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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 Macca the Alpaca with Mrs Wells
reading
reading
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.
writing
writing
When writing your stories remember what good writers do…
Extension:
Can you use ‘wow’ words in your story. ‘Wow’ words are more interesting words to use, for example, instead of using the word big you could say enormous
Can you use your capital letters and full stops to show each idea as a sentence. Remember we use a capital letter for the first word of the sentence. The other time we use a capital letter is when we are writing someone’s name.
African Savanna
Have you ever been to Savanna Africa? Now let’s have a little virtual trip to African Savanna by clicking this video African Savanna- Virtual Field trip. While watching the video take some notes of the following:
What kind of animals were in Savanna?
How do the animals interact with each other? e.g Some of the animals eat other animals; they share the water and the land
What does the weather look like in Savanna?
What kind of plants grow in there?
What do you think you might feel for your new discovery?
When you have all the information ready then you can start writing your imaginative story describing your trip to Savanna Africa. You might want to start your sentence with,
When I visited Savanna Africa, ______________________
Remember to use capital letters and full stops to show your sentences.
After you have written your story, you can read it to someone in your house. Have fun!
If I was a Zoo Keeper for the Day
Watch the clip of a mini zookeeper, Anahera, at Auckland Zoo.
Imagine that the Zoo has called you and asked if you could work as a zookeeper for one day!
Think about what animals you would like to help look after on this day?
What would you do to look after these animals? What food would you need to bring them?
Write a story that describes what animals you would look after if you were a zookeeper and how you would look after your chosen animal. Try to include in your story the type of food that your chosen animal would need to be fed.
Orangutans
Let’s watch a video of orangutans imitating humans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFACrIx5SZ0
While watching, pay attention to the things the orangutans are doing.
Now, I want you to draw a picture of an orangutan doing one of the things you watched in the video. Then, write a story describing all the things orangutans can do in the video and to finish your story tell me a thing you can do.
Remember to look at the icons above to write your story like an expert and when you are done, you can read your story to someone in your house. Have fun!!!
Crazy Animals
The animals at the zoo have got themselves all muddled up, have a look at the picture.
The bear has turned pink, like the flamingo. The panda has borrowed the seal’s flippers. The snake has the elephant's huge ears. The rhino has a shell like a tortoise and the tiger has traded his stripes for a leopard's spots.
What a crazy zoo! I wonder what other strange animals we could come up with. Let your imagination run wild and mix up some animals. 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.
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!
maths
maths
This week we continue our learning in the area of multiplication and division. We are learning
Our skip counting sequences so that we can count equal groups of two, five and ten
To create equal groups of a given number
To share out a given number of objects to create equal groups
Learning Skip Counting Sequences
For each activity choose which sequence you will practice, choose from counting in twos, fives or tens. Choose an activity for each day this week, before having a go at a problem further down this page.
Skip counting Hopscotch
Help your child draw a hopscotch path, with boxes big enough to write numbers in and hop on. Remember to make some single rows and some double rows.
Start filling in the hopscotch path with the skip counting sequence you are going to practice. Start at the beginning and hop on the squares, calling out each number as they hop on it. When they turn around to come back, skip count backwards. Play a game of hopscotch with another family member.
Math Art: Skip Counting
What you will need:
Paint, cotton swab/bud, paper, felts
Example for Counting in Tens
Draw 10 simple circles on the paper or any shapes of fun design of your choice. You just need one shape for each set of ten.
Dip your cotton swabs in paint and use them to create a design of dots in each circle. Put ten dots inside each circle.
Use a simple design or just random dots. The important part is to make sure you only have 10 dots in each shape.
Once you have your dots in each circle, you’ve got a pretty representation of skip counting by ten.
Count your circles: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. You’ve got one hundred dots total on your skip counting math art project!
You can repeat this activity again with making 2 dots in each shape, or 5 dots in each shape
Paper Plate Skip Counting
What you will need:
A paper plate or cut a circle out of a piece of paper/cardboard
Felts
Paper clips or pegs
Example for Counting in Fives
Start at the top of your paper plate and write the number 0
Add five paper clips/pegs next to the 0, then write the number 5
Continue to add five paper clips/pegs, each time writing the next number in the counting in fives sequence, until you have gone all the way round your plate
Take all your paper clips/pegs off the plate, and now have another practice. Work your way around the plate putting 5 paper clips/pegs between each number. Don’t forget to skip count along the way.
