Week 3 - What Does It Mean To Be Healthy? Do kids need more sleep than adults?

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Little House On The Prairie Tasks

CC14 Little House on the Prairie – Y5/6, W5 Term 3: Tasks & Questions

Week 5 Term 3: 20th – 24th August: Indian Camp – Pa goes to Town or pages 172 - 207

TASKS - Choose from the following...

1. ART - Draw the goldenrod plumes turning gray and the ox-eyed daisies’ yellow petals. Add colour and detail.

2. ART: Draw the yellow, almost brown prairie with red streaks of sumac across it. Could be a great Art painting or crayon activity! Add plenty of colour and detail.

3. MAKE: a model of the rocking chair that Pa made for Ma.

4. WRITE: Pretend you are Laura, and Pa has invited you and Mary to go with him to see the Indian’s camp. Using details from Chapter 14, “Indian Camp”, write about your day at the camp with Pa and Mary. Include details of what you saw, what you found, and how you felt about Mary’s idea of sharing with baby Carrie.

5. WRITE: The Ingalls family all got very sick and Dr. Tan said it was because of eating watermelons. Pa seemed not to believe Dr. Tan and he ate watermelon anyway. Today, because of science we know that just eating watermelon will not make you sick. Write why you think Dr. Tan thought the watermelon made them sick.

6. RESEARCH – Fever ‘N’ Ague is an old term for Malaria. Develop your personal Inquiry questions about Malaria. Then present your findings for us all.

7. RESEARCH: Thanksgiving. What is it? When does it occur? Answer your Inquiry questions and present a report.

8. HANDS-ON - The Ingalls family had become settled in their new home but were still doing without some of the things they were used to. Everyone was excited about the new cow and the prospects of having milk and possibly even butter. Investigate the process of making butter. Then work to make some butter. Write about the difference between the butter you made and store bought butter. Take a few photos of the process!

9. HANDS ON: Make your own bead necklace.

10. VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words: dangle, pierced, hollow, fringes, swarms, smudge, drawling, mellow, dose, bitter, luscious.

11. FLIPGRID – Describe the worst sickness that you have had. How long were you sick for? How did you get better? Was there any magic recipe that helped you recover? What would have happened to you if you had your sickness over 150 years ago? Add your thoughts to this FLIPGRID. https://flipgrid.com/d88581. PASSWORD - ChapterChatNZ

12. MINECRAFT – Create the environment that Ma called Midsummer- the squirrels, the crows, the yellow grass, the blazing sky, etc OR build the abandoned Indian camp. Add plenty of detail.

13: WORDSEARCH: this task has been supplied by a fellow teacher, you may like to use it with your students: https://thewordsearch.com/…/32…/little-house-on-the-prairie/

SLOW CHAT QUESTION (Posted on Monday morning at 9am)

* Pa wondered where the Indians had gone. Where do you think the Indians had gone? Explain why.
© Mark Lorenzen 2018 / Chapter Chat 2018

FRIDAY TWITTER CHAT QUESTIONS

1. Can you please share any tasks that you have completed this week. Try and leave a reply on someone else's creation.

2. What bothers and bites the Ingalls in the summer heat?

3. What symptoms do Laura, Mary, and Pa have that lets Ma know they are unwell?

4. Who takes care of the Ingalls during their illness? How did they know that the Ingalls needed help?

5. What do we now know caused their illness?

6. Once again one of the Ingalls neighbours came to help them when they needed it. Using examples from the story, describe the importance of neighbours on the prairie.

7. What went, ‘Honk, honk? Where were they going and why? What season was approaching?

8. How did the house nearly burn down? What happened? How was everything okay?

9. Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas? What is Thanksgiving?

10. Why do you think Pa went to town? What might happen next?

What's Your Favourite Way To Exercise? Week 2 What It Means To Be Healthy

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Technology Challenge Electronics Simulator

Technology Challenge Electronics Simulator

Speeches & Persuasive Argument Models

How to Write a Persuasive Argument
how to write a persuasive argument for children - 6 episodes


SPEECHES

Words Can't Hurt Me

Kindness Speech by 10 year old

Kids Need Recess

The Power of Reading

Fatima's Inspiring Speech

Joshua Iosofa's Inspiring Speech

What Makes a Great Speech?

Kid President - Pep Talk

Kid President - How To Change the World

Our Living Museum

We have been preparing for a living museum for the end of term. 

Cate helped get us motivated for it and showed us some drama tips. 

We all had to dress up as famous New Zealanders. 

We all got marked on how well we knew our person and how well we could act as them.

By Lexus & Riley

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Wonderopolis week 1 - Do you Have a positive attitude?

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Library Quiz and Regional Cross Country

Last week (Week 9) was the Year 5 & 6 Library Book Quiz at Parklands School. Riley, Ada, Louie and Nikau went to represent us with their library knowledge. Their hard work paid off as they came second out of 12 teams!
The four of them had to study lots in and out of school, often missing news presentation, math certificate and other things to practice in the library. Some of the things they had to do included reading set books and writing notes about them, ( the books were Dragon Defenders and A.N.Z.A.C Animals)and thinking up costumes to wear, (the costume that they wore was a taniwha).
Also last week was the Regional Cross-Country. On Friday 29, five runners, ( Riley, Ada, Tawn, Sayla and Ruby M) went to Rabbit Island to compete against hundreds of other runners. First was Ruby and Sayla's race; they were up against
around 80 other kids, so it was pretty cool that Ruby got eighth and Sayla got 24th!
For a while the y5 boys were racing and after that it was Riley, Ada and Tawn's race.
They had a good start but got tired early and in the end Ada came 11th, Tawn came 13th and Riley came 35th. But, as a team they won Best Small School! So altogether one runner in the Inter-Regionals and one trophy! Good result.

By Sophie and Riley