Hello parents and whānau who have students in the Junior School area (Rooms 6, 5, 4, and 3).
As you are aware from the previous message on facebook yesterday we have been prepping work to support your tamariki to continue learning at home.
Your student would have come home with a pack of work - Those who did not, please check your mailboxes over the next few days as teachers will be dropping these off.
Below are also some ideas you can also use:
Reading
- Please continue daily reading. Students will either have books or poems that have been sent home in their resource pack to read.
-Your child may have a list or a bundle of high frequency words to learn. Repetition is key to learning these. You can play games such as memory, eye spy or flash cards with these - make it fun.
- Encourage your child to retell favourite stories or parts of stories in their own words.
- Make some puppets – old socks, tubes of paper or card, cut-outs on sticks – that you and your child can use to act out the story you have read.
- Read songs, waiata, poems and rhymes, have fun together.
- All children like to be read to, so don’t stop reading to them – no matter how old they are.
- Children could also read to their toys or pets to mix it up.
- Please continue daily reading. Students will either have books or poems that have been sent home in their resource pack to read.
-Your child may have a list or a bundle of high frequency words to learn. Repetition is key to learning these. You can play games such as memory, eye spy or flash cards with these - make it fun.
- Encourage your child to retell favourite stories or parts of stories in their own words.
- Make some puppets – old socks, tubes of paper or card, cut-outs on sticks – that you and your child can use to act out the story you have read.
- Read songs, waiata, poems and rhymes, have fun together.
- All children like to be read to, so don’t stop reading to them – no matter how old they are.
- Children could also read to their toys or pets to mix it up.
Writing
- Your child may have a Writing book in their pack of resources we have made.
- Teach your child letter names and sounds or how to write their name if they are not able to yet.
- Help your child write an alphabet letter, then go letter hunting in your house or in a book to find that letter.
- Use high frequency words to make stories.
- Write stories and other kinds of writing. This includes simple instructions, explanations of what happens and the way it happens, simple descriptions of people, and of things they have done and seen, know about or are making up
- Put magnetic letters on the fridge – ask what words they can make with the letters.
-Ask them to write about pictures they draw – on paper or on the computer. Get them to tell you the story. Write or type the story under their writing if they want you to
- If you have an old paint brush at home they may write the words with water.
- Children could write a note for their neighbours.
- Children could write diary entries.
- Your child may have a Writing book in their pack of resources we have made.
- Teach your child letter names and sounds or how to write their name if they are not able to yet.
- Help your child write an alphabet letter, then go letter hunting in your house or in a book to find that letter.
- Use high frequency words to make stories.
- Write stories and other kinds of writing. This includes simple instructions, explanations of what happens and the way it happens, simple descriptions of people, and of things they have done and seen, know about or are making up
- Put magnetic letters on the fridge – ask what words they can make with the letters.
-Ask them to write about pictures they draw – on paper or on the computer. Get them to tell you the story. Write or type the story under their writing if they want you to
- If you have an old paint brush at home they may write the words with water.
- Children could write a note for their neighbours.
- Children could write diary entries.
Math
- Make up number stories – “you have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. There are 4 of them”.
- Bake – talk to your child about the recipe/ ingredients using words like “how many?” “how much?” “more”. Count how many teaspoons of baking soda are needed, how many cups of flour, how many muffin cases.
-Play games – board games, card games and do jigsaw puzzles.
- When you are out walking skip count the mail boxes, forwards and backwards.
- Skip counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
- Practice giving and understanding directions, e.g. go left, then right, then straight etc to get to the fridge.
- Practice basic facts, counting forward and back etc
- Working on volume and capacity by using different containers, such as buckets, ice cream containers or bottles to work out which container holds the most, least etc.
- Make up number stories – “you have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. There are 4 of them”.
- Bake – talk to your child about the recipe/ ingredients using words like “how many?” “how much?” “more”. Count how many teaspoons of baking soda are needed, how many cups of flour, how many muffin cases.
-Play games – board games, card games and do jigsaw puzzles.
- When you are out walking skip count the mail boxes, forwards and backwards.
- Skip counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
- Practice giving and understanding directions, e.g. go left, then right, then straight etc to get to the fridge.
- Practice basic facts, counting forward and back etc
- Working on volume and capacity by using different containers, such as buckets, ice cream containers or bottles to work out which container holds the most, least etc.
There are many coding apps out there that are available if you have an IPad or Phone:
- LightBox
- Code a pillar
- Scratch Junior
- Tynker
- LightBox
- Code a pillar
- Scratch Junior
- Tynker
This term we have been learning about science, which the children enjoyed very much. Another fun activity is to do simple kitchen science experiments with your children at home. There are lots on YouTube.
Here are some website links that you can also use:
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