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The Tui Whānau team thrives on clear communication, compliments and are happy to answer any questions about supporting your child while learning at home. Contact our Senior Team directly.

TW2: Mr Naicker

parmodn@manurewawest.school.nz

TW3: Mr Chen

bertonc@manurewawest.school.nz

TW4: Miss Hull

larah@manurewawest.school.nz

TW5: Mr Daculan

ethand@manurewawest.school.nz

TW6:Mrs Pati

pelet@manurewawest.school.nz

TW7: Miss Reedy

terohar@manurewawest.school.nz

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Kia ora! Bula Vinaka! Talofa Lava! Mālō e lelei! Mabuhay! These are just some greetings we can use anytime!

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Can you teach your teachers some words or phrases from your language? The only rule is that it has to be something your teachers can use in the classroom.

For example:
"Mayong Buntag" is said as "ma-eye-yong boon-tug" and this is Filipino for "Good morning"
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"Lamesa" is said as "la-me-sa" and this word means "Table"

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Choose something from the Writing Challenge card to write about! You don't have to do all of them. You could choose one or two to do lots of writing on or you could choose more and do different amounts of writing on each! Have fun with it and enjoy!

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Have a go at drawing this step by step monkey and then writing a story all about it. Are you the monkey travelling through the jungle? Is this your pet monkey? Does anyone know about it? Use your imagination to come up with something amazing to share once we are back in the classroom!

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Summary: A sure favourite for all ages: a quick and easy recipe for making ice cream in a plastic bag!

Set-up: 5 mins

Play: 30 mins

Complexity: Easy

Materials

300ml cream

2 tbsp caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 trays of ice cubes

6 tbsp rock salt

1 medium ziplock bag

1 large ziplock bag

Tea towel or oven gloves

What to do

Have your child help you measure out the cream, sugar and vanilla and place them into the medium sized ziplock bag. Zip up the bag: how can you mix the ingredients without opening the bag? An opportunity for squishing and squeezing!

Place the ice into the larger ziplock bag, and spoon the salt on top. Place the medium bag inside the lager one and zip up the bag. Explain that for the next five to ten minutes you need to keep mixing the ingredients, through the larger bag. Massage and shake the bag until the mixture becomes the consistency of ice cream. Talk about the changes that you see - to both the mixture and the ice in the bag. The bag will make your child's hands really cold, so they might like to wear oven gloves or wrap a tea towel around the bag. Also watch out for drips from the larger bag as the ice begins to melt.

Once ready, remove the ice cream bag from the larger one and rinse off the excess salt. Snip a hole in the corner and squeeze the ice cream into a bowl or cone, or simply eat it from the bag with a spoon!

Extensions

Ask your child how you could make ice cream in different flavours / colours, and try out their ideas.

Try the experiment again, without adding salt. What happens to the ingredients over time now? How do the ice cubes look different this time? In this experiment, the salt lowers the freezing point of the ice, which means the ice cream freezes more quickly. You will notice the ice with salt added starts to melt while the ice cream freezes. Without salt added to the ice, the ice cream mixture won't get cold enough, and won't become ice cream.

What happens if you try other kinds of salt, such as table salt?

What learning does this activity promote?

Measuring and counting, perseverance, curiosity, experimentation

By Dr Vicki Hargraves

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Summary: A sure favourite for all ages: a quick and easy recipe for making ice cream in a plastic bag!

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Free printable basic facts and times table worksheets with instant feedback and certificates.

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Summary: Have fun with modelling materials to create a monster, and then use Chatterpix Kids to make it talk!

Set-up: 10 mins

Play: 30 mins - 1 hour

Complexity: Easy

Materials

Playdough (see recipe here)

Plasticine or clay, or recycled boxes tins

Packets and tubes

Or you can even use fruit and vegetables such as swedes, potatoes and oranges for modelling your monster.

As well as items such as:

Buttons

Shells

Sticks

Toothpicks

Wiggly eyes

Straws and card to add details.

Download Chatterpix Kids (free app) to your device.

What to do

Challenge your child to make a monster with your supply of resources. Talk about how to make the monster truly monstrous - how many eyes will it have? Will the eyes be the same size and colour, or different? What sort of expression will it have? Explain that because when the monster is finished we are going to make it talk, it is really important that the monster has a clearly outlined mouth!

Use Chatterpix Kids to make it talk (warning: once your child learns how to use this app, they will probably want to try taking photos of all sorts of things to make them talk). The app will direct you to take a photo, then draw a line across it in the place that you want the picture to talk. Then its time to record a voice for your monster. What will it say? What kind of voice will it have - scary, stupid, trembling, etc.?

Extensions

Use your monster to send messages to family and friends.

Invent two monsters and have your child script a dialogue between them.

Use a stiff piece of cardboard to create a "set" or scene behind your monster as it talks.

What learning does this activity promote?

Creativity, imagination, fine motor skills, problem-solving, communication and language

By Dr Vicki Hargraves

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Summary: Have fun with modelling materials to create a monster, and then use Chatterpix Kids to make it talk! Set-up: 10 mins Play: 30 mins - 1 hour Complexity: Easy Playdough (see recipe here) Plasticine or clay, or recycled boxes tins Packets and tubes Or you can even use fruit and vegetables such as swedes, potatoes and oranges for modelling your monster.

