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Look at the links provided on the School Blogs. The ideas and links below will be updated regularly.
| 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 |
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