Week 13: 08 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning! Are you enjoying your PE challenges this week? Don’t forget to record your ‘personal bests’.
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Practise all the phase three phonemes.
Today we’ll practise the phoneme ‘ar’.
Write the ar words.
Let’s play quickwrite!
How to play:
One player points to an ‘ar’ picture.
The other player has to write the word that the picture shows.
(car, jar, scarf, shark, farm, sharp)
You could play this game outside with chalk.
A timer to time how quickly your child writes can make it more exciting too!
Literacy
Listen to the story –We’re Different, We’re the Same.
Can you draw something that you think makes you special?
For example, you could be special because you can jump really high? Or because you are always good at making your friends happy.
Adults you could share what you think makes your child special.
Your child could then draw something that makes someone they love special. They could share this with the person they love.
How does it feel to tell someone why they are special? It makes us feel good to make others feel good.
This is a great activity for not only your child to feel special but to make others around them feel special too.
Extra activity: pass it on smile! We always say how special a smile is. It can be passed on to LOTS of people so quickly. If you smile at someone they will often smile back…they then smile at the next person…and there you have it…a big line of people passing on smiles. Get your child to try in the house or when outside. Not all people will smile back – that’s okay…they might not feel like smiling back… but I’m sure you’re smile was still nice for them to see.
Maths
Listen to the story– The Shopping basket by John Burningham
We’re going to play a memory game.
Let’s get active!
Don’t forget to record your scores!
Home learning heroes!
Today sees the very first voyage of some excellent homemade vessels.
The task was to design, make and evaluate a boat. In iterative design, this evaluation would inform the next adaption (or iteration) of the design which would continually improve the initial product.
Here are some of the awesome and successful ships made at home.
Top sailing, captain Zidaan.
Excellent evaluation, Laila!
Impressive origami, Dan!
Check out this ingenious design!
Keep up the great work, year six!
Week 13: 07 July 2020 Home learning virtual sports day
Week 13: 07 July 2020: Home learning
Hello, everyone!
Today is West Yorkshire Virtual School Games Sports Day.
There is a live opening ceremony from 10am.
The video will include a performance, warm up, and competitions children can take part in throughout the day. All activities are designed to be done at both school and in the home.
If you want to take part, children will have until 10am on Wednesday 8 July to submit their scores online.
https://www.youtube.com/user/WestYorkshireSport
If the challenges are too difficult-use the challenges set on here and try to beat your ‘personal bests’.
Phonics
Sing the alphabet. Remember letters have a sound and a name.
Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Let’s blend some longer words.
Write a sentence for this picture.
Literacy
Listen to the story ‘We’re Different, We’re the Same’.
Look at your self-portraits from yesterday. What do you see? What is different? What is the same?
Ask your child to think about a friend. Can they describe their friend? Can they say one way that they are different to a friend and one way they are the same? You could suggest they think about how they look, what they like doing, their families, pets or where they were born.
Maths-teen numbers
Watch Numberblocks to learn about the number 18.
I hope you are enjoying your sports challenges!
See if you can beat your scores today.
Week 13: 06 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
How was your weekend? Keep sending me photos.
Here are your home learning activities for today.
Phonics
Practise phase 3 digraphs.
Can you read and answer the yes/no questions?
Challenge: Can you write your own yes/no question? Email it to us and we can put it on the class news to challenge your friends!
Need more of a challenge? Have a go at these outdoor phonic challenges.
Read the words below.
How many of these can you spot outside today?
boots path tree plant park rain grass
Literacy
Listen to the story We’re Different, We’re the Same.
What you will need:
A box, a mirror, paper, colouring pencils and/or collage materials.
Place a mirror inside a box. Ask your child to guess what is inside the box. Explain that we will all see something different when we look inside.
After you have looked inside, draw/create what you saw.
This is a nice activity to get the whole family involved in.
Talk about and encourage your child to discover that everyone is different, however some of us have similarities.
Maths-counting on and back
Count to 20 and back again.
This week we will learn to count on and back from a number to add and subtract.
You will need a number track to help you.
Use a number track to solve these problems.
Extra activity
Let’s get active!
This week is ‘sports week’, so we will be suggesting daily sports activities that your child can do at home to keep active.
Can you do the activities below and improve your ‘personal best’ each day?
Email your scores at the end of the week!
