NZ Tree Research

 

Facts about Vegetation - Introduction

 

Response to Text - Water

 

Facts about Importance of H20 - Introduction

 

Sudoku Friday Week 3 20201 Hard

 

Sudoku Friday Week 3 20201 Easy

 

Finding Treasure in Minecraft - Introduction

 

My Taonga - Thursday

 

Silver Statistics Thursday

 

Thu: Research

 

Treasure Facts about Pounamu - Introduction

 

Wed: Response to Text

 Lost Treasure

Instructions: 

Highlight the correct answer for each question.

Questions:

1. What is the wharenui?

a) Capital city of NZ b) cousin 

 c)meeting place d) Kitchen

2. What is another name for verandah?

a) deck. b) patio 

c) balcony d) all of the above.

3.What was his ‘something special’ that he needed to do with Hoani?

1. Make breakfast b) Find Nana’s special spoon

      c)   Play a trick on his cousin Hoani d) Go swimming at the local river

 

4. How do you know he didn’t want to help his Uncle Dan set up the chairs? 

Answer:  because he sighed and him and his cousin were doing something today and he also had to do much more jobs.

5. What does hovered mean?

1. Creep up b) hanging over

      c)  lingered d) all of the above.

6.. Who is the ‘first person’ narrating this story?

1. Hoani b) Waihuia

      c)  No one d) Uncle Dan

7. How do you know it is wahuia narrating this story?

=> because he is the first one narrating the story.

8. Why did Wai want to mimi?  

1.  He drank a lot of fizzies b) He finish having a shower

      c) he was trying to get away from his mum     d) He was cold

9. What didn’t keep Wai from getting to Hoani’s special mission?

a) Helping mum clean the wharepaku b) Looking after Aunty Jane while she was eating

c) getting lost through the woods d) Looking after his cousin Pounamu crying baby

10) Have you had a ‘special mission’?  But you’ve been interrupted helping others out?  

How did you feel?

→ i feel like good.

Treasure Facts about Diamonds - Introduction

Treasure Facts about Gold - Introduction

 

Bar Graph to show favorite food

 Bar Graph to show favorite food

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	Maccas	Bk	pizza	sushi	Butter chicken	Sausage sizzle

Maccas  was the most favorite in class.

Butter chicken sausage sizzle was the least favorite.

Bk and pizza was in the middle.

The tapu tree

 The Tapu Tree (SJ P3 N2 2009)

Answer the following questions using a red font for your answers:

• What does the word ‘tapu’ mean?The word tapu means sacred and trees and some trees are sacred.

• What were the children doing down by the creek? The children were down by the creek because tama threw the ball too far in the bushes that were the tapu tree was by.

• Why did Michael warn his cousin?Because michael said the tree was tapu  and it has ghosts.

• Why do you think Tama kept asking about the tapu tree?because tama thought that that tree could really be that scary even though michael was telling a joke.

• What did the boys do to help koro?they were helping koro plant flax in the garden.

• On page 4, what did koro say to the boys about their great uncle Tama?

• What is a ‘whenua’?it means land.

• Was the tapu tree haunted? Why or why not? How do you know?Michael was just telling jokes to tama to make him get scared so the tree is not haunted.

• What promise did Michael and Tama make to each other in the end?The promise was not to tell anybody about the story of the tapu tree.They had to go to the uncle koro to  find out the story.