YOUR 3 DAILY LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Monday 1st March

Creative Writing

What am I learning?

*to come up with creative ideas with the support of a picture

How can I make sure I am successful?

*I look at picture and see what is happening

*I come up with ideas that make sense

* I begin to build a story about the picture

Activity Description

Choose a picture below. Read the questions. Talk about these questions with someone and come up with ideas to write your own piece of creative writing. You are now the author in the control. Think about ways you could make your story interesting too. Here are some bullet points that might help you.

Describing words
Trying to paint a picture in the readers/listeners mind

Let's Leave!

Come up with your own answers to these questions, by talking about it with someone. It can help you to come up with ideas.

Where do the bubbles take you?
Do they always take you to the same place?
Can you control where the bubbles take you?
Which is heavier, the bubble-making liquid or the bubble?
Which is heavier, a balloon or a bubble?
Is a balloon heavier when it is full of air or before it’s blown up?

Use a paper or google doc and share it with your teacher.

Creature from the deep!

Come up with your own answers to these questions, by talking about it with someone. It can help you to come up with ideas.

Where do you think the creature has come from?
What do you think it usually eats?
Why do you think it has come up to the surface?
What do you think its feelings are towards humans?
Is it possible that there are sea creatures as big as this one lurking in our waters?

Use a paper or google doc and share it with your teacher.

Mindset Origami Picture.jpg

Extras for early finishers:

Write a short reflection that talks about how you felt at the start of this task and how this changed while doing the task.

Identify a fixed mindset and growth mindset quote that you either thought OR said out loud while attempting this task.

What type of mindset (growth or fixed) would a successful learner have and why?

Resources:

Paper

Mindset

Growth & Fixed Mindsets

What am I learning?

*the difference between a growth and fixed mindset

How can I make sure I am successful?

*I know what someone with a growth mindset would say

*I know what someone with a fixed mindset would say

Activity description/steps:

Watch these three videos on Growth and Fixed Mindsets

Look carefully at the origami picture.
By looking at the picture (not looking up instructions) spend 10 minutes seeing if you can recreate this origami bird.
While you’re attempting to create the bird, notice the thoughts that you’re thinking in your head and the things that you say out loud.
After you’ve tried this without instructions for 10 minutes see if you can follow these instructions to create it.
Post to your Class Dojo Portfolio

an example of something someone with a Growth Mindset would say_____________________
an example of something someone with a Fixed Mindset would say _____________________.
a picture of your Origami Bird

Extras for early finishers:

Do some research to write a report about the facts and statistics of COVID-19 pandemic and include these in your time capsule.

Your report should include -what caused the pandemic

-how many people have had it in New Zealand

-what the symptoms are.

You can also include a ‘hypothesis’ (an informed guess) about how you think our lives will change as a result of coronavirus.

Here are some links to help you.

Kiwi Kids News - What is Coronavirus?

Dogo News - Coronavirus Explained

Kiwi Kids News - Helping the Environment

Kiwi Kids News - Coronavirus and New Rules for Living

News Hub - Daily Statistics and Case Numbers

Resources:

Household items (jar, box, container)

Coloured pencils/felt tips etc

Youtube/Drive/PDF links:

Kiwi Kids News - What is Coronavirus?

Dogo News - Coronavirus Explained

Kiwi Kids News - Helping the Environment

Kiwi Kids News - Coronavirus and New Rules for Living

News Hub - Daily Statistics

Real Life Learning

Lockdown Time Capsule

What am I learning?

*to find and record memorable stories and information from the COVID-19 lockdown

*to create a time capsule

How can I make sure I am successful?

*I will find and decorate a time capsule

*I will follow instructions and include the correct information in my time capsule

* I will send a photo of my time capsule to my teacher

Activity description/steps:

We are living through a very unique time in history. Imagine how interesting it would be for you to remember in the future all the things you did during this time.

Find a jar, an empty shoebox or any other empty container. Decorate it. This is going to be your Time Capsule.

Include some supermarket receipts with a story about what the supermarket trips are like (what foods are hard to find?, what do you have to do to prepare for the supermarket?, how is it different to what supermarkets were like before?)

Interview your family and ask them these questions and record the answers on a piece of paper to include in your capsule.

*What is something you have learned during quarantine?

*What is something new that you’ve tried?

*What do you enjoy the most about staying at home?

*What are you looking forward to after this?

Here are some other ideas of things to include in the time capsule

*Cut outs from the local newspaper

*Write out your daily routine

*Drawing of who is in your bubble during this time

*Any physical objects that will remind you of this time (plastic gloves, face masks etc.)

*A list of your current favourite things (movie, book, food, things to do, song)

Before you put everything inside, take a photo of everything you’ve included and upload to your Class Dojo Portfolio. Keep your time capsule somewhere safe to look at again some time in the future.

Watch the videos below to get a better understanding of how to use Class Dojo Portfoilo

Class Dojo Student Portfolio Access.mp4

Class Dojo Student Portfolio Access

Uploading Videos and Photos to Class Dojo .mp4

Uploading Videos & Photos to Class Dojo

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