Samoan Language Week - Main Idea

Since it is Samoan Language Week, Mrs Anderson created some activities about Samoa's traditions/culture. For this activity, we listened to a speech by Mata'afa Elia Autagavaia talking about how we should preserve the old traditions of the Samoan dances, and to tell the next generation how to correctly dance in Samoa.  

Main Idea - Wright Brothers

Today we were learnt four structures that are in a text. These are scaffold text, complimentary text, challenge text and self selected text. We read about the wright brothers using the scaffold of the four structures. The scaffold is the structure which you build up your knowledge with facts etc. We then made a DLO about the main idea about the text using the facts. 

Main Idea for Fast Feet

This is my DLO talking about the main idea for a story called "Fast Feet." We had to find the main idea by having 3 main points. In the story, there was a boy called Esela who was the fastest 8 year old in the whole school, he took running very seriously. I worked with Zahra and we came to an end that the main idea is: Why people call Esela fast feet. 

Mighty Muscles Main Idea

This week our main topic was about: finding the main idea in a story. We had to read a story called, 'Might Muscles.' It was a story about muscles and how they work. But for us to find the main idea, we had to also check. We had to talk about how we know that, that is the main idea. In the end, I thought that the main idea for this text was talking more about our muscles, how we keep them safe/prevent them from injuries and a little bit about our muscles.