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Hello everyone!
We've got some more activities for you to try this week.
We hope you enjoy doing them - don't forget to share them with us if you would like to!
Week Beginning: Monday 4th January 2021
Reading: Superworm
Use the link to listen to the story 'Superworm'.
What do you think was the cleverest thing that Superworm did in the story?
The other creatures had a rhyme about Superworm which they repeated through the story. Can you remember it?
To watch and listen to the story click on this link:
https://stcharlescatholicprimary.com/brightenupday/james-mcavoy-superworm-cbeebies-bedtime-stories/
Week Beginning: Monday 6th July 2020
Reading: Superworm
Use the link to listen to the story 'Superworm'.
What do you think was the cleverest thing that Superworm did in the story?
The other creatures had a rhyme about Superworm which they repeated through the story. Can you remember it?
To watch and listen to the story click on this link:
https://stcharlescatholicprimary.com/brightenupday/james-mcavoy-superworm-cbeebies-bedtime-stories/
Reading: Yucky Worms
Use the link to listen to the story 'Yucky Worms' At the beginning of the story the boy thought worms were yucky.
What did he think about worms by the end of the story?
Can you remember some of the things the boy learnt about worms from his granny?
To watch and listen to the story click on this link:
Writing: Draw a Superworm picture
Draw a picture of something that Superworm did in the story.
Write or copy the word 'Superworm'.
Can you write or copy any other words from the story onto your picture?
Creative: Make some playdough
Use the link to find out how to make some playdough with a grown up...
https://theimaginationtree.com/best-ever-no-cook-play-dough-recipe/
Maths: Different length worms
Use your play dough to make some worms.
Can you make lots of worms of different lengths then put them in order of length, longest to shortest?
Topic: Worm facts
Use the link to find out some facts about worms.
Did you find out any facts that were different from the ones you learnt from 'Yucky Worms'?
Talk to your family about all the facts you have learnt about worms.
Topic: Looking for worms
If you have a bit of flowerbed you are allowed to dig in, see if you can find any worms.
If you find one, look at it very carefully Draw a picture of it and write 'worm'.
Make sure you put him back in his flowerbed environment afterwards.
Creative: Printing with spaghetti
Use some cooked spaghetti and paint to do some printing.
You can print some worms!
Music: Wiggly worm song
Use the link to listen to Mr Tumble singing his Wiggly Worm song.
Join in with the words and actions!
Week Beginning: Monday 29th June 2020
Reading: The Shopping Basket
Use the link to listen to 'The Shopping Basket'
To watch and listen to the story click on this link:
Reading: The Shopping Basket
Talk to your family about the story, the order in which Steven met the animals and what each animal wanted from him.
PHSE: Feelings
How do you think Steven felt after meeting each of the animals?
How did they behave?
Were they polite?
Talk to a grown up about what you think.
Music/Maths: Five Current Bun song
Use the link to listen to the five Current Bun song. Learn the song.
Perform the song to your family!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-five-currant-buns/zm4nmfr
Maths: Counting
Draw and count each item in Stevens shopping basket.
*Write the number next to each of the items as you count them.
Maths: Addition / Subtraction
How many of each item were left after the animals took them from Steven's basket?
Can you write a sum?
How many items were there altogether?
Writing: Shopping list
Talk to a grown up about healthy food then write your own shopping list including the food you have talked about.
Topic: Choices
Can you find some fruit and vegetables in your fridge at home?
Which do you have most of, fruits or vegetables. Talk to a grown up about which one is your favourite.
Phonics: Initial letter sounds
Can you hear the initial letter sound of each of the items in Steven's shopping basket?
Topic: Shopping basket game
Watch Mrs Ewins' video about removing items from her shopping basket.
What did she take out each time?
Did she use any of the items which were in Steven's basket?
Can you play this game at home?
Week Beginning: Monday 22nd June 2020
Reading: The Rainbow Fish
Use the link to listen to the story The Rainbow Fish
To watch and listen to the story click on this link:
Reading: The Rainbow Fish
Talk about the story with your family. How did the rainbow fish change? Was he happy or sad at the end of the story, and why?
Creative: Fish picture
Use crayons, felt pens, paint or collage to make a beautiful picture of the rainbow fish in his environment.
Topic: Fish facts
Use the links to watch 'Happy Learning, Fish' and Come Outside Fish to find out some facts about fish.
