Shhhh it's still all about our special people!

Welcome to Fun Day Friday.  Today is all about our Mums or a special person in our lives.  Shhhhh you need to keep this quiet and keep yourself on track for getting it done!  Your mission is to make your Mum or special person feel loved and valued.  Choose to do things that you know they would value the most.

Being Grateful/ Memory Bags Remember how on Fridays we normally add to our bag.  Just because we’re at home it doesn’t mean we can’t be doing this. What’s been your favourite Mum memory this week?   What are you grateful for about your Mum? What is something you wished you could have done with your Mum this week but couldn’t because you’ve had to stay at home? Hopefully you have lots to put into our class bag when we get back to school … I know I have!  I can’t wait to hear about your memories and things you are grateful for.	Get Moving! Using these exercises you can do a full workout using the first letters of your Mum's FULL NAME.  Once again try and get your bubble to join in with their names too. ** If you're unsure of the exercises look them up on google.
Writing Finish your Mother’s Day inserts from yesterday.  Make it memorable and your best work. EXTRA EXTRA (optional) I know how into quizzes you are.  I really liked this quiz.  You might want to do it as a team with someone else in your bubble.  It showed to me how much more I need to learn about the beautiful country we live in. NZ Geography Quiz Be Kind Do something kind for Mum today without being asked.   Ideas ... * Make her a cup of tea/coffee * Tidy up * Give her shoulders a rub * Tell her how wonderful she is * Help with a chore she least likes doing * Encourage her to have some 'Time Out' to herself * Help with making dinner * Play her favourite music The list is endless!	Creative Cards You will need to see what resources you have available before choosing which card you'd like to make.          Below are some card ideas, you will need to choose the one that will work best with what you have at home.            Remember it’s the thought that counts.  Your Mums or special person will love any effort you put in and I always think the words inside the cards are the most important part.               The cards using curled paper are really easy. The white one with yellow centre looks really effective. Just use strips of paper curl them over and glue.  The messy part is hidden by the yellow centre.  You could use plain or coloured paper.   Have fun!

Digital Technology This challenge is from Mrs Gregory today.  Coding is something we will be learning this term at school many of you are already experts in this area. CHALLENGE: 15 - Coding on SCRATCH   kiwi e hīkoi ana Produce a code to make a kiwi shuffle around in the bush!   15 year old Oliver (Mrs Gregory's son) has just created this quickly to demonstrate! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/382615222 Oliver’s coding for his kiwi looks like this …                                                Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/ Challenge yourself to designing a new code - surprise us!

Online Learning in Action

Hunter's origami cup

Moment in Time by Tahlia

Shhhh it's a secret!

Hey, hey, hey it’s SPARKS writing day!  Mother’s Day is this Sunday.  For Sparks writing I’d like you to write the insert for a Mother’s Day card. You might like to write: An Acrostic Poem Write an acrostic poem about Mum or someone else who is important in your life.  Use the first letters of their name and write words or sentences about them.  Here is an example below. Loving and kind to others Intelligent and Interesting Special inside and out Adventurous and an Angel Or Finish off these lines… Dear Mum, (or Grandma) I love the way you… You make me smile when … If I had a million dollars I’d buy you … I really love it when we… I love you more than … If I could tell you anything it would be … Love from ________ We will make the card tomorrow!! Fast Finishers Dante and Noah are the only children who I have seen quizzes from.  I’d love to see some more so we can offer them to other classes. Nikau’s Quirky Quiz

Let’s Get Baking Wouldn’t it be nice to make some baking for your special person?  Click on the link below. (The one I used for our honey snaps from last week – I saw some great baking from Talia). On it are all sorts of recipes.  This week I’ve added two different types of fudge recipes, Russian Fudge and Chocolate Fudge. If your special person has a sweet tooth one of these recipes would be perfect. Maybe you could get Dad to help you make these.  Or you could bake with Mum but pretend you’re making it for someone else.  Just a thought … this is an optional activity.  You may have something else in mind that your special person would like more. Maths Extra:  When you working out your ingredients try and work out how you would double the recipe.  How much of each ingredient would you need? Nikau’s Lockdown Recipes If you’re feeling crafty you could make a an origami bag to put your baking in. Origami Boxes Home-made gift bags Heart Woven Bags (trickier) Origami Box (youtube video)

