Thursday

Week D – Early Stage 1

Good morning!

To complete today's activities, you will need:

a workbook

pencils

counters or dry pasta

dice, spinner or numeral cards 1-6

0-9 dice, spinner or playing cards A-9

pair of socks or a small soft ball

bucket or washing basket

small pillow

5 glasses/cups

water

cotton wool

paper

a gameboard

plastic bag

tissue

piece of foil

Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends

Another tricky challenge!

Let's get started!

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Tricky scissors
Duration: 0:50

English

You will need:

Icon: workbook
Icon: pencils

News stories

Let's practise our listening skills!

Listen to the audio track about beetles.


  • Who do you think would like to listen to these news stories? Do you think adults, primary school children, high school children or pre-schoolers?

  • Why do you think this age group would like these stories best?

Beetle Business

Duration: 10:38

Reading together

It's storytime!

Listen to the story, 'Let's Go, Little Roo.'

  • Little Roo said that he already has friends. Who are his friends?

Let's Go, Little Roo
Duration: 5:05

Watch the video and join in with the activity.

  • Draw your favourite toy.

  • What are some things you can do with your toy?

  • Draw these activities around the toy

Your favourite toy
Duration: 1:59

Is this too hard?

  • Draw your favourite toy.

  • Tell someone 3 things you can do with your toy.

Is this too easy?

  • Draw your favourite toy.

  • Draw some things you can do with your toy and label (such as 'reading').

  • Write a sentence: why is it your favourite toy?

Share your work with your teacher.

Brain break

You will need:

Icon: workbook
Icon: pencils

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.

Brain break
Duration: 1:46

Phonics

You will need:

Icon: workbook
Icon: pencils

Phonemes and graphemes

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: 9:20

Education Live

Maths tricks with cards

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Join us for today's episode of Education Live!

Today we are joined by Eddie Woo who shows us some cool maths tricks using playing cards!

Education Live – maths tricks with playing cards
Duration: 19:26

Mathematics

You will need:

Icon: workbook
Icon: pencils

10 or bust!

Let's play '10 or bust'!

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

  • a game board (e.g. a number track, ten-frame, a drawing of 10 fingers) - You can draw this in your workbook

  • counters or dry pasta

  • a dice, spinner or numeral cards 1-6

  • pencils

  • your workbook.

10 or bust
Duration: 6:15

Share your thinking with your teacher:

  • How could we change the game to make it more/less challenging?

  • Did you work out a way to play this game so that you didn't lose?

  • What was your strategy? Did it work?

A fun number game

Let's play another number game!

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

  • 0-9 dice, spinner or playing cards A-9

  • 2 different coloured pencils

  • your workbook.

3 tens in a row
Duration: 2:25

The number 3

Let's watch another episode of Numberblocks!

Watch the video.

Numberblocks – Three

Duration: 5:00

Check-in survey – Mathematics

Icon: sharing

Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.

GetActive@Home

You will need:

Throwing

Are you ready to move?

Watch the video and join in the activity.

You will need:

  • a pair of socks or a small soft ball

  • a bucket or washing basket

  • a small pillow.

Throwing

Duration: 23:46

Check-in survey – GetActive@Home

Icon: sharing

Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.

Science and Technology

You will need:

Icon: workbook
Icon: pencils

Furniture materials

Let's explore some materials you might have in your home.

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

  • a pencil

  • your workbook.

Materials in my home
Duration: 0:49

  1. Copy the table into your workbook.

  2. Find a piece of furniture in your home for each of these materials:

  • wood

  • cloth

  • plastic.

  1. Tick 1 or 2 boxes that match how the material feels when you touch it:

  • hard

  • soft

  • smooth

  • rough.

Furniture materials

Materials for a raincoat

Let's use what we know about materials to create a raincoat for a dog who gets wet when he goes for a walk in the rain.

Watch the video and join in the activity.


You will need:

  • a pencil

  • your workbook

  • 5 glasses/cups

  • water

  • cotton wool

  • paper

  • a plastic bag

  • a tissue

  • a piece of tin foil.

Materials testing

Duration: 1:49

  1. Copy the table into your book.

  2. Test a selection of materials to see if they would be suitable for a raincoat:

  • cotton wool

  • paper

  • a plastic bag

  • a tissue

  • a piece of foil.

  1. Complete the observation table to discover which materials would be waterproof and suitable to be used in a raincoat.

  2. Design a dog’s raincoat and draw a picture.

Observation table

Student voice

Show how you feel about your learning today.