Here are a few ideas for this week. This is not intended to be prescriptive so please feel free to only use anything that you find useful.
1. Set up a routine that works for your family and display the times as a way of teaching telling the time. It is amazing how some children in Yellow will tell me that they can’t tell the time and yet are always the first to tell me off if I don’t take them out for the Daily Mile at 2:30pm on the dot! You know who you are!
2. Start with one of these quick English starters: Write down as many words as you can think of that start with an m and end with an s. Year 3 could check the spelling of the two longest words they think of in the dictionary. Have the children thought of any adjectives? e.g marvellous or mischievous. Play hangman using words from their spelling list. Print out a Year 2 Common Exception Word word search or a Year 3-4 Statutory Spelling List word search pack from Twinkl.
3. English: either complete a task from the pack or some work on spelling and handwriting. On Monday, this could be a spelling test and some time spent looking at the new spellings for the week. The children could write the words using a different colour for each letter, write each word in a silly sentence, make the words using magnetic letters etc.
4. Break
5. A quick maths starter: Find as many ways as you can to make 45 e.g. 40+ 5 or 9 x 5. Continue this number sequence 20, 22, 24…. or 6, 12, 18….
6. Complete a maths activity from the pack or go on espresso>K.S.1 Maths>Addition and Subtraction>Activities or go on Times Table Rock Stars.
7. Lunch and playtime
8. Reading
9. You might like to try drawing or painting your family, the view from your window or your favourite animals. Twinkl have some nice Mindfulness colouring sheets. You might like to start making an Easter or Spring garden. This could be outside, out of Lego or in an old shoebox using materials that you have available. Later in the week I will try to post some more topic suggestions.
Best Wishes to you all, Miss you already. Miss Pinches
