Note street address where other Teddy Bears are spotted – give details of Teddy Bear activity at time of observation (be creative – use your imagination).

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the chicken behind it didn’t know how to socially distance properly! (Dr G)

As part of Term 1 Identity Topic Room 6 learnt about the ocean and the effects of plastic pollution on our ocean creatures.

St Joseph’s students have learnt about the ocean in a backward process – having learnt about plastic in the ocean at the Viaduct “Flagship Education Centre” first (in 2019), then cleaned up the coast around Watercare and Puketutu Island second (in 2020) and finally we are focusing on public speaking in Room 6; to teach others about our ocean diorama’s that we made in 2021.

As part of our Ocean Champion Challenge entry we made a short movie showing our public speaking and individual diorama’s. For more information about this competition check out the following website – https://www.seaweek.org.nz/news/ocean-champion-challenge

Then on Friday 9^th April we invited the children from Room 9 to listen and ask questions of Room 6 children about their dioramas and ocean mindfulness.

Daily tasks include maths worksheets, word ladder fun-sheets.  In each case there is more than one page provided so your child can chose one page each day (as a must do) and a second page (as a fast finisher/ extension task).  Please use the pages in your child’s homework book to complete the learning tasks (dated for each day).

We would like you to keep a Wellness Diary.  There will also be a daily Media Review (see box below) and there will be a daily 2pm zoom meeting – to discuss the topic video and any questions.

Worksheets and activities will be updated each day on the website.

A Maths word-problem activity will happen on a Wednesday (and discussed at the Wednesday 2pm zoom meeting).  A Religious Education activity will happen on Thursday and an Art activity will happen at the Friday 2pm zoom meeting (with collected materials).

TIMETABLE

Note * write answers in homework book (no need to print sheets) or on google doc.  There is more than 1 page provided so your child can chose one page each day (as a must do) and a second page (as a fast finisher/ extension task).

ALL worksheets come from the following 5 books (see photo).

Word ladder differs for Year 2&3 and Year 4 children.  Note these word ladder activities are at Kindergarden to Year 1 (easy) and Grades 1-2 (tricky) levels respectively.  So these tasks should be quite manageable for your child and will improve their reading, phonetical awareness, spelling AND problem solving/thinking ability.

Maths worksheets differ for each maths colour group (same as the maths boxes in class).  If your child cannot remember their maths-box colour please email me at sibilla.girardet@st-joseph.school.nz.

Note the maths Stages “3”, “4” and “EA” refer to the following year levels:

Maths Stage “3” – by end of Year 1

Maths Stage “4” – by end of Year 2

Maths Stage “EA” (early additive) – by end of Year 3

Maths Stage “5” – by end of Year 4 (NOT SET ONLINE)

So again these maths tasks should be quite manageable for your child and will improve their number awareness AND problem solving/thinking ability.