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Design your own sandcastle!
Design your own sandcastle!
Summer is coming up!
Be creative and design your very own sandcastle with any materials you like!
Here are some ideas to inspire you...
Lego & Blocks
Can you create a sandcastle with Lego or blocks you have at home?
Recyclable Materials
Ask your family to help you find some recyclable items to create a sandcastle.
Draw
Here is a step-by-step clip to help you draw a sandcastle.
Sand
If you go to the beach or have a sandpit at your house, you can create your own REAL sandcastle!
Don't forget to email your teacher a photo of your sandcastle creation!
Extra Sandcastle Challenges
Extra Sandcastle Challenges
Writing
Writing
Write a short procedure explaining how you made your sandcastle.
Maths
Maths
Design a sandcastle using a variety of shapes.
Pimp my Ride!
Pimp my Ride!
Dress up your bike or scooter and take it for a ride!
Have a look around your home and see if you can find ribbons, pipe cleaners, plastic flowers, streamers, toys or anything to decorate your ride.
What can you do to bedazzle your wheels and make your wheels look brand new!
Take it for a ride around the block, you might make someone smile when they see your awesome creation!
Bouncing Balls!
Bouncing Balls!
THINGS YOU NEED:
Balls of different sizes, shapes, materials – as many as you want to investigate (for example - soccer ball, basketball, tennis ball etc).
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
Create a chart to record your findings. It could have 2 columns (Type of ball and How it Bounced).
As you bounce each ball, describe it with the criteria - "very bouncy", "not bouncy" and "some bounce."
If one of your balls doesn't bounce...record this
Write a story about your findings. Which ball was the bounciest ball? Which ball bounced the least?
Have a think about why this might be?
Be a Superhero!
Be a Superhero!
You have been assigned a task to be the superhero in your bubble at home.
Have a think about some tasks you can complete to be helpful at home.
Write a list of all the tasks you manage to do
Some examples are...
Unload the dishwasher
Tidy your room
Eat all your vegetables
Help make the dinner
Go to bed without a fuss
Challenge assigned, fly away and make your bubble a happy place!
Make a Mousetrap!
Make a Mousetrap!
Mrs Cameron is here to help you make a mousetrap!
Remember you have to ask an adult to help you complete this task to ensure you are being safe.
You will need...
Tin of Spaghetti
English Muffins or any other bread
Grated Cheese
Make some Pikelets!
Make some Pikelets!
Mrs McInnes is here to help you make pikelets!
Remember you have to ask an adult to help you complete this task to ensure you are being safe.
You will need...
Flour
Baking Powder
Salt
Egg
Sugar
Milk
Butter
Ancient Egypt Doco
Ancient Egypt Doco
Click here to watch a kid-friendly documentary about Ancient Egypt.
Below the video on the link are follow up activities, including a quiz, how to write your name in hieroglyphics and some information about the mummy, Ta-Sedgemet who is on display at the Auckland Museum.
Extra Challenge: POP QUIZ (for after you watch the doco)
How long did it typically take to build a pyramid?
What lives in the Nile river?
How tall is the Giza pyramid?
What is missing on the Sphinx?
How many Gods were there?
What number is the cat God?
How many pyramids are there?
Make a Nature Mandala
Make a Nature Mandala
Step 1: Collect Your Materials
Your mandala may take on a theme. Mandala’s can have a beach theme that uses only shells or be more open-ended with a variety of natures loose parts. It is up to you.
Materials: Leaves, Shells, Rocks, Flowers, Sticks, Acorns, Pine Cones, Ferns….
Step 2: Organize your Materials by Size
Step 3: Choose a center point and work your way out. This is open-ended and can evolve as you go.
Cardboard Town
Cardboard Town
Have a go at creating your own cardboard town.
Have a go at creating your own cardboard town.
Think about...
Roads, houses, gardens, people, cars, restaurants the ideas are endless.
Could you add a zoo, playground or school?
Write street names and number the house.
Remember to write about your town in your learning journal!
Make a hut to do your online learning in...
Make a hut to do your online learning in...
Inside or outside! I don't think you need instructions for this! Just have heaps of fun!
Inside or outside! I don't think you need instructions for this! Just have heaps of fun!
Ask if you can add fairy lights to your hut!!
Ask if you can add fairy lights to your hut!!
You could write about your experiences in your learning journal. Remember to take a photo of your finished hut.
You could write about your experiences in your learning journal. Remember to take a photo of your finished hut.
What we do in the Shadows
What we do in the Shadows
All you need is a sunny day, some of your favourite animals, pens and paper. The tricky part is finding the direction of the sun and making the toy animals shadow fall on the paper. Try this around lunchtime, then before dinner time. Was the shadow the same?
Colour in your artwork.
Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt
How many of these can you find inside your house?
How many of these can you find inside your house?
Can you take a picture of them and send them to your teacher?
Can you take a picture of them and send them to your teacher?
