Mahi Kainga Week 3

KAHIKATEA MAHI KAINGA WEEK 3 click here to go to google doc

Reading: Reading lots will help you get ahead!

• Read each day -  Parents, ask questions about what might happen next or to recount what they have read
• Read to your child each day as many times as possible. These could be story books/ poems/songs.
• After reading, summarise in your own words what happened.
• Use the animal strategy cards to help say new words. 

Writing: When writing, think about your writing goals- spelling, capitals and full stops, descriptive language, etc.

• Write a story every day. 
• Write a book review.
• Find out about an animal and write a report about it.
• Keep a diary or journal. You can write about what really happened, or add a twist for drama.
• Look for interesting words when you’re reading to use in your writing.
• Practise 5 tricky spelling words. 
• Here are 300 writing prompts. Have you used the Scholastic Story Starters yet?

Maths: Remember to practise your basic facts often!

• Practise basic facts, or use the Mathletics site each day .
• Encourage addition and subtraction using money. How much change?
• Baking is a perfect way to measure mass and capacity and practise fractions.
• Tell and write the time from digital and analogue clocks. Ask your children to help create a daily or weekly timetable.

Art:

• Portrait. Draw a picture of someone at home, but DON’T look at the paper while you’re drawing!
• Perspective art. This means ‘vanishing point’.
• Leaf rubbings. Can you use leaf rubbings to add texture to a picture? What if an animal or monster had leaf rubbing skin?
• Draw a scene from a book you are reading.
• I’m sure you’ve got lots of cool ideas.

MATHS CHALLENGE

You need to prove you’re right. Use this as a way to improve multiplication or adding skills.

A farm has chickens and sheep.

How many feet do 5 chickens have?

How many feet do 5 sheep have?

How many feet do 12 chickens have?

How many feet do 12 sheep have?

How many feet do 5 chickens and 5 sheep have?

How many feet do 6 chickens and 7 sheep have?

Experts….

I went to the farm and counted 24 feet. How many chickens and sheep might there have been? There is more than 1 answer.

If you solved these and you’re happy, try writing your own maths questions.

What have we been up to?

Here is what Kahikatea have been up to and learning in lockdown.

Hi Damien
I made some craft a few day’s a go. I did some writing today.
One of my writing was about dogs and the other story was
about cats. The flowers were scented. I made all of these
in the picture. Hope you are having a good day.
From Taylor 🤩🤪

Taylor, those flowers look amazing! Your writing is excellent- you're using paragraphs!

Here's an example of students inspiring students!

Hi Mr Hardman

I saw Taylor's wreath and wanted to show her that we had done the same thing!

We also made poppies from green straws and red muffin cases.

From Ella

That looks like a lot of work Ella!

We all know Chase is a motivated learner, and here he is at home creating awesome perspective art! What you can't see (due to my limitations) is Chases's cool Lion Tamer story, or the 2D shapes he drew. Drawing 2D shapes isn't easy, but Chase did a really good job.

Tino pai tō mahi, Chase! I like how this picture 'disappears' into the background!

Our Lachy has been working very hard, and apparently turning into a Smurf....

It is SO GREAT to see what you're up to. Well done to those of you who are making the most of this lockdown to extend your learning, whether it's maths, writing, art, craft, baking, looking after animals, and so on. You guys are awesome!

Ka kite,

Damian

damian.hardman@birchwood.school.nz

Zoom catch up (in case you missed invite).

In case you missed the invitation to daily zoom catch up.

Topic: Kahikatea Catch-up
Daily this week at 10am.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91388508766?pwd=M05tcUxidExURHkwellpYW9ZUEVqZz09

Meeting ID: 913 8850 8766
Password: 1Qg9M2

If 10am doesn't work, we can make another time to suit you :)

Ka kite,
Damian
damian.hardman@birchwood.school.nz

Home Learning

Miela has been a very busy beaver. 

Hi Mr Hardman

Today I made a brownie in a small pan. It was chocolate with Oreo cookies. Yum.

In the weekend I painted rocks!

From Miela.

Miela, you are doing awesome things at home!

Check out Chase's awesome Easter egg and his other learning!

Tu meke Chase, your egg looks AWESOME! 

Sorry I couldn't work out how to share your other learning :(

Hi Damian,
We made this today.  It's made out of cardboard and an egg carton. My Dad and my brother did this together with me.   It was quite easy to make. Dad showed me the medals he got in the Air Force

From Taylor

This looks like a very cool art project Taylor!

Jorja has had a REALLY COOL idea for writing. 

