Literacy activities for the week beginning 15 th June 2020 Monday Speak to your child about what is it like to go to the zoo. What kind of animals live there? What do they know about the farm? Look at the photos below and ask your child what they may know about the animals. Children will focus on the future tense. Talk about what words describe the future. Play the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg2ZX0PF-jI Activity: Write 3 or more sentences about what they will do if they went to the farm. For example, ‘I will see the cow.’ Tuesday Cut out the animal words and pictures. Get your child to match the word to the correct animal picture. Wednesday Take another look at different farm animals. Get your child to pick an animal that they might like to research. Spend this time researching a farm animal and create a factual poster. You can look at what it eats and describe where it lives etc. Thursday Get your child to read the sentence and attach the correct picture. Some future tense ideas
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Literacy activities for the week beginning 15th June 2020
Monday Speak to your child about what is it like to go to the zoo. What kind of animals live there? What do they know about the farm? Look at the photos below and ask your child what they may know about the animals. Children will focus on the future tense. Talk about what words describe the future. Play the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg2ZX0PF-jI
Activity: Write 3 or more sentences about what they will do if they went to the farm.For example, ‘I will see the cow.’
Tuesday Cut out the animal words and pictures. Get your child to match the word to the correct animal picture.
Wednesday
Take another look at different farm animals. Get your child to pick an animal that they might like to research. Spend this time researching a farm animal and create a factual poster. You can look at what it eats and describe where it lives etc.
Thursday Get your child to read the sentence and attach the correct picture.Some future tense ideas
Literacy activities for the week beginning 22nd June 2020
Monday and Tuesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCvzPBUPZ9wGet your child to close their eyes and guess which animals the sounds are by playing the video. Discuss the animals and what sounds they make
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joBvuEJyUd0Show children the video of the Whale’s and talk about what is happening. Ask children if they’ve seen a Whale before and where they live. Discuss some sentences in describing what they have seen on the videos.
Activity:Get your child to write some sentences about what they saw on the whale video. Encourage children to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
Wednesday
Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SEOktO1gkM – a video of the story ‘The Whales’ Song’. Talk about the story and about what they can remember about the whale.
Get your child to draw a picture of one gift they would take for the whales like Lilly in the story. Then get your child to write about what their gift is using describing words.
Thursday Get your child to draw a picture of a whale and write some words to describe their whale.
MathsIn maths we are moving on to a new unit. We are learning about measure. This topic will include capacity, length and weight.
One week focus on capacity and weight and the second week, focus on length.
Week 1 activities:
Monday Capacity: explain the concept – Capacity is how much something can hold. Make some potions using a few liquids like milk/water mixed with food colouring and experiment with filling and emptying containers encouraging your child to use the vocabulary: empty, full, half full. Focus on understanding that full means that there is no room left in the container. Empty means there is nothing inside it and half full means that there is some. Role play with what the potion may turn you/siblings into. Complete worksheet.
Tuesday To compare the volume of liquid in each container. Allow children to experiment with filling and emptying containers encouraging them to use the vocabulary; full, half-full, empty, nearly full, nearly empty. Fill up two containers with different amounts of water and ask them which one has more/less and why. Encourage them to use the phrases ‘because it is fuller’ ‘because it is emptier’. Complete ordering potion worksheets.
Wednesday Weight – encourage your child to use the correct vocabulary; heavy, light, heavier, heaviest, lighter, lightest. Choose one household object and go on a hunt around the house to carry items and compare their weight. Ensure your child can comment if it is heavier or lighter and why they think that.
Thursday Complete the home learning challenge for weight encouraging use and exploration of the vocabulary.
Can you match and label the bottles correctly?
Can you order these potions?
Week 2 activities:
Monday Length/Height. Can you collect 5/6 household items/sticks from the garden and put them in order from the smallest to longest/shortest to tallest. Ensure children are using the correct vocabulary to describe the objects. Vocabulary: short, tall, long, small, shorter, longer, taller, smaller.
Tuesday Can you measure your favourite toy using teaspoons? Lay the toy down and put the spoons next to it from top to bottom. How many spoons long is your favourite toy? Can you measure different objects/toys and compare them? Which one is the shortest/longest? (You can use cut out footsteps if you’d prefer)
Wednesday Draw around the smallest member of the family and measure how tall they are using spoons. Compare them to the rest of the family members and you can repeat this with other family members if you want to. (You can use cut out footsteps if you’d prefer)
Thursday Complete the home learning challenge.
Home Learning Topic
Week beginning 15th June
Understanding the World – Communities. We mark ‘Father’s Day’ on 18th June. In class we would talk about all men in the famiy; so include granddads, uncles, grown up cousins when completing these activities too.
Week beginning 22nd June
We continue to explore the seaside themes with a physical activity – cutting and sticking your own sand castle as well as a seaside poem and phonics spotter
Home Learning PhonicsPractical daily phonic activities
Reading with your child every day for 10 minutes is the best way of reinforcing phonic knowledge and essential for preparation to return to in person learning in class.Have your phonic sound mat somewhere prominent in the kitchen/living area and test your child on the sounds regularly.
Written Phonic activities This week we have included a few more challenging phonic activities where your child will
have to read a sentence and choose another word as a substitute.Polysyllabic words have been included as well where we move beyond the simple CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) words e.g. mat, pot, sip. These new words might include laptop, burger, farmyard.
Online Phonics for Phase 3 and beyond.
Search ‘Mr Thorne does Phonics’ on Youtube for any letters/digraphs that your child is having problems with.
Here is an example with helps with tricky wordshttps://youtu.be/ALyrYqxhwiI
Here is an example of a digraph videohttps://youtu.be/Fbmpw192MSg
