• https://www.gonoodle.com/ –GoNoodle helps parents get kids moving with short interactive activities
• Teach your monster to read app
• https://www.getepic.com/ Students have access to an online library of 1000’s of books
• www.sumdog.com reading, spelling and maths practice
• https://readworks.org – Reading comprehension instruction
• https://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/ – Kiwi kids news
• https://www.storylineonline.net/ – famous people reading stories to listen to

• Who is their favourite character and why?
• Is there anyone like that in your family?
• What do they think is going to happen?
• What have they learnt from their reading?
• Does it remind them of any of their own experiences?
• Help your child with any words they don’t understand – look them up together in the dictionary if you need to.
• Read recipes, instructions, manuals, maps, diagrams, signs and emails. It will help your child to understand that words can be organised in different ways on a page, depending on what it’s for.
• Read junk mail – your child could compare costs, make their own ‘advertisements’ by cutting up junk mail or come up with clever sentences for a product they like.
• If your child has chosen something to read that is too hard at the moment, take turns and read it together.
• Reading to younger brothers or sisters, whänau, or grandparents will give your child an opportunity to practise reading out loud.
• Encourage other family members to read to and with your child – Aunty, Grandma, Koro. 
• Playing board games and card games is important, too. Choose games that everyone wants to play – make them challenging, not too hard.

Music

• invent clapping games with different rhythms
• find a bottle (plastic, glass) and try and create different tones blowing into them
• sing a song together
• collect sticks and create drum beats on hard surfaces (upside down bins, outdoor seats, old boxes)
• turn on the radio and invent movements to go with different songs
• kitchen band – make instruments and music with pots and pans.

• http://www.pobble365.com/: Students to complete the writing activities on the website.
• www.sumdog.com spelling, reading and maths practice.

https://nz.education.com/games/ela/writing/ online writing games.

• Help write a shopping list
• Writing in a journal
• Write a gratitude list
• write instructions for something
• write an alternate ending to favourite story or movie
• keep a book of facts
• Write a letter on how to advocate for positive change in the world
• Writing about their heroes, sports events, tïpuna (ancestors), hobbies and interests helps your child to stay interested in what they are writing about.

• leave messages around the house 
• send a message in a bottle
• do code crackers, word puzzles, crosswords,

• word finds – these are all fun to do together.
• Make up a story or think of a pakiwaitara (legend) and act it out with costumes and music.
• Write down the names of the characters or tïpuna (ancestors).
• If you or someone in your family has a computer, encourage your child to use it to write, email and publish or print for pleasure (emails, birthday cards, poems, jokes, letters, pictures with captions). 
• Write messages in two languages 
• Get your child to talk about their writing and share it.
• Cut out words and letters to make stories, codes, poems, puzzles and more
• Play word games together. Play with words. Thinking of interesting words and discussing new ones can help increase the words your child uses when they write 
• Look words up in the dictionary or on the Internet or talk with family/whänau to find out more about where the words come from.
• Get your child to help write the shopping list, invitation lists for family events, menus for special dinners, thank-you cards when someone does something nice.
• Postcards are a good size for a sentence or two and they are cheap to post, too.
• Have a special place to keep your child’s writing at home (notice board, fridge, folder). You might frame a piece of writing and hang it up, too.

• www.sumdog.com – Maths, reading, spelling maths practice
• www.mathletics.com – Easy to use maths website that students can sign into Dojo message your classroom teacher if you need login details. 
• https://www.prodigygame.com/ 
• https://www.coolmathgames.com/
• https://www.mathplayground.com/ – math games, puzzles
• https://nz.mathgames.com/ – maths practice by year level

• find and connect numbers around your home and neighbourhood – phone numbers, clocks, letterboxes, road signs, signs showing distance 
• count forwards and backwards (starting with numbers like 998, 999, 1,000, 1,001, 1,002 then back again)
• make patterns when counting – forwards and backwards, starting with different numbers (73, 83, 93, 103, 113, 123 or 128, 118, 108, 98, 88, 78…)

• explore patterns through drumming, clapping, stamping, dancing
• find out the ages and birth dates of family and whänau
• see patterns in the numbers in their times tables.
• making lunch or a meal for a party or a hui – make sandwiches in different shapes. Can they cut their sandwich in half? Can they cut the other sandwich in half a different way?
• helping at home – choose items to weigh – how many apples/bananas weigh a kilo? Look for the best buy between different makes of the same items (e.g., blocks of cheese
• check on the amount of sugar or salt per serving
• telling the time – o’clock, ½ , ¼ past 
• thinking about how many telephone numbers they can remember – talk about what they do to help them remember the series of numbers reading together 
• help them look for numbers and mathematics ideas looking for shapes and numbers in newspapers, magazines, junk mail, art (like carvings and sculpture).
• play card and board games that use guessing and checking
• look at junk mail – which is the best value?
• Ask your child what they would buy if they had $10/$100/$1,000 to spend 
• do complicated jigsaw puzzles
• cook or bake – use measuring cups, spoons (½ and ¼ teaspoon) and scales 
• collect boxes – undo and see if you can make them up again or make it into something else
• make paper darts and change the weight so that they fly differently, work out which is the best design
• create a repeating pattern (e.g., köwhaiwhai patterns) to fill up a page or decorate a card
•  play mathematics “I Spy” – something that is ½ a km away, something that has 5 parts
•  hide something from each other and draw a map or hide several clues – can you follow the map or the clues and find it?
•  do skipping ropes/elastics – how long will it take to jump to 20?