She suggests one person starts a story, but writes 2 lines only. The next person writes the next 2 line. Then another person writes 2 lines. Then yet another person writes 2 lines, until we get a story written by all of us! (I'll work out how we can do that soon).

Jorja, I like your writing, and the picture is cool!

Jaylah has been a motivated student who is using sensible strategies to solve maths problems. Ka rawe, Jaylah!

This is a lot of work!

It's so great to see that you are doing interesting and fun things at home. If you have ideas for us, please let me know. We are all appreciating keeping in touch with each other and seeing what's going on.

Ka kite,

Damian

damian.hardman@birchwood.school.nz

Maths Games Site and Helping at Home

Chase found an AMAZING maths games site!

https://www.arcademics.com/games

Parents / Māuta, 

Here is New Zealand Maths ideas for helping your children with maths at home:

https://nzmaths.co.nz/maths-our-house

Mahi Kainga Week 2

Kia ora Koutou!

I hope you had a nice weekend, and find fun ways to learn and enjoy yourself this week.

Home learning is optional, but it won't hurt you to focus on your own learning goals. Goal setting, even while learning from home, is useful. If you DON'T do any of these home learning tasks, kei te pai. I hope you're busy learning other things, like art, or learning family stories, or helping with cooking or baking, making your bed, looking after your pets, going for lovely walks or bike rides, and so on.

I'm very happy to review your learning and give feedback. I'm finding remote planning difficult- so any ideas your have for home learning tasks are GREATLY APPRECIATED.

It looks like we'll be home learning for another wee while, so let's make the most of this unique time we have.

Parents: follow this link to “Ideas to help with reading, writing and maths at home” from the Ministry of Education.

MAHI KAINGA WEEK 2
Remember to PICK AND CHOOSE tasks- you don't need to do all of these

Pāngarau / Maths / 2D Shapes What are 2D shapes? Watch the short (1 min) video on this website. Go to Studyladder> Geometry - 2D shapes pods. Work through the tasks. Email or zoom me if you need to. Project: 2D shapes at home. Draw pictures/ diagrams or take photos of some 2D shapes you can find around home. Email these to me, or upload to 2D shapes google folder. Basic Facts Use Studyladder, play board games, practise learning your basic facts in addition and multiplication.	Pāngarau / Maths / Rich Task Kupe cast out his fishing net this morning and caught 4 different types of fish. 1. 19 2. 64 3. 135 4. 369 Tarakihi: an even number.. Snapper (tāmure): the largest number. Some blue cod (rāwaru). Kina: more than blue cod. Choose a strategy that shows how many sea creatures Kupe might have caught. Remember, you have to “prove” you are correct. Extra for experts! Complete all 4 options. Show 3 different answers for each option.
Pānui / Reading / Personal reading Read at least 15 minutes each day. Read out loud to somebody else. Use animal card strategies for difficult words. Summarise main ideas. Retell the story in your own words.	Pānui / Reading Draw a picture or diagram from something you have read. Retell part of the story as a cartoon or comic strip. Dress and act as a character from something you have read.
Tuhituhi- fun writing Use the Scholastic Story Spinner for ideas for a made-up story. Tell a Lockdown Adventure Story. Be descriptive :) Tell a Lockdown Adventure, but with a twist. Were there aliens? Did a dog talk to you? Start with something that did happen, but be creative and change some details on the way.	Tuhituhi- practise tasks Studyladder has a range of spelling and grammar tasks. Look-cover-write-check up to 5 words. Find interesting descriptive words or phrases to use in your writing. Look through books, ask your whānau, listen to what’s said on movies or tv.

Click here to download a googledoc of mahi kainga week 2.

Alternatively, you could choose to complete the ANZAC Day Scavenger Hunt (click to download).

I hope you're well and having fun!

Ka kite,

Damian
damian.hardman@birchwood.school.nz

Lithum is hard at work

Lithum has been working on studyladder quizzes, working through workbooks, baking and playing guitar. Sounds like an excellent learning, Lithum! Can't wait to try some of your baking :)

Scholastic Story Starter Spinner!

Stuck for writing ideas? Click on the link below to use Scholastic's Story Starters.

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

Mahi Kainga Week 1

You can open a google doc of this here.

Miela is hard at work

Miela emailed me these photos. As you can see, she is working very hard. She told me that a waxeye (tauhou) flew into her window, and stunned itself. Luckily, Miela was on-hand to provide some needed first aid! The bird was able to fly away, so that is good news!

It's really nice to see you and what you're up to. Keep sending photos or videos!

Ka kite,
Damian

Lock down learning week 1

Here are some of Kahikatea sharing their learning and fun at home. It's really nice to see you looking happy and successful.

It's great to see what you're up to! Thanks for sharing!