Term 2 Week 1

Good morning, boys and girls. Taina, well done on the kind comments you have been making on the Seesaw posts, and well done all of you who are posting. It's so great to see you keeping up our connections. How inspiring is Captain Tom who challenged himself to walk 100 laps of his front yard before he turned 100 years old! Can you find out how much he raised for the National Health Service in England? Next week, I will be changing the activities on this page, so, if you can, please get these ones finished today. Click on Activities on Seesaw, and do the activities that are there.
Click here to read a story about an Easter Egg hunt, then write your own story about an Easter Egg hunt.
Do the Time tasks in Study Ladder and Mathletics.
The Kiwi Kids News Quiz is on the website today. It is a super quiz and it is on Kahoot. You will need the user name and password which is on your Home School Learning page in your Writing Folder on Drive.
Have you entered the Treasure Hunt on Kiwi Kids News yet?
Busy, Busy, Busy! Look what you have been doing! Ella has been making a 3-dimensional castle, Lewis has been doing an online puzzle, Davey got 100% for his quiz after reading on Epic, Ava baked a banana cake, Chloe baked a unicorn cake, practised xtramath, Austin and Brooklin made a movie of what they have been doing - with music, as well! Amelia solved one of the puzzles, Stella is still thinking about how to solve the puzzles, Riley has solved 2 puzzles, (although, Riley, have another go at the 3rd one), Davey has read 2 articles from Kiwi Kids News, Taina has been working on his coding skills, Kaden tried to get into Epic - sorry, Kaden. I have updated the code on your Home School Learning page. Fletcher has solved the owl and penguin puzzle, and did some learning on Prodigy, Ella, Ruby and Chloe 'Zoomed', and Ava is going to join them today. Do any others of you want to join in the Class Catch-Up on Zoom? Email me to let me know. Chloe, I'll work with you on time.

  

Wow! Look at what Lewis has been doing, and look at Brooklin's fantastic artwork.   

Fletcher did the beautiful colourful art, Chloe and Ella are writing fun stories about an Easter Egg Hunt, Chloe told us about Easter at her place and Ella, Ruby and Chloe are going to have a go at Zoom today. The link has been emailed to them. If it works well, I will set up a time again tomorrow for some more of you. Chloe told us about Easter at her place, and she and Davey have solved the puzzles and written their preference for 'Chair or Floor'. Could the rest of you please click 'Activities' on Seesaw and do the Activities I have set for you there. Brooklin has finished his half pipe. We might see some photos of him riding it soon. Most of you visited this page yesterday, and I am looking forward to the rest of you visiting this page today or tomorrow. Some of you worked on Studyladder and Mathletics yesterday. Well done. Yesterday. I watched the education programmes on TV2+1. The programme  I liked best was Mythbuster Junior, where 3 kids investigated whether the bottom block in a Jenga game could be removed without the whole tower collapsing, and could a small domino cause a car to be squashed. Did you watch any of it? What was your favourite?

Visit this page every day. It will be updated every day, so you will need to refresh the page each day, to ensure that you see the updated version.
If you need to sort something out with me, email me. My email address is on the Home School Learning page in your Writing Folder on Drive.
Remember to keep posting on Seesaw so that we can all see what you are doing and celebrate this with you.

Welcome back for Term 2. It is strange to be saying 'welcome back', because 'back' is in our homes.
This is Week 1 of the 2nd term. Some things on this page will be updated during the week; others will remain as they can be done during the week in your chosen time.

Begin each day with prayer, if you haven't prayed already. Make sure you are dressed, washed, have eaten breakfast, cleaned your teeth and done your morning chores to help your family.
OR can you remember this dance from 2018?
Footsteps Dance Teacher Lesson 1 from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

Easter Sunday is the day we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus. Jesus rose from the dead. He rose to show us that death is not the end. It is a time for us to be reunited with God, our Creator.

Mass on Easter Sunday this year, was very different. Instead of joining together with others to smile and wish everyone Happy Easter, we said Happy Easter to each other through a device. Father Trevor and Bishop Steve both live-streamed the Easter Mass so that we could all pray the Mass with them.
Resurrection Art

Use white paper strips for the Crosses. Attach them lightly on the paper. Paint the paper. Take off the paper strips. The white Cross shapes stand out amongst the colours you painted.

What was the best thing about Easter 2020 for you? OR What was the best thing about the holidays for you? Click on Activities in Seesaw to tell us about the best thing.

