Home-Learning 2014

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 7/8

Handed out: Friday the 28th November  Due: Friday the 3rd December

Ruma Iwa Unstoppable Compliments

This week I will share a compliments page - you will need to go in a compliment others.

Think about a time this person made you feel happy - what makes you smile when you think of this person? What do people in Ruma Iwa excell at?

Phototastic

Time for you to scroll through the blog and make a photo page! Remember how to right click and save a photo. Then you can make a photo collage.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 6/7

Handed out: Friday the 21st November  Due: Friday the 28th November

Learning Successes and Next Steps

Think about your year.

What have been your successes? They could be literacy, maths, inquiry, spelling OR they could be a social success, a managing self, a value success. What are you really proud of?

And, remember, we’re always learning. So what’s next for you?

Think about personal goals as well as school goals.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 5/6

Handed out: Friday the 14th November Due: Friday the 21st November

Dreams and Ambitions

Think about the future.

What do you dream about?

What are your ambitions/long term goals?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Where do you see yourself in 50 years?

Dreams and Ambitions

Describe your hopes for the future, including your plans for your education and career.  What are some things that you would like to accomplish during your teenage years?  What goals do you have for when you become an adult?  Where do you hope to live, what will your family be like, and what would you like to be doing?  Include any other dreams and ambitions that you have for the future.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 4/5

Handed out: Friday the 7th November  Due: Friday the 14th November

Likes and Dislikes

Pretty self explanatory - what do you like a dislike?

You could add a venn diagram, a mind map, a list, or a table.

    Likes and Dislikes

In this paragraph, write about some or your favorite things...like food, TV shows, style of music and singers, books that you've read.  Who do you admire (whether they are famous or non-famous) and why do you admire them?  What's your idea of having a good time?  What don't you like to do, and what are some of your pet peeves?  What makes you angry? What do you turn your nose up to?

My Opinions and Feelings

My Opinions and Feelings

What are some things that you feel strongly about?  What is important to you?  It could be your family, your friends, your country, your values...or a combination of these things. Be sure to describe why these things are important to you in this paragraph.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 4

Handed out: Monday the 3rd of November -   Due: Friday the 7th November

A Decade of Memorable Events

       A Decade of Memorable Events

Write about the important things that have happened in your life.  For example, you could describe special birthdays, your first day of school, moving to a new home, cool places that you've visited, or winning a special award.  You may include things that happened when you were very young, or events that happened recently - or both!  Remember, choose memorable events, and be sure to tell why they were memorable.

This is a timeline time.

In the past 10 years - what has been memorable?

Record events on a timeline in your Autobiography.

At the Present

      At the Present

Describe yourself in detail.  What do you look like now?  What are some of your personality traits (outgoing, friendly, sensitive, serious, etc.)?  What are your interests, hobbies, and talents?  What kind of clubs and organisations do you belong to?  What makes you a special and unique person?

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 2/3

Handed out: Friday 24th October  Due: Thursday the 30th October

Family Facts and Fun

Paragraph 3:         Family Facts and Fun

Describe each member of your family so people will know what they are like.  What do they look like?  What are some of their personality traits?  How old is each person?  Where do you fit in your family - oldest, youngest, or somewhere in the middle?  What ethnic groups are in your family?  Do you have any pets, and what are their names?  What does your family do together for fun?  Include any other interesting facts about your family.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 1/2

Handed out: Friday 17th October  Due: Friday 24th October

Pleased to Meet You!

Introduce yourself.

Easy Peasy.

Paragraph 1:         Pleased to Meet You!

Begin by introducing yourself.  What is your full name, and how old are you?  Tell where you go to school, and how long you have gone to school there.  Remember to grab the audience's attention and make them want to read on...and be sure to remind the audience what they can expect to read in the following paragraphs.

The Story Begins

Paragraph 2:         The Story Begins

This paragraph gives information about the beginning of your life.  Include the date, time, city, and name of the hospital where you were born.  Why did your parents choose to give you your name?  What was your birth weight and length?  How about your birth sign?  Include any interesting, memorable facts about your birth. Hint: Interview your family to get some of this information.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 1

Handed out: Monday the 13th of October  Due: Friday the 17th of October

Using the other side of your circles challenge chart, you need to fill out the circles over the week.

