Home Learning - Literacy

 

Home Learning - Ngā rā o te wiki

 If you cannot access Seesaw here's some te reo learning that you can do at home. 

Ngā rā o te wiki - Māori days of the week in NZSL

1. Listen to Ngā rā o te wiki

2. Practice pronouncing the days and signing the days in te reo

3. Match the English day of the week with the Māori day

The Adventure of Elephant and Piggy by Room 4

 A read aloud video of "We are in a Book" by Mo Willems.

• 🤔 Think. What kind of adventure would you like Elephant and Piggy to have next? What will the title of your book be?
• Room 4's Home Learning Responses
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by Kyle

 

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Home Learning - Draw and Write

 If you cannot access Seesaw here's an idea for writing that you can do at home.

Don't forget to draw a picture of your favourite animal to go with your story. 

Make a Paper Aeroplane

Make a paper aeroplane that flies

1. You will need paper

2. Click on the link and watch the video

3.Test how far it flies 3 times

4. Take a photo and send it to your teacher

 

Room 4's Home Learning Responses

Things to do at Home - Without Using the Internet!

 If you don't have access to online learning here are some ideas for you to do at home.  

1. Interview a family member.

Taking the time out to learn more about the people in your family might surprise your children. Get them to dig deep and think about their questions and their responses. Save these interviews so you can read them again.

 

2. Measure the area and perimeter of each room in your home. What could you use to measure?

This is a math skill everyone needs to know how to do. Bonus points if they do the windows too so they’ll know what size curtains would work!

 

3. Graph the types of birds that you see outside your house or through the window. Tips for Identifying birds  Once you’ve tracked your birds, make a graph to show how many of each kind were in your backyard during a certain period of time.

 

4. Be completely silent for 60 minutes, then write about the experience.

In a world where there are so many distractions, it’s amazing what we notice when we’re silent. 

 

5. Write a letter to your teacher or principal or classroom peer. Address the envelope yourself.

Learning to write a letter and address an envelope is important even in the age of email. The thrill of getting a letter in the mail cannot be overestimated.

 

6. Build a hut out of blankets and chairs. Camp in it all day while you create stories to tell your family over dinner.

Human beings love telling stories. What’s a fable? Learn about them and read some here.

7. Learn Morse Code and use it to communicate with your whanau through walls and floors.

It’s pretty fun (and clever) to use Morse Code as a way to keep messages hidden. 

 

8. Alphabetise the spices in your kitchen. What else could you put in alphabetical order?

Think only books can be alphabetised? The cook in your family will appreciate an organised spice cabinet.

 

9. Stay up late and stargaze.

When you don’t have to go to school in the morning, it can be okay to stay up late once in a while. Stretch out and watch the stars. If kids are curious about them, show them how to learn more. 

 

10. Call a grandparent or older member of your whanau. Ask them to teach you the words to a song from their childhood days.

Just like #1, this is something that can really help kids learn more about the people in their lives.

 

11. Using household materials, build a working rain gauge, barometer, and wind vane.

Use this quiet time to tinker and consider how things are made.

 

12. Determine and chart the times that different liquids require to turn solid in the freezer.

You know that game where kids blindfold each other and then do taste tests with things like hot sauce and lemon juice? This one is less messy, or likely to start sibling arguments.

 

13. Design and build puppets that perform a show (Try a shadow puppet show!)

 

14. Construct a family tree.

Make this one wide-open and out of the box. Challenge your kids to create any kind of tree they want and include anyone who they consider to be family.

 

15. Learn new big words. Can you write them into a story? What other genre could you write? Meanwhile, yay for big words like: ubiquitous, onomatopoeia and ambiguous,  immiscible etc. 

 

16. Draw a map of your home and neighbourhood.

In addition to being an important part of understanding how maps work, this activity helps kids define their world. Bonus tip: choose a safe place near your home on the map to meet family members in an emergency.

 

17. Sit silently for 15 minutes while you write down every sound you hear. When you are done, classify the sounds (high/low pitch, high/low volume, manmade v. naturally occurring, etc.).

Number 4 started kids off paying attention to silence. In this activity, let’s get kids making comparisons.

 

18. Create a Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts two people connected to you in any way.

Understanding that people who seem very different may have a lot of similarities shifts our perspective and creates room for kindness and understanding.

 

19. Learn, practice, and perform a magic trick.

From the bendable spoon to the floating card trick, learning magic tricks takes practice. But, when magic works, it’s the best.

 

20 Learn, practice, and tell three new jokes.

Everyone is going to need to laugh in the coming days of social distancing. Here are some jokes to get them started.

 

21. Use household materials to make and play stringed, percussion, and wind instruments.

Making instruments can be as easy as banging on a pot with a spoon, or you can try out these other ways to make instruments out of household goods.

 

22. Learn to shine a pair of shoes.

Shining shoes used to be more common when people wore sneakers only to do exercise, but it’s important to take care of the things you own. 

 

23. Look, draw, look.

Find something that you can sketch. Use the look, draw, look method and remember your whispering, talking and shouting skills.

 

24. Think, notice and wonder. Look out of the window or in your driveway or garden. Observe carefully, what do you notice? What do you think? What do you wonder?? 

 

25. Make a rainbow for your window. Go for a walk and see how many rainbows you can see in windows.

Level 4 Lockdown

 Kia ora, everyone!

 

I hope you are all safe and well. We are currently setting up online learning which will begin on Monday. I will be using Seesaw for this.

 

Please check the links on this blog, there are many that your children will enjoy. For Mathletics and Sunshine Classics, your child has their passwords in their red reading logs, please let me know if you need this again. I will also send you a code for Seesaw Home Learning which will enable me to assign learning experiences for your child. If you have not signed up for Seesaw, I have sent you an email to join Seesaw, please have a look at your Junk mail/Spam box as it can end up there. 

 

Please look after yourself and your family. If you have any questions, e-mail me at rtyler@hameast.school.nz  or you can message me via Seesaw. 

 

Thank you and take care!

Rachael Tyler

If I were an Olympian....

At the Olympic games people cheer for boxing and shooting. The Olympic games started 2700 years ago. If I were an Olympian, I would be a boxer. 

by Te Kaea 

The Olympic games is in Japan. When people win they get a trophy. If I were an Olympian I would be a swimmer and I would get two medals. 

by Milah

The Olympic games are held in Japan. The Olympic games is every four years. The Olympics is 2700 years old. It has different sports like hockey, swimming and judo. If I was an Olympian I would do archery. If I got a gold medal I would celebrate by eating ice cream. 

by Dan

The Olympic games have gymnastics, swimming and a lot of other sports. If I were an Olympian I would be a swimmer because I like swimming. I would be fast.                                           by Loleni

God's Eye - Ojo De Dios

Room 4 have been having fun learning to weave. We made these God's Eye crafts using popsicle sticks and wool. Our biggest challenge the first time we made them was that nobody except Mrs Tyler could tie our knots, so she had a very long line waiting for help! The next day, we made some more, but this time we learnt to tie wool together first and the process was much faster.

The picture on the wall is of the first ones we made. 

This is the second time we made these. The students made these all by themselves.
We've got quick learners!