Home Learning - Week 1 Term 4
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Dear Parents/ Caregivers,
Welcome to learning at home for Week 1 Term 4. 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 Backpacker with Mrs Wells
READING
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 10
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 - y
Letter y Song
Tuesday
Zip & Mac - s
Letter s Song
Wednesday
Zip & Mac - x
Letter x Song
Thursday
Zip & Mac - p
Letter p Song
Friday
Zip & Mac - g
Letter g Song
Special Letter Activity
Monday - Y is for Yak. Grab some paint, put it on a paper plate or cardboard and cover your palm with the paint. On a piece of paper, make a handprint. Now, draw a yak head.
Tuesday - S is for Superhero. Get some popsicle sticks, some paper and some glue. Let’s make superheroes!!! Draw an S on the popsicle stick. On a piece of paper, draw a cape and colour it. Then, cut it and glue it on the back of the popsicle stick. Finally, grab some more paper and draw the superhero’s eyes, cut them and glue them on the stick.
Wednesday - X is for X-ray. Can you turn a letter X into an X-ray? Draw a letter X and colour it black. On another piece of paper draw little bones and cut them. Now, glue them on your letter X.
Thursday - P is for Pizza. Let’s make our own pizza. Grab a paper plate and some paper. Colour the paper plate red. Then, draw and colour your ingredients. Now, glue the ingredients on the plate. We made a yummy pizza!!
Friday - G is for Giraffe. Draw a letter G, colour it yellow with orange spots and then cut it. Now, draw a face, cut it and glue it on the letter G. Grab two pegs and clip them to your letter G. We have made a giraffe!!!
Weekly Poem
Read the poem each day so that you become familiar with it. Over the week see if you can do these activities:
Can you hear when you read the word ‘can’, can you find that word in the poem? Do some rainbow writing with the word ‘can’ - have an adult write the word in big writing, then you copy over the top five times using a different colour each time
To help you learn the word ‘can’, write it on a flash card, and write each letter for little on smaller pieces of card/paper so it can be a puzzle. You can choose a different word to practice if you like, maybe you will choose is, it or to
Beginning sound s - can you find all the words in the poem that begin with s? Can you think of any other words? Write your words down or draw pictures of your ‘s’ things. If you can get five, miharo, you’re amazing!
Explore what words you can make when you change the first sound in the word ‘wet’. Take away the ‘w’ and replace it with a letter ‘j’ - what word have you made? Remember to say each sound of this new word and then blend the sounds together to read the word. Here are some other first sounds to try: b, l, v, p
Extra Challenge: Can you hear two words that rhyme in this poem?
Books for this Week
Book - Balloons
Log in to Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 1
Read the story ‘Balloons’ two times.
Retell what happened in the story.
Complete the quiz on Sunshine Online and have fun recording your reading.
Can you find the word ‘the’ in the book?
Practice saying and writing the word ‘the’ on a piece of paper.
Can you put the word ‘the’ in a sentence, just like in the story?
E.g The boy is running.
E.g I can see the balloon.
Design your own balloon that goes up. Remember to use lots of different colours. Then write the sentence to go with your picture ‘The balloon goes up’. Once finished, show someone in your family.
Here is a picture that you can copy to draw your own balloon outline
Book - The Water Slide
Listen to this story The Water Slide at least two times
Can you answer the questions, you might need to listen to the story again:
Who made the water slide?
Who went down the water slide
Do you think cats would like water slides?
Can you think of what else would not like to go down a water slide?
Activities:
Draw a picture of your favourite part of the story
Draw a picture of a water slide with you swishing down
Maybe you could make a miniature water slide for some of your plastic toys
Book - Who Will Win the Race
Log in to Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 3
Go to the story, ‘Who Will Win the Race?’. Look at the cover of the book. Who do we think will win the race and why?
Read the story ‘Who Will Win the Race?’ two times.
If you are unsure of a word, remember to sound out the first letter and then look at the picture to help figure out what the word could be.
If words are short, we can try to “robot the word”, such as c-a-t, cat. Or d-o-g, dog.
Complete the quiz on Sunshine Online.
