Book Week- Poetry, rhythm and rhyme.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

This week is BOOK WEEK! We are going to be exploring poetry, rhythm and rhyme.

Look at the cover of Tanka Tanka Skunk! Who can you see? What are they doing?

Look at the first page spread with your teacher. Which animal is Tanka? Which animal is Skunk? Can you clap out the rhythm of their names? Try different ways of reading the next page – you could clap, stamp, bang the table, try clicking you fingers… See how many sounds you can make to beat out the rhythm of the page.Can we do it all together?

Who do you think Tanka and Skunk’s friends might be?

We are going to try beating a rhythm to their names. You can bang the table, or a drum or a tin – go and find something that makes a good noise before we start.

Listen to your teacher say the animal name and beat the rhythm. Try kan-ga-roo

Now cat-er-pil-lar

Try making the beat to the animal names as your teacher reads the next pages (to Yak)

Get ready, we’re going to read the whole of Tanka Tanka Skunk!

Join in when you can read or remember the words, and make sure you beat out the rhythm.

How many animals were there in the book? If we make a list we can count them.

Draw a picture or make a model of your favourite ready to show us on Friday.

Today is Book Day! Dress up for our Zoom session (you could be an animal, a character from a book, or just wear your favourite dressing up clothes) and bring your favourite book to show us.

We are going to perform the whole of Tanka Tanka Skunk! so make sure you have something to bang or shake!

Can you say or sing a nursery rhyme or poem? You could find one you like and learn it by heart. Do you know what that means?

You can say it along with a grown-up if you like, or try it on your own. Maybe you know lots of different rhymes already – have a look at some nursery rhymes and see how many you know. Which is your favourite?

Try performing your rhyme and asking a grown-up to film you. You could dress up or show pictures to go with yourperformance, or beat out the rhythm with an instrument.

Reception Home Learning weekly planner Week beginning: 1.3.21

Reception Home Learning weekly planner Week beginning: 1.3.21

Phonics

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Warm up: Can you read these

tricky words? the into he me was

my you her. Now listen to a adult

say them whilst you write them

down – did you spell them

correctly?

Activity: Listen to the Nursery

Rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence.’

Lots of poems have words that

rhyme in them. Did you spot

any?

Write out these words and cut

them out:

Lie, wing, bring, tie, thing my,

high, sigh die, ding

Now pick them out of a hat and

see if you can sort them into

words that rhyme with ‘pie’ and

words that rhyme with ‘sing’.

Warm up: Play a rhyming game

with your adult. Take turns to say

words that rhyme with cat e.g bat

mat. Who can think of think of

the most words?

Activity: Listen to Nursery Rhyme

“The Queen of Hearts”.

We’re going to make a silly soup

and only put in items that rhyme

with the word day.

Which of these items would go

into it?

Hay, duck, lay, night, may, coin,

pay. Say, pig, cat, way

Can you draw and label a picture

of your silly soup pot?

Warm up: Read these tricky

words to an adult:

go to she we they her I be no.

Ask them to write them down

then check they have written

them right!

Activity: Listen to your teacher

read the Nursery Rhyme of ‘Hey

Diddle Diddle’. Now look at the

words and see if you can spot the

word ‘the’ in the text.

We are going to sort words that

rhyme. Have a look at these

words. Some end in –ow like cow

and some end in –at like cat,

Write them down then sort them

into groups of rhyming words.

how, sat, bow, now, mat, pow,

wow , bat, hat.

Which others could you add?

Warm up: Sound out then write

these words together: moon,

spoon, dish, fish, king, ring,

Activity: Listen to an adult read

the Nursery Rhyme ‘Humpty

Dumpty’.

We are going to learn the tricky

word all. Can you find it in the

Nursery Rhyme? Did you hear it

in any of the words? Can you

think of any more words that

rhyme with wall and fall?

Let’s practice writing –all words

in a sentence. Make sure you

remember:

Capital letter

On the line

Finger space

Full stop.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Warm up: You have 10 seconds

to think of as many words as

possible that rhyme with dog –

GO!

Activity:

We’re going to practice writing

these sentences:

The dish ran away with the

spoon.

The cow jumped over the moon.

The birds began to sing.

