I miss you all! I hope you are having fun learning at home. Remember you can make a comment below each post to let me know how your learning is going or you can email me a photo of your learning.
Handwriting:
I think you will enjoy watching this and writing letters on your whiteboard.
Lowercase letters
Last week we were working on tall letters like...
h l t b d
Remember:
sit letters on the line
letters start at the top
use finger spaces between letters
Can you work on writing Kk's Below is a video to help you write Kk's. Watch the video and then write k's on your whiteboard or you can write them in your orange home learning book.
Phonics: Now sing the phonics song with your family.
Challenge: Can you make a paper plane? Maybe you can make a paper plane with your family and go outside and fly it? Below is a video that you can watch to learn how to make a paper plane. You just need some paper!
Exercise time: Dancing. How about you have some fun dancing! Here are some videos to get you dancing with your family.
I hope you are having fun with the learning posts and look forward to some blog comments soon. Kia ora, Ms Mitchell
In this post there are some ideas to help you with learning at home.
The home learning pack has some things to help you with your learning. Below is a photo of the packs that were made up and put in the hall on Tuesday. If you were unable to pick these up you can use what you have at home.
Please send any photos of your learning that you would like to share on the class blog. These can be sent via email nmitchell@owairaka.school.nz
Happy home learning,
Ms Mitchell
Writing: Noticing and Wondering
Look at the picture below. What do you notice?
Talk with you family about what you notice.
Then get your orange writing book and write the day and date Thursday 26.03.20 at the top of the page.
Next write what you notice. Start your sentence with I notice...
then
Write a sentence about a wondering. Start your sentence with I wonder...
Remember to...
start your story with a capital letter
begin by the margin and write across the line
use finger spaces between words
sound out tricky words
write on every second line
end your sentence with a full stop
Now share your story with your family or with relatives online. Maths: Counting forwards and backwards. Below is a video to count forwards and backwards in the range 1 to 50.
Watch the video and sing along with your family.
Activity 1: You can work on writing numbers from 1 to 20. Try writing these on your whiteboard and then in your home learning book. Get your family to take a photo of your numbers to share on the class blog.
Activity 2: Use your whiteboard to write basic facts to 5 and then to 10. Remember you can use materials to help you like toys or pegs
Basic facts to 5:
1+4= 3+2= 5+0=
Basic facts to 10: 10+0= 9+1= 8+2= 7+3= 6+4= 5+5= Activity 3: Draw your friends of ten rainbow and write the facts below. Remember you can reverse the numbers too. e.g. 6+ 4 =10 and 4+6=10
Reading:
Shared book: A Very Hungry Caterpillar. This is one of my favourite books. Please click on the video below and listen to the story. Talk about the story with your family.
Next, draw a picture from the story and write about it. You can write in your orange book (remember to write the day and date e.g. Thursday 26.03.20)
You could start...
I liked the story because...
The caterpillar ate...
Activity: Look at the sheet below and draw your answers in your orange book.
Activity: Look at the picture below and add the fruit together. You could do this on your whiteboard or in your orange book.
Independent books:
Pick a book from your home learning pack to read with your family. You could write this book in your reading log.
