Dear Parents/ Caregivers,
Welcome to learning at home for Week 4 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 Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack read by Mrs Harland
Fireworks in a Jar Experiment
Last week many people from all over the world celebrated Diwali. This is known as the festival of lights and sometimes you will see wonderful fireworks displays on the third day of Diwali. Watch this video of a firecracker display from last year.
Here is a special science experiment so that you can make your own kind of magnificent fireworks at home!
You will need:
1 x jar
Warm water
Food colouring (3 or more colours)
3 tbsp of vegetable oil
Instructions:
Fill your jar ¾ fill with warm water
Place the oil in a separate bowl, and drop in some food colouring
Mix the food colouring gently with a fork
Drop the oil mixture into the jar
Then watch what happens!
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 - q
ABC Mouse - q
Tuesday
Zip & Mac - a
Bounce Patrol - a
Wednesday
Zip & Mac - r
Storybots - r
Thursday
Zip & Mac - f
ABC Mouse - f
Friday
Zip & Mac - z
The Letter Z
Special Letter Activity
Q is for quilt - A quilt is a special type of blanket that has different colours and parts to it. See if you have a quilt in your house. Make yourself a unique Q quilt by using a collage of different colours or drawn patterns
Tuesday - A is for apple - Apples are crunchy and sweet, we open our mouth wide and take a big bite just like we open our mouth wide to say the sound ‘a’. Can you make your very own apple using the letter a
Wednesday - R is for rocket - 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blast off! Create a rocket from the letter r! Maybe your rocket is racing past the stars or maybe a planet
Thursday - F is for flowers - Spring and summer are wonderful times to see many beautiful flowers. Think of the colours you like and create some fabulous flowers for your letter F
Friday - Z is for zigzag - can you draw a big letter z and decorate it with lots of colourful zig zags. Can you walk in a zig zag? Can you run in a zig zag?
Weekly Poem - The Frog
Do you think if you saw a real frog it would croak at you?
How many times can you see the word ‘He’ in the poem? Did you find the one with the little h? Can you write ‘he’?
Can you find words that rhyme in this poem? I’ll give you a clue, one pair of rhyming words has the last sound ‘og’
Try rainbow writing one of the high frequency words - you could choose from saw, was, little or than. Write the word in big writing and have your child copy over the top five times, using a different colour felt each time.
I wonder what happens when you change the first sound of log - write yourself out the word log, then on separate pieces of paper write a letter b, t, f, d. Place one of your letters over the l on your word ‘log’, what word have you changed your word to? If you put a ‘t’ you get t-o-g, tog!
Books for this Week
Book - Run
Log in to Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 2
Read and listen to the story two times. Complete the activities
Questions:
Name all of the animals in the story.
How did the lion know that there was a fire?
What was the problem in the story?
How did the animals fix the problem for themselves?
Draw three pictures to show what happened first, next and last...
Activities:
Write the word ‘run’ on a piece of paper. By changing the first letter to another letter, see how many words you can write that rhyme with ‘run’, eg. ‘fun’.
Which is your favourite animal in the story? Draw a picture of that animal and see if you can think of one fact about that animal to write underneath your picture.
Book - In My Home
Access Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 3
Read the story and complete the activities online
Rainbow writing - there
Write ‘there’ in big letters with a pencil or pen, then write over the word again with different colours. As you write each letter say it out loud and when finished say the whole word ‘there’. Make it a rainbow by using at least five colours
Talk with someone about which rooms the boy went into and who he saw in each room.
What was each person doing?
What was his dog doing?
How did the boy see himself in his bedroom?
Do you have a mirror in your house, have some fun making some funny faces
Can you find the second half of these words in the book
bed______
in___
bath______
Create your own page for this storybook. Choose a room in your house and who will be there. Draw your picture and add the words below
I went into the _________.
My _________ was there!
Book - Donald the Dragon
Login Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 4
Read the story two times.
Retell what happened in the story to someone in your family. As you retell the story, you can act out what is happening.
Then complete the quiz on Sunshine Online.
We’re going to focus on the letter ‘d’. What sound does this letter make?
Can you find any words in the book that start with this letter?
Write them down then create a word web with some other words that start with that letter sound ‘d’. You can either ask a parent to help you write the words or you can draw a picture of the word.
Here’s an example of a word web for the letter ‘a’
Using newspaper or old magazines, find the letter ‘d’, it can be a capital one or a lower case one. Cut them out and glue them to your word web.
Find and write down the blend words in the story. Remember blends/digraphs are two letters that make one sound. Then think of two more words that you know that start with the same blend sound.
The first one has been done for you.
Blends Game:
Go outside and practice these blends by writing them on the ground outside with chalk and drawing a circle around the blend.
Have someone in your family call out the blend, while you jump onto that blend
If it is raining outside, you can try playing this indoors by writing the blends on a piece of paper and using a fly swat
Book - There is a Planet
Login Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 5
Click on the text to read There is a planet
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.
