Hi everyone!

Next week I'm going to give you a guided tour around my home ... may need to tidy!!

Friday Fun Day - ANZAC Day Bingo Board

Hi team, hoping your week has gone well.   I love seeing all the learning you’ve been doing, it makes me miss you even more than I already do! 

Today’s theme is going to be around ANZAC day, which is tomorrow.  There are a whole lot of creative tasks on this BINGO board.  I’m giving you the option to choose the ones that you’re interested in.  

I really like the, 'building a bunker,' activity ... now that would be fun!  Also who doesn't like Anzac biscuits?  You could make the mixture and halve it.  Try adding something to the recipe and create something new, e.g. raisins or cinnamon.  Then you could test it on family members and see what they think. 

Did you work out what I was cooking from the ingredients yesterday?  If you thought it was cinnamon rolls you were correct.  If you want the recipe message me and I’ll send it through.  They were delicious!

Useful Links
Anzac Ted - cute story
Why are there poppies on ANZAC day?
The last post
Story of Joe Herman
In Flanders Fields (words)
In Flanders Fields (read aloud)
Making a wordfind online
Kid friendly recipe - Anzac Biscuits

How to draw a poppy (Easy)

How to draw a poppy (Harder)

How to draw a bunch of poppies  (Harder but is step by step)

Gratefulness Bag Time to add to our gratefulness/memory bag … (like we did last week) What’s been your favourite memory this week?  What are you grateful for? What is something you wish you could have done this week but couldn’t because you’ve had to stay at home? These are mine… My family and I normally go to an ANZAC Day service so I wish I could be going to one this on Saturday.  I’m very grateful for all the soldiers who went to war and fought on my behalf.  This week I’ve been doing a lot of garden maintenance around my home, this makes me happy because it all looks so much tidier.   Write these on a piece of paper and remember to add your symbol to the front so we know it’s yours (mine’s a flower can you remember yours?) My tree is getting quite full!

More Lockdown Learning

Hi everyone, thanks again for the wonderful photos, movies and emails showing examples of your lockdown learning.  Good to see evidence of exercise too.  Here is a selection of some recent sharing.  Remember I will send details of our Zoom Meeting tomorrow (Meeting is at 3.00 BUT sending link to parent emails now).

Dantae's family demonstrating online
learning.

James made a chair for his toys
out of banana boxes.

Lockdown learning in
Noah's house.

Dantae is creating with play dough.

Noah, a master chef in action.

Noah playing the Maths version of Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Ewan constructing a battery powered radio.

Dantae's marble run.

Learning can be many things

Rebecca has been making things
out of loom bands.

James B created this dog
starting with just a dot.

Hi from Mrs DG

Hi everyone, fourth video attempt again!!  The first was too long and the other two ended up with me making weird faces at the end.  Very scary!  Then when I finished this one I forgot to tell you all how proud I am.  You have been helping at home,  keeping in touch and engaged in lots of different types of learning.  For Thursday, as I said in the video, I want you to really focus on a piece of writing.  There are the Sparks writing ideas or you could revisit ideas in other posts.  Here is Tahlia's poem from Wednesday.

Impressive, isn't it?  For other activities today I want you to prepare for a Zoom Meeting on Friday @ 3.00.  Details will be sent to your gmail on Friday early afternoon.  During the meeting you need to share one positive thing about being in Alert Level 4 and one thing you are missing.  Finally for the rest of today, choose any activity from a previous post or under the Useful Websites section.  I have been offering a lot of options so take some time out today to revisit previous days and do something different or something that you liked a lot.  SEE YOU FRIDAY:) PS I haven't tried a covid haircut yet!

Thursday ... SPARKS WRITING

Sparks Writing Hey, hey, hey it’s SPARKS writing day!  As usual you are welcome to write about whatever interests you in whatever genre that suits your writing.  Your challenge today is to use strong verbs.  Verbs are ‘doing/action’ words.  Here’s just a few I found.  You could try using some of these.  If you're not sure what they mean look them up in the dictionary. IDEAS FOR SPARKS … If you’re lacking for ideas today you might like to have a go at this… Upstart Magazine Competition I’m not sure where you are at with this but you might try starting/finishing one of these from last week.  (See last weeks blog entry). Or Let’s Get Baking I’ve been really amazed at your fabulous cooking skills (Mrs DG what a cake!).  Lots of people are sharing their recipes online at the moment.  What is this? Below is a photo of some ingredients. Can you guess what you think I might be making?  I’ll share the recipe and photo of my success …. or failure on Friday! Today you could have a go at writing your own recipe.  This might be a recipe for other people to try or it could be a recipe on, 'How to survive living in a 'bubble.’  It would be great to have a recipe from everyone, we could make our own Nikau cook book.  Write it onto a Google Doc and share it with me.

Warm Wishes for Wednesday

Hi everyone, you are going so well with your online learning.  I am really proud.  I will post a video soon.

Maths: Times tables practice: Spend time practising the 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables during the next few days.  You can do this using Studyladder (there are heaps of activities), and/or by clicking on the Multiplication Facts – Test Yourself link and/or by playing the game below: Maths version of Rock, Paper, Scissors Two players sit opposite each other and like the game Rock, Scissors, Paper they hold closed fists and count together to 3. Then they open their hands and show a number of fingers. The first person to correctly multiply the number of fingers each person is showing wins a point. Make sure numbers over 5 are displayed using all the fingers on one hand and some from the other hand. Start with one hand each first, for a while.

Exercise: Revisit the What’s your name? workout.  Today’s words are: ·      Lockdown ·      Social Distance ·      Family Bubble ·      Online learning Aim to work through two of these words. And/or: Next week we are introducing some walking or running training for the school cross country.  Silone has set up a competition, not just for the fastest or who runs the furthest but for reasons like getting others in your bubble involved and for meeting personal challenges.  More details to come.  So in the meanwhile aim to work out for 5 - 6 minutes non-stop (this could be 2 Jump Jam songs, a brisk family walk or a bike ride – you choose)

Be Creative: Watch the flip book link under Useful Websites and create a wordless story of your own or you could try to capture action like a car moving or a ball bouncing.

Read or write: Complete the Quirky Quiz #3 created by Mrs Alexander.  Link under Useful Websites.  You will need to record these on a piece of paper or on another doc.  Feel free to send to me or check the answers with family members. And/or… Listen to the Peter Bland’s poem Listening under Useful Websites and have a go at creating a similar poem of your own by following Peter Bland’s model and filling in the gaps of the second model (see below).  You need to be thinking about strong verbs and consider the range of sounds you could possibly hear.  I would love to read and publish your poems