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Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Welcome to learning at home for Week 7 Term 3. 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 Ten Little Monsters. Miss Revilla, Mrs Harland and Miss Cave are looking forward to seeing your picture of a monster

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, as well as our Letter of the Day for Week 7

Letter of the Day

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

Monday - L is for lego - Make an Uppercase and a lowercase l, using lego blocks

Tuesday - N is for ninja - Can you draw a letter n and make it into a sneaky ninja? Give your n a mask and some eyes. Here’s my ninja

Wednesday - C is for cookies - Can you draw a letter c? Then, draw and colour a few cookies and glue them into the letter c.

Thursday - B is for bubbles - If you have some bubble mix, get outside and chase some bubbles. Have an adult draw a b with some bubble shapes, can you colour in the bubbles?

Friday - I is for insect - Can you make an insect? Remember they have six legs and antennae. Here is a letter i insect

Weekly Poem

Can you count how many times you hear c in the poem?

Carlo eats some funny food for lunch, can you draw a picture of a crocodile and some of the food they normally eat? Think of a name that starts with c for your crocodile and have a go at writing it on your picture.

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.

• In this story, the girl writes in lots of different ways, how many ways can you write? Practise writing the word my, you could try with a pen, with your finger in flour or salt, writing in playdough, making the word with sticks and leaves.

• Can you take a picture of one of the ways you have made my and write a sentence to match? You might write - I can write with my pen.

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.

• Let’s get creative, can you draw a garden full of flowers? I wonder if you can make a flower to match each colour in the book?

• Go on a colour hunt, can you find something around your house or garden that matches each colour in the book?

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 come, see if you can write it ten times on a piece of paper, remember to read it as you write it.

• ‘s’ word endings. Can you read and copy these words then add s to the end, what do they say now?

come

jump

look

like

• Draw a funny picture about how your teacher gets to school, maybe Miss Revilla comes on a horse, Miss Cave comes in a hot air balloon and Mrs Harland comes on a dragon. Have a go at labelling your picture with the teacher’s name.

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.

• Can you find the word said in the book? How many times does it appear? Which animals say the word said?

• Let’s be creative: Draw a picture of yourself and an animal which is slower than you and write: I’m faster than you.

Learning High Frequency Words

Here are a set of high frequency words we learn at Puhinui School, and below that some activities to do to help you learn your sight words

Or you may be up to learning these high frequency wordsz

Mixed up letters

Write the word nice and big on some paper then cut the letters out, mix them up and remake the word and see if you can get faster and faster.

Ask an adult to write the word on your hand, every time you look at your hand, say the word.

Paint the Word

Do you have a paintbrush or a sponge, take a cup of water and see how many times you can write a sight word you are going to learn on the fence, deck, ground or wall outside before the water dries, you’ll have to be really fast!

Swat the Word

Write some basic sight words you would like to learn on a sticky note or piece of paper and put them on various places around the house (on the wall, the chair, the fridge, the tv, etc). Ask your child to pretend their hand is a fly swat, they are now the ‘word hunters’, call out the word your child needs to hunt down around the house and swat it

Phonics - Middle Vowel Sounds

Say the word that the picture is e.g. bed. See if you can recognise the middle sound by looking at the picture and using your robot skills and write the word down.

writing

When writing your stories remember what good writers do…

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...

Draw a picture of your animal in your bed and what it is doing, and then draw what you will do. Say your idea out loud before you start writing

Room 28, see if you can write two ideas today in your story, and the extra challenge is to write three ideas

If I was an animal

If you could choose one animal to be for the day what animal would it be and why?

Think about the different animals we saw at the zoo, like the cheetah, the elephant, a giraffe, a rhino, a spider monkey or any other animal you can think of.

Make sure you draw a picture of the animal you have chosen.

Write your story and remember to include why you wanted to be the animal you have chosen.

Can you draw a picture that shows your animal? Use the icons above to help you write a story about your animal, what animals have you mixed? What does your animal look like?

When you’ve finished your story, remember to read it to yourself and also read to someone in your bubble.

MATHS

Making Equal Groups

Last week you practiced making equal sets of 2, I wonder what other equal sets you could make?

