Term 3 Week 3 Online Reading Activity

NZ ambulances turning yellow

1. Who is painting their Ambulances?
2. What are they hoping the change will do?
3. What is the most noticeable colour on the road?
4. Do ambulances travel very far?
5. Are ambulances used often in NZ? How do you know?
6. How long will it take to paint all of NZ's ambulances?
7. How much do you think it will cost to paint all of St Johns Ambulances?
8. If yellow is the most visible colour what colour do you think is the worst?
9. Have you ever had an experience with an ambulance? - Explain.
10. Why are they changing the Ambulances colour?

Escape artist completes skydiving box escape

Watch the clip

1. What is this news article about?
2. Who is the article about?
3. Why would someone do this?
4. What do you think was going through his mind when he was thrown from the plane?
5. How fast is 130mph in Kms (find out)
6. What is the secret?
7. How did he train for this?
8. Do coffins make you nervous?
9. What is the coffin really?
10. WHy do the tv hosts say "see you in 2038?

Handwriting Activity

To get a Gold Star you need to have to the best of your ability

1. Sloped your letters to the right (don't slope too far)
2. Have all of your letters sitting on the line
3. Have all of your letters even sized
4. Make sure your letters are not too wide
5. have a tidy border that relates to the text
6. keep all of the handwriting consistent (this means that all of the writing looks the same from start to finish)

Our Teacher's multi-talented

Our teacher's multi-talented.
He plays guitar and sings.
He paints impressive pictures
and can juggle twenty rings.

He dances like an expert,
he can mambo, tap and waltz.
He's also quite a gymnast,
doing airborne somersaults.

He's something of a swimmer.
He's a champion at chess.
It's difficult to find a skill
that he does not possess.

He speaks a dozen languages.
He's great at racing cars.
He's masterful at fighting bulls,
and studying the stars.

He's good at climbing mountains.
He can wrestle with a bear.
The only thing we wish he'd learn
is how to comb his hair.

--Kenn Nesbitt

News Comprehension Activity

New Zealand 12th most overweight country

Created on July 12, 2013

New Zealand has been named as one of the fattest countries in the world.

A new report by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation has ranked New Zealand 12th in a list of countries with the highest number of overweight and obese people.

The study found 27 percent of New Zealanders were obese, just behind Lebanon and alongside Slovenia. The average Kiwi was estimated to weigh 81.3kg last year.

The US, which did hold the top spot, has been overtaken by neighbouring Mexico, where 70 per cent of adults are overweight and a third obese.

Australia was the 17th fattest nation and Britain 19th.

Comprehension Questions

1. Who are New Zealand just behind in the study of obesity?
2. Why do you think New Zealanders are getting fatter?
3. What do you think could be done to solve the obesity issue?
4. Which country is the most obese in the world?
5. How much does the average Kiwi weigh?
6. Do you think it is important to know which country is the fattest?
7. Who do you think is responsible for the overweight people in NZ? 

News Comprehension Activity

The world’s most common pin number

Created on August 6, 2013

A study by scientists have found that the world’s most popular PIN number or password is the number – 1234.  Infact a staggering 11% of people have this as their number.

This number was closely followed by 1111, 0000 and 7777 as other most popular numbers.

The study found that people generally use important dates or information as a guide when picking their PIN  number. The most popular of these is a pet’s birthday or the date of a wedding anniversary.

Research suggests that many people simply opt for the most memorable code they can think of.

Using the digits zero to nine there are a total of around 10,000 possible ways to form a four-digit PIN code.

But using data from security breaches and previously released or exposed password tables, the bloggers found that 11% of the 3.4 million passwords they looked at were 1234 – a proportion they described as “staggering” and betraying a “lack of imagination.”

Questions

1. Why do you think the most popular pin number is 1234?
2. Which pin number closely follows 1234 as the second most popular?
3. how many possible ways are there to form a four digit code using the 0 to 9?
4. What percent of people have the pin number 1234?
5. Why do banks tell people not to use their birth date as a pin number?
6. Why do you think people would choose important dates as pin numbers?

Term 3 Week 2 Handwriting

Focus for handwriting
Remember: When you pick up your pen
1. Slope your letters to the right.
2. Make sure your letters sit on the line.
3. Make sure all of you lower case letters are the same size
4. Make sure all of your tall letters go from the bottom line to the top line.
5. Make sure your letters are not too big (meaning you can fit more words on a line)

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