Trish’s Reader’s Novel- The Explorer
Term 1: Week 5’s Please read chapters: Flight, The River, Food and Fire Define VOCABULARY: Write the word and the meaning in your reading book. : wedged, triumph, surreptitiously, convalesce, unobtrusive, unswervingly, inscrutable, sarcastic, pulsating, skeptical Complete the Questions below in your reading book using a full sentence answer: Don’t forget to write the full date. 1: What does the author mean by “his voice practically wore a tie” when she was describing Fred’s Father? 2: Why do you think it is important to explain directions using compass turns? Explain your answer. 3: Do you think Con chose her clothing, or was it chosen for her? Explain your answer. 4: How old do you think Fred, Con and Lila are? Explain why you think they are that old. 5: Explain why Fred thought the mud tasting river was better than ‘hot chocolate at Christmas” or “fresh lemonade at summer”? Explain your answer. 6: Why do you think returning to the clearing was like “going home’ to the children? What did they mean by this? 7: What do you think the title of the book was that explained what types of insects could be eaten? 8: How would you feel sleeping out in the jungle, lost at night? Explain your answer. 9: What prior knowledge do these children have that has helped them survive so far? Explain your answer. Term 1: Week 5’s Choose between 3-5 of the tasks listed below to complete. DRAW: A NZ ant, label its parts. Draw a bullet ant and label its parts. Compare them. What is the same, what is different? RESEARCH: How many varieties of ants there are in the NZ and then in the Amazon. MATHS RSEARCH: Learn about compass points. Locate East from your classroom. Next explain what is located North, South, West from your classroom. You could go one step further and locate North East, North West etc… RESEARCH: What plants are poisonous in the Amazon – list 3 and explain how to spot them. Then look up poisonous plants in NZ. Learn about 5 common plants found in the garden that are poisonous RESEARCH: Investigate what Pneumonia is. WRITE an explanation about what it is. RESEARCH: How long can a person survive without water? How long can a person survive without food? Why is there a difference? DIARY WRITING: Choose one of the children and write a diary entry every week about their adventure from their point of view. INVESTIGATE: Are there any bugs you can eat in NZ? CREATE a poster to identify edible bugs! MAKE: a compass – you’ll need to investigate how first. MINECRAFT/SCRATCH: Create the camp site. Show the children https://scratch.mit.edu/ FLIPGRID: Explain a time when you were either lost or homesick. https://flipgrid.com/yl13kx TWINKL: https://wwwtwinkl.co.nz/…/nz2-e-52542-term-2-week-2-year-5… https://www.twinkl.co.nz/…/nz2-e-52543-term-2-week-2-year-5… https://www.twinkl.co.nz/…/nz2-e-52540-term-2-week-2-year-5… https://www.twinkl.co.nz/…/nz2-e-52524-year-5-and-6-term-2-… Term 1: Week 6 Please Read: The Raft, Maiden Voyage & Sardines Define VOCABULARY: Write the word and the meaning in your reading book: imagination, clammy, cascade, foraging, impatience, decorously, stagnant, ominously, coax, radiated, palpably. Questions: Complete the Questions below in your reading book using a full sentence answer: Don’t forget to write the date. 1: What does the author mean by “his voice practically wore a tie” when she was describing Fred’s Father? 2: Why do you think it is important to explain directions using compass turns? Explain your answer. 3: Do you think Con chose her clothing, or was it chosen for her? Explain your answer. 4: How old do you think Fred, Con and Lila are? Explain why you think they are that old. 5: Explain why Fred thought the mud tasting river was better than ‘hot chocolate at Christmas” or “fresh lemonade at summer”? Explain your answer. 6: Why do you think returning to the clearing was like “going home’ to the children? What did they mean by this? 7: What do you think the title of the book was that explained what types of insects could be eaten? 8: How would you feel sleeping out in the jungle, lost at night? Explain your answer. . Term 1: Week 6’s Tasks Choose between 3-5 of the tasks listed below to complete. INVESTIGATE: Christopher Maclaren. WRITE a biography about him. INVESTIGATE: What are liana vines? Do we have any in NZ? Where are they located? Is there any where you live? WRITE an information report about them. WRITE: an explanation about acai berries. DRAW: What they look like. DRAW: What you imagine Fred looks like in this part of the story. Compare it to your first drawing, has there been any changes in him? DRAW: Fred’s raft. Or CREATE a model of his raft and see if you can get yours to float. DRAW: The two birds the children saw. Remember they were bright blue macaws with yellow bellies. INVESTIGATE: Eels in NZ. Do we have electric eels? WRITE an information report about eels in NZ. INVESTIGATE/RESEARCH: What/who are the Incas? Where were they located and are they still around today? WRITE an information report about them. INVESTIGATE/RESEARCH: What is Machu Picchu? Record 10 interesting facts about it. Don’t forget to DRAW it too. WRITE: A telegram the children would have written, had they been able to contact their families (you will need to investigate what a telegram is first and how much could be written on one). INVESTIGATE: Who is Christopher Columbus and what is he famous for? DRAW: What you think Fred saw in the jungle, once he slowed down to admire the scenery. MINECRAFT: Create the raft the children built. Term 1: Week 7 Please Read: ABACAXI, the Monkeys and Bees and Con Define VOCABULARY: Write the word and the meaning in your reading book: barrelling, ferocious, terrified, quivering, radiated, bludgeoned, authoritatively, epaulettes, bulbous, sceptically, whirligig, tenacious Questions: Complete the Questions below in your reading book using a full sentence answer: Don’t forget to write the date. 1: Why do you think Fred is having nightmares? Explain your answer. 2: Why do you think the children did not trust what Max was saying about the monkeys and bees? Explain your answer. 3: Do you think Fred and Con were sensible climbing the tree? Explain your answer. 4: Why do you think the map was in that tree by the bees’ nest? Who do you think put it there? Explain your answer. 5: Why did Fred believe he needed to go further up in the tree? Explain your answer. 6: Why do you think the honey worked on them like medicine? Explain your answer. 7: Do you think the children should follow the map? Explain your answer. 8: Did it surprise you to find out all the children hate the jungle? Even though they appear to be having an exciting adventure? Explain your answer. Term 1: Week 7’s Tasks Choose between 3-5 of the tasks listed below to complete. For writing tasks, a really good website to use is StoryBird https://storybird.com/ INVESTIGATE: What is a vulture? Are they endangered? Create an information report on Vultures. MAPPING: Locate where Manaus is in the Amazon. DIARY WRITING: Don’t forget to fill in your diary entry this week for the person you chose to take their perspective. DRAW/CREATE: a sloth. Label it and WRITE a short explanation about what a sloth is and where you find them. DRAW: Fred up the tree getting the honey. DRAW: What you think Con and Fred saw from the top of the tree. Include as much detail as you can. INVESTIGATE: The benefits of eating manuka honey. How do bees make manuka honey? WRITE an explanation about the benefits of honey on humans. DESIGN: a secret map. Maybe one your classmates could follow. MINECRAFT: Create a scene of the children climbing the tree for the honey. SCRATCH: recreate the journey up the tree. Include Con climbing too. https://scratch.mit.edu/ FLIPGRID: Explain a time when you did something for the very first time. Try and recall how it felt, did you heart beat loudly in your chest?
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