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Here are the Middle School learning activities for Week 3, Term 4. 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.
With our classroom meetings, your teacher may ask you to bring something that you’ve been doing during home learning to share with the class. Or, you could always take a photo of your work and email it to your teacher. We look forward to hearing about the work you’ve been doing while at home.
Special addition this week: Fun activities to do in your spare time.
**Extra activities you can complete throughout the week if you wish**
Chocolate design
Recently, the Whittakers chocolate company made peanut butter and jelly chocolate. What 2 unusual flavours would you put together for your new bar of chocolate? Ask members of your family what unusual flavours they would mix together. Choose one of the choices and design a packet/ packaging or wrapping for your bar of chocolate. What colours would you choose to reflect your flavours?
Human senses
Humans have 5 senses: sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch. Design symbols or emojis for each of the senses. Choose one or two of the senses and write about the best or worst experiences.
Acts of Kindness
Have you noticed someone in your family/ whanau or in your neighbourhood who has done or said kind things to others? Design an award or a certificate for this person. On the back of it, write a few sentences that explains why you thought they deserved the award.
A couple of other places you can explore during your home learning time are:
Home Learning TV channels
MOTAT Youtube Channel and extra activities from MOTAT
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)
Lockdown Fitness! Click here for fun ways to mix up your walking!
Middle School Home Based Learning
Government learning from home website - https://learningfromhome.govt.nz/resources
As well as daily activities, here are some websites that you might like to have a look at.
monday 1st november
monday 1st november
reading
reading
writing
writing
Space Gifts
You are an astronaut on a peaceful, exploratory mission to Planet Q. As a representative from Earth, you are to present three gifts from our planet. Therefore, what items will you take? Write a proposal to the sponsors of your mission explaining why you think these will make excellent gifts.
Think about how your gift represents earth and how the residents of Planet Q would respond to the gift.
When you are finished, check that you have:
Re-read your work to check it makes sense
Checked your spelling
Checked your use of capital letters and full stops
maths
maths
topic - what is the solar system
topic - what is the solar system
The Solar System is like a dance which features the Sun and it’s dance partners who orbit around it due to a force called gravity. The dance partners in the Solar System are the Earth, the other planets, stars, asteroids and comets that come out to dance.
5 facts about the solar system
The Sun is a star – it gives off light and heat and is made up of hot gas.
Before humans explored the Earth, we thought it was flat. However, all planets and the Sun in the Solar System are shaped like balls.
There are 8 planets that orbit the Sun.
The order of the planets in the Solar System are – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
The biggest planet is Jupiter and the smallest is Mercury.
Activity- Make a solar system mobile out of paper.
Equipment:
Paper
Cardboard
Colouring crayons or felt tips
Scissors
String or ribbon
Glue
Hole punch (optional)
Step 1- draw the 8 planets and the sun twice on a piece of paper, colour them in and cut them out. You should have 2 of every planet and 2 suns.
Step 2- apply glue to the back of a planet, secure the string and then glue the other side of the planet back to back to cover the string. Repeat this for all the planets and the sun.
Step 3- Now it’s time to make the hanging frame. Cut 2 pieces of cardboard and make 4 holes on each piece. A hole punch would work perfectly however if you do not have one use a pen or pencil to create the hole. Try to make them evenly spaced out if you can. Cut a slit in the middle of each piece of cardboard and connect the 2 pieces together by placing one piece with the slit up and the other facing down.
Step 4- Attach the sun in the centre by wrapping the thread around the centre X shape of the hanging frame and tying a knot. Loop the thread through each hole and attach planets. Start by threading the inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars — in the holes near the sun. Then add the outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus — in the outer holes of the hanging frame.
tuesday 2nd november
tuesday 2nd november
reading
reading
writing
writing
Interview with an Astronaut
Interview an astronaut about his/her recent trip to the moon. Don’t worry, it doesn’t need to be a real interview, just an imaginary one! Think about the questions you would ask this astronaut, and how they would reply. Try to think of at least 10 questions and answers for this imaginary interview.
When you are finished, check that you have:
Re-read your work to check it makes sense
Checked your spelling
Checked your use of capital letters and full stops
maths
maths
topic - space suits
topic - space suits
Why does an astronaut wear a spacesuit?
Space is a very challenging place to explore. There is no air in space, so there is nothing to breathe. It is very cold, unless the sun is shining onto you - and then, without air to protect you, the rays of the sun would soon burn you!
To survive in space you need a suit that protects your body from the heat and cold, and surrounds you with air to breathe. Space suits are pressurised, meaning they are full of air to support your body, which is why they look puffed up.
A space suit is like a tiny spaceship for one. It is a very complicated machine, with air conditioning, heating, air to breathe and water to drink. It even has a built-in toilet!
Some space suits attach to a rocket powered backpack, which allows the astronaut wearing it to fly around in space. Below is a diagram of a space suit.
