Home Learning - Week 9
Dear Parents/ Caregivers,
Welcome to learning at home for Week 9 Term 3. Our learning at home tasks give you the flexibility to plan these into your day around other commitments.
That's what dragons do.mp4Plus this Week it’s Magic Time!
A special video for this week from Mr Seth in the senior school teaching you how you can do a magic trick
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 9
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
Monday
Zip & Mac - a
Letter a Song
Tuesday
Zip & Mac - r
Letter r Song
Wednesday
Zip & Mac - f
Letter f Song
Thursday
Zip & Mac - d
Letter d Song
Friday
Zip & Mac - u
Letter u Song
Special Letter Activity
Monday - A is for alligator. Can you make an alligator out of capital a? Open your arms wide and snap them closed like a crocodile, snap, snap!
Tuesday - R is for rainbow. Everyone loves a colourful, bright rainbow. Can you turn letter r into a rainbow? Can you build a rainbow out of your clothes or toys?
Wednesday - F is for family. Make or draw letter f, then draw the members of your family onto the letter.
Thursday - D is for dots. Dots, dots everywhere! Make a letter d and fill it with dots, small dots, big dots, colourful dots
Friday - U is for umbrella. Draw letter u and turn it into an umbrella.
Weekly Poem
Read or sing the poem each day, remember to try and point to each word as you read.
Beginning sound f - how many words can you see that begin with f? Can you draw three things that begin with f?
Can you make a set of ten toys or things in your house?
Let’s look at the word ‘it’, write the word down, robot the two sounds then blend them back together, can you add b, what word do you have now? Try adding these sounds instead -, f, l, s.
Books for this Week
Book - We Like to Dance
Access Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 1
If you are logged in, you can click on this link We like to dance
Read the book and 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.
Write the word like, try and write it five times. Remember to read it each time you write it.
Design a dance costume, it can be for any type of dance. Draw a picture of your costume.
Make up a dance, pick any music you enjoy and create your own dance. You could video it and share it with your teacher.
Book - Little and Big
Access Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 2
If you are logged in, you can click on this link Little and big
Read the book and do the activities
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 play with the word ‘and’. It has three letters and three sounds. Can you say the first sound, the middle and the last sound? On some paper or a whiteboard write and then add a h, what word have you made now? Try it again and this time add s, what word have you made now?
I like all of the funny hats in this book, can you draw a funny hat?
Book - Who is the Tallest
Access Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 3
If you are logged in, you can click on this link Who is the tallest?
Read the book and do the activities
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 play with the word ‘but’. It has three letters and three sounds. Can you say the first sound, the middle and the last sound? On some paper or a whiteboard change the first sound to make another word. What word have you made? Try it again but this time change the middle sound. What word have you made now?
Who is the tallest in your family? Make a drawing of yourself with the tallest person in your family.
Book - Pop, Pop in the Pot
Click the link to the book, Pop, Pop in the Pot, we will hear words with a short ‘o’ vowel sound.
Read the story two times.
Then answer the following questions to an adult:
What happened in the story?
Why does dad say “stop, stop, stop!”?
Why is Nat’s mum mopping up after the top of the pot popped off?
Remember you can “robot the words” or sound out the words you don’t know by sounding out each letter and then blending the sounds together.
E.g P-o-p, pop
Find the words in the book that have a short ‘o’ sound.
List these words down and say them again.
Think about a time you made popcorn. Did you hear the popping noise as the popcorn was being made?
In the story, what does the word ‘pops’ mean? Could we use another word in place of ‘pops’?
e.g. jumps, bursts, explodes. Use these words in a sentence.
Rhyming words with ‘pot’ - what words can you make that rhyme with pot?
Have a go by writing these first sounds in front of the sound ‘ot’ - d, g, h, l, n, r
What words have you made?
Book - A Fun Quiz
This book can be found here
Read the book with an adult.
Ask the adult to ask you questions about the book.
What, when, who, where, how and why questions.
Retell the story in order to your parents.
Can you find 3 words that have the ‘qu’ consonants from the book? For each one, say it, robot it, write it
Think of 2 more words that have the ‘qu’ consonant sound
Blend Sounds
Decide which blend sound needs to go on each line to make a word that starts with the sound of either sh, ch or th
Then spend some time outside making your own sh, ch and th. You could write them with chalk, or with water and a brush, or make them out of what you can find outside
Rhyming Activity
Write 3 words that rhyme with ‘cat’ and draw a picture for each of your words
cat
Clue: To get started with your first rhyming word, change the ‘c’ in cat to an ‘h’, what word have you got?
Phonics - Middle Vowel Sounds
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. You could try doing one picture each day
Last Sounds
Name each picture in the rectangle, say it carefully and listen for the last sound in that word. Decide out of the two letters which is the correct last sound
writing
When writing your stories remember what good writers do…
Two Truths One Lie
Let’s play a game with our writing today. Can you write two facts (true things) about you and one lie?
Remember to listen to the sounds you can hear in the words you are writing, use your word card and icons above to help you.
Once you’ve written your ideas, share them with someone in your house and see if you can trick them. You could even email your teacher and see if you can trick them.