Retell what happened in the story. Who won the race at the end? Can you recall what happened first, what happened next, and what was the last thing to happen? You can use the worksheet structure below to help you
Then complete a T Chart. Draw a picture of all the animals from the story that can run fast in the fast column and draw all the slow animals in the slow column.
Extension:
On a piece of paper, can we make words that rhyme with ‘cat’, by writing b, m, p, s in place of the c?
E.g cat, bat, mat, pat, sat
Can you think of any other words we can write that rhyme with cat?
Book - Getting Ready for the Visitors
Listen to the book - Getting ready for the visitors - Level 3
Listen to the book a couple of times to help you answer the questions:
Who were the visitors?
What were 3 things that Mahi helped with?
Why do you think they might be visiting?
Activities:
How can you help your family to keep the house clean? Choose one thing you can do to help and do it now!
Play dress up: Dress up as someone and pretend to visit your house. Try and get into character and use a different voice too!
Draw a picture of somewhere you would like to visit once it is safe to.
Book - Where is My Hat
Log in to Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 2
Read the story ‘Where is my hat?’ two times.
Retell what happened in the story to a family member.
Complete the word activity and the thinking activity on Sunshine Online.
We are going to focus on the letter ‘h’. What sound does this letter make?
Say it three times. Find this letter in the story. What words do we know that start with a ‘h’ sound? List them to a family member.
Complete this worksheet below or practice writing letter ‘h’ on a piece of paper with different colours.
The word ‘here’ also starts with a ‘h’ sound.
Can you find the word ‘here’ in the book?
Practice saying and writing the word ‘here’ on a piece of paper.
Can you put the word ‘here’ in a sentence, just like in the story?
E.g Here is a table.
E.g The cat is here.
Nature Letters
As your bubble heads out on walks, collect leaves, sticks, flowers and even grass. Challenge your child to make letters out of these objects. Take a picture and then you can reuse the objects to make new letters, this encourages imagination and curiosity as well.
High Frequency Words
Have fun learning some high frequency words with shaving cream or something similar that you have at your house
Find a tray or something with a flat surface to spread your shaving cream out and use your pointer finger to write a word. Spell your word out loud when you have finished, rub it out and see if you can spell it again out loud.
Here are some high frequency words you can practice, or choose some of your own
First Sounds - I Spy
Play I spy with someone from your family and try to find things that start with different sounds.
Say “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with the sound …”
Make sure to use letter sounds instead of letter names!
Phonics - Decode the Words
Cover the picture. Say each sound in the word and then blend the sounds together to read the word. Reveal the picture to check.
Last Sounds
Look at each picture and determine the missing ending sound
Rhyming
Listen to this song Rhyming with at. After listening to it, try and say as many ‘at’ rhyming words as you can remember. Write them down or tell someone in your family. Count how many you got, and then watch the video again to see if you got them all. Keep practising!
writing
writing
When writing your stories remember what good writers do…
Kitty Cat
Oh no, Kitty Cat has gotten too close to Fat Cat’s bowl. Look at the picture and think about what you see.
Can you write a story about what is happening in the picture?
Draw your own picture to plan for your story
Think of your idea
Write your idea
Miss Cave might write: Fat Cat is angry with Kitty Cat.
A Wish
Close your eyes and imagine a magic genie came and granted you one special wish. Now think, if you had one wish, what would it be?
Draw a picture of what you would wish for, and write a simple sentence of your wish. You can start your sentence off with…I wish for a
When you have finished your story, read your story to other members in your family.
Seasons
Can you name all four seasons? Do the seasons go in a particular order?
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
What is your favourite season? Draw a picture of this season, think about what the weather would be like, what might you see? Why do you like this season?
Then it is time to think and say your idea aloud and then write your story. Mrs Harland might write: I like the hot sun in summer.
Read the story to yourself, and then share your story with someone in your family.
Create your Own Story
Choose a picture to write a story
What can you see?
Who is in the picture?
What are they doing? What do you think they are going to do?
What do you think about the picture?
