Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Welcome to learning at home for Week 6 Term 3. Remember our learning at home tasks give you the flexibility to plan these into your day around other commitments.

Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Welcome to learning at home for Week 4 and Week 5, Term 3. Remember our learning at home tasks give you the flexibility to plan these into your day around other commitments.

This week enjoy reading books you have at home, remember to talk about the story. To assist with talking about the story, ask your child questions that start with who, what, where, why, when, how. Below are suggested activities for each year group, you can however choose any activities that feel right for your child

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NEW ENTRANT/YEAR 1

Name Writing

Practice writing your name and the names of everyone in your family. Use different coloured pens/ pencils.

*Parents can write their child's name using a highlighter and have them trace over with a pencil.

Then have a go with spelling out your name with fallen leaves and sticks found in your garden. Extra challenge - can you spell out someone else’s name?

Phonics

Practise and teach your family the actions to the ABC phonics song that we do at school. (i.e A is for apple, a, a, apple.. B is for ball, b, b, ball). Use your ABC card as reference.

Then practise writing the alphabet letters. Ask an adult to write them on a piece of paper and then you can trace over the letters, then practice writing them by yourself on a piece of paper.

Poem - What the Animals Said

Practise reading the poem to a family member two times (adults can try reading each sentence first then students repeat after you).

Adults point to the word ‘duck’ and ask ‘what sound do you hear at the beginning of duck?

*If students have trouble naming the sound - practice sounding it out ‘ddddduck’

Ask your child if they can think of any other words that begin with the ‘d’ sound? (prompt with words like ‘dog’, ‘dad’, ‘dinosaur’)

Mix up the letters, asking your child to build the word again. Repeat saying each sound and then read the word

With the extra letters, have fun changing the first sound of the word. Each time you change the word, segment (say each individual sound) the new word you have created, then read the word.

Find the Initial Sound

Poem - Come with Me

Read the poem two times.

Next, read it to a family member.

Find words that begin with the letter sounds c, s & w.

Make a list of words that begin with the letter sounds c, s, & w

Decode the Words

Cover the picture. Say each sound in the word and then blend the sounds together to read the word. Reveal the picture to check.

YEAR 2

Making Contractions

Have a go at recording contractions to the correct word pairs.

Poem - Summer is Swell

Read the poem two times.

Next, read it to a family member.

Find words which begin with the blend ‘sw’

Make of list of words which begin with the blend ‘sw’

Verbs

A verb is an action word. Examples of verbs are, running, jumping, singing.

Can you find the verbs in the sentences below?

1. The bird flew away.

2. The boy is jumping on the trampoline.

3. I watched a movie.

4. The sharks like swimming in the ocean.

5. My friend can run very fast.

You can make up your own simple sentences

1.

2.

3.

Blends

“I Can Speed Read”

Plurals

Singular words can be written as a plural word. A plural word is telling us there is more than one of that item.

Draw a table like below. The picture shows you which singular word to write in that space, and which plural word to write in that space.

For each plural word you have created, can you put it into a sentence?

Wish

Close your eyes and imagine a magic genie came and granted you one special wish. Now think, if you had one wish, what would it be?

Draw a picture of what you would wish for, and write a simple sentence of your wish. You can start your sentence off with… “I wish for a ____.”

You can tell a parent your story idea, have them write it down, while you copy/ trace over the words. Or if you can, try using your ABC word card to help you sound out the first letter of the words (e.g basket-ball, looking at the ABC word card parents will help to sound out b,b,b).

When you have finished your story, read your story to other members in your family.

Super Powers

Think about your favourite superheroes (e.g superman, pj masks). What superpowers do they have? (e.g super speed running, invisibility, the ability to fly).

Imagine you had super powers. If we could pretend, what kind of powers would you have? (Try your superpowers out safely around the house). Why is this the best superpower to have?

Draw a picture of yourself as a super hero and write a simple sentence about your super powers.

You can tell a parent your story idea, have them write it down, while you copy/ trace over the words. Or if you can, try using your ABC word card to help you sound out the first letter of the words (e.g flying, looking at the ABC word card parents will help to sound out f,f,f).

When you have finished your story, read your story to other members in your family.

YEAR 1/YEAR 2

Super Sports

What are some sports you know about? Soccer, rugby, running, swimming. Do you have a favourite? Choose one sport you enjoy doing and write about it.

