We hope you have enjoyed the Easter break as much as you could.

Here’s the solution to that EGG MATHS CHALLENGE –

3 eggs in the brown basket, 2 eggs in the red basket and 5 in the pink basket! How did you do?

We have received some lovely emails showing us how you are being ‘stay at home’ superheroes! Thank you for all the hard work that you are doing at home. Please continue to share this with us in the coming weeks. If you want either of our emails please contact A2134@telford.gov.uk

This week’s spellings are

• get
• just
• now
• came
• oh
• about
• got
• their
• people
• your

Please recap the spelling from before the Easter break. Here are some ideas about how to teach the spellings:

Look at the words, cover them, write them from memory and check them again!

Can your children use the words and write them in sentences?

Can the adult write some sentences and the child read them and underline the words which are spellings?

Can children give definitions for some of the words. If one is tricky research a definition online. (Make you own dictionary!)

Hide the words around the house, when they find them tick them off the list?

Play pairs or snap with the words by writing two of each onto paper!

Play ‘spelling bingo’ by creating a grid and pulling words out of a hat!

Write the words in creative ways; using felt-tips, paint, cereal, spaghetti, crisps!

Can your child say the sounds, when seeing the different ways that they can be written.

This video will help with the way the sounds are pronounced.

Monday’s Challenges

Please remember to read books daily and look at tricky words. Please look at phase 2, 3 and 5 digraphs on a daily basis.

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

There are some Year 1 Home Learning Mathematics challenges on this website –

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

and you can access a lesson a day. (Start at week 1 – Weight and Mass) There are videos to teach your child and activity sheets with questions to complete.

This week we will be beginning an ongoing project about Christopher Columbus!

ENGLISH – 

Listen to the first part of this well known traditional tale -Jack and the Beanstalk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks1-jack-and-the-beanstalk-pt1/zjnc7nb

To see the writing as you listen, click on the blue speech bubble and click on the largest Aa.

Can you describe how the cupboard would look in your daydream. Remember to use lovely descriptive language like Jack.

            Eg.   ripe, yellow cheese

              creamy cakes and ginger biscuits

Can you draw your cupboard and write descriptions of your most amazing meal ever.

MATHS – This week we will be focusing on weight which will support The White Rose activities (link above.)

Today we would like you to make your on balance scales.

https://jdaniel4smom.com/2018/05/make-homemade-balance-scale-to-weigh-chickens-activity.html

What do these scales measure? Why does each bucket need to be the same? Test your balance scales out using objects. Can you use language to describe what you have found out and compare objects? For example, the duck is heavier than the strawberry. The strawberry is lighter.

BE ACTIVE – Animal Yoga https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/WT-WILDLIFE-YOGA.jpg

As an extra you can research the animals and write fact files about them! Draw the animals and labels the parts of their bodies. What do they eat? Where do they live?

Can you think of your own animal to make into a wildlife pose?

On YouTube there are examples of children doing this type of yoga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oGR5xucItI

PROJECT – Watch this clip about Christopher Columbus.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhpchbk/articles/znchkmn

Read and discuss the key facts with your child. Ask your child questions about what they have heard? How long ago was Christopher Columbus alive? What was Christopher Columbus famous for? Nowadays, why do people disagree with what Christopher Columbus did? Where did Christopher Columbus want to visit? Who paid for the ships Columbus would use? Can you remember the names of the ships? Which continent did he discover?

1. Have a tricky word Easter hunt! Get your child to write tricky words on paper shaped like eggs and hide them around your house and garden! Can they find them all and read them !  Possibly use them in a sentence? Words to use:

come   what     two     little     when      have      their      all

   there   ask  where    some   they    your   here    was

These songs can be found to help learn them too – you can find them for other phases 3,4 and 5. They are all really useful.

2. Project –  Draw or paint a rainbow to put up in your window IF you’d like to say a big thank you to our key workers and spread some cheer.

If you need some help you might want to look at this video – but please feel free to be as creative as you want to.

3. Our final Easter Maths challenge for the whole family.

This could be good fun if you used Mini eggs – 3 different colour and use 3 different containers.

Age 5 to 7 

We will give you the answer when we come back with your daily challenges after the Easter holiday. Have fun and don’t eat all the eggs until you have solved the problem.

Miss Reese and Miss Hullin want to wish you a safe and happy Easter.

