Weekly Schedule - Monday 11 May to Thursday 14 May

Karl Vasau gives advice on home learning for parents of young children: What are Routines and Goals and why are they important during lockdown and beyond.

To hop through different pathways, levels and qualities (e.g. fast, soft)

To hop for height, hopping for distance, static and dynamic balance.

To choose the audience and purpose for my writing

To think of the reader when I write

To describe my character so the reader can visualise them and what kind of person they are.

Join Suzy Cato for Maths and Science

In today’s lesson we are looking up, thinking about the stars and learning why they twinkle. 

Whaea Erina introduces te reo Māori for beginners

Learning for 8 to 11-year olds begins with Marissa Paniora

Today we’re going To read about the life of a soldier in the Māori Battalion during the Second World War and we’ll use that story to look at different structures in texts. 

Maths for ‘middle school’ with Fern Webber

Today we’re doing some mathematical magic, looking at tricky maths puzzles and learning about magic squares
 

Access the Lesson Plan (DOCX, 116kb)

Access the Support Material (PPTX, 1.45mb)

Literacy and language with Katy Smeele 

In today’s lesson we’re looking at stories of people’s experiences of racism in New Zealand and thinking about what we can learn from them. (DOCX, 117kb)

Matua Te Mete Lowman brings you a te reo Māori lesson for more advanced learners.

With Rebecca Clist

Today we’re making patterns from natural material and exploring pattern making from lots of different cultures (DOCX, 570kb)

Karl Vasau gives advice on home learning for parents of young children: What is Time Management and how is this important during the lockdown and beyond.

A fun health session for the younger tamariki with Monique Cox-Timmer.

Today we’re doing a lot of different exercises and practicing skipping as well as different ways of moving. 

To move for enjoyment, using imagination and creativity

To skip in different ways and at different speeds

To know the importance of washing hands and independently correctly do this.

Staying with Monique Cox-Timmer we move onto literacy and language

Today we read a story from the Cook Islands and focus on improving our writing by using different sentence lengths.  

To choose the audience and purpose for my writing

To think of the reader when writing (make connections)

To make my sentences flow

Join Suzy Cato for Maths and Science

In today’s lesson we’re doing some classic maths problems with a twist: the Prime Minister is going to be presenting them for us! We’ll work together to work out some different strategies to solve them.

In today’s lesson we build a puppet show and explore positive things emerging due to the coronavirus related to the arts.

Whaea Erina introduces te reo Māori for beginners.

Learning for 8 to 11-year olds begins with Marissa Paniora

Today we are reading the story of Rat and Octopus and practicing comparisons, looking at what is the same and different in stories. (DOCX, 118kb)

To be exposed to different books/authors/themes

To understand that the best literature has the message or big idea about life and living and authors imply what they want you to understand.

To compare and contrast

Matua Te Mete Lowman brings you a te reo Māori lesson for more advanced learners.

Students will be able to make the connections across the cultures of the Pacific and Aotearoa

Students will have an appreciation for the skills knowledge and understanding of our traditional heritage

Students will understand and have an appreciation for the challenges and innovation of our ancestors

With Rebecca Clist
Today we’re using ‘What’s for Dinner? as a theme to expand the range of techniques/ skills used by artists/ viewers in their daily diary

Continue to think about ways to document life and their creative ideas during lock down

Explore cultural/artists techniques/applications/work and reflect on the techniques and key words used

Develop an artistic response/ create a piece of work based on a still life theme (referencing segments 6/7/8/9)
 

Karl Vasau gives advice on home learning for parents of young children: What is NCEA and what is the role of a parent during lockdown to support their NCEA children

A fun health session for the younger tamariki with Monique Cox-Timmer

Catch! Today we’re focussing on catching and learning different ways we can practice and improve our catching skills. 

Learning how to catch and throw and how to do this in a controlled way:

Catching a variety of objects.

Catching while moving in different pathways and at different levels and speeds.

Staying with Monique Cox-Timmer we move onto literacy and language

Today we’re reading about the fascinating monsters that live in our gardens: insects. We’re also building on what we’ve learned about writing sentences of different lengths, by practicing writing varied non-fiction sentences.

To choose the audience and purpose for my writing

To think of the reader

To make my sentences flow (non-fiction)

Whaea Erina introduces te reo Māori for beginners.

Learning for 8 to 11-year olds begins with Marissa Paniora

Today we are reading the non-fiction article “Underground” and learning to determine what is fact, what is opinion and what is the authors purpose 

Identify the facts in the article by looking for statements backed by evidence

Look for opinions by identifying point of view statements

Decide if the author is writing to inform, persuade or entertain

Maths for ‘middle school’ with Fern Webber

Today we’re learning all about algorithms: what they are, what they do, and how they’re used.

Follow an algorithm to solve a problem 
understand that some algorithms are more efficient than others

Look at different characteristics of plants to consider how to classify them

See how scientists use algorithms to break big processes into manageable steps, as with classification and navigation of a drone

Literacy and language with Katy Smeele 

Today we’re exploring personal stories of racism experienced by Pasifika and Māori people in New Zealand and learning strategies for summarising texts. 

Identify responses of Māori and Pasifika people in New Zealand to racism. 

Use a strategy to summarise main ideas and concepts in personal stories about racism.

Matua Te Mete Lowman brings you a te reo Māori lesson for more advanced learners.

Students will be able to articulate the role of Tupaia in the history of Aotearoa

Students will be able to articulate different perspective on our history

With Rebecca Clist

Today we’re being collectors and making beautiful but temporary collections of objects from around our homes.

Continue to think about ways to document their life and their creative ideas during lock down

Explore cultural/artists techniques/applications/work and reflect on the techniques and key words used

Develop an artistic response/ create a piece of ephemeral work based on the theme of assemblage

Use photographic tools to express ideas of recording significant objects

Karl Vasau gives advice on home learning for parents of young children: What are achievement reports and how can parents read or understand them and also engage better with teachers at parent interviews

A fun health session for the younger tamariki with Monique Cox-Timmer

Catch! Today we’re focussing on catching and learning different ways we can practice and improve our catching skills. 

Learning how to catch and throw and how to do this in a controlled way:

Catching a variety of objects

Catching while moving in different pathways and at different levels and speeds.

Staying with Monique Cox-Timmer we move onto literacy and language

Today we’re looking at a story about the ukulele and thinking about different ways we can start sentences and write explanations.  

To choose the audience and purpose for my writing

To explain how something works

Join Suzy Cato for Maths and Science

Today we’re learning about te rō, the praying mantis and learning about how we can identify different species through observation. We’re also thinking about the impact of introduced species on our native species. (DOCX, 703kb)

Use observation skills when looking at photos of praying mantises

Recognise that when we look carefully, we can see some differences between native and introduced praying mantises 

Give reasons for protecting Aotearoa’s natural environment

Whaea Erina introduces te reo Māori for beginners.

Learning for 8 to 11-year olds begins with Marissa Paniora

Today we’re reading the story Dive and thinking about relationships between characters in stories. Are they best friends? Are they worst enemies? How would you know?

Identify constant and changing parts of a figurative growth pattern.

Express calculations using numeric expression.

Create a rule to predict further members of a growth pattern.

Matua Te Mete Lowman brings you a te reo Māori lesson for more advanced learners.

Students will be able to acknowledge and articulate the Māori stories of Pacific voyaging 

Students will be able to acknowledge and articulate the Māori perspective on first encounters with Cook

Students will be able to communicate the stories of migration to Aotearoa