Our dear Poppies and Rubies, welcome back to another exciting week as we continue to explore our theme- Out of the Egg- Dragons and Dinosaurs. We will be diving into a new book this week and we are excited about sharing this new story with you! Find below, a detailed breakdown for each area of learning.
This week, is Children’s Mental Health Week and we will be completing a range of mindfulness activities. To mark this, we’ll be having ‘No Screen Wednesday‘. It means, there will be no live lessons on Wednesday and you need to complete all your Wednesday activities practically without a screen or computer! We all think you are all being brave at home; helping the grown-ups you live with, completing your school work and playing with your toys.
Here are some ideas or activities for you to try:
- Can you create a picture to show all the brave things you can do? It could be that you have stayed in bed all night or tasted something new or learnt to do something you find tricky or even picked up a spider. You could use photographs, paint, felt tips or even send us a video message.
- Go for a walk and see how many birds you can spot.
- Make a bird feeder – you could thread lopped cereal onto string.
- Share an act of kindness- phone a family member, help at home, draw a picture and send it through the post to a friend or family member.
- Play a board game
Most importantly have fun!
STORY TIME/ SHOW AND TELL
On Tuesday the 2nd February at 2:15pm, we will be holding a Teams Session where our School Learners and Home Learners can get together for a story and ‘Show and Tell’.
We will send Teams invites as usual so check your calendar. We are looking forward to seeing you all!
This week in Maths, we are learning about length and weight.
Monday
Today, we will be comparing the weight of different items. We will learn to use vocabulary like heavy, heavier, light, lighter, the same and compare. We will also learn how to use a pan balance.
Activity: explore weight by comparing weights of different items within the home. Remember to use the correct vocabulary.
Monday’s maths activity
Tuesday
Today is our second session where we will learn about weight. In our live lesson, we will find out how we can weigh items using non-standard measures.
Activity suggestion (please do not feel the cooking activity has to be done)
At home, if you have bathroom scales you may want to use them to weigh yourself or if you have cooking scales you may want to use them to measure out ingredients to bake biscuits or cookies.
Wednesday
Practice your Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs). You might want to focus on counting back from 20 or 10 and finding 1 less than a number.
Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) in Maths EYFS
Thursday
Today, we will learn to use vocabulary like long, longest, short, shortest, tall and tallest when comparing different lengths and heights.
Activity: explore length and height by using different items from within the home.
Thursday’s maths
Friday
Today is our second session where we will learn about length. In our live lesson, we will find out how we can measure length using non-standard measures.
Activity suggestion: Can you measure some of your toys? You could measure them with paperclips, buttons, counters or even pencils. Remember they need to be the same length. Then take a photograph of what you have done.
Yet again, we be going on another adventure into the world of Dinosaurs! Can you guess this week’s book? It is… Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort!
We had no idea dinosaurs wore underpants to start with so; it will be interesting to find out all about it!
Do not for get to join our Live Literacy lessons at 9.25am daily.
Vocabulary: we would explore the meaning of new words like roamed, deafening, rants, titchy, quaked and amok as we read this book.
Please note you do not have to print all the worksheets you can always work straight into your Red book.
On Monday, we would introduce the text/ story. We would discuss the title/front cover/back cover and blurb.
You can listen to the story here: Dinosaurs Love Underpants
Did you enjoy the story?
What did you like about the story?
What was your favourite part?
Activity: Design your own cover page for this story book. Look at the original cover page. What would you do differently? What would you like to change? Remember to add the title and the name of the author!
Monday’s Activity- Design your own cover page Home Learners
On Tuesday, (you may watch the story again) we will focus on using adjectives/ describing words to describe the underpants. Think of the colours and patterns of the underpants. Can you use some WOW to describe them? Use words like stripy, dotted, bright, patterned etc.
Activity: Design your own underpants and write sentences to describe it. For example, it is spotty. It is red. You can print the sheet below or complete this in your Red Book.
