Duck Overboard Summary

Summarising the Main Idea

L.I. To look for keywords and phrases

Good readers notice key words.  Here are some clues to help you find key words:

• Key words are directly connected to the topic
• Key words are often repeated in the title and the text
• A key word helps you to remember an important idea

Use this table to help you summarise the main ideas in a text in your own words.  It is important that you use your own words to show your understanding and to avoid plagiarism.  If you don’t know what some words mean, look them up.

Keywords from the title Duck

Keywords from sub headings Duck Overboard

New words I need to look up invaluable aid corroded

Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:

What? Ship was hit and 3 containers of rubber bath toys spilled spreading around the world.

Where? Ocean.

When? January 1992.

Who? Ebbesmeyer, Mr Ebbesmeyer

Why? A storm hit a ship causing 3 containers to spill from it, the containers were filled with rubber bath toys.

How? A storm

Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 25 words or less.

In 1992, a storm hit a ship causing containers of bath toys to spill. They spread different direction, and were used to mark the ocean.

L.I to identify the main ideas in a text.

For this weeks activity we had to write the 5 W's and 1 H to the story - Duck overboard - which we read about a week ago. We then had to write a summary using the words we wrote in 25 words or less. We also wrote what we thought the key words from the title were, key words from the sub heading, and new words we didn't know the meaning of. I learnt more about being able to explain what the main idea was using skim and scan strategy.

Co-operative Game

L.I:  Create a game which would encourage building characteristics from previous lessons.
In a group of 4, me and my group made up a game using teamwork and suitable for the juniors at
our school. We had many good ideas but decided to choose the one that is shown in the google slide. The first name for the game we had was master, but changed it to - Groups Sculpt which did have something to do with the game.

Analysing Products Advertisements

L.I: To recognise and understand the purpose of advertising (persuasive) language features.

For writing, we did advertisements. We were sent about 6 advertisements and had to try to guess what the product the advertisement was advertising. At the end we had to pick 1 advertisements we liked the best. We decided and agree to choose the pringles advertisements. 

Reflection, Rotation & Translation

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L.I: To learn how to rotate, reflect and translate a shape.

After some demonstrations of how to rotate, reflect, and translate any shape we had to give it a go our self. We had to make a 4 cornered shape and translate it by 5 left, and 7 down. Then we reflected an object. and rotated an object 90 degrees.  I found this an easy task to do. To find the horizontal and vertical numbers for the shape, I had to draw 2 vertical and horizontal lines with negative and numbers and regular numbers.

I learnt how to translate a shape.

New Zealand's History

Yesterday for reading, Mr Ogilvie's groups went up to LS2 to work with Mrs. Anderson's group since she is doing something similar to what Mr Ogilvie's groups were doing. We learnt about New Zealand's history and maori past life. I got into a group with Nyjah, and Sakina. We went on a site which had information about New Zealand and maori history. We were told to think about some questions you would like to know the answer to, then later the groups were called to the mat and gave their questions which were then wrote on the board. I learnt much interesting facts and information about New Zealand from the 1840s then stopping at 2010 by skimming and scanning through the information to find the main idea in that text and explaining in my own words.




Questions my group thought about -
What did Wherowhero do, to become the first moari king? Who chose him to be king?
Why did the states of Australia offer the New Zealand to join them and become the common wealth with them? Why did the New Zealand respond with no?
Who allowed people to vote secretly? Who thought of the idea?
What made the men decide to let adult women vote?
Why was Francis Henry the first prime minister for only 2 weeks?

The site we used to to get our information:  The New Zealand Parliament.

Raz Kids - A Golden Tradegy

This book is called A Golden Tragedy retold by Robin king and illustrated by Joel Snyder.

This story is about a how a king wanted to please his daughter and keep her happy for he loved her dearly and he set off and was granted one of his wishes by a wizard. It was to make everything he touches into gold. The wizard told him he will soon regret his wish and soon, he did. When his daughter gave him a hug, she also turned into gold! He set off to the cottage that the wizard lived in and begged for another wish, but the only way he could have his wish granted was to take away ALL the gold and glitter that surrounded him. Then his wish will be reversed. So he did what he was told, and then the spell was reversed!

Duck Overboard

Text title: Duck Overboard

Author: (I am not sure who the official/original author is)

I think the main idea of this text is… How rubber bath toys spread around and stopping at the different places and were used to mark the great ocean currents and how valuable, amazing and interesting they were.

One example of a supporting detail is… How a storm washed containers off a ship and one of the container spilled its rubber bath toys into the sea causing this event to happen.

Another example of a supporting detail is… How the rubber bath toys were able to float long distances and go separate ways and some of them being able to make their way to land/ground and how the scientist and researches found it very valuable and useful.

It is clear that the main idea is How a storm caused a boat to wash off a container filled with rubber bath toys and the adventure of the rubber bath toys and how they traveled long distances and more. Because A storm washed the containers off a ship and one of the container spilled its rubber bath toys into the sea causing this event to happen and how the rubber bath toys went separate ways and were able to float very long distances and and some of them being able to make their way to land/ground and how the scientist and researches found it very valuable and useful.

L.I: To identify the main ideas in a text.
I read a story called - Duck Overboard - and made a copy of a google doc that had a template of 3 that had - I think the main idea of the text is -, One example of supporting detail is -, Another example of supporting detail, and Its clear that the main idea is -.... Because -. I wrote what I thought the main Idea of the story was then wrote 2 examples of the supporting detail then official what I clearly thought the main idea was and the because.
I learnt to find the and put in the supporting detailed for your main idea and I learnt more about finding and thinking about the main idea and find the main idea in different ways.