert  found their own home; so they did. They went off and built
their houses. Bill made his house out of straw, Ben built his house out of
sticks and Bert made his out of Bricks.

In the second part of the story, when Bill was relaxing at his straw
house someone knocked on the door; it was the wolf. ‘Little pig Little pig l
et me in,” said the wolf.  “No! Not by the hair on my chinny chin, chin!” said Bill.
“Then I’ll huff and puff and blow our house down,” said the wolf and with a big
gust of wind the house fell down. As fast as he could Bill ran to Ben's house
but the same thing happened; the wolf blew the house down.

At the end of the story,  the three brothers were all in the brick house. The
wolf says, “Little pigs, little pigs let me in.”  “No not by the hair on our chinny
chin chins,” said the brothers. “Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and blow your house
down,” said the wolf, but he couldn’t. He tried his very best but he couldn’t blow
it down. The brothers huddle in their house and heard the wolf say ,‘‘ I will climb
onto the roof and go down the chimney,’’. ‘‘What will we do’’ said Bill. But
Bert had a plan he got a pot and filled it with boiling water and put it at the
bottom of the chimney and the wolf fell into the pot. The wolf  jumped up as
fast as he could; Holding his bottom and the wolf ran out the door. The three
little pigs danced and laughed as the wolf ran away.

The End

I thought my group worked well together even though it took a while to get
focused at the start. We also did a very good job at having a special voices
for our characters. I liked that we found some music to use in our play. Next
time to get better we could try to know our lines without the script. Everyone
contributed by bringing some props. Everyone participated by having a part
in the play.

Space Literacy Tasks

Weeks 8-10 Space Literacy  Tasks

Term 2 Weeks 9-10

Purpose of these reading activities is to: increase our knowledge of space
exploration and understand how our knowledge and ideas about space have
changed over time (science). We are also learning to read non-fiction texts
and use our writing skills to share our understanding of this topic and our ideas
(literacy). Throughout this task we will need to use the skills of ‘Thinking’ and
using ‘Language, Symbols and Text.’

Learning Intentions

I am learning to skim and scan text to identify the main ideas.

I am learning to locate the key sentences and questions in texts.

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

I am learning to summarise the main ideas in the texts I read.

(from the Karoro Programme of work for Reading)

I am learning to write well structured paragraphs.

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have have scanned text to find key ideas.

-I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.

-I have put my answers in chronological order.

-I have written two well structured paragraphs explaining how some of our ideas about space have
changed over time (introductory sentence, supporting detail, concluding sentence).

Read the three paper based reading activities given to you about Stephen Hawking,  Galileo Galilei and
The Telescope. You will be put with a buddy to do this work. We will mark and discuss our answers
together as a class.

Link to Galileo reading.                Link to Stephen Hawking reading.

  

Link to The Telescope reading.

To add to our learning we will watch/ read and discuss these following videos or articles.

Stephen Hawking Big Ideas Made Simple

NASA Video Explaining Black Holes For Kids.

What is the Big Bang Theory (Science Learning Hub).

Video about Galileo Galilei

Science Learning Hub Article: Light and Telescopes

Science Learning Hub Article: Our Solar System - Revolutionary Ideas.

After we have completed these reading activities and viewing and discussing the above materials your
task is to write at least two well structured paragraphs explaining how our ideas about space have
changed over time.

Example of a good paragraph.

Write your paragraphs here.

How Our Ideas About Space Have Changed Over Time

Our thoughts about our Solar System have changed over time. Scientist use to think that the
sun went around Earth and that Earth was the centre of the universe but Galileo Galilei found
out that Earth went around the sun and that the Earth was not the centre of the universe.
Galileo and a few other people were the  only people that believed this as other people had
other beliefs. Later when scientist took a closer look at if we went around the sun and if we were
the centre of the universe they found that Galileo Galilei’s theories were true. We now know
that Earth is not the centre of the universe and that we orbit the sun. These are some ways our
solar system has changed over time.

Stephen Hawking Has Made Some Great Discoveries about our universe. Stephen Hawking
was best known for discovering how the universe was formed and predicting what might
happen in the future. He found out that  the universe was first formed by a black hole that
exploded which was called the big bang theory. Another discovery was that everyone thought
Black Holes were very big holes that suck up everything around it and nothing could get out bu
t Stephen Hawking found out that one thing could escape, that is radiation. Radiation are
waves of energy that come out of or off something. That type of radiation is called Hawking
radiation after Stephen Hawking because he found out about it. These are some ways
Stephen Hawking has changed our thinking about our universe over time.

Self assessment

I have an introductory sentence for each paragraph:

I have at least three sentences giving supporting detail:

I have a concluding sentence: