On this page you will find information to support the teacher-led lessons on Home Learning | Papa Kāinga TV. Each plan has a description of the lesson goal, success criteria, the resources and activities used to support learning.
As a parent, you may wish to use the plans to help you understand what your child is learning about. If you are a teacher, you could use them as part of your own planning.
Click on the Description to access the Lesson Plan for the segment where available.
Each of the lesson plans has been reviewed to ensure the content design is relevant, engaging and appropriate for a TV audience, and accessible for all learners.
The lesson plans are teachers' working documents. There may be minor grammatical or other errors, but they are shared in the spirit of support and collaboration.
Note that not all of the lessons and programmes on Home Learning | Papa Kāinga are included.
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Wednesday 25 August
| Programme | Description | Curriculum | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Literacy: Being Helpful |
Key resources:
Supporting material [PPTX, 7.7MB] |
English | 5–7 year olds |
| Junior Maths and Science: Cooking Rocks! (Science) | Join Suzy Cato to explore the following ideas: [DOCX, 89.7KB]
|
Science | 5–7 year olds |
| Junior Project: Weather |
Supporting material [PPTX, 6.12MB] |
Social Sciences and Technology | 5–7 year olds |
| Middle Literacy and Language: Michel Mulipola: Superhero Secrets |
Inspired by the work of Paul Mason and Michel Mulipola join Marissa and learn about creating characters, such as superheroes for your stories [DOCX, 704.5KB] Key resources:
Supporting material 1 [PPTX, 6.4MB] Supporting material 2 [PDF, 3.66MB] |
English and Art | 8–11 year olds |
| Middle Science: Biosecurity and our Farms | This lesson introduces biosecurity and uses the white butterfly, pepe mā, as an example of an introduced pest. It will help students to build a sense of community responsibility for protecting Aotearoa [DOCX, 293.7KB] | Science | 8–11 year olds |
Thursday 26 August
| Programme | Description | Curriculum | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Literacy: Helping Others (Part 3) |
Key resources:
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English and Social Sciences | 5–7 year olds |
| Junior Maths and Science: What Next (Part 2) (Maths) |
Join Suzy Cato to create and continue sequential patterns that repeat [DOCX, 76.2KB] Key resource:
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Maths and statistics | 5–7 year olds |
| Junior Project: Comic Creation |
Join Monique Cox-Timmer to explore what we mean by healthy food [DOCX, 177.5KB] Supporting material [PPTX, 2.9MB] |
Technology and The Arts | 5–7 year olds |
| Middle Literacy and Language: Powerful poets |
Join Marissa Paniora to explore poetry and the features that ‘powerful poets’ use in their writing [DOCX, 88KB] Key resources:
Supporting material 1 [PPTX, 6.9MB] Supporting material 2 [PDF, 989.6KB] |
English | 8–11 year olds |
| Middle Maths: Exploring relationships through star patterns | Join Fern Webber and learn about sequential patterns and find out how to understand and describe patterns that you see [DOCX, 71.3KB] | Maths and statistics | 8–11 year olds |