Week 4 Term 1 Monday 1st March - Friday 5th March - Owairoa Primary School
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week 4 Term 1 Year 3 Monday 1st March – Friday 5th March
Distance Learning Guidelines for Whanau
Year 3, Week 4
Dear Parents,
As teachers we appreciate your concerns as to how the recent coronavirus
outbreak might impact schools and your child’s learning, so we will continue to provide you
with some ideas to help you continue your child’s education during school closures.
We also are aware that keeping children engaged in their learning whilst at home
is not easy and your children may be feeling anxious or unsure at this time. We
have prepared activities for your child that can be completed both independently
and with adult support. Students may complete as many or as few of the
suggested activities within a week of learning as is appropriate for them.
We appreciate your continued support during this time.
Reading
Reading
Listen to your child read each day - ask questions about what might happen next or to recount what they have read
Read the Junior Journal article called “The Bird of the Year” by Iona McNaughton
Answer the comprehension questions and activities
Watch a video of the Conservationists in action, as they look for Kokako’s, click here
Have a go and complete your own survey, click here
Complete the Takehe quiz, click here
Play a fun game called “Whio Bootcamp Challenge”, click here
Home Reading Activities Websites:
Listed below are some suggestions to help facilitate discussion and understanding after reading.
https://www.getepic.com/
Listen to your child read each day - ask questions about what might happen next or to
summarise the story in their own words https://storytime.rnz.co.nz/
Read with your child and discuss the characters in the story
Ask your child to retell the main events of the story in order
Complete a chart or poster of new words learnt
Find the definition of new vocabulary
Writing
Creative Writing
1. Thinking about the seasons and days. Take some time to write about your favourite time
of day.
Look through the Favourite Time of Day pictures
Talk about what time of the day you like the most and why
Explain how it makes you feel, what do you think about, what do you notice at that
time of the day
Read through some of the exemplars
Now, write your own story about your favourite time of day – send a copy or
picture to your teacher, we would love to read your story!
2. Using the picture planner here, take some time to talk about the zebra and add
your ideas to the planner.
Write a paragraph to describe the zebra in detail
Write a second paragraph to explain what the zebra is doing and thinking.
Have some fun with this paragraph. Think about what the zebra is smiling at,
why his teeth are not very clean, what he might be saying and come up with
some ideas on who he is with. (I think he looks a bit mischievous!)
Spelling
Click on the link to access your spelling words.
Book F Unit 2 – click here Book 1 U nit 2 – click here Book 2 Unit 2 – click here Book 3 Unit 2 – click here
Choose one spelling activity from the list below to complete each day.
Write 5 – 10 words into sentences
Write the definition for 5 - 10 of your words
Write as many words as you can using letters from one word. Do this
for 3 of your words
Break 5 - 10 of your words into syllables. e.g.su/per/mar/ket
Finding rhyming words to go with 2-5 of your words
Put list words into alphabetical order
Arts
Create a Mini Zen Garden! Materials:
Fill a serving tray or paper plate with
A small tray or paper plate with sides
sand from the beach
Paint some rocks from your garden using Sand from a trip to the beach
a variety of sizes Small rocks from your garden
Raked the sand around them using a small A fork (this function as the miniature rake)
fork
Maths
Number Bonds
Click here to test your knowledge of subtraction number bonds.
B Basic Facts
G Go to Prototec and practise your basic facts. Write different basic facts including addition,
Websites
subtraction, multiplication, or division on cards/paper. Write the question on one side and the Subtraction Grids Click here
answer on the other. Now practice reading and answering these questions as quickly as possible. Hit the button facts Click here
Can you time yourself? Can you beat your time? Get a member of your family to test you and
when you cannot get any faster, challenge yourself with harder questions.
Ordering numbers Click here
3d shape names Click here
Problem Solving Basic Facts https://maths.prototec.co.nz/
Click here to test your problem-solving skills.
Number Knowledge
Learn the number of 10s in 3-digit numbers – 532 = 53 tens
1000
Order numbers up to
103 609 519 701 909
Recall double and halves facts
Click here for the doubles and halves game. You will need a family member to play this game with.
ISTEAM Your challenge this week is to plan, design and build a
simple maze for a marble to roll through.
Gather materials from around your house to create a maze (e.g muesli bar boxes,
toilet tubes, straws, popsicle sticks, Lego).
You must design and draw a draft of your maze first. On your plan, you
need to include…
o A beginning and an end
o Labels showing what materials you plan to use for the different
parts of your maze
Points to remember
o Make sure the marble will travel through the maze
o Keep the surface flat
o Most of the lines in your maze will be straight
o You can add as many pathways or dead ends as you want
Take a photo of your draft and finished product. Write down any
challenges you have encountered while making your maze.
Reflect on the questions below …
o What did you find tricky?
o What would you change next time and why?
o Did you follow your plan layout? Why/why not?
Science
How do plants absorb water?
Understanding how a plant’s root system work:
For this activity, children will create their plant stems and root systems using
absorbent paper towels Click here.
o Roll three paper towels and tape the middle of each one
o Keep one paper towel whole (taproot), cut another in strips (fibrous
roots), and make one with no cuts/roots
o Place taproot and fibrous roots in cups
o Fill a cup with rice
o Fill the third cup with rice and press stem with no roots slicing into the
rice
o Pour coloured water evenly into the three cups
o Observe how the coloured water travels up the ‘stems’ of the taproot
and fibrous roots
o Ask your child how do they compare to the stem with no roots?
Extension: Answer these questions related to parts of a plant - Click here.
Maori
Flax was the most important plant to Māori in New Zealand. Māori used flax
to make clothes (kakahu), plates (pereti), mats (Whāriki), baskets (kete), and
fishing lines (hī ika) just to name a few. Floats and rafts were made of
Have a go at making your own flax inspired artwork.
bundles of dried flower stalks. Follow the link for instructions.
Step by step paper weaving instructions
Translation box
To help with pronunciation you can use the
Maori Dictionary
English Maori
Flax Harakeke
Plant Whakato
Clothes Kakahu
Plates Pereti
Mats Whāriki
Basket Kete
Fishing line hī ika
The teachers would love to see a picture of you working
hard on your paper weaving or the finished piece of work.
Here are a few simple games you can play with your
Health and P.E family and have fun!
You will need: a skipping rope, string or pieces of
fabric
How to play Across the line: Create a range of lines on
the floor or in the garden. You can choose to gallop,
skip, hop or jump
but you must get over the lines without touching them.
Traffic Lights
Play this game with your family. Ask one person to be the traffic conductor. The conductor must say
‘red light’ or ‘green light.’ Gallop forwards or around the space when the conductor says ‘green light.’
If the traffic conductor says ‘red light’ then you must stop. Swap positions and play the game again.
Values Kindness is being friendly, generous, and considerate to others
and yourself. This is an important value that can be shown in
many ways.
Click here, read the different acts of kindness, and decide which
act of kindness you will show to others each day.Distance learning is an innovative type of learning designed to
best meet the needs of your child at this time. We understand
that achieving some of the activities may be difficult-just do
your best! Remember learning can be fun too :)
Should you have any queries or concerns regarding your
child’s learning, please contact their classroom teacher via
email Monday to Friday between the hours 9 am and 3.00
pm. It is expected that you will receive a reply within a 24-
hour time frame.
Happy Learning,
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