Year 0 W3

Home Learning - Week 3 Term 4

Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Welcome to learning at home for Week 3 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 I Wish I had Duck Feet with Miss Berry, our new teacher in the Junior School

special Garden Activities

Bird Feeder

Need:

Peanut butter

Popsicle stick or knife

Bird Seed

Toilet paper or cardboard tube rolls

String

Using a popsicle stick or knife, cover the outside of your cardboard tube
Thread your piece of string through the tube, this is to hand your bird feeder
Roll the peanut butter covered tube in the bird seed until covered
Hang up where birds can enjoy

Paper Garden

Make your own vegetable or flower garden using paper. You will need some coloured paper or felts/crayons to colour your garden pieces

Which vegetable will you put - Carrots? Tomatoes? Beans?

How many rows will you make in your garden

Mud Pies & Mud Cakes

Have some fun outdoors with mud! Find yourself a container that you are allowed to use, put a couple of scoops of dirt in, add some water and mix it up to make some mud. Maybe you have an old mixing spoon you can use to mix your mud or find a stick to use

With your mud, what can you do…

Make a mud pie or cake
Decorate your mud cake
Make a ball of mud
Finger paint a picture
Squeeze some mud through your fingers

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 - b

Story Bots - b

Tuesday

Zip & Mac - i

Let's Learn i

Wednesday

Zip & Mac - t

Bounce Patrol - t

Thursday

Zip & Mac - m

ABC Mouse - m

Friday

Zip & Mac - o

Bounce Patrol - o

Special Letter Activity

Monday - B is for bees and butterflies - Both things we can find in the garden in summertime. Maybe you will spot a bee in the garden this week. Make yourself a big b and turn it into a bee or butterfly

Tuesday - I is for iguana - An iguana is a type of lizard, they like to eat leaves and have spines along their backs to help protect them from predators. Iguanas are excellent swimmers. Have a go at making your iguana, remember its tongue!

Wednesday - T is for tree - What will your tree have in it? Flowers, apples, mandarins? Do you have a tree in your garden? Have you seen any big and tall trees at the park that you can climb?

Thursday - M is for mouse - A mouse is quiet and sneaky, they don’t like to get caught by us! Make yourself a mouse from a capital M. Remember to put on the whiskers

Friday - O is for Octopus - Did you know that octopus have 8 arms? Imagine what you could do at the same time with 8 arms! Make yourself your own special o octopus with 8 arms

Weekly Poem - We See Leaves

Read the poem each day this week so you become familiar with the words and can read it by yourself at the end of the week

Head outside and see what colour leaves you can find. If you find some leaves outside or a walk collect them up to bring back home, then have fun seeing what pictures you can create from your leaves

Did you spot the words ‘we’ and ‘see’ - these two words rhyme. Practice writing these words or making with playdough so you can learn them of by heart

Can you find or hear the word in the poem that has the last sound of ‘s’? What other words do you know that end with the sound ‘s’ - can you think of at least 5?

Books for this Week

Book - I Can Fly

Read and listen to the story two times.

Retell the story in your own words.

Answer these questions : Read the story again if you need to

Who was with the baby bird at the start of the story?
Why did the bird fly ‘up, up, up’ ? (on page 5)
Where does the baby bird sleep?
How does the baby bird feel at the end of the story? Why?

Complete the activities on Sunshine Online and have fun drawing your pictures.

Can you find the word ‘can’ in the book?

Practice saying and writing the word ‘can’ on a piece of paper.

Can you put the word ‘can’ in a sentence, just like in the story?

E.g I can fly.

E.g I can see a cat.

Go outside and see if you can see any birds

What are they doing?
What do they look like?
Watch a bird for a minute or two.. Talk about what you saw the bird doing.
Draw one of the birds that you saw... or
Draw a made up bird that you would love to see outside.

Books - I Can Read

Listen to I can read, Level 1-2

Listen to the book a couple of times to help you answer the questions:

What is the boy doing in the story?
Who are some of the people he can read to?
Who do you like to read books to?

Activities:

Draw a picture of you reading your favourite book
Practise reading a story to your family

Book - Ice Cream

Look at the cover of the book. What time of the year do you think it is on the cover? Say two or more reasons why you think this

Read the story 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

Answer these questions:

Name the places that the children ate ice cream? Check the book to see if you missed any
Go back and look at the ice creams on each page from the start to the end of the story, what do you notice about the ice creams?
How many ice creams did the children eat altogether in the story?
Can you find a word in the story that rhymes with plane and hill

Draw and colour a pictures of a really big ice cream with all the flavours that you enjoy

Book - I Write

Read the story and complete the quiz.

Here are some activities for you::

Draw and colour in your favourite part from the book.

Find a word in the book that starts with the first sounds below, and write them down on paper. Practise saying the high frequency words you have found, find them on your word card

a, m, t, i, o (and, my, the, in, on)

Make some playdough to make some words from the book

1 cup of flour, ½ cup of salt, ½ cup of water. Add more water if needed. You can make three different colours by separating your dough into three parts and kneading a different colour to each part.. Keep kneading the playdough until it is ready. Store in a container or a snaplock bag.

Make a card for a friend or a family member. Draw a special picture and write a message to them

Book - The Magic Tree

Access Sunshine Online: Learning Space 2, Level 6

Read the book and complete the activities online

Comprehension questions:

Who planted the seed?
What did the magic man tell the rain to do?
What did the magic man tell the sun to do?
What did the seed grow into?
How did the magic man pick his jellybeans?

Imagine if you could grow a magic tree, what would you want it to grow? Draw a picture, remember to show the colours it will be and what it will grow

Draw four clouds, in each one write a word with a ‘tr’ sound. There’s one is the book to get you started

E.g.

Find the word in the book with this blend sound or ending sound in it

gr___ sk___ br________ _________ed ________ed

Egg Carton Alphabet Fun

A fun way to practice letters and their sounds. Find yourself an egg carton, make some letters and stick inside each space in your egg carton.

Play by bouncing a ping pong ball or tossing something else small, like a bread tag or pompom, to land in the egg carton. How fast can you say the letter name and letter sound you landed in!

Colour the Beginning Sounds

Draw a sheep with a nice big tummy. How many things that start with sh can you draw inside the sheep’s tummy, if you can’t draw it, you can listen to the sounds and try to write it.

Here’s an extra challenge, can you find the sh words hiding inside the grid below.

Hearing Sounds in Words

For the word of the day, write it out on paper and cut it up. Have the extra letters cut up on pieces of paper as well

Start with showing your child the word, read it to them, read it together, name the letters.

Now look at each sound in the word. To do this, segment the word by saying each individual sound, follow with reading the word again by putting the sounds together

Mix up the letters, asking your child to build the word again. Repeat saying each sound and then read the word

With the extra letters, have fun changing the first sound of the word. Each time you change the word, segment (say each individual sound) the new word you have created, then read the word.

Learning High Frequency Words

Learning high frequency words helps us to look at certain words and know how to read them and we do not need to sound them out. We can practice our high frequency words so that we become super familiar with them and develop confidence and fluency to read and write them.

If you are in Room 27 here are some high frequency words you can be learning

If you are in Room 28 you might choose some of these high frequency words you can be learning

Here are some activities you can do with your chosen words you want to learn

Collage the Word

Write the word nice and big on some paper, rip up some scrap paper and paste over the top of writing to make the word

Treasure Hunt

Write the words you are learning on pieces of paper, ask someone to hide them around the house. When that person calls out one of your words, go and see how quickly you can find it and bring it back

Swat the Word

Write some basic sight words you would like to learn on a sticky note or piece of paper and put them in 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

Vowels

Fill in the vowel that is missing from these words

writing

When writing your stories remember what good writers do…

What’s Happening at School?

The teachers looked out the window of Room 27 and look at what they saw

What type of truck is this big green truck?

What are the workers doing?

What do you think is being built?

Draw your own picture of the concrete truck delivering the concrete, write your story of what is happening

Next week we will tell you what it is going to be…

Sound Scavenger Hunt

Go on a sound scavenger hunt walk. You could go for a walk through your own garden, your street, your neighbourhood, or a park. A sound scavenger hunt is all about listening with your ears

What can you hear?

Can you hear bugs, like bees or cicadas?

Can you hear any birds?

Can you hear the wind?

What about any man-made noises like lawnmowers?

When you open up your ears outdoors, you can hear the music of a garden!

Meet the Monster

Imagine a monster, is he friendly, is she fierce? What does your monster look like? What does the monster eat? Where does it live?

Draw your monster, if you’re a bit stuck, you could pick one of the monster’s below.

Here’s a story to give you some ideas, but remember, your story should be different to mine.

Bubble monster is blue with one big pink eye and purple hair on his head. He lives on a fluffy cloud and eats rainbows. Bubble monster flies in the sky.