You have all worked so hard trying to complete our challenges that we think you all deserve a break over the next 2  weeks – your normal Easter break! (Yes – you too grown-ups!)

Look out for more posts in 2 weeks!

PHONICS –

Write about the signs of spring you have spotted.(Just like in our Forest School Diaries!) Remember to write sentences with capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Can you make your writing really interesting by describing the things you have seen using adjectives? Use your phonic knowledge to sound-talk the words. If it is a long word, clap the syllables in it so that you don’t miss any sounds out.

For example – I saw beautiful, pink blossom, like candy floss, growing on a tree.

If you couldn’t get outside maybe watch Sci Show for kids on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZ2CICGuL8&t=634s

PROJECT –

Wrap up and go in your garden – if you can!  Go on a Bug Safari – don’t forget to look under rocks and stones. Stamp on the floor with your whole family and see how many worms come up to see you – this is sometimes called ‘worm charming’. Please don’t forget to return all living things back to where you found them –just as we would in Forest School.

Spring is well and truly kicking in now, and the warmer weather will bring lots of creepy crawlies out. You’ll soon notice your garden teeming with wildlife! Can you find…

a worm after a spring shower

a bumblebee looking for nectar

a spotty ladybird exploring the grass

a slimy snail in a dark damp spot

a butterfly basking in the sunshine?

Draw/paint pictures of what you find.

MATHS –

Listen to The 7 Days of The Week Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tx0rvuXIRg

Ask children –

What day is it today?

What day was it yesterday?

What day will it be tomorrow?

If today is Monday, the tomorrow will be . . .

Can you make a weekly diary so that children are using the days of the week? e.g. On Monday we had soup for lunch.

A big HELLO from Miss Reese and Miss Hullin – we are missing you all!!

Hope some of you have been enjoying the lovely sunny spring weather in your gardens!

Here’s a reminder of some of the activities we suggested in your resource pack.

English

• Read lots of books with your child; talk about the plot and ask and answer questions. Support them to sound-talk and blend words.
• Write a book review about a book; what did you like? What did you not like? Draw a picture.
• Draw a new front cover for a book. Could you add a speech or a thought bubble?
• Can you re-write the story? Could you re-write it and change where the story setting is/ or change a character.
• Act out a story yourself and using toys.
• Make puppets of your favourite story character using paper, card, old gloves and socks!
• Watch Julia Donaldson books on BBC iplayer and turn the sub-titles on to practise reading.
• Practise reading and writing tricky words. Play games with them such as snap or splat! Can you remember the letters in that tricky word? Can you write a sentence with that tricky word in?
• Online phonics games; www.ictgames.com
• www.lettersandsounds.com
• Practise your handwriting!

Mathematics

• Play a board game; snakes and ladders!
• Count forwards and backwards to 100.
• Make your own number line using a long roll of paper – can you jump forwards and backwards? What is one more or one less than that number?
• Put number cards in order.
• Count out groups of objects up to twenty! 1 car, 2 teddies, 3 sweets …
• Use objects to add together or subtract two or three sets and write the equation 9+5= 23-8=
• Name 3D shapes and see if you can find any objects in your house that match them? What properties does a ball/ sphere have? 1 curved face.
• Online maths gameswww.topmarks.co.uk
• www.bbb.co.uk/bitesize
• www.ictgames.com

Cross-curricular projects

• Bake something delicious; write the ingredients in a list, write the method and read the recipe. Use scales and cups to measure ingredients. Create a food menu for your tea!
• Research a sea creature! Use books/ the internet with help from an adult. Write a fact-file!
• Sort animals in the sea into omnivores, carnivores or herbivores! Record this by writing and drawing.
• Build the titanic using blocks in you have them or junk modelling materials such as tubes, food packets etc. Think about all the different parts of the ship such as the funnels and the hull. Draw the titanic and label it.
• Make a paper-mache globe using a balloon and newspaper and glue. Talk about and label the seven continents and the oceans of the world.
• Use google maps to find places in the world.
• Make some playdough! Add smells and colours. Create 3D sculptures; make shapes.
• Design a life-jacket that would be able to float in your sink for 10 minutes. Discuss materials that float and sink.
• Look after a plant; talk about leaves, buds, stems. What happens over time?
• Grow anything from seeds; observe what happens. For example, cress – it even grows on cotton wool!

If some of you have been really busy and want some more ideas – we are just about to post tomorrow’s Daily Challenges!