Welcome to Wednesday!

Reading Kiwi Kids News Read the story/stories below (ask a parent to help if you get stuck with tricky words) (Parker, I chose the second story because I thought you might be interested). Wild Goats Flood Welsh town Women Fined For taking Turtle to Work Try to answer the questions at the end of the story or Read a story for 15+ mins from your home library.  If you don’t have one go on Vooks or Storyonline.  Read a few pages or a chapter to someone in your household. Storyonline Vooks Password for Vooks. birchwood7	Maths Today’s Focus: Learning: How long is a minute? Warm Up Reflect on the last few weeks. Do you remember the months of the year?  How many days are in each month? (re-read poem). Can you show me quarter past/half past on an analogue clock? Lesson How long is a minute Guess how long a minute is.  Get someone to time it and stand up when you think a minute is up. What can you do it a minute? How many times can you write your name? How many star jumps can you do? How many times could you run around your house? How many times could you say the alphabet? How many times could you read the months of the year poem? Create your own minute timer Have a go at making  your own salt/sand/sugar/rice timer Resources needed ·       Empty 250ml bottle ·       Dry sand (or salt or anything you can find) ·       Paper cups Instructions 1.     Get an adult to help you cut the bottle in half. 2.     Cut hole in lid 3.     Fill top with dry sand 4.     Watch and time it falling into a cup. 5.     Can you find the correct amount to measure 1 minute? How to make a sand timer Check out this link for making a fancy timer, you’ll need two bottles for this one.	Writing Sparks Writing It’s your favourite day team!  Free Writing.  You may choose your own topic or use some of the helpful ideas below to spark some writing! Either write on paper or on a google doc to share with me. Write for at least 20 minutes.  Re-read your work.  Find 3 spelling words to fix. Today’s Challenge … Use juicy adjectives (describing words) 3+. Stuck for ideas? Use these pictures to spark some writing … What conversation might these two be having? Where is this bear going?
Fitness/Brain Break Minute Madness How many… ·       Jumps knees up ·       Flosses ·       Burpees ·       Side jumps over  a line ·       Hops ·       Runs around the house ·       Steps ups on a chair ·       Runs to your letterbox and back to front door can you do in a minute?? Or … Walk to your local park.  Collect leaves of every colour.  Try to find leaves of all shapes and sizes.  Collect twigs and cool stones too. You’ll need these for your Art Today.	Autumn Art Wow, there are some amazing coloured leaves about at the moment.  Today we are going to use the leaves we gathered to make objects/animals/words … anything you like! Get some inspiration from Nikau Kids! If you've already had a go at these earlier in the week (Mr Pearson and I were on the same wave length this week) then you could have a go at the ideas below.  Autumn Leaf Resist Art You will need a hot glue gun for this.  Or you could try PVA glue if you have it but it would need time to dry. Leaf Lanterns I thought you could use milk bottles for this idea and adapt it. (Like we did for our ANZAC day lanterns - but stick the leaves on the outside of the bottle).	Being Mindful Sometimes you just need some time to chill out.  When I went for a walk the other day I videoed the sounds of bamboo sticks ‘talking’ to one another in the wind. I thought it was beautiful and I thought I’d share it with you. Bamboo Sticks Talking How about going outside for some chill out time.  What sorts of things can you hear at your place?