Phonics

Did anyone watch the Letters and Sounds lessons posted yesterday? If you did let me know what you thought. If you haven’t had chance yet they are posting daily so have a look.

The lessons follow a set structure and cover all areas of phonics so are very useful however you are watching the screen for the full 20/30 minutes.

I will continue to post activities for now but you only need to do one so either watch the youtube lesson or follow my activity below. Choose whichever works best for you.

Here is the link for the youtube lessons.

Reception

Today’s grapheme is ‘oo’ there are two phonemes for this grapheme. The first is a long ‘oo’ sound as in moon, the second makes an ‘u’ sound as in book. We are focusing on the long oo sound today.

Revise all of your phase 3 flashcards and watch Mr Thorne does phonics.

For today’s activity I would like you to see how many ‘oo’ words you can think of. Can you write them down? Could you put them into a sentence?

Year 1

Today’s grapheme is ‘i-e’.

Begin by revising all of your phase 5 flashcards and then watch Mr Thorne does phonics.

For today’s activity I want you to write a list of words that have the ‘i-e’ grapheme. Can you make silly sentences using the words you have written. Mine would be:

The pink flamingo won a prize for standing on her head.

Literacy

Read the story Jasper’s Beanstalk again then have a look at these images

Jasper’s Beanstalk images

You don’t have to use all of them, just select your favourites. Can you label the picture and write a caption to let me know what is happening in each one.

Maths

Reception

For today’s starter have a go at this number blocks game on the Cbeebies website.

For today’s main activity we are carrying on with subtracting. Have ten green bottles/ten frogs/ten monkeys/ten currant buns and line them up. We are going to use the rhyme but change them up slightly. For example, if I was using ten green bottles I would line them up and sing, ‘There were ten green bottles standing on the wall, ten green bottles standing on the wall, but if 3 green bottles should accidentally fall’ knock 3 green bottles over ‘There’d be 7 green bottles standing on the wall’.

You can challenge your child to record these as number sentences and you could go up to 20 bottles etc. The key learning is that your child understands that when we subtract something we are taking it away so out total gets smaller.

Year 1

For today’s starter we are going to practice our two times table. You will need 10 pairs of socks- make sure your child understands that a pair equals 2. You will also need number cards or post it notes with numbers in increments of 2 from 2-2-. Each pair of socks represents one lot of 2. Lay down the first pair of socks and place the number card 2 on top- say to your child 1 lot of 2 equals 2. Lay the next pair down beside the first and say 2 lots of 2 equals 4 placing the number 4 card on top of the second pair of socks. See if your child can carry on the pattern saying the same sentence each time. If your child is confident with this you can ask them in a random order e.g lay down 5 pairs of socks first and say 5 lots of 2 equals? Get them to tell you the answer.

Go to the White Rose website and look at Summer term week 2 lesson 2- Find a quarter.

Art

For today’s optional challenge we are going to be doing some observational drawings. You could choose any plant inside your house or in your garden to draw or paint. Make sure you look closely at the shape, size and colour of your chosen plant.

Phonics

Reception

Today’s grapheme is ‘igh’.

Revise all of your phase 3 flash cards and then watch Mr Thorne does phonics.

For today’s activity have a go at the Buried Treasure game by selecting +igh.

Year 1

Today’s grapheme is ‘a-e’.

Revise all of your phase 5 flashcards and then watch Mr Thorne does Phonics.

For today’s activity have a go at the Buried Treasure game by selecting + a-e.

Literacy

Yesterday you planned the details of your story including who the main characters were, where your story was set and what adventure your characters would go on.

Today I would like you to put your ideas into a story. You need to have a clear beginning, middle and end to your story and remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops!

You may want to draw pictures to go along with your story.

Reception children can have a go at writing their story alternatively, they could draw the pictures for their story and verbally tell you what’s happening. They may want to use toys/puppets to act out their story to you. Being able to communicate a story verbally is just as important as writing one down.

Maths

Reception

For today’s starter choose number songs to sing and practice your counting backwards. You could sing:

5 cheeky monkeys

5 speckled frogs

5 currant buns

10 green bottles

For today’s activity you will need to write the numbers 1-10 on separate pieces of paper and turn them upside down. Turn over two pieces of paper and record your number sentence. For example if I turned over 9 and 3 I would write 9+3= Then work our your total by counting on- remember to put the biggest number in your head and count on from there. You may need to use physically resources like pasta, lego, counters to support your child.

Year 1

For today’s starter have a go at rolling a dice- whatever number it lands on shout out the double. You could also have a go at shouting out what half would be- what happens if you land on an odd number?

Go to the White Rose website and complete the Friday maths challenges.

P.E Challenge

For today’s challenge have a go at the Bean Game, I had a go in my garden to remind you of the different movements.

Phonics

Reception

Today’s grapheme is ‘ee’.

Begin by revising all of your phase 3 flash cards and then watch Mr Thorne does phonics.

For today’s activity write the graphemes, ‘ee’ ‘ai’ ‘ng’ and ‘th’ on separate pieces of paper and position them around your garden. Parents read a word out to your child and ask them to identify which of the four sounds they heard by running to the correct piece of paper. You can use your own words or use the ones from the list below:

Them, this, path, ring, song, king, wait, sail, main, feet, week, deep.

Year 1

Today’s grapheme is ‘ey’.

Begin by revising all of your phase 5 flash cards and then watch Mr Thorne does phonics.

For today’s activity write the graphemes, ‘ey’ ‘au’ ‘oe’ and ‘ew’ on separate pieces of paper and position them around your garden. Parents read a word out to your child and ask them to identify which of the four sounds they heard by running to the correct piece of paper. You can use your own words or use the ones from the list below:

chew, grew, few, toe, doe, poatoes, haul, launch, author, donkey, honey, chimney.

Literacy

Today we are going to begin to write our own story about two animals that meet and go on an adventure together. You could follow the plot line of The Snail and the Whale or you could create your own journey.

For today’s task you will need to think about:

Where is the story set?

Who are the main characters in the story?

How do they meet?

Why are they going on an adventure together?

Where are they going?

What problem will they face?

How will they resolve the problem?

How will the story end?

It may be useful for year 1 children to include descriptive words in their planning in preparation for writing tomorrow. You may want to use a thesaurus to introduce some new words into your writing!

Reception children, you could draw pictures of your setting, characters etc to use as prompts tomorrow.

Maths

Reception

For today’s starter play the Mental Maths Train game on top marks, select the addition and up to 10 one more options.

For today’s activity we are going to carry on with addition by counting on. I have done a demonstration video for parents to watch modelling today’s activity.

Year 1

For today’s starter have a go at Archery Doubles on ict games.

The go the white rose website,Summer term week 1 lesson 4- finding a half.

Computing

For today’s challenge I would like you to have a go at following the coding program Fun with Fish on purplemash. You can work your way through the challenges and see how far you can get!