Synthesizing is like putting puzzle pieces together!

Learning intention: We are learning to understand the reading skill of synthesizing.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I describe how we can put pictures together like puzzle pieces.

They are so different, yet they are so much alike!

Learning intention: We are learning to develop critical thinking skills through graphic organisers.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use a venn diagram to identify three commonalities of the strawberry and the Sun.

Did you know that the Olympus mons is the biggest volcano in space?

Learning intention: We are learning to develop critical thinking skills using Thinkers Keys.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use the alphabet key to find words that are related to astrology.

Fox, don't eat me!

Learning intention: We are learning to develop critical thinking skills.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I draw a food chain from an ant to a fox.

Let's put a net around the vegetable patch!

Learning intention: We are learning to develop critical thinking skills using Thinkers Keys.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use the Commonality key to find the commonality between a spoon and a dog.

Let's use Nereus to find out how deep the Marina ocean is!

                                         
Learning intention: We are learning to understand the text that we read.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write a summary of 'Marina trench' in my own words.

Do you think the ezo momonga is cute?

We are learning to develop creative thinking skills through poetry.
I know I can do this when I describe the body parts of an ezo momonga in a poem form.

Do you know how to use the atlas?

How to find places using the atlas

You will need:

1x atlas

1x flat table (optional)

Steps:

1. Look for the index of the atlas that is in the back pages of the book.

2. Find the first letter of the name of the country or city (for example, E for England, Europe).

3. Once you have found the name of the country or the city, read across for the page number and the coordinates (for example, 45 C4).

4. Go to the page number in the atlas.

5. Use the coordinates on the border of the map and line them up to find the country or the city.

Hint: The place you’re looking for is near the line that you’ve lined up.

We are learning to develop researching skills using the atlas.

I know I can do this when I explain how we can find a country or city using the atlas.

This bananque is so delicious!

We are learning to develop creative thinkng skills through poetry.
I know I can do this when I write a poem with instructions of how to make bananaque.

"I want to catch a sprat!"

We are learning to develop critical thinking skills through the inquiry process.
I know I can do this when I make an Inquiry about sprats by asking and answering 5 Inquiry questions.

The fog is too unclear, I can't see!

We are learning to develop creative thinking skills through poetry.
I know I can do this when I write a poem about the road to Hamilton.

Be careful not to step on new craters!

We are learning to develop critical thinking skills by using De Bono's white hat.
I know I can do this when I write down 4 facts about the craters of the moon.

Cow, why did you leave me?

We are learning to develop creative thinking skills through poetry.
I know I can do this when I write a poem about a cow on the beach and suddenly disappearing the next day.

Don't bite me jawbone!

We are learning to understand texts that we read.
I know I can do this when I use movenote to record my storyboard for the story Shark attack.

Where's the antlion?

We are learning to develop creative thinking skills through poetry.
I know I can do this when I write a poem that describes an antlion.

Don't bite me mukade!

We are learning to develop creative thinking skills through a poetry.
I know I can do this when I follow the structure of a poem and write a poem about a mukade.

Oh no, an angry sea monster is in the seven seas!

WALT creative thinking skills through poetry.
I know I can do this when I create a poem about a monster in the sea by adding interesting onomatopoeias.

Jack, sell this cow so we can have some money!

We are learning to understand and identify keywords from the story that I hear.
I know I can do this when I write down the keywords to describe Jack and other characters from the story.