Tuesday

English

We love Pippety because he is ever so mischievious! Some might say naughty!

Design a poster to warn people of his tricks so that they don’t get caught out by him!

Remember to:

« draw Pippety so that everyone will know what he looks like

« describe some of the tricks he likes to play

« tell everyone what they should do if they see Pippety

« offer a reward.

Maths

In order to work out the answers to the subtraction sentence it would be a great idea if you had a group of objects your child could use like toys or pasta.

They may also use a number line as a strategy. Like this one here, in which they jump backwards to subtract.

You could also make your own board game – drawing out this type of grid onto a piece of paper with different questions which are appropriate for your child.

If you are on a roll here is an online subtraction game – Minus Mission! Shoot the equations that make the answer you are given!

https://www.arcademics.com/games/mission

Be active

Blow the balloon.

Created a simple obstacle course (under a chair, around a pillow). On hands and knees and blow the balloon through the obstacle course.

Project

We are still learning about the human body but now we are thinking about our 5 senses!

Our bodies are amazing. We all have five senses. Senses are special things we can do.
We have:
Our eyes for seeing – This sense is sight
Our ears for hearing – This sense is sound
Our nose for smelling – This sense is smell
Our mouth for tasting – This sense is taste
Our hands for touching – This sense is touch

Imagine what it would be like not to have one of your senses. Get someone to blindfold you and try and walk to the door. Make sure someone helps you so that you don’t hurt yourself. Or you could try and watch the TV with the sound turned down. Not so much fun is it?

1.Touch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zg2vcwx

SENSE OF TOUCH

The sense of touch can be used all over the body. We have touch receptors just under our skin that give us lots of information. If you want to test someone’s sense of touch, make a touch box. Get a box with a lid and cut a hole in the side just large enough to fit your hand. Choose various, safe objects of various textures that will fit easily into the box. (cotton ball, rock, rubber ball, tree bark, a sponge, an apple…) Place one object in the box at a time, but don’t let the other person see. Allow the person to put their hand through the hole and try and guess what they are feeling.

Feely box!

Blind fold!

Box with hole –t-shirt over the top 2 holes in side put tshirt arms in holes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBZllALAZ5I

Friday

English

Forest School Diary

Write about the best activities you have done outside this week…

Maths

Use your knowledge of number bonds to play this board game; you could print it out or copy it onto paper.

This one is tricky because there are missing numbers. Can you use your bead bracelet to find the missing number?

Adapt the numbers to make it easier or harder. Go to 20 – 11+?=20

Here’s an online game too!

Be Active

Start with a section of the paper, unfolding it and laying it flat. That is the  “dance floor”. Everyone  dance in their space. Before starting,  decide what is considered to be “dancing”. Eg.to be dancing you had to move your arms and legs in some fashion. And so the dancing begins.. Choose your families favourite tracks! Next, we step off the newspaper and folded it in half and step on again. After a while, you will have to move in very creative ways to stay on the newspaper. Have a great time defining “dance”, practising making the fraction 1/2 and movin’ and groovin’ to some great tunes.

Project

Just for fun, make skeleton biscuits using a gingerbread man cutter! You can use a simple shortbread recipe.

Use a piping bag to pipe on the bones.

As you do this ask your child to recall the bones; I am drawing the pelvis now. I can remember how many bones are in an adult foot etc.

Or . . . use a simple salt dough recipe and use it to create a model of a skeleton.

I use 1 cup of salt, 2 cups of flour and 1 cup of water.

Add the water gradually and stop before it becomes too sticky.

The adult could write labels. The child to try and read them and stick them in the correct place

English

Game 2

Can you gather bits from the kitchen and make this fun game- cardboard would be perfect for this…

choose any words that help your child! (Look back to Monday’s posts for lists)

Maths

Number bonds continued!

Make some number bonds jigsaws. These have 5 as the total but you should put bigger numbers in.

On a piece of paper, draw these three boxes. The right hand box will always have the total in – you could start with 10, then progress to 20.

Get your child to count out 20 objects – these could be sweets, toys, food etc.

Then split them up.

1 sweet in the top and 19 in the bottom. 1+19=20.

You can record this in a number sentence and by drawing the objects, like above.

Repeat lots of times!

Look – you could even use playdough

Be Active

Instructions

Frog Hops

These are exactly what they sound like. Hop back and forth, like a frog. Depending on how much room you have, you may need to hop in one place.

Bear Walk

Place your hands and feet on the floor. Your hips  should be in the air, higher than your head. On all fours take two steps forward and two steps back, then repeat.

Gorilla Shuffles

Sink down into a low sumo squat and place your hands on the ground between your feet. Shuffle a few steps to the left and then back a few steps to the right. Maintain the squat and ape-like posture through the entire movement.

Starfish Jumps

These are jumping jacks! Do as many as you can, arms and legs spread wide like a starfish!

Cheetah Run

Run in place, as fast as you can!

Crab Crawl

Sit with your knees bent and place your palms flat on the floor behind you near your hips. Lift your body off the ground and “walk” on all fours forward and then backward.

Elephant Stomps

Stand with your feet hip-width apart and stomp, raising your knees up to hip level, or as high as you can bring them up. Try to hit the palm of your hands with your knees.

And You’re Done!

Take some time to cool down slowly.

Do some stretches or yoga poses and allow your heart rate to return to normal. Those 7 minutes will give you and your child a boost that will leave you feeling great for hours!

