The Day the Crayons Quit

Today the story for you to listen to is:

The Day the Crayons Quit

Here are some tasks to do:

Write a new letter from one of the other crayons to Duncan. Illustrate the letter with drawings only using that coloured crayon.

Yellow and Orange crayons have an argument about the colour of the sun. What colour is the sun? How can you prove your answer?

Write Duncan's replies to the crayons' letters.

Find out about colour. What is it? Why do we see things in different colours?

Write a story about a magic, multi-coloured crayon. What might happen to the person that uses it?

Design a box or packet or pencil case to keep your crayons in. Use lots of colour.

Find the synonyms for different colours (eg red = crimson, rose, cherry etc). Make a colour thesaurus that you can refer to in your own writing.

Build something out of crayons. Take a photo of it.

Create a poster that teaches children about primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

Use paint to create many different shades of the same colour.

Design a new wrapper for the peach crayon.

Have fun! Send me photos of your creations to put on the blog.

Wiki Rima

 Kia ora koutou, 

This week is a little different. You will do online learning Monday, Tuesday and Friday, which you can find on here and in your google drive. Check daily for new tasks.

If your last name starts with an A-L you will come to school on Wednesday.

If your last name starts with M-Z you will come to school on Thursday.

You will need to wear a mask in the classroom.                                  

Today is Pānui - a reading task.

The Bomb - author Sacha Cotter

Listen and watch the video.

I love this story, who doesn't love swimming, rope swings into the river and for some of you bombs at Wellington Street beach or off the bridge at Raglan.

Here are some tasks to do:

Write a moment in time when you went swimming, or did a manu, or went down a waterslide. Use all your senses to describe your experience.

Design and plan the perfect bomb. Maybe you could test it using a lego person?

Write a list of instructions for the perfect bomb or manu.

Build a prototype of a platform or structure that could be used to jump off into the water. Use whatever materials you have or draw it on google drawing.

Make something that you could use in the water, either for the river, a pool or the sea. Be creative.

Have fun! Send me photos of your creations to put on the blog.

Jessie and Miss Ally make Slime

Jessie and Miss Ally have been busy in their bubble making slime. Do you know how to make it?

Do you know a different way to make slime? Write a comment on the blog. Remember to put your name and room number too.

Mahi Term 4 Week 4

Kia ora koutou, 

Wow, the term is flying by and we are already in week four of the term. Thank you to all the students working hard on their Education Perfect tasks and the George's Marvellous Medicine activities. Please keep sending me the work you have done so I can share it on our blog. 

Here is a selection of activities for this week in the slideshow.

Make sure you are getting outside, running around, going for a bike ride, a scooter or a skate on your skateboard. 

Also if anyone is keen to have a zoom call, email me to tell me what you would like to talk about.

Bubble Toru

Kia ora koutou, 

This is a little snapshot of Bubble Toru at school. We are in room 18 and the hub next to room 17. The teachers in our bubble are Whaea Kat, Whaea Robyn and Mrs Tyler. Mrs McKenzie comes to help us out too.

We played on Tōtara whenua, in the sandpit, with the basketball and used the sports equipment.

We found a wriggly stick insect.

We went for a walk to Putikitiki along te ara o ngahere to the new outdoor learning area.

What have you all being doing at home? Send me a photo of you via your goggle drive or send me a text.

George's Marvellous Medicine Part 3

Kia ora koutou, 

This is that last 5 chapters of the book. I hope you have enjoyed listening to it and had fun trying out some of the tasks. 

Mahi from George's Marvellous Medicine

Here is a selection of mahi from George's Marvellous Medicine. Ka pai. Keep sharing your mahi with me via your drive, email or text.

Big pot bubbling on the stove  & a shopping list- Leni

Would large animals be good or bad? What are the good points and the bad points for this? - Jake

Bigger pieces of meats and other foods.	They might step on you.
Don’t need many animals.	They will have big poops.
Good to try new things.	Where would they sleep?
They could be friendly	How would we get the food
What if some animals couldn’t grow	What would they eat?

Mahi - Vienna-Lee

Mahi wiki rua

Kia ora koutou, kei te pēhea koutou? 

I hope you've all had a relaxing long weekend with your whānau. I have set tasks on Education Perfect for you to continue with.

