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11/05/20

Morning Message

Good morning, It’s the start of a brand new week. We hope you all had a lovely long weekend. Did you do anything fun? Ms Mulry has been busy perfecting her wheelbarrow race technique and identifying the trees in her local park using the Woodland Trust app. Ms O’Sullivan baked some apple cake and went for a walk in her local park where she saw some green parakeets and mallard ducks. She also tried a Zoom call with her family! Have you tried video calling a family member or friend? Are you ready to have a go at some new activities this week? Let’s do a brain warm up before we start! Spot the difference (12 to spot – answer will be at the bottom of today’s work):

Have a magnificent Monday. Ms Mulry and Ms O’Sullivan

Today’s Picture

Writing

Story starter: The trees, which stretched up far from the sandy shoreline, covered almost the entire small island. We sat there quietly, taking in the natural beauty that surrounded us. Finally, we had made it to paradise, our home for the next two months. At that moment, as a faint rainbow painted the sky with colour, I felt a sense of anticipation about our time on the island. ‘How will you cope without your phone?’, ‘What will you do for food?’, ‘Won’t you be scared?’ my family had asked. I didn’t have answers to their questions but as the sun began to break through the clouds, I knew that the months ahead would be full of challenges and excitement… What do you think the view looks like for the people sitting on the beach? Draw what you think they are looking at and write a sentence to go with your picture.

Reading and Phonics Reading: Read the following sentences and match them to the correct picture.

Phonics Today we are going to move on to Phase 4 phonics. Children will not learn new sounds within Phase 4. Instead, they will focus on their blending and segmenting skills, two-syllable words and learning some new tricky words. Please make sure that your child is confident with the Phase 3 sounds and tricky words before you begin.

Today we would like you to practise all Phase 2 and 3 sounds, using your sound mats to help you:

Blending exercise: Parents and carers, read these words out to your child. Can you write these words into your red book? Give each sound a sound button.

New tricky words/HFW to practise: said, so, went, from

Read the sentence and find the matching picture:

The bank is shut.

Maths This week, we are learning to take away by counting back. Before we begin, try the activities below to see how much you remember. Can you count backwards from 10 without a number line? (10, 9, 8…) Can you recognise and identify all the numbers from 1 to 10? Use the number line below. Parents and carers, ask your child to point to specific numbers – e.g. show me number 6.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Can you use the number line to count with one to one correspondence (pointing to each number as you count)?

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Does your child have an understanding of cardinality (how many a number represents - e.g. you could ask your child to find or show 5 fingers/objects)? Well done! Now, let’s get started with today’s lesson by learning a song (to the tune of I’m a Little Teapot). Show this image to your child:

Explain that the children in the picture are playing a board game and that in some games you can move backwards as well as forwards. Show your children their Snakes and Ladders game from their home learning pack and model how to play. Explain that rolling a dice tells you how many spaces to move forwards and that you can move up ladders and slide down snakes.

I’m a little rocket And I point up to the sky, I’m a little rocket And I really want to fly.

I’ll take you to the stars And I’ll take you to the moon, Come on an adventure We can zoom, zoom, zoom!

Let’s begin the countdown We can start from number 10, And when we land back on the earth, We’ll do it all again!

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ... BLAST OFF!

After singing the song, ask your child: What number do you start

counting from? Are you counting forwards or backwards? When

counting backwards, what number do you say after 7, before 3,

etc?

Get active and play a game of Snakes and Ladders to show what you have learned today. While playing, ask your child these questions: What number were you on at first? What number did you roll on the dice? What do you need to do now? How can you work out where you will land? How many jumps do you need to take? What number will you land on? Can you explain what happened using a first, then, now story?

Physical Development Play a game of catch or tag in your garden or house. Maybe you could be a scary monster using stamping feet or a tiny mouse walking on tip toes while you try to chase your sibling or parent. Perhaps you’re a scary lion on the hunt for his lunch or a kangaroo leaping high into the air. Maybe you are a crab and are trying to find your home on the beach or maybe you are chasing away the other crabs – can you do the crab walk?

Topic Work ( for the week) Creative Task 1 Make some salt dough dinosaur bones. You will need 250g flour, 125g salt and 125ml water. Mix the ingredients together, then place the dough on a floured surface and begin shaping it into dinosaur bones. Bake in the oven (at the lowest temperature) for about 3 hours or until your dough is solid.

Task 2 Make a dinosaur using recycled materials such as empty toliet/kitchen rolls, newspapers, cardboard boxes, egg cartons, etc. If you want to challenge yourself, you might like to make a paper mache dinosaur like the stegosaurus below. Here are some examples. Maybe you could have a look online for some inspiration too:

Task 3 Do you remember the 2D shapes that we learned about in maths – circle, square, rectangle, triangle? Use these flat 2D shapes to create a picture of a dinosaur.

Task 4 Let’s learn a new song! Try to sing the lyrics below to the tune of Wind The Bobbin Up. Watch this video if you don’t know the tune - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwdxJnAA6CI.

Verse 1

Where’s the dinosaur

Where’s the dinosaur

Look, Look

Run, run, run

Verse 2

Where’s the dinosaur

Where’s the dinosaur

Look, Look

Run, run, run

Verse 3

There’s one on the ceiling

One on the floor

One by the window

One by the door

Verse 4

Clap your hands

together 1, 2, 3

No Mr Dinosaur you

can’t eat me!

Task 5 Make your own fossils using leftover salt dough from your dinosaur bones. What will you fossilise? When they are ready, bury them in your garden for a palaeontologist to find!

Understanding the World This week we are moving on to one of our favourite topics – DINOSAURS! What do you already know about dinosaurs? Task 1 Learn some amazing facts about dinosaurs with Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures on CBeebies. Here you’ll find some brilliant videos about tyrannosaurus rex, diplodocus, stegosaurus, triceratops and ornithocheirus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/dinosaur-facts Task 2 Here are some fascinating facts about dinosaurs:

Task 3 Do you have any story books about dinosaurs at home? At school this week, we would have been reading ‘Dinosaurs Love Underpants’. Have you read this story before? If you have it at home, read it with an adult or listen to it being read here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5sh5r04r80. Or you could read a different dinosaur-themed story.

What other facts can you find out about

dinosaurs? Record what you have learned in

your red book. You could stick in or draw

pictures, write out some of your favourite

facts or ask your parents or carers to print

some information off the computer for you.

Task 4 Do you know what a fossil is? Fossils are the remains of animals or plants that have been left in the rocks for a very long time. Some people hunt for fossils! Fossil hunters are scientists called palaeontologists. Watch this video to find out more about palaeontologists and answer the questions below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FjyKmpmQzc Where is a good place to look for fossils? (Riverbeds and hillsides) What tools do palaeontologists use to dig up fossils? (Picks, shovels and big diggers) What do they do with the fossils once they’ve dug them up? (Bring them back to the lab to study them using x-ray machines and CT scanners) Where are the fossils kept after they’ve been studied? (Museums and universities) Task 5 We have set you a new 2Do on Purple Mash. Go and take a look: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/princessfrederica Challenge: Visit the Natural History Museum website to learn more about dinosaurs: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dinosaurs.html

Spot the difference answers: