25- 29 June read chapters: Behind the Vines, The Green Sky and Waiting for Dawn.
WEEK NINE TASKS VOCABULARY: recce, boulevard, identifiable, astonishment, manically, gingerly, tributary, intricately, indigenous, disorientated, topography, metaphorically. DRAW/CREATE: A replica of the plane. DRAW: Fred trying to fly the plane WRITE: A character description of Fred RESEARCH: What do you need to do in NZ to become a pilot. WRITE an explanation. RESEARCH: find out about Jean Batten. WRITE a biography about her. CREATE: A movie trailer for this book. You could use iMovie or any other recording device. Don’t forget to share it with us. DIARY WRITING: Don’t forget to fill in your diary entry this week. SCRATCH: Create the scene of Fred flying the plane. https://scratch.mit.edu/ FLIPGRID: Explain how you think Fred is feeling flying the plane. https://flipgrid.com/yl13kx PASSWORD: ChapterChat5/6 TWINKL TASKS: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/…/nz2-e-52593-year-5-and-6-term-2-… WEEK NINE QUESTIONS QUESTION 1: Share this week’s tasks. Don’t forget to leave a comment on someone else’s work. QUESTION 2: Did it surprise you to know the Explorer was hiding a plane? Explain your answer QUESTION 3: Would you have offered to be a pilot, if you were one of the children stranded? Explain your answer. QUESTION 4: Do you think Fred will burn the plane like the pilot asked? (if he succeeds!) Explain your thinking. QUESTION 5: If Fred doesn’t burn the plane, will he be able to keep the lost city a secret? Explain your answer. QUESTION 6: Why do you think Fred closed his eyes when he was taking off in the plane? Was that a good idea? QUESTION 7: Do you believe that Fred could learn all he needs to know, to fly in one lesson? Explain your answer. QUESTION 8: Why did Con want to stay with the Explorer? Explain your answer. QUESTION 9: Why did Fred offer for Con to stay at his house in the holidays? Explain your answer. QUESTION 10: Do you think they will succeed and get Max to hospital before he dies? Explain your answer. WEEK EIGHT TASKS
VOCABULARY: precious, irate, gourd, fanatical, gratitude, evolutionary, disconcerting, maniacal, convulsing, erratic. MAPPING: draw a map of the children’s next journey INVESTIGATE: vampire bats. DRAW one and label its parts. Write a short description about it. INVESTIGATE: Does NZ have any native bats? Write an information report about them. Map their location on a map of NZ. Is there any around where you live? PLAY: stuck in the mud. CREATE: a new game for the children to play. Write instructions so we can play it too. Record your class playing the new game and share it with us. INVESTIGATE: bullet ants. Where are they found in the world? DRAW a picture of one and WRITE a warning sign for the children. DIARY WRITING: Don’t forget to fill in your diary entry this week FLIPGRID: How do you think Lila feels about her brother being bit by the ant? Do you think Max was in the right place when he got bit? https://flipgrid.com/yl13kx PASSWORD: ChapterChat5/6 TWINKL TASKS: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/…/nz2-e-52590-year-5-and-6-term-2-… WEEK EIGHT QUESTIONS QUESTION 1: Share this week’s tasks. Don’t forget to leave a comment on someone else’s work. QUESTION 2: Do you think the children should have tattooed their hand with an x to prove to the Explorer they would keep his secret? Explain your answer. QUESTION 3: Do you think, with all the advice the Explorer gave them, that the children could have made it out of the jungle if they had had to walk out? Explain why you think this. QUESTION 4: Why do you think Max was having bad feelings? Do you think he knew something was going to happen to him? Explain your thinking. QUESTION 5: How do you think Lila felt when she saw Max lying under the tree? QUESTION 6: Do you think they will be able to get Max out in time? Explain your thinking. QUESTION 7: What do you think Max was doing when he ended up getting bitten by the bullet ant? Explain your answer. QUESTION 8: The Explorer said they can fly, how can this be possible? Explain your answer. QUESTION 9: Who do you think will do the flying? Explain your answer. QUESTION 10: Do you think Max will survive? Explain your answer. WEEK SEVEN QUESTIONS