Draw and colour our planet and write: There is a planet.
Draw your street and your house. Then write: That is my house.
Book - Frog in a Log
Huhu has a problem. Frog has taken over his log. Ruru offers to help, but what can Ruru do to make Frog leave?
Click on the following link to see how Ruru gets rid of Frog.
Frog in a Log/ Ready to Read Phonics Plus, Level 7
Focus: - Blends with a r (br, gr, fr, tr) and rhyming words (a rhyming word has the same sound at the end like cat, mat)
You can click on the ‘play’ button beside the story to hear it being read and you can also click on the TEXT (brown button) to download the story and follow the words.
Activities:
Read or listen to the story two times.
Blends - When you see a blend you say both sounds together. Listen to this song on how to blend the letter r - Consonant blends
Look at page 8 and 11. Can you find any words with the blend gr? Write them down.
Look through the whole story. Can you find a word with each of these blends?
gr__________ br__________ fr__________ tr__________
On page 4, find the word frog and log. Can you think of any other words that rhyme with frog and log? Write them down.
Challenge questions: Tell someone in your house the answers
Why did Huhu need help?
Where is the story happening?
How did Ruru first try to get Frog out of the log?
How did Frog finally leave the log?
Name the 3 characters in the story.
Letter squirt
Equipment: chalk, water, spray bottle or a small container like an egg cup.
What to do:
Head outside and write with chalk five - ten letters on the ground, remember to use lowercase letters. Ask your child a question, for example “what’s the first sound in cat?” They can give you the answer and then spray or wet letter c to erase it. Continue until all letters have disappeared.
Play-dough letters
Focus on lower case letters, can you use the play-dough to make the letters in your name?
Your child can sit with the abc card and see how many letters they can make.
Make a Sound Box
A sound box can be full of little things. Find little interesting things around the house and when out on a walk to place in your sound box e.g. flower, sticker, leaves, clips, acorns, toy cars, etc. You could use a shoe box, egg carton or similar, have fun decorating it,
Then write some letters on small squares of paper to represent first sounds. Match your letters to an object that starts with that sound in your sound box
You can keep changing what is in your sound box.
The king of ing
Let’s learn about ing word endings, i n g like to sit together at the end of words and they always say the same sound - ing. Here is a song to listen to: ing song
Have a look at these pictures and see if you can say the ing words.
The king of ing has lost all of his words, on a piece of paper, draw the king or his crown and see how many ing words you can write around the king. Here is a picture of the king to help you.
Ch
Draw a chicken with a nice big tummy. How many things that start with ch can you draw inside the chicken’s tummy, if you can’t draw it, you can listen to the sounds and try to write it.
Hearing Sounds in Words
Here are some new words for this week
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.
Secret Words
Are you ready to be a detective! Look at each picture carefully and identify what the first sound of each picture is. Once you have the first sounds you will need to blend them together to reveal the secret word - have fun!
When writing your stories remember what good writers do…
From our writing task last week - What’s Happening at School? - the answer is that is going to be our new classroom space, a special space to build stuff and do STEM projects!
Diwali
Listen to or have someone read you the story Diwali, it tells the story of Alisha and her family celebrating Diwali together.
https://instructionalseries.tki.org.nz/Instructional-Series/Ready-to-Read-Colour-Wheel/Diwali
Can you write a story about how Alisha celebrates Diwali? Start by drawing a picture plan. Remember to use the writing prompts to help you write your story.
Sailor Ben
Take a careful look at the two pictures below of some sailors on a boat to retell this story in your own words
Looking at the first picture, why can’t the sailor who is sitting up on his bed not go to sleep? What is Sailor Ben doing? This picture will be the first idea in our story today.
Oh no! What did the sailors do to Sailor Ben in the second picture? This picture will help us with the second idea in our story.
To start your story, take another look at the first picture and say your idea out loud so you can listen and check if it makes sense. Miss Cave might write Sailor Ben is in bed snoring loudly. The sailors can not sleep. Then from the second picture her story might continue with The sailors got buckets of water and tipped them all over Sailor Ben. He woke up!
You could write this story over two days if you want to. When you have finished your story, draw a picture to go with it.
Celebrations
This week the Hindu community celebrates Diwali. In Aotearoa, we are lucky to have lots of opportunities to celebrate the cultures around us.
Some celebrations we share in are:
New Years, Easter, Matariki, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Diwali
I wonder if you can think of a celebration that you enjoy. Can you draw a picture that shows the celebration? How do you celebrate with your family?
I might write:
I like Christmas because I like decorating the tree and leaving cookies for Santa.
My Dream Bedroom
Watch the video and see which bedroom you like best
Use the video for ideas for your own dream bedroom ... there are no limits!
Think of your own ideas for things that you would like in your dream bedroom.
Draw a picture plan for your writing and show your parent or brother or sister and tell them about the things in your dream bedroom.
Write about your dream bedroom, using your word card to help you with words you are not sure about spelling. Your story might start like this:
In my dream bedroom I would have……..