1. Make a plan for your writing - it could be a picture or some key words

2. Tell us what your favourite sport is and give some reasons why it’s your favourite

3. Remember to read your story to yourself and then a parent or sibling when finished

Challenge: Can you use ‘wow’ words in your story. ‘Wow’ words are more interesting words to use, for example, instead of using the word cold you could say freezing

How to make Someone Smile

Think about a time when someone was feeling sad. Can you think of interesting ways to make them happy? What sorts of things make you feel happy?

Make a list of all the things you would do to make someone smile. See if you can come up with 10 different ways, your list could look like the one below.

How to make someone smile: Here are some suggestions to get you started

1. Dress up like a clown and do a silly dance

2. Write a letter telling the person why they are special

Addition & Subtraction

Counting Backwards

For our younger students here are some ideas to help you practise your backwards counting sequence. Start with practising from 5, then 10, then 20. You can choose a different idea each day

Reading Log Book - Use your number chart in your reading log to practice. Copy the numbers you are learning onto pieces of paper to make your own flashcards - put your flashcards in order backwards

Number Songs - listen to some songs such as 10 in the Bed, 5 Little Ducks, 5 Little Monkeys

Stepping Stones - Write the numbers on pieces of paper or newspaper, lay out in a line backwards and step on each one counting aloud backwards. Repeat with different actions you can think of e.g. hopping, jumping, side stepping

Body Actions - As you count backwards clap your hands or jump or star jump or push ups or… Be a rocket crouched down, when you count back to 1 jump up and blast off!

Hide and Seek - Have a game of hide and seek, decide which number you will start counting back from

Partner Count - With a partner count backwards, for example if starting from 10 one person says ‘10’, then the next person says ‘9’. Bounce back and forth counting backwards until you get to zero. You could do this while passing a ball back and forth between you and your partner

Counting Back Practice

Last week you practiced counting on to solve addition problems, this week you can practice using the count back strategy to solve subtraction problems. To use the count back strategy, you need to track your backwards counting carefully so you know when the right place is to stop your count.

Extension: If your child is showing confidence with counting back for problems involving 10 or less, extend to using your fingers to just track what you are counting back e.g. the picture below shows tracking the count back of 4 for 14 - 4 = 10, and count back of 4 for 9 - 4 = 5

Here is this weeks youtube clip you can watch to see Counting Back

Below are some subtraction problems for this week. You can show how you solved each problem by drawing a picture representation, hands or a number line

Before beginning the problems for the day, help your child practice their counting backwards sequence. Ask them to count backwards from a given number. For our Year 1’s from a number they are familiar with between 5-20. For our Year 2’s from a number they are familiar with, this could be a number between 20-100

Lolly Subtraction Problem

Extension: Choose a different number of lollies to be in the jar to start with

Max the Monkey - How many bananas are left?

Choose your own numbers to fill in the blanks. Remember the first number will need to be bigger than the second number, and try lots of different numbers to practice your subtraction skills.

Sheep Addition

Choose at least 3 different numbers for how many more the farmer could have been given

Can you remember this poem we learnt with the constable? Can you show the actions to your parents?

Safe and Unsafe Places to Play

Talk to your child about playing outside, it is very important that children always place in safe places

Talk through the list of places below, why is this an unsafe place to play?

Driveway

Footpath

Road

Car Park

Follow on with talking about what safe places there are to play - backyard, front yard, playground, park - why are these space places to play.

Finish with asking your child to draw a picture of them playing in a safe space

Dancing

Dance along to the spiderman cha cha slide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haPBB_BjqBQ

You could perform your dance to your family and record it on a phone/ipad

Obstacle Course

Make an obstacle course in your garden for members of your family to complete (e.g jump on and off a step, sprint to the end of the garden, weight training holding books or toys, skipping rope)

Can you include going over, under, and around objects.

Soft Toy Bowling

Find a long space like a hallway as a bowling alley. Find 10 objects (not breakable) as pins. Set them up in a triangle.

Use a soft toy as a bowling ball and play! Challenge members of your household

Sock Basketball

Ball up a few pairs of socks, get a laundry basket and take turns challenging members of your house to throw the socks into the basket.

Tip: to make it harder try a small basket or move further away

Fitness with Mrs Virk

• Watch Mrs Virk’s Fitness video

• March on the spot, counting up to 20. Make sure your knees are up, arms are moving back and forth.

• Side hops- hand on hips, hoping side to side with feet together. Count to 20

• Skipping without a skipping rope- jumping on the spot with feet together and making circles with your closed fists. Count to 20

• Run on the spot as fast as you can and count to 20

• Breathing exercise- place your hand on your tummy and breathe in and out. Feel your tummy going in as you breathe in.