Welcome Back to School!

 

Welcome back to Term 3! We are now in Week 7 at school.  

Today we started off with some Cosmic Yoga with Squish the Fish:

Here is the video for you to do at home with your family.

Then we shared news about the weekend and wished Ida (belated) birthday wishes.

Next we wrote about the weekend. You can do this at home too.

Writing: I want to know what you have been up to in the weekend. Write a story about what you have been doing?

Some ideas:
Have you been on any walks or bike rides?

Have you been baking?
Have you had any Facetime chats with your friends or family?
Have you played games with your family?

Remember to use:

-capital letters

-full stops

-finger spaces

-sound out words

-2-3 ideas

We played a game called Middle Game Sound Swap: Here is a great video with a game you could make and play with your family.

Can you change words by taking away the middle letter and putting another middle letter in its place?
e.g. mat-met

Phonics:

We did our reading groups and worked on blends. Here is our blends card to work on saying the blends.

Can you say all of the blends on the card?  First say the picture and then the blend like blue bl.

e.g. blue bl, bread br, chair ch, crab cr, drum dr etc

Please read some books at home and get your family to ask you questions about the story.

Shared Book:

Kelly Sports:

Then we went to Kelly Sports with Coach Tom! Here are a few photos of what we did.

We worked on balance today.  We got to balance with our bodies and bean bags. It was lots of fun. 

At the end we played Pirate Tag! We love playing this game.

 

Maths

Next we worked on doubles. Here is a video on doubles. You could sing them and write them down.

 

We also did counting backwards from 100 to 1. You can try this at home too. Here are a few videos to help you.

This afternoon we had Play-based Learning. Our focus was on sharing and turn taking. Here is a good book about turn taking.

Handwriting: This week we are working on the letter Dd (lowercase and uppercase)

Here is a song that you can sing at home with your family.

Art: How to draw a farm. Give it a go! Remember to you pause the video and watch it a few times to help you with drawing a farm.

 

If you would like to share your work please email me some photos to (nmitchell@owairaka.school.nz) and I will share it on our class blog.

Happy home learning Room 5!   

Ms Mitchell

 

Home Learning: Sharing Time

 Happy Friday Room 5!

Orlando, Jamie, Nathan, Noah, Max S, Zahra, Tanya, Yusra, Riley, Alisha, Tinomalu, Pepa, Moses, Avneet, Ida, Trinity, Selah, Rio, Elise and Max C.

This blog post is all about sharing our work with the class and our families.

A big thank you to the children who sent photos of their work for me to share on the blog. I have enjoyed seeing all of the wonderful work.

  

A Friday Fun Challenge:

You need to make a fort inside your house!

You will need to clear a space in your living room where you could put a tent up or use some chairs and put a blanket over the top.

Make sure you have lots of pillows and blankets to sit on. If you have sleeping bags you could use them too.

Make sure you have your favourite toys join you and some great books to read.

Then get your parents, brother or sister to take a photo of you and send it to me (nmitchell@owairaka.school.nz).

I am looking forward to school on Monday 31st August ! 

I can't wait to see you all.

3 sleeps to go !

 

What do you need to bring on Monday?

• Lunch box (please name your lunch box)
• Water bottle (school drinking foundations are not available)
• Book bag
• Reading Log
• Reading books
• Word book

If you would like to share your work please email me some photos to (nmitchell@owairaka.school.nz) and I will share it on our class blog.

Happy home learning Room 5! 

See you on Monday 31st August!

Home Learning: Wednesday & Thursday

 Hello, Kia ora, Talofa , Privet, Hola, Namaste, Konnichiwa, Malo lelei, Salam to Room 5!

Orlando, Jamie, Nathan, Noah, Max S, Zahra, Tanya, Yusra, Riley, Alisha, Tinomalu, Pepa, Moses, Avneet, Ida, Trinity, Selah, Rio, Elise and Max C.

 

It was great to have our first Google Meet this week. A big thank you to those children who made it along. I am looking forward to seeing you all back at school on Monday 31st August.

 

 Today is Wednesday 26th August 2020

Can you say that out loud to someone in your family? 

Can you write the date?

 

What will the date be tomorrow?

Thursday...?

Fitness Time: It is time to get moving! Here are some videos to get you up and dancing.

Maths: Problem of the Day

Question One:

Look at the teddy bears? Count how many eyes there are altogether?

Write an equation for it. ____+____=____

Extra for Experts:

Question Two: 

There are 18 bees. If 15 bees are in the hive and the rest are not. How many bees are not in the hive?

Kōrero Time: I thought you might like to watch this video of jokes and then tell the jokes to your family and friends. Have fun Room 5!

Shared Books:

Book 1: Monkey and Me- a story about a girl and her monkey who go on an adventure together.

After you have listened to the story answer these questions:

1. What animal did they see first?

2. How many elephants did they see?

3. What was the last animal that they saw?

4. What did they do at the end of the story?

  

Book 2: Chick's Sick- a story about a chick who can't lay an egg and the other farm animals try to help her.

Writing: I would like you to pick one of the read aloud stories to write about and write 2 ideas about the story that you liked. (book 1 or book 2)

My example (book 1-Monkey and Me) 

I liked the story about the monkey and the girl. It was fun to see all the different animals that they visited. My favourite animals were the penguins and bats.

Remember to use:

• capital letters
• finger spaces
• sound out tricky words
• full stops
• 2-3 ideas

Reading:

Please watch the following videos of basic words. Remember to say the words out loud and you could try to write some of the words as well.

 

 

 Phonics: Here is a video about blends. Listen and sing along to help you learn blends.

Here is our blend card we had been learning/using in class. 

Can you say all of the blends on the card?  First say the picture and then the blend like blue bl.

e.g. blue bl, bread br, chair ch, crab cr, drum dr etc

 Arts and Crafts: 

Here are a few videos on drawing a monkey and monkey craft ideas. If you don't have everything at home it is okay to just use what you have. I hope you give it a go.

 

 

Remember you don't have to do everything on this blog post.  Most importantly try and make it fun and work for your family.

If you would like to share your work please email me some photos to (nmitchell@owairaka.school.nz) and I will share it on our class blog.

Happy home learning Room 5!   

Ms Mitchell