Dear Parents/ Caregivers,
Welcome to learning at home for Week 2 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 Turkey Trouble - see how turkey tries to turn himself into different farm animals!
Garden Art Activities
Animal Leaf Art
Explore your garden, front or backyard and collect 4 different leaves and sizes. Or you can explore your local park, pathway, beach. Once you have collected your leaves it’s time to turn them into unique leaf animals
Need:
1x cardboard or paper (background)
1x marker for eyes or make your own
Glue stick or sellotape
Glue the leaves on the paper, draw or glue in eyes, draw legs on each leaf to create a character and any other characteristics you want to.
Leaf Puppets or Leaf People
Create your own leaf puppets from cardboard tubes, or make a leaf person
Need:
Toilet or paper towel rolls
Something to be buttons e.g seeds, beans, buttons, paper
Different leaves, to be the head of your puppet or body of your person
Glue stick or sellotape
Paint - optional
Make a Fairy Garden
A fairy garden is a miniature garden
Use an old pot plant, tray or container of your choice.
Put soil in and decorate with whatever you have around your home.
You can put your old toys in a miniature garden
For more ideas and inspiration you can look at these websites - Make a fairy garden or miniature garden
You can add to your garden your very own rock creatures. You could decorate a ladybug or a bee or....
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
Please select the Reading Group for your child. Your teacher will have emailed this information to you.
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.
Favourite Vegetables
What are your favourite vegetables?
Can you see any of them in this picture? Draw a picture of your favourite vegetables and label them.
Talk about your favourite vegetables with someone in your house, share with them what they look like, and why do you like them? Have a think about what words you will use to describe your vegetables and why you like them - for example here are some words:
crunchy tasty sweet shiny soft chewy
Write your story, and enjoy reading it to someone else when you have finished
Extension: Include in your story why you think vegetables are important for us to eat
Your Own Garden
Imagine you were going to plant your own garden. What would be some of the things you would plant? Draw a picture of what your garden would look like and write a story about your garden underneath.
King or Queen
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a king or queen? What things would you do if you were royalty?
Write a story pretending to be a king or queen. Describe what you would do, how you would feel and what you would wear?
Challenge: Use lots of describing words to make your story more interesting. Read the sentences below to see the difference between a boring sentence and an interesting sentence.
Boring sentence:
I had a crown.
Interesting sentence:
I wore a gold sparkling crown that was decorated with colorful and rare gems.
Draw a picture of you in your royal outfit!
Earthworms
Let’s write a report about earthworms. In your report you will need to include what an earthworm looks like, where it lives, what it can do, and why they are helpful.
To help you plan and organise your facts about earthworms you can make a chart like this to record your information
Earthworms
Here is a website with information about earthworms - Facts about Earthworms, and this one tells you what earthworms eat
Here are some videos you can watch - Worms are Wonderful and Worms
Now that you have all your facts about earthworms, talk about what you have learnt with someone else. This will help you form your facts into sentences for your story. Think about the order you will write your facts.
What will your opening sentence be to hook the reader into your story Maybe you could use a question to hook your reader, for example
Did you know earthworms are in your garden?
Have you ever seen an earthworm?
You might write your story all in one day, but you can work on your story over two days. Draw a picture of an earthworm to go with your story.
I wonder if you can find an earthworm in your garden?
maths
This week our maths activities is a focus on Subtraction
If you would like some revision on using the count all strategy you can watch this video of Mrs Say
Roll the Dice Subtraction Game
You will need 2 dice and coloured counters. Each player needs a different coloured set of counters. If you need to make some counters, you can do this by cutting up a piece of paper into small squares, either colour these in or use coloured paper.
Take turns rolling the 2 dice and take the smaller number away from the bigger number. Then place your counter on the answer. The first person to cover four numbers in a row, in any direction wins.
Max the Monkey - How many bananas are left?
Choose your own numbers to fill in the blanks. Remember the first number will need to be bigger than the second number, and try lots of different numbers to practice your subtraction skills.
Subtraction Card Game
A game to practice small addition problems. With a pack of playing cards, take out the king, queen and jack. The ace will be number 1.
