JS Reading - Red Group
Weekly Poem - Birthday Cake
Here are your poem activities for this week: Remember to read the poem each day
Monday - after reading the poem, draw a picture of what you visualized
Tuesday - explore words that rhyme with ‘big’ - make a list using your favourite colours, write them outside with chalk or with water and a paintbrush
Wednesday - find 3 words in the poem that make the long a vowel sound with this letter pattern, remember the e is silent - a_e, make flash cards for these words.
Thursday - make 3 more flashcards for these words: rake, tape, whale. With your 6 flashcards see how quickly you can read them. Then ask someone to hide them in your house, and then on ‘go’ see how quickly you can find them or have your someone tell you one word at a time to find
Friday - find 5 words with the ‘ed’ ending. What other words do you know that can have an ‘ed’ on the end of them? Can you spot 2 words in the poem that have a ‘ch’ sound in them? Then go outside and see what items you can find from nature to make your own ‘ch’. Maybe you could make your own cake with your family to enjoy for the weekend!
Rhyming Activities
Rhyming words are two or more words that have the same or similar ending sound.
If they sound the same or similar, they rhyme.
E.g. car and bar rhyme, house and mouse rhyme.
If the two words sound different, they do not rhyme.
E.g car and man do not rhyme; house and grass do not rhyme.
Read the nursery rhymes two times.
Find all the words that rhyme in them, remember to think if the ending sound is the same in the words you identify. Write them down. Then read these to someone in your family.
Challenge: What other rhyming words can you make from the words you found?
For example from the word Jill = hill, fill, pill, spill
Find the matching rhyming word that completes each rhyme below and write them down
rug and _______________
snack and ____________
deal and _____________
stuck and _____________
mail and _____________
rate and _____________
five and _____________
bump and ___________
Books for this Week
Book - Where is My Hat
Log in to Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 2
Read the story ‘Where is my hat?’ two times.
Retell what happened in the story to a family member.
Complete the word activity and the thinking activity on Sunshine Online.
We are going to focus on the letter ‘h’. What sound does this letter make?
Say it three times. Find this letter in the story. What words do we know that start with a ‘h’ sound? List them to a family member.
Complete this worksheet below or practice writing letter ‘h’ on a piece of paper with different colours
The word ‘here’ also starts with a ‘h’ sound.
Can you find the word ‘here’ in the book?
Practice saying and writing the word ‘here’ on a piece of paper.
Can you put the word ‘here’ in a sentence, just like in the story?
E.g Here is a table.
E.g The cat is here.
Book - Spider, Spider
Log in to Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 4
Read the story ‘Spider, Spider’ two times.
Retell what happened in the story.
Complete the word activity, the thinking activity and complete one of the worksheets on Sunshine Online.
Can you find the word ‘come’ in the book?
Practice saying and writing the word ‘come’ on a piece of paper.
Can you put the word ‘come’ in a sentence, just like in the story?
E.g Come to the playground.
E.g Here I come.
Can you find any words in the story that rhyme with ‘me’?
What are some other words (not in the book) that rhyme with ‘me’?
Remember a rhyming word is a word that has the same ending sound but a different beginning sound.
Extension:
Can you make words that rhyme with ‘not’, by using the letters g, h, p, l in place of the n? Are there any other words that rhyme with ‘not’
Book - A Fun Quiz
This book can be found here
Read the book with an adult.
Ask the adult to ask you questions about the book.
What, when, who, where, how and why questions.
Retell the story in order to your parents.
Can you find 3 words that have the ‘qu’ consonants from the book? For each one, say it, robot it, write it
Think of 2 more words that have the ‘qu’ consonant sound
Book - The Monkey Bridge
Log in Sunshine Online: Learning Space 2, L10
Read and complete the quiz sunshine online.
Retell the story in sequence to your teddy and look at the template below to help you draw three pictures to help you retell the story, thinking about the beginning, middle and end. Share your pictures and retell the story again to any family member.
Extn: Build a bridge using lego or any materials around your house. Take a photo and email it to your teacher telling her what you did
Book - Frank’s Big Day
Log in Sunshine Online: Learning Space 2, L13
Frank has a very tiring day but makes sure he goes to sleep every now and then.
Read and complete the quiz.
Can you find any compound words from the book? Can you think of any other compound words? Read the words as you find them, and write them
E.g. hImself, around…
With your compound words, write them out onto pieces of paper with big letters, then cut between the two words that make that compound word. Now you have a puzzle, see if you can put your compound words back together.
Can you find the word that has the sound ‘ent’ in it from the book?
Can you come up with three or four words that have the ‘ent’ sound?
Complete worksheet below - match the words in the bottom to the right picture