How creative can you be?

HAVE FUN!

And, if your parents and families want to play - here's the chart to print. 

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 3, Week 8-9

Handed out: Friday the 12th of September  Due: Friday the 19th of September

OUR INQUIRY PLAN:

Part 1: Introduction to your party (Finish by Thursday the 11th of September)

Part 2: Policies (Finish by Tuesday the 16th of September)

Part 3: Financial (Finish by Thursday/Friday 18th/19th)

Part 4: Marketing (Start this ASAP i.e This weekend!!! - What creations are you going to make to market/advertise yourself and your party?)

Part 5: Speech - Presentation is on Wednesday the 24th of September.

9am in the staffroom.
Are we inviting families/Mrs Cavanagh? If so, we need to think about ways we can invite them.

Remember that this is a guideline. You still have Monday/Tuesday of Week 10 to continue your Inquiry Project.

This week, your home learning task is to make sure you are on track in your Inquiry learning.

So, you are continuing your classroom learning at home.

This is a time for you to self-manage and to make sure you are on track.

To help keep yourself on track, I have put some guidelines in brackets next to each part.

You will still have time in class to complete these tasks, however, you will need to work on them at home to get to part 5 and be ready to present in Week 10.

Remember:

- Don’t go too far ahead without talking to the other members of your party. This is a collaborative process.

- Make sure you use the comment section to communicate with other members of your party if you are working at home.

- Use your Party Planning Update document to give yourself more information on the specifics of each part of your Inquiry task.

Stay focused and work hard.

Miss Matich

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 3, Week 7-8

Handed out: Friday the 5th of September  Due: Friday the 12th of September

Woohoo! We’ve finished our production dance!

1. So, your home learning this week is to practise, practise, practise!

You have the music in your drive.

2. You also need to make sure you have your costume sorted.

We have discussed this at length in class - a huge thanks to those families and children who have been sharing resources. There is also a more updated costume notice on our blog.

Remember there is  a full dress rehearsal on Wednesday the 17th of September.

3. Make sure that your family know the dates and times of production.

Have you thought about how you are getting there?

Wednesday the 17th at 6:30pm

Thursday the 18th at 6:30pm

Do they need to buy tickets? If so, remind them!

4. Do something kind for someone - You need to share with me what KIND action you have done this week for someone at school or someone at home.

MY KIND ACTION:

Your other tasks include:

- Continue working on your basic facts rockets at home

- Reading at home

- Spelling words for the week - you could use spelling city to help you learn these.

Miss Matich

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 3, Week 6-7

Handed out: Friday the 29th of August  Due: Friday the 5th of September

This weekend your home learning project is called:

Catch up!

You need to go through to finished learning document and play the catch up game.

What do you need to work on and share with me?

This will look different for different people.

You also need to:

1) Make sure your Inquiry Presentation is ready to present

If you always manage your time well, and you are done..

1) Basic Facts Rockets

2) Reading Novels

3) Spelling

Have a great weekend,

Miss Matich

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 3, Week 5-6

Handed out: Friday the 22nd of August    Due: Friday the 29th of August

We have been doing some work around the words you’re and your because we sometimes get the two confused.

Circle/Highlight the correct word in each statement:

1) I believe that these chocolate chip cookies are (you, your, yours, you're).

2) Please use your napkin when (you, your, yours, you're) eating lunch.

3) Did (you, your, yours, you're) injure (you, your, yours, you're) ankle when you fell?

4) Since (you, your, yours, you're) late, we had to start without you.

5) Please wave at me when (you, your, yours, you're) leave.

6) (You, Your, Yours, You're) the greatest student. I’m so lucky to have you in our class.

7) (You, Your, Yours, You're) an awesome friend.

Your second task this week is to write a letter to...YOURSELF!

