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Suggested Daily Timetable
Suggested Daily Timetable
8:45-9:00: Register & Welcome
9:00-9:30: Workout (Joe Wicks)
9:30-10:00: Online Learning (English)
10:00-10:30: Online Learning (Maths)
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00-11:30: Online Learning (Curriculum)
11:30-12:00: Storytime or Time To
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-3:00: Activities
For Schools:
On Monday please download and print this checklist (see image). It will inform your colleagues which activities you have completed each day. Add further information to let your colleagues know if an activity is ongoing.
Click on the image to download
Monday: Art Focus
Tuesday: Sports, Health & Fitness
Wednesday: Science
Thursday: The World
Friday: Mystery
Click on the image to join Joe
P.E. with Joe
P.E. with Joe
Monday - Friday
9am Live on Youtube
Click on the image to join Read Write Inc
Phonics Lessons
Phonics Lessons
Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9:30am
Set 2 Speed Sounds at 10.00am
Set 3 Speed Sounds at 10.30am
Suggested books
Suggested books
Monkey Puzzle
Gorilla
The Murderer's Ape
Relevant videos
Relevant videos
Meet the Gorillas - 360 video
Take a virtual 360 trip through the jungle
Suggested Daily ACTIVITIES
Suggested Daily ACTIVITIES
Activity 1
Activity 1
Create a poster/booklet
Create a poster/booklet
Click image for a link to the booklet
5-7 Year Olds: Create a jungle booklet
5-7 Year Olds: Create a jungle booklet
Children can add to/develop this throughout the week (watch the first video below).
Click to Watch: Amazing animals hidden deep in the jungle?
Start to create booklet - Front cover - Draw where in the jungle you may find the different animals - monkey in a tree, frog near the water, crocodile in the river ect.
Add pages with details about animals habitat and diet - children could add extra animals
Resources: A3 paper/card, coloured paper, coloured card, glue, felt tips, coloured pencils
7-11 Year Olds: Create a handmade poster
7-11 Year Olds: Create a handmade poster
Children can add to/develop this throughout the week (watch the first video below).
Watch: What is a primate? (Watch the second video below.)
Start to create poster/ fact file/book on primates /in the jungle
Resources: A3 paper/card, coloured paper, coloured card, glue, felt tips, coloured pencils
How to make an interactive poster
What is a primate?
Activity 2
Activity 2
Leap like a lemur
Leap like a lemur
Watch the clip of Lemurs jumping.
Click this link for the record sheet - Compare - who jumped further than who? Who jumped the farthest?
7-11 Year Olds: Long jump contest
7-11 Year Olds: Long jump contest
Create a chart to compare distances. Measure accurately in centimetres using equipment. Did anyone beat their personal best? How can you improve your technique?
Resources: chalk, tape measures, metre sticks, clipboards, pencils
Lemurs jumping
Standing long jump
Improve your jumping technique
Activity 3
Activity 3
Research jungle animals
Research jungle animals
Click image for a link to the website
Nursery: Use your jungle animals and talk about the noises they make.
Nursery: Use your jungle animals and talk about the noises they make.
5-7 Year Olds: Research jungle animals
5-7 Year Olds: Research jungle animals
5-7 years - Where do the different animals in Monkey Puzzle live? Watch the clip about jungle animals. Discuss habitat, location and diet. Add more detail to the booklet.
7-11 Year Olds: Research the orangutan
7-11 Year Olds: Research the orangutan
Find fact files, habitat, location, diet, adopt an orangutan etc. Watch the clip about orangutans using tools.
Add to your interactive poster board.
Activity 4
Activity 4
Learn about people who work with animals
Learn about people who work with animals
Sir David Attenborough
Jane Goodall
Click image for a link to zoo vet activity
Nursery: How would you take care of one of your toy animals?
Nursery: How would you take care of one of your toy animals?
5-7 Year Olds: Create a poster about who cares for animals.