Click on this link to find out some fishy facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3gJoZqlY
Click on this link to watch Come outside - fish
Topic: Make a book
Make a book about fish. Use two or three pieces of paper folded into a book. Write the word 'fish' on the front. Draw some different fish on each page, and draw a sea or river environment for them to live in. Ask a grown up to write some words about fish for you to copy next to your pictures. You could write words like 'scales', 'fin' or 'tail'.
Phonics: Letter f
'Fish' begins with the letter f. Can you think of other things which begin with f? Think about the letters o, c and g too. Tell a grown up what sounds these letters make, and make a list together of things that begin with the sounds.
Physical: Obstacle course
Use the link to play the obstacle course game with your family.
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Moving%20-%20Obstacle%20Course.pdf
Maths: Size ordering
Draw, colour and cut out three fish. Can you make them different sizes and shapes?
Now stick them in size order, smallest to largest.
Maths: Number hunt
Go on a number hunt around your home, or when you are out for a walk. Look for numbers everywhere, for example on front doors or on cars. You could take some paper with you and write down the numbers you find. What is the biggest number you found?
Maths: Capacity
Watch the video of Miss Bage finding out which container holds the most water. Then have a go yourself! Find a small container and a few larger ones. Count how many smaller containers are needed to fill each of the larger containers. Which one holds the most/least? Try to put them in order.
Week Beginning: Monday 15th June 2020
Reading: The Bumblebear
Use the link to listen to The Bumblebear
To watch and listen to the story click on this link:
https://www.puffinschools.co.uk/resources/ks1-video-bumblebear-nadia-shireen-5-mins/
Reading: The Bumblebear
Talk to your family about the story.
Why did Norman go to bee school?
Can you remember all the things he did at bee school?
Why did he leave bee school, and why was he a hero at the end of the story?
Phonics: Letter sounds a, s, t, p, i, d, m, n
Think about the letters we have been practicing over the last few weeks: a, s, t, p, m, n, i and d.
Have a go at saying the sounds and writng the letters. Use the link to play the online game.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/grab-a-giggling-grapheme
Maths: Big and small
Look at the different sizes of the bees and Norman. Draw a big Norman and a small Amelia bee.
Maths: Patterns
Draw or paint a bee with stripes in a repeating pattern.
Try to make one black stripe, one yellow stripe and so on. Or you could try to do two yellow, one black, two yellow, one black and so on, repeating the pattern.
Then make some more repeating patterns with different colours and describe your pattern to a grown up.
Then use the link to play 'Finish the Pattern' on Topmarks.
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/simple_patterns/eng/Introduction/MainSession.htm
Maths: Numbers
Choose a number between 1 and 10. Draw that number of honey pots. Now draw the same number of bees to match the pots. Write or copy the numbers on the pots. Then chose another number and do the same thing with that number.
Topic: Honey Sandwiches
Norman loved honey! Make some honey sandwiches, spreading butter and honey carefully on to the bread. Then ask a grown up to help you cut the sandwich into four triangles. Then eat your sandwich!
Music: Buzzy Bee Song
Use the link to listen to the Buzzy Bee counting song. Learn the song and make up some actions to go with ti. Perform the song to your family!
Creative: Bee picture
Make a bee picture. Bees love flowers so draw or paint lots of flowers! Then make some bees: draw circles and cut them out and decorate them with stripes. Give each bee six legs. Stick them onto your flower picture.
Writing: Write your name
Practice your writing! Write your name lots of times. Remember how to hold the pencil correctly - do you remember that we say 'Pinch the pencil!'? Extension: can you copy or write some of the the words from this week's activities, such as Bee, Honey or Flower?
Week Beginning: Monday 8th June 2020
Reading: Aaaarrgghh Spider!
Use the link to listen to the story Aaaarrgghh Spider!
To watch and listen to the story click on this link:
Reading: Aaaarrgghh Spider!
Talk about the story with a grown up. The family were scared of the spider - are you scared of spiders or do you like them? What made the family like the spider and think she was very clever in the end? Why were they scared again at the end of the story?
Phonics: Letter sounds i, n, m, d
Think about the letters i, n, m and d. Tell a grown up what sound each letter makes. Go on a sound hunt around your home! Choose one of these letters and look for things that begin with the sound. Ask a grown up to make a list of all the things you find. Extension: can you go on a hunt for all these sounds?
Music: Incy Wincy Spider
Use the link to listen to Incy Wincy Spider. Listen to the link with the actions too and see if you can copy the actions.
