Hello parents and whānau who have students in the Junior School area (Rooms 6, 5, 4, and 3).
We hope you and your tamariki are all well and enjoying being together as a family at home during these new and testing times.
We are currently waiting for the Ministry of Education to get your child/children’s packs posted. Once they have done so, we will ring you all and help support you and your tamariki with this work.
In the meantime here are some ideas you can be doing with your children at home:
This post will also be added to our class blogs for you to refer to:
Phonics/Writing:
● High frequency words: Play memory, flash cards (see the photo attached to the post of the word lists).
● Writing with chalk or water on the pavement.
● Writing a letter/card to a neighbour or friend.
● Write a story about the teddy bears you can see around town.
● Write a story each day. (About: Autumn leaves, favourite toy, what they can see in the garden, a letter to someone, grocery list etc).
Reading:
● The Netherby School reading challenges (posted on facebook).
● Have your child read to you for 10 minutes. Discuss the book, ask them questions about the story.
● Read to your child and ask them to retell the story.
● Record your child telling a story on a device and send it to your teacher.
● Read poems, recipes, articles.
● Draw pictures about the stories children are reading.
● Create story maps about the stories you have read (we do this in storytelling). The idea here is to retell the main events from the story in order.
Maths:
Kia ora, Parents and Whānau, thank you for supporting your child's maths learning at home during the lockdown period.
Here are some tips for supporting your child when they are working on their independent math activities.
If needed, you can read the problem to your child.
Please do not feel that you need to help them to solve the problem, let them choose the tasks they can do by themselves.
When they have finished the task, ask them to explain how they solved rather than focusing on if the answer is correct. Remember there are lots of different ways of solving problems which might be different to how you were taught maths at school.
Rooms 5 & 6 problems solving questions:
● Miss Patrick wove 5 kete and her sister wove 7 more. How many kete do they have altogether?
● You are helping mum to hang out the washing. You use 9 pink pegs and 4 green pegs. How many pegs have you used altogether?
● Lily has helped her dad to plant vegetables in their garden. She planted 8 spring onions and 6 carrot plants. How many vegetables did Seini plant?
● Choose a piece of paper or newspaper in your house. How many of those papers will cover the top of a table?
Rooms 4 & 3 problem solving questions:
● You go fishing. In the morning you catch 3 fish and then you catch another 7 more fish. How many fish did you catch altogether?
● Myles had scored 6 points and his teammates scored 18 during their rugby game. How many points did they score altogether?
● Charli-Kaye had 10 bracelets and Eva had 12 bracelets. How many bracelets did they have altogether?
● My mum has painted 18 patterns on her tapa. Agnes has painted 7 more patterns than mum. How many patterns did Agnes paint?
● Andrew helped by folding the washing. There are 8 towels, 2 tea towels, 17 T shirts, 3 pairs of shorts. How many items have you folded?
Extra number knowledge:
● Skip count in 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
● Say the number before up to 20.
● Say the number after up to 20.
● Check number formation is correct.
● Count all the bears around your neighbourhood
Discovery/PE/extra curricular ideas:
● Learn how to tie their shoe lace
● Skip 20 times forwards and 20 times backwards
● Baking
● Draw the shadows of animals
● Make an obstacle course around your property that you need to hop over, go under or go through.
● Make something for ANZAC day that you could use at your gate.
● See how many different birds are in your garden
● Make a bird feeder
● Create a piece of art for someone in your family or your neighbour
● Te Reo:Find colours around your house and use the Te Reo words.
Be mindful - Balance:
● Take time to relax in the garden, walk around the block with the family or lay on the grass and make pictures out of the clouds.
● Sit and listen to music that makes you feel happy.
● Blow bubbles and watch them float up into the sky. Think about all your worries floating away from you.
● Have a family meeting and talk to everyone about how they are feeling.
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