Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Welcome to learning at home for Week 10 Term 3. Our learning at home tasks give you the flexibility to plan these into your day around other commitments. Thank you for supporting your child's learning at home over Term 3, we hope you all enjoy the school holidays!

This Week’s Story Time

This week our spotlight story is Alpacas with Maracas with Miss Findlay

Fun and Games

Have a look at this link for fun games and activities to choose from for our last week of term

For each letter of the day your child can complete an activity from the list below, watch the video and complete the special letter activity

For the letter of the day you can:

• Make the letter with playdough

• Write it outside with water and a paintbrush on the concrete

• Write it outside with chalk, jump on all the letters you write - say the letter name and the sound it makes

• Rainbow writing - write a line of the letter of the day, choose 5 different colours to make 5 lines of the letter

• Make yourself a flash card of the letter, add it to your collection of letters

Letter Videos

Special Letter Activity

This term you have been busy learning lots of letters and their sound. On Friday, see if you can find all the letters you have made, could you put them together as a book? Or have a treasure hunt for your letters? Or play a game like hopscotch with your letters?

Monday - H is for horse - Can you make a ‘h’ horse?

Tuesday - J is for jellybeans - Draw a J and fill it with jelly beans. You can draw them on another piece of paper, colourthem, cut them and glue them on your j.

Wednesday - V is for volcano - Can you turn your letter V into a volcano?

Thursday - K is for king - Draw a letter K and then make a crown for it. Now it is the king!

Friday - W is for weather - Draw and colour a letter W. Then, on another piece of paper draw different types of weather: sunny, rainy, windy. Cut them and glue them on your letter w.

Weekly Poem

Read the poem each day, try to point to each word as you read.

How many times can you see the word ‘on’ in the poem? Can you write on?

Beginning sound b - can you find all the words that begin with b? Can you think of any other words? You could write the word or draw pictures if you’re not sure. If you can get five, miharo, you’re amazing!

• Shadow play - get outside and see what your shadow can do. How tall can you make it? How small can you make it? How wide can you make it? Can you run away from it?

• Can you find all the words in the book that end with s? Say them aloud.

• Shadow play - if you have a torch, have a go at making some finger shadows. Here are some ideas.

Rhyming

Look at the pictures below. Which two words rhyme?

Phonics - Middle Vowel Sounds

Here are some different pictures for this week - Let’s play a game together. Can you robot a picture from the board below and see if someone in your whānau can blend the sounds and say the word?

Miharo, now try it the other way around, have someone robot the three sounds of the objects below and see if you can blend them together to name the picture.

Next, pick one of the pictures, draw it and have a go at writing the three sounds you can hear in the word. Remember to listen carefully for the first sound, middle vowel sound, and last sound.

writing

The Disgusting Sandwich

Listen to the story ‘The Disgusting Sandwich’ online here

The sandwich in the story is really disgusting. Imagine that you are making your own disgusting sandwich. What would you put inside it?

Have a look at the picture to help you think of some ideas:

When you have decided what will go in your disgusting sandwich. Draw it and write a story to describe how you make it.

Here is Miss Tailby’s example:

I put mud on my bread. Then I add some slimy worms and little sticks.

Use the icons above and your word card to help you write your story. When you are finished, read your story to someone at home.

Maui and the Sun

Look at what Maui and his brothers are doing to the sun

The sun moved too quickly across the sky so the days were very short. Maui and his brothers did not have enough time to do all the things they wanted to during the day. So Maui and his brothers caught the sun because they wanted the sun to slow down. This made the sun tired and weak, and then it moved slowly across the sky.

Talk with someone about what Maui and his brothers are doing

• What did they use to capture the sun?

• How does the sun feel?

Choose which ideas you will write in your story today. Draw your own picture of the sun being captured

Spy Mouse

What is this spy mouse up to? Write a story about the picture.

Ideas to think about:

• What is Spy Mouse doing?

• Who could Spy Mouse be looking at?

• Why do you think he wants the cheese?

• What do you think will happen next?

Have a think of these ideas and decide which ideas you are going to include in your story.

Remember to use the icons above when writing your story. When you have finished writing, read your story to someone in your family.

Own Choice Writing

Here are some pictures you can choose from to inspire your story writing, or think of your own topic or idea to write about

MATHS

This week is a range of activities that explore the concept of Measurement, an opportunity to use all your skills you have been learning over the past two weeks.

Outline of Chalk Body

Go outside, lay on the ground and ask someone to draw your shape with chalk. Now grab objects and put them inside your body shape. How many things fit inside your body shape?

Draw around someone else’s body shape. Do the things in your body shape fit inside their body shape?

Time to Bake!

Make your favourite recipe together or have a go at the super simple chocolate cake recipe below. Baking is a great way to explore measurement. You could bake a treat and then have a movie afternoon!

Water Play

Scavenger Hunt

Here is a special maths scavenger hunt for your next walk and some extra challenges

Go for a walk collect the following items:

o The lightest object

o The smallest stone

o The longest leaf

o Something that is longer than your hand span

o A flower that is smaller than your thumb

o Something that will fit inside your cereal box

o A blade of grass the same length as one of your fingers

Challenges:

o How many times you can jump in 30 seconds

o How many times you can clap in ten seconds

o How many star jumps you can do in one minute

o Keep frozen still while counting to sixty

Length Activity

Take a look at the picture below then head off on a hunt and see if you can find things around your home to line up from the shortest to the longest.

This week we continue to explore vibration, sound, echo and pitch + have some fun in making your own musical instruments

Water Whistle

Let’s see if you can make a water whistle and see how you can change the pitch of your whistle. Follow the instructions below, or you can watch this video on how to make and use a water whistle

Equipment:

• Glass of water

• Straw

• Scissors

Make an Echo

An echo is when a sound wave bounces off a surface, you hear a sound a second or third time, how does an echo work?

• Make a hole in the side of the tube for the phone to sit in

• Pop your phone into your new speakers and select some music to play

Make Some Musical Instruments

Have a look around your house, especially in your recycling, and think about what you could make or create as a musical instrument. Will you make a drum or a shaker or a gong or a guitar or a….

Find some cardboard tubes, tins, boxes, rubber bands, scissors, glue, sellotape, etc.

Here are some pictures to inspire you on what you could make. Remember rice or dried beans could be used to help make yourself a shaker or maraca