Activity- Design your own space suit! Space suits have improved over the years. New designs come out that are even better than the last. Now it’s your turn to design your own space suit adding in anything you like! Once you have designed your space suit, label the things you have added to make it unique just like the diagram above.
wednesday 3rd november
wednesday 3rd november
reading
reading
writing
writing
The Day of the Dinosaurs
It turns out dinosaurs were completely sentient creatures, (they could communicate and think), and most of them actually left the planet in their gigantic spaceship when they realized an asteroid was coming. They’ve decided that enough time has passed and the Earth has probably recovered by now, so today, at twelve noon, they’re coming home!
Either write from the point of view from the returning dinosaurs or from the humans who are on earth when the dinosaurs come back.
Think about: Would the dinosaurs be friendly? Where would they live (they are gigantic), could we communicate with them?
When you are finished, check that you have:
Re-read your work to check it makes sense
Checked your spelling
Checked your use of capital letters and full stops
maths
maths
topic - 5 crazy facts about space
topic - 5 crazy facts about space
1. SPACE IS COMPLETELY SILENT- There is no atmosphere in space, which means that sound has no medium or way to travel to be heard.
2. THE HOTTEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS 450° C.- Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and has an average surface temperature of around 450° C.
3. A FULL NASA SPACE SUIT COSTS $12,000,000.
4. ONE MILLION EARTHS CAN FIT INSIDE THE SUN- The Sun is large enough that approximately 1.3 million Earths could fit inside.
5. ONE DAY ON VENUS IS LONGER THAN ONE YEAR.- Venus has a slow axis rotation which takes 243 Earth days to complete its day.
Task 1- Our solar system is made up of one sun, 8 planets and a dwarf planet named Pluto
Make up a rhyme to help you remember the names of the 8 planets and Pluto using the first letter of each Planet.
M______________
V______________
E______________
M______________
J_______________
S________________
U________________
N_______________
P_______________
Task 2- Make your own word search using your choice of space words below. See if someone in your household can complete it. Use a ruler to help make your grid.
List of words you could use
thursday 4th november
thursday 4th november
reading
reading
writing
writing
Journey to Mars
You and your family have been selected to live on Mars for a few months, as a trial run for the NZ government. Write a series of journal entries as you travel to Mars in a rocket. Think about the food you’re eating. How do you keep yourself entertained in the spaceship? And even how you go to the bathroom, or have a shower in a rocket.
When you are finished, check that you have:
Re-read your work to check it makes sense
Checked your spelling
Checked your use of capital letters and full stops
maths
maths
topic - do you believe aliens are real?
topic - do you believe aliens are real?
The word alien is a popular word for an extraterrestrial life-form, or a being from another planet. No one knows whether there is life elsewhere in the universe. But some Scientists think that it is possible.
Choose which activity you would like to do.
Option 1- Make Alien slime- You will need an adult to help you.
What you need:
• ¼ cup of water
• ¼ cup of liquid glue (white, clear, or glitter) • ¼ cup of liquid laundry starch
• Food coloring the color you want your slime to be.
• A mixing bowl and a spoon
• Rubber gloves (optional)
What to do:
1. Pour your glue into the bowl.
2. Add the water to the glue and use the spoon to blend it together.
3. Add about 6 drops of food coloring.
4. Add the liquid starch and mix with a spoon or with your hands if you are wearing gloves.
Option 2- Toilet paper roll Aliens
What you need:
Empty toilet paper roll
Paint, crayons or markers
Glue (Hot glue works well just make sure an adult is helping you)
Any craft materials you have- glitter, pipe cleaner, googly eyes, pom poms, buttons, stickers, ect.
friday 5th november
friday 5th november
reading
reading
writing
writing
Planet X
Imagine you are an astronaut, and you have just crash-landed on an unknown planet in the solar system. Describe the planet in great detail. Think about the climate, atmosphere, appearance, number of moons, the sky and so on.
When you are finished, check that you have:
Re-read your work to check it makes sense
Checked your spelling
Checked your use of capital letters and full stops
maths
maths
topic - homemade charades game
topic - homemade charades game
Let’s see how good you are at acting! Charades is a drama game where you have to act out a picture or a word without making a noise. Your family has to guess what you are before the time is up.
First you will need a piece of paper. Fold your paper so you have 8 squares.
Then draw a picture on each square-remember the picture will have to be something you can act out without any sound. Below is a list of ideas to help.
3. Once you have drawn pictures of what you will be acting. Mix them all up and put them in a hat. Ask your family members to play with you. Pull a card from the hat, set a timer for 10-15sec and start acting! Your family members will call out ideas and try to guess what you are before the timer runs out. The first to guess gets a point. Whoever has the most points at the end wins. Your family members can also have turns at acting something out if they like. HAVE FUN! And get acting.
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