Description
Tutepourangi Manihera-Thomson talks about his job as a guide at the Aoraki Mackenzie Dark Sky Reserve, and explains the concept of “dark skies” and their importance, particularly in mātauranga Māori.
This pack contains a range of structured literacy activities including
- Spelling rules ck / dge / drop the e / y as a consonant or vowel
- Sounds of -ed
- Exploring parts of language - adverbs, adjectives, nouns, verbs etc
- Doubling or not when adding -ing, -ed
- Floss rules
- Compound words
- Identifying and naming suffixes
- Identifying and naming prefixes
- Vowel teams
- Root words
- Controlling 'r'
- Diagraphs
- Schwa words
- Ghost diagraphs
- -oo- and -oo- / -au and -ow /
- Hard and soft c and g
- Common subordinating conjunctions
- And much more!!
Themes explored include: Aoraki Mackenzie Dark Sky Reserve, aurora australis, constellations, dark sky reserves, Māori astronomy, Māori culture, Matariki, Milky Way, moon, Mount Cook, night sky, observatory, planetarium, planets, Pleiades, Rakiura, solar systems, star clusters, star-gazing, stars, Stewart Island, Stonehenge Aotearoa, Subaru, sun, tātai arorangi, Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve, whetū
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