Week 8 Term 3 home learning

Gallipoli ‘Visiting Gallipoli Today’.

 

•  Skim 'The ANZAC walk'; use bullet points to note key ideas and write an article for publication on the class blog.

• Create an article about the Turkish memorials.

• Use a Venn diagram to compare the Turkish and ANZAC memorials.

 

 

Week 7 Home Learning

Refugees

Collect newspaper and magazine articles which mention refugees.

Create a REFUGEE acrostic.

Identify a country in Africa; Europe; the Pacific and Middle East which is currently experiencing armed conflict.


Construct a Venn Diagram to compare migrants and refugees.

Watch To be a refugee and then retell it as a comic strip.

Peace

Samantha

Acrostic poem

Refugee

Howling out for a hand

Enduring pain and suffering

Laughter fills my ears as

People torment me. Somebody, anybody, HELP!!!

 

By: Jasmine Teina

 

 

 

H elpless people getting killed or used in thi –

E r own country because of their skin cou-

Lor or cause they could be gay

People stop this and let there be peace!

By April Miranda

Having  a  hard  time  leaving  your  country.

Everyone will miss you.

Liking to be away from war. Not

Participating in the war.

Liam Cullen

 

 

 

Picture books

We have been studying picture books and how some of these books have sophisticated messages. Currently we are working in groups to create our own picture books.

Watch this space for our published books.

 

 

Week 6 home learning

Read the pacifist story.
Identify the key ideas in the story and then retell it as a comic strip.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9985000/World-War-I-pacifists-story-stirs-debate

Writ a letter to the editor stating your opinion on pacifists in WWI.

Archibald Baxter

Archibald Baxter refused to serve in WWI.
Read the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Baxter
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b19/baxter-archibald-mccoll-learmond
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/people/archibald-baxter

Use the information to create a comic strip.
http://bitstrips.com/create/comic/

The 1914 Christmas Truce

We have been learning about this famous ceasefire.

These links contain more information.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173933/Lets-truce-The-diary-extracts-cartoons-shed-new-light-amazing-events-No-Mans-Land-95-years-ago.html

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/trenches.htm

http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWchristmas.htm



By Violet

By Justus



By Jasmine

By Angel

By Veronica
 

By Ebony

By Tyson

 

By Priyanka

 

Week 5 home learning

Guess What it Says?

• mill1on
• another           one thing
• least

Complete the text using these words.

achievement exciting exhausting go

horse learnt play ride speak try
 

I’ve always enjoyed doing (

1) exciting things.

I learnt to (

2) a bicycle when I was

three and a (

3) when I was four. I’ve

been on adventure holidays so I’ve ridden a motorbike

and been kite-surfing. It was (

4) – you

know, really tiring. My greatest (

5) was

when I (

6) to speak German. It was

really difficult but now my German’s quite good.

Next, I’d like to (

7) skiing again or

(

8) bungee jumping for the first time. Oh,

and learn to (

9) the piano, of course. And

I haven’t learnt to (

10) Chinese yet, but

I’m going to start soon. There are so many things I want

to do!

Shark Cloze   Fill in the blanks with the words in the boxes.
Sharks: Basic Facts
rows	fish		gills			scales			fins
Sharks are _____________________. They have _____________________ to help them breathe and _____________________ to help them swim. They have _____________________ on their skin and _____________________ of teeth in their mouths.
Sharks Pups
birth	eggs		ashore			pups			mermaid
Shark babies are called _____________________. Some sharks give _____________________ to live pups. Other sharks lay _____________________  in hard cases. Sometimes these egg cases wash _____________________. If people find them on the beach, they call them _____________________ purses.
Monsters of the Sea?
attacks	mistake		harmless			afraid			vicious
Many people are _____________________ of sharks. They think sharks are _____________________ monsters. But in truth, shark _____________________ are very rare. Most sharks are _____________________. Often when sharks do attack, they _____________________ people for seals or other prey.
Endangered Animals
breed		endangered			soup			overfishing
				Many sharks are _____________________ because of _____________________.That means they are close to becoming extinct. In some countries, people use the shark fins to make _____________________. Sharks _____________________ very slowly so it takes a long time for some species to increase their numbers.

Writing:
Create  an acrostic poem for each of the seasons (summer,autumn,winter,spring)