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Check out the video Middle School Teachers created just for you!

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Your challenge: Choose from these 2 prompts

● Write a letter sharing what you want to be when you grow up. Ask the receiver about their job.
● Write a letter about your favorite game and why you like to play the game.

Make sure you:
-Include capital letters (for their name and to begin sentences), full stops, exclamation marks and question marks.
-Don’t forget to say who it is from!
-Re-read your letter to check that it makes sense.
-Add a picture at the bottom.

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Your challenge:
Brainstorm 8 synonyms (words that mean the same thing) for each of the words. You can use a thesaurus or an online thesaurus (thesaurus.com) to help you.

Said:
E.g. yelled
1. _______________________
2. _______________________
3. _______________________
4. _______________________
5. _______________________
6. _______________________
7. _______________________
8. _______________________

Eat
E.g. gobble
1. _______________________
2. _______________________
3. _______________________
4. _______________________
5. _______________________
6. _______________________
7. _______________________
8. _______________________

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Your challenge:
Brainstorm 8 synonyms (words that mean the same thing) for each of the words. You can use a thesaurus or an online thesaurus (thesaurus.com) to help you.

Angry
E.g. resentful
1. _______________________
2. _______________________
3. _______________________
4. _______________________
5. _______________________
6. _______________________
7. _______________________
8. _______________________

Big
E.g. Mammoth
1. _______________________
2. _______________________
3. _______________________
4. _______________________
5. _______________________
6. _______________________
7. _______________________
8. _______________________

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Your challenge:
-Decide on a name for your villain.
-Choose 10 words to describe the character on the outside e.g. bushy eyebrows.
-Choose 10 words to describe the character on the inside e.g. evil, smart.

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Your challenge:
Write a sentence that begins with a verb (doing word) for each letter of the alphabet.
e.g.
A= answering the phone
B= baking a cake
S=singing a song

Bonus activity: Brainstorm nouns (objects/things) for each letter of the alphabet.
A= apple
B= baseball

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Use a dice to roll and choose what reading activity you will do.

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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Create a shutter book about a story you have just read. Mention what was your favourite part and why? Who were the characters? Where were they? What was the problem in the book? How did it get resolved?
INSERT PICTURE HERE

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Trace the hand of each person in your bubble on one sheet so that they overlap. Each hand gets a different colour outline. Then colour the segments but everytime you come to a line you have to change the colour so you do not have the same colour next to each other.

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Write a recipe on how to make ‘The World’s Most Disgusting Sandwich’

Do your best and think of what ingredients can go in your world’s most disgusting sandwich. The fillings do need to be edible but just imagine the combinations you could make. Write a list of ingredients, tools and then the instructions to put this magnificent creation together.

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Static Fun

Learning about positive and negative charges is pure fun when playing with a balloon. Have your child rub an inflated balloon against their hair and see what they can stick it on or pick up. Can it stick to a wall or pick up pieces of confetti or flakes of pepper?

Science branch examined: electric charge

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Erupting with Fun Volcanoes

Volcanoes are truly a lava fun. (Sorry—couldn’t resist!)

Fill a plastic cup two-thirds of the way full with water and add five tablespoons of baking soda, one teaspoon of dish soap, and several drops of washable paint. Mix the materials together, put the cup on the ground, and form a mound of dirt or snow around the cup to just below its rim. Now comes the fun! Add one cup of vinegar and watch the lava erupt down the side of the mound. You can add vinegar a number of times until you need to add the base ingredients again.

Science skills used and branch of science examined: creating a chemical reaction and geology.

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Get crafty and create an origami dog. All you need is paper and you’re on your way! Follow the step

by step tutorial below.

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Origami for Kids - Origami Dog Tutorial (Very Easy)

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Teach others in your family the words and actions

Ka pīoioi e

Tohu aroha haukāinga

E hoki mai rā

Kia kite atu i tō iwi e.

E rotarota ana

E katakata ana mai rā.

Pūkana whētero mai

I te ihi ā ō mātua.

Kia kite atu ano

I tō ataahua ai kanapa

Pupuhi ai e te hau

Kapohia āku roimata.

Ka pīoioi he

tohu aroha haukāinga.

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Download Scratch Jr and attempt coding these 7 Challenges. It involves Gymnastics, creating your own maze, making your spirit bigger and smaller as well as many more fun challenges to code.

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Scratch is a fantastic interface for students who can read, but I have noticed that kids younger than 8 years old often struggle to understand the concepts in Scratch. Most schools, for example, don't teach the coordinate plane until 4th or 5th grade, but students who dive into Scratch are expected to learn the coordinate plane in order to organize their project designs. When you try to teach a 2nd grader the coordinate plane, they are totally confused.

Another reason for waiting to introduce Scratch is that the Scratch community is general much more mature than a 5-7 year old. Even though Scratch takes precautions to not allow explicit content on their site, young children and their parents may find an open-format community distasteful for students who are young and impressionable. The silliness of many Scratch projects shows forth immediately as students click the Explore tab on Scratch's main site. You can find some awesome Scratch Projects for kids here.

Advantages of ScratchJr

That is why ScratchJr is such a fantastic resource. As explained in the quote above, it more closely matches the cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development of children in the 5-7 age range. So let's dive into some of the great reasons why ScratchJr is the perfect coding tool for kids in this age range. Click here for more coding resources for kids in this age group.

Creative Design and Interactivity

If you hand a child ScratchJr and see what they will do first, chances are they will immediately gravitate to the costume editor which allows them to color and draw the cat or other characters. In my experience, it is amazing what students as young as 4 can draw on this platform. I have students tell me all the time that the cat looks better in pink, or black. They can also free draw books or other accessories as they wish.