You could draw them too...
You could draw them too...
Can you time how long it took you to collect them?
Can you time how long it took you to collect them?
How many did you get? Count them? Could you put them into groups?
How many did you get? Count them? Could you put them into groups?
Could you organise them onto a graph?
Could you organise them onto a graph?
View from my window
View from my window
Take a photo from your house out one of your windows. What can you see? Describe all the things you can see.
An activity to do with an adult ... together, visit a page on Facebook called View From My Window. Look at the views that other people have from their windows. How is their view similar or different from your view? This is like a big geography project. Look in an atlas and try and locate the place where your favourite view is. Make a list of places you might like to visit one day when you are bigger or draw a picture of your favourite view. Why is this your favourite view?
This view is taken from someone's window in Castle Rock, Utah. USA.
DIY it's in our DNA
DIY it's in our DNA
Do you love helping out those in your bubble with jobs in your house or garden? Well now it's your turn to go solo. See if there is something at your house that you can transform into something new.
It might be an old stool, fence or plant pot that needs some new paint, a part of the garden that needs digging or weeding, or even some nails in the deck that need re-hammering!
You could also put some warm soapy water into a bucket and clean the outdoor furniture, the deck or wash the car for mum and dad. Take advantage of the lovely sunshine!
Mandala Art
Mandala Art
If you cannot go outside to collect items for a nature mandala, you can try to make one of these! You can design your very own mandala by drawing it with felts or crayons, using puffy paint, sidewalk chalk or even making your own chalk. Get creative and have fun!
Make a lockdown time capsule
Make a lockdown time capsule
This time in lockdown is a moment in history (and hopefully only once in a lifetime). Can you make a time capsule to remember this time and save it for years to come to show people and remember what this time was like.
This time in lockdown is a moment in history (and hopefully only once in a lifetime). Can you make a time capsule to remember this time and save it for years to come to show people and remember what this time was like.
How to make it?
How to make it?
Find a bottle or box (with a lid) to store your time capsule in. You could use an old lunchbox or drinkbottle! Then find things to go into your time capsule:
Find a bottle or box (with a lid) to store your time capsule in. You could use an old lunchbox or drinkbottle! Then find things to go into your time capsule:
- Photo of your family
- Picture of your house or pets
- A diary of a day in lockdown
- A list of all your favourites - your favourite food, colour, place, hobby, book, toy
- Write about what you loved about lockdown ... and what you didn't!
Make a magnetic fishing game
Make a magnetic fishing game
Make about six fish. Use any thicker paper or cardboard for this—an old piece of your own art works well. Draw a basic fish shape and cut it out.
Attach a paper clip to the mouth of each fish.
Make a fishing rod with a stick (or knitting needle, pencil, dowel etc) and a length of string tied to one end. Secure where you have tied the string on by adding a dab of blu-tack.
Make a large fish-hook to attach to the other end of your fishing line. Draw the fish hook on paper or cardboard and cut it out. Find a small piece of magnet around your house (there may be magnets on your fridge you can use) and glue, or blu-tack it onto the hook. (If you can't find any magnets or magnetic strip, you could bend a paper clip open and glue that onto the hook - it can hook through the paperclip on each fish.)
Dangle the hook over your fish to see how many you can catch.
I'm stuffed!
I'm stuffed!
You will need:
You will need:
Some material (maybe use an old t-shirt you have grown out of?)
Some material (maybe use an old t-shirt you have grown out of?)
A needle and some cotton.
A needle and some cotton.
Click the arrow here for instructions
Click the arrow here for instructions
Draw a simple outline of your favourite animal on your material.
Draw a simple outline of your favourite animal on your material.
Cut out your animal shape.
Cut out your animal shape.
Sew around the outside (perimeter) of your shape about 1cm from the edge. Here is a link to show you how to do running stitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y862UI8fPhM
Sew around the outside (perimeter) of your shape about 1cm from the edge. Here is a link to show you how to do running stitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y862UI8fPhM
Continue sewing around the outside of your animal shape, but stop about 8cm before you reach the place where you started sewing.
Continue sewing around the outside of your animal shape, but stop about 8cm before you reach the place where you started sewing.
Turn your animal inside out and stuff your toy. (You will need to be creative with what you have at home to stuff your toy with eg, you could cut newspaper into long narrow strips).
Turn your animal inside out and stuff your toy. (You will need to be creative with what you have at home to stuff your toy with eg, you could cut newspaper into long narrow strips).
Sew the 8cm gap closed so the stuffing stays inside your toy.
Sew the 8cm gap closed so the stuffing stays inside your toy.
Read a story to your new toy!
Read a story to your new toy!
You could write about the things you found easy or difficult when making your toy. What new skills did you learn?
You could write about the things you found easy or difficult when making your toy. What new skills did you learn?
This week Kind Koala goes to……
This week Kind Koala goes to……
Try and think of all the kind things you could do for the people in your bubble and then do them!
