Wednesday 29th April - our learning for today...

Ko Rāapa tenei ra.  Today is Wednesday 29th April Remember everyone, do as little or as  much as you can.

To begin each day, let’s start with the karakia  Can you read our karakia with me…

Activity 1: Floating and Sinking Rhonda shared this floating and sinking activity, see what you can find at home and have a go...what floats, what sinks, perhaps you can draw a picture on one piece of paper all the things that sink, and on another piece of paper, all the things that float. Floating and sinking  Does a rubber duck float?  Or a ball?  What about a toy car or rocks and stones?

Activity 2:  Writing Activity: Rhonda shared this wonderful poem with me, that I thought you would enjoy.  I’ve seen soooooooo many leaves floating around on my walks... Read the Poem together. Take a piece of paper and you could do a leaf rubbing and if you want a real challenge, copy the poem out and illustrate, just like you did with hot air balloons. Here are the instructions of how to do a leaf rubbing.

Activity 3: Learning all about our friend ’ing’... Did you know that some words can be changed from one word to another by using ‘ing’.  For instance:  ‘have’ can become ‘having’.  ‘Take’ can become ‘taking’.  What happens is we ‘drop’ the ‘e’ and put ‘ing’ instead...some words don’t need to be changed, you just add the ‘ing, for example:  ‘Look’, can become ‘looking’, ‘go’ can become ‘going’... Can you make a list of words that can have ‘ing’ added.   Here is a starting list: going taking having looking

Activity 4: Complete Mathletics tasks set by your teacher.

Activity 5: Log on to Sunshine Classics with your own login and read some stories or have them read to you.   Have a look at the follow-up activities too.