The Magic Gardening Gloves

Imagine that you have magic gardening gloves. Today you are going to work in your garden. You put on your gardening clothes and grab your tools when you notice that something looks different: “Your gloves are glowing”. When you put them on they control your hands. Now, what happens next? What do the gloves do?

Draw a picture of you using the magic gardening gloves and write a story about what you do with them. When you have finished, remember to re-read your story and to check for full stops and capital letters. Then read your awesome story to someone in your family.

Kiwis

What do you know about kiwi birds? Watch the following video for a song about kiwis, when you watch it a second time think about what you have learned about kiwi birds.

Draw a picture of a kiwi and talk with someone at home about what you now know about kiwis. Choose your ideas that you will write in your factual story about kiwis.

After you have written your story, you can read it to someone in your home.

Miss Revilla story would be

Kiwis can not fly and they have a very long beak.

MATHS

This week our Geometry activities of shape and position are brought to you by Superhero Maths!

Superhero Badge

All superheroes need a badge of honour, first decide on what your superhero name is going to be and then design a superhero badge for yourself.

Your challenge is that your badge needs to use some shapes. Think about what shapes you want to use and what colours you will use. Will your badge have any letters on it? Will you have a special symbol?

Can you name all these shapes? What colour is each shape? How many sides does each shape have? How many corners does each shape have?

When you have finished your badge, count how many shapes you used

Shapes are everywhere, here’s a video here about shapes

Superhero Glasses/Mask

Put on your imaginary superglasses or some sunglasses, or you could choose to make your own superhero mask. What shape will you cut your eye spaces? When you are ready with your glasses or masks you can start your shape hunt, go and look for different shapes inside your house and outside your house.

On your shape hunt, can you find at least 5?

Which shape did you spot the most of?

Find a piece of paper and draw the different shapes you found or take photos of the shapes your found

Miss Cave found these shapes in her house, what were they?

I wonder if you could make some shape collections at your house, draw yourself a big square, a big circle, and a big rectangle. Can you find anything in your house that are those shapes, place it inside your big drawn shape. Extra challenge, can you find anything that is a triangle shape?

Here’s an example

Here’s another fun song about shapes you can watch

Getting Around

All superheroes need a form of transportation, that means something to go in, something to drive or fly. Think about Paw Patrol, what do each of those superheroes have to drive or fly?

What will your transport be? Have a go at designing and colouring your chosen vehicle using shapes. Think about which shapes you will use and make a plan. Maybe your superhero badge can be on your vehicle.

You can use coloured paper to draw and cut out shapes, or draw the shape and colour it what you want it to be. When you have finished have a look, how many shapes did you use altogether? How many of each shape?

Below is Miss Cave’s vehicle. She made a hovercraft, it’s got fire boosters at the bottom, and a blue seat, it can go fast! What shapes did she use?

My hovercraft has 3 circles

My hovercraft has 8 rectangles

My hovercraft has 1 star

My hovercraft has 2 triangles

Where Are You? & Obstacle Course Challenge

Giving directions and describing where you are, are good skills all superheroes need. We better get warmed up with these superhero action cards - have a go at each one. Make it a game, ask someone to play some music and when they pause it they can call out of of the actions, then see how quickly you can do it

Now that you are warmed up, can you show yourself in these positions in relation to something at your house. If you can take a picture of you showing these actions. The following words are called prepositions, and they describe the position of something. In this case it is going to describe you!

Can you be….

On something

In something

Under something

Beside something

Now for some trickier ones, can you be…

Above something

Below something

In front of something

Behind something

Through something

Obstacle course time! Design and create an obstacle course at your home. Decide where it will start and where it will finish, and then what obstacles will there be in your course. Will your obstacle mean that you have to go under? Over? Through? Around? Will there be superhero actions you need to do, like roll? Leap? Jump? Spin?

Once you have practiced your obstacle course, find someone else in your house to have a go and you direct them through the course. For example you might need to give instructions such as go under the chair, leap over the cushion, go around the stool 3 times, etc.

Can you spot what has happened?

Can you describe what has happened or what has changed about these superheroes

Can you draw a picture of yourself the right way, and then a picture of yourself upside down?

Can you draw a picture of you inside something, and then outside something?

Enjoy one of our favourite songs we dance to at school - Superheroes Unite

discovery - gardens

Welcome to this week’s activities on our topic of Gardens - exploring tools you use in a garden, some things you can grow, compost and learn about the very cute and very tiny insect, the ladybug.