Click on this link to listen to the song 'Incy Wincy Spider'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-incy-wincy-spider/zr4yt39
Click on this link to sing the song with actions
Creative: Egg Box Spider
Watch the video of Miss Bage making a spider from an egg box, and have a go at making one too. Give your spider a name and take him on you daily walk!
Topic: Come Outside, Spiders
Use the link to watch 'Come Outside, Spiders. Tell someone in your family all the things you learned about spiders from the programme.
Click on the link to watch 'Come outside - Spiders'
Maths: Counting legs
Spiders have 8 legs. Can you draw a spider? Draw a circle for the body then give it 8 legs, counting carefully as you draw them. Extension - draw another spider. How many legs are there altogether now? What about if you draw 3 spiders?
Topic: Spider facts
Spiders are very interesting and very clever. Use books and the internet, or follow the link, to find some facts about spiders.
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-5105-spiders-facts-powerpoint
Maths: Ordering numbers
Ask a grown up to write numbers 1 - 10 (or 1 -20!) on separate pieces of paper. Muddle them up! Now have a go at putting the numbers in the right order.
Extension - try copying or writing the numbers)
Maths: Ordering by size
Choose 5 of your toys which are all different sizes. Can you put them in order of size, smallest to largest? Try doing this with other things, such as vegetables, spoons, or anything else you can think of! Then use the link to play 'Let's Compare' on Topmarks.
Click on the link to play the game
Week Beginning: Monday 1st June 2020
Reading: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Use the link to listen to the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
To watch and listen to the story click on this link:
Reading: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Hungry Caterpillar ate lots of food. Can you remember all the different foods he ate? Which foods were good for the Hungry Caterpillar to eat?
Maths: Counting sets of fruit and vegetables
Look for fruit and vegetables in your home. Put them all on a table to make a collection. Now count how many you have of each one. Remember to touch each one as you count, and only say a number once for each object. Which do you have the most of? Which do you have the least of? Extension: draw the different fruits and vegetables and write the number next to them.
Maths: Days of the week
The Hungry Caterpillar ate different things every day. Can you say the days of the week in the right order? Can you remember the songs we sing at nursery to help us learn the days of the week? Use the link to listen to one of the songs. Ask an adult to make a chart with the days of the week. Each day, draw something healthy that you have eaten that day.
To listen and learn the days of the week song click on this link:
Creative: Butterfly Picture
Make a lovely picture of a butterfly. If you have paints you could paint one side of a piece of paper, then fold it over to make a butterfly! Or you could ask a grown up to draw a butterfly shape, then draw colourful patterns on the wings. Challenge: can you make both wings look the same?
Maths: Bug catcher game
Use the link to play Bug Catcher on Topmarks.
To play the game please click on this link:
Phonics: Letter sounds a, s, t, p.
Think about the letters a,s,t and p. Tell a grown up what sound each letter makes. Go on a sound hunt around your home! Choose one of these letters and look for things that begin with the sound. Ask a grown up to make a list of all the things you find. Extension: can you go on a hunt for all these sounds?
Topic: Butterflies
Use the link to watch Come Outside Butterflies to find out about butterflies and caterpillars.
To watch and listen to 'Come Outside - Butterflies please click on this link:
Topic: Butterfly life cycle
Can you remember what you have learnt about the life cycle of a butterfly? Try to remember the different stages and draw a picture for each one. Ask a grown up to help you find some pictures of the life cycle of a butterfly on the internet.
Writing: Writing your name
Keep practising your name! The more you practice, the better you will get! You could make labels with your name to stick on things such as your favourite toys, or a sign for your bedroom door. Then everyone will know these things belong to you! Extension: keep writing and copying lots of different words. For example, you could label your pictures of the life cycle of a butterfly.
Week Beginning: Monday 18th May 2020
Reading: What the Ladybird Heard
Use the link to listen to the story What the Ladybird Heard. Talk about the story with a grown up. What was the ladybird's clever plan?
To watch and listen to the story please click on this link:
Music: What the Ladybird Heard song
Use the link to listen to the song sung by the author of the book, Julia Donaldson. Join in with the singing! If you have any musical instruments you could use them to join in with the rhythm of the song, or find something else in your home that could make a good sound such as a bunch of keys to rattle or a pan and wooden spoon to bang.
To listen to the song please click on this link:
Phonics: Animal sounds game
In the story, we heard the animals make their sounds. Use the link to play 'Welcome to the Zoo' on PhonicsPlay.
