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Weekly Poem - Bee and Sheep

Here are your poem activities for this week: Remember to read the poem each day

Monday - Read this poem two times today. Find the words that have double (ee) vowels. Draw a picture of the Bee and Sheep

Tuesday - Can you find a contraction word in the poem? Can you write 4 more contraction words? Write down your contraction words, practice and repeat saying the contraction words with an adult.

Wednesday - Can you find any words that end with ‘ed’ in the poem? Write them down, and think of two more words you know with that ending. Practice those words with Mum or Dad.

Thursday - Can you find any blends from the poem and write them down. Example - sh, dr, th, sl. Write 4 more that are not in the poem

Friday - Make a finger puppet

Draw a picture of a bee and a sheep and stick it to a popsicle stick, a straw or cardboard strip

Record yourself saying the poem and email it to your teacher. Or your family can get involved by acting out each sentence while you are reading the poem.

Books for this Week

Book - Donald the Dragon

Read the story two times.

Retell what happened in the story to someone in your family. As you retell the story, you can act out what is happening.

Then complete the quiz on Sunshine Online.

We’re going to focus on the letter ‘d’. What sound does this letter make?

Can you find any words in the book that start with this letter?

Write them down then create a word web with some other words that start with that letter sound ‘d’. You can either ask a parent to help you write the words or you can draw a picture of the word.

Here’s an example of a word web for the letter ‘a’

Using newspaper or old magazines, find the letter ‘d’, it can be a capital one or a lower case one. Cut them out and glue them to your word web.

Find and write down the blend words in the story. Remember blends/digraphs are two letters that make one sound. Then think of two more words that you know that start with the same blend sound.

The first one has been done for you.

Blends Game:

Go outside and practice these blends by writing them on the ground outside with chalk and drawing a circle around the blend.

Have someone in your family call out the blend, while you jump onto that blend

If it is raining outside, you can try playing this indoors by writing the blends on a piece of paper and using a fly swat.

Extra Challenge: Draw and write a story about what you would do if you met Donald the Dragon.

You can start your story with… “If I met Donald the Dragon I would…”

Book - Get to the Vet

Click on this link to read the book,, Get to the Vet. In this book you will hear words with a short ‘e’ vowel sound, it will be the middle sound.

Read the story two times.

Then answer the following questions to an adult:

What happened in the story?
How do you think the cat hurt its leg?
Why would the vet give the cat a jab?

Remember you can “robot the words” or sound out the words you don’t know by sounding out each letter and then blending the sounds together. E.g l-e-g, leg

Find the words in the book that have a short ‘e’ sound.

List these words down and say them again.

Vet was one of your words that has a short ‘e’ sound. With the ‘t’ as the last sound, we can hear the sound ‘et’ in this word at the end. Can you make words that rhyme with vet by changing the first sound?

Here are some first sounds to try - b, j, l, m, n, p, s, w

Read your rhyming words aloud to someone in your family.

A vet is a doctor for animals.

Imagine yourself as a vet for a day. What animals would visit you? What would you do to help the sick or injured animals?

Play pretend with your teddy and toys at home.

Then draw and write a story about yourself as a vet for a day. Read your story to someone in your family.

Book - Sounds Like Music

Read the book by yourself.

Read the book to a teddy or an adult

Complete the quiz on sunshine

How many compound words can you find in this book?

What were they? Can you think of any other compound words you know?

Think of a word that begins with the following blends, write them down

sh_______ bl_______ wh_______

thr_______ st_______ cl_______

Can you write 4 words that have an ‘ing’ sound at the end

_________________ 2. _________________

3. _________________ 4. _________________

Draw your favourite instrument from the book and colour it in

Have a go and make one instrument from the book and sing a song to your family

Book - Red Socks and Yellow Socks

Read the story two times, then complete the activities

Find the word in the story that has a ‘-ck’ at the ending.

Can you think of any other words that have a ‘-ck’ ending, write them as a list

Choose from the table below, the words that rhyme with ‘sock’. Write and say them to someone in your family.

Plurals are words that are used when referring to more than one person or thing.

For example, if there was one cat, we would say “cat”. If there were more than one cat we would say “cats”

Turn these words into plurals using their base word and add a ‘s’ on the end. The first one has been done for you.

Sock ---> socks

Dog ----> ______

Chair ---> ______

Door ---> ______

Tiger ---> ______

Book ---> ______

Dress-up and/or draw a picture of a silly pair of socks like the silly billy’s in the story, and write a story about the silly socks.

Book - Nowhere and Nothing

Can you spot two compound words on the front cover? Think of some other compound words you know

Read and complete all the activities

Is this book fiction or nonfiction?

Retell the story to an adult in order. Remember to tell what happens at the beginning, middle and the end of the story.

Draw a picture of what you and your friends like to play at school

Contraction Words - Flip Book

A contraction is a shorter way to say two words.

An apostrophe will fill the space of the missing letter. For example: is + not = isn't

Make your own contraction flip book. You will need a piece of paper. Fold your piece of paper in half, portrait way. To make the flip part, use a ruler to rule lines across. Next cut along those lines but remember to stop cutting when you get to your fold.

As per the picture, write your contraction words on the flip part, and the meaning under the flip part. Think of your own contraction words you want to practice or copy the ones in the picture

Word Family - Word Slider

Make a word slider using the ‘ing’ family

Find some cardboard, cereal boxes work well. First write in big letters on a strip of card ‘ing’.

Prepare your second strip that will slide up and down in front of the ‘ing’ sound - on this strip write all first sounds you will use in front of ‘ing’.

Place your first sound strip in front of ‘ing’ and measure how big to cut your two slits to create your sliding card.

Long Vowel Sound ‘ee’

The vowel ‘e’ has a short sound ‘e’ that we know in words such as ‘web’.

It also has a long ‘ee’ sound such as in ‘three’, ‘bee’, or ‘knee'.

Make a word tree for ‘ee’.

Have a think of all the words you know that have an ‘ee’ sound. List them aloud to someone in your family.

Then on a piece of paper, draw a picture of a tree. In the trunk of the tree, write ‘ee’. In the leaves of the tree, write the words (or draw the pictures of words) that you know that have the long vowel sound ‘ee’.

For example, tree, bee, peel, feel, seed, three, green

Next you can practice saying and writing these words outside on the ground in chalk or with water and a paint brush or water and a bottle with a squirt top.

Short ‘e’ vs Long ‘ee’

Using the words/pictures below, complete the next table by sorting these pictures/words to the correct column. You can write the word or draw the picture of the short ‘e’ or long ‘ee’ word. You may need to draw the table on to your own piece of paper.

You can watch this video about short ‘e’ and long ‘ee’ vowel sound.

Short Vowel Scavenger Hunt

Have someone in your family write some words from the table below, or choose your own words with a short middle vowel sound, on a post-it note and have them hide the post-it notes around the house.

You then have to find the post-it notes. As you find them, read the word aloud. If you are not sure what the word is, you can sound it out or robot the word.

Lay all the post-it notes out on the table, and categorise them into each of the five vowel sounds.

You can use these words below:

Cup Hunt

On a piece of paper or post-it note, write one letter and stick it on an upside down cup. Make sure the cups are not see-through

Close your eyes and have someone in your family hide a small object (or roll a small ball of paper) under one of the cups.

You have to guess which cup the object is under by calling out the letter sounds.

Extension: Try this game with high frequency words or blends instead of letter sounds.