Online learning ideas week 2

Hi everyone.

Are you looking for more ideas of learning activities you can do at home?  Check out some of the ideas below. Remember students can continue working on Matific, Sunshine Online, Sunshine Classics and Literacy Planet too.  We would love to see photos of any of the ideas you try or you might like to bring them along to share when we “Zoom in” together.

Alphabet Hunt

Hide flashcards around the house, and when your child finds one, they must say what the letter is (you could also do this with your child’s sight words).

Parachute Game

Get a flat sheet and fill the centre with ping pong balls or small stuffed animals. See how high you can toss them.  

Washing machine- place some items of clothing on the parachute. Children hold the sheet & listen carefully to instructions such as faster, slower, change direction, backwards… After the clothes have been ‘washed’ the children have to ‘tumble dry’ them. This is done by encouraging them to softly bounce clothes up & down.

Number writing

Print out a calendar and write the same numbers in each square.

Alphabet/Word Game- Pick up the rubbish!

Write down letters or basic words children know on separate pieces of paper. Scrunch up each piece and ‘litter ‘ the floor. Get them to use kitchen tongs to pick up the ‘rubbish’, opening and saying each word or letter name/sound when they pick up each piece. If they get it correct, place it in their bin. Maybe change it by putting on a  timer and seeing if they can better their personal times.

‘I Spy’

With newspapers/ junk mail. Choose a letter and children have to search for it and circle with a crayon or pen. You could make the sound of the letter and they have to identify the sound and find it on the page.

Shape Hunt

Call out names of shapes, ask your child to find an object around the house that has the same shape. To challenge them, put on a timer (eg. 20 seconds to find the object) or get children to race each other.

Toilet roll rocket

Make a rocket out of 2 toilet rolls.  Draw some windows and your face looking out of  the rocket. 

    

Sock Puppet

Find an old or odd sock that you do not need to wear anymore.  Give the top part of it a face. You could sew buttons on for eyes/nose, scrap bits of material for the mouth and hair, or you can use wool/string for hair - the choices of materials are endless - use your imagination. If you want to keep it very simple, you could draw the face on your sock. You could even add arms, legs and clothes. Put it on your hand/arm, and see how it looks. NOW………you can talk and sing to your puppet, read a story to your puppet, count to your puppet…………………MAYBE your puppet can talk, sing, read, and count to you?

Family Interviews

Interview people in your family about their school life.  Use something as your microphone - a hairbrush works well :)

• Ask questions like:
• What did mat time look like?
• Did you sit at a table or a desk? 
• Did you sit with others?
• Where did the teacher teach from? 
• Were your lessons on a board or from a book?
• What did you find tricky at school?
• What was your favourite subject at school and why?
• What did you do at break times?

 Something to make together

Flashlight

Turn off all the lights in your room and read a book with a flashlight.  Use the flashlight to draw letters on the walls. Ask mum or dad to draw a letter and see if you can guess what it is.

Number reading

Go for a walk around your street with your parents.  Read the numbers on each letterbox. Guess what the next number might be.

House Hunt

Find one thing in your house for every letter of the alphabet. Put a note on them with the letter e.g. M for microwave, B for bed, L for Letterbox. Make your own house alphabet using pictures of the items.

Scavenger Hunt

When you go outside in your own garden or walking with your family you can use this template or make up your own to help you hunt for lots of different things in the environment.  You will not find a squirrel because they don’t live here but maybe you will see a tree, a bird or an insect that is native to New Zealand. How many things can you find? Remember to be gentle with living creatures and leave them in their own homes.

        

Colours In Nature

Go on a treasure hunt to find as many different coloured things as you can in your backyard.  Next on a piece of paper sort them into groups of the same colour.  

How many different colours have you found? 

What colour is most of the things you have found?  

What is a colour you have not found yet?

Using scrap paper and glue make one of these with your colours. 

A crown a pattern

 an insect or your very own masterpiece.

Use Water Wisely     

Look around your house and draw the different ways you use water.

For example, washing clothes, washing ourselves, watering the garden….

Watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl0YiZjTqpw

We have not had a lot of rain in Auckland over Summer, so we need to save our water supply.

Make a sign with words and pictures to remind your family to use water wisely.

Here are some words to help you make your sign.

Use water wisely.         Don’t waste water. Turn off the tap.          

Have a short shower.   

Remember though it is still important and O.K to use water to wash your hands properly.

Sorting Out Waste

Use the poster to help you find things in your house that you can recycle.

Some plastic can be made into new things by being recycled.

Look at plastic containers and bottles to find the number in a triangle.  These things can be recycled.

How many things have you found that can be recycled?

Write:    I found ____ things that can be recycled.

What numbers did you find on the plastic bottles and containers?

Write:  I found these numbers ____________________________.

Draw the things you have found that can be recycled.   

Make sure your family puts them in the recycling bin for collection.

COVID - 19 Time Capsule

This would be a special keepsake for you and your family.  Great to print off and complete, and if no printer then you could copy it. 

Click on the link below:

PAGES BY LONG CREATIONS

Patterns

Can you make a pattern using things from your home?

Try using pegs or socks or blocks or something else.

Pegs - red, red, blue, red, red, blue, red, red...  What comes next?
Can you make a different peg pattern?

Socks - Big sock, big sock, little sock, little sock, big sock... What comes next?

Can you make a different sock pattern?

Can somebody else add to your patterns?

Look around you now, can you spy some patterns from where you are sitting?