The big focus for this week is to listen to George's Marvellous Medicine and share as many activities with me as you can. 

Look at last weeks activities and do some of those too.

I will be in touch with your whānau via text later today.

Have a fabulous day.

George's Marvellous Medicine

Kia ora, here is our shared book for the next 3 weeks. 

This slideshow covers the first four chapters. Do some of the activities and share them with me.

Term 4

 Kia ora koutou, kei te pēhea koutou?

What has everyone been doing in lockdown? I have been reading, walking, hanging out with my family and the fur babies. I have also been planting some vegetables. I'm interested to see what the purple capsicum looks and tastes like when it grows.

Well it's an interesting start to term 4 for us. I have put a slideshow together with some activities that you can work on.

If you have something else that you are interested in learning email me or share your work through your drive and we can work on it together.

Foam Dough at kura

During lockdown, the recipe for foam dough was on the blog. The students in the level 3 bubble at kura had fun experiencing it, so akomanga 17 tamariki had a turn making it and playing with it too.

We had lots of questions like: 

What happens if we add more cornflour? 

Can we mix colours together? 

What should we do if it's more crumbly? 

It's really sticky how can we make it more like dough?

We had a lot of fun and made quite a big mess!

Scavenger Hunt

We had a scavenger hunt on Putikitiki and Tōtara whenua. We worked together to find all the items on the list. It was fun being able to be on Te Ara o Ngahere (the nature trail) in the sun catching up with our friends after being in lockdown.

Week 7

Kia ora koutou, 

Here is this weeks slideshow with many activities on it. 

Thanks to Catherine for some ideas this week.

Have a fabulous day. Ka kite. Whaea Kat

Hauora Challenge

Kia ora koutou, 

In a previous slideshow there were some slides about hauora or well-being showing some ideas how to maintain your well-being during lockdown. 

Emily designed a slideshow that has challenges for you and your family to work on over the week. Check it out below.

E Pro 8 Lockdown Challenge

Some of you will remember watching the students that represented Hamilton East School building fantastic structures for the EP Pro 8 school challenge. 

Well, you can do this with your family this time. 

Check out the EPro8 Lockdown Challenge.

You will need 1 ream of A4 paper and 1 roll of sellotape.

Have fun!

Toikupu - Poetry

Kia ora koutou,  

It's my favourite part of the week, TOIKUPU! 

Look at the slideshow, create your own poem.

Bubble #2 Science

On the blog today I put up a post showing how to make Foam Dough using shaving cream, cornflour and food colouring.

We had so much fun. We had so many wonderings about what was happening as we were making it. We were trying to think like scientists.

Here are some photos of what we were doing.

What did you yours turn out like? 

What would you do differently next time?

Bubble #2 At School

I'm in bubble #2 at school so our learning looks a little bit different to what you are doing at home. We are based in rooms 8 and 9 in Kauri block. Thanks Sarah for sharing your room with Greg, Ms O'Neil, myself and the students in our bubble.

We have to use the toilets down at Totara whenua. We are allowed in the sandpit but not on the playground.

 

We have morning tea and lunch outside on the deck.

We play on Putikitiki.

We play card games.

Foam Dough

Make foam dough

What you need: 

Shaving foam

Cornflour

Food colouring in different colours

Small containers 

How to make foam dough

1. Measure out 5 tablespoons of shaving foam into a small container.

2. Add a few drops of food colouring to the shaving foam and mix well until you get the colour you want.

3. Slowly add the cornflour a teaspoon at a time, stirring thoroughly until the mixture starts to look slightly doughy.

Be careful not to add too much cornflour as the more cornflour you add, the drier the dough. If the dough becomes too dry it will also lose some of its foamy, puffy texture.

4. Repeat the process using another food colouring colour.

5. Have fun bending the foam dough into all sorts of shapes!

Kia ora from my new bubble

Well - Being Wednesday

Today is a day for you to be away from more formal digital learning.

Today you will have the opportunity to learn offline and engage in a range of non-digital activities.

They might be tasks that you would like to do together with your family or alone, or it might be

something else entirely. Below are some suggestions:

Today is a day for you and your whanau to: connect, be active, notice, keep learning and give.

gge

Do what is best for you. Have a fantastic day.

