Dear Parents/ Caregivers,
Welcome to learning at home for Week 1 Term 4. Our learning at home tasks give you the flexibility to plan these into your day around other commitments.
This Week’s Story Time
This week our spotlight story is Macca the Backpacker with Mrs Wells
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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 a selection of literacy activities to choose from for each day of the week
Please select the Reading Group for your child. Your teacher will have emailed this information to you.
When writing your stories remember what good writers do…
Extension:
Can you use ‘wow’ words in your story. ‘Wow’ words are more interesting words to use, for example, instead of using the word big you could say enormous
Can you use your capital letters and full stops to show each idea as a sentence. Remember we use a capital letter for the first word of the sentence. The other time we use a capital letter is when we are writing someone’s name.
Umbrellas
Finish this story
“The day I forgot my umbrella…”.
Think about what would happen if you forgot your umbrella on a windy rainy day. In your story, say what happens next?
Draw a plan for your writing, this could be a picture of you without your umbrella. You might want to add some key words around your picture that show how you felt. Then write your story. Read your story to yourself and then share it with someone in your bubble.
Retell a story about Kitty Cat
Look carefully at what is happening in each picture, then write your retell story. Think about how you will write your story in sequence. Remember to read it to someone when you are finished.
A Special 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 what would happen. Then start your story about your special wish, you can start your first sentence off with… “I wish for a ____.”
Next describe what would you do with what you wished for?
When you have finished your story, read your story to other members in your family.
Convince Me!
Do you prefer rainy or sunny days? Think about which one you prefer and the reasons why you like it
or
Make a plan for your writing - it could be a picture or some key words. Include in your plan why you prefer rainy or sunny days. What kinds of things do you do?
Pretend that your teacher likes the opposite weather to you (if you like rainy days, she likes sunny days). Write a story to tell her why your day is the best! Make sure you describe the things that you can do on your preferred day
Remember to read your story to yourself and then a parent or sibling when finished
Weather Senses Poem
Choose a type of weather e.g. stormy, rainy, sunny, cloudy or another one
Think about your 5 senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste - and what you can relate to that sense and the type of weather you have chosen. Here is the structure for your weather senses poem
I can hear…
I can see…
I can smell…
I can taste…
I can touch…
Talk about or draw a plan of your ideas for each of the senses above, make your selection and then write these as your poem.
4. Draw a picture to go with your completed poem
Extension: Write another poem using a different type of weather
Here is an example:
Rain.
I can hear tapping on the window.
I can see splashing puddles.
I can smell wet grass.
I can taste fresh water.
I can touch the wet drops.
This week our maths activities is a focus on Addition
If you would like some revision on using the count all strategy you can watch this video about using your fingers to help you solve addition problems, or this video about using objects to solve addition problems
Making 5
Show the different ways to make 5 by drawing the spots on the ladybird. You can draw out your own ladybirds, add your spots, write your addition problems that equal 5 and colour them in
Making 10
Draw up your own tens frame. Find something around home to put in the squares or you could use coloured pencils or crayons to show the different ways you can make ten using two numbers - we call these bonds to 10. Write the equations you create, to get you started here’s one way to make 10 - 6 + 4
Place Value
Show the place value of teen numbers. Place value is about tens and ones, how many groups of tens are in a number, and how many ones
The place value of 12 is 1 ten and 2 ones. If I was going to show this with items e.g. sticks, I would put 10 sticks together to represent 1 group of ten, and 2 sticks by themselves to represent 2 ones.
Find some things around the home or outside to show the place value of these teen numbers
14 17 13
Or draw a tens frame and represent your groups of ten as one full tens frame, and your ones on another tens from e.g.
12 would be
Addition Problem - Jelly beans in a Jar
There are 8 jellybeans in a jar. Grandma gave you some more. How many jelly beans could she have given you? How many would there be in the jar now?
Remember to try lots of different numbers, and see how many there would be
Frog Addition
There are 10 frogs at the pond. Some were in the water, some were on the lilypad. What answers could there be?
Other numbers to try: 5, 20
Draw a picture of your answers so you can explain your thinking to someone in your house
Butterfly addition
Can you draw some butterflies and add spots on to each wing?
Add all the spots together, how many were there on each butterfly?
Finish the addition equations below each butterfly, draw the spots to needed on each wing and then solve the problem.
Counting On Practice
Practice using the count on strategy to solve the problems. To use the count on strategy, start your count from the biggest number, counting on the second set. For example to solve 7 + 3, put 7 in your head and count on 3 - 7, 8, 9, 10. You can use your fingers to help you track what you are counting on.
Here are some problems for this week. Show how you solved each problem by drawing a picture representation like one of the picture examples above
This week we will explore Weather as our topic. Let’s begin with a story - Weather Today.
We have lots of different weather, have a look at these pictures of Bear in different weather - can you name each weather? Have you seen them all yet?
Clouds
Make yourself some cloud watching binoculars
Resources:
2 cardboard tubes
Glue, tape or string to hold it together.
Something to colour it in with (optional)
Instructions:
Attach your 2 cardboard tubes side by side. You can use glue, tape or string to keep them stuck together.
Decorate your binoculars by colouring them in
If you have some string, attach it to your binoculars so you can wear them around your neck
Find a spot to lie down outside to cloud watch, what shapes and objects can you see in the clouds? Sometimes I see dragons and butterflies. Choose a cloud you like and draw it, turn it into what your imagination has seen
There are three main types of clouds:
Cumulus clouds are puffy, like cotton wool
Cirrus clouds are wispy, like strands of hair floating through the air.
Stratus clouds are like a blanket covering part of the sky
Become a cloud detective, see if you can spot each of these clouds this week. Can you see more than one type of cloud in the sky at the same time? Did you see any clouds that look different to these three cloud types?
Make your own cumulus, cirrus and stratus clouds with paper and cotton wool balls. Label each cloud you make E.g.
Rain
When it rains puddles can form on the ground. Find a puddle on the concrete after it stops raining and draw around it with chalk
Go back inside and play
Check on your puddle every hour or two
What is happening to your puddle?
How does rain form and where does it come from? Rain is part of the water cycle, watch this video to find out more about where rain comes from
Rainbows
Rainbows are amazing and we often see them after it has rained or when there is a sunshower. See if you spot a rainbow this week
Draw a Rainbow
