Ratu 1 Maehe

 Morena and a special welcome to our Tuatahi Superheroes who are at home this week.

We are missing you at school and hope you are all doing okay.

Here is some learning for you to do at home.

Letter of the Day

   

If you click on the link below, you will be able to listen to the NZ phonics song. It will help you  learn that each letter has a name and a sound.

Word of the Week

Here is our new word for this week. Can you ask someone in your whanau to read it with you.

How many letters can you count in this word?

Here are some sentences with the word come. Ask someone in your family to read them with you. Can you point to the word come?

Maths

Practise counting forwards to 10

0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10

Practise counting backwards from 10

10    9    8    7    6    5    4    3    2    1   0

Can you say what number will come next?

4      5   ____

  3      4  ____   

    6    7    ____   

 7    8   _____ 

You can practise your counting by singing along to this song:

 We hope you all have a lovely day-kia pai to ra.

We hope to see you all back soon!

Ka Kite

Mane 28th Pepuere

 

Paraire 25th Pepuere

 Kia Ora everyone

We have made it to the end of a very different week!

 Thank you for your support and encouragement with our learning from home activities.

We were super excited to get started on our portrait paintings this week. Although not everyone has had a chance to do their painting yet, we wanted to share the wonderful art work done so far.

We had our first visit to our school library this afternoon-what a lovely way to end the week!

Have a lovely weekend and take care out there.

Ka Kite

Rāpare 24th Pepuere

Morena Tuatahi Superheros

Kei te pehea koutou katoa-how are you all?

Here are some learning activities you may like to do at home today. 

We are looking forward to seeing you all back very soon! 

Phonics

Have a look at the video below to see how to form the letter h-remember to start at the top of the line and go down first.

      

How many pictures can you find that begin with the letter h?

Word of the week

Can you read the word look in these sentences below?

Can you spot the word look on the sheet below?

Reading

Today's story is called 'Little Penguin Learns to Swim'.

I wonder who helps Little Penguin?

 You might like to draw a picture of Little Penguin?

Maths

Sing along to this counting song by clicking on the link below.

We are going to do some more work on counting how many.

Once you have finished counting, you can practise writing the number. The number line below can help you.

Happy counting!

Kia pai to ra-have a good day.

Ka Kite Tuatahi

Rāhoroi 23rd Pepuere

Morena Tuatahi Superheroes

Kei te pehea koutou katoa-how are you all?

Here is some more learning for today-have fun!

Phonics

Our letter today is Tt. Remember we are learning that letters have a name and a sound.

    

How many pictures can you find that begin with the letter t?

Word of the week

Here is our word of the week.

Read these sentences with someone in your whanau. Can you point to the word look?

Have a look at the slide below.  How many times is the word look written?

Reading

Today we have a fun story about dinosaurs to listen to. It is called 'Dinosaur Adventure'

Maths

Let's begin by counting to 20 with the singing walrus-click on the picture below!

We are learning to recognise numbers to 10.

Practise counting forwards and backwards using this number line.

Can you say what the missing numbers are on the sheets below? You may like to have a go at writing them down.

Let's finish our maths by doing some exercise to the shape song below.

Kia pai to ra-have a nice day,

Ka Kite Tuatahi

Rātū 22nd Pepuere

 Morena Tuatahi

Kei te pehea koutou katoa-how are you all?

Mrs Waddington and I are still at home waiting for our Covid results, and we know many of you are too! We hope you are all doing ok.

Here is some more learning that you may like to do at home today.

Phonics

Here is a new letter for today. This is a letter we learnt last week in class. 

Remember every letter has a name and a sound.

Now you are ready to have a go at writing the letter o. It is important to begin your o by going anticlockwise first!

    

Word of the week   

Practise reading our word of the week 

Reading 

      We hope you enjoy listening to today's story.

Here are two different versions of the same story to listen to. I wonder which one you will like the best.

     Maths

Here is a fun song to practise counting to 20

Now it's time to practise some counting.

Yesterday you counted squares, and today you are going to count rectangles. Can you remember what is different between a square and a rectangle?

Look at the picture below to help you.

Once you have counted the rectangles, see if you can write the number.

Here is a number line to help you find the number you need.

Watch this short video about squares and rectangles

Here is a very fast song about rectangles-how many rectangular shapes can you recognise?

Kia pai to ra-have a nice day.

Ka Kite Tuatahi

Joseph has been busy....

 Joseph has been on an alphabet hunt in his house and found lots of things that begin the letter Aa

Great detective work Joseph, thank you for sharing your learning with us.

Mane 21st Pepuere

 Morena Tuatahi Superheroes

Kei te pehea koutou katoa-how are you all?

Mrs Waddington, Lovely Lau and myself were thinking of you all on Saturday as we lined up for our Covid test also.

Here is some learning that you may like to do at home today.

Phonics

Here is today's letter. Remember you are learning the letter name and sound. Some of you might remember this letter from our phonics work in class last week.

    

Have a look at the I spy sheet below.

How many pictures can you see that begin with the letter a?

Word of the week

Here is our new word for this week.

Can you find the word look in the sentences below?

You might like to have a go at reading these sentences with someone in your whanau.

Reading

Our story today is 'The Gruffalo'

Click below to listen to the story-we hope you enjoy it.

Maths

Keep practising counting forwards to 10. When you can do that, see if you can count backwards.

Counting forwards 

0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10

Counting backwards

10    9    8    7    6    5    4    3   2  1  0

Can you count how many squares are in each picture.

Once you have finished counting, have a go at practising your number formation by writing each number down.

You can check this chart below to see how to form your numbers. The red dot shows you where to begin on the line.

We hope you have a great day at home, and we are excited to see you all again once you have received your negative test results.

Kia pai te ra-have a nice day,

Ka Kite Tuatahi.