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Writing @ Home

Please try to get your child to write each day. This could be:

writing using the apps/websites/videos links below
writing stories or using the ideas below
completing the Writing activity that your child's teacher sets on Seesaw
looking at the ideas on the digital posters

No device or internet, then try these ideas:

writing emails to family members
writing lists e.g. shopping, birthday lists, jobs etc
writing words and stories with chalk
keep a diary of what you do each day
cut out letters and make funny messages
write words or positive messages using sidewalk paint for your neighbours to read on their walk
wanted posters for people/things e.g. pirates, book characters
make their own find a word puzzles e.g. crosswords and wordfinds
write recipes out
find a picture e.g. in a magazine and writing about it
make posters
write a song or a poem
use ideas from the digital posters
create daily cartoon strips
see how many words you child can write in 10 minutes

Seesaw Families & Seesaw Class

Your child will have their own username and password.

There will be a different one for Seesaw Families and Seesaw Class.

Each week day your teacher will assign reading activities via Seesaw to help with reading at home. What is Seesaw? Seesaw is an app that provides a digital learning journal for teachers and students to document learning creatively by adding entries to it like photos, videos, drawings, documents and notes to share learning at school in a safe and secure environment.

Your child will use the Seesaw Class app for home learning. This is different than the Seesaw Family app.

Technical information can be found here.

Murray Gadd Writing @ Home

This is a series of writing and writing-related lessons that I have filmed especially for teachers to use with their students in these crazy distance-learning times. I’ve made them in the front room of my little house on Waiheke Island for kids to use in their front rooms at home.

I’ve tried to make sure that they’re as fun and engaging as possible and that they encompass the best of ‘good teaching and learning practice’.

Te Kura

Te Kura is New Zealand’s distance school, formerly known as The Correspondence School.

Te Kura is pleased to play a part in the joint effort of the Ministry of Education and so many educators, schools, and kura across Aotearoa New Zealand to support families and children learning at home. We offer a wide range of personalised online learning programmes and courses.

The resources in our Online Learning Showcase may be helpful to support your children’s learning at home.

Click the link below and use the username and password to access the showcase. (Please use Google Chrome if possible to access the online showcase).

MY TE KURA SHOWCASE

Username: showcase

Password: showcase

We encourage you to view the Ministry of Education’s Learning from home website alongside these resources. This website includes many activities parents can use with their children and young people.

The booklet resources used before we moved to online learning may also be helpful to you as you support your children’s learning at home. These booklet resources are sorted in age, year and subject groups to help you find things you can use and adapt for your children’s learning.

Pobble 365

One picture. One teaching resource. Every day. Every day, you'll find an interesting picture, writing prompts and philosophical questions to spark a lesson on Pobble 365!

BBC Bitesize - English

BBC Bitesize is a British website that has lots of Literacy games and activities to support Reading and Writing.

National Geographic Kids

Use this as a prompt for writing. Read or watch videos and share your learning via a story.

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