For today’s session have a go at writing sentences for the following pictures. You can use the suggested sentence with the picture or have a go at one of your own!
The pig is little.
The goat had little feet.
Her basket had lots of food.
Maths
Get your maths brain ready with this groups of 10’s song.
Today we are revisiting yesterday’s place value activity with a guessing game, you can use the same resources as the previous activity. This is a spin on ‘who am I?’.
Take it in turns to think of a number and describe it to your partner (parent, sibling etc) using the values of the number, for example my number has 1 ten and 4 ones (14) the person guessing can say the number but to make it extra challenging use the place value cards and/or objects to make the number.
If you think your child is beginning to understand the concept of place value with teen numbers it would be a good idea today to repeat yesterday’s activity with some larger numbers (only up to 99) and explore how many 10’s each of the larger numbers might have. 25 has 2 tens and 5 ones, 47 has 4 tens and 7 ones.
Once you have explored numbers above 20 you can have a go at the following game!
We have had a lovely day back in school today. Things are a little different but we are helping the grown ups keep things nice and clean and we have our own sets of stationary including our own playdough pot! We hope that this picture of our happy faces having fun with our friends put our grown ups minds at ease about our days at school! 🙂
Today use the basic code in the back of your reading diary and go though all the sounds together. You could always make a bingo out of it using small counters or coins.
Tricky words
Tricky word challenge! See how many tricky words you can write in 5 minutes, use the following or a selection of your own.
said there so little have one like do some when come out were what
In today’s session have a go at reading the following, tricky words are highlighted in red. Most words should be phonetic but their might be a few where your child may need some assistance.
Maths
Over the next few weeks we will be learning about place value focusing particularly on ‘teen’ numbers, if you feel like your child needs more of a challenge please feel free to use some larger numbers with them however it is important that they do have a good understanding of place value at a ‘teen’ level too. The main objective is that your child is aware that, for example, 14 is made with one 10 and a 4.
Start with a number song to get your brain warmed up!
Adults you’ll have to take the lead with this introduction to teen numbers. Have 20 objects (if possible 20 of the same thing, lego / duplo blocks etc and if possible make some place value cards 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6 ,7, 8, 9 (see example picture) or alternatively if you have access to a printer you can find some here. (You will only need pages 4-6)
Explore the numbers on the cards and see what happens if you place the single digit on the 0 of the 10, how does that change the number?
What new numbers can you make?
Discuss what you see is happening for example this is 14, can you see that it is one 10 and 4 ones?
Use the duplo/lego or other counting objects to count out the numbers that you make with your cards. Experiment with making a group of 10 objects and a group of objects to represent the single digit and just changing the single digit amount to change the value.
For today’s phonics session you will need to work with a partner. Ask an adult or a sibling to play with you. This game is called Sentence Substitution. Adults, ask your child to write a sentence starter, choose from the list below or do all three –
The pigs hid in the…
The goats ran to the…
The duckling felt…
Once your child has written a sentence starter, get their partner (it might be you or another member of your family) to finish the sentence with a real or fun and silly ending. Encourage your child to read the whole sentence back adding in your chosen word. You can rub out the final word and repeat with a different one. Possible endings could include –
The pigs hid in the…mud/grass/shed/car/bed
The goats ran to the…chip shop/beach/field/farm
The duckling felt…sad/happy/upset/grumpy
Read Me Riddles
Ask your child to read these riddles and tell you which traditional tales character they are about.
Tricky words are in red, don’t sound them out, and digraphs and trigraphs are underlined.
I can be pink
I like to roll in mud
I have a curly tail
Who am I?
I have sharp teeth
I live in the forest
I am hairy
Who am I?
I live with my mum
I sell a cow
I get magic beans
Who am I?
Literacy
For literacy this week we would like you to get as familiar with as many different traditional tales as you can. Refer to Monday’s session and watch, listen or read a different story each day or more if you like.
PE
We will no longer be delivering a traditional PE session in school each week. We will however still be practising mindfulness, yoga and Just Dance in the classroom. We will provide you with links to the sessions we’re accessing at school so that you can carry out the same activities at home. Don’t forget to still go out for your daily exercise and if you are in school we will be spending a lot of time in the outside area.
Mindfulness – breathing exercise
Listen to this calming mindful video. Turn off everything around you and find somewhere comfortable to sit down and take a moment to just concentrate on your breathing. It’s quite a long session at 12 minutes so you may want to break it into 2 chunks.
Welcome back. We are so looking forward to seeing many of you return to school. If you are remaining at home then please access all of your learning here. We will be teaching the same content in the classroom.
