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Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Welcome to learning at home for Week 6 Term 3. Remember our learning at home tasks give you the flexibility to plan these into your day around other commitments.

This Week’s Story Time

This week our spotlight story is Meg and Mog with Mrs Harland

READING

Sunshine Online provides access to a range of readers for your child. To access Sunshine Online for digital readers please visit http://www.sunshineonline.com.au/

In the top right corner of this website, select the red login button and in the dropdown select the option ‘Student Login’

User name: Puhinui

Password: Books2015

Enjoy reading books you have at home, remember to talk about the story. To assist with talking about the story, ask your child questions that start with who, what, where, why, when, how. Below are a selection of literacy activities to choose from for each day of the week

Rainbow writing

Have a family member write your name nice and big. Use crayons or felt pens to copy your name in different colours, making a beautiful name rainbow.

Try these words: am, can, the, my

Letters With Your Name

Find objects at home that start with each letter of your name. Write or draw the objects for each letter.

Phonics - The Alphabet

Continue to practise and teach your family the actions to the ABC phonics song that we do at school. (i.e A is for apple, a, a, apple.. B is for ball, b, b, ball). Use your ABC card as reference.

Here are our letters for this week

Monday - Letter P

Watch Zip and Mac and learn about letter p.

Then pick one or two of the following activities:

• Practise writing letter p - with water and a paintbrush on the ground or the outside wall of your house. Or practise writing with colouring pencils or felts, choose 5 colours to practise with

• Use playdough - roll the playdough and shape it into a letter p.

• Go on a letter p hunt - write five letters on a piece and cut them out. Ask someone to hide them for you, then hunt them out.

• Sound hunt - Can you find three things in your house that start with letter p?

Tuesday - Letter S

Letter S - Watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8oRsEQD2nI

Now, can you find 10 things that start with the letter S in this picture? If you can, when you find them, colour them using different colours. Or draw your own picture with lots of s things, then give to someone in your house for them to spot all your things that start with the letter s.

Wednesday - Letter E

Watch Zip and Mac and learn about letter e.

Then pick one or two of the following activities:

• Practise writing letter e - with water and a paintbrush on the ground or the outside wall of your house.

• Use playdough - roll the playdough and shape it into letter e.

• Go on a letter e hunt - write five letters on a piece and cut them out. Ask someone to hide them for you, then hunt them out.

• Making e - using items from nature e.g. sticks, leaves, stones - make the letter e

Thursday - Letter Y

Letter y - watch the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVULdcSsuZg

Then do the following activities:

• Can you write the letter y? Grab some paper and a pen and practise writing it.

• Draw one of the things that you watched in the video and that begins with y

• Write out the letter y on some pieces of paper, add them to your collection of other letters made this week. Have someone hide all your letters, then go hunt them all out. Organise the same letter into groups. How many of each letter do you have?

Friday - Letter G

Watch Zip and Mac and learn about letter g.

Then pick one or two of the following activities:

• Practise writing letter g - with water and a paintbrush on the ground or the outside wall of your house.

• Use playdough - roll the playdough and shape it into letter g.

• Go on a letter g hunt - write five letters on a piece and cut them out. Ask someone to hide them for you, then hunt them out.

• Challenge - Can you draw an animal that begins with g? Can you draw something to eat that begins with g?

Weekly Poem

Have someone read the poem to you, then practise reading the poem together. Read the poem each day

Adults choose a word to point to, for example, ‘spout’ and ask ‘what sound do you hear at the beginning of spout?

Ask your child if they can think of any other words that begin with the ‘s’ sound?

Choose a different sound each day to explore together.

High frequency words you can practise reading, writing and making a sentence with, choose one for each day:

Here/here my me is and

If you can, watch this video, sing and dance along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBfTyC47LQ

Now, design your own teapot: Draw the outline of the teapot on a piece of paper

Book - I Am (Sunshine Online)

Access Sunshine Online and go to Learning Space 1.

Click on the text I am and read it together.

There are two activities to work through under the activities tab, one is matching the first sound in the word to the word and the other is matching a sentence to an image from the text. Complete both.

Independent activities:

• Can you recreate the book using a teddy or a doll (make them eat, sleep, read etc).

• How many different ways can you make the word am? Some ideas are, make it with play dough, write it with crayons, paint it with water.

• Draw a picture of something you like doing and see if you can write an ‘I am …..’ story.

Book - Bedtime (Sunshine Online)

Access Sunshine Online and go to Learning Space 1.

Click on the text Bedtime and read it together.

Work through the activities on the activities tab.

Independent activities:

• Grab a teddy bear and see if you can read the book to your teddy, remember to point to each word as you read.

• Practise writing the word can. Can you hear the first, middle and last sound? You could use crayons, pens, water and paintbrushes to write the word.

• See if you can act out the book on your bed, be careful and have fun!

• Can you build a bed that’s the perfect size for one of your toys, you could use boxes, cushions, blankets, just make sure you check with your whānau first.

Book - I Can Catch (Sunshine Online)

Access Sunshine Online and go to Learning Space 1.

Click on the text I can catch and read it together.

Work through the activities on the activities tab.

Independent activities:

• Grab a teddy bear and see if you can read the book to your teddy, remember to point to each word as you read.

• Practise writing the word can. Can you hear the first, middle and last sound? You could use crayons, pens, water and paintbrushes to write the word.

• What can you catch? Get outside and practise your throwing and catching. Try catching different objects, you could use a ball, a teddy, a balloon, even something crazy like a cushion.

