• Tell me stories about whānau events, and then ask me to retell them in my own words. (My teacher says it doesn’t matter if I miss some things). 

• Tell me stories about people and events that are important to our hapū and/or iwi and help me to think about how and why they are important today. 

• Help me see that reading and writing go together by leaving notes for me to reply to. 

• Share the pūrākau of our tīpuna. Help me see the messages these carry. 

• Ask me to write short messages (for example, e-mails and texts to my nana and grandad). 

• When the reading book I choose seems a bit hard, take turns reading it with me and talking about the story. Ask me things like: What do you think will happen next? Do the characters remind you of anyone you know? 

• Help me see that words can be organised in different ways on a page by helping me to read bus timetables, maps, and recipes. Give me experiences with both digital and paper-based writing.  

• When we visit our marae, help me to ‘read’ each pou to understand their meaning. 

• Help me to write for different purposes, like a shopping list, menu, or thank you message. 

• Talk to me about the books I am reading and the authors I like. It would be great if you could take me to join the local library to find more books by the authors I like. 

• Talk to me about your understanding of whakatauākī. Ask me how these ideas might apply in our lives. 

• Talk with me about the Bible passages I have memorised and what I am learning at Sunday School. 

• Talk to me about interesting new words and what they mean. Take turns with me to find a new word to discuss each day. 

• Help me to write to elders in my family in te reo Māori (or other home language) to find some information about where I come from. 

• Watch kapa haka with me. Talk with me about how meaning is made and communicated with an audience through words, actions, and facial expressions. 

• When you are reading to me, pause occasionally and talk with me about what’s happening in the story and any new or interesting words. 

• Tell me about a TV programme or movie you liked when you were my age and ask me to tell you what I like about the characters in my favourite TV programme or movie. 

• Talk to me about the steps you are taking as you make dinner or as you fix something. Tell me about the steps you take to make a hāngī or karanga to manuhiri. Ask me why particular steps are of importance. 

• Talk about the things we see when we travel together, interesting signs, cars, buildings, etc. 

• Ask me to help you plan our next trip. We could use a device to make lists and research places to go. 

• Take turns reading with me. We could take one page each.

Source: https://newzealandcurriculum.tahurangi.education.govt.nz/reporting-to-parents-and-wh-nau/5637158852.p?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLVfD1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhplTZDv44FA9cVPs_Z304knPvaB2fFZKZFCEkwUL-FgHngKyM2kE344JOBs_aem_-dYiPnzDWZSGJtnr6M_PTg

• Teach me a new card game we can play together. 

• Let me show you my favourite app with some maths in it. 

• Help me learn to estimate things, like how much things weigh, how long they are, the cost of our groceries, or how long it will take to travel to a certain place. 

• Set up a reward system at home to encourage me to remember what I need to do. 

• When we are driving or walking, play Launchpad with me. Spot a number, then use it as a launchpad for seeing how many combinations we can make with that number (for example, there’s a 12 on a letterbox, that’ s 3x4, 2x6, 10+2, 100–88, and its half of 24).

• Play online maths games with me.  

• Keep playing with me, and encouraging me, in the games I’m learning, even though I’m not very good yet. 

• Talk to me about the maths you use every day and at work. 

• Show me the family budget and explain how you pay all the bills and save. 

• Ask me to figure out how much change you should get back from a purchase. If I get the amount right, you might sometimes let me keep the change! 

• Help me memorise facts (for example, forwards and backwards from 100, the 7 times tables or doubling and halving numbers up to 20). 

• Ask me to help make dinner and talk about any maths involved, like halves, quarters, litres, grams, and temperatures. Get me to do any measuring or weighing that is needed. 

• Show me graphs and tables in our newspaper and talk with me about what they mean. 

• Tell me about games you played with your brothers and sisters, where you needed to use your maths skills. 

• Have a games night at home where we play a board game together, like Monopoly, chess, backgammon or mah-jong.

Source: https://newzealandcurriculum.tahurangi.education.govt.nz/reporting-to-parents-and-wh-nau/5637158852.p?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLVfD1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhplTZDv44FA9cVPs_Z304knPvaB2fFZKZFCEkwUL-FgHngKyM2kE344JOBs_aem_-dYiPnzDWZSGJtnr6M_PTg