After the animations are done, students also figure out quickly how they can record themselves making sounds. ScratchJr does not come with a huge library of sounds like Scratch, which is great because it opens up even more creativity for the kids. They can't just click "Dance Party" for the audio track - they have to create a dance party themselves and record the sound.

Simple Coding Blocks

I'll admit that no coding program I've experienced thus far is 100% intuitive for all 4-5 year olds. But ScratchJr gets really close in its ability to dumb down challenging concepts into a single image. Parents will still likely need to explain what the green flag does, and there are a few other blocks that will also need to be explained. But the concepts are simple, and once kids have the initial explanation, they should be good to create the projects listed below.

Kid-Friendly Graphics

The graphics on ScratchJr are better than Scratch's, but there aren't as many options for backgrounds and characters. Every character in ScratchJr has been developed with the child in mind, looking happy and friendly. There is also a PBS-kids version of ScratchJr which may appeal to kids who want to use the characters from PBS kids in their projects.

A Few Disadvantages

To be clear, I love ScratchJr and I think it is fantastic for young kids, but I must be clear about some of the weaknesses of the program. The simplicity of the coding blocks in ScratchJr doesn't leave much room to create a game. It is possible to create a maze game that is more complicated than the one I created below, and it may be possible to do another type of game, but overall, I find it challenging for our age range and outside the normal bounds of what ScratchJr is intended for.

ScratchJr is also not simple in the sense that coding is not simple. I created this post with this reality in mind: most kids/people struggle when they first try to solve problems in computer programming. Hand a 5 year old an iPad with ScratchJr, and they can probably edit pictures, but they're unlikely to create a legit story without some initial guidance. It's as simple as it can be, but it's not totally intuitive. I think the projects below can offer a nice bridge and introduction to the blocks. If you're looking for more structured instruction, check out these ScratchJr Summer Camps.

Lastly, if you are a teacher and want to use ScratchJr, saving projects can be complicated because there aren't accounts set up in the same way as Scratch. You can export files to another device that has ScratchJr, but you can't save it to iCloud or to your account. So I'd recommend that kids keep track of which iPad they are using if they want continuity in their projects.

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7 ScratchJr Projects for Kids in Grades PK-2 | Coder Kids

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ScratchJr is a fantastic resource that all young coders should be using. But what is ScratchJr, and why shouldn't your child just move into Scratch? This post answers those questions, and it contains 7 introductory projects that will help your child be prepared for creating stories and animations in

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Watch this video about place value Place value lesson. Write the following numbers in expanded notation - the first two have been done for you as an example:

1. 63 = 60 + 3

2. 231 = 200 + 30 + 1

3. 45 =

4. 79 =

5. 124 =

6. 212 =

7. 340 =

8. 108 =

9. 562

10. 1526 =

Find some objects lying around at home such as counters, dried beans, a pack of M&Ms, paperclips, or anything else that you have a lot of. Try to count how many of them you have. Now, try to count them in 2s. You will only count the even numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Now, try to count them in 5s. To make it easier you might want to make little piles of 5. How many objects did you have?

Please share some of your work with your teacher on Class Dojo. We really love to hear from you and seeing all your lovely work.

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Place Value Lesson - 1st and 2nd Grade Math

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Click on the link to read along to the story Lola and Lottie: We honestly can look after your dog. Write a list of the rules Lola and Lottie have to remember to look after Sizzles. What was the most important rule?

Choose a book on Epic books and read that to someone in your bubble. Write down a few questions about the story that you could ask them afterwards to see how well they listened!

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We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog -Kids Story Book -Charlie and Lola -Children's Books Read Aloud

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Find a quiet spot outside to lie down. Stay there for a few minutes. Think about what you can see around you. Think about what you can hear. Think about something you can smell. Think about what you can feel, for example, the grass tickling you or a cool breeze blowing around you. Look around for something you can taste, for example, there might be a fruit tree in your garden or you might want to chew on a piece of grass.

Now write down what you experienced outside with your 5 senses. Remember to use describing words to make your writing interesting. Decorate your page with a border and a picture.

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Check out the worksheet below and discuss with your siblings, aunty, nan or parents the right name for each shape. Who can name it first?

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Can you solve the following problems?Share your working out with your teacher on Class Dojo or Seesaw

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See if you can solve the following word problems

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Go and do some reading on this wonderful website and see if you can answer the questions about the story

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Get our best book recommendations delivered straight to your inbox by signing up for the Scholastic Parents newsletter.

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Erupting with Fun Volcanoes

Volcanoes are truly a lava fun. (Sorry—couldn’t resist!)

Fill a plastic cup two-thirds of the way full with water and add five tablespoons of baking soda, one teaspoon of dish soap, and several drops of washable paint. Mix the materials together, put the cup on the ground, and form a mound of dirt or snow around the cup to just below its rim. Now comes the fun! Add one cup of vinegar and watch the lava erupt down the side of the mound. You can add vinegar a number of times until you need to add the base ingredients again.

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Balance Building

Pick uneven or unstable objects such as cards, paper cups, or rocks and challenge your kids to build as high as they can or in various shapes.

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Static Fun

Learning about positive and negative charges is pure fun when playing with a balloon. Have your child rub an inflated balloon against their hair and see what they can stick it on or pick up. Can it stick to a wall or pick up pieces of confetti or flakes of pepper?

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Don't forget that you can use your prodigy account to learn maths

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Using one of the topics below write your teacher instructions for how to do it..