About My Group - Gumboots Fact Sheet

Walt: Explain in my own words what my group name means using the readings.

Walt: Follow instructions and complete work to a high standard and learn about my group name through reading

Task Description: Create a fact sheet that you can share with other people using all of the information you have found out about your icon.

About My Group - Gumboots True or False

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Statement	True or False	Evidence from the text
Taihape is the Gumboot capital of New Zealand	True	Pg 18 - at the start of the article it is written at the top that Taihape is the capital.
The Gumboot Festival only happens every four years.	False	Pg 18 - Every year, at Easter, Taihape holds a Gumboot Festival.
No one in the town puts in any effort or time to practice.	False	Pg 18 - The whole town puts in lots of practice for the world-famous gumboot-throwing competitions.
The first gumboots were made in New Zealand in 1843.	False	Pg 19 - Gumboots were first made in New Zealand in 1943
The Duke of Wellington’s boots were made out of leather.	True	Pg 20 - The Duke of Wellington’s boots were made of leather.
Most farmers still prefer to wear black gumboots on the farm.	True	Pg 21 - Most farmers still prefer black gumboots.
You can only buy gumboots in one colour and that is black.	False	Pg 21 -  but these days gumboots are sometimes made of plastic, and you can buy them in any colour you like.
In the book there is something called a rare gumboot tree. (Take a picture of this one and place it in the evidence box).	True

Task Description: Fill out the table and answer true or false to each of the statements and then provide evidence from the text.

About My Group - Gumboots - Poster

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Walt: Follow instructions and complete work to a high standard and learn about my group name through reading.

Task Description: Create a poster advertising the annual gumboot throwing competition in Taihape. Make sure to use information from the reading to help you create this. Also make sure that is appealing to the people who will be looking at it. A poster should be eye catching but it should also be informative.

About My Group - Gumboots Questions

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GUMBOOTS - Janet Pates
1.Where is the Gumboot capital of New Zealand?

Taihape.

2. Why do you think they call it the Gumboot capital of New Zealand?
Because they have a Gumboot Festival.

3. How often do they have a Gumboot Festival? When in the year is it?
The Gumboot Festival is held every year at Easter time.

4. What are some of the competitions listed in the book?
Best decorated gumboots, gumboot art awards, gumboot-throwing.

5. How long ago were Gumboots made?
In England about 200 years ago.  Gumboots were first made in NZ in 1943.

6. Explain the story of the first Gumboots in your own words:
The Duke of Wellington needed some boots made that he could go thru mud

and water, boots that look good and were comfortable.  He went to his

bootmaker and asked him to make these kind of boots.

7. When were Gumboots first made in New Zealand and why?
1943 - for farmers to use on their farms.

8. What is the difference between The Duke of Wellingtons boots

and the boots made for farmers?
The Duke of Wellingtons boots were made from leather and famers

boots were made from rubber.

9. Why are they called Gumboots in Australia and New Zealand?
Because they are made from the gum of the rubber tree.

10. In YOUR OWN WORDS describe why gumboots are black:
In the olden days to make the rubber gumboots strong, carbon was mixed with the rubber.

11. What is one goal you have for reading this year?
To be better than last year.

Task Description: Read the story Gumboots by Janet Pates and answer the questions above.