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:
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:
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:
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
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!
Mathematics
You will need:
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
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
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Science and Technology
You will need:
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
Copy the table into your workbook.
Find a piece of furniture in your home for each of these materials:
wood
cloth
plastic.
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
Copy the table into your book.
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.
Complete the observation table to discover which materials would be waterproof and suitable to be used in a raincoat.
Design a dog’s raincoat and draw a picture.
Observation table
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.