To play the game please click on this link:
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/1/welcome-to-the-zoo
Maths: Ladybird Spots game
Use the link to play the Ladybird Spots game on Topmarks.
To play the game please click on this link:
Topic: Draw the map
In the story, Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len made a map of the farm so they could follow it to get to the prize cow. Look carefully at the picture of the map. Can you draw a map of the farm, with all the different animals and their homes on it?
Topic: Maps
Talk to a grown up about maps. What do we use them for? Where can we see maps? Look at any maps you have at home, paper ones or on the internet. Have a go at drawing a map of your journey to school. You could draw the roads and any buildings you pass, add add other things such as trees or road signs.
Topic: Ladybird facts
Use the link to look at the Twinkl powerpoint about the lifecycle of the ladybird. When you are outside, have a look for ladybirds, or even larvae or pupae!
To download the PowerPoint to find out about the life cycle of a lady bird click on this link:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-5222-ladybird-life-cycle-powerpoint
Maths: Counting
Practice counting. How far can you count up to? Play a game with someone in your family: one of you say a number and the other person has to say the number that is one more than that number. Take turns to be the person saying the number and the person giving the answer.
Maths: Numbers
Use the link to listen to the song 'Ten Little Numbers'. Listen to it again and join in! Go on a number hunt around your home to see what numbers you can find. Extension: copy some of the numbers you find to practice writing them.
To watch and listen to the song click on this link:
Creative: Ladybird picture
Make a ladybird picture. If you have some paint you could print red circles, then use black paint to make fingerprint spots. Or you could use felt pens or crayons. You could draw some leaves and flowers to make a lovely environment for your ladybirds to live in!
Week Beginning: Monday 4th May 2020
Reading: The Little Red Hen
Read The Little Red Hen on the Oxford Owl link and have a go at activities 1 and 2.
Sign up to Oxford Owl At Home and click on this link for The Little Red Hen:
Reading: Talk about the story
Talk about the story with a grown up. The other animals in the story didn't want to help The Little Red Hen. Can you think of ways that you can be helpful at home? What jobs could you help with? Do you think that the animals learnt that if everyone works together, team work makes jobs easier and quicker to do?
Art: Make a picture
Draw, paint or collage a picture of The Little Red Hen. Challenge: can you write or copy the word 'hen'?
Topic: Bread
Do you remember when we made bread at Nursery? Can you tell your family about how you made it? Maybe a grown up could find a recipe for bread and you could look at it together. Make a list with your grown up of all the different kinds of bread you know. Which is your favourite?
Topic: Make a sandwich
Can you make a sandwich for lunch? Write a label for your sandwich so everyone knows what kind it is. Make sandwiches for the rest of your family and label them!
Maths: Number rhymes
Listen to Five Currant Buns on BBC Nursery Rhymes. Play a game with your family: make five pretend currant buns (or use real ones!) to reenact the song.
Click on this link to watch and listen to the nursery rhyme Five Currant Buns:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-five-currant-buns/zm4nmfr
Maths: Circles
Go on a circle hunt in your home. How many can you find? Find some things which are circles that you can draw around, such as a tin or a lid. Draw around lots of different circles to make a picture. Colour the circles in. If you have any paint, you could print some circles onto the picture too.
Maths: Estimation game
Find some pasta or beans, or something similar. Play a game with your family. Put some of the pasta (or beans etc) in a jar. Ask your family to guess how many there are. You or your grown up could write down their guesses. Then count the pasta and see who had the closest guess. Take turns to be the guesser and the counter!
Maths: Counting Game
Use the link to play Count the Yeti on Topmarks.
Click on this link to play the Count the Yeti game:
Maths: Sequence Game
Use the link to play the Sequence game.
Click on this link to play the Sequence game:
http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/sequence_game_US.swf
Week Beginning: Monday 27th April 2020
Reading: The Library
Look at the book The Library on the link. Talk together about what is happening in the pictures. Then make up a story to go with the pictures and tell it to your family as you turn the pages.
Sign up to Oxford Owl At Home and click on this link for The Library:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26587.html
Imaginative play and language: Make a library!
Use some of your books to make a pretend library. Ask your family to come and borrow books. Take turns to be be librarian and the customer. Talk about what you might say and do in the different roles.
Maths: Rectangles
I expect most of your books were rectangle shaped. What is special about a rectangle? Can you draw some and ask a grown up to help you cut them out? Go on a rectangle hunt in your home. How many did you find? When you are out on your daily walk look for rectangles outside too.