Once you have your chosen idea/s write your story, then share with someone in your house
Super Powers
Think about your favourite superheroes e.g superman, pj masks
What superpowers do they have? e.g super speed running, invisibility, the ability to fly
Imagine you had super powers. If we could pretend, what kind of powers would you have?
Why is this the best superpower to have?
Draw a picture of yourself as a superhero and write a simple sentence about your super powers.
MATHS
MATHS
This week our maths activities focus on counting in sequence, counting out sets, recognising numbers and addition skills
Counting Forwards and Backwards
For our younger students here are some ideas to help you practise your backwards and forwards counting sequence. You can choose a different idea each day
Reading Log Book - Use your number chart in your reading log to practice. Copy the numbers you are learning onto pieces of paper to make your own flashcards - put your flashcards in order
Number Songs - listen to some songs such as 10 in the Bed, 5 Little Ducks, 5 Little Monkeys. Have a search on youtube for some counting songs
Stepping Stones - Write the numbers on pieces of paper or newspaper, lay out in a line and step on each one counting aloud. Repeat with different actions you can think of e.g. hopping, jumping, side stepping
Body Actions - As you count clap your hands or jump or star jump or push ups or… Be a rocket crouched down, when you count back to 1 jump up and blast off!
Hide and Seek - Have a game of hide and seek, decide which number you will start counting from or to.
Partner Count - With a partner count, for example if starting from 10, one person says ‘10’, then the next person says ‘9’. Bounce back and forth counting backwards until you get to zero. You could do this while passing a ball back and forth between you and your partner. Try going forwards to 10 as well.
Counting Sets & Recognising Numbers
More/Less - Spoons and Forks
Watch this video of Miss Tailby making sets with her spoons.
Have a look in your cutlery drawer.
Count all the spoons, then count all the forks. Remember to point to each one as you count them.
Line them up. Are there more spoons or more forks?
Draw a picture of the set that has more.
You can find something else in your house to count out a set of objects? Have a go at making a set of 3, 5, 7 and 9 like in Miss Tailby’s video. Then you could ask someone in your house to give you another number to make a set.
Counting Sets
Parents: Prepare some pirate treasure, this could be hair clips, spoons, pens, cut up pieces of paper, etc.
I have found some pirate treasure, can you help me count it?
Show the treasure to your child and ask your child to sort the treasure into sets and count the sets, encourage pointing as they count and ask them to try again if they are wrong. Work together to label the sets.
Which group has the most/least?
Can you draw one of these sets?
Could we work together to order our sets from the least to the most?
More/Less - Toys
You can use any toys you might have available. Make a set of three things, count them by pointing to each object. Ask your child to make a set (group) with more than yours. Count together.
Repeat with a different number.
Your child could then draw both sets and label with the amount in each.
Play-dough Numbers
Can you use play-dough to make the numbers up to 5?
Sit with your child and write the numbers on a piece of paper if they need some help.
Practice up to 10 if you can!
Addition Skills
Pasta Game
This game can help develop the understanding of the concept of what it means to add more, that the quantity becomes greater.
Put a bowl of dry pasta/beans or seeds between you and your child. Take turns at rolling a dice, each time adding that number or pasta to your plate. Have 2 or 3 turns in total.
When you reach your second turn, add the pasta and then ask your child, how many do you have now? Follow up with sharing what their addition problem was e.g. You had 4 pieces of pasta on your plate, you added 3 more, and now you have 7. You can repeat this each time you roll the dice and add more pasta to the plate.
After a couple of turns each, ask your child who has the most? Who has the least? Or does the plate in the middle have the most or the least?
You can extend this activity by recording down the addition equation each time you add some more pasta.
Peppa & George - How Many Apples?
Watch Miss Ashley show you how she uses her pegs to solve some addition problems. To solve her addition problem, she makes a set to match each number and then counts all the objects to get the answer. For example, if the problem is 3 + 2, make a set of 3 pegs and a set of 2 pegs and then count all the pegs to get the answer.
Have a go with this addition problem. Choose your own numbers to fill in the blanks to practice your addition
Frog Addition Stories
There are 5 frogs at the pond. Some were in the water, some were on the lilypad. What answers could there be?