Tuesday’s Activity- Describe using adjectives
Handwriting Wednesday!
This week’s letters are f and l. Do not forget to keep practising writing your first name. You could even learn to write your surname!
Wednesday Handwriting- f and l
On Thursday, using a story map, we will learn to recite the story.
Do you remember the actions for some key words like First, Next, Suddenly and Finally? Use the Pie Corbet sheet below to remind you.
Activity: Have a go at creating your own story map.
What happened in the beginning of the story?
What happened in the middle?
What happened at the end?
Remember, you can tell the story with few pictures. You only need the key events in the beginning, middle and end of the story.
Thursday’s Activity- Draw a story map Home Learners
Pie Corbet Talk for Writing Actions
On Friday, we will recite the story and then go ahead to write a sentence for the beginning, middle and end of the story.
Activity: Draw what happens in the beginning, middle and end of the story. You may have a go at writing sentences for each picture. Remember to use phonics to help you.
Friday’s Activity- recall events in the story Home Learners
Please join in with our Live Phonics sessions at 10.30am. These lessons will be recorded and available to watch later. After each lesson, there would be activities to complete in the Reception English Phonics (CGP) Book 2.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Activity for the day | Introduce the words ‘and’ – | Blend and segment words with Phase 2 sounds. | Learn the tricky words – I , to, go, the into | Blend and segment words with Phase 2 sounds. | Writing captions- Remember, we need a finger space after each word. |
| Page(s) to complete in Phonics Work book | p. 10 & 11 | p. 18 & 19 | p. 22 & 23 | p. 26 & 27 | p. 30 & 31 |
Kindly, encourage your child to practise blending (saying the sounds and reading the words) using these sounds. Then we will move onto segmenting the sounds (saying the word and then saying or writing the sounds to spell the word. E.g., mop segmented into m-o-p.
Keep learning your tricky words. When you are able to read a new word, let us know! We are excited to see how many tricky words you can learn this week!
Expressive Art and Design
- Can you make a new patterned pair of underpants using a new pattern and different colours? You can use one of these templates.
- At school, we are going to use salt dough to make some dinosaur fossils so why not try to make some of your own. You can watch how here.
- If you are feeling very adventurous can you make a 3D habitat for a dinosaur to live in. You can be as creative as you like and use anything from a cereal box to a shoe box adding lots of textures and colours.
Understanding of the world (Science)
This week, we are going to find out about different types of dinosaurs and what they ate. See if you can find out what these words mean:
- Carnivore
- Omnivore
- Herbivore.
You can watch this short PowerPoint to help you: Dinosaurs- omnivore, carnivore and herbivore.
When you know what they mean, see if you can sort all the dinosaurs you know into different groups.
Another fascinating activity, is to visit The Natural History Museum website where you can go on a virtual tour and there are many dinosaurs to find and explore. The site takes a lot of navigating but it is well worth it if you persevere!
Other activities for you to try:
Dinosaur counting activity
Purple Mash
Complete 2Do activities on Purple Mash and any other activities on mini mash.
Reading
Read a book or two on Active Learn this week. We have assigned a range of books for you all to enjoy! Practise the words on your laminated card- this will help to improve fluency.
OTHER USEFUL WEBSITES:
In addition to the phonics live lessons, there are also two good websites with lots of games on that are now free. Phonics play has uploaded a good range of new games for you to try and there are activities on Phonics Bloom.
CBBC is also offering free lessons from 9am, which you can have a go at. If you engage with any of the activities, please share pictures with us via Tapestry. We would love to see all the wonderful things you do at home.
SEND YOUR WORK TO:
This week we would like to encourage parents’ to use Tapestry as a means of sharing your child’s learning.
If you are unable to access Tapestry, you can send an email with an attachment to poppy@perryfields-pri.sandwell.sch.uk or to ruby@perryfields-pri.sandwell.sch.uk .
Please do not hesitate to contact us via Class Charts or the class emails listed above with any queries.