Project

Skeleton Function 1 – Support

Your skeleton stops you being all floppy, acting like a scaffold to hold up the soft tissues of your body. The spine is a good example of part of the skeleton with a supportive role. Place your hands on the centre of your back, can you feel your spine? It runs from your head to your pelvis and consists of 33 small ring like bones called vertebrae.  It holds up your head and allows your body to bend. The spine also protects the spinal cord which runs through the centre.

Can you make a model of your spine to illustrate this?

Can you thread some cotton reels or pasta onto a piece of string? This is a bit like your backbone. The cotton reels represent the vertebrae and the string the spinal cord. This would also work well using egg cartons cut up into segments.

Hope you have enjoyed the sunshine this Bank Holiday  weekend!

If you haven’t already shared the V.E.  Day video from all the staff – have a look!

This week we’d also like you to share and learn this story together, Please read it everyday if you can. Next week, when you know the story better, we will be using it to develop your child’s storytelling and story writing.

(Talk for Writing Approach -donation given to Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity)

Pippety Skycap – A Tale  of Mischief.        

Let’s read our story now …

Follow it using this if you want to!

https://soundcloud.com/talkforwriting/pippety

Pippety Skycap – A tale of mischief!

Once upon a time, there was a pixie called Pippety Skycap who lived in the corner
cupboard in a room just like yours. Pippety loved to have fun and loved to giggle,
but most of all he loved to play tricks.

One cloudy morning, he woke up feeling full of mischief. So, he put on his best
blue jacket, squeezed into his spotty boots and set off to find some fun – hoppity
skip, hoppity skip, hoppity skip.

Soon, he came to the old stone bridge where a grumpy troll was sleeping. “Now
for some fun!” giggled Pippety and he pulled a soft feather from his pocket.
Nearer and nearer he crept to the troll until he could tickle his warty nose with
the feather. “A-A-A-CHOO!” The poor old troll woke up with a huge sneeze and
tried to grab the tricky pixie. Luckily, Pippety was a tiny pixie, a teeny pixie and
he slipped through the troll’s fat fingers. Off he sped – hoppity skip, hoppity
skip, hoppity skip.

Next, he came to a prickly bush where a ginger cat was watching the birds. “Now
for some fun!” giggled Pippety and he snapped off a sharp thorn from the bush.
Nearer and nearer he crept to the cat until he could prick her tail with the thorn.
“OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!” The poor cat spun round with a yowl and a howl and swiped
at the tricky pixie. Luckily, Pippety was a tiny pixie, a teeny pixie and he dodged
the long, sharp claws. Off he sped, hoppity skip, hoppity skip, hoppity skip.

Soon, he came to riverbank where an old toad was dozing on a shiny lily pad. “Now
for some fun!” giggled Pippety and he pulled a bright blue balloon from his pocket.
Nearer and nearer he crept to the toad until he was right beside his ear. He blew
and he blew and he blew until – BANG! “My poor ears!” croaked the toad and he
wibbled and wobbled and finally fell into the river with a gigantic splash.

Unfortunately, Pippety had not seen that on the next lily pad was the King
Toad. It looked at him with mean, beady eyes, flicked out an enormous tongue
and covered him in a thick, sticky goo! “YUCK!” cried Pippety and he ran off,
squishing and squelching and squelching and squishing all the way home.
That evening, Pippety Skycap had a long, hot bath, snuggled up with a mug of
hot chocolate and thought about his day. He remembered the sticky, oozy goo
that had covered him head to foot and frowned. “I’ll just have to be a careful
tricky pixie tomorrow,” he mumbled and settled down to plan some more
mischief!

For English this week we are going to be concentrating on reading and spelling these Year 1 words.

Maybe become familiar with which ones your child knows already so you are just concentrating on learning the ones that need to learn next…

To make sure it’s more fun, we are going to be playing a new game each day to make learning these words more enjoyable and motivating…

Everybody learns at different rates so if your child needs a challenge please look at the next list – but please only use them if they are really ready and still having fun!

English

Game 1

Kaboom

Cut up strips of cardboard – you don’t need lollypop sticks – back of a cereal packet will do.

Choose some words your child needs to learn and write one on each stick – please judge which ones and how many.

Maths

“Can you put the biscuits from this packet into the tin in twos?”

“Can you count the chunks of this chocolate bar in twos?”

“Can you put these sweets into groups of five and count how many sweets there are altogether?”

Here’s some things which can be counted in 2s, 5’s and 10’s. Be mindful that some are in 3s and 4s! But use whatever you have at home! Can you get objects and put them in two’s?

Be active –

Some more mindful activities to help you feel calm and relaxed.

Mindful Posing

One way for children to dip their toes into mindfulness is through body poses. To get your children excited, tell them that doing fun poses can help them feel strong, brave, and happy. Let your child go somewhere quiet and familiar in the house. Next, tell them to try one of the following poses:

1. The Superman: this pose is practiced by standing with the feet just wider than the hips, fists clenched, and arms reached out to the sky, stretching the body as tall as possible.
2. 
3. The Wonder Woman: this pose is struck by standing tall with legs wider than hip-width apart and hands or fists placed on the hips.

Ask your child how they feel after a few rounds of trying either of these poses.

Project

We are going to start thinking about the human body this week.

Let’s start by thinking about Our Super Skeleton!

Watch Sci Show Kids!

Stop the clip and talk about what is being said. Where do you think your smallest bone might be? What would happen if we didn’t have a skeleton?! Do you have more of fewer bones than when you were a baby?

Can you write down some of the facts you have learnt to create a super fact sheet?