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Summary: use whatever you have to hand at home to build a boat, and see if it can carry different objects across the water

Set-up: 10 mins preparation, 30 mins until ready

Play: 30 mins - 2 hour

Complexity: Varying complexity according to ability

Materials

Recycled boxes

Tubs

Plastic trays

Plastic straws

Aluminium foil

Clay

Plasticine or blu-tack

Paper

Tape

Glue

A bath tub or sink to test the boat

A set of uniform items, such as coins, marbles, small blocks, or tin cans, as boat "cargo" to test the boat's flotation capacity

What to do

Challenge your child to build a boat that floats and can't be sunk. Get out your supplies and get them to think about what they might use for a boat. Ask questions such as what's important in the design of a boat? What shape does it need to be? Why is that? Are all these materials waterproof? If not, could you make them waterproof?

Explain that after the boat is made, you will see if it can carry some of the objects you have chosen for the flotation test (coins, marbles, small blocks, or tin cans). If several family members each design and build their own boat, you can have a competition to see whose boat can hold the most "cargo" before it sinks. Count the objects into the boat one by one, and find out: whose boat can hold the most? (Ask older children to work out how many more, and so on).

Extensions

Limit the materials you give your child: for example, give them just a 30cmx30cm piece of foil and challenge them to make a boat out of that.

Ask your child to design a boat for a specific item - a toy, vehicle, or a soup can (heavy!).

Make sailboats and test them for speed by using a fan or a hairdryer to push them across a shallow tray of water (NB keep water and electric items far apart).

What learning does this activity promote?

Thinking skills, design, problem-solving, scientific concepts, concepts of mass and weight, counting, concepts of more and less

By Dr Vicki Hargraves

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Summary: use whatever you have to hand at home to build a boat, and see if it can carry different objects across the water Set-up: 10 mins preparation, 30 mins until ready Play: 30 mins - 2 hour Complexity: Varying complexity according to ability Recycled boxes Tubs Plastic trays Plastic

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Summary: make simple cakes in a mug and experiment with the recipe to find out what different ingredients do

Set-up: 5 mins

Play: 30 minutes - 1 hour with extensions

Complexity: Medium

Materials

What to do

Measure out the ingredients for the cake into a mug.

4 tablespoons plain flour

2 tablespoons caster sugar

¼ teaspoon baking powder

1 small/medium egg

2 tablespoons cooking oil

2 tablespoons water

Mix the ingredients together with a fork, making sure to stir in all the flour (check for flour sticking at the bottom of the mug). Examine the mixture: what does it look like, feel like and taste like? (Not too much tasting because of the raw eggs!). What does your child think they need to do to turn this mixture into a cake?

Cook the mixture in the microwave on full power for 2 minutes. Take the cake out of the microwave and allow it to cool for a minute or so. (Be aware the mug and cake will be hot straight out of the microwave). Take the cake out of the mug and put it on a plate so you can look at the changes that have occurred. What does the cake look like now? What does it feel like? How does it taste?

Ask your child why do they think we need all these ingredients for a cake. Why do they think they need to mix them altogether? What do they think would happen if they didn't include the oil / eggs / sugar / baking powder? How could they find out?

Experiment to see what happens when you leave out an ingredient (stick to one at a time). You can leave out the egg, the oil, the sugar or the baking powder from the mixture, cook the cakes and examine the resulting cakes by looking at them, feeling them and tasting them (the cakes are still edible, although some might not be that tasty!). Ask your child how each cake is different to the cake you made first, the one with all the ingredients? Can they suggest what the egg/oil/baking powder/sugar does in the cake mixture?

Extensions

Explain what different ingredients do in a cake. For example, the chemicals in baking powder react and produce carbon dioxide which gets trapped in little pockets when the cake is cooked, and make the cake spongy. The egg provides proteins which are long, chain-like molecules which unravel and form strong, hard structures inside the cake, and give the cake some structure (making the cake solid). The oil coats all the ingredients, which stops the cake from drying out when it is cooked. Sugar caramelises and browns the mixture, as well as making it tender and sweet.

Try replacing some of the cake ingredients and see what difference that makes. For example, you could replace some of the flour with cocoa powder, or the water with milk.

Design the perfect "cake in a cup" recipe by testing different ideas to improve the cake. What else might you add to improve this cake? Try raisins, mashed banana, desiccated coconut, nuts or chocolate chips. Get your child to write down the recipe and share with family and friends.

What learning does this activity promote?

Mathematics, thinking skills, observation, prediction, theorising, experimentation, creativity

By Dr Vicki Hargraves

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Summary: make simple cakes in a mug and experiment with the recipe to find out what different ingredients do Set-up: 5 mins Play: 30 minutes - 1 hour with extensions Complexity: Medium Measure out the ingredients for the cake into a mug.

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Get in some serious multiplication training. Responds to your answers, so it trains your weaknesses.

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Get up and moving with this Just Dance classic! Feel free to video yourselves doing it and upload to your Dojo Portfolio for houseplants =)

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paki - fine
wera - hot
makariri - cold
hukapapa - snowy
ua - rainy
marangai - stormy
mākū - wet
tau te kohu - foggy
pupuhi te hau - windy (the wind is blowing)
Kei te pēhea te āhua ō te rangi? - What’s the weather like today?
Kei te mahana. | It’s warm.
Kei te pupuhi te hau. | It’s windy (the wind is blowing)

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Tāwhirimatea - Rhythm song about the weather

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Students can create their own accounts by visiting play.prodigygame.com and entering your class code 1E8D311.

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Write a letter to the weather! What would you be saying to the weather right now if you could? Would you ask them why it was acting the way it was? Would you tell it how you feel after the weather we've been having? Give it a go!

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Here is an example of the life cycle of a strawberry plant. See if you can research a new plant and draw your own life cycle. Challenge yourself to to write an explanation piece of writing to describe the life cycle of your plant. Another option is to use this example and write your explanation piece of writing on that.