Friday

ENGLISH –

Write a weekly forest school diary – just like we would at school! You could do this from your window or during your daily exercise outdoors.

Today could you try and write 3 specific parts; 3 paragraphs?

1. The start of your journey; leaving the house, locking the door, checking the weather.
2. The middle of your journey; what do you pass, see, smell, feel, hear, touch?
3. The end of your journey; do you go back the same way? How does your body feel after your daily exercise? Has the weather changed or stayed the same? How long has it taken you?

Use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

Make sure your reading can be read back by others.

MATHS – Make your own skittles using toilet roll tubes or bottles filled with rice, sand or mud.

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/make-your-own-skittles

Make a scoreboard and tally how many skittles each player knocks down. (You could write the number by the side.)

After 3 turns add up the scores. 5+3+4=

Who was the winner?

You could play tin can alley with your recycling!

If you want to make it trickier you could put labels onto each tin can. When they knock over the cans they have to add up the score on each can.

BE ACTIVE – Flip a coin game!

Flip a coin and determine which way you move (30 seconds for each!)

If you are feeling creative, you could make up your own moves!

PROJECT –

Just for fun! When you are out on your daily walk or in your garden collect sticks. Compare the sticks including the length. You could use lollipop sticks too! Or anything long!

Can you make a picture frame using the sticks and some string?

What shape will your frame be if you use 4 sticks the same length? What shape will it be if you use 6 sticks?

Which picture or photo will you put inside it and why?

Can you make a 3D photo frame to place one of your models inside?

ENGLISH – Watch the final instalment of the story – episode 14.

We hope you’ve got your imagination cogs turning! Can you be an author and re-write the ending?

What would have happened if the giant had caught Jack? Describe how the giant caught Jack. What does he do with Jack? What does the giant’s wife do when she sees the Giant has caught Jack? Can Jack escape the giant in another way, rather than running from him?

MATHS – How many sweets are in the jar?

Fill recycled jars, bowls, boxes with household items! I’m sure food will go down nicely!

Ask your child to estimate how many they think will be in the jar. Is there a lot or not many? Write your estimate on a piece of paper!

Ask questions like: Do you think there are more than 10?

Do you think there are less than 10? (Change numbers accordingly.)

If you have more than one jar or bowl on the table ask them to sort the bowls from the one with the most in to the one with the fewest in. Do it in reverse – fewest to most.

Now check your estimate.

What is the difference between your estimate and the real amount of objects in the jar? I guessed 10 but the answer is 13. The difference is 3. You could work this out by subtracting objects or counting backwards from 13 to 10. You could even count on from 10 to 13 on your fingers.

Can you draw the real amount of sweets in a jar on paper? Can you do this accurately if the number goes beyond 20?

If you estimate correctly you can eat the sweets!!! Or if you’re feeling generous – your child can have a sweet for doing ace maths!

You can repeat this activity lots of times, with different amounts or using different objects.

What if you use sweets in tall jars first, then the same sweets in low bowls. Is your child tricked into thinking there’s a different amount?

Be Active – Can you make your own hopscotch on the floor? Could you use chalk? Or paper with numbers written on?

Throw a stone and jump and hop to that number.

To make it harder you could start from 10 instead of one or write numbers by counting in 2s, 5s or 10s.

PROJECT- Make your own Jack and the beanstalk puppets!

You will know the story really well by now!

Think about the key characters and what they might look like – Jack has scruffy clothes because he is poor. The giant is humungous! Jack’s mum often looks worried and concerned so I will make her expression this way.

Use whatever you have in your house to design and make your puppets. What type of puppet will you make? A stick, glove, finger, hand, string etc.

Here’s some that might inspire you . . .