Welcome back to the Summer Term Green Class. Hopefully you have all had a nice break and are ready for some new home learning challenges!

Phonics

Reception

The grapheme we are learning today is ‘th’.

Watch Mr Thorne does phonics and then go through all of your phase 3 cards.

Play Buried Treasure by selecting the +th option.

Year 1

Today’s grapheme is ‘ew’.

Watch Mr Thorne does phonics and then revise all of your phase 5 cards.

Play Buried Treasure by selecting the +ew option.

Maths

Reception

We are beginning a new topic for maths this term and we will be looking at addition and subtraction by counting on and back.

Begin by practicing counting on with your child by playing I count, you count.

You say- “1,2”

Your child says- “3,4”

And so on all the way to 20.

For the main activity today we will be using a White Rose method known as maths stories:

First 2 people were on a bus. Then 2 more people got onto the bus. Now there are 4 people on the bus altogether.

The number sentence would be 2+2=4.

You could draw your own bus and use lego people/pasta/counters or whatever you have available. Alternatively you can download this version to use:

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Begin by working with numbers to 10 but feel free to move on to numbers to 20 if your child is confident. Think of an addition number sentence to give your child e.g. 3 + 2 = Then using your physical resources place 3 people onto the bus and say “First there were 3 people on the bus”. Then add 2 more people and say “Then 2 more people joined”. Ask your child how many there are now. See if your child can count on by putting the number 3 in their head and saying 4, 5 to represent the 2 additional people. It is OK if they aren’t able to do this yet, they can count from 1. Try different addition calculations using this method.

Year 1

We are also moving on with our maths learning for the Summer term and we will be looking at making halves/doubles and equal groups.

Go to the White Rose website and follow the tutorial and activities for Summer Term Week 1 Lesson 1. The activities are all about doubles. There are images for children to use on the question sheet however your child may need physical objects in front of them to help when working out the answers. You could use counters, pasta, lego pieces, anything you have available.

Don’t forget that you can use the Times Table Rock Stars website at any time to help with counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Literacy

This week’s book will be The Snail and The Whale by Julia Donalson. There is a lovely animated version on the BBC website or you might prefer to read the book to your child, if you haven’t got the book at home there is a version on youtube that they can listen to.

Once you have listened to/watched the whole story explain to your child that the story is all about a snail who wants to go on a journey. For today’s activity I would like children to think about where in the world they would like to go, it could be somewhere they’ve never been or somewhere they love going. Draw a picture to show me the place and then using full sentences tell me where it is and why you want to go there using the word because. Year 1 this is a great opportunity to use some wonderful adjectives!

Science

As an extra activity for you to try today I would like you to fill up a bowl of tray with water and try placing different objects into it. Which float and which sink? Do you know why? Can you predict which will float or sink and say why?

You could record your results in a table.

Mrs Mottram’s challenge

Mrs Mottram has heard a cuckoo whilst out and about around Claverley. Throughout the week could you research what a cuckoo looks like, where it lives, what it likes to eat etc. If you hear the cuckoo maybe you could record the sound it makes and where you heard it. Don’t forget to send us your work!