Tomorrow is West Yorkshire Virtual School Games Sports Day
There is a live opening ceremony from 10am.
The video will include a performance, warm up, and competitions children can take part in throughout the day. All activities are designed to be done at both school and in the home.
If you want to take part, children will have until 10am on Wednesday 8 July to submit their scores online.
https://www.youtube.com/user/WestYorkshireSport
Last week’s learning
I hope you enjoyed the activities last week. The snail and the whale is one of my favourite stories.
What’s been going on at home this week?
Here’s a quick catch up of some the super activities happening at home. This week we’ve had caterpillars, plants (and worm juice), painting, four leaf clovers, conjunctions, eggsellent experiments, reading thermometers, temperature adjectives, super heroes, transition to Year 3 activities and two HUGE fruit kebabs!
It’s been great to see all the photos that have been sent this week – thank you.
Charlotte’s Web
The children in school have been enjoying listening to a story called Charlotte’s Web.
Charlotte’s Web is a children’s novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams and it was published on October 15, 1952. The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte.
One of the all-time great classics of children’s literature. This gentle story has inspired readers for generations. Readers discover how we should make and keep friends and how we should treat each other.
Wilbur the pig’s life has already been saved by Fern, but when he is sold to her uncle, he realises his life is in even more danger.
His heroine is a hairy spider who sucks the blood out of flies, aided by a rat, and they’re working to save Wilbur from the reality of every working barn. Enter Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider. Charlotte is determined to keep Wilbur from the chopping block, and comes up with an ingenious way to do just that. Charlotte’s Web is a classic tale of friendship, bravery and some animal magic.
This week, the children have made their own versions of Charlotte. The concentration in the room was quite something!
Well done, Years 3 and 4!
Week 12: 03 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone!
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Sing these tricky word songs.
Phase 3
Phase 4
Read the sentences with the digraphs or and oi.
Words to write:
Write the words to label each picture.
mast clap pram drum gran frog twin stop brick slug plum brush grass crab
Read the sentences and colour the sea creature.
Literacy
Story of the week-The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson
Watch The Snail and the Whale
The snail wants to see more of the world.
He chooses a different way to travel.
Draw the way the snail travels next.
Where will he go?
Maths-positional language
Sing a funny song about position.
Can you answer these questions?
Extra activity
Do you remember the rhyme with Mr Tumble last week?
Listen to it here.
Here’s a new rhyme about a snail.
There’s a snail at the bottom of the garden,
And his name is Christopher Crawl.
There’s a snail at the bottom of the garden and he’s crawling up my wall.
He crawls all nigh, he crawls all day,
Slowly crawling on his way.
There’s a snail at the bottom of the garden and his name is Christopher Crawl.
Have a great weekend!
Here’s a story for you.
Week 12: 02 July 2020: Home learning
Hello everyone!
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Don’t forget to send me photos of your learning.
Phonics
Sing a ‘tricky word’ song.
Read the tricky words. Try to say each word in a sentence.
Write sentences using some of the tricky words.
Words to write:
Match the words to the pictures below.
pond milk gift band hump sink tent belt hand pink lamp bank
Let’s talk!
This week we will be focussing on developing your child’s communication and language skills through fun, family activities. Your child’s communication and language development is so important. It encompasses speech development, listening skills and understanding. The games this week will focus on these skills to support your child in becoming a good communicator.
What you will need:
Building bricks e.g. lego or duplo
Building instructions –
2 players – 1 ‘engineer’ and 1 ‘builder’
How to play: The aim of the game is for the ‘engineer’ to look at the instructions and tell the ‘builder’ how to build the model.
Why this game?
This game is a great way to support your child’s communication skills. When being the ‘Engineer’ they are encouraged to really tune into their listeners needs – all whilst giving instructions! When being the ‘Builder’ it is a great chance for your child to practice being a good listener. Responding with relevant comments or questions shows that your child is understanding what the ‘Engineer’ is asking them to do.
Literacy
Book of the week: The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story
What was your favourite part of the story?
Draw your favourite part of the story.
Maths
Watch numberblocks 17
17 is an odd number. We will look at some odd numbers with the snail on his journey.
In each picture, does the snail have an odd or even number of friends?
Extra activity
The snail travelled all over the world. Do you know the names of the continents?
Look at this map of the world and join in with this song.(You may recognise this from class assemblies!)
