Great work Archie (for passing stage 2/3 of his MMM) and Priscilla (for all of her hard work particularly in her reading progress).   Some super counting, number matching and tens frames using fine motor skills this morning. Creative play and conversations in Room 1 this afternoon when we got out the dress ups, having a mixture of animals, superheroes, doctors, firefighters, police and fancy dress!!
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Another use for jellybeans this week could be with maths activities you are doing. Instead of using toys or even Numicon shapes you could use things like jellybeans, counters, pasta, buttons (anything you have accessible to you at home.)
Choose a cookie recipe that usually uses cookie cutters (I made shortbread due the ingredients I did/didn’t have at home but it wasn’t really my first choice!) then use a bread knife to make cookies in the shape of Numicon shapes. Younger children could be focusing on 1-1 counting or colour matching in putting pebbles or mnms on top and older children could focus on measuring ingredients and also the size of the cookies. But really focus on having fun together as a family.
We’d love to see your photos throughout the week if you give it a go! I hope you had a lovely long Easter weekend! |
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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!) 
| 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.
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Please note from your physical learning pack that was sent home before lockdown the Teen Number Game activity also links in with this weeks learning. Some of the practice worksheets also sent home that fit well this week are pages 18, 23 and 24, also any of the 'after' activities on pages 26, 27 and 29.
Phonics & Spelling
Phonics
| Please note that each of this week's sounds are diagraphs (two letters that work together to make one sound).
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Spelling - focus on the bold words below this week:
us, can, get | went, top, sun |
| When learning a new word (please note some words will be known already):
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Reading
Continue reading the readers sent home with your child and learning their sight words with a variety of interactive and play-based activities. Below are additional books on Epic! that fit in with this week's letter theme, I shared these with your child's account on Saturday.
*Read the "Gg" book
*Read the story - Can I have a pet Gorilla - Make the colour, cut & paste Gorilla from the developmental activities
*Listen to the story - Gertie Gorilla's Glorious Gift - Write a list of all the 'g' words you remember from the story.
*The Soccer Game
*Go, go, go
*What makes it go?
*Go left or right - Make a treasure hunt
*Toys that can go
*Go fire truck
*Read the "Gg" book
*Read the story - Can I have a pet Gorilla - Make the colour, cut & paste Gorilla from the developmental activities
*Listen to the story - Gertie Gorilla's Glorious Gift - Write a list of all the 'g' words you remember from the story.
*The Soccer Game
*Go, go, go
*What makes it go?
*Go left or right - Make a treasure hunt
*Toys that can go
*Go fire truck
Writing
Here are some writing ideas and sentence starters for this week. Aim to write one story each day.
Get your child to choose their favourite story, take a photo and send it to Mrs Coe.
*Watch the clip - Amazing Animals, Gorillas - write something amazing about a Gorilla
*Go, go, go…
*My gate…
*I got…
*Look at a picture of a goose, write something about what it looks like.
You could also base writing off something you have read, done or seen that day or during the week. Your child could also write about what they are going to share for news.
Get your child to choose their favourite story, take a photo and send it to Mrs Coe.
*Watch the clip - Amazing Animals, Gorillas - write something amazing about a Gorilla
*Go, go, go…
*My gate…
*I got…
*Look at a picture of a goose, write something about what it looks like.
You could also base writing off something you have read, done or seen that day or during the week. Your child could also write about what they are going to share for news.
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
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Letter of the Week 'Gg' - Activities
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Devotions
To start this term we are learning 'Who is God?' and 'Who is Jesus?' Last week we looked at God as King and this week continued out learning talking about God being caring. We talked about shepherds and how they look after sheep - and in the bible it talks about how God are the shepherd andwe are his sheep (Psalm 95:7). We learnt some fun songs this week and also are continuing to learn the days of creation from last week.vHere are the songs from this and last week:
| We are also learning a song called If God is... (sung to the tune of If you're happy and you know it) If God is the King make a crown If God is the King make a crown If God is the King and you want us all to know it If God is the King make a crown -This week we added the verse: If God cares for you give a hug! |
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. |
Phonics Sounds of the week:
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
On Friday we used washout photos to help us create self portraits using crayons. Our goal was to select the best colours to match our photo. Can you work out who is who?
We talked about the best order to do our pictures in, picking colours that were the closest to our hair and skin colours and carefully looking at the details on the picture we needed to colour. Room 1 did really well!!
 Good work Limba! |  |
 | Welcome to ACS Archie!! We hope you had a great first day on your birthday! |
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Using 1c coins to purchase items from a 'shop'. Using Numcion shape patterns to help us.
We also This week as the children settle into school life we are using Numicon in many fun, interactive and interesting ways to let them show what they remember and know.
Today the children had the challenge of ordering the foam shapes as quickly and quietly as they could with no teacher help - but everyone had to contribute and work together as a team.
The children also had a variety of tasks they could choose between to engage with the Numicon shapes and equipment.
| Room 1 maths children working together as a team to order the large foam shapes in the classroom. [Speed-up video]
| Damon and Heitor (above) working together to order the shapes to check they had found all 10 from in the sand. [Speed-up video] |
Trying to fill their base board with Numicon shapes (below). Finding different shapes to fill the gaps when a some shapes are taken away.
Sorting teddies by colour and counting how many then matching with a Numicon shape.
Room 1
Moemoeā:
Aroha, Mōhio, Manaaki, Pānga
Vision:
Love, Know, Serve, Impact
Aroha, Mōhio, Manaaki, Pānga
Vision:
Love, Know, Serve, Impact
Home communication
Ensure you check your child's home communication book each night and sign any notes. Also use this book to write any notes or information useful for me to know regarding your child, alternatively email me using the link below.
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