So, over this past week, we have been thinking about learning celebrations, proud moments and next steps to share with our families next week. But, what do you need to tell yourself? Your homework task this week is to take a moment to think about the person who entered Ruma Iwa in February of this year, 6 months ago.

Topics you can include:

- What are you proud of?

- Do you have any regrets so far?

- What’s something you really want to work hard at by the end of the year?

- What are your successes?

- Do you have any frustrations or worries?

- Are you happy with your friendships?

- What goals do you have over the next few months?

- Any kind words to yourself?

- Any serious words to yourself?

- What else? You choose.

Note:

- This writing task should be half a page - to a page, size 12 font.

- You can hand write it or add it to the end of your google doc.

- This document will be kept private between you and me. You are welcome to share your home learning with others, but remember that when you share, anyone who has access to their folders can view your work too.

Happy writing,

Miss Matich

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 3, Week 4-5

Handed out: Friday the 15th of August    Due: Friday the 22nd of August

This term we have been learning about, “Having a Voice to Make a Choice”. Your home learning task this week is to match people to their roles. There is also an Inquiry vocab hunt and a maths grid for you to fill out on the second page. Don’t forget to time yourself...GO!!!

People and Their Roles:

The Speaker of the house Current Prime Minister Deputy Prime Minister Governor General The Leader of the Opposition The first elected female Prime Minister National’s Hutt South Electorate Candidate Labour’s Hutt South Electorate MP The Education Minister

Sir Jerry Mateparae David Cunliffe Helen Clark Trevor Mallard David Carter Chris Bishop Hekia Parata John Key Bill English

During our trip to Parliament on Wednesday, we spent a lot of time learning about people and their roles. If you were apart of our New Zealand parliament, what role would you fulfill? Why?

Multiplication Grid - time yourself filling in your grid.

Goodluck :)

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Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 3, Week 3

Handed out: Friday the 8th of August    Due: Friday the 15th of August

This week, your Home learning requires you to do some thinking about the use of GAFE (Google Accounts for Education) and the use of Chromebooks in our class. This is your chance to give YOUR feedback. It’s not what your sister thinks, your teacher, or your parents.

Do you think it’s helping your learning?

What do you like about it?

Are you happy with your learning?

If you are stuck for ideas, feel free to talk about the following:

- How’s your engagement in your learning?

- Do you think you are getting through your work faster or slower or the same?

- Are you excited to share your learning with classmates/parents/teacher?

- What do you like about Google Docs/Apps?

- What do you think about your current amount of screen time?

- Are you enjoying collaborating (working together) on projects?

- Do you think you are being a safe digital citizen when using the device?

- Are you making smart choices?

- Is your email helping? Are you using it?

Positives	Minus	Interesting

Do you have any suggestions or ideas for improvements?

After talking about the kinds of decisions we/I/you make, I was interested to see that I make all of our timetable decisions.

If you were in charge of our timetable for the week, what would it look like? What time would school start? What time would school end?

You need to add in the starting time and ending time in the times column. You can choose how long lunch and morning tea are and what time they start.

When is Maths, Reading, Writing, Spelling, Inquiry, P.E/Fitness, Assembly, Buddy Time, Library time?

YOU get to choose. What do you include in your timetable or do you get rid of anything?

Happy Planning

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 3, Week 2

Handed out: Friday the 1st of August       Due: Friday 8th of August

This week during reading we have been reading stories about New Zealand and some of the decisions made in our country. Some of the stories we have read are called:

- Becoming a Kiwi

- Poll Tax in New Zealand

- To Spray or not to Spray

- Our Playground

All of these stories have something in common. That is, they all have a story line of decision making. Everyone makes decisions. Mums and Dads make important decisions for us, Grandparents make important family decisions, Teachers make important learning decisions, and children make decisions every day.

This weeks homework is to think about who makes the decisions in your family and what kinds of decisions are made.

Who decides what’s for dinner? Who decides what time I have to wake up in the morning? Who decides when I should go to bed? Who decides what toys I play with? Who decides if I should brush my teeth or not? Who decides if I should do the dishes? Who decides if I should get the mail from the letter box? Who decides if I should call a friend? Who decides how I behave? Who decides where we live?

