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

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

1. rug and _______________

2. snack and ____________

3. deal and _____________

4. stuck and _____________

5. mail and _____________

6. rate and _____________

7. five and _____________

8. bump and ___________

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.

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’

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

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