Maori Place Names

 

This week we have been learning the meaning of New Zealand place names, and locating them on a map.

Visual Language

This week we were looking at a book called Charlie's Superhero Underpants by Lee Wildish. I looked at proximity for my DLO.

 

Vocabulary

This week we were learning the names of the baby animals. I chose to do a DLO on dogs and puppy's.

 

Visual Language

 

We looked at Static Images. This week the image is from Voices in the park by Anthony Browne. I looked at salience for my DLO.

Analogies

An analogy compares two things. In our example it compares a relationship between two objects and we can think of the match for the other object.

 

Homophones

We looked at homophones in our phonics this morning. Here is an example.

 

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

 

Here are some facts we found out about Maori language week.

Visual Language

 

We looked at an image from the book Tiger by Nick Butterworth. Here is a DLO to explain one of the elements we talked about.

Hexagon Art

 

We looked at the work of Chandler Klebs. Then we made our own art that used hexagons and alternating colours.

Index

 

We are learning about learning non-fiction texts and how to find information. Can you answer the question we wrote?