2013


 * Term 1: Relationships-My place in the World **

**Student Learning: **


 * =  ||= Programming the Beebot ||=   ||= Finding an object on the map ||=   ||
 * =  ||= [[image:little-giants/Beebot.JPG width="264" height="227" link="http://goals-r-us.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/position-and-orientation.html"]] ||=   ||= [[image:little-giants/Map.JPG width="228" height="262" link="http://goals-r-us.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/position-and-orientation.html"]] ||=   ||

​**Learning Activities**:

Explore maps and map symbols ||=  ||= Continents Map game Learn about the continents of the world ||=  ||= World Geography Games Gain a mental map of the world's continents, countries, capitals & landscapes ||
 * = [[image:little-giants/Adventure island.png width="261" height="204" link="http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive/maps-tools-adventure-island/kd/?ar_a=3"]] ||=  ||= [[image:little-giants/Continents Map game.png width="252" height="202" link="http://www.turtlediary.com/grade-1-games/puzzle-games/continents.html"]] ||=   ||= [[image:little-giants/World geography games.png width="211" height="197" link="http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm"]] ||
 * = Adventure Island

 Landscape Map Skills Practise skills in giving directions

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00adff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 220%;">**Independent Learning:**

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Me Maker <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive;">A fun activity to create 'YOU' ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px;">The Gingerbread Friend <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive;">Make your own Gingerbread friend ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Kids Next Door <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive;">Learn more about being a good Citizen || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Getting along <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive;">A guide ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Tiger's house <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive;">Story book - How to be safe at home ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Friends <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive;">Read the 'friends book' || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Build a neighborhood <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive;">Create your neighborhood ||=  ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Kiwi Kids <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fun activities about NZ Citizenship ||=  ||=   ||
 * = [[image:little-giants/Me_Maker.jpg width="262" height="183" link="http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/memaker_v2.html"]]
 * = [[image:little-giants/Getting_along.jpg link="http://urbanext.illinois.edu/conflict/index.cfm"]]
 * = [[image:little-giants/Getting_along.jpg link="http://urbanext.illinois.edu/conflict/index.cfm"]]
 * = [[image:little-giants/build_a_neighbourhood.png width="271" height="214" link="http://pbskids.org/rogers/buildBuild.html"]]
 * = [[image:little-giants/build_a_neighbourhood.png width="271" height="214" link="http://pbskids.org/rogers/buildBuild.html"]]

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 240%;">Term 2: Invention and Design =

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 31px;">Student Learning: =
 * =  ||= [[image:Student Learning Inventions.jpg width="414" height="338" link="http://kidblog.org/Little-Giants2013/tag/inventions-inquiry/"]] ||=   ||
 * =  ||= We've created a Fotobabble of an invention that we have changed ||=   ||
 * =  ||= We've created a Fotobabble of an invention that we have changed ||=   ||

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Learning Activities: = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Famous Inventors = =media type="custom" key="27630276"=

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 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 280%;">Term 3: The Arts: Class Musical - 'Save the Earth' **

=<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Student Voice: = <span style="color: #60abeb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

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<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 29px; line-height: 1.5;">**Independent Learning:** = = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Dance <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">This Term we are looking at Dance ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Music <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">We find out more about Music ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">It's Showtime <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Exploring Performing Arts and Kapa Haka || = =
 * [[image:little-giants/Dare_to_Dance.jpg link="http://www.wicked.org.nz/r/wick_ed/topics/dance/"]]
 * [[image:little-giants/Dare_to_Dance.jpg link="http://www.wicked.org.nz/r/wick_ed/topics/dance/"]]


 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 360%;">Term 4: Living World - Cause and Effect **


 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 220%;">Student Learning: **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">__Define__ a Habitat

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Describe a Wetland

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Compare and Contrast Living and Non-living things

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Cause and Effect of Pollution

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Predict/Generalise/Evaluate

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 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 220%;">Learning Activities: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Discussion questions:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*What was the land like before the Once-ler came? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*Did the Once-ler like the trees? Why did he chop down the first truffula tree? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*What did the Lorax mean when he said “I speak for the trees?” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*Why did the Once-ler keep “biggering and biggering” his factory? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*What happened to each animal as he did it? Bar-ba-loots? Swomee Swans? Humming Fish? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*What do you think he could have done differently while still ‘biggering’ his business? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*Can you cut down trees but still keep enough in the forest for the animals? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*How do trees help the earth: plants, animals, air quality, heat, noise, etc? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*What could the Once-ler have done differently to help each animal stay there? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*Do you think the Once-ler feels good about his decisions? Why or why not? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*What does the Once-ler say you can do with the truffula seed? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">*Could he have done this while the factory was still making Thneeds?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Lorax Activities ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Learn about things you can do to help <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">save our trees ||  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Lorax project in the classroom ||  ||
 * =  ||= [[image:Lorax activities.jpg width="274" height="201" link="http://www.seussville.com/#/games"]]
 * =  ||= [[image:Lorax activities.jpg width="274" height="201" link="http://www.seussville.com/#/games"]]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Plant and Animal Local Environment ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Saving our NZ forests ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Build a Habitat || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Places animals live ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sort plants and animals into groups ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sorting Game || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Do you know where each animal should live? ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Food Chain Game ||=   ||=   ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 220%;">Independent Learning: **
 * = [[image:little-giants/spot_living_things.png width="288" height="204" link="@http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plantsanimals.html"]]
 * = [[image:little-giants/all_about_animals_aaa.png width="290" height="201" link="http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/ict/aaa/aaa.html"]]
 * = [[image:little-giants/all_about_animals_aaa.png width="290" height="201" link="http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/ict/aaa/aaa.html"]]
 * = [[image:Habitats game.jpg width="266" height="176" link="@http://www.abpischools.org.uk/page/modules/human_animal_habitats/activity.cfm?coSiteNavigation_allTopic=1"]]
 * = [[image:Habitats game.jpg width="266" height="176" link="@http://www.abpischools.org.uk/page/modules/human_animal_habitats/activity.cfm?coSiteNavigation_allTopic=1"]]