Wednesday

ENGLISH – Think about the main characters in the story; Jack, Ma, the Giant and the Giant’s wife.

You could draw the characters and write words around them.

Use the words to write a character description.

Repeated sentences can be helpful in order to give your child a structure.

It could be –

Jack is _________ because . . .

Jack is brave because he goes into the giant’s castle and the giant wants to eat him.

Jack is kind and heroic because he gives the poor people of the town the golden eggs so that they can eat.

Using words like ‘because/ and’ means that your child is joining two ideas which is great!

MATHS –

Collect as many pairs of shoes as you can from around the house.  Put them in pairs and in lines. Socks are good for this too and might help you tidy up the washing pile!

Ask questions like –

“if you have 10 shoes how many pairs do you have?”

” How many shoes do you have in 6 pairs?”

Can you help them count along in 2s.

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkjv382

Use this site to extend the learning if you want to or have the time.

BE ACTIVE – If you are able to go for a daily walk can you . . .

• run for 30 seconds
• walk for 2 minutes
• jump for 30 seconds
• hop to the nearest lamppost
• roll on some grass
• skip to the nearest tree

Could you do this outside if you have a garden?

Indoors – How many star jumps can you do in 30 seconds? Could you use a timer on your phone?

How many hops can you do in 30 seconds?

How many frog leaps?

Can you run on the spot for 30 seconds?

PROJECT –

Can you make a model of one of the boats Columbus travelled in?

Make a plan using the diagram you made yesterday. List the materials you may need. (Remember your plan might change as you get stuck in!)

This may take you a few days to complete. Good learners return to challenges to continue and improve them.

Can you make more than one boat?

Could you test your boat out on water?

Can you have a boat race?

How does this boat compare to the titanic?

Welcome to another week…

Miss Reese and Miss Hullin are aware home learning is probably very strange for you all…if you have a go at any of these activities and find any of them useful, that’s all we are hoping for!

Please don’t think you have to use and complete all of them, everyday.

You are the ones with your children and we know you will to be guided by how they are doing and what you think they need to do next…

Have fun and take plenty of breaks… we’ve added more yoga if that has been helpful for relaxation.

For an activity on Friday it would be useful if you had saved up some recycling – plastic bottles, tin can, toilet rolls – any of these would come in handy – just use whatever you have…

Activities for anytime…

Please remember to read books daily

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000fbs4/cbeebies-bedtime-stories-740-joe-wicks-love-monster-and-the-perfect-present

Look at tricky words – remember the youtube songs from before easter -if they help.

There are lots of games and resources on www.letters-and-sounds.com

Please look at phase 2, 3 and 5 digraphs on a daily basis.

Please keep looking at the sounds that groups of letters make – if your child needs to. Please use this video again if it helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sNxyckQJK8

Can your child say the sound that represents each letter?

When you say a sound can they write each of the letters that represent that sound?

This week’s spellings are

• put
• could
• house
• old
• by
• come
• don’t
• look
• very
• there

Monday Challenges

ENGLISH – Now where were we with Jack… oh yes he’s just spotted that scary castle!

Watch the next 2 episodes 9 and 10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks1-jack-and-the-beanstalk-pt9/zkg7scw

Can you work out who would have said this speech…

Jack? Ma? The Giant? The Giant’s Wife?, The Old Man? or..the cow?

• Fee-fi-fo-fum…I smell the blood of an Englishman.

•  Got you! Well,well so it was you at the door!

• I’m so proud of you Jack. But what are we going to do with that giant beanstalk.

• Who did he steal all these coins from? I know lots of villagers who need money for food.

Maybe draw the characters and their speech bubbles coming from their mouth!

…or write your own!!!

MATHS – Play a board game likes snakes and ladders. If you haven’t got a board at home you could make one –if you’re feeling creative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntoa70jwka8   or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMQkJlCNmjs

or use one on the computer

https://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/board/snakesandladders/

You can follow that up with more related activities if you want/need more maths to do…help to count on and back.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znfk8xs

BE ACTIVE – Why not try some more yoga

https://youtu.be/oYI0TPJOuGk?t=105

PROJECT

Imagine (like Columbus) you found yourself in a new land. Maybe a desert island or a jungle.

Can you write a Message in a Bottle

Don’t forget you to think about what you can…

SEE, HEAR, SMELL, FEEL AND TASTE!

Perhaps roll it up and keep it in your own bottle.

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. If you can’t get out then describe one of the rooms in your house.

Describe what you could see, hear, feel, touch and smell and use sentences to write about this.

Use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Make sure your reading can be read back by others! Tick off these key features of good writing!

C	.	On the line?		Can you read it back?

MATHS – Do you have measuring scales in your home? Look closely at them and discuss how they work.

Use some of the objects you measured yesterday and use standard measurement to record how much they weigh. For example, the apple weights 100 grams.

Use the scales to measure during a cooking activity. I made pizzas today using 600 grams of flour with some of our keyworker’s children.

Leftover easter chocolate? Me neither! But if you have you could make these using scales . . .

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chocolate-rice-krispie-cakes

If you want an extra challenge visit  https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.html

A standard measuring game. Put the parcel on the scales and help your child to read the weight in grams and kilograms. (Select the ‘in steps of 100 grams’ button).

BE ACTIVE – Copycat dance!

Stand facing your child. You move and your child copies you. You can start in slow motion and then get faster so it is trickier! Take turns at being the leader.

PROJECT – Watch this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThZj9TEMwgE

Write a fact file about Christopher Columbus. Draw a picture to illustrate him. (You can research images of him.)

Think about some key facts:

Where and when was he born?

Why was he famous? What was his occupation?

What did Columbus discover?

How did he travel?

ENGLISH – Yes you guessed it…we are going to continue with Jack’s story today. Up the beanstalk we go….

Watch and read the next 2 Chapters 7 and 8. Encourage your child to recall what has happened to Jack so far…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks1-jack-and-the-beanstalk-pt7/z6mykmn

Draw the biggest, scariest castle that you can imagine…

Here’s some pictures to help.

Write sentences or label your castle with phrases describing what it looks like.

MATHS – Non-standard measurement. Using the balance scales made on Monday can you measure and record the weight of a set of objects?

You will need a set of objects for example a fork, TV remote, apple, rubber, cup.

You will need something to measure them against – like buttons or pasta.

How many pieces of pasta does the apple weigh? How will you know? You will know when the two buckets on the balance scale balance – they are in line/ parallel with each other.

Make statements – The apple weighs 32 pasta pieces.

BE ACTIVE – Watch this ballet. Discuss and describe this type of dance. Do they move at the same time? Do they move in the same way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntjn7XQH70

Can children copy some of the moves? Can they describe what the ballet dancer is doing with parts of their body?

Play the music again and allow your child to free-style in a ballet style!

PROJECT – Look at this artwork.

What does your child notice? What is happening in the background? Foreground? Who do you think the people are? What are they wearing? When is this artwork set? What did the artist want you to think about? What do you feel when you look at the picture?

Could you recreate your own piece of artwork based on Christopher Columbus? You could use whatever media you have – paint, pencils, natural materials from the garden, junk modelling materials.