What key facts can you find to answer you questions?

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Kids around the world.

Next week is Cultures Week.

Let's start looking at the cultures we represent or connect with in our classes.

1). What culture/s do you and your buddy connect/identify with?
2). What do you and your buddy already know about your cultures or nationalities? Can you fill in any pieces on the page?
3). Use the websites below and books in the class to find your country and the country of your buddy.
4). Fill in the parts of the sheet and add anything else you would like to share into the interesting facts section.

Kids from around the world

Countries around the world

Around the world- cultures- you need to know what continent your nationalities belong to.

Useful links to parts of different cultures

Countries of the world

World travel guide

Guides to countries. You will have to help your buddies with this.

Some customs from around the world

Summary of learning quiz.

What will we do with our learning?

R11 you told me all the ideas you had about what you needed to do next. Now we need to make it happen.
Take a look at this survey and fill in your choice.
(You don't have to wait for me to get started, if you have chosen something and have time in class, then GET GOING! SOOOOOO excited!)

Quick Finishers...

Human Rights Essay Be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Ghandi What would you like to tell people? What is important to know about this? What does it look like in real life? What does it look like in children’s lives? What have people done in the past about this? Can you tell us about a famous human rights activist? What would you like people to do?	Human Rights: What would you like to find out more about? Make a memory or matching game with the human rights. Something you could play with your buddies. Take a look at the action from these schools: http://www.kidsgoglobal.net/showcase/student-work/
Human Rights: Is there anything you can work on for your board game?	Human Rights: Write some questions and answers down that could be used for a 10 question Kahoot! Quiz.
Make a poster: Who would it be for? What would it be for- persuading them, informing them, explaining something?	Make a slideshow with the  top 5 rights you think are most important for us. What are three questions you will answer about each one?
http://www.kidsgoglobal.net/the-issues/human-rights *Share everything you do with me. **We will have one more day together to finish things off!

Monday Independent learning time.

There are 5 parts to today.

1. You have your maths practice sheet. Work your way through. Check your answers on the back. GLUE in your Maths books.

You can do these in any order but you should be able to complete them all today if you work well. 

2. CHALLENGE: Click on the link: Art Challenge
There is a sneak peek below.😆






3. Use your knowledge. Share your thoughts on each individual picture.

Explain the different Elements used in the pictures below.

Why have they been used?

What does this create? (effect)

Art Elements

·    Line, Colour, Shape, Form, Value, Space, Texture.

4. Plan your calendar art piece. The deadline for Calendar Art is near. Think carefully about what you would like to do, and which elements and techniques from this term you would like to use to create your art piece. What message would you like to communicate?

5. Descriptive writing. Remember the way we brainstormed what adjectives

(describing words) we might use and the different areas we described?

(Setting, characters... and so on).

Choose one of the below pictures.

Do a brainstorm like in class.

Use the structure to plan out your writing.

WRITE! Use your writing book unless you usually type. (If you type share with me

(alanac@silverdale.school.nz) and Mr Taylor).

Water colour explorations

First idea for  LANDSCAPES Watch this. Do the background and then take a couple of pics from around school that you could use in your watercolours.

First idea for SILHOUETTES Watch this. Think about something that you could use as a silhouette that people would RECOGNISE. Find it online to use in your picture. Get startedJ

First idea for doing your own cartoons with watercolour. Watch, sketch a 3 frame cartoon. Go to it J