Rhyming – Word Work with Whaea Jas

Rhyming words are often used in poems and can sometimes help make a story more interesting. Put your rhyming skills to the test with the following 2 activities.

Activity 1 – Odd word out

  1. Can you tell me which word DOES NOT rhyme with the others in the word families below? Make sure to write your answers in full sentences!
Example of word family :             tow – bow – show – park – know
Example of the answer in a full sentence:       The odd word out is park.     OR        Park does not rhyme with the other words.

 

Look at my example above to help you complete this task.

  • cat – hat – mat – shoe – pat
  •  kit – tap – sit – hit – it
  •  me – see – bag – he – three
  •  pen – pug – tug – shrug – bug
  •  star – bar – far – jar – book
  • can – tan – read – van – ran
  • get – bell – pet – let – set

Activity 2

  1. Add your own rhyming word to each of the word families above.
Example : tow – bow – show – know – low

My new word is LOW.

How did you get on with those activities? Could you think of more than one new rhyming word for any of the word families? Let me know what they are in the comments section 🙂

 

“Bubbles” – Reading with Whaea Jas

Have you ever played with bubbles before? What happened to them? Read today’s book and see if the same thing happens in the story.. Just click on the link below and then complete the activities!

Bubbles – Readers

By Dot Meharry

Activity 1 – Sequencing

Put the following in order of how they took place in the book.  Make sure to write the whole sentence.

  • a. Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!
  • b. over the cat,
  • c. down, down, down,
  • d. over the dog,
  • e. over the hedgehog. . .
  • f. over the birds,
  • g. The wind blew my bubbles
  • h. up, up, up,

Go back and read the book again. Did you put them in the right order?

Activity 2 – Answer the questions.

  1. What happened to the bubbles at the end of the story?
  2. Can you name 2 different types of animals that appeared in the book?
  3. What blew the bubbles?
  4.  Did the bubbles go down or up first?

How did you go?

When you played with bubbles, did they pop like in the story?

Let me know in the comments section 🙂

Visualising Activity

LOOK: This is a picture that the artist Albrecht Durer drew of a rhinoceros. The crazy thing? He had only had a rhinoceros described to him – he had never seen one in real life and the internet photos and movies didn’t exist yet.

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Think: How do you think he did?  What would you give him out of ten?  Have you ever had something described to you and when you finally saw it it was exactly as you had imagined? What about the opposite ? Has anything ever turned out to be even better/crazier/more incredible? 

 

TASK 1: Use your visualisation skills to draw a picture of these places that are described below

1. Swing at the End of the World

Banos, Ecuador

  • A small wooden treehouse stands on the edge of a steep slope. Hanging from one of the tree’s branches is a swing made from a wooden plank and two long ropes. It swings out over a forest-filled canyon.
  • Beyond the canyon, an active volcano towers above the forest in the distance.

 

2. The Hodag

Rhinelander, Wisconsin

  • This menacing beast is described as having “the head of a frog, the grinning face of a giant elephant, thick short legs set off by huge claws, the back of a dinosaur, and a long tail with spears at the end.”
  • A larger-than-life sculpture of it stands outside a visitor center in Wisconsin. According to local lore, it was 30 inches tall and 7 feet long, and subsisted primarily on a diet of white bulldogs.

 

These are real places once you have done your drawing from the descriptions compare them to the real thing. Don’t look at the links until you have had a go at drawing them yourself.

Comment on how well you did. Did you drawing look like the real thing?

Reference: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drawing-challenge-description-only?fbclid=IwAR280CFwnfDYMlMjNfYcDzNMcNgV0yS2FzqujDId20HKyQUfcJopBI5IXeE

Technology and Sound!

Sound through the decades..

Task 1 Look at these images! Talk to your whanau and see if they know what they are called… Can you name them? They all have one thing in common- what is it?

Old Music Devices – Sol Cat Music5 great Father's Day gifts for 5 different types of dads | SHEmazing!

Boombox - Wikipedia        Sony Walkman at 40: fans nostalgic for first portable music player ...

CD player - WikipediaTypes of MP3 Players | HowStuffWorks

Ultimate Ears Portable Speakers, Bluetooth Speakers, Wireless SpeakersAudio Sound Systems | Home Hi-Fi & Portable Music Systems | Sony IN

 

Design Moment: Cassette tape, 1962

 

Task 2:Watch the clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XTQkd_ulI 

What is a Cassette tape?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht2GgDGzqSM

Task 3: Explain what a cassette tape is.

Task 4: Find youtube clips, google information, ask your whanau how they think it was recorded

Next find out about how music was recorded on a thin strip of film. How can this be? What is the technological process? 

Task 5: What has this showed you about how technology changes?

 

 

Map Making

MAP MAKING!

Below are a series of maps made by artists to represent imaginary worlds from the The Wizard of Oz and Harry Potter. 

From "The Wizard of Oz," by L. Frank Baum. | intersection | book X ...

A Map of Hogwarts and Surrounding Areas (With images) | Hogwarts ...

YOUR TASK:

Choose your own favourite movie. One you know really well, perhaps even one you were obsessed with when you were a little kid.

1. Draw a map of the world from the movie. Include places where all the big things happen.

2. Map any important journeys that happen.

3. Add small details that only a real expert would include.

4. Add a key so that non-experts can work out the story and use it to understand things better.

 

How to train my dragon.

How to train my dragon.

Task 1: Sentence challenge!

Can you make a list of adjectives to describe the dragon?

Can you make a list of verbs to say what the dragon is doing?

Can you make a list of adverbs to describe how the dragon is eating?

Can you now write a sentence using a verb, an adverb and at least one adjectives?

Task 2 Use this story starter to write a story about the picture

The King had known that the gift he presented to his children on their 5th birthday was dangerous. He was prepared to take the risk of letting them own a pet dragon, however. One day, the twins would rule the kingdom together, and they would need all the help they could get. No-one could deny that a dragon was a powerful ally!

Before that day, though, the children had much work to do. They had to train their dragon!

 

ROOM 12’S ZOOM MEETING TIMETABLE – TERM 2 -WEEK 4 – 2020


Here is Room 12’s zoom meeting timetables for this week (week 4). Feel free to send Mrs Holi an email or comment on the commenting space provided at what time on Friday you will be available to join our zoom meeting. Remember Wednesday and Thursday I will not be able to do zoom meeting because I’ll be at school teaching. Thank you so much for those students who have been participated in our zoom meeting on Monday and Tuesday. It was extremely amazing!