Slide the Corner

Slide The Corner - Novel Study 

Chapters 1-3

Use the white hat to list the information about the text:

• Title: Slide The Corner.

•  Author & Illustrator: Fleur Beale. 

• Awards that the book have won: 2007 Gaelyn Gordon Award much-loved book.

• Plot: Greg’s dad doesn't let him eat until he finds a job within a month. 

• Characters - names: Greg, William, Kitty, Larry, Mary, Mrs Christie, Mr Carmody, Holly, Greg.

• Setting: House, School, Garage 

Slide the Corner

Slide the Corner

Chapters 4-8

Make predictions about what could happen next in the book.

I think that Greg ends up living with Brad and Holly for a while, because what Greg's Dad and Mum thought of him when he wanted to become a rally driver and mechanic, when his Dad thinks he should be like his siblings when Greg doesn't want to be.

Why do you think these ideas might happen?

Maybe because that's how some things have been going on with Greg, and maybe wants to move out so he can do the things he wanted to do.

Reading: Benny

What are some of the differences between Benny and his friend?

Benny is tall and his friend is a bit shorter then him. 

How does Benny’s friend feel about Benny’s new house?
Happy and a bit jealous.

How did the boy’s mother feel about the incident?
Angry and upset.

Do you think her reactions are justified? Why/why not?
Yes because she was yelling at the two boys for her child got trapped underwater after bennys friend pushed him.

What is the author’s purpose in writing this text?

To know that you can always say no sometimes or walk away.

How do you know?
I'm guessing it's probaly about like a few other stories that I have read and sometimes the ending kind of ends like that.

What themes are explored in this text?

Joyful, Jealous, Curious, Happy.                   

Reading: Oakley Creek

Reading: Oakley Creek
These girls Destiny and Faith are going to swim at Oakley Creek and Faith has to lie to go with Destiny.        

Where is Faith going to meet Destiny?
At the dairy after she does the morning chores.

Why does Faith have mixed feelings about the day ahead?
This was probably the first time she lied to her mum going somewhere.

What does this teach us about her?

To not lie about where you are going and you can say no if you don't want to
go.

What morning chores did Faith have to do?
She does the: Dishes,drying the dishes, wiping the bench, making the beds, and shaking out the mat.

How does Faith know that the boys have reached the swimming hole first?
They probaly used to go there all the time and know where it is.

Why does Miss think Faith is lucky?

Miss tells her that shes lucky because her mum cares enough to come and find her.

Does Faith agree? Why/why not?
No, she doesn't feel lucky because she felt nevours because she had lied to her mum where she was going and destiny really wanted her to go.

This is my poster for a cover

My Reading

For reading I have been reading Science on Ice. And one of tasks I decide to make a short clip with bite-able, about what I have been reading. It gives some detail of whats in the story.
   

My follow up questions for reading.

Why do you think the people in the article didn’t want to start packing up their holiday gear and not going back to school? The people in the article didn’t start to pack was because they were going on a trip on the jet boats. And going back to school.

In the story there are some words they use.. What do you think these words mean? These words are NOT just in one place! They are used throughout the text Dreary Job: Dreary Job means starting your dream job you’ve wanted to start for maybe a while. Or a long time. Heavily Laden Car: Heavily Laden Car means you have a heavy car. Clambered: Clambered means like your climbing in the boat. Churning: Churning means like your tummy is turning around in circles and making you laugh too much.

How do you think the boys felt when their Mum and Dad told them they were going Jet Boat riding? The boys were probably excited to go on a boat ride.

What was the name of the Jet Boat driver? The name of the boat driver was Brian.

What are life jackets? Life jackets are to save people and if don’t have one on and you don’t know how to swim and start to sink that’s when you need it and if have one on that’s good because you don’t sink too much.

What was one of the safety rules that the driver told them? The safety rules were hold tight and don’t put your hands out of the boat.

Who was too little to go on the boat? What was he allowed to do though? Eli was little one he wasn’t to go on the boat, so Brian let him stand in the jet boat as it was being reversed into the river by a huge tractor.

What did Brian do to show a hand signal? And what did it mean? The hand signals meant that it is showing what the person was doing and what they are showing what to do. And Brian twirled his fingers in the air, it meant we were about to do a 360-degree spin in the middle of the river.

What happened to Finn when they were on the boat? What happened to Finn when they were on the boat: Finn ended up scrambling around on the floor of the boat.

How does a jet boat work? Look at page 8 to find out this answer. A jet boatworks with a engine to start with by sucking water through the screen underneath the boat and shooting it out the back of the engine in a high- speed jet stream. The pushes the boat forward.

Taking Care Of A Fox

                           

Watch This Space!

Independent Learn Task:

Watch this space!

Make a copy of this document and answer the 10 questions.

All of the answers are in the article that you have read, so make sure that you go all the way through to find the answers.

Please write your answers in full sentences - not just one word. For example question 1 : The name of the highway that is talked about in the article is…

Question 2: In the article is says that one one side you see…. And on the other you see…

What is the name of the highway that is talked about in the article? State highway 88 in Dunedin.

2. What does the article say you see on each side of the road when you drive into Dunedin?   On one side of the road there’s a great view of the harbour and on the other side there are houses and bush-covered hills.

3. What did people do first when they wanted to upgrade the roadside? They wanted to plant some trees and shrubs to make it beautiful and nice.

4. Why couldn’t children paint the concrete wall? Because it was 50 meters long and 4 meters high and it was very dangerous and there would be lots of traffic going past. Full sentence?

5. What is a professional artist? And who was the professional artist from the article? The artist was Janet de wagt a professional artist is who would usually do paintings For the museum.

6. What were the names of the two students that were talked about in the article and what school did they go to?   Paddy and Declan Smith go to chalmers school.

7. What were the choices the children were given to draw? Ethier a sene near your house or one near your school.

8. What did the two boys from the article choose to draw? Paddy draw a train on its tracks he also drawsome fish and rock in the sea Declan chose to draw the rugby clubhouse and fields that are just down the road from his school.

9. What did the professional artist park beside the wall that she was painting? Janets red Zephyr.

10. Why was it important that the wall was painted? Because some people wanted to upgrade the roadside.

Teacher Comment:

This was something I did for last week. How good do you think I am?

The Seven stars of Matariki

The Seven stars of Matariki.

Knowledge list 3 facts from this Tex.

1. Muta was bowed before him.
2. All they eat is seafood.
3. They all went to see the sisters.

Comprehension

What is Matariki? - Maori New Year

Why is it important? - because it’s traditional. Because Maori culture are important to New Zealand.

Application

Eavesdrop - listening without the speaker’s knowledge.

Entranced - filled with wonder and delight.

Spellbound - having your attention fixated as though by a spell.

Bewitched - under a spell

Game On!

GAME ON!

by Trish Puharich.

Knowledge.

Every four years, the world celebrates the Rio 2016 Olympics, the school celebrates, them as well. We really got into it. All the of the classes were mixed up big kids with little kids together we’re all put into some teams from the different countries.

Comprehension.

Well as all our usual schoolwork, we make flags learn a bit of other team’s country, and some of us get to know that the people in the better, Big kids buddy up with the little kids to help them out. Only two of them are usual olympics sports can you work the which two?

Application.

We had flags, music speeches singing and dancing, the Bangladesh team had one that went: Bangladesh are so cool, we’re the best team in our school.

Analysis.

I liked it when the whole school Olympics and I liked it when they did it too.