This half term we will be immersing you in traditional tales. We will be looking at stories that have been around for many years, stories that your parents, grandparents and other family members will know! Ask your grown ups at home what their favourite story was when they were younger. You’ll notice that a lot of our activities in Literacy, Phonics and even Maths, are based on traditional tales. We hope you’ll love this topic as much as we do.
Phonics
Start by singing one of our favourite alphabet songs
Now practise your digraphs…
With our new topic in mind have a go at reading the picture and caption cards below. After you’ve read them can you tell which story they’re from? Don’t forget the words in red are tricky words, don’t sound them out.
Literacy
We love traditional tales. How many can you think of? Here’s a list to get you started. Have you read or heard any of these before? Maybe you’ve heard some in your class or at home.
Goldilocks and The Three Bears
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Three Little Pigs
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Little Red Riding Hood
Hansel and Gretel
Rumpelstiltskin
The Ugly Duckling
The Gingerbread Man
There are probably a lot more that you know that aren’t included on our list. These are just a few of our favourites. If you have any of these stories at home, start reading them.
If you don’t then here are a few links to some online stories you can read, watch and listen to.
The Gingerbread Man. Listen to the story or follow the words to read
Jack and The Beanstalk. Listen to this story on BBC Teach. Scroll down for all the episodes. There are some great activities to go alongside the story too
Your job for Literacy this week is to read as many different stories as you can ready for next week’s Literacy tasks. Just read, listen and enjoy. You could listen to one of the links above each day. Talk about the stories with your family. Listen to the same story from different sources e.g, Youtube, a book, an online book, a video. Do you notice any differences between the same story? Talk about characters, who is good and who is bad? We will be looking more at characters later on. For now, just enjoy stories and try and read as many from the list above as you can.
Apart from realising that two weeks is a very long time between assemblies, I have also learnt this week that we are all completely surrounded by real-life heroes! I have loved hearing about the people in your lives who care for you, inspire you, make you feel proud and help you to realise the true value of people and relationships, especially when things get a little tricky in the world. People like …
Uncle Chris who does the food bank trips, tidies the garden and even builds trampolines whilst working long hours in a supermarket
NHS workers – nurses, midwives, doctors, mums who care for our eyes and Junior Doctors in their first few weeks in post on the frontline
A and E Air Rescue trained GPs and surgeons and a little boy who is so proud of the role played by his daddy and his Uncle Ali in trying their best to ‘squish’ the danger that currently exists
Mums, Dads and other grown-ups who are patiently helping to keep our home learning going alongside all their other jobs, and still managing to take us for lovely walks, cook with us, paint with us, garden with us and have lots of fun with us all at the same time
Daddies who help to deliver food parcels
Inspirational, kind and caring teachers who are deeply missed but are continuing to inspire us and make us smile from afar
Great Grandma Doll Doll (aged 93) who lives by herself but now uses two ipads to manage her family communications!
Uncle Shane who is tirelessly and bravely supporting the residents of Camden, keeping them safe, well and happy
An engineer Grandpa who is keeping the wifi in Manchester working so that everyone can keep in touch (I may need to ask you to pop around to help my mum so that we can see more than just the top of her head (… sideways) when we facetime)
Local farmers who are working long hours to ensure that we can still buy milk in the shops
Firefighters, ‘posties’, refuse collectors, home care assistants, shop workers, police … even courageous, comforting soft toys …
And my own group of heroes this week, perfectly illustrated by Buddy …
Never has the inner strength, kindness and dedication of this amazing group of people shone more brightly, as they all begin to plan for the next half term. I have said it many times before but I have no idea where I would be without them!
Thank you once again for all of your lovely images and emails over the last two weeks. Time to meet all of your amazing helpers and heroes …
https://youtu.be/wD0Y_oBcw6w
As we have been focusing on all of our ‘real-life’ heroes, I thought it would be good to immerse ourselves in the world of a story book hero this week. The often quiet, deeply understated but fiercely talented Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero …
https://youtu.be/oYeu15eax9E
And finally, a mention for another quiet, deeply understated but fiercely talented ICT Technician, Miss Barnes (24 Hour Superhero) who has been working hard to ensure that two further recipe books are ready for you, for some half term culinary fun – the Chocolate Collection and the Family Favourites.
I wish you and your families a happy half term break. I know that I am really looking forward to having some time with my ‘Smith Family’ heroes this week, and I look forward to being ‘with you’ again after half term.
Until then, I know that my thoughts will be filled with 450 purple and blue superheroes who wear butterflies on their chests and help me to stay focused and smiling throughout the most difficult of tasks. I miss you all and can’t wait to welcome you back soon.
