Reading

At Grandma’s house the whau tree needed             pruning       .

Hundreds of brown Seeds rained from the prickly seed hill .

LI: Use the text to find clues.

1. At Grandma’s house the whau tree needed             pruning       .

Polishing                         pruning                         prodding                         pedalling

2. Hundreds of brown Seeds rained from the prickly seed hill .

Seeds              seal                         head                         hill                         herd                         half

3. They save the seeds because the possum have been eating the seedlings.

Possum                         posh                         parrot                         cows             

4. The dead wood was very easy to    saw   and they decide to make a raft

The Lightest Wood in the World

.

Raft                         break                         saw                         boat                         seed

5. They used a Lawn  for the sail.  They put lemons on the rafts to see

how many they would carry before they sank   .

Lawn                         sink                         leaf                         sank                         seal

6. Mikarere thought that their raft would win because it is more    strong .

Stable                         strong                         lighter                         colourful

7. Maori used to use the Whau wood to make rafts and floats for fishing           nets.

Whau                         whanau                         whitu                         fishing                         frog