Reading - Pānui:

1. Read for 10 minutes a day

You could:

• read from your books at home, read to a teddy, read to your pet or use sunshine classics. The link is below.

• Listen to reading, record yourself reading on seesaw and send it to your teacher.

Sunshine Classics - log in through the student login button. Your teacher would have shared your user name and password.

Sunshine Online

• user name: banksavenue

• password: heartlearners

Writing - Tuhituhi:

Over the week see if you can complete these activities:

1. Listen to the story about how Maui slowed the sun, think carefully about what you would have done if you were Maui.

2. Draw or create a trap for the sun.

3. Write instructions on how to build the trap and how to use it.

Extra for Experts:

1. Pretend you are the sun - write the story from your point of view.

Think about how a nasty person came and ruined all of your fun, surely he could have solved it another way?

2. Write a letter to Maui's mother informing her about how mean her son has been to you.

Maths -Pāngarau:

1. Spend 10 minutes a day working on your basic facts using Prototec or Prodigy:

Prototec

Prodigy

2. Problem solving:

a. Maui wanted to trap the sun. He needed to make a length of rope for each brother to trap Te Ra. Maui had 6 brothers and each brother needed a rope that was 10 metres long. How many metres of rope did he need?

Extra for Experts:

If each rope was made up of 10 flax pieces, how many flax pieces would Maui have needed to make the entire length of rope?

b. When Maui and his brothers went on their adventure to capture Te Ra they needed to take provisions. All together there were 7 people (Maui and 6 brothers). On the journey they ate:

7 bananas, 14 fish, 21 kumara, 28 paua and 35 crayfish

How many pieces of food were there all together?

Extra for Experts:

How many pieces of food did each brother eat?

3. Geometry

Draw a picture of Te Ra - what shapes have you used to create your picture?

Can you try and draw it in 2D? What about 3D?