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 When a Dragon Moves In, a story set at the beach with a perfect sandcastle
Special Activity - 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!
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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.
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.
Celebration
Think about a time you celebrated something. It could have been your birthday or someone else’s, it might have been a festival like easter, or Christmas or new years day!
Pick an event and then close your eyes and think about all the awesome things from that day.
You can think about:
What were you celebrating?
What happened on that day? And what was your favourite part of that day?
Who was there?
What yummy food did you eat?
Did you play any games?
Did you get any presents?
Wear any cool (or new) clothes?
Draw a picture of you and your favourite part of that day and then write a story about your favourite part of that day and why.
For example: “I celebrated my birthday when I turned five. My favourite part of the day was eating the birthday cake. It was chocolate and it was yummy!”
Try to include lots of details such as who was there and what you did as well.
Remember to say your idea on your hand and use your word card to help you write your story.
When you have finished writing, read your story to someone in your family.
Diwali
This week we are learning about Diwali, the festival of lights.
Watch a video on the Story of Diwali here to find out why we celebrate Diwali.
After watching the video, think about and discuss with someone in your family the following question(s):
What happened in the story of Diwali? Think about what happened first, next, then last.
Extension question: Why do we celebrate Diwali?
Extension question: How do we celebrate Diwali?
Draw a picture plan of what happened in the story and write a story about what happened. In your story, try to include what happened first, next, then.
For example: “First the princess was kidnapped. Next…”
Remember to say your idea on your hand and use your word card to help you write your story.
When you have finished writing, read your story to someone in your family.
Playground Fun!
Going to the playground is always so much fun because there are so many exciting things to play on. Can you think of some things you love to play on at the playground? Monkey bars, slide, climbing wall, flying fox.
Design your own playground, draw a picture of it. Label your picture with keywords, saying what each part of the playground is.
Write a story about playing at the playground, describe what you love to do and tell me why those things are your favourite.
Make sure you read your story back to yourself to check it makes sense.
Challenge: Can you use ‘wow’ words in your story. ‘Wow’ words are more interesting words to use, for example, instead of saying “I went down the slide” you could say “I zoomed down the slippery slide”.
Write a story - Picture motivation
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?
Five Busy Bees
Zoom! Zap! Buzz buzz went the bee.
Five busy bees love to explore the garden...
Where did the bees go?
Listen to the story of the Five Busy Bees to find out where the bees go. Retell the story to someone else in your house. Think carefully about important details and telling the story in sequence
Choose a favourite part of the story you will retell, to plan for your writing, draw your pictures in sequence. Think about key words and words that will help add detail to your story.
Read your story to someone at home when finished.
Our focus this week in maths is fractions, for us we are learning that problems can be solved by sharing.
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.
Paper Halving
Let’s get our minds back into thinking about halves by exploring how many different ways can you halve an A4 sheet of paper?
You might start off with something like these two, for example:
Have a good exploration and see what different ways you can find. Don't be afraid to be creative!
How will you know if they are halves? How will you check that your two pieces are the same size?
Pizza Time
I have a pizza that I want to cut into 4 equal slices. How could I cut my pizza? Help your child trace a circle and cut it out, then they can show you by folding or drawing on the paper circle first then using scissors to cut the pizza slices.
How could you check that all of the slices are equal or the same size? If the pieces are not the same size, have another go with a new circle.
What do we call these 4 pieces that are the same size? That’s right, when we share out or divide a whole into four equal pieces, we have quarters.
See if students can count each slice as 1 quarters, 2 quarters, 3 quarters, 4 quarters.
Whole, Half, Quarter
To help us remember that halves means there are two equal pieces, and quarters means there are four equal pieces, make your own fraction chart.
Choose something that is round or a rectangle shape to draw and colour, and make it three times. Cut your drawings out and glue one onto a piece of paper and label it ‘1 whole’. With your other two pictures, cut them to show halves and quarters, glue on to your piece of paper and label those e.g.
Extra: Make yourself a chart of a whole set, halves of your set and quarters of your set
Fraction Fun with Shapes!
Draw a line through these shapes to show ½.
Draw a line through these shapes to show ¼.
Greedy Monsters Halving
The greedy monsters are feeling hungry. They want to share their food so that each monster has half the total amount. How many items of food are there altogether? Can you give half to each monster? Cut out the food and stick it onto each monster’s plate, or find something at home to use that can represent each food item. How much food does each monster have?
Playdough Fun!
Use your playdough to make 12 worms to put in the soil.
Oh no! Half of the worms have wriggled away! Take half of the worms away. How many are left?
Have fun creating your own maths problems where half the worms wriggle away.
Sharing at a Picnic
Here is a picnic that Melina and Maine are going to share equally.
Can you tell us what each of them will have?
Problem Solving
Here are some problems for this week, you can choose one a day to solve
You and your friend have 6 stickers to share. How could you share them equally?
You can draw this on a bit of paper to work it out. Draw 2 people and share the stickers with each.
What if there were a different number of stickers? What types of numbers can you equal share, odd numbers or even numbers?
Andrew got a bag of lollies. There were 20 in total. Half (½) were green. How many green lollies did he get?
I have 10 fish in the tank. Half of them are orange. Draw what this would look like.
My brother and I are trying to share our crayons but we need some help. Can you collect a set of 14 crayons or similar and share them evenly into two groups? How many will we each get?
Try again with 10, 16 and even 20
Pretend you found a bag of M&Ms in your kitchen cupboard. If half of them are blue, draw what the bag of M&Ms could look like. Hint: The other M&Ms are any colour you choose, plus think about how many M&Ms you are going to decide are in the bag altogether.
Extension: What if a quarter of the M&Ms were yellow? Draw what the bag of M&Ms could look like
Welcome to this week’s activities on our topic of Diwali, a cultural celebration held last week
Make a Diwali Lantern
Lights, crackers and rangoli, that’s what makes Diwali the most fun celebration of India. On the occasion of Diwali, people decorate their home with lots of colours, rangolis and fire works which light up the sky in all possible hues. One of the most popular decoration items on the occasion of Diwali is the Diwali Lantern which is known in India as Aakash Kandil. It is made using many bright and colourful papers. Here is a simple and easy way to make a beautiful Diwali Lantern at home.
You will need:
⃞ Two sheets of A4 paper, each of different colours - one dark one light
⃞ 1 sheet of any bright colour paper
⃞ Coloured paper ribbons
⃞ Glue or tape
⃞ Ruler
⃞ Scissor and stapler
Steps:
Cut the dark coloured paper into a rectangle of a width 20 to 22 cm.. The length should be such that when you roll it into a cylinder, it should have a diameter of 15 to 17 cm.
Cut a thin strip of any bright coloured paper and paste it on the top and bottom of the cylinder of the Diwali lantern.
Next, cut the light coloured paper into a square of 11 by 11 cm . Cut the dark coloured paper into squares of 9 by 9 cm.
Use the light colored square as base and paste the dark squares on it exactly in the middle so that it is exactly 1.5cm smaller than the dark paper from every side.
Now, take two opposite corners of the square and stick them so that they form a cylindrical form and then paste them on the cylinder prepared in step 1 in such a way that the open corners are on the length of the cylinder as shown in the picture.
Now, cut all the thin paper ribbons so that they are of the same length. These ribbons look best if their length is 3 times more than the length of the lantern cylinders. Stick these ribbons inside the base of the cylinder. Hang your diwali lantern inside your home or outside your home.
Happy 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.
