Week beginning 08 February 2021: Home learning

Questions to discuss-

1.       What three ingredients do you need to make pancakes?

2.       Mr Wolf made a shopping list. Have you ever made a list? What did you make a list for?

3.       Why do you think the neighbours didn’t help Mr Wolf?

4.       How did you feel when no-one would help Mr Wolf?

5.       What did you think about the ending of the book?

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Activity 1: Take turns with an adult to play ‘Roll and Read’ (ee focus) click here to either print the word mat, or view it on screen. You will need a die or to draw 1-6 dots on 6 pieces of paper and draw at random from a bag.

1.       Roll the dice.

2.       Match to the correct row.

3.       Choose a word on the row and read it aloud.

Activity 2: Think of two different sentences for each word: queen, bee, teeth and sleep.

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Activity 1:  Be an ‘igh’ detective! Can you find any words in your storybooks with the ‘igh’ trigraph?

Activity 2:  Click here to play Buried Treasure. It’s on Phonicsplay-Buried Treasure – Phase3 -Set 1-7 – +igh.

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Click here to read the rest of the story, Toads in the Road. You can sign up on the website free and access the reading books from here.

Activity 1: Write a sentence using one of the ‘oa’ words.

You might use: croak, roast, toast or toad.

Steps to writing a successful sentence…

1.Think of a sentence.

2. Say the sentence out loud.

3. Count the words in your sentence.

4. Use your phoneme fingers to segment every word.

5. Check your sentence makes sense.

6. Have you remembered a capital letter at the start, finger spaces throughout and a full stop at the end?

Here are this week’s words to blend. Remember to stick them in your book and colour in the words you can read.

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Activities:

Click here for today’s Let’s Go comic.

Click here for today’s A Bug comic.

Play number stacking pancakes.

Make some pancakes: Draw around a circle template on a piece of paper or card. Cut the circles out and write the digits 0-10 on the pancakes.

If you have a spatula and a plate that’s great but you don’t need them.

Mix up the pancakes and spread them out on the carpet. Your child can scoop up the correct pancake with the spatula and put it on the plate. There are a few things that you can do with this game.

1.       Order the pancakes from 0-10 in ascending order. Stacking them one at a time on the plate/in a pile.

2.       Order the pancakes in descending order from 10-0.

3.       Ask your child different numbers at random to select and put on the plate.

4.       Play ‘run and splat’ the number when it is said.

5.       Time yourself. How long does it take you to stack your pancakes in order? Can you beat your time? Can you beat your adult?

6.       Put the pancakes in a random pile, face down. Decide on a fun action e.g. star jumps, jumping on the spot, running to the kitchen, turning around, hopping etc. Take it in turns to take the top pancake, whatever number you get that’s how many of the chosen action you must do.

(A few ideas: This activity can be extended to use different numbers to challenge your child. You might add 11-20).

If you would like to join in this week’s video then you will need: washing up liquid, food colouring, bicarbonate of soda and some vinegar.

Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers.

Click here to watch some children carrying out the investigation, as Professor Myers mentioned. It also might inspire you to make a more elaborate volcano, if you have the time and resources.

-Can you carry out the experiment in the video like Professor Myers?

-Can you draw and label a picture to show what happened?

Handwriting

Curly caterpillar letters-let’s practise our curly caterpillar letters.

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Questions to discuss-

1.       Why do you think Shen was asked only to paint for poor people and not for rich people? Do you think Shen and the villagers were rich or poor?

2.       How did Shen escape from prison?

3.       How did the villagers feel when Shen returned home with her magic brush?

4.       If you had a magic paintbrush that could make anything come to life, what would you draw? Perhaps you could also have a go at painting it at home.

Friday 12th February 2021 is the celebration of Chinese New Year!

1.       Have a look online or in a book to see if you can find China on a world map!

2.       Click here to watch the ‘Let’s Celebrate’ episode of the Chinese and Luna New Year celebration.

3.       You might like to have a go at writing numbers using Chinese (Mandarin) characters:

Storytime- The Little Monkey with Mrs Burgess

Storytime-Night Monkey, Day Monkey with Mrs Burke