Potting a Plant and Gardening Tools

Watch the gardening video of Mrs. Borrie to learn some gardening techniques.

In the video Mrs. Borrie used some gardening tools to plant a flower. Now, can you remember what tools she used and how to use them. If you do, would you be able to draw them and label their names?

Read the description below and guess which gardening tool it is referring to.

__________________ it is used for breaking or digging up big holes

__________________ it is used to water the plants

__________________ it is used for loosening, lifting and turning over soil in your garden

__________________ it is used to grow seeds or young plants

__________________ It is used to add nutrients to the soil

__________________ It is used to protect your hands from germs

Gardening Scavenger Hunt

Gardens are full of interesting things! Go on a scavenger hunt and enjoy looking at all the different things you find. Tick each item when you have found it. If you have a tablet or camera, you could take a photo of what you have found.

Items to find:

▢ something prickly something furry something soft something hard

▢ a seed

▢ something green

▢ something red

▢ something yellow

▢ something man-made

▢ an interesting looking leaf

▢ a colourful stone

▢ an insect

▢ something unusual - write what it is here: _______________

Extra Challenge:

Find out the name of the plant that you found in the garden.
Find out the name of the insect
Do an observational drawing of something that you found.

Make a Ladybug Habitat

Did you know that ladybugs are beneficial to your garden? They eat the pests that would love to devour your plants, and are natural pest control. They are a great insect to welcome to your garden to observe. Check out some facts about ladybugs in this video. Here is how you can make a ladybug habitat.

Need:

Cardboard tube

Straws

Scissors

String

What to do:

Cut your straws to be the same length as your chosen cardboard tube, your straws do not want to be sticking out at the ends
Place your straws inside your tube, making sure there are enough straws that they sit tight and snug. Your tube needs to be full so they all stay in place
Attach your piece of string to your tube
Hang your ladybug habitat from a tree limb or near a plant

Observe your ladybug habitat over the week and see if you spot if any ladybugs have climbed in for safety. You could record how many you spot each day

Here’s a story about ladybugs. Once you have listened to the story, talk with someone about what you've learned about ladybugs. Make yourself a picture of a ladybug and label these body parts: 6 legs, shell, spots, head

If you need some help, here’s a labelled ladybug

Grow your own salad garden

The great thing about salad plants is that they are really easy to grow. They can be grown in the ground or in containers, as long as there is plenty of space for water to flow through. Another great thing about growing salad is, when you want to eat a salad, you cut off the leaves you want and the plant continues to grow.

What you will need:

Lettuce/Salad leaf seeds (any of your choosing)
A sunny spot
Soil with good drainage
A trowel or spade

What to do:

If you are using several different types of lettuce/salad leaf, plant each type in rows. You might want to design labels so you remember which type of leaf is in each area.
Place each seed about 1cm deep into the soil and lightly cover with soil.
Water the area well.
Water lightly once a day. The best time to do this is in the morning.
As the plants start to grow, you might need to do something called ‘thinning out’. This is where you pull out some of the little plants to leave the other plants room to grow.

When the leaves get to about 10 cm, you can start cutting them to eat.

You could take photos of the plants as they grow so you can look back and see your progress

Build a Micro Composter

What is compost?

Compost is made when biodegradable material - food scraps, grass cuttings, cardboard and straw - rots and decomposes. Rotting happens when our biodegradable waste is broken down by different organisms including: bacteria, fungi, worms and insects. The organisms use the waste as food and help to turn it into compost. When this process is complete, a brown crumbly mixture is left behind. It looks and smells like soil.

Composting is a natural process of death, decay, and re-birth. It is nature's way of recycling. Compost helps our plants to grow.

What you need

Empty 1.5 or 2 litre bottle (make sure it is transparent)Scissors
Raw food scraps (vegetable/fruit peel, tea bags, coffee grounds, raw leftovers, etc)
Soil
Water spray bottle or similar

Method

Remove the label and rinse your soda bottle. Cut the top off the bottle
Throw a handful of soil into the bottom of the bottle. Follow this with a handful of food scraps. Repeat this process until the bottle is full, finishing with a layer of soil. Once your bottle is full, spray the bottle with water till it is damp but it shouldn't be too wet
Place your composter in a sunny spot. When the soil on top dries out, spray with water to maintain a constant level of moisture.
Watch and wait as your food scraps decompose and turn to soil. You will need some patience - the whole process will take about eight weeks. Take photos of the bottle once a week so that you can compare changes that take place from week to week.

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