Here’s an example from Mrs Harland, can you guess which is the lie?
I have a vegetable garden at my house. There are six people that live in my home. I love chocolate.
If you guessed that the second idea was the lie, miharo! There are four people in my house, not six.
It’s a Shark!
What do you think the diver and the shark will see on their adventure? Can you draw a shark and diver under the sea on some paper? What are some things they might find under the sea?
Write your story underneath your picture and read it to someone in your house.
Favourite Hairy Maclary Dog
One of Miss Tailby’s favourite books to read is ‘Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy’
Listen to the story here. When you have listened to the story once, watch the video again and this time - choose your favourite dog from the story.
Can you write a story on who your favourite dog is from Hairy Maclary? Why do you like this dog?
Before you write, draw a picture of your chosen dog, then think about the idea that you want to say in your story and count the words for your idea on your hand.
During your writing: If you get stuck or you forget which word comes next in your idea, you can always go back to the beginning and read your sentence again. This will help you remember which word comes next.
Here is Miss Tailby’s story::
I like Hairy Maclary. I like him because he is small and hairy.
Binx the cat
This is Binx, Miss Revilla’s cat:
Now look at these two photos of Binx and describe to someone what he is doing.
Put your ideas of what Binx is doing into a story. Remember to think and say your idea before you write. Use the icons above and the word card to help you. When you finish writing, read your story to someone else.
The Monster in the Forest
There’s a monster in the forest and we want to know what happens next...
Have a look at the picture, what do you think the monster is going to do? Share ideas with someone in your family - how many different ideas can you make up? Will it be something scary, will be it something silly, will it be something noisy?
You can use this sentence starter - The monster is going to...
Choose your favourite idea for what the monster is going to do and write this as your story. Remember to say it out loud again to check it makes sense and so you don’t miss any key words. Enjoy reading your story to someone when you have finished.
MATHS
This week maths is brought to you by ‘My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes’.
To get started, on Monday listen to the story here, and after the story Mrs Harland will show you how she decides which box is best for her cats to hide in! Then it’s your turn to see where your toys can fit and hide.
Then for each day this week, choose an activity from below
Ordering Cats Shortest to Tallest
Here are three cats, can you put them in order from the shortest to the tallest?
Draw a cat that is shorter than the shortest cat
Here are some more cats to look at, which is the shortest and which is the tallest? Can you order the cats from shortest to tallest?
Here are some more cats, they are labelled a, b, c and d. Which cat is the tallest and which is the shortest? Can you order them from the shortest to the tallest?
Cats Love Chasing Wool
Cats love chasing and playing with pieces of wool or string. Look at the pieces of wool below, can you find the shortest piece and the longest piece?
If you have some wool or string at home, have someone cut you three or four pieces and see if you can line them up from the shortest to the tallest. Take the tallest piece of string and see if you can find something in your room that is the same length.
Cats Love Cat Food
The cats have had dinner. Look at their bowls, which one would be heavier to lift? Why? Which one would be the lightest to carry?
Miss Findlay in this video shows how you can compare the weight of items in your house and then put them in order from the lightest to the heaviest. Watch her video here, then find some items and have a go.
Can you identify in these pictures which is heavier?
Cat Bed
The cat’s are getting sleepy, can you build a cat bed that is a good fit for a cat? Find a small soft toy (it’s ok if you don’t have a cat) and go hunting, check your recycling and see what you can find. Once you have made your cat bed, you might colour it in or even design a cosy blanket on a piece of paper.
Remember to check that the size of your paper will be just right to cover your toy in bed, not too big, not too small, but just right. Your teacher would love to see a photo of this activity
Mrs Harland’s video on volume and capacity, what fits inside other stuff shows you how you can check if your bed is going to be the right size for your cat/toy.
A Trip to the Vet
The cat’s need to go to the vet, to keep them safe, they go in a cat carrier. Look at the cat carriers and the cats below, which carrier would be best fit for each cat? Can you explain why?
science
This week we start our science topic of Sound. We will explore the concept of sound waves and vibrations through the activities below. There’s an activity for each day this week.
What is Sound?
Sound is carried by waves, not waves like in the ocean, but sound waves that are invisible to us.
Sound waves come from vibration. Vibrations are energy waves that travel through the air. There are millions of air molecules floating around everyone that we can’t see, it is these molecules that transfer the vibrations as sound waves.
Sound waves interact with our eardrums. Our eardrums vibrate and pass on the waves to our inner ear, where our brain can perceive it as sound. Sound waves traveling through the air
‘Seeing’ Sound
Let’s get started with an activity today to help us ‘see’ sound waves
Equipment:
Bowl
Gladwrap
Rice, 1 teaspoon
Metal pan/tray
Metal spoon
Instructions:
Cover the top of your bowl with gladwrap. Make sure your gladwrap is stretched tightly over the top of the bowl
Place your rice on top of the gladwrap
Now for the fun part, hold your metal pan next to the bowl, close to your bowl. Hold your pan up in the air so that it is not touching the table/surface you are working on. Bang your metal spoon against the pan like a drum and watch what happens to the rice
Did your rice move? Did it dance on the gladwrap?
