FRIDAY 22 MAY

Mōrena e te whānau, 

This will be the last blog post. See you at school next week!

Ngā mihi nui,
Whaea Joy and Whaea Andrea

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FITNESS
GENERAL
Importance of hygiene Wash Hands - Book

READING/WRITING
MATHS
Warm-up

Station 1: Worms

In this activity we roll playdough to make long and short worms.
  1. Give each student a ball of playdough and ask them to make a worm.
  2. Get the students to bring their worms to the mat.
  3. Ask the students to describe their worm.
    My worm is long
    My worm is fat
    My worm is tiny
  4. Now ask the students to make a worm that is short.
  5. Look at and discuss the short worms.
    How do you know that your worm is short?
    Is your worm the same as everyone elses? Why?
  6. Ask the students to think of other worms that could be made. (long, wiggly, thin)
  7. Choose a word and ask everyone to make a worm one that fits the description.
  8. Repeat with other descriptive words and create a word bank that is displayed with illustrations. 
  9. Conclude by asking the students to draw their favourite worm and write a descriptive word for it.

Station Two: Near and Far

In this activity we build a town with blocks and then "drive" our cars around it.
  1. Begin by discussing the buildings that you might find in a town. Write the ideas on blank cards. (One for each student or pair of students).
  2. Give a card to each student, or pair of students and ask them to build the building out of blocks.
  3. Put the buildings together onto the mat (or large sheet of paper with roads drawn) and the building cards into a container.
  4. Give two students a car to "drive" around the town.
  5. Tell the students to stop their cars after a short time.
  6. Draw a card from the container. Ask the students to identify which car is closest to the building drawn.
  7. Give the cars to another two drivers and repeat.
  8. Use different words, for example: furthest, nearest, far away, nearby.
  9. Repeat with other descriptive words and add to the word bank that is displayed with illustrations.
Warm down maths games.

AFTERNOON FITNESS
Born to move - amended link

ART AND GOLDEN TIME
Cut out leave paintings to add to class tree display.  

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