​I hope you had a lovely long Easter weekend!
From Wednesday this week it marks the beginning of Term 2.
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An email will be sent to all Y0-6 families with information relevant to the whole junior school. We understand this is a very unusual time and difficult for some. Please do not feel pressured if it is too much, but do let me know if there is anyway I can help.

In this post I have provided some more specific activities and learning you can do this week with your child. Remember to use the At Home Learning website to help you with ideas and teaching tips to put these things into practice.

The timetable below is based off what was sent in the Y0-6 email with a few extra ideas in regards to developmental play. Please note this is a suggested timetable and will be helpful for some families to maintain routine. But you do not need to stick to it if doing things in a different order or time works better for you! We have suggested half hour blocks for most activities. If your child is interested and wanting to do more - that is totally fine too!

I have given a range of developmental ideas and activities at the end, as well as activities that link in with our letter of the week, don't feel like you have to do all (or any) of them!!

Devotions

Maths
Due to the short week I have given 3 days of Maths activities.

1. Sorting *use your washing or a selection of clothing or even pairs of socks as a prop for this. *sort clothing based on differences/similarities - length, size, thickness etc. Talk about the things that are the same and the things that are different. *odd one out -using objects around the house make groups of objects with one item that doesn't fit in the group - get your child to sort them. Or get a large collection of different things around the house, ask your child to sort them into groups, get them to tell you what is the same about each group, it may be a colour, a shape, what it is made out of etc *you could also choose to do some follow up worksheets based around the odd one out.

2. Teen Numbers *talk about teen numbers, what numbers are 'teen numbers' practice writing them. ​*make a teen number book by either downloading and printing the worksheets below, or using these as inspiration and creating your own on paper. (This may take some time!) Teen Number Book File Size: 2878 kb File Type: pdf Download File

3. Subtraction *take away 1 song *using small toys or blocks use 'stories' to tell taking away/subtracting sentences. E.g. I made a tower with 7 blocks, but 3 blocks fell off, how many do I have left? The children can then use the blocks or Numicon shapes to solve the problem. Then talk about the number sentence that represents (7-3=4), repeat this with lots of different questions. *continue to practice subtracting sentences, getting your child to also write down the numbers. You could use the worksheets below, or make up your own questions. Subtracting Sentences File Size: 224 kb File Type: pdf Download File

Phonics & Spelling

Please note that each of this week's sounds are diagraphs (two letters that work together to make one sound). Focus on one new sound a day - My name is ... (letter name - ch, sh, th) - My sound is ... (letter sound) Come up with words starting with that sound Listen to the song - link picture to sound and action ​(choo choo train, shhhh quiet, tongues out cheeky clowns) Practice writing the letter correctly Extra: make a collage/picture page about that sound

Intro Worksheets File Size: 1826 kb File Type: pdf Download File Extention Worksheets (Noah & Daniel) File Size: 507 kb File Type: pdf Download File

​When learning a new word (please note some words will be known already): Sound out the word (example of how we do this in class) Say the word in a sentence Practice writing the word Try writing the sentence they came up with and drawing a picture to go with it.

Reading

Writing

Oral Language
*find something at home beginning with the letter Gg. Send a short video sharing your news (by Thursday) with the class and Mrs Coe will post them on the blog on Friday.

Developmental

Colour, Cut, Paste - Gorilla Make Green Gloop (cornflour, water and food colouring) Create Your own game Make gingerbread playdough Make a collage using newspapers, magazine, old cards etc of pictures starting with the letter g. (r of items that are green)

Colour Cut Paste - Gorilla File Size: 16 kb File Type: gif Download File Board Game Template File Size: 29 kb File Type: jpg Download File

Letter of the Week 'Gg' - Activities

Gg Crown File Size: 313 kb File Type: pdf Download File Gate - Directed Drawing File Size: 41 kb File Type: pdf Download File Gumball Letter Find File Size: 2024 kb File Type: pdf Download File Gg Maze File Size: 617 kb File Type: pdf Download File Sight Words - go, get File Size: 1022 kb File Type: pdf Download File Initial Sounds File Size: 699 kb File Type: pdf Download File Gorilla & Giraffe Poem File Size: 230 kb File Type: pdf Download File

Psalm 145:9

Psalm 105:4

Our second butterfly hatched on Thursday after school - Mrs Coe arrived to school to an empty cacoon not knowing when it had hatched or where it had gone. However once the bell rang we soon found it - sitting on the wall next to the mat! It then went on to have an adventure climbing up the beanstalk. 

Devotions

Letter and sounds of the Week:

This week we started our class 'letter of the week'. This letter will be referred to throughout the week during writing, reading, poetry, news and wherever else it fits into our day! For news this week we had people sharing about areoplanes, apes, animals and April! We also came up with an AMAZING collection of words beginning with the letter a in our alphabet book.

This week room 1 has had lots of fun with developmental, patterns, and watching our beans begin to grow. Here are a selection of photos from through the week.

Art

Rainbows have been al over the show this week...
*Joseph and his multicoloured coat
*learning the colours in Māori
*songs in devotions
*and of course all around our classroom!!

God looked at what he had done.
All of it was very good.
​Genesis 1:31a

This morning in devotions we read from Psalm 57:8-10 (CEV)
I feel wide awake! I will wake up my harp and wake up the sun. I will praise you, Lord, for everyone to hear, and I will sing hymns to you in every nation. Your love reaches higher than the heavens; your loyalty extends beyond the clouds.
We talked about how this person was so excited to praise and worship God because his love is so great! We responded in praise with the song Dancing Feet. Then before writing time listened to a woman play some music on the harp and wrote about what it sounded like or what we saw.

​God's love reaches higher than the heavens.
(Psalm 57:10a)