Time can be measured using many different items like calendars, analogue clocks, digital clocks, stop watches, sand timers or simply by counting. Have a look at what items you have in your house to help measure and tell the time.
Use a stopwatch or timer to record how fast you can run/ scoot/ cycle from one end of your garden to the other or choose a set distance in the park. Can you try again but try to do it even faster? Compare your times and discuss how the numbers got less if you were faster or more if you were slower.
Set yourself a one minute challenge…
How many star jumps can you do in 1 minute?
How many tricky bugs can you write down in 1 minute?
Can you tidy away all your toys in 1 minute? We use a countdown at school for tidy up time!
Keeping healthy includes keeping ourselves clean and keeping the germs away. I am sure you have seen lots of information and songs to use to ensure you wash your hands for 20 seconds. Count out loud or use a countdown timer to check you are washing for long enough. Brushing your teeth can be another daily routine to time – 2 minutes, morning and bedtime!
Getting enough sleep is also very important for keeping healthy. Why does sleep help your body?
Talk about what time you go to bed (to the nearest hour) and what time you wake up. How many hours do you sleep for? What do the hands look like on the clock at these times? Which numbers are they pointing to?
Listen and watch this story about what the hens get up to each hour of the day.
Read Miss Hudson’s daily food diary. Use your phonics to read each sentence as independently as you can. The tricky words are in red so remember not to sound those out. Fill in the missing part of the sentence by saying out loud what you see in the pictures.
Literacy
We would love to know about what has made you happy during lockdown. You could write about your favourite meals or snacks, your daily exercise, games you’ve played, your home learning, films you’ve seen and more. Draw a picture of yourself in the middle of a piece of paper and fill up the paper all around your picture with thought bubbles or speech bubbles and write what you’ve enjoyed the most.
Fun snacks
Plan to make some fun and healthy snacks this week. Work together to look through your cupboards and the fridge to see how creative you can get. Plan together by talking lots about what you’re going to do, what you can use and how you’re going to make them. Let your child lead the discussions by asking them lots of questions that start with how, where, when and getting them to expand on their ideas. The pictures below are for inspiration but create whatever you like.
Owl rice cake snacks
Rice cakes, banana, apple, cereal, blueberries or raisins, peanut butter
Fun toast friends
Use whatever you have in your cupboard or fridge to create a healthy fun toast snack
Bug snacks
Get creative with your fruit and vegetables
Get colourful
How many colours can you find in your fruit and vegetables?
If you have a blender at home then have a go at making this healthy Superhero Smoothie! Remember to use your prior learning about weight to use scales to weigh out the fruit, checking the correct number is showing. This recipe also requires you to measure out liquids. This can be done using a measuring jug where you must check if it fills up to the correct number and line shown on the side of the jug. You can also discuss what the language ‘empty, half full and full’ means as you pour your smoothie into your glass.
As part of healthy week and your previous learning about The Little Red Hen, have a go at baking your own bread rolls! This recipe also requires you to weigh out flour and measure out water. Spoons are used for measuring out ingredients for both of these recipes too! When dividing your dough into balls, think about halving the mixture again and again. How many rolls did you make? Can you share them out equally between your family? Remember to use a timer to measure the time for kneading and baking!
Whilst enjoying your smoothie and bread rolls, have a chat about where the different ingredients came from. Why is it important to eat and drink healthily?
PE –
Daily exercise helps to keep your body strong, brain active, mind happy and can aid better sleep! As mentioned on Monday, Healthy week usually involves a Wake Up Shake Up dance! Have a go at some of these dances to get your body moving and feeling energised…
Have a chat about how your bodies feel after exercise. Can you feel your heart beating faster? How does your temperature feel?
This week is Healthy Week! It’s an opportunity to celebrate our health and happiness. In school we would usually be planning lots of fun activities linked to health and self care including, making healthy snacks, taking part in a daily Wake Up Shake Up dance every morning with the rest of school and lots of fun physical activities. Although we won’t be able to be together to enjoy this fun week, we have planned lots of activities that link to Healthy Week that you can still do at home with your families.
Phonics
Read the instructions below as independently as you can. Adults, you can either show your child the instructions on the screen or write them up on a piece of paper/whiteboard to hold up for your child to read. You must do whatever the instruction says for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Literacy
Now it’s time for you to write your own set of exercise instructions for someone or everyone in your family! Think about what you’d like them to do and have a go at writing your own for someone else to read and follow. You could use some of the ones you read earlier but have a go at sounding out the words and writing them by yourself. You could even use some of the moves from PE with Joe Wicks.
