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Suggestions For Parents For Learning at Home

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We understand that these are uncertain times, but please take this time as an excellent

opportunity to build memories, nurture family relationships and learn skills. Remember
to have fun 

Reading
Reading should be fun and easy – a time for laughter and talk. Reading is a chance to
spend special time together.
 Visit the library or library bus for an armful of books. Have you tried the online
version?
 Listen to an audio book.
 Orally share family stories. What games did Grandma play when she was
younger? What does Grandad do that makes you laugh?
 Retell well-known stories.
 Sing favourite songs.
 Make up your own family story and write it down.
 Use sidewalk chalk to write letters, names or words. Say a word and try to think
of as many words that can rhyme with it.
 Play word games like “I spy” and “Simon says…”
 Reading Eggs - https://readingeggs.co.nz/
You child should have their login and password and if you are unsure of what it is
please ask.
 Jolly Phonics songs – https://vimeo.com/106231366

Writing
 A great way to maintain writing skills is to write letters or emails to important
people in your child’s life. They could write to a grandparent, an aunt or a friend.
 Make a shopping list together with your child writing the list.
 Help your child write an alphabet letter, and then go on a letter hunt around your
house or in a book to find that letter.
 Help them create a scrapbook with pictures. Encourage them to write stories
under the picture and talk about them.
 Look out the window and write down everything you can see.
 Brainstorm a list of things that your family likes to eat.
 Make a photo book and have your child make the captions.
 Write secret messages for others to find in their lunchboxes or under their pillow.
 Treasure hunt- get your child to write the clues and go on a hunt.
 Keep a little diary. Write a few sentences about what you have done for the day.

Maths
Have fun with numbers and patterns.
 Number books, songs, poems, and chants.
 Count forwards, count back. Skip count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
 Dominoes, playing cards, snakes and ladders, Go Fish, UNO
 Let them help you with cooking and baking. Try writing out a simple recipe for a
fruit salad. Let her help you count 20 blueberries, 15 grapes, etc.
 Get them involved in the food shopping. For example, “We need eight potatoes;
can you help me find eight? We have five, how many more do we need?”
 Many board games also include counting spaces. You could even make your own
board game together, writing out the numbers on the spaces and using stickers to
signify the meaning of different spaces for added fun.
 Pattern play. You can use tangrams and take turns making patterns, or make
patterns with stickers or by stringing beads. Make clapping patterns.
 Use words in everyday play like under, over, between, around, behind, up, down,
heavy, light, light, round, yesterday, tomorrow.
 Shape and number hunt around the neighbourhood.
 I spy something that is longer/bigger/smaller than a…
 Maths Seeds can be found at https://readingeggs.co.nz/

Life Skills
 How to look after the house.
 Make their own bed.
 Feed the family pets.
 Sort the recycling and take the rubbish out.
 Make a sandwich.
 Sort the washing. Pair and fold the socks.

Play strategy games


A great way to build critical thinking skills and have fun at the same time is to play
strategy games that require patience and multi-step thinking.
 Checkers, Connect Four Game, Sorry, Ludo, Guess Who and UNO are great
games for critical thinking skills because children need to be able to think about
each move and its repercussions several moves later.
Games with lots of interaction and collaborative goals also help children learn how to
think critically when in a group.

Puzzles
Puzzles and games help build critical thinking skills, while also building verbal and
math fluency. Puzzles show children how to think methodically and eliminate wrong
answers. They help children see patterns and the relationship between parts and the
whole. They are also fun activities that the whole family can enjoy!

Be Creative
A great way for students to show what they know is by giving them the opportunity to
create something new. This could be a literacy-based activity, like creating their own
comic book. It could be a STEAM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Art/Maths)
activity, where your child is tasked with building a new machine for a specific purpose,
like creating a roller coaster for a new amusement park. Projects like these are not just
engaging for kids. They encourage them to apply their knowledge and synthesize their
learning, engaging critical thinking.

Lego Challenge
 Make something that floats.
 Make a volcano.
 Make a marble run.
 Make animals for the local zoo.
 Make something you can find in the ocean.
 Build a bridge to connect one side of the town to the other.
 You are hired to build a house entirely out of yellow.
 There is a snowstorm. Build a snowmobile.
 You are enter a contest to build the world’s tallest tower.
 You are stuck on Mars. You need to build a new spaceship to get home.
 You have been hired to build a new roller coaster.
 Pizza party. You are hired to make a pizza for the guests.
 There is a circus in town. Build a place for the performance.

Other creative ideas:


 Create puppets and put on a puppet show.
 Play charades.
 Draw or create an animal you are interested in.
 Watch the sunset. Draw a picture.
 Dance to music, sing and clap to your favourite songs.

Fine Motor Skills


 Playdough
 Puzzles
 Using kitchen tongs or tweezers. Rice races – colour some rice with food
colouring, once dry see who can pick up the most rice with a pair of tweezers in a
minute. Use the coloured rice to make their names or rice picture.
 Sand play
 Lego
 Cutting paper snowflakes
 Tying shoelaces
 Popping bubble wrap
 Folding paper aeroplanes, or any origami
 Hammer nails into wood

Gross Motor Skills


 Hopscotch
 Kicking, catching, throwing, dribbling balls of various sizes
 Skipping
 GoNoodle https://www.gonoodle.com/for-families/
 Paper plate skating
 Indoor newspaper basketball
 Frisbee toss
 Dancing

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