Monday
Week D – Early Stage 1
Happy Monday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
pencils
2 tennis balls (or 2 rolled up pairs of socks)
5 zip lock bags
stapler
paper and cardboard
numeral cards
1-10 (optional)
Lego or blocks
chopsticks or two sticks to tap together
pair of socks to throw
2 different paint colours
potato cut in half or a sponge
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
A tricky challenge!
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Big scissors
Duration: 0:53
English
You will need:
All about words!
Let's practise our listening skills!
Listen to the instructions.
In your workbook, draw what you think the word 'paddock' means.
What other words can you think of that are similar to 'paddock'?
Paddock in a sentence
Duration: 0:35
Week D-English-ES1-Vocabulary-paddock .m4aReading and rhyming
It's storytime!
Watch this video and listen to the story of 'Pig the Pug'.
In your workbook, write down all of the rhyming words with the teacher in the video.
Rhyming words
Duration: 10:30
Is this too hard?
If you are finding it a bit hard to write the words you might like to listen to the rhyming words and practise saying the rhyming words out loud.
Is this too easy?
Challenge yourself by thinking of some more rhyming words. Write 5 words that rhyme with bat. Write 5 words that rhyme with tip.
Share your work with your teacher.
Brain break
You will need:
Let's recharge!
It’s time for a brain break so we can recharge for some more learning!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
2 tennis balls
Hint: if you don't have any tennis balls, you can use a pair of rolled up socks.
Brain break
Duration: 1:10
Phonics
You will need:
Phonemes and graphemes – E, U, R
Let's practise some phonemes and graphemes.
Watch the video and join in the activity.
How many sounds do you know?
Explicit phonics instruction
Duration: 11:59
Education Live
Tour an Airbus A330
Join us for today's episode of Education Live!
Today we are joined by Captain Alex Passerini who takes us on a tour of the Airbus A330!
Mathematics
You will need:
Counting
Let's explore numbers by making a counting book!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
coloured pencils
5 zip lock bags
stapler
piece of cardboard.
How to make a counting book
Duration: 1:46
Watch the video.
Holly's counting book
Duration: 1:51
Share your work with your teacher.
Guess my number!
Let's play 'Guess my number'! You might remember playing this game a couple of weeks ago.
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
number cards 1-10 (optional)
Hint! You can use playing cards or make your own.Lego or blocks
pencils
your workbook.
Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.
Guess my number
Duration: 2:02
How to play:
Write the numbers from 1 to 10 (for example) on a piece of paper or use cards to set the number range.
Ask the other player (the ‘secret holder’) to choose a secret number within your given range.
Guess the ‘secret' holder’s number.
They will tell you whether their number is greater or less than your guess.
Try to guess the secret number in the fewest number of guesses possible, or, with only 3 guesses.
Example – playing using the range 1 to 8
After playing 'Guess my number' answer these questions:
What is a good strategy to guess the number quickly?
If you played the game again tomorrow, what would you do differently? Why?
The number one
Let's explore the number one!
Watch the video.
Numberblocks – One
Duration: 5:00
GetActive@Home
You will need:
Catching
Are you ready to move?
Watch the video and join in.
You will need:
a pair of socks to throw.
Catching
Duration:17:05
Creative Arts
You will need:
Over the past few weeks we have learnt some nursery rhymes. Today we going to sing, play and move with 'Humpty Dumpty'.
You can choose if you would like to do Activity 1 or Activity 2. You might like to do both!
Nursery rhyme mayhem – moving
Activity 1 - Movement and beat
Listen to the instructions.
Activity 1 – instructions
Duration: 2:02
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
chopsticks or two sticks to clap together
space to move around.
As you listen to or sing the nursery rhyme:
gallop around the room and say the word 'gallop' as you move
trot around the room and say the word 'trotting' as you move
try playing these words on chopsticks
move heavily around the room like an elephant or lightly like a ladybird.
Which way of moving suits the song best?
Humpty Dumpty
Duration: 15:18
Nursery rhyme mayhem – printmaking
Activity 2 - Printmaking
Listen to the instructions.
Activity 2 – instructions
Duration: 2:50
Watch the video if you haven't already watched it and join in the activity.
You will need:
two different paint colours
a potato cut in half or a sponge
paper
space to move around.
As you listen to or sing the nursery rhyme:
move around the room saying 'gallop' and then try 'trotting'
use a sponge or potato with paint on it to show the way you were moving.
Humpty Dumpty
Duration: 15:18
Does your printmaking look like the picture?
Example of printmaking using a potato or a sponge
For those who like a challenge!
Think about how you were moving. You might have noticed a pattern of 'long, short' for 'gallop' and an even 'short, short' for 'trotting'.
Does this remind you of the artwork ‘Composition with red, blue and yellow’ (1930) by Mondrian with its patterns and shapes?
What patterns and shapes can you see?
'Composition with red, blue and yellow' (1930) by Piet Mondrian
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.