Draw a picture of you grumpy

Draw a picture of you happy

WRITING

When writing your stories remember what good writers do…

If Miss Cave was going to write a story about the orangutan, her story would be:

I like the orangutan. It was sitting in the basket playing with a leaf.

When you have finished your story, read it to someone in your family.

On another day you could choose to write a story about another animal you liked at the zoo. Put your stories together to create your own zoo book. Make a front cover for your book, remember to put a title.

Draw a picture of you in the bus and something you saw from the bus, or maybe a picture of us going through the tunnel!

Look at your picture and think carefully about what you want your story to say and then start writing your idea.

After you have written your story, read it to someone in your home.

Animal Photos

Choose a photo for your story today

Tell us about this animal - What’s its name? What is it doing in the picture? What does it eat? Where do they live? How could they protect themselves from danger? Do you know any interesting facts about this animal?

Remember to look at the icons above to know what an expert writer does.

After you have written your story, you can read it to someone in your home.

If Mrs Harland was going to write a story about the meerkat, her story would be:

The meerkat is standing up. It is looking out for danger. Meerkats like to eat insects. They dig under the ground to find insects.

Goodnight Gorilla

Watch the video and enjoy the story of a cheeky little gorilla who gets up to lots of mischief.

Children Story Books Read Aloud | GOODNIGHT GORILLA | Animal Story

Did you like this story? Can you write a story about Goodnight Gorilla, you might tell the story in your own words or write about your favourite part.

First, draw a picture plan for your writing, then say your story to yourself to help you remember it. Remember to use your word card to help you find words you might need.

When you have had a go at writing your story, remember to read it to yourself and to someone else. Happy writing!

Ernest the Elephant - with Mr Gadd

Watch Mr Gadd read his new book Ernest the Elephant and discover what his writing task is….

(Here’s the link - https://vimeo.com/577450838/e025d355b3)

MATHS

Counting Sequences

Continue to practise your backwards counting sequence or your forwards counting sequence. Check last week’s information for Stepping Stones, Body Actions, Hide and Seek, and Partner Count

Tea Party Counting

A picnic with Mrs Harland, watch this video to see how to use counting to make equal sets of two.

Mrs Harland wonders what sets of two you can make at your house? Have a think and give it a go. You can send a picture of your sets to your teacher by email.

Dolls and Socks

I have three dolls and their little feet are cold. Each doll has three feet, how many socks will I need to warm up their feet?

Next steps: Can you draw the socks on the dolls feet?

• How many socks did each doll need? How many socks did you need altogether?

Making sets

Can you make sets to match these numbers:

• 6

• 8

• 4

• 5

• 9

• 3

• 10

How many different ways can you show number 7, eg. blocks, leaves, teddies, fingers etc. Repeat daily with a different focus number. Feel free to take a picture and email your teacher.

Tens frames

Grab a piece of cardboard from a box or container and have an adult help you draw a tens frame.

We have been learning our tens frame patterns and there are lots of ways to use them at home. Firstly, if you don’t have counters try using leaves, pieces of lego, lids from drinks, small stones. You could draw one outside with chalk and fill it with toys.

Ideas of how to use the tens frame:

• Show your fingers (eg. 3 fingers up) and make the matching number on the tens frame.

• Make a number on the tens frame and say it’s name.

• Roll a dice and make the corresponding pattern.

• If you’re very confident with making numbers, you can try making a number, eg. 4 and asing for one more, how many is on the tens frame now?

Addition Problems

Here are some problems for this week. To solve the problem, remember to make the sets and then count all the objects together. You could use toys, pegs, cutlery, leaves, etc. Or you could solve the problems by drawing pictures of objects or shapes.

SCIENCE

This week it’s all about WOW Science experiences, here are some you can watch and try at home yourself

Watch Mrs Kirkwood discover what floats and what sinks with items from her house

Mrs Kirkwood Float or Sink Experiment

Your turn….

Find some small items in your house that you can test if they float or sink

When you have collected up your items, make your predictions

Fill you bowl or container with water

Place each of your items in one at a time to find out if they float or sink

What did you discover?

Soapy Bubbles

Watch Miss Ashley show how she can put her finger through a bubble and it doesn’t pop! Why is this? Let’s learn about surface tension - Soapy Bubbles

Instructions:

1. Fill your plate with water

2. Add some dishwash and using your straw gently stir into the water

3. Place your straw into the water and blow to form bubbles

Now for the magic! Dip the bottom of your straw in your mixture, or cover your finger with the dish soap mixture, and gently push your straw or finger through a bubble - did your bubble pop? What if you use a dry finger to touch the bubble?

Bubbles hold their shape due to surface tension, all the water droplets are super strong together

Pepper Germs

Miss Lee shows us more about what can affect surface tension with our WOW Pepper Germs experience - Pepper Germs

Instructions:

1. Fill your plate with water

2. Sprinkle ground pepper on top of the water

3. Dip your finger into the water, what happens? The pepper stuck to your finger, this is a bit like germs that can stick to our hands

4. Now dip that finger in your dishwashing soap so it is all covered, dip your finger into the water again, what happens?

The pepper will race away from your finger, this is why it is important to wash our hands. When we use soap it makes any germs race away, break up and leave our hands.

Pepper is hydrophobic, this means it is super afraid of water and it doesn’ like water at all. Water has a high surface tension, the water droplets have a strong bond. When soap comes along it can break the water droplets apart more easily.