Learning for Thursday 30th April...

Ko Rāpere tenei ra.  Today is Thursday 30th April Can you read our karakia with me… Remember, do as little or as much as you like...

Activity 1:  Maths around your neighbourhood: Statistics: Jenny shared this great activity with me, it is using what is around you to count and make a ‘statistic’.  A statistic means counting something that we see a lot so we can find out more about that thing.   An example would be:  How many people  do you see walking past your gate or door in an hour?  Or how many blue cars drive past your window in two hours? You could choose something to count that interests you over a period of time.  I would say maybe an hour, or for the length of your walk Here are some more suggestions: Choose one colour of car to count on the way. On the way home or the next time choose a different one. Keep going for several trips. What colour seems to be the most common? The least common? I would love to hear what you have found. You could take a photo or a video or draw a picture of what you found out.

Activity 2:  Writing Time:   I live ‘kind of’ in the country and when I go for my walks every day, I see these three Llamas.  I say hello to them everyday… Today I thought we could write a story about these Llamas. Here’s the start to my story...perhaps you could finish it for me… Think about where the Llama would go?  Maybe to the dairy to get an icecream, or maybe to the Zoo to see a Zebra... I wonder where your Llama will go?

Activity 3:  KINDNESS activity:  Find something or someone in your bubble that you could do something for... like... tidy, help, encourage, look after… good on you, keep it up!  We LOVE kindness!

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.

Morena tamariki...

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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.

Kia ora tamariki from the Llamas...

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Learning for Tuesday 28th April...

Ko Rātū tenei ra.  Today is Tuesday 28th April

To begin each day, let’s start with the karakia  Can you read our karakia with me… Activity 1:  Have you ever tried to do Origami before?  I am going to give this a go…  You will need a piece of paper cut into a square:  Watch the following video How to do origami that our Yoshie has made and learn how to make an Origami dog Thank you Yoshie...Send me a picture...

Activity 2:  MUSIC TIME:  We are so lucky to have Yoshie in our school to teach us how to sing:  Here are two songs you may already know… Click on the links below to hear the songs. Te Aroha  Mā is white  Perhaps you could draw a rainbow with all the colours from the Mā is white song

Activity 3:  Writing Activity :  WORD POWER OR ALPHABET POWER! Today for writing, you will need a pencil, paper and access to the alphabet card above.  I want you to see if you can write 15 letters of the alphabet power challenge to start with… If you would like to have a go at the word power challenge:  Write 10 words, next time we do this challenge, we will see if you can beat your record. Send me a picture, I’d love to see your work.

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.

Make a Poppy for your letterbox... Morena Room 4

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ANZAC Day activities

Friday 24th  April:  Room 4’s Learning.   Choose one or two tasks to complete that interest you.  You might like to start off with the warm up acitivites. To begin each day, let’s start with the karakia  Can you read our karakia with me...

Warm up activities:  Letter sounds activity Learning numbers 0-20 Easy Sight Words

Activity 1:  ANZAC DAY -  Listen to the story on the link below:  It is called ‘Lest we forget”  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lest+we+forget It is a story about a soldier's life and life like you and I.  I wonder if you can work out why we make ANZAC biscuits, you’ll have to listen carefully to the story.  ANZAC biscuit recipe;  You could even have a go at making them yourselves if someone in your family can help you and you have all the ingredients.  Or you could draw a picture of your favourite type of biscuit.

Activity 2:  This is another fantastic idea from Mrs M. We are in Kākāpō hub. Over the next few weeks, let's look at the Kākāpō.  What can you find out about this special bird?  ~ Where does it live in New Zealand?  ~ What do they eat?     What sound do they make? ~ Why is it critically endangered?  Watch this clip about the Kākāpo. ~ What did you find out?  Draw your own picture of a Kākāpō.

Activity 3: Listen to the story ; The Smartest Giant in Town Perhaps you could write a card to the smartest Giant in town like all the animals who he helped did.  You could draw some pictures to make it a really special card.

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.