Maths: Shape Patterns game
Play Shape Patterns on Topmarks.
Click on this link to play the Shape Patterns game:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
Reading: Otto the Book Bear
Listen to the story Otto the Book Bear on the Cbeebies link. Talk to your family about how Otto was feeling in the different parts of the story.
Click on the link to watch and listen to Otto the Book Bear:
Reading: Otto the Book Bear puppet
Ask a grown up to help you make an Otto the Book Bear stick puppet. Draw Otto on paper or card, colour him in and cut him out. Stick him onto a stick (or a pencil, spoon or anything else you can think of!) Then use your puppet to retell the story from the book, and take him for some other adventures around your house! When you go for your walk perhaps he might like to go with you?
Maths: Number sticking
Ask a grown up to write numbers 0-5 or 0-10 down the left hand side of a piece of paper, leaving space on the right hand side for you to stick things. Ask a grown up to help you find some little things around your house or outside such as pasta pieces, leaves, flowers, buttons, dried beans, little pieces of paper etc. Now stick the correct number of objects next to the numbers to make a lovely number picture. Put it somewhere in your home where everyone can admire it and practice their counting!
Maths: Counting Rhymes
Listen to Ten In the Bed on BBC Nursery Rhymes.Find 10 of your favourite toys and use them to join in as you sing the song to them. Once you have practised a few times, perform it as a show for your family to watch!
Click on this link to watch and listen to the nursery rhyme Ten in a Bed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-ten-in-the-bed/z7bnmfr
Phonics: Listening moment
Ask a grown up to set a one minute timer. During that minute, listen very carefully to all the sounds you can hear. Afterwards, talk about what you heard and ask a grown up to make a list. Try it again later in the day and see if you heard different things. You could also try listening outside to hear some different sounds.
Week Beginning: Monday 20th April 2020
The Lost Teddy
Look at the book The Lost Teddy on the link. Talk together about what is happening in the pictures. Then make up a story and tell it to your family while you turn the pages. If you have any other teddy stories at home, read them together.
Sign up to Oxford Owl At Home and click on this link for The Lost Teddy: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26585.html
Sound Starters
Click the bubbles to hear different sound effects.
To gain access to Phonics Play resources, please login with the following:
Username: march20
Password: home
Click on this link for the Sound Starters game: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/SoundStimuli.html
Teddy Bear's Picnic
Collect some teddies to have a pretend/real picnic with you and your family. How many teddies are coming to the picnic? How many people are coming to the picnic? How many cups, plates, knives, forks and spoons will you need? Enjoy your picnic! Play Teddy Numbers by giving teddy the right number of food items.
Click on this link to play Teddy Numbers: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Listen to We're Going on a Bear Hunt and then use your teddies to go on your own bear hunt! Draw a picture of your favourite teddy and write or copy his/her name underneath. Challenge: Draw and make a list of all the food you might use for a teddy bear's picnic.
Click on this link for We're Going on a Bear Hunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds
Practice you name
Ask a grown up to write your name and chop the letters up. Can you put them together again in the right order? Do you know the sounds the different letters make? Have a go at copying or writing your name. Challenge: can you copy or write the names of all your family members or your friends?
Go on a square hunt!
Can you describe a square to your family? How is it different to a rectangle? Look for squares around your home. How many did you find? Ask a grown up to help you draw and cut out squares and colour them in. Challenge: can you draw and cut out different sized squares and stick them in size order?
Play shape sorting game
Play Shape Monsters by feeding the monsters the right shape.
Click on this link to play Shape Monsters https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/shape-monsters
Spring
Can you remember our Spring topic? Tell your family everything you can remember about Spring. Find out the names of different Spring flowers and look at pictures of them on the internet. Make a lovely picture of some Spring flowers using crayons, felt pens, paints or collage.
Birds in Spring
We also found out about birds and their nests. Can you make a nest from natural things from your garden or things you find on your daily walk, such as grass, twigs, moss or plants? You could make it in a small box and add some Plasticine or paper eggs! Challenge: find out some facts about birds' nests from the internet.
Nursery Rhymes
Sing nursery rhymes with your family. After singing each one, identify and talk about the rhyming words. Which is your favourite nursery rhyme? Play Hickory Dickory Dock game on Phonics Play.
Click on this link to play Hickory Dickory Dock https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/HickDickDock.html
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