Learning Post #1
Learning Post #1
Learning at Home
Being at home in self isolation may be a stressful time for all families so we don’t want becoming the “teacher” to add to your stress. Below are some simple ideas of what you can do to help your child continue learning while at home.
The most important thing is to keep it fun.
All our children are 5-7 years old and it is still the simple things that matter the most.
Here are some ideas of some things you can do with your child.
Basics
- learn to tie your shoe laces
- learn to follow a recipe (scones, muffins, pancakes)
- learn how to look after the house (cleaning, jobs - recycling, setting the table)
- build fine motor skills (drawing, cutting paper, crafts, art, chalk drawing)
- keep a journal of daily activities, thoughts and wins.
- stem challenges (building a tower, boat, building, bridge with items from around the house)
Oral Language
- talk with your children. Ask them questions about how they are feeling and what they think about stuff. Use the what, where, when, why and how questions to help them to extend their thinking and speech.
Spend time colouring in with your child, check that they are using the correct pencil grip.
Cutting out
- Spend lots of time cutting pictures out of magazines and creating collages which you can talk and write about if you want to. Create stories and books.
Playing Games
- teach simple card games like memory and snap. Play games like snakes and ladders with two dice so they have to add the numbers together.
Bake with your child and enjoy eating it!
Maths
We started our maths strand unit on patterns.
Please check this website out to continue this learning from home
https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/pattern-makers
Reading
Read to your child. Or look at online websites like https://www.storylineonline.net/ or http://www.scholastic.com/100BestReadAloudBooks/#logo that will read books to you for example storyline online where actors read the story. Listen with your child and when the story is finished discuss:
- What was the best bit? - Why
- Who were the characters?
- What happened first, next and last?
Keep practicing the alphabet, the name of the letter, the sound it makes and a word that starts with that sound.
Read to your child, have your child read to you. Let your child read to a teddy or favourite toy.
Websites:
www.studyladder.co.nz - Maths & English
www.topmarks.co.uk
Literacy
www.literacyshed.com
www.pobble365.com
www.scholastics.com
www.twinkl.co.nz - look for parents hub
www.storylineonline.com
Mindfulness
www.smilingmind.com
P.E
go noodle - youtube
cosmic kids - youtube
Please don’t make this stressful for yourself or your children. Just do what you can.
We would love to see the learning you are doing at home. Feel free to email them through.
If you have any questions, email them through.
Kate Hollings - hollingsk@southhornby.school.nz
Anna Courtney - courtneya@southhornby.school.nz
Megan Bayley - bayleym@southhornby.school.nz
Stay happy and healthy and most of all have lots of family fun!
Much love, Megan, Kate and Anna!
Learning at Home
Being at home in self isolation may be a stressful time for all families so we don’t want becoming the “teacher” to add to your stress. Below are some simple ideas of what you can do to help your child continue learning while at home.
The most important thing is to keep it fun.
All our children are 5-7 years old and it is still the simple things that matter the most.
Here are some ideas of some things you can do with your child.
Basics
- learn to tie your shoe laces
- learn to follow a recipe (scones, muffins, pancakes)
- learn how to look after the house (cleaning, jobs - recycling, setting the table)
- build fine motor skills (drawing, cutting paper, crafts, art, chalk drawing)
- keep a journal of daily activities, thoughts and wins.
- stem challenges (building a tower, boat, building, bridge with items from around the house)
Oral Language
- talk with your children. Ask them questions about how they are feeling and what they think about stuff. Use the what, where, when, why and how questions to help them to extend their thinking and speech.
Spend time colouring in with your child, check that they are using the correct pencil grip.
Cutting out
- Spend lots of time cutting pictures out of magazines and creating collages which you can talk and write about if you want to. Create stories and books.
Playing Games
- teach simple card games like memory and snap. Play games like snakes and ladders with two dice so they have to add the numbers together.
Bake with your child and enjoy eating it!
Maths
We started our maths strand unit on patterns.
Please check this website out to continue this learning from home
https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/pattern-makers
Reading
Read to your child. Or look at online websites like https://www.storylineonline.net/ or http://www.scholastic.com/100BestReadAloudBooks/#logo that will read books to you for example storyline online where actors read the story. Listen with your child and when the story is finished discuss:
- What was the best bit? - Why
- Who were the characters?
- What happened first, next and last?
Keep practicing the alphabet, the name of the letter, the sound it makes and a word that starts with that sound.
Read to your child, have your child read to you. Let your child read to a teddy or favourite toy.
Websites:
www.studyladder.co.nz - Maths & English
www.topmarks.co.uk
Literacy
www.literacyshed.com
www.pobble365.com
www.scholastics.com
www.twinkl.co.nz - look for parents hub
www.storylineonline.com
Mindfulness
www.smilingmind.com
P.E
go noodle - youtube
cosmic kids - youtube
Please don’t make this stressful for yourself or your children. Just do what you can.
We would love to see the learning you are doing at home. Feel free to email them through.
If you have any questions, email them through.
Kate Hollings - hollingsk@southhornby.school.nz
Anna Courtney - courtneya@southhornby.school.nz
Megan Bayley - bayleym@southhornby.school.nz
Stay happy and healthy and most of all have lots of family fun!
Much love, Megan, Kate and Anna!
Well - This looks like wonderful Home Learning. Pace yourself and I would be delighted to see or hear about some of the learning you have been doing at home over the next four weeks.
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Check out the slide show above in the post. This is where we upload any photos you have sent us ☺😀😍😍😀
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