Skip counting with Lego
What you will need:
Clear plastic cups or jars, or something similar you have in your household
Pieces of lego or something else that is small
Felts/Marker
Optional: Paper
What do do:
With your chosen skip counting sequence, write the numbers on your cups. Or you could write the numbers on pieces of paper to place in front of the cup or sellotape to the cup
Place the right number of lego in each cup to match the number on the outside. If you are counting in twos, then put your lego together as groups of 2, if practicing your fives, then groups of 5 pieces of lego. Like in the fives counting picture.
If you are confident with counting forwards, then remember to practice counting backwards
Skip Counting Problems
Make It Equal
Oh no, the bears are not in equal groups, can you help them be in equal groups
Find some bears/toys (or something else) at your house and copy the picture to recreate these unequal groups - once ready decide which bears need to move where to make equal groups.
Ask someone in your house to mix up your bears/toys to be unequal groups, so you can challenge yourself to make them into equal groups again
Problems with Twos
There are 2 cookies in a jar. I have 3 jars in the kitchen. How many cookies do I have?
Draw a picture to show 3 jars with 2 cookies in each.
What if there were 5 jars in the kitchen?
If there were 8 worms, and each kiwi can only have 2 worms each, how many kiwis can have worms for dinner?
What if there were this number of worms - 4, 10, 6, 14
Miss Cave buys 10 cupcakes. If there are 5 people in Miss Cave’s family, and she shares them equally with her family. How many cupcakes does each person get?
Problems with Fives
There are 5 fish in each pond and there are four ponds. How many fish are there altogether?
Mr. Farmer is growing a garden. He wants to plant 4 rows of watermelon with 5 in each row. How many watermelons does he have altogether?
There are some fishing boats in the harbour. Each boat caught 5 fish. How might this look? Can you draw it? Remember you have to decide how many boats there are.
There are 15 fish thrown into the bear enclosure of the zoo. If 3 grizzly bears each eat an equal amount, how many fish did each bear eat?
Problems with Tens
On a school zoo trip, the children get separated into groups of 10. There are 5 groups. How many children are on the trip?
I go bowling and knock down all 10 pins. I do this 5 times in a row. How many pins do I knock down in total?
Extension: What if I knock all 10 pins down for 10 times How many pins do I knock down in total?
Each pile has ten candies in it. Count by tens and write/say the total
There are _______ pencils in a pack.
There are _______ packs
There are _______ pencils altogether
science
science
Friction Fun
Here is a video of Miss Revilla’s Friction Fun. This is a fun activity to explore the effect friction has between objects.
If you can’t watch the video, here’s what to do
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.
Friction Ramp
Another fun activity to explore the concept of friction!
Friction is created when any two objects rub against each other. Friction is the resistance of motion when one object rubs against another.
Objects can have different surfaces, for example smooth, bumpy, rough, hairy. This activity lets you explore how some surfaces have more friction between themselves and another object than others.
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?
Do things slide faster on your smooth cardboard or on your polar fleece?
Which surface do your things slide the fastest? Which surface do your things slide the slowest?
What we discover is that the rougher the surface, the more friction is created.
Have a look around your house for different types of surfaces you could test objects on - or put your socks on and see which surface is easiest to slide on in your socks
Leaky Bag
Does a bag leak if you poke a pencil through it? Watch this video to see this experiment - Leaky Bag
Equipment:
A plastic ziplock bag
One or more pencils
Water
Instructions:
Fill a ziplock bag with water and close the bag at the top.
Hold the bag up from the top and quickly poke a pencil through so that it comes out the other side.
Quickly poke another pencil through to the other side and another if you want.
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.
Extra Science - Join Suzy Cato for a science lesson about food
Login to TVNZ on Demand and search for Home Learning TV. The episode is called ‘Junior Science & Maths with Suzy Cato’ Wednesday 25 August or here is the link
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