Welcome to the next set of tasks…

Tasks 3

Story: I am Peace

…and Emily Arrow’s song…

English

A fun game to help with blending for reading

These are called Chatterboxes or Cootie Catchers as they say here…

Children love to make a use these – with your help of course because they are a little tricky!

When you have followed them you can draw and write what you can see HERE…

or HERE!

Or you could play this game…

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/picnic-on-pluto

 

Maths

Doubling pairs game! (This is also great for your memory! You can be tactical!)

Using the dominoes you made yesterday, cut them in half. (Chat about this as we will be looking at halving next week – two equal parts.) If you didn’t make your dominoes with paper then make them now. Lots of practise is the key!

Place the cards face down at random and mix them up! Take it in turns with your child to take two cards and turn them over. If they are the same amount you can keep them but you must work out the double first! If they are different quantities then turn them back around.

The winner is the person with the most doubles by the end.

If you want another challenge and have a pack of cards use them!

This is a catchy doubling song! Your child will really need to know their doubles to sing it because there are no visual prompts.

Tasks 4

Story: Be a Friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8H1fa3OPvQ

Emily Arrow puts the book into a song….

English

Phase 5 – Yes / No Questions
 Tell your child that each strip contains a question.
 Do they know what a question is?
 Do they know what a question mark looks like?
 Tell them that each question can be answered correctly with ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
 After they have read each question ( with your help) ask them to decide whether the correct answer is 

 If they are incorrect, talk about the question. Are they clear about what it is asking?
 Cut the sentences into strips and practise each session in a random order. You could play it as a ‘turn taking’, ‘point scoring’ game.
 You could cut out the prompts above and ask your child to point to the answer to add a different dimension to the game.

Phase 5 – Yes / No Questions (write on strips)

or print and cut out…

Can you carry an elephant on your head?
Would you like to wave a magic wand?
Would you crawl into a thorn bush?
Have you ever seen a live crocodile?
Are you ready for school by nine in the morning?
Could a cactus grow in Antarctica?
Would you scream if you saw a snake?
Can magpies perch on clouds in the sky?
Would you put ice-cream in the freezer?
Has a cat got sharp claws?
Phase 5 – Yes / No Questions
Do you go to school in the holidays?
Is December a summer month?
Could you fly to Mars on a bike?
Has a space-ship ever been to the moon?
Could you make up a story about a giant?

Draw a silly picture to go with it if you want.

Maths

Make your own doubles grid like this one or print one out.

Roll a dice and double the number.

If you haven’t got a dice then you can make one like this . . .

A standard dice only goes to six but add higher numbers to make it much more challenging! Add 15 in there! Double 15 is 30 etc.

When you have doubled the number on the dice (you can do this by counting the dots twice/ getting objects/ remembering) then find the total on the board and place a counter on it. (You will need two sets of colour counters if you are playing against each other.)

The first person to get four counters in a row is the winner!

Tasks 5

Your child will know this song by Emily Arrow…

Maths

Some doubling word challenges to end the week and consolidate your knowledge!

Ask your child to read these first. Talk about how they could find out the answer. What clues are in the problems? What numbers do they give us? What is it that we need to find out?

A lady bird has 4 spots on one side and 4 on the other. How many spots are on the ladybird?

(We need to find out double 4. Shall we draw the ladybird to help us?)

Collect 9 sticks/ toys. If you had double amount, how many would you have?

(Double 9. We need to find out 9+9.)

Miss Hullin has 6 cakes. Miss Reese has double the amount Miss Hullin has! How many has Miss Reese got?

Draw 8 caterpillars on a leaf. Now 8 more slither on! How many caterpillars should you draw in total?

For another challenge play this online doubling game. Doubling Archery . . .

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/archeryDoubles/index.html

Thursday

English

Can you write your own paragraph of the story?

Talk about where Pippety could visit first – it could be anywhere! A river, a rock, a tree, a bridge, a lamppost, a magical toadstool, a fast car . . .

Talk about who he might meet there – a tiny ant, a ferocious dragon, an ugly goblin . . .

Talk about what trick he might do to the character he meets – makes them jump by pulling an ugly face, traps them in a net, pours water onto them.

Now write your own paragraph.

Soon Pippetty came to ______________________ (place) where a ________________________ (character) was sitting. “Now for some fun!” giggled Pippetty and he ________________________(trick).

(You could then explain how the character reacted – just like in the style of the story.)

Remember to use interesting adjectives, ones like we learnt about yesterday!

Maths

Outdoors subtraction – target games!

Write lots of subtraction equations on small pieces of paper and stick them to a wall/ garage door outside.

Children throw a ball/ wet sponge/ shoot with a water gun and the wall, when they land on a subtraction equation they have to answer it using counters/ a number line/ counting backwards etc.

This is a floor version – if you have any chalk!

Play ‘Funky Mummy’ to apply your subtraction knowledge.

http://www.ictgames.com/funkyMummy/index.html

Be active

Paper Plate Games

Stepping Stones

The goal is to get from the start to the finish by using the paper plates as stepping stones.

Give each player 2 paper plates. Step on the paper plates. Pick one up and move it forward. Continue until you get to the finish line.

Project

3.Hearing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zqf9wxs

We hear because sound waves travel through the air until they hit the ear drum. The sound waves vibrate the eardrum, which in turn, vibrates the bones of the middle ear. These vibrations are transferred to the cochlea, located in the inner ear. The cochlea translates those vibrations into stimuli that the ocular nerve can send to the brain.

It all starts with sound waves and the eardrum. To demonstrate how sound can actually be a physical force, you can do this simple experiment.

EARDRUM EXPERIMENT

You’ll need:

• plastic wrap
• 20 or so uncooked rice grains
• large bowl
• cookie sheet or metal baking pan

Stretch the plastic wrap over the bowl tightly. This is your eardrum. Place 20 or so rice grains on the tightened plastic wrap. Hold the pan or cookie sheet close to the blow, but not touching. Bang on the pan with your hand or large spoon making a loud noise. Watch the rice. It should jump each time you bang on the pan. The sound waves created should vibrate the plastic wrap making the rice move. Sound can be a physical force.

SciShow for Kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yqB2KFwJCo

Make the phone

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