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Look at the links provided on the School Blogs. The ideas and links below will be updated regularly.
TVNZ Education Channel – Home Learning TV
Home Learning | Papa Kāinga TV is free to air TVNZ on Demand, as well as on Sky Channel 502 and Vodafone TV.
Some lessons are also available on TVNZ OnDemand from the Home Learning TV landing page.
There’s an email address for learners and their whānau to give feedback – [email protected] – and learners can text free to 5811 to interact with the teachers and presenters.
| 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) |
| Do some family exercises together | Studyladder |
| Write letters, emails to family and friends | Science in a van (Live on YouTube each day at 12.45 pm) |
| Construct using lego, outdoor materials, construction blocks | Prototec Basic Facts Maths Practice |
| Make huts |
Night Zookeeper (Writing) |
| 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 (LZ1 has logins) |
| 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) | |
| Brett Fairweather – Jump Jam | |
| Brainzy – Education | |
| Footsteps Dance – Day 1 – Blame it on the boogie, Black or White | |
| Kids Art Works | |
| Auckland Museum at Home
Are you a budding marine biologist? |
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| Vocabulary Spelling City
VocabularySpellingCity is offering free access for the next 3 months to help students, parents and teachers during these challenging times, with the code VSCFree90 |
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| Math Month – new game each week | |
| 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 | |
| Kiwi Kids News – Short Story competition $$$
Entries open on 15th April and close on 1st May. |
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| Kiwi Kids News – Treasure Hunt
Starts Tuesday 14th April |
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| Sparklers – at Home | |
| Double digit array multiplication – game | |
| MOTAT fun | |
| Weekly Education resources – seniors | |
| 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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