Collect up 12 toys or another household item e.g pegs, socks

Can you make smaller equal groups from your 12 things?

To get you started, what if you made two equal sets from your 12 things? Then find out is it possible to make 3, 4 or 5 equal sets from your 12 things?

You could show your equal sets in rows, have a look at Miss Ashley’s video to learn about showing your equal groups in rows

Creating and Counting Sets

How many smiley faces are in this set?

Your turn to make smiley face sets. Draw yourself some boxes, copy a number from the list below into each box, and then draw the right number of smiley faces

4

10

5

3

Draw a line to cut your pizza in half. Now it is time to share your pizza ingredients equally so that there is the same amount of each ingredient on each half.

Tens frames (Continued)

Let’s carry on with some fun with our tens frame.

Giant tens frames

Make a giant tens frame, you could make it using tape, ribbons or draw it with chalk outside.

Grab 10 small toys and a pack of playing cards (take out the picture cards). Flip over a card and look at the number, can you fill your tens frame with your toys to match the number on the card? If you don’t have playing cards, you could write the numbers 1-10 on some paper.

Number building

Using your big tens frame or your smaller one that you made last week, see how quickly you can make each number.

• 8

• 3

• 5

• 7

• 10

• 2

• 6

• 4

• 9

• 1

What’s my number?

Look at the tens frame pictures below and see how quickly you can say the right number. Try again and see if you can get faster.

As an extension, you could try finding out how many more you need to fill up the tens frame, can you find that number too?

Let’s Count in 2’s

Watch the video and sing along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyCr0IgbYcI

Now do the following task:

Then you could head outside with some chalk and make a hopscotch with either counting in ones or counting in twos

Let’s Count in 5’s

First, watch this video and sing along:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FaBDqOmiyI&t=3s

Now, can you count in 5s to 50? Use the hands to help you. You can write down the numbers or say them aloud to someone in your home.

You can also see some counting in fives in Miss Revilla’s special math video

Equipment:

• Rice

• Small plastic bottle e.g. a 600ml bottle or something smaller

• Pencil

• A funnel or paper to make a funnel

• A tray or plate to place your plastic bottle on

Instructions:

• Place your plastic bottle on your tray or plate, this is to catch any rice that accidentally falls

• Use your funnel to fill up the plastic bottle with rice. When your bottle is nearly full of rice, tap it on your surface to knock all the rice as far down as it can go. Continue to fill your bottle all the way to the top with rice

• Next push the pencil down into the rice, again, tap your bottle on your surface so that rice settles around the pencil

• Now can you lift the bottle up by holding the part of the pencil sticking out the top of your bottle? Did it work? If it is not quite working yet, tap your bottle again to help the rice settle around the pencil

Why does it work? When you push the pencil into the rice, you force the rice to rub closer together creating little to no air pockets between the rice and the pencil. So the rice has now settled tightly (compressed) around the pencil in the bottle, and there is friction between the two objects. When you lift the bottle using the pencil, it is this friction that causes the pencil to stick to the rice.

Equipment:

• Something to use as a ramp, e.g. piece of cardboard - you could open up a cereal box

• Some toys or small household objects

• Different types of clothing e.g. something wolly, something polar fleece, a t-shirt, something with velcro. Maybe you have some bubble wrap at your house

Instructions:

• With your cardboard, make it a ramp by tilting it up to rest on something

• Place your chosen toys or objects at the top and let them go - how fast do each of your things slide?

• Now place each type of clothing you have collected on your ramp to create different surfaces to try. Let your toys or objects slide down the ramp again - how fast do each of your things slide now?

Instructions:

1. Fill a ziplock bag with water and close the bag at the top.

2. Hold the bag up from the top and quickly poke a pencil through so that it comes out the other side.

3. Quickly poke another pencil through to the other side and another if you want.

4. Does the bag leak?

What did you think would happen?

Why didn’t the bag leak if there’s holes in it?

What happens if you push a pencil in slowly and not quickly?

The science to the leaky bag - Plastic bags are made of polymer chains. The polymers have many molecules inside of them. When the pencil goes through the bag, the molecules in the polymer chains surround the pencil, sealing it up tightly and preventing/stopping leaks.