Monday 6th September - Friday 10th September - Owairoa Primary School
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Year 1 Monday 6th September – Friday 10th September
Read the books chosen for you by your teacher on Sunshine Classics.
Reading •
www.sunshineclassics.co.nz
Try completing the online activities that your teacher has set up for you.
• Listen to the story of ‘The little Red Hen’ on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E72TZy0LNo
• Complete the character, setting, problem and solution activity.
Use this template to complete this task
• Draw a picture of the characters in the story. If you can, label your characters.
• Choose your favourite part of the story. Draw a picture and explain why this
part is your favourite part of the story.
Writing • If you were the Little Red Hen, would you share the bread you baked?
Explain why you would or why you would not share the bread you baked.
• Write a letter from one of the farm animals to the Little Red Hen,
apologising for not helping her bake the bread.
Start your letter with “Dear Little Red Hen”.
• Write down the steps that the Little Red Hen followed
to bake the bread.
Make a list of ingredients that Little Red Hen used.
Study Ladder
Maths • Complete the tasks chosen for you by your teacher on Study
ladder. www.studyladder.co.nz
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Legs in the barn.
• In the barn there are some hens, and the rest are pigs. There are 20 legs in all. How many pigs
and hens are there altogether? Show your working out by drawing pictures.
• The Little Red Hen was clearing the garden and she found 4 grains of wheat. Then she found 6
more grains of wheat, she picked them up as well. As she kept on clearing the garden, she
found 2 more grains of wheat. How many did she have altogether?
• The Little Red Hen had 12 grains of wheat.
She wanted to plant them in 4 different fields, shared equally.
How many would there be in each field?
Show your working by drawing fields and grain to
help you work it out.
• Have a look at the picture on the right and work out how many Little Red Hens, stems
of wheat, sacks of grain, bags of flour, dogs, cats, ducks, farmhouse, and windmills
you can see. Draw a table to display your results.
Science
Forces - Push and Pull
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-SnC_WKsCg
After watching and singing along to the video with Jack Hartman, draw a three-column chart on paper.
Go around your house and garden and find things you can push or pull or can push and pull. Draw a picture
and label these things in the columns.
Push Push Push and Pull
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Garden Cart
Challenge: Design and build a garden cart that The Little Red Hen can use to carry the wheat and the garden tools.
Directions:
1. Gather the materials that you might need. You could use boxes, tissue boxes, plastic containers for the cart body. You could use
straws, chopsticks, toothpicks, lids for the axles and wheels.
2. Build your garden cart. Follow your plan that you have designed on your planning sheet.
3. Test your cart. Does it roll? Can it carry some things?
4. If not, what changes can you do to make it work?
Tongan Language week Tonga Language Week / Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e lea faka-Tonga gives students of all ethnicities the chance to learn some
5th – 11th September basic lea faka-Tonga and gives students who speak lea faka-Tonga the chance to be experts in the classroom (even from
home). Currently, there are more Tongan people born in New Zealand than there are in Tonga, giving lea faka-Tonga
(the Tonga language) and anga faka-Tonga (Tonga culture) a special place here in Aotearoa.
Please find below some links to engage your learner in Tongan Language and Culture.
• Tongan Welcome Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UxQAKzklY
• Counting in Tongan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWBRIDEsSl0
• Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxqrKG-p1No
• Tongan Basic Words and Phrases:
ART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fScsnl1NWc
Handprint art
1. Get three popsicle sticks and glue them into a triangle shape. Leave to dry.
2. Trace around both hands onto red paper.
3. Cut out the hand shapes and lay them flat with the thumbs pointing up. Overlap the palms slightly and
secure with glue.
4. Cut out a red triangle that will be placed within the popsicle sticks and form the
body of the hen.
5. Cut out an orange triangle for the beak, and a little white hat.
6. Cut out some orange legs.
7. Paint the popsicle sticks red and glue all the paper in place. Don’t forget to add
on eyes!
Sports
The floor is lava!
With your family, travel from one end of a room to the other end without touching
the floor. Use pillows, cushions, mats.
E.g., 4 family members = 5 items.
Each member of your family can choose to be a different animal from the story. As you make your way through
the course each time you accidentally touch the ‘lava’ you have to make the noise of your chosen animal.
Digital Activities
Here is a list of websites that could help your child’s learning:
Literacy Maths
www.starfall.com https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/index.html
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html https://nzmaths.co.nz/
https://nz.education.com/activity/first-grade/writing/ https://e-ako.nzmaths.co.nz/games/games.aspx
https://maths.prototec.co.nz/
https://www.timestables.co.nz/
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