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Friday, 23 September 2016

Ladybird, Ladybird

Fill in the spaces with words from the article.
Ladybirds are found all over the world .
Many of them are red or orange .
Ladybirds come in other colours too, both with and without spots.
Ladybirds like to eat aphids and other garden pests.
The ladybird glues  eggs under leaves. A week later the eggs hatch into six-legged larvae. They eat about thirty aphids a day.
The larvae grow fast and need to split their skins several times. This is called moulting.
Next it turns into a pupa. After a week or two it becomes a ladybird.

Make some new words
munch     bunch     crunch     hunch     lunch   scrunch   
gobble     bobble    cobble     hobble    nobble     wobble      
ooze     booze snooze        

Did you know what all those words meant? Look up any you don’t know in  learnersdictionary.com

Read pages 14 - 15 to find out how the ladybird got it’s name.

Making Honey

Write the numbers to show what happened first, second and so on
5
Jill put the frames of honey in the extractor.
7
Jessie helped fill jars with honey to store for the winter or to give away.
1
Jill put on her special suit.
4
Jill uses a hot, sharp knife to take off the capping wax.
6
Jessie turned the handle of the extractor.
2
Jill lit the smoker so she could puff smoke into the hive to calm the bees.
3
Jill opened the hive to get the frames of honey out.

Find these words in the story and write the page number
Wax 10 Pohutukawa 8          Sneaked 10
Extractor 10 Community 8 Sting 9
Guard 10           Sieve 10 Queen bee 8

MARAMA'S DOG

Marama’s Dog (School Journal Part 1 Number 1 2009)
Choose the best word for the spaces from this list
 tail     sticks     grass     dog     knew     patches     roll     beach     tickled          
Marama’s dog had hair that stuck out.
He had black patches and white patches.
The tip of his tail was ginger.
No one knew what breed he was.
Kuri raced with Marama on the beach.
He caught sticks when she threw them.
He sat in the grass with her.
He loved to roll over and have his tummy tickled.

Fill in the spaces by adding endings to these verbs. The first one has been done for you. Be careful, some of them are tricky!

roll
rolls
rolled
rolling
look
looks
looked
looking
race
races
raced
raceing
frown
frowns
frowned
frowning
run
runs
runed
runing
play
plays
played
playing
dragg
draggs
dragged
dragging

Extra for experts - find words in the story that end with ly (there are 3) and write them here.

Pest Fish

Pest Fish  School Journal Part 2 Number 4 2005
Finish these sentences from the story on pages 7 and 8
Rudd are small
Rudd are called pest fish because they don’t belong in New Zealand
They were brought from England
They kill the native insects and eat the pond pllants.
The boys decide to try making a net from a piece of green shade cloth
They tie lead weights to it to keep it on the bottom of the pond
They also tie plastic bottles to the top of the net so that it well float in the water

Choose the best meaning for these words from the list below
edge - side
pest - belonging to a place
wade - walk through shallow water
expert - someone who knows a lot about something
poisonous -nuisance

native --deadly

Pest Fish 2

Pest Fish 2
Make some rhyming words
pest     best     chest     jest     nest    rest     test     vest     west                pond     bond     fond     
fish     dish     swish    wish
line     dine     fine   mine    nine     pine     vine     wine
day (make your own rhyming words)  ??

Underline with blue the 2 vowels that are next to each other in these words from the story. The first one is done for you.

because     free     spread     thousands     nuisance     Eamon     piece     green     lead     weights     keep     tie     float     freezing     search     death     pouring     their     disappear     poisonous     scoop     clear     eels     again

Make some sentences using these words
nuisance          fishing          search          tangled



Some time my brother can be a nuisance because when he plays his music so loud I get angry.

When I went fishing I caught a big fish.

When I lost my phone I kept searching for it.


When my mum bush my hair it get tangled.