Year 1

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 The Very Clumsy Click Beetle with Mrs Borrie

Sunshine Online provides access to a range of readers for junior children. 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.

Please select the Reading Group for your child. Your teacher will have emailed this information to you.

RED GROUP PURPLE GROUP

When writing your stories remember what good writers do…

Extension:

Our Trip to the Zoo

Think back to the time we had our school trip to the Auckland Zoo!

(If your mum or dad came along to the Zoo, you can politely ask to see if they have any photos they took while at the Zoo.)

When you have finished, remember to re-read your story and to check for full stops and capital letters. Then read your awesome story to someone in your family.

Remember to look at the writing icons to know what a good writer does.

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

Guess my Animal

Put your thinking caps on and see if you can guess what this animal is. Here are your clues.

“I am thinking of an animal. This animal is the king of the jungle. It has sharp teeth. It has a big, orange mane around its face and when it gets angry it can... Roar! What animal is it? It is a lion!”

Now it is your turn to think of an animal. Once you have thought of one, draw a picture of what your animal looks like and write down some clues that would be helpful for someone in your house to guess.

Make sure your clues are facts about the animal. These could include:

• What their bodies look like such as the shape, the colour, any patterns they have or special features

• What sound they make

• Where they live

• What they eat

You can start your story off with… “I am thinking of an animal….”

Remember to say your idea on your hand and to sound out the words you don’t know. You can use your word card to help you.

When you have finished, read your story to someone in your family and see if they can guess what animal you were thinking of.

There’s an Animal in my Bed

It’s time to use your imagination!

Imagine: You’re in your pajamas and all ready for bed, you enter your room and oh no, there’s already an animal in your bed!

What animal is it? …..a lion, a monkey, a meerut or even an elephant, or….

What is it doing? ……sleeping, relaxing, cuddling your teddies, or...

What do you do? …..scream for help, close the door, ring the zoo, hop into bed with it, or...

Get creative and think carefully about adding interesting details to your story. Remember to draw a picture first and say your ideas out loud. Use the writing icons above to help you.

Sink and Float Experiment

With Mrs Kirkwood, today we will explore which household items will sink or float. Watch the video ‘Mrs Kirkwood Float or Sink Experiment’ to find out what happens to her chosen items.

Now it is time for you to conduct your own float or sink experiment with some items that you can find in your house, or you can use what Mrs Kirkwood used, here is the list.

Household Items:

• Measuring spoon

• Small can of food e.g. tuna

• Leaf

• Tinfoil

• Peg

• Cupcake case

• Pen

Equipment:

• Bowl of water

Instructions:

• Before you begin, predict if your items will float or sink?

• One at a time place your items in your bowl of water, does it float? Or does it sink?

• You can organise your items into a tchart of ‘Float’ and ‘Sink’ just like what Mrs Kirkwood did

Now it’s time to write a story about your experiment

What did you have to do? Did anyone help you with your experiment?

What items did you use? What were your predictions for which items would float or sink?

What was your result? Why did some items float or sink?

Did you enjoy the experiment?

Ernest the Elephant - with Mr Gadd

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

Rows and Groups

Watch this video to learn about showing equal rows with Miss Ashley. Here’s some for information

An array can be used to model equal groups of objects. It is an arrangement of any objects in rows and in columns.

This is a row

Can you count how many rows of zebras in this picture?

2 rows of 4 zebras = 8

Find something around the house that you can put into rows. Could be pegs, spoons, toys, cars etc.

First make some rows of 2, then make some rows of 5. Miss Ashley included some questions at the end of her video for you as well.

Equal Groups

When you have found one way to share them into equal groups, can you find another way to share them into equal groups?

Watch Miss Revilla’s video about how she makes equal groups from her sets of 10, and then she uses her counting in 5’s.

How many sets of 5 can you make? Use your fives counting sequence to find out how many you have altogether

Equal or Not Equal?

Look at each row in the picture below, would you tick equal or not equal?

Your turn, make some equal groups, and then some unequal groups. Ask someone in your house to check your work when you have finished.

Counting in Two’s

Here is Mrs Say’s video showing us how we can make equal groups of 2 and counting in 2’s. Then she will show you how she can make an array, showing her equal groups in rows. This makes it easier to count how many.

Remember at the end of the video Mrs Say shows you what you can do for your turn to make an array.

Octopus Problem

The octopus has 8 legs. It is holding 2 counters in each leg. How many counters are there altogether?

Five Fingers on Each Hand

Can you count how many fingers are in each hand?

Find a bit of paper and write it down.

For fun you could draw around your hand and make rows.

What if you traced around one hand of each person in your house, how many fingers will there be altogether?

Ants Problem

There are five ants on a log. How many ants would there be if there were:

3 logs

5 logs

Pepper Germs

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

Here’s what to do

Equipment:

• A plate

• Water

• Ground pepper

• Dishwash soap/liquid

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.

Extra Science - Check out this episode on Balance