A Quick Hi

Week 4 - Wednesday 5 May

Maths: Quick Question John collected some frangipani flowers. Samu gave him 188 more. Now he has 408 frangipani flowers. How many frangipani flowers did John start with? And/or: Problem Solving Fill it Up – I know a lot of you have been cooking so you will be familiar with standards of measurement.  Help Nirali and Isao sort out their measurement problems (Link under Useful Websites).  You will need to use your place value knowledge to help here. And/or: Keep working on the games and activities on Studyladder, Prodigy and under Useful Websites that focus on basic facts knowledge.  This will help you to solve any maths problem.	Read or write: Complete the Quirky Quiz #6 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: Spelling Continue working on your spelling lists and activities in the post on Monday. And/or: CSO writing – Create a short piece of writing (5 – 6 sentences) using one of each of the examples in the grid.  Focus – to use different sentence beginnings.
	Characters	Setting	Object
	Soldier Dragon Teenager Mum Grumpy shop assistant An animal	Rock concert Birthday party Jungle Playground Beach hospital	Broken bike Letter Flag Cellphone $100 note Diamond ring
Be Creative: Can you draw each of the shapes below without lifting your pencil?	Exercise: Continue working on Silone’s Challenge. And/or: Playing Cards Challenge again -   You all should remember this from school.  Every suit in the deck of cards represents a different exercise and the card value (number) equals the number of reps. Spades: Long jumps (two feet together start and two feet together landing, soft knees) Hearts: Shuttle runs. Clubs: Bear Crawl (hands and feet on the floor and knees just above the floor) 1 number = 1 metre Diamonds: Mountain climbers See if you can do 20 cards today.

Week 4 - Tuesday 5 May

Maths: Quick Question Seini is making ula lole (lolly necklace) for her mum’s graduation, she has 256 lollies. How many more lollies does she need to have 520 lollies altogether? And/or: Problem Solving 75 is the Sum – use your addition facts knowledge to eventually use all the numbers on the grid and make lots of equations that = 75 (Link under Useful Websites).  And/or: Keep working on the games and activities on Studyladder, Prodigy and under Useful Websites that focus on basic facts knowledge.  This will help you to solve any maths problem.

Read or write: Spelling Continue working on your spelling lists and activities in the post on Monday. And/or: List It – let’s make some lists for writing Allow yourself 10 minutes each day to write a list.  You could make a list of: ·      Things that bug you ·      Things to do with covid 19 ·      Things your mum and dad always say to you ·      Things that could make a bad day better ·      Excuses for not doing your online learning (be creative) ·      Your favourite smells / sounds / memories

Be Creative: Family or Individual Photo Challenge -  time to be creative with a camera. See my attempt using googles 3D AR animals below.  You could try some forced perspective photography – Forced Perspective Photography for kids

Exercise: Continue working on Silone’s Challenge. And/or: Revisit the dice fitness challenge Mrs Harpur posted last week on Friday Funday -  Choose It Fitness.  That is going to my new favourite!

Week 4 - Alert Level 3

Term 2 -  Monday 4 May

Maths: Quick Question Seini is making ula lole (a necklace made of sweets) for her mum’s graduation, she has 56 lollies. How many more lollies does she need to have 94 lollies altogether? And/or: Problem Solving Slippery Slope – revisit the useful strategy using tidy (tens) numbers.  (Link under Useful Websites).  And/or: Keep working on the games and activities on Studyladder, Prodigy and under Useful Websites that focus on basic facts knowledge.  This will help you to solve any maths problem.	Read or write: Complete the Quirky Quiz #5 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: Spelling Can you spell the 100 words on the list below? Organise those that are a bit tricky into 2 lists of 10 words and focus on them for the week using the activities below. And/or: A Moment in Time Use your experience while walking or biking during lockdown to create a Moment in Time.  Focus is on adding detail. Lockdown I heard …….. I saw….. I felt….. I wondered ….. Remember you can use two I heard or two I wondered etc and lines can be in any order although I wondered is a good way to end.
Be Creative: Use Paper Towels and felt pen to great amazing designs using dots – a great calming activity.	Exercise: Continue working on Silone’s Challenge. And/or: Go to the Jump Jam link and do Who let the dogs out?  That is a real heart racer.  Give it everything!
		Break each of your words into sound boxes
		a	b	ou	t
		Write your words out – vowels in red and consonants in blue.				Try and use all your words in 1 – 2 sentences that make some sort of sense.
		How many times can you write your words in one minute?				Write your words in a pyramid a ab abo abou about
		Create a word find with your words for someone else to solve.				Create a secret code to spell out your words. e.g., A = 1, B = 2