Reading - Plastic

1. 1. Why is plastic hard to avoid?
   Because it’s used in our everyday lives. As packages,  bags and many other things.
   2. What is Ekoplaza supermarket doing to make it easier for consumers to avoid plastic?
   They are changing everything in their store to plastic free.
   3. What are some of the products that can be bought in Ekoplaza’s plastic-free aisle?
   Grains, lotions and soup
   4. What does the supermarket use to package the products?
   They are using glass, cardboard,metal and compostable plastic.
   5. What is A Plastic Planet?
   It’s a aisle that has a plastic-free packaging.
   6. What is the their mission?
   It is to not use any plastic bags or materials that can be thrown away
   7. What does Ekoplaza plan on doing before the end of the year?
   To roll out plastic-free aisles across its 74 stores by the end of the year.
   8. How is Original Unverpackt making it easier for consumers to shop plastic-free?
   9. So they don’t have to put it in the  Rubbish
   10. What does the author believe needs to happen for plastic consumption to decrease substantially?
   For supermarkets to make a difference and to decrease the use of plastic packaged things.
   
   

Farming Fish

A - Did I understand??

1. What happens when the weather is bad? They go to the ponds and catch the fish from their.
2. How is it we get food, different to the way we get food now? We go to the shops and buy our food and then they collect, grow and catch their food.
3. What kind of fish were released into the pools? He released Mudfish into the pool
4. Where is Togori in relation to New Zealand?  On the North - East
5. How long did it take to dig the pools? One and a half years
6. Who had the ideas of farming fish? Uncle Isaiah
7. Explain how they catch the fish. The first make sure that the ponds are filled. Then they clear the branches. They then put the Larvae white Ants there so the fish can come.
8. What have white ant larvae got to do with the article? It’s the food the fishes eat.

B - But this is reading not Maths

1. How long did it take for the fish to grow? It takes three years
2. If they started the pools in 2007 when would the pools have been finished? In the middle of the year of 2008

C - Vowels and Consonants

1. Consonants: 4,            Vowels: 3, On Page: 46

  Solomon    Clue: Island,

     2. Consonants: 4,               Vowels: 2, On Page: 44

 Paddle     Clue: Row

D - True or False

1. Togori is an island village.False because in the beginning the boy explains that he lives on a village island called Makira.
2. People thought Uncle Isaiah was crazy. True and False because they thought the idea of the ponds wouldn’t work.
3. New Zealand is closer to Togori than Australia is. False

E - Maori  

1. Fish - Ngohi
2. Wai - Who
3. Waka - Canoe

F - Verbs, Nouns, Antonyms and Synonyms

Choose 5 nouns (names) and 5 verbs (doing/action) for the text. Then for each of the Verbs write an Antonym (opposite) and/or synonym (similar) based on the word. Can you do the same for Nouns? For example. A verb from the text ‘run’. Antonym may be ‘walk’ and a synonym ‘jog’.   

Nouns - Synonym -

Village - Suburb

Pool - Pond

Fish - Bait

Shops - Market

Sea - Ocean

Verbs - Synonym

Catch - Hook

Watering - Drink

Flow - Flood

Build - Construct

Drew - WIthdraw

G - I spy

Use the words from the text, find as many as you can that start with the letters F or B.

Fine

Families

Bad

Fish

Buy

Food

Bigman

Build

Found

Farming

Fresh

Flow

Full

Big

But

Best

Before

H - It’s the scene

This section relates more about scenes rather than themes. Write down as many words as you can which describe the scene/ context or parts of the text is in.

I - What’s wrong?

What is wrong with the question/ statement below.

Adam Pryor is the chief of the village.

Yes, there isn’t a person in the story called Adam Pryor. The chief is Uncle Isaiah.

J - In Summary…

Your job is to write no more than 1 or 2 sentences which has as many information as possible.

The people in the Togori grow, collect, harvest and catch their food which means they didn’t go to the shops much. They became very smart and made a pool full of fish to eat when the weather is bad because they couldn’t go fishing.

K - The Impact

Based on the text you have read, what is one thing that either had, or may/could have and impact on either the environment (local, national or international), our community, people, or a combination? Be specific/justify.

L - Picture Cue

What has this image got to do with this text?

To be creative just how Uncle Isaiah created the

M - I’m the Author

Your job is to choose a part of the text, and then write your own paragraph into it. You may do this at the start, end or anywhere in the middle. It must make sense and fit in to the original text. You are trying to become a author by adding your own paragraph/ideas into someone else’s text to make it more factual/interesting by getting your viewpoint.

N - It’s Home - New Zealand

Make a list of as many things as you can find from the text that are related to Aotearoa. It may refer to something in NZ but may not actually state it.

Comprehension and Vocabulary (Reading Test L2)

Reading Activity - Sleep

When reading this little paragraph I learnt that I need at least 10 hours or more. I need this much sleep so that I don't feel tired and  have a negative attitude towards others. I also learned that sleep helps the body to heal when it’s sick or injured. This paragraph helped me to learn a lot about how much sleep I need and how important sleep is.

How a camera works?

Making Meaning

1. What are three places in which you might find a camera?

1. Supermarkets, Stadiums and Banks

    

2.  Which word on page 3 tells the reader that the colour red, blue and green are mixed to make           millions of other colours?   

A.Combined because it means the same as mixed.

3. If a camera did not have lens, what might the photographs look like?

A. They would look blurry.  

4.Why are cameras not considered to be specialised equipment anymore?

A.Because of digital technology.

5. How do the instructions on making a pinhole camera help with understanding how a camera works?

A.Because the camera is very simple to how a normal camera looks so by making this camera they would know how a camera is very similar.

6.Which part of a camera performs the same basics functions as the retina in the human eye?

A.The sensor

7.Do you use a camera? If so, what do you mainly use it for? Yes I do use a camera nearly everyday. I use it for social media and taking photo’s/ selfies.  

Grammar - Conjunction Game

In this activity I played a educational game called Conjunction Games for Kids. The many point for this game was to find a conjunction word that would best fit the sentences. I found this game a bit hard because I thought that all the words fit the sentence but they want the one that best suits it. This game helped me to use what I know to find the unknown.

Word Map

This week for reading I created a Word map. This word map helped me to understand the word astonish. In the word map I put down "Meaning, sentence, Root, Synonym and Antonym. "

Reading activity

Reading activity - Underground explorers

A- Did I understand

1. Where is Mt Owen? - Kahurangi National Park
2. What were they hoping to prove? - That this underground connection beyond doubt
3. What has the cupful of water got to do with the article? - They wanted to try the water dye to see if it would appear in the blue creek
4. What is the cover code? - The code is to only take photos and leave only footprints
5. What do people expect caves to be? That it would be  pitch black

B- True or False

Are the questions/ statements True/ False or both?

1. LED lights don’t work underground? - Yes they can work underground
2. Crystal pools make the surface hard to see? - Yes because the water is clear and makes it hard to actually the surface

C- It’s the scene

Write down as many as you can which describes the scene/context or part of that the text is set in?

Bit dark, light, clear water, rocky, lumpy, white rocks, black rocks, steep, large, little space, cliffs, bumpy, holes, moon milk, cold, plants, journey, water, footprints, dusty, open space