Remote Learning Term 3 Week 5

Welcome to Term 3 Week 5 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, 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

Sunshine Classics link

❇Note: Username and passwords are in your child's homework book.

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 17 August

Reading:

Read a nonfiction story from Literacy Planet, Sunshine Classics or from your library shelf at home.

IALT: Find facts in a nonfiction story

Activity: After reading your nonfiction story, write and draw a picture of 2 facts you learnt.

Sunshine Classics:

Log on using your username and password. You will be able to access tasks based on your Reading Level.

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.

Phonics:

Group A:

The long ‘a’ sound with the magic e: link

Complete the worksheet below:

Group B:

The long ‘a’ sound (ai, ay, a_e) link

Complete the worksheet below:

Spelling

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

Writing

IALT: write a recount.

Think your favourite thing that you learned during home learning.

Draw a picture to help spark your ideas about your learning experience.

In 5 sentences or more, write a recount about it.

Remember to include the 5 W’s and an H where possible:

-What (was it that you learned)?

-When (did you do it)?

-Where (did you do it)?

-Who (were you with)?

-Why (did you do it)?

-How (was it done)?

Handwriting - Focus on the letter m

Please refer to the letter formation sheet below:

Write a line of lowercase m

Write a line of capital M

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

Write your full name

Write the silly sentence: Monkeys move many mountains

Write numbers from 1 to 10

Maths

A quick warm up!

Money

Have a look at the NZ money! Try to put the money in the order of smallest to largest amount.

Challenge!

How many 10 cent coins make 20 cents?

How many 10 cent coins make 50 cents?

How many 10 cent coins make a dollar? (remember, there are 100cents in a dollar)

How many 20 cent coins make a dollar?

How many 50 cent coins make a dollar?

P.E

Follow along with Sherlock’s Gnomes Move n Groove

Tuesday 18 August

Reading

Read a story from Literacy Planet, Sunshine Classics or from your library shelf at home.

IALT: retell the story in my own words.

Activity: After reading a story, think about and draw the following:
Setting - Where did the story take place?
The Characters - Who was in the story?
The problem - What went wrong in the story?

The solution - How did the fix what went wrong?

Sunshine Classics

Log on using your username and password. You will be able to access tasks based on your Reading Level.

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.

Phonics

Group A:

Vowels: Vowels in alphabet : link

Complete the worksheet below:

Group B:

Ow and ou sounds link

Complete the worksheet below.

Spelling

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

Writing

IALT: Develop a character that could be used in a piece of writing.

Watch the video Nightzoo.

Choose an animal to write about (can be any animal that could live in a zoo).

Write down the following about your zoo character:

Where is it’s home?

What does it look like?

What does it like?

What does it not like?

Special powers?

Personality traits?

Handwriting - Focus on the letter H

Please refer to the letter formation sheet below:

Write a line of lowercase h

Write a line of capital H

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

Write your full name

Write the silly sentence: Hippos help heavy humans.

Write numbers from 10 to 20

Maths

A quick warm up!

Skip counting song - link

Follow up activity

Extra Activities

Science: Milk art - link

P.E

Follow along with Zap it!

Wednesday 19 August

Reading

Read a story from Literacy Planet, Sunshine Classics or from your library shelf at home.

IALT: find and answer simple questions about a story

Activity: Choose one of the stories below and read it. Once you have finished reading, answer the questions by looking for clues in the story. If you need some help reading the story, you can read it with mum or dad.

Story 1

Story 2

Sunshine Classics

Log on using your username and password. You will be able to access tasks based on your Reading Level.

Sight Words

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

Phonics

Group A

The long ‘o’ sound with the magic e: link

Complete the worksheet below:

Group B

The long o sound (oa, ow, oe o_e) link

Complete the worksheet below:

Spelling

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

Writing

IALT: Use my senses to add description to my writing.

Pretend that you wake up one morning and realise you have turned into your pet! If you don’t have a pet, think of an animal you know.

What do you see, hear, feel, taste and smell?

Try and use your descriptive words to write 5 or more interesting sentences about what you are experiencing spending a day in the life of your pets shoes.

Handwriting - Focus on the letter k

Please refer to the letter formation sheet below:

Write a line of lowercase k

Write a line of capital K

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

Write your full name

Write the silly sentence: Koalas kick kayaks.

Write numbers from 20 - 30

Maths

A quick warm up!

Reading time video - link

Follow up activity

P.E

Follow along with Kidz Bop - dance Monkey

Thursday 20 August

Reading

Read a story from Literacy Planet, Sunshine Classics or from your library shelf at home.

IALT: find and answer simple questions about a story

Story 1

Story 2

Sunshine Classics

Log on using your username and password. You will be able to access tasks based on your Reading Level.

Sight Words

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

Phonics

Group A

Vowels: short and long vowel ‘a’ link

Complete the worksheet below:

Group B

Prefixes: link

Complete the worksheet below.

Spelling

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

Writing

IALT: experiment with different punctuation.

Watch the following clip: ‘The Way Back Home’

Write 4-5 sentences about what the boy and the alien would be saying to one another, if they spoke the same language. Try writing the speech marks around their words eg “ is used for when they start speaking and ” is used for finishing the sentence.

Handwriting: Focus - Positional words -
Complete this page with your best letter formation skills

Maths

A quick warm up!

Patterns video - link

Activity time!

Problem Solving

Can you spot the 10 differences?

P.E

Follow along with the Hokey Pokey

Friday 21 August

Reading

Read a story from Literacy Planet, Sunshine Classics or from your library shelf at home.

IALT: retell the story

Activity: Have a go at making your own comic strip. You will need to retell the story from the beginning to end, drawing pictures and writing 1 or 2 sentences in each box. Have a look at the example below:

Example of a comic strip:

Sunshine Classics

Log on using your username and password. You will be able to access tasks based on your Reading Level.

Sight Words

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

Phonics

Group A

Digraph: words beginning with different blends - th, ch, wh, sh, ph link

Complete the worksheet below:

Group B

Missing Vowels - A, E, I, O U link

Spelling

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

Writing

IALT: Create a piece of black out poetry.

Below is an example of black out poetry. A few words have been chosen to go together and create a new sentence!

Look at the text from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ below. Circle your favourite words from this, that could go together. With the rest of the words, colour them black so they can’t be seen. Read whatever you have left over.

How does it sound? Could it be an cool new piece of poetry?