QUESTION 1: Share this week’s tasks. Don’t forget to leave a comment on someone else’s work. QUESTION 2: Would you eat a tarantula? Explain why/why not. QUESTION 3: What do you think the “roar” was the children heard? Explain why you think this. QUESTION 4: Why do you think the man seemed so sad? Explain your thinking. QUESTION 5: Why do you think it is important for the children to learn how to hunt on their own? QUESTION 6: Why are the children trying so hard to make the Explorer like them? QUESTION 7: Why do you think the people that created the city went to great lengths to hide it? Explain your answer. QUESTION 8: How long do you think it took the unknown people to build this city? Explain your answer. QUESTION 9: Why do you think the Explorer is going to great lengths to hide the city? Use information from the story to guide your answer. QUESTION 10: Why do you think Fred wishes the Explorer was his dad? Explain your answer. VOCABULARY: ferociously, citadel, periscope, serenade, conspiratorially, idiocy, conclave, winced, gravitas DRAW: The snake about to attack the children. INVESTIGATE what the name of the snake is. Remember it is violent green, whitish belly and had red eyes. DESIGN/DRAW: your own fish spare. PRACTICE: walking so quietly that no one can hear you. Can you be as quiet as the Explorer? INVESTIGATE: Tarantulas. DRAW and label its parts. RESEARCH: What types of fish are found in NZ lakes? Name them. MAP their locations on a map of NZ INVESTIGATE whether you could spear fish in NZ. INVESTIGATE: find out what NZ’s largest spider is. Draw it and tell us where it can be found. Then INVESTIGATE what is NZ most poisonous spider. CREATE a warning poster about it. WRITE an explanation on how to spear fish. DESIGN: a fish catcher that doesn’t involve a spear. MAPPING: Create a map of the hidden city and show where the spiders and fish are in the map. Use compass points to explain where things are located. DRAW: a picture of the Explorer, compare it to your first drawing of him, has it changed? WRITE a character description about him, now that you have more information about him. DIARY WRITING: Don’t forget to fill in your diary entry this week for the person you chose to take their perspective. MINECRAFT: Create the whole city and area around it based on what you had read so far in the book. Make like a ‘birds eye view’. SCRATCH: Make the scene when the children fish. https://scratch.mit.edu/ FLIPGRID: Explain how the children must have felt to learn about how to fish. Would you go fishing in the dark in the Amazon? https://flipgrid.com/yl13kx PASSWORD: ChapterChat5/6 TWINKL TASKS: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/…/nz2-e-52583-term-2-week-7-year-5… https://www.twinkl.co.uk/…/nz2-e-52563-term-2-week-7-year-5… https://www.twinkl.co.uk/…/nz2-e-52558-term-2-week-7-year-5… WEEK SIX TASKS
VOCABULARY: minotaur, dolorous, exquisite, pungent, taut, impatiently, nonchalant, iridescent, controversial, gourd, contemptuous, hubristic, gauche. DRAW: The stranger (description is in the first few pages of “The Ruined City”) INVESTIGATE: What is a caracara? Draw it and write a short description. WRITE: A job description for an archaeologist. You will need to investigate what they do first. CREATE/MAKE: a food storage unit for the children DESIGN: A spring snare to help the children DRAW: The man’s ring. Or CREATE the man’s ring. (Don’t use the same materials as he did!) DRAW: The lost city, try and use as much detail from the book as you can. DIARY WRITING: Don’t forget to fill in your diary entry this week. MINECRAFT: create the city they are now standing in SCRATCH: create the scene where Fred and the man set the traps. https://scratch.mit.edu/ FLIPGRID: Why do you think the man was not being kind to the children? https://flipgrid.com/yl13kx TWINKL TASKS https://www.twinkl.co.uk/…/nz2-e-52559-year-5-and-6-term-2-… WEEK SIX QUESTIONS QUESTION 1: Share this week’s tasks. Don’t forget to leave a comment on someone else’s work. QUESTION 2: What do you think the man is hiding behind the tangled creepers? QUESTION 3: Why do you think the man wouldn’t help the children to begin with? Explain why. QUESTION 4: Why do you think the man wants the children to keep the city a secret? Explain your thinking. QUESTION 5: Should the children keep this place a secret, so the man will help them get home? Do you think they will keep it a secret once they get home (if they do get home!). QUESTION 6: What do you think the yellow thing is that Fred saw? QUESTION 7: How long has the man been in the lost city? Explain your answer. QUESTION 8: What did the Explorer mean by “The greatest threat to living things is man”? Explain your answer. QUESTION 9: Why do you think the explorer believes “Your bad ideas will become good ones when you are extremely hungry” ? Explain your answer. QUESTION 10: What do you think they will catch in the trap? Explain your answer. WEEK FIVE TASKS VOCABULARY: swelteringly, gorged, provisions, paralysed, unrecognisable, coaxing, plummeted, eddy, plausible, propelling, tributaries, mutinous, alight
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
November 2018
Categories |
Proudly powered by Weebly