In order to organise these ideas, you will need to fill out the venn diagram about decisions. (Over the page)

There are three parts:

1) Make a list of decisions I make

2) Make a list of the decisions we make together (Middle section)

2) Make a list of decisions adults make

The second part of your homework is to

- practise your spelling words

- practise your basic facts using your basic facts rocket

- give someone a compliment

And if you haven’t already - it would be a great idea to show your family your google drive folder and some of the work we have been doing.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Matich

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 3, Week 1

Handed out: Friday the 25th of July                              Due: Friday the 1st of August

Dear Parents and Whanau

This week in maths your child has participated in a unit called “Counting on Probability”. The activities in this unit have focused on the counting of possible outcomes and simple events. We have learnt to count the number of outcomes. We have also learnt how to find the probabilities of different outcomes. Here are three problems you can try at home. Your child’s homework is to try at least one, but feel free to do both.

1) Dice and Dollar: How many different outcomes are there when a dice is rolled and a dollar coin is tossed together? What is the probability of getting a head and an even number? What is the probability of getting tails and an odd number?

2) Dice and Spinner: Make a cardboard spinner that is divided into three equal sections (⅓). Number the sections 1, 2, 3. Roll a dice and spin the spinner. Multiply together the number on the top of the dice and the number the spinner rests on. How many different results can you get? Is the probability of getting an even number the same as getting an odd number?  

3) Students play the “What’s in the bag” game with your family. You are the mini Miss Matich. Make sure you explain the game properly. Can they make a correct guess?

Enjoy investigating these probability activities with your child.

Next week, we will be starting cross grouping for mathematics throughout Nikau Syndicate. Our focus for the term is fractions, proportions and ratios.

Here are some fractions questions for you:

1. Mrs Pizza orders pizza cut into 8 slices. Her daughter eats 1/4 of the pizza. Her son eats 1/2 of the pizza and she eats one slice. Is there any pizza left? What fraction of the pizza did the family eat?

2. Mrs. Leary’s class visited the animal shelter to see the animals that were available for adoption. They counted 24 animals in all.

• 1/3 of the animals were dogs. The rest were cats.

a) How many dogs were at the shelter?

b) How many cats were at the shelter?

• Explain how you know your answers are correct.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Week 9

Friday the 27th of June

Due: Thursday the 3rd of July.

This Term we have had many successes. We have learnt a lot about energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy, writing explanations, making connections in our reading, and lots of computer skills. We have created books for our library and ibooks for our ipads. We have been working hard at keeping fit by jump-jamming and running Bushey way. We’ve participated in cross country, electives, syndicate singing and we’ve shared our goals with you all through three way conferences.

One of my favourite successes this term was hearing from relievers/Mrs Evans/Mrs Cavanagh, who have all been in Room 9 over the term about how self managing Room 9 students are. It has made me so proud to be their teacher! I can see such improvements in independence, self management, leadership, and making the right choices since the beginning of the year. It’s sad to say that sometimes I can sit back and watch Room 9 work like a well oiled machine (for a few minutes anyway). I can’t wait to see what the next two terms bring. So well done my unstoppable Ruma Iwa Tamariki!

So, this week’s home learning is to write a paragraph and one of your successes. What have you been really proud of? What do you feel you have worked on really well? When did you feel successful this term?

We have blogged a lot this term, so if you need help remembering all the fabulous work we’ve done, flick through the Term 2 blog posts. I can’t wait to read what you come up with!

Miss Matich

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Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Week 8

Friday the 20th of June

(Due Friday the 27th of June)

Over the year, we have been learning about feedback and feedforward.

We have created this chart to help us think about giving specific feedback and feedforward.

Your child is bringing home their writing book with them over the next week. Their homework is to teach an adult/older sibling in the family about feedback/forward and get a piece of feedback/forward. (Thanks for helping!)