5-7 Year Olds: Create a poster about who cares for animals.
Complete zoo vet activity - which zoo animals is your favourite?
7-11 Year Olds: Add to your poster board
7-11 Year Olds: Add to your poster board
Research Sir David and Jane, then add the information to your poster board. Alternatively, create a website on Adobe to share your research.
Resources - iPads, Chromebooks, paper, pencils, felt tips, card
Activity 5
Activity 5
Design a T-shirt
Design a T-shirt
Nursery and 5-7 Year Olds: Children to draw logo on T-shirt template
Nursery and 5-7 Year Olds: Children to draw logo on T-shirt template
7-11 Year Olds: Design a conservation T-shirt.
7-11 Year Olds: Design a conservation T-shirt.
Slogan/logo/image. Page 9 and 11 in the ‘Zoo Project’ can support pupils to use technology if they do not draw it by hand.
Resources - paper, t-shirt templates, pencils, felt tips, WWF information sheet
Activity 6
Activity 6
Jungle activity
Jungle activity
5-7 Year Olds: Monkey Maths
5-7 Year Olds: Monkey Maths
Click for - The 3 monkeys to share the fruits between.
Click for - The fruits
Click for - Monkey sharing activity
7-11 Year Olds: Adaptation of primates
7-11 Year Olds: Adaptation of primates
Watch the video clip, record any essential information and add to your poster.
Activity 7
Activity 7
Learn about animals
Learn about animals
Click image for a link to matching activity
Nursery: Read the description to your child and see if they can guess which animal it is.
Nursery: Read the description to your child and see if they can guess which animal it is.
5-7 Year Olds: Match description to the correct animal
5-7 Year Olds: Match description to the correct animal
Read the description of one of the animals from the monkey puzzle story ‘Who am I?’ Then match it to the correct animal.
Could you then write your own for your friend to guess?
7-11 Year Olds: First monkeys in space
7-11 Year Olds: First monkeys in space
Watch the clip learn about Ham and Alberta II, then add this to your interactive poster board or create a new booklet to teach others.
Activity 8
Activity 8
Exploring animals
Exploring animals
Nursery and 5-7 Year Olds: Create a jungle animal puppet
Nursery and 5-7 Year Olds: Create a jungle animal puppet
Click above for a link to finger puppets
Choose one of the animals you have learnt about and make a puppet - Look closely at the patterns in nature mat at the different colours and shapes you can see. Use the animal templates to create your own jungle puppet. Are you going to draw the pattern or cut piece of material to make the shapes?
Resources: lolly sticks, different fabric, tissue paper, coloured paper, pencils, felt tip pens, animal outlines.
7-11 Year Olds: Baby Chimp Rescue
7-11 Year Olds: Baby Chimp Rescue
Watch a documentary or documentary clips about Baby Chimp Rescue in Liberia - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d8xb
You can also complete the quizzes and activities on the website.
Click HERE for a link to the BBC iPlayer.
Activity 9
Activity 9
Create jungle animals
Create jungle animals
Nursery and 5-11 Year Olds: Play dough animals
Nursery and 5-11 Year Olds: Play dough animals
Create your own jungle animals (Dough Area)
7-11 year olds can create jungle animals and film them for a stop-motion film - think Wallace & Gromit!
Resources: Images of playdough creatures, lolly sticks, google eyes, sequins, beads,feathers, beads and buttons.
Activity 10
Activity 10
Artwork
Artwork
Nursery and 5-7 Year Olds: Animal artwork
Nursery and 5-7 Year Olds: Animal artwork
Click for - Charcoal drawings of primates dots/dashes, blocks. See examples of charcoal, A4/A3 drawing paper, see examples of techniques.
7-11 Year Olds: Create a monkey portrait
7-11 Year Olds: Create a monkey portrait
You could recreate Banksy’s Monkey Parliament, make a monkey collage, investigate artist Stephen Brown from Chester Zoo etc.
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