The Day Mary Shook the Karaka Tree By Jan Farr

WALT:

look for clues in the text to help answer questions based on the text.

This story is about a family that goes tennis every Thursday and Mum lost the ball inside the Karaka Tree. Mary tried to climb the tree and tried to get the tennis ball down from the tree. Mum was so scared when Mary climbed the tree because she thought Mary might get hurt.

The characters in this story are Mary, Mum, Dad, Kids and Dana.

This story takes place at the house and the tennis court.

I liked this story because Mary was very brave and very confident, and this story is very enjoyable as well.

Big Shift By Jacqui Brown

Big Shift by Jacqui Brown

This story is about a family that splits up and Dad stays at home in the country while three children move to Wellington with their  Mum.

The characters in this story are Mum, Dad, Cherie, Terei, Tomo, the storyteller and Meilai.

Part of this story takes place on a farm in the countryside and part of it takes place in the city of Wellington in New Zealand.

I liked this story because it is very enjoyable, interesting and it’s about Country life and City life.

Procedure Writing

WALT: write a procedure on giving directions

Success Criteria:

My writing will have a title, goal, materials and steps as the structural features and nouns, action verbs, adverbs and words that show time sequence as the grammatical features.

ACTIVITY:

open a street map of Glen Innes.

Write a procedure on giving directions to a visitor who would like to go from Glenbrae School to Sacred Heart College on West Tamaki Road.

STEPS:

1.Walk out of the gate of Glenbrae School and turn left and stop at the crossing.

2.Cross the road and turn left to walk up Leybourne Circle.

3.Keep walking until you come to Mansfield Street.

4.Cross over Mansfield and keep walking up on Leybourne Circle.

5.Keep walking until you get to Courtland Avenue.

6.Turn right into Courtland Avenue and walk up to West Tamaki Road.

7.Turn left into West Tamaki Road, cross the road and turn left until you come to the gate.

8.Turn right and walk into Sacred Heart College.