19 February - 25 February

FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

We are FOCUSING on developing report writing.

Success Criteria: I can...

• Write an information report about an aquatic animal.
• Write a report about preventing drowning.

                                                                                Achievement Objectives:

Recognises, understands, and considers how texts are constructed for a range of purposes, audiences, and situations.

• You will first watch this about how to write a report.
• Then you will write the information report about an aquatic animal of your choice in your English books. It would help if you choose an aquatic animal which is important to the Maori people.
• Finally, you will draw and colour in a picture of the aquatic animal which you have chosen to write your information report about.

                                                                                              Thursday

• You will first watch this about crossing the channel in car boats.
• You will now need to write a report about preventing drowning.
• You can use the NZ Herald website to help with getting information from articles about preventing drowning and the Water Safety NZ website which tells data and statistics.
• Your report should have a MINIMUM of five paragraphs which are:

1. Introduction

2. Statistics and information of drowning in NZ

3. Why there is drowning in NZ

4. What people are doing to prevent drowning in NZ

5. Conclusion