Spelling City - List 10 of these words in Spelling City (List name - Wednesday, 15th April) Use them each day in a spelling city game. - Easter, Resurrection, Jesus, Saviour, rose, death, died, sacrifice, autumn, cross, crosses, Calvary, soldiers, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, crucifixion, fasting, egg, symbol, Christian, season, tradition, custom, chocolate, decorate.
Open Epic and read about Easter traditions. Which tradition do you love the most? Why? Which tradition surprised you most? Why? Which tradition would you like your family to follow? Why? What tradition does your family follow at Easter time? Click on Activities in Seesaw and, using the pages i the book as a guide, tell us about one of your family's Easter traditions. Make sure it is easy for us to read because it makes sense, the spelling is correct, and the fullstops are in the right places.

Home Learning TV Schedule - TV2 + 1
8.50 - 9.15am Nathan Wallis - Parent Place
9.15 - 9.25 Early Learners
9.25 - 9.35 Junior Health
9.35 - 9.50 Junior Literacy
9.50 - 10am Maia the Brave
10am - 10.20 Junior Te Reo
10.20 - 10.25 Kai Five
10.25 - 10.50 Nanogirls and the Imaginaughts
10.50 - 11.05 Junior Project
11.05 - 11.55 Mythbusters Junior
11.55 - 12.05 Middle Literacy and Language
12.05 - 12.20 Middle Maths
12.20 - 12.45 Let's Get Inventing
12.45 - 12.55 Parenting - Nathan Wallis
12.55 - 1.10 Aotearoa History
1.10 - 1.35 Senior Literacy
1.35 - 2pm Senior Health
2pm - 2.25 Senior Te Reo
2.25 - 2.45 Senior Project
2.45 - 3pm Daily Diary

TV3 also has a very good programme on at 11.30am. It is called Amped.

Practise xtra math every day.

There are some puzzles on the Home School page in your Writing Folder on your Drive. Please type your name and date at the top of the page to let me know you have read that page.

Visit Kiwi Kids News. Read an article, then open up the Slideshow you have already started in your Reading Folder, called Reading Response. Add a slide for today's response. Watch the Best of Danny MacAskill Bike Trials. What did you find out about Scott McLaughlin? What street in the world is the steepest, and where is it? What does it mean? - Elephants Hear With Their Feet? Where in NZ was the whale shark spotted?

Enter the Kiwi Kids News Treasure Hunt. Your task is to read through our articles, find the Kiwi Kids News Robot and record the title of the articles for that day. There are 2 each day. Record the titles on the form in Kiwi Kids News website. Entries are limited to one entry per person per day. Prizes will be given out on Friday.

Who is running a writing competition, and when will it close? What is the first prize for Year 5s? Don't be in a rush to finish your writing and enter it into the competition. The winners will be the writers who kept going back to their writing and making it better, and entering it close to the end.

Listen here to David Walliams reading a story from his new book, The World's Worst Children 3.


Wonderopolis - Read here, about today's wonder.

 
I am setting up some Maths for you to do this week, based on Time. There are some tasks for you to do in Study Ladder. Your user name and password are on the Home School page in your Writing Folder in your Drive. There are also some tasks for you to do on Mathletics. If you need your Mathletics password, email me. My email address is on the Home School page in your Writing Folder. The Time tab at the top of this page has some learning on it, as well.

 Science in a Van daily at 12.45

Storyathon - Writing Legends
Visit Writing Legends and choose one of the prompts to write about. After you have chosen one and written it, edit it - Click on Vocabulary to see a set of suggested better words. Read through your writing. Does it make sense? Did you miss out a word? Have you shown the readers where to pause - fullstops and commas? Can your readers read it easily because you have spent time making sure that all the words are spelt correctly? Revisit it the next day, to see my comments. When will it be ready to upload to Seesaw?

Go into Kahoot and join in the Kahoot of the Week. You can play against other people from around the world. Watch video clips - Discover Storyboarding From a Lead Pixar Artist who worked on the movie, Onward. then answer the questions. You don't have to sign in.

Optional - Miss Conception is running a film competition. Read the details for making a 10 minute film for this competition at this link. You do need parent permission to register for this competition.



Extra
Kiwi Kids News
Click on the video that shows a girl talking. She is telling you what to do today if you want to follow the Kiwi Kids Programme. Read the rest of the page. Today, you can read a play, and put it on with your family if they are old enough, write a radio advertisement and play maths games - shapes, area, perimeter and angles.