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Welcome to Term 1 2022
Tena koutou e te whānau,
Hello to our families and students returning and we extend a warm welcome to our new students and their families. We hope that you had an enjoyable and relaxing break.
We look forward to another great year of learning.
God bless,
Maria Speechlay
Deputy Principal
These are EXTRA Learning Tasks you could do with your child or children. Remember to do what's right for your tamariki and whanau.
All main Learning Tasks for the week are found in the Learning Communities found in a dropdown under this heading in the menu.
Online Safety Message!
Do you know who Inter-Yeti is?
Listen and read his adventure called, Lost on a Wild Webventure.
The story has some amazing features and it is read by Stan Walker.
It is positive way for everyone to learn the message of online safety.
Please click on the picture for the online link.
Religious Education
Religious Education
The Family Whanau book will help you to work and reflect together as a family on the Religious Education topics we will be covering this term such as Prayer, Jesus, Lent, Church, Holy Week and Easter.
HTCPS Gospel Values
HTCPS Gospel Values
Our school gospel values are taonga.
Our school gospel values are taonga.
Remember to show our school’s gospel values at home. Share examples of what the school’s gospel values look like at home or in the community?
Literacy
Literacy
Reading
Reading
Make sure to read at least 15 minutes. Read with lots of expression. Ask questions about the book before, during and after reading.
Practice reading a story, record yourself and email it to a relative. Ask them to send you a story of them reading.
Choose 2 characters from your book and create a T-Chart. Write 5 adjectives to describe each character and show the evidence from the text to support the adjectives you’ve used to describe these characters.
Make a list of new, unusual, or interesting words or phrases found in your book.
Make a bookmark! On one side, illustrate the main idea and characters in the story and a title page of the book on the other side.
Guessing Opposites: Think up opposite word pairs, such as fast/slow, big/little etc. Select one of the pairs and act out the two words. Can your child guess the opposite words? Reverse roles.
Write a book review. Did you like/dislike the book and why?
Online Readers: PDF and audio files from NZ Ready to Read series.
Pasifika Dual Online readers: These are Pasifika Dual Language Books however each title is available in English as a PDF version and audio file.
Online poems - great for fluency and rhyming.
Radio New Zealand stories online: Best of Storytime
Spelling
Spelling
Write the words 3 times
Write each word and a word that rhymes with it
Rainbow write the words 2 times each
Write the words with blue vowels and red consonants
Write the words with all CAPITAL LETTERS
Write the words and how much each is worth, e.g 3 letters = 3
Writing
Writing
Write a letter or email to a close friend recommending the book you have just read.
POWER WORDS: For 10 mins write down all the words that you know, add them up and write the total. Do this everyday and watch the total increase.
Write a postcard to a friend explaining how taonga is important and why.
Write a different ending for your favourite book.
Do some baking and write out the recipe card. Then give it to someone to brighten up their day.
Numeracy
Numeracy
IXL
IXL
Students have all been assigned a login and password. If your child has forgotten their password, username or both, please email mspeechlay@holytrinity.school.nz
Click HERE on the image to access the website dedicated to Holy Trinity Catholic Primary.
Building Literacy and Numeracy Skills
Building Literacy and Numeracy Skills
You can help your child's learning every day by supporting and encouraging them and being excited by their learning. Here are some ideas to keep them developing their literacy and numeracy skills at home. Have a look at the year level for your child, CLICK on the year level below and have fun.
Maths Home Learning
Maths Home Learning
Go Fish. Fish for pairs that add up to 10. Have them ask: “I have a 2. Do you have an 8 to make 10?” Change aces to 1 for this game and leave face cards out.
MEASUREMENT: Have a paper plane family challenge. Measure the distance and see whose plane flies the farthest.
Make a pizza and share it with the family. What fraction of the pizza would each person get if it’s shared between 2 people? 3 or 4 people?
Know numbers before and after from any number up to one hundred.
Skip count in 2’s, 5’s & 10’s to 20. For example: forwards 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Backwards 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2
Playing cards - Aim: To be the closest to 21 without going over! Each player is dealt two cards to start. Each player has the option to take another card to attempt to improve their hand to the number 21. If they go over or “Bust”, they get 0 points. If they are the closest to 21 without going over, they get 1 point. If there is a tie, all the players that are tied get 1 point. If they get 21 on the first 2 cards dealt, they get 2 points. First player to 10 points wins.
Have fun learning Maths
Have fun learning Maths
Lay down two cards from the deck (remove the face cards first) and add, subtract, or multiply them. Independent activity or you can make it a contest to see who can call out the correct answer first.
Think of a number. Write the number in words. Identify the place value of the number. Write the number before and number after the number. Make up an addition and subtraction word problem for your number.
Know doubles to 10 then 20 (instant recall). Know basic facts to 5, 10 then 20 (instant recall). Know subtraction problems to 5, 10 then 20. For example 3+2, 4+1, 5-4, 5-2 etc or 7+3, 4+4, 9-5, 6-2 etc
Maths is fun
Dice game
Roll the dice and put them in order to make the highest number possible. If you roll a 4 and an 6, for example, your best answer would be 64. Using 3 dice, a roll of 3, 5 and 2 should give you 532, and so on. Write down your answer, pass the dice, and challenge the next player to. Beat That!
Roll two dice and add up the two numbers together. Time yourself for instant recall
Roll two dice and subtract the smallest number from the largest number.
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