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.