Share the remaining cards between two players. Each person turns over 2 cards from their pile, then subtracts the smaller number away from the larger number. The player with the smallest number for an answer gets a point. Play the game until an agreed number of points is won.
Counting Back Practice
Last week you practiced counting on to solve addition problems, this week you can practice using the count back strategy to solve subtraction problems. To use the count back strategy, you need to track your backwards counting carefully so you know when the right place is to stop your count.
You can also watch this counting back video with Mrs Brand, she will show you counting back in 1’s using a lock it in strategy and how you can show your counting back on a number line
For example, 8 - 3, we start our backwards count from 8 - 8, 7, 6. The next number you say, 5, is how many will be left. Use a number line or your fingers to help you track how many you have counted back. If the problem is less than 10, hold up the number of fingers you are starting with, then fold down each finger as you count back. The fingers that remain unfolded tells you the answer of how many are left. e.g.
Extension: If your child is showing confidence with counting back for problems involving 10 or less, extend to using your fingers to just track what you are counting back e.g. the picture below shows tracking the count back of 4 for 14 - 4 = 10, and count back of 4 for 9 - 4 = 5
Below are some subtraction problems for this week. You can show how you solved each problem by drawing a picture representation, hands or a number line
Before beginning the problems for the day, help your child practice their counting backwards sequence. Ask them to count backwards from a given number. For our Year 1’s from a number they are familiar with between 5-20. For our Year 2’s from a number they are familiar with, this could be a number between 20-100
Make your own Calculations
Use these cards to make calculations with your answers,
Like this one,
In each calculation you must only use a card once, but of course you can re-use them in your next calculation if you want to.
Can you find a way to use all the cards in one calculation?
Can you find all the possible ways to use the cards?
Word Subtraction Problems
gardens
This week we begin our new topic of Gardens
Parts of a flowering plant
Let’s learn about the parts of a flowering plant using the picture below to help us.
Looking at the labels, let’s learn a bit more about each part.
petals - the petals are the colourful parts of the flower, they are on the outside of the flower.
seeds - the seeds are often found in the middle, yellow part of the flower. This is also where bees like to look for nectar.
leaf - some flowering plants have green leaves, the leaves help the plant to collect sunlight to give it energy to keep growing.
stem - the stem helps the plants stand up tall. It helps the plant stay healthy by moving nutrients (yum plant food) and water around the plant.
roots - these are hidden under the ground. They stop the plant from falling over and help to soak up water and nutrients from the soil.
Parts of a plant and what plants need to grow
Listen to this song that shows the parts of a flowering plant and what they need to grow. Parts of a plant song.
Can you make a picture showing the parts of a flowering plant? Remember to email your teacher a photo of your work.
Worm farms
There are lots of ways to help your garden grow. Watch this video of Mrs Harland showing you her whānau’s worm farm. These worms are called tiger worms and are very helpful in the garden.
Mrs Harland shares a picture showing the different levels within the worm farm. Can you draw your own picture? Remember you can email and share your work with your teacher.
A gardener’s job
Gardeners have lots of jobs to do to keep their gardens healthy and keep their plants growing.
In a vegetable garden, gardener’s need to:
plant the seeds
water the seeds and the garden
watch out for weeds and pull them out
watch out for insects like caterpillars that might eat the plants
pick the fruit or vegetables when they are ready
Gardeners use tools to do their work, watch and see if you can spot some of the gardeners' tools. Then have a look at the picture below and see if you can find the tools that a gardener might use.=
Kiwi Guardians programme
This year DOC (Department of Conservation) and Toyota have partnered to offer an awesome programme for students to work on at home. Have a look through the website and see which activities you would like to complete, make sure you fill in the form and once things are back to normal, you will be sent a medal in the mail.
For our garden topic, planting a seed is a fantastic way to watch something grow, take responsibility for it and even earn a medal.
You can plant your seed in an old yoghurt container, a small pot or even make a pot out of a toilet roll.
How do you plant a seed?
Have a look at the pictures below to find out. Make sure you always wash your hands after touching soil.
Oh no, the pictures are out of order, can you show someone the correct order?