Have fun and let your imagination run wild!
Tadpole’s Promise
Watch Mr Gadd’s video here as he shares the story of Tadpole’s Promise, to find out what happens between the tadpole and caterpillar. Mr Gadd will then show you how he plans and gets ready for his writing, and then share his writing with you.
After watching Mr Gadd, it will be your turn to plan for your writing and write your chosen story!
Our focus this week in maths is that problems can be solved by sharing, and we will focus on sharing in half, creating two equal pieces or two equal sets.
We are learning that when we share, the portions, pieces or groups have to be equal. This means it is fair, as everyone gets the same size or number.
The vocabulary that we are exploring and developing when learning about fractions
Equal
Not equal
Fair share
Same size
Same number
Whole
Half
Part of the whole
When we are learning about halves, we name the shape or picture as a whole. For example, if we have an apple to cut in half, we have a whole apple, when we cut it in half we get two equal pieces that when put together make the whole apple again
Equal Sets
Let’s understand what it means to know if sets are equal or not equal. For sets or groups to be equal, there needs to be the same number in each set. If it is not equal, the number in each set is different
Have a go at home, what type of equal sets can you make at your home? Remember equal means the same number in each set. Will you use toys, leaves, lids….?
Set up some equal sets and unequal sets and challenge your family to identify which sets are equal and which sets are unequal
Equal or Not Equal - Dice Activity
Find a partner to play this game with, put your counters in the middle and have your dice ready.
Take a turn each to roll the dice and make the set for the number you rolled.
When you have both finished, ask the question: Are the sets equal (the same amount) or are they unequal (a different amount)?
Newspaper Fraction Dancing
Take a piece of newspaper and open it up flat on the floor - this will be your dancing space.
Choose some music you like, play it and dance away on your newspaper. You are dancing on one whole piece of newspaper
Pause the music, now fold your newspaper in half - this is your new dancing floor, play your music and dance again!
Pause the music again, fold it in half again - have another dance on your newspaper
What has happened to your dance floor (newspaper) as you folded it in half each time? Does it get smaller or bigger? How creative did you have to get to stay dancing on your newspaper?
Half a sandwich
Talk to your family and make a sandwich that you both like.
Once you make it, cut it in half and share it with them.
Remember to make sure that it is fair! If it is fair, your two pieces should be the same size
When you make another sandwich, can you think of a different way to cut it to share in half
Whole, Half
Choose something that is round or a rectangle shape to draw and colour, and make it two times. Cut your drawings out and glue one onto a piece of paper and label it ‘1 whole’. With your other picture, cut it to show halves, glue on to your piece of paper and label those e.g.
Sharing in Half
Choose an even number of objects to be a set for your child, and ask them to share their set into two containers. When they have shared the objects, use the language that they have shared ___ objects in half. There are two equal groups, if they put those two equal groups back together they have the whole set.
You can also link in the basic fact, that half of ___ is ___ i.e. If there were 6 buttons, and they shared them in half, there would be 3 in each container so the basic fact is that half of 6 is 3.
Sharing Problems
If Miss Revilla had 8 lollies and she shared half of them with Miss Cave. How many lollies did she give Miss Cave?
The children were playing with 10 toys, half of the toys were in the bucket and half the toys were on the floor. How many toys are in the bucket?
If Mrs Harland had 2 felts and that was half of the felts, how many felts are there altogether?
Miss Berry had a big piece of chocolate cake and she cut her piece of cake in half, how many pieces does she have now?
The children had 6 mobilo pieces out to build a car. Half the pieces were blue and the other half of the pieces were yellow. How many blue pieces and how many yellow pieces are there?
A new packet of stickers has arrived for you and a friend to share. If there are 14 stickers, and you share them in half between you and your friend, how many stickers will you each get?
Welcome to this week’s activities on the recent celebration of Diwali
Window Decoration Rangoli
You can have a go at making your own rangoli decoration to hang in a window
What you need:
Piece of paper or cardboard
Scissors
Coloured paper
Glue stick
String to hang
What to do:
Cut a round circle of cardboard. You can use a small plate as a template.
Fold it in half and then half again. See below
Cut one or two shapes on the straight sides
Carefully open out your folded circle
Glue different coloured paper underneath to show through your cut shapes and then put a hole in the top and hang it with string on your window.
A Treat - Yummy Coconut Squares
Diya Lamp
A diya lamp is an oil lamp usually made from clay. People light lots of diya’s and they are placed around the home and in gardens to remember how Rama and Sita were welcomed home.
You can have a go at making your own Diva Lamp from a paper plate. You can decorate your lamp with your own designs and colours.
To begin fold your paper plate in half and cut out a semi circle from the middle
Cut out a small rectangle to be the candle and colour yourself a flame to cut and glue to the top of your candle. Attach through the hole you have cut in your plate.
To finish your lamp, decorate the rest of your paper plate.