What happens when you move your pan further away from the bowl, does the rice still move?
You have seen sound! What is happening is that when you hit the metal pan with the spoon, the pan vibrates. The vibrations in the pan are transferred to the air surrounding the pan, creating a sound wave. This wave is transmitted through the air molecules and cause the gladwrap to start vibrating as well, making the rice dance!
Now to try this again, but this time place 1 teaspoon of sprinkles or sugar on top of your gladwrap. Here’s a video you can watch on how to do this.
Instructions:
Place your mouth as close as you can get to the edge of your bowl, and so that your mouth is in line with the top of the bowl
Now speak directly into your gladwrap. Watch what happens to your sprinkles.
What happens if you talk quietly?
What happens if you talk loudly?
What happens if you have a go at humming right next to the edge of your bowl?
Start humming from further away and bring your mouth closer to the bowl; what happens?
Sound Waves Underwater
We know that sound travels through air, does it travel through water? Is sound louder when it travels through water? Let’s find out
Equipment:
Bucket or bowl of water
Plastic bottle e.g. 1.5L fizzy drink bottle
Craft knife or scissors
Two dinner knives
Instructions:
Fill your bucket or bowl with water
Cut the bottom of your plastic bottle. Remove the lid from the bottle
Place the bottle in the water so that the cut bottom is in the water. Now place your ear to the top of the bottle to listen
Have someone else hold the two dinner knives in the water, and then knock them against each other in the water
What do you hear?
The sound of your knives knocking against each other should be loud and clear. Sound travels faster through water than in the air, and animals that live underwater are able to hear sound clearly. This is because the water molecules more easily bump into each other, transferring the vibrations quickly and clearly.
Sound Waves to our Ears
Let’s explore another way to send sound waves through vibrations straight to our ears! If our sound waves travel through a solid object does it make the sound louder like being underwater?
Equipment:
Metal fork, or spoon
String, long enough to hang down from your ears to by your stomach
Instructions:
Tie your fork in the centre of your piece of string
Take each end of the string and wind a little bit around your pointer fingers, then push your fingers with the string around them to your ears
Let your fork dangle down in front of you so that nothing else is touching it, and then ask someone to tap your fork with an object
What do you hear?
Tap your hanging fork with different objects, does it change the sound?
You should hear a loud gonging sound or ringing in your ears! The funny thing about this is that nobody else hears it like you do.
When the fork hits another surface it vibrates. Those vibrations make the air around it move too, these are your sound waves. However, the sound waves also move up the string and allow your ears to hear it loudly. In comparison to air, the sound waves travel really well up through the string, a solid object.
Make a String Telephone
Now that we know sound waves travel well through solid objects, like a piece of string, make yourself a string telephone to share secret messages with someone else in your house
Equipment:
2 paper cups
A sharp pencil or needle to help poke holes
String
Instructions:
Cut a piece of string, 5-6 metres is an ideal length. However, it can be shorter or longer
Poke a small hole in the bottom of each cup
Thread the string through each cup and tie knots at each end to stop it pulling through the cup
With two people, each person holds a cup and moves away from each other until the string becomes tight. Make sure the string is not touching anything else
One person talks into the cup, while the other person puts their cup to their ear and listens. Can you hear each other?
What’s happening to your sound waves? When you speak into the cup it creates sound waves which are converted into vibrations at the bottom of the cup. The vibrations travel along the string and are converted back into sound waves at the other end so your other person can hear what you said.
Your string telephone shows again how sound travels better through solids such as your cup and string, allowing you to hear sounds that might be too far away when traveling through the air.
High Sounds, Low Sounds & Amplifying Sound
Skewer Sounds
Explore pitch with a skewer. Pitch can be high or low.
Equipment:
A skewer
Instructions:
With one hand hold your skewer firmly on a table top with most of it sticking out from the table
Flick your skewer, so that it vibrates, Listen to the sound it makes
Now move your skewer so only a little bit is sticking out from the table. Flick it again, listen to the sound it makes
Which one sounded higher? Which one sounded lower?
When you flick your longer length skewer, it vibrates less and produces a lower sound
When you flick your shorter length skewer, it vibrates faster and produces a higher sound
Extra science facts: Frequency is how quickly the sound wave is moving. Frequency impacts pitch. A fast frequency will create a higher pitch. A slower frequency has a lower pitch
Here’s a short video to watch skewer vibrations, and how sound is amplified (becomes louder), then have a go at this activity to explore amplifying sound
Balloon Amplifier Activity
Equipment:
A balloon
Instructions:
Blow your balloon up and tie a knot
Hold it and lightly tap on it, do you think you heard a loud sound or a quiet sound
Next, hold the balloon up to your ear and lightly tap on it. Is the sound louder now?
The sound is louder when you hold the balloon next to your ear. Why does this happen? When you blow the balloon up you are packing it with air molecules. They are very close together and transmit sound waves super well compared to the air just around us normally.
So when you hold the balloon up to your ear, the sound just has to get through the tightly packed molecules in the balloon and we hear a louder sound. It is amplified.
