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BE KIND HAVE FUN DON’T STRESS TAKE BREAKS Look at the links provided on the School Blogs. The ideas and links below will be updated regularly. Home Learning TV can be accessed on demand here or via the TVNZ App on a device (mobile phone, smart tv or tablet).
| Ideas for Learning at Home. Try these activities with your children. | Other links that could be useful |
| Go for a nature walk | Support your child’s learning Years 1-6 PDF’s (Reading, Writing & Mathematics) |
| Take photos and write about them | Mathletics (email [email protected] for logins/passwords) Mathletics – Parent support pack |
| Do some family exercises together | Studyladder |
| Write letters, emails to family and friends | Science in a van |
| Auckland Museum | |
| Construct using lego, outdoor materials, construction blocks | Prototec Basic Facts Maths Practice |
| Make huts | Night Zookeeper (Writing) Free e-Book The Giraffes of Whispering Wood |
| Do some baking | Epic (Reading) |
| Plan the menu with the food available in the cupboard | KIWIKIDS NEWS |
| Board games, puzzles, play cards and build with blocks | Handwriting Tutorials |
| Read songs, waiata, poems and rhymes, have fun together. Sing them together. | Number of the Day |
| Draw | IXL – Maths & Literacy |
| Paint | Listen to Reading (Links) |
| Skype your friends and family | Writing Fun |
| Make some puppets – old socks, tubes of paper or card. Act out the story. | Art Activities |
| Write out recipes or instructions for other people to follow. | Audible Stories |
| Cut out letters from old magazines and newspapers to make messages | Vooks Storybooks brought to life |
| Make up a play, you could write the play down. Use puppets to give the performance to the family. | Khan Academy |
| Make your own advertising pamphlet – cut out and sort items to go on it. Make your own pretend money. | Coding – If you have forgotten or don’t have a login email [email protected] |
| Go on a treasure hunt – make a map with clues and see who can get to the treasure first. | Scratch Jr (Coding – Free iPad App) |
| Dance to music and sing, make up a dance sequence, can you copy each other? | Scratch (Laptop, chromebook, workstation) |
| Do timed activities. You hold the watch and count how many times they can bounce a ball in a minute. | Colouring and paper craft |
| Fold and cut paper dolls and other repeating patterns. | Make a puzzle online (e.g. you can use Essential Spelling words) |
| Hide something from each other and draw a map or hide several clues – can you follow the map or clues and find it? | Kids Should See this Video site with experiments and a range of videos on interesting topics |
| Collect the family birthdays and put in order – make a reminder calendar for the year. | National Geographic Kids Club |
| Make kites using a variety of shapes and materials. How high can it fly, how long can it fly for? | David Walliams is reading a story each day for children |
| Frog Hop Number Maze – printables (Juniors) | |
| 30 Day LEGO challenge | |
| Ocean Soap Foam | |
| Nano Girl Science Experiments | |
| Happy Hooligans Science Experiments for Kids | |
| About COVID – 19 for Kids | |
| Maths with Len’s Gems | |
| Fractions – models & word problems (seniors) | |
| Brainzy – Education | |
| Kids Art Works | |
| Vocabulary Spelling City Learning Activities & Games | |
| Where would a Kiwi make its home? | |
| LEARNZ virtual field trips | |
| Autumn Experience – Let’s go leaf hunting. | |
| Merlin’s Education Toolbox | |
| Kiwi Kids News – Level 3&4 (Yrs 5&6) Daily activities | |
| Kiwi Kids News – Bingo Board of awesomeness | |
| Sparklers – at Home | |
| Double digit array multiplication – game | |
| MOTAT fun | |
| The Olympic Ambassador Programme is online! | |
| 89 awesome activities from Independent Schools of Victoria. | |
| Night Zookeeper – write a letter to a Key Worker competition | |
| EPro8 Challenge electronics simulator | |
| Maths – Rapid recall | |
| Writing – Night Zookeeper’s free resources | |
| Fraction – free downloads | |
| Get ready to speed up those typing skills with this game titled Home Row Typing | |
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