Reception Home Learning weekly planner Week beginning: 1st March

Maths

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

For this session you will need access to an analogue clock (ideally with only the hour and minute hands). A virtual one can be found here:https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clockOr this one which has a second hand and can switch between digital and analogue:https://dayspedia.com/time/online/Look at the clock face together – ask your child to tell you as many things that the notice about it as possible, e.g. round/circle shape, numbers are going around the edge, numbers are going up in a particular direction (we call this direction clockwise), 12 is at the top, there are two hands, the hands are different lengths. Talk about these features and explain that this was what all clocks used to look like. How is this kind of clock different from, say, the one in the corner of the computer screen, or the one on the oven/radio etc?

For this session you will need the clock face resource provided in the weekly learning pack – a pair of scissors and a split pin or thin stick (such as a matchstick or cocktail stick) will come in handy!

Look at the clock face again together. If we wanted to make one of our own, what would it need to have? What number would need to go at the top? (12). Which way would the numbers need to go? Support your child in the making of their own clock face. They should be able to do most of the number writing and cutting without help, but will need assistance to make the holes and put the pieces together.

For this session you will need the clock face that you made yesterday. You could also do today’s activity on the virtual clocks from Monday.

Show your child one o’clock on the clock face. What number is the short hand pointing to? (1.) What number is the long hand pointing to? (12.) Explain that the time being shown is 1 o’clock and that the long (minute) hand always points to 12 at o’clock times. Repeat all the way around the clock, then show an o’clock time at random and see whether your child can state the correct time. Repeat.

For this session you will need the clock face that you made on Tuesday.

Sing Hickory Dickory Dock together:Hickory Dickory Dock,The mouse ran up the clock,The clock struck one – the mouse ran down,Hickory Dickory Dock!

Can you think of some words for the mouse to do that rhyme with the numbers as you go around the clock?

Write your rhyme down and encourage your child to show the correct time on their clock face.

Sing the full version of the Hickory Dickory Dock rhyme that you wrote together yesterday. Get your child to show the correct time on their clock face as you do it.

Resources: analogue clock/links to virtual clocks; clock face resource

Reception Home Learning weekly planner

Suggested activities:

• This week is book week, and we are thinking about poetry, rhythm and rhyme. Do you know any rhymes, songs or poems by heart? You could practice saying one you know already, or learn a new one. Say it a few times in front of people in your family, making sure your voice is loud and clear.

• For book week we want to make a book for our class with some of our favourite poems in. Send us your favourite so we can print it out for our book and share it with the class when we are all back together.

• Can you make your own drum or shaker? Use junk materials. Look at the sheet below to get some ideas. You could make a few different instruments – what sounds do you want them to make? How could you change or improve them? Send us a picture of what you have made, and get ready to use it on Zoom on Thursday!

• People play drums in every country of the world and there are lots of different sorts. Watch these clips of drumming and try drumming along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7oXkTm2Mn0 Punjabi Dhol drumshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbwZ_e-zk5w Orchestra with timpani – this starts slowly but speeds up! Watch to see the musician change her beaters.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lTQR-KZBkw Steel panshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZHfmgIb4mc Djembe drums – can you beat a drum that fast?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQLvGghaDbE Samba drumming – maybe we could try this when we’re all back together at school!

• Can you join in the story and movements in ‘The Jackal and the Drum’ story? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p064khwp/happy-tent-tales-1the-jackal-and-the-drum

• How many animals are in the story of Tanka Tanka Skunk? Write a list and count them – how many did you remember?

• Draw a picture or make a model of your favourite animal from Tanka Tanka Skunk! Get ready to show it on Friday at show and tell.

• There are some unusual animals in Tanka Tanka Skunk. Can you find out an information fact about one of these – a lemur, a llama, an anteater, a yak, a dingo, an armadillo, or an ant-eater?

• The clock in the Hickory Dickory Dock rhyme is often pictured as a grandfather clock. Find out what a grandfather clock looks like – maybe you can make a model of a grandfather clock for a mouse to run up…

Week beginning 1.3.21

Ideas for home-made percussion instruments…

cymbals…

shakers…

castanets…

drums…

Make your own clock face

• Write the numbers on (check that you’re putting them in the right place).

• Cut out the face and two hands.

• Make a hole where all the dots are.

• Put a split pin or thin stick through the holes so the hands go around.

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she be my was

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