Keep a record of your kindness over the week.
When the week is over read through all the kind things that you have done and see which one was the KINDEST.
All the leaves are brown
All the leaves are brown
During your time outside collect some of the different leaves you come across. When you have a good variety of different shapes, colours and sizes use your leaf collection to make a beautiful picture. Take a photo and write down the different colours and shapes you can see.
Make a Fairy House
Make a Fairy House
Do you have a fairy at the bottom of your garden? Maybe you need to make a house for it?
Collect bits and bobs from around the house. You can use sticks and things from in the garden too!
Yum that tastes good?
Yum that tastes good?
Design and make the most delicious toasted sandwich using ingredients you have at home.
Write down all the ingredients you use and record the responses of the people eating your finished creation.
SOCK IT TO ME
SOCK IT TO ME
Using an old sock and any other materials available make a sock puppet that looks like your favourite teacher at school.
You could take photos showing each step you take to create your puppet and then put them in order from start to finish.
Remember to take a photo of your finished puppet!
Pick up a stick, look out for a feather, some leaves and other lovely nature bits and pieces. Come home and put it together to make a Nature Stick
I love the idea of looking for things on my walk. How many of these can you find? You could make your own scavenger hunt for people in your family and do these together.
Use an old egg carton to keep a collection of your treasures from your walks around your community. You could add the date and photograph these too. You could also make a tally chart of all the different things you collect and put this into your Learning Journal.
Nature Walk
Nature Walk
Explore your neighbourhood with your family in your bubble. Go on a walk and see what you can find, make, explore and create with ...
Bring home some of the nature items you found and be creative in your backyard.
There are LOTS of cool Autumn leaves that have fallen from trees. Why not collect a whole bag of leaves!
Make your own chalk or chalk paint.
Make your own chalk or chalk paint.
Mix 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup cornflour, food colouring.
This will wash off if it is used with a paintbrush on concrete.
How to make coloured chalk sticks from eggshells
5 egg shells (crushed into fine powder), 1bsp flour 1bsp water, food colouring.
Roll into a cylinder shape by rolling in wax baking paper OR press into muffin tray moulds. Allow to dry for 24-48 hours.
Let's make play dough!
Let's make play dough!
This recipe has very hot (or boiling) water in it so you will need a parent helper for that part.
This recipe has very hot (or boiling) water in it so you will need a parent helper for that part.
Ingredients
Ingredients
3 cups flour 1 tablespoon cream of tartar
3 cups flour 1 tablespoon cream of tartar
1/2 cup salt 1 tablespoons oil
1/2 cup salt 1 tablespoons oil
1 cup of very hot (or boiling) water
1 cup of very hot (or boiling) water
*Food colouring/Essential oil for colour or scent.
*Food colouring/Essential oil for colour or scent.
Put all the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix it all together.
Put all the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix it all together.
Then add in the very hot (or boiling) water and stir. You can add the food colouring directly to the very hot (or boiling) water if you would like an even colour mix.
Then add in the very hot (or boiling) water and stir. You can add the food colouring directly to the very hot (or boiling) water if you would like an even colour mix.
Knead well and your play dough will become perfectly smooth.
Knead well and your play dough will become perfectly smooth.
Take lots of photos and you could write about all the creative things you made with your play dough.
Take lots of photos and you could write about all the creative things you made with your play dough.
Masterchef Challenge
Masterchef Challenge
Choose a recipe and follow the instructions to make something yummy to eat. Record what your have done including diagrams, pictures and sequenced instructions. Get your family to score your meal.
Choose a recipe and follow the instructions to make something yummy to eat. Record what your have done including diagrams, pictures and sequenced instructions. Get your family to score your meal.
You could record a story about your experience in your learning journal!
Take a photo of the finished dish before it gets eaten and save it to your Learning Journal.
Scavenger Hunts!
Scavenger Hunts!
Have a go at completing these scavenger hunts. You could take photos of all the things your find.
You could write about your scavenger hunt in your learning journal.
Challenge: Create your own scavenger hunt for someone in your family to complete.
Learn about Disney Computer Graphics
Learn about Disney Computer Graphics
Think of a Disney Movie that you really enjoy. Write down the title.
Think of a Disney Movie that you really enjoy. Write down the title.
Who is your favourite character in the movie and why? Draw a picture of your favourite character. Label your picture with describing words. Talk to someone in your family about your drawing at dinner time.
Who is your favourite character in the movie and why? Draw a picture of your favourite character. Label your picture with describing words. Talk to someone in your family about your drawing at dinner time.
Tomorrow you could choose a different Disney Movie and do this activity again.
Tomorrow you could choose a different Disney Movie and do this activity again.
Add your drawings into your Learning Journal.
Add your drawings into your Learning Journal.
It's raining again...try this indoor scavenger hunt!
It's raining again...try this indoor scavenger hunt!
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