Hi everyone we hope that you are all keeping well. We think the weather forgot that it was Summer this week, mind you the plants in the garden have had a drink at least. Look how much our snakes have grown!! Remember you can drop your painted stone off at both sites. Let’s grow it some more……
We hope you are keeping up the home reading and managing to complete some of the homework tasks. 😊
This is your home learning for this week…
This week please focus on your sequencing. Ask you adult to use the questions on the ‘Sequence’ section on the vipers bookmark below.
More books can be found at: Oxford Owl e-books library
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On the library page click on…levels, book band and choose your child’s sticker colour.
You can also read books from home. Remember to read a range of texts: fiction and non fiction books, poems, recipes, instructions, magazines, comics etc.
Phonics Play – play games for your phonics stage – https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
BBC Bitesize English – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zgkw2hv
ICT Games. – Here is a lovely website with lots of activities related to phonics, English and other useful topic activities. https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html
On Youtube– these videos are great!
Geraldine the Giraffe
This week’s learning is based on the book ‘Mr Grumpy’s Outing’. This book is a good way to focus on verbs (remember they are ‘doing’ words) and the ed ending that verbs have when they are relating to the past tense. The clips below show both the book and a short catchy song about the ed endings. Watch the ed endings clip first and then when you are watching the story clip see how many ed words you can spot.
Activity 1 – Below is a page from the book you will notice verbs with the ed endings, do they always sound like ed? When you say them out loud you might hear ‘t’ at the end of a word or ‘id’ can you spot the different way they sound?
Activity 2 – Watch this clip next………
Can you spot the words that have double consonants from the page of the book? can you list them?
Activity 3 – Make up your own little dance. You might include a wave, a hop, a kick, a jump, a shout, a twirl, a twist, a drop, a bend, a bow. Make it as silly as you like and then explain what you did. Write it down and remember to use the ed endings on your verbs!
Activity 4 – the following verbs are taken from the story, can you put them into full sentences?
Well done! We will continue with this story next week. Don’t forget that you can share your work in the blog comments or on the school Facebook Messenger page.
This week in maths we are still learning how to use directions and positions. This week we will be thinking about using – left, right, forwards and backwards. Remember that you can check which was is left by making a Capital L with your fingers on the left hand. Like in this picture.
Suggested activities to deepen learning –
- Play snakes and ladders with an adults
- Draw a treasure map and write instructions for someone to find the treasure using – left, right, forwards and backwards.
Listen carefully to where the pirates are asking you to move.
5. Ask an adult very nicely to draw this picture out for you if you don’t have a printer and have a go at colouring the shapes in correctly.
Where is Antarctica and how can we find it on planet Earth?
Watch these video clips to find out.
Create an Antarctic scene. You could draw, paint or collage your picture. Or make a 3d model with scrunched up paper, cotton wool or real ice! Your scene must show the Antarctic habitat and what lives there. Get creative! Here are some ideas…
Using your knowledge of food chains, draw a food chain that can be found in Antarctica.
Watch this video to re-cap what a food chain is.
A year on Earth is made up of four seasons. Watch this short animation to find out more.
In the United Kingdom, we usually experience different weather in each of the four seasons, and can do different things in them.
Watch this clip to learn about the four seasons.
Play the four seasons game.
Look at the images and the video in the lesson as inspiration and have a go at drawing or painting your own picture of of summer.