Other numbers to try: 8, 10
Draw a picture of your answers so you can explain your thinking to someone in your house.
weather
weather
This week we will explore Weather as our topic. Let’s begin with a story - Weather Today.
We have lots of different weather, have a look at these pictures of Bear in different weather - can you name each weather? Have you seen them all yet?
Clouds
Make yourself some cloud watching binoculars
Resources:
2 cardboard tubes
Glue, tape or string to hold it together.
Something to colour it in with (optional)
Instructions:
Attach your 2 cardboard tubes side by side. You can use glue, tape or string to keep them stuck together.
Decorate your binoculars by colouring them in
If you have some string, attach it to your binoculars so you can wear them around your neck
Find a spot to lie down outside to cloud watch, what shapes and objects can you see in the clouds? Sometimes I see dragons and butterflies. Choose a cloud you like and draw it, turn it into what your imagination has seen
There are three main types of clouds:
Cumulus clouds are puffy, like cotton wool
Cirrus clouds are wispy, like strands of hair floating through the air.
Stratus clouds are like a blanket covering part of the sky
Become a cloud detective, see if you can spot each of these clouds this week. Can you see more than one type of cloud in the sky at the same time? Did you see any clouds that look different to these three cloud types?
Make your own cumulus, cirrus and stratus clouds with paper and cotton wool balls. Label each cloud you make E.g.
Rain
When it rains puddles can form on the ground. Find a puddle on the concrete after it stops raining and draw around it with chalk
Go back inside and play
Check on your puddle every hour or two
What is happening to your puddle?
How does rain form and where does it come from? Rain is part of the water cycle, watch this video to find out more about where rain comes from
Rainbows
Rainbows are amazing and we often see them after it has rained or when there is a sunshower. See if you spot a rainbow this week
Draw a Rainbow
Draw a rainbow with the colour in order - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Make sure you draw the colour red at the top of the rainbow and the last colour of violet at the bottom of the rainbow. Learn to say the colours in order, then learn to write them
Make a rainbow
Resources: clear glass and a white sheet of paper
Fill three-quarters of a glass with water and move all your supplies (the glass and a white sheet of paper), toward a sunny window.
Place the paper on a nearby table or windowsill and hold the water glass above it.
Watch as the sunlight passes through the glass, bends and forms a rainbow on the blank page.
In the sky, rainbows form when sunlight refracts or bends just like it did when it passed through the water and onto your paper.
Snow
If a cloud is cold enough it will freeze the water vapour that is in the cloud into ice crystals. When lots of ice crystals stick together they form a snowflake that falls from the cloud. Check out this short video about snow
Make Some Ice
Find some small plastic containers that are ok to put in the freezer or an ice cube tray. Fill your containers with water and place in the freezer and leave them there till the next day.
Get your ice out of the freezer. To get your ice out of your containers you might need to gently tap them or briefly run under the tap to loosen them.
Ice is cold like snow, take your ice outside to play with
Hold it in your hand, how does it feel?
If you drop your ice does it break?
Can you stack your ice pieces or cubes on top of each other?
Leave a piece of ice out in the sun, keep an eye on it to check out how it changes
Does your ice slide along the concrete if you give it a push?
Maybe you could collect some items from nature like tiny leaves or petals, fill you container with water again, place your nature items in and then pop back in the freezer overnight - check them out the next day
Make a Paper Snowflake
Resources:
Pencil
Sheet of square white paper
Pair of scissors
Instructions:
Get a square piece of paper or trim a piece of paper so that it is square.
Fold your square in half diagonally (have a look at the picture below).
Fold your triangle in half – again diagonally (look at the picture below).
Fold paper in thirds … one side to the front, the other to the back. (Unfold the triangle you just folded. Here you will see a crease in the middle of your triangle. Fold the long edges of each side to the centre crease.)
Trim the extra piece of paper off the end of your small triangle.
Around the outside of your triangle, cut some fun designs — circles, squares, triangles, squiggles … anything goes.
Unfold your paper and look at your masterpiece.
Voila! A snowflake
A story to finish our week of Weather - What kind of Day is Today?
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