Reading About Making connections across the World

Manawatu - Making connections across texts: our birds

Choose five words from the list.  What do they mean? Mustelid Native Snatch Bait Introduced Species Separated Screeching Squabble	1.  Separated is like when two people get moved away from each other if they fight or Argue and then someone will come and move them from each other. And that’s what Separated means.
	2. Snatch means if someone has a toy or something and a friend of them comes and takes there toy off them and that's what Snatch means.
	3. Introduced means someone is saying hello to someone.Like if there’s a visitor coming to school then a person will stand up and say hello my name is………… and say welcome to Pt England School and that’s what Introduced means.
	4. Native means the forest like how the forest looks and how the birds live there and how the forest is green and that’s what Native means.
	5. Bait means something when you put something on a hook and then when you do it, it will pull something up and that’s what Bait means.

Text 1	Catching Mustelids
What is the big idea this text is telling us about?	The big idea is 2 Parrots fighting and there’s a another Parrot that tries to stop them arguing but they don’t listen then she tells Tani and then Tani call’s the two Parrots Kakapo ,Kaka and they got Separated from each other
What is one fact that surprised you when you in this text?	I was surprised that Tani gave the two Parrots another name
Taking care of our birds: What is one tip you would like to share?	I would like to say look after our birds or we won’t have any more Pretty birds
How does this connect to our inquiry?	This connects to our inquiry because we talking about birds

Text 2	The Three Parrots
How does this story connect to our inquiry?	Because we are talking about birds and talking about The outside world and also because it connects to our inquiry because it’s Te Tao Tamaki.

Writing (I'm a Bird) Week

Today i am going to be a little Baby Bird. I am Grey and white and i have black spots.I have a Brother and a Sister and a Mummy and also a Daddy. Me and my Brother and Sister hunch out of our egg and we were so hungry but lucky Mum was there to Save the day she brang us some yummy worms we eat. Throughout the Year we started getting Bigger and Bigger. One day Me and my Brother and Sister were Starving,our mum said it’s time you went and found your own nest because use are too big for this little nest. Then we said to Mum okay then my Brother went on the edge of the nest and leaped off and i couldn’t believe my eyes he was really flying. Then my Sister went on the Edge of the Nest and leaped off to and she was really flying,then it was up to me. So i went on the edge of the Nest and took a deep breath in and leaped off i was screaming because i was falling but then i began to fly. My Brother and Sister went off and it was only me. So then i said bye to Mum and went flying,i went flying over the water. When i was flying over the water i could see,Sharks,Flying Fish and also Dolphin's. I started getting tried and tried so then i saw a Turtle and went down and had a rest on his back. Then i got back up and went into the trees when i saw a tree i went in and then i looked a around and then i said to myself this is where i will stay here then i made myself at home.

Week 11 Writing

Week 10 Problem Solving

Walt: solve addition problems using rounding/ compensating.
Walt: solve subtraction problems using rounding/ compensating.

Week 11 Problem Solving (Last Problem Solving of this Term)

Walt: solve addition problems using rounding/ compensating.
Walt: solve subtraction problems using rounding/ compensating.