My Feedback/feedforward: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I have told my family about feedback/feedforward: _______________________________

I have asked for some feedback/feedforward: ___________________________________

Many thanks,

Krista Matich

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Week 7

Friday the 13th of June

(Homework due: Friday the 20th of June)

Have you checked out our new Maths blog? What do you think of it?

This week, your task is to check out the maths blog at http://maungarakimaths.blogspot.co.nz

You can also find it on our blog by clicking on the math’s blog link.

What did you like in the maths blog?

1) ___________________________________________________________________________

2) ___________________________________________________________________________

What do you think the maths blog needs?

1) ____________________________________________________________________________

2) ____________________________________________________________________________

Here are some maths challenges for you to complete.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Week 6

Friday the 6th of June

Over the weekend, it would be a fabulous idea to start thinking about your explanation and do some planning. We will have time set aside next week in class to do some research, but remember you should choose a topic that you already know something about.

You can use this planning template if you would like to. Otherwise you can use space in your book.
Don't forget to think about:
- Introduction
- Paragraph 1
- Paragraph 2
- Paragraph 3 (If you have one)
and your conclusion.

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Week 5

Friday the 30th of May

This past week, we have been learning all about how to write explanations.

We know they start with an introduction. You can introduce a topic using facts, a joke, or some questions. Then, we can start to explain what something is, how it works, what it’s linked to, why it does something, and sometimes it’s history. You can link it to our world - we call this ‘bigger picture’ writing. Lastly, explanations end with a brief summary, concluding the main point of the explanation. Over the past week, we have been writing about how birds can sit on power lines without getting electrocuted.

This has prompted us to read a wonder a day from http://wonderopolis.org

It’s also a free ipad app, so sometimes we look it up on there as well.

We have learnt about heroes, how roller coasters work, the biggest shark in the world and lots of other wonders. What do you wonder about?

This week’s homework is to share our favourite wonder with our family.

Furthermore, if you choose, you can check out http://wonderopolis.org and explore together.

In addition to sharing their wonder, children will need to start thinking about their writing topic for Week 5. We will be explaining how something works. It could be a potato peeler, an electricity generator, a skateboard, or a camera. If they are able to - they can bring this to school. If it’s not suitable a photo or the idea itself will be suitable.

I have shared my wonder with my family: __________________________________

I will be writing about: _________________________________________________

Many thanks,

Krista Matich

Term 2, Week 2: Tuesday the 13th of May

This week, we are coming home with a survey about energy. 

It is to get us thinking about how much energy we use but also ideas about energy and saving energy.

Happy energy investigating!

Just a reminder:

 - All children have basic facts rockets for knowledge 

- All children have spelling words

- All children have library books issued from the library for reading. 

- There are a number of learning games on our blog if you would like your children to continue their learning at home 

Thanks,

Krista Matich 

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Monday the 7th of April

Our Week 10 homework is to choose a day - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and record our water usage on those days. 

How much water do you use?

Yesterday, we learnt about four different types of water.

1) Grey water

2) Waste water

3) Treated water

4) Untreated water

Can your treasure tell you about them?

Week 8 Homework: Tuesday the 25th of March

Week 7 Homework - Monday the 17th of March.

Answers Below:

We figured out there were a few ways to do the above problem. We're problem solvers :)

Week 6 - Monday the 10th of March.

Friday the 28th of February..(Week 4)
For Inquiry today, we found useful information from the internet and printed it off. 
Our job, is to skim and scan for important information and key facts and highlight these. We can then use this information to help write our information reports. 
This weekend, children will need to highlight their information ready to start crafting our sentences and paragraphs for Monday morning. 


Term 1, week 4:

Week 5:

Week 4:

Term 1, week 3:

Answers:

Milly figured out that every 6th lantern would be yellow. Therefore, because 6x6 equal 36, the 36th lantern would be yellow, so the 40th would be blue!! 

Zach figured out that 7 and 2 make 9, 6 and 3 make 9 and 5 and 4 make 9. Therefore if the middle number is 1, the other numbers make 10 together!

Homework every week 2014:

- Basic Fact rockets
- Maths challenges

- Spelling

- Reading at home

- Checking the blog and sharing your learning with Whanau.