Following on from our amazing visit to Waitangi last week, Tui Whanau have been reading more about how people voyaged to New Zealand from different parts of the world.
Mrs Broadwith create a Google site on this topic for us to access so we can access information about this topic easily.
We read about how many people - both men and women - travelled in large double- hulled waka from places like Polynesia and Micronesia, across oceans to come thousands of kilometres to get here. One of our texts told us about the type of wood these waka were carved from. Another talked about the way the explorers used the ocean currents to navigate their way towards the land. Did you know that the ocean currents change the closer to land they get? They also use the stars in the night sky to navigate their way and stay on course.
We were learning to identify keywords on the topic and summarise these texts.
Here is Liam's reading response. Mrs B said this is a good example of a response because he has summarised the text using the keywords and put in enough detail to explain it well, but not so much to make it too long.
We created word art and word puzzles using the keywords. This is an example of Brooke's Word Art and Jordy's Criss-Cross Puzzle
We learnt you have to save puzzle maker puzzles carefully or they disappear on you!
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