Welcome to Term 1 Week 9 in Room 11

Welcome to Term 1 Week 9 in Room 11!

Here are your tasks for the week. Please feel free to take pictures of work that you are proud of and post them onto your blog or email them to your homeroom teacher: Mrs Argano - Celeste@elmpark.school.nz 

Handy websites:

Sunshine Online link

Username - elmpark

Password - elm2019

Storyline Online link

Scholastics books online: link 

Literacy Planet link

Matific link

❇Note: username and passwords are included in my e-mail

Twinkl link

For any extra work you want to do with your child, have a look at this great website. It is free for a few months.

Learning from home (government website) link

The Literacy Shed: link

Scholastics learn at home: link 

Storynory: link 

Sightword lists:

Handwriting sheet:

Monday 30 March 

Reading: 

Choose 2 stories to read on Sunshine online, Literacy Planet or from your library shelf at home.

Activity: Read 1 to yourself and one to somebody else in your home.

Choose your favourite story and draw a picture of the best part of the book.

Sight Words: 

Say all my sight words out loud. Ask a parent for help if you are unsure of a word.

PDF for lists of sight words uploaded onto the class blog - Please refer to your child's sight word list in their homework books. If they have completed that list, you can find the next list in this file. 

Spelling: 

Pick 5 words from the sight word list to learn to spell.

Writing: 

Retell the science experiment we did last Monday to somebody else in your home. If you didn’t, please have a look at the video! 

Recap video link

Can you make a list of all the materials we need for this experiment?

Handwriting - Focus on the letter a
Please refer to the letter formation sheet below: 

Write a line of lowercase a

Write a line of capital a

Write a line of both lowercase and capitals e.g. Aa

Write your full name 

Write numbers from 0 to 10

Maths: 

Crickweb: link

• Do ‘Counting number patterns A.4’ (*Note: daily limit of 10 practice questions).

Count to 100 link

Challenge - Can you do it backwards? link

Extra:

Science:

Science Experiment (Must do it with an adult)

Simple experiment with water link

P.E:

5min move 1 - Kids workout link

Zumba kids

Tuesday 31 March

Reading: 

Choose 2 stories to read on Sunshine online, Literacy Planet or from your library shelf at home.

Activity: Choose your favourite character. Draw and describe the character.

Sight Words: 

Say all my sight words out loud. Ask a parent for help if you are unsure of a word.

PDF for lists of sight words uploaded onto class blog - Please refer to your child's sight word list in their homework books. If they have completed that list, you can find the next list in this file. 

Spelling: 

Pick 5 words from the sight word list to learn to spell.

Writing: 

Learning Purpose: Write a recount of my first week of self-isolation.

Talk to your family about what you have been doing to fill in the time while NZ is in lockdown. Draw a picture to show this and who you have had their experiences with.

Once you have your ideas, you can write your story. 

What you should include in your story:

-What, who, when, where, why and how link

-Full stops and capital letters (and experiment with other punctuation if possible)

-At least 5 sentences

Handwriting - Focus on the letter b
Please refer to the letter formation sheet below: 

Write a line of lowercase b

Write a line of capital B

Write a line of both lowercase and capitals e.g. Bb

Write your full name 

Write numbers from 11 to 20 

Maths: 

Crickweb: link

• Do ‘Counting by twos, fives and tens with pictures A.11’ (*Note: daily limit of 10 practice questions).

Skip Count in 2s to 30 link

Skip Count in 2s to 100 link

Challenge - Can you do it backwards?

Extra:

How to tie your shoelaces link

• Click on the download free to view the pdf

P.E:

5min move 2 - Kids workout link

Wednesday 1 April

Reading: 

Choose 2 stories to read on Scholastic books.

Activity: decide whether the books that you read are fiction/non-fiction. What are the differences?

Sight Words: 

Say all my sight words out loud. Ask a parent for help if you are unsure of a word.

PDF for lists of sight words uploaded onto the class blog - Please refer to your child's sight word list in their homework books. If they have completed that list, you can find the next list in this file. 

Spelling: 

Pick 5 words from the sight word list to learn to spell.

Writing: 

Learning purpose: creative writing and adding interesting details (adjectives) to our writing.

If you could have 3 wishes what would you wish for? Why would you make these wishes?

Draw a picture of your 3 wishes. Think about using your senses to describe these wishes (what do you see, hear, smell, taste)? How does it make you feel when you imagine your wishes coming true?

If you get stuck you can ask somebody in your home to help you sound out the words.

What you should include in your story:

-Words that describe your wishes. 

-Full stops and capital letters (and experiment with other punctuation if possible)

-At least 5 sentences

Handwriting - Focus on the letter c
Please refer to the letter formation sheet below: 

Write a line of lowercase c

Write a line of capital C

Write a line of both lowercase and capitals e.g. Cc

Write your full name 

Write numbers from 21 to 30

Maths: 

Crickweb: link

• Do ‘Counting forward and backward A.13’ (*Note: daily limit of 10 practice questions).

Skip Count in 5s to 100 link  

Challenge - Can you do it backwards?

Extra:

How to fold a ninja star link

P.E:

5min move 3 - Kids workout link

Thursday 2 April

Reading: 

Choose 2 stories to read on Scholastic books.

Activity: Find different types of punctuations. Talk about each of them, what they are for and what we should do as we read them. 

Sight Words: 

Say all my sight words out loud. Ask a parent for help if you are unsure of a word.

PDF for lists of sight words uploaded onto the class blog - Please refer to your child's sight word list in their homework books. If they have completed that list, you can find the next list in this file. 

Spelling: 

Pick 5 words from the sight word list to learn to spell.

Writing: 

Learning purposes: Writing a list 

Find an object from around the house beginning with every letter of the alphabet. Write them in an alphabetical order.

Handwriting - Focus on the letter d
Please refer to the letter formation sheet below: 

Write a line of lowercase d

Write a line of capital D

Write a line of both lowercase and capitals e.g. Dd

Write your full name 

Write numbers from 31 to 40 

Maths: 

Crickweb: link

• Do ‘Make a number using addition - Sums up to 10. D.6’ (*Note: daily limit of 10 practice questions).

Skip Count in 10s to 100 link 

Challenge - Can you do it backwards? Can you skip in 10s to 1000? 

Extra:

P.E:

5min move 4 - Kids workout link

Art:

How to draw a whale link

Friday 3 April

Poem: 

One, two buckle my shoe link

Watch the nursery rhyme. Try it yourself. Don't forget the actions!

Sight Words: 

Say all my sight words out loud. Ask a parent for help if you are unsure of a word.

PDF for lists of sight words uploaded onto class blog - Please refer to your child's sight word list in their homework books. If they have completed that list, you can find the next list in this file. 

Spelling: 

Pick 5 words from the sight word list to learn to spell.

Writing: 

Write a letter to someone you miss from school. Tell them what you have been up to this week. Draw a picture for them at the bottom

Handwriting - Focus on the letter e
Please refer to the letter formation sheet below: 

Write a line of lowercase e

Write a line of capital E

Write a line of both lowercase and capitals e.g. Ee

Write your full name 

Write numbers from 41 to 50 

Maths: 

Crickweb: link

• Do ‘Make a number using subtraction- Sums up to 10. H.4’ (*Note: daily limit of 10 practice questions).

Skip Count in 3s to 60 link 

Challenge - Can you do it backwards?

Extra:

Origami fish link

Amazing! 

Have an awesome weekend.

smiles from Mrs Argano