Snow blog

Spot the Snowman!



Hi Team 2! Hope you are all keeping warm and dry. What amazing weather. What a year! (I have said this before!) Here are some ideas for things you can be doing at home while school is closed. Some of them are snow related.
Reading: Read the newspaper  - look at weather reports, snow reports, articles and pictures from across the country. Go on-line to www.stuff.co.nz  or www.scoop.co.nz for news. Or visit www.metservice.com for weather reports.
Maths: Make a goal to learn your times tables off by heart (you can use the Times table link on Mathletics for funky tunes that help you remember. If you already know up to 10x then learn 11x, 12x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x! work out easy ways of doing this (eg 15x is your 10x plus your 5times). Practice multiplying and dividing large numbers by 10, 100, 1000. Can you do the same with decimals? Go to http://www.mathletics.co.nz/ (see the blog link) or http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/ for extra maths practice (follow the links to the families section).
Writing: Write a snow poem. Remember a poem uses a few words to say a lot, often has similes and metaphors and adjectives, builds a picture or creates a feeling and sounds a bit musical when it's read aloud. Your poem may take any form or you may like to use a set format eg haiku, acrostic, cinquain or even a limerick!
Email your completed poem to me sandy.thomas@redcliffs.school.nz to earn a prize from my prize box.

eg  Cinquain  

Snow flakes

dance in the square

of light from a window

as a man sits, quiet and still,

and waits.