Learning at home

Here are the Middle School learning activities for Week 6, Term 3. There is a Reading, Maths, Language, and Topic task each day.

Your child’s teacher will have emailed you to direct you towards which reading and maths group your child is in. Just click on your child’s group for their online reading and maths activities.

A couple of other places you can explore during your home learning time are:

Home Learning TV channels

Puhinui Library site

Some websites that can help support the science and STEM learning your child has been doing at school are below:

STEM Challenges (on our school website)

Nanogirl Youtube Channel

Lockdown Fitness! Click here for fun ways to mix up your walking!

Story Starter

Prompt from Pobble365

Dreams

Questions to help you if you’re not sure where to start:

• What do you think is happening in the picture?

• What is the bird dreaming about?

• How do you think the bird is feeling?

• Do animals have feelings in a similar way that humans have feelings?

• Do you think animals dream?

• If so, what do you think animals dream about?

• Do you often have dreams?

• Why do you think that you never remember all of your dreams?

Make your own menu

Design your own menu with all you and your family's favourite food. Remember to pick a name for your restaurant and put prices next to your meals. Then you can take your family's order!

Save energy, save the environment!

Although it may not be obvious, there’s a direct connection between your energy use and the environment. When you consume less power, you reduce the amount of toxic fumes released by power plants, conserve the earth’s natural resources and protect ecosystems from destruction. By taking steps to reduce your energy intake, you’ll contribute to a healthier and happier world.

There are many ways you can save energy.

1. Don’t leave the tap running while you wash your hands or brush your teeth.

2. Wear a jumper instead of turning the heating on.

3. Always turn off lights, televisions, computers and games consoles when you are finished.

4. Read a book or play a board game instead of watching television.

5. Recycle as much as you can- this uses much less energy than making new materials.

6. Walk or ride a bicycle instead of travelling in the car.

7. Have short showers instead of baths.

8. Never leave the fridge door open. Decide what you want before you open it.

9. Keep windows closed when the heating is on.

Pick 5 things you can do to contribute to saving energy this lockdown. Create a comic strip showing each of the ones you have chosen. Encourage your friends and families to help by sharing these tips with them!

Story Starter

Prompt from Pobble365

Hulk’s Day Off

For years, Hulk had struggled to control his fierce, outrageous temper and extraordinary strength but every so often, something would still go badly wrong.

On one occasion, he had become so angry with the traffic lights on his way to work that he had completely crushed the steering wheel! On another, he had punched a hole in the side of his house when trying to swat a fly! Just the other day, Hulk had stubbed his toe on the corner of his bed, so had thrown his bed out of the window where it landed on top of the next door’s car…

Today he was determined to not find himself in any embarrassing situations. The day was going well until...

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We need to stay active during lockdown! Can you think of 5 exercises to include in your fitness workout? There is a list of exercises below to help.

1. Squats

2. Star jumps

3. Frog squats

4. Sit ups

5. High knees

6. Jog on the spot

7. Lunges

8. Air punches

9. Burpees

10. Plank hold 20sec

Choose 5 of your favourite exercises or come up with your own ones.

Number your exercises 1 to 5. The first die you roll is what exercise you are doing and the second die you roll is how many reps of that exercise to do. Take turns rolling and aim for 10 rolls a day!

As you have probably guessed, this is a story all about fuzzles. You are about to find out what extraordinary creatures they really are...

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The amount of plastic on our planet is increasing and it is damaging the environment, wildlife and our health. Large amounts of plastic rubbish is thrown away every year and this ends up on land and in oceans.

Plastic can also be useful, It is used to make all sorts of everyday items such as food containers and toys. Look around you and you will see many things which are made of plastic.

Although Plastic can be useful, it can also be dangerous. Plastic is made of oil and chemicals. Plastics that are left in landfills or in our oceans give out these harmful chemicals. This can then damage the environment and the wildlife that lives in it. Animals and marine creatures can become trapped in plastic objects which then make it hard for them to move, eat or even breathe. Humans are affected by plastic pollution too. Plastic is found in our drinking water. Even food that we eat may have plastic chemicals in it. We do not know exactly how plastic affects humans but scientists believe that it is not good for our health.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle There are lots of things that we can all do to help end plastic pollution. We need to reduce the amount of plastic that we use. We need to reuse plastic items that we already have. And finally, we need to recycle plastic instead of throwing it in the normal bin.

Read the text and use the information to create a poster warning people about the harmful effects plastic can have on our environment, and what we can do to help.