Jessie's Bubble

 While we have been in lockdown Jessie has been busy too. Here are a couple of videos of Ally. In one she is preparing breakfast and in the other she is doing mahi toi. What have you been having for breakfast? 

Term 3 Week 6 2021

Rāhina te 30 o Here-turi-kōkā

Kia ora koutou,  kei te pēhea koutou? I hope everyone is doing well at home. Please keep sending your work and photos so I can post it under the Lockdown 2.0 tab at the top of the page.

Here is this weeks slideshow with different activities. 

Tuhituhi Tasks

Check out the different writing activities in the slideshow. 

There is a copy of it in your Google Drive.

Fizzy Fun

WATCH. Vinegar + Baking Soda + Balloons = FIZZY Fun

TALK. What happens when you mix baking soda and vinegar? Why? What is a chemical reaction? What is it that filled up the balloon? How did it happen? What would happen if you changed the amounts of vinegar and baking soda?

DO. Complete your own vinegar + baking soda experiment. 

Remember, the video we watched was a demonstration but we want to create our own scientific experiment so we need to change some of the variables (the parts of the experiment we can control and change).

You need to come up with your hypothesis - what you think will happen when you make certain changes (I predict that adding ... will make the balloon ...).

Complete your experiment and record your results. Was your hypothesis correct?

Kinetic Sand

I saw this video about making kinetic sand and it looks fun. Maybe you have the ingredients to make your own too.

 

Fun Crazy Weird Hair Store

LISTEN: To the Story Pirates podcast that includes the Fun Crazy Weird Hair Store song written by 9 year old Sylvia (you can hear an interview with her after the song).

TALK: Ask some questions when you go home: 

• Do the grown ups in your home have any photos of them when they were younger? 

• What do you think of the haircuts in these photos? 

• Are any of them terrible?

DO: Pretend you are getting your haircut and choose one of each of the following: 

Colour: blue, teal, red, orange, green, rainbow, rose gold, copper, glitter, platinum blonde, ultraviolet, infrared, grey, lavender, mermaid, silver etc

Length: buzz cut, bob, chin length, as long as a football field, one millimeter, foot length, giraffe neck length, as long as a lion's mane

Style: mullet, bouffant, flat top, braid, French twist, bowl cut, crown braid, spiky, mohawk, double buns, finger waves, mop top, ringlets, slicked back, updo, bouncy curl

Now draw a picture of you with your new crazy, weird, hair store hairdo.

If you get a new hairstyle in lockdown please send me a photo.

Acknowledging that these hair style options were taken directly from the Story Pirates activity page. Thank you to School Kit.

Mahi Toi

Kia ora koutou, 

I am a big fan of art and the environment so I thought some art would be a great activity for today. Have a look at the slideshow to get ideas. 

Happy creating!

Rātū te 24 o Here - turi - kōkā

Kia ora koutou, 

So we are in lockdown for a bit longer. Some of you have sent me photos, videos, slideshows and even started on your play writing. Ka pai. I'm enjoying seeing what you are doing in your bubble.

I'm wondering who has managed to get the most items on the outside scavenger hunt. If you haven't done it yet. Maybe today is a good time to do it.

The slideshow has lots of options for learning for this week. Check it out.

Watch the video for today's task.

Rāhui Mahi

 

Kia ora koutou, 

I hope you are all ok in your bubbles. Please contact me if I can help crichmond@hameast.school.nz.

Outdoor Scavenger Hunt

Have fun finding all of the things on the scavenger hunt. 

Take some photos to prove you found them. 

Send me the number of things you found. 

I wonder who will find the most.

The Inter-Yeti - Lost on a Wild Webventure

Read the Inter-Yeti story to yourself or listen to Stan Walker read it to you. It is all about staying safe online which is very important.

What are you doing in lockdown?

 

Lockdown 2.0

Kia ora koutou, 

I hope you are all well at home in your bubble.

I am with my family and my fur babies are very happy that everyone is at home. The dogs love the extra attention.

Frankie & Vinnie chilling on the bed

Billie having cuddles

Henry watching the birds 

There is a few options for online learning, if you wish, like Mathletics, Sunshine Classics and Education Perfect. 

The links are on the blog for other places that you can access learning from home.

If you have any questions or need any help with passwords or anything else email or text me, crichmond@hameast.school.nz

If you have any photos of what you are doing send them to me so I can share them on the blog.

Kat