School Journal Level 4 November 2022
There is a theme of kaitiakitanga in some of the content.
PDFs of all the texts in this issue of the School Journal are available online as well as teacher support materials (TSM) and audio for the following:
| Audio | TSM | ||
| Articles | Kaitiakitanga | ✔ | ✔ |
| Humphrey Hanley: Life on the upside | |||
| How Vaccines Work | |||
| Stories | Going in Nature | ||
| After the First Rain | ✔ | ||
| Poem | Leftovers for Breakfast | ||
| Student writing | Tāne Mahuta | ||
| Screenplay | The Box |
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Kaitiakitanga
by Susan Paris and Daniel Hikuroa
Most people think of a kaitiaki as someone who guards or protects the natural world. Maybe they look after a stream or beach, a native species under threat, or a local reserve. The term kaitiakitanga (the act of being a kaitiaki) comes from te ao Māori. It can mean each generation teaches the next about protecting taonga tuku iho – precious resources passed on by the ancestors.
Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Learning area: Science, Social Sciences
Curriculum level: 4
Reading year level: 6
Topics: activists, ancestors, artist, biodiversity, climate change, environment, farming, Greta Thunberg, Hāwera, history, identity, jeweller, kaitiaki, kaitiakitanga, Māori knowledge, Mātauranga Māori, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, museums, Papatūānuku, pounamu, Ranginui, regenerating bush, taonga, Taranaki, tikanga, tīpuna, tradition, tūpuna, Wairoa, wetland, whānau
In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Publication date: November 2022
Humphrey Hanley: Life on the upside
by Sarah Connor
Humphrey’s day starts when most people are stopping for morning tea.
Imagine if you couldn’t dress yourself or pack your own school bag. Imagine losing skin every time you bumped into something – or starting each day having your limbs wrapped in bandages.
Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Learning area: Health and Physical Education
Curriculum level: 4
Reading year level: 7
Topics: accessibility, adaptation, disabilities, epidermolysis bullosa, inclusion, invention, making a difference, persistence, problem-solving, wellbeing
In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Publication date: November 2022
How Vaccines Work
by Matt Boucher
At different times in your life, most doctors will recommend that you get a vaccine. You might have received your first when you were only a few months old. Vaccines protect us from infectious diseases. Some of these diseases might make you feel unwell for a few days; others are deadly.
Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Learning area: Health and Physical Education, Science
Curriculum level: 4
Reading year level: 8
Topics: antibodies, cells, COVID-19, disease, flu, immune system, infectious diseases, iron lung, kaitiakitanga, micro-organisms, pathogens, polio, vaccination, vaccines, variants, viruses
In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Publication date: November 2022
Going in Nature
by James Brown; illustrations by Jez Tuya
There’s trouble brewing in the local reserve, but Dad’s on to it …
Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Learning area: English, Health and Physical Education
Curriculum level: 4
Reading year level: 7
Topics: environment, freedom campers, humour, kaitiakitanga, persistence, tolerance
In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Publication date: November 2022
After the First Rain
by Anna Smaill; illustrations by E. Logan
The sequel to “The Bucket Man”.
After the first rain, everything changed. That night – when we heard the giant crack of the rain machine shooting its flares into the bone-dry sky and the heavens open – it was like one huge party.
Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Learning area: English, Health and Physical Education
Curriculum level: 4
Reading year level: 8
Topics: climate change, environment, family, guardian, invention, kaitiakitanga, knowledge, learning, rain, speculative fiction, survival, technology, weather
In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Publication date: November 2022
Leftovers for Breakfast
by Vanessa Mei Crofskey; illustration by Toby Morris
The world started sometime a while ago, although I’m not quite sure of the F.A.C.T.S.
Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Learning area: English, Science
Curriculum level: 4
Reading year level: 8
Topics: humour, poetry, The Milky Way, the universe
In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Publication date: November 2022
Tāne Mahuta
by Ellie Job, year 7, Belmont Intermediate; illustration by Kieran Rynhart
Go get a life. Loser! She’s so annoying ... Thoughts galloped around in my head like horses. I tossed and turned beneath the
soft covers of my bed. It was no use. Sleep wouldn’t come. I climbed out of bed and thrust an old, ripped hoodie over my pyjamas.
Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Learning area: English, Health and Physical Education
Curriculum level: 4
Topics: environment, kiwi, resilience, student writing, Tāne Mahuta, wellbeing
In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Publication date: November 2022
The Box
a screenplay by Leki Jackson-Bourke; illustrations by Minky Stapleton
A box, five ākonga, and a whole lot of confusion.
Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Learning area: English, The Arts
Curriculum level: 4
Reading year level: 7
Topics: communication, group dynamics, humour, kaitiakitanga, play
In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022
Publication date: November 2022
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