Non Device Activities

If you're working from home without a device, here's some Learning you could work on:

• Write a speech out on a piece of paper and then edit it. Practice presenting your speech to convince people to agree with something you are passionate about.

• Write a letter applying for the job you'd like in the furutre - it might even be a job that doesn't exist yet. If you can, take a photo of what you've written and email it to your teacher. 

• Read a book. Then write about 3 things that you know about a character, 3 things you think could happen later in the book, 3 things you wonder, and 3 words you need to find the meaning of. 

• Try some of these activities on the google doc below after reading a book.

• Make flash cards with basic facts. These could be addition problems, subtraction problems, or your 1-9 times tables.

• Play Bowl a fact. Roll a dice 4 times and note down the number it lands on each time. Use these 4 numbers to come up with equations that equal the numbers 1 to 10. Cross out each number as you come up with an equation that equals that. Try to find an answer for every number from 1-10. You can use any operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, squared numbers, fractions or decimals. E.g. if you rolled 1, 3, 5, 2 you could make the equation (3 + 5 x 1) ➗ 2 = 4, then you could cross out 4. Or you could make the equation 1 + 3 + 2 - 5 = 1 and cross out 1. 

• Play Multiplication War. Split a pack of cards into 2 piles face down. Flip over the 2 top cards and multiply these e.g. you might flip a 1 and 3 so you'd solve 1 x 3. Then flip over the next two and do the same. This could be better with another person when you can race to get the answer first. If multiplication is too challenging, swap to adding the numbers together or subtracting the smallest number from the biggest number.

Make a diorama of one of the scenes in the movie you have watched recently. Add in all the people involved in creating a movie so it looks similar to what it would have when they created it e.g. a director, camera person, actor, etc. Note down which person is doing which role and explain what they do. 

• Create a backyard Olympics either with sports that are already in the Olympics or sports you have invented. Other people in your household could join your Olympics. You could also write down the commentary for one of these sports, create a scoreboard or design the Olympic medals. 

• Work through the alphabet playing a game or sport that starts with each letter e.g. start with athletics, then basketball, cricket, etc. 

• Create a comic. Write any speaking in Te Reo Māori.

• Use the phrases, 'Kia Ora', 'Kei te Peheā koe?' or 'Haere Rā' each 3 times today. 

• Create a movie poster for a movie you have seen or for a made up movie. As you create it, consider; what words would be on the poster? What colours would be best? What images should you use? How will it catch people's attention and make them want to see the movie?

• Create a song using objects in or around your house. See if you can create songs that convey different emotions e.g. a happy song, a sad song, an exciting song, a suspenseful song, etc. 

• Create your own dance that could be added into a movie. Write down what is happening in your movie just before your dance (help the reader to imagine the scene) and then why your dance fits with what's going on and improves the movie. 

• Write a movie script and then act it out considering how you can use facial expressions, body language and your voice to clearly show what's going on in your movie and how your character feels. 

SOUND EXPERIMENT:

THINGS YOU'LL NEED:

• A piece of glad wrap or tin foil

• A rubber band or hair tie

• A bowl or cup

• Rice

• Music speaker or your voice
  
  

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Cover the bowl or cup with glad wrap or tin foil. Put a rubber band or hair tie around it to hold it really tight. 

2) Spread out some rice grains across the top of the glad wrap or tin foil. 

3) Talk loudly next to the top of the cup or bowl or play music from a speaker next to it.

4) Watch what happens to the rice as the sound waves move past it. 

5) Why do you think this happens?

SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION:

The loud music produces noise which vibrates. This makes the air vibrate as well, producing sound waves. When these waves hit the bowl, the bowl vibrates making the rice jump about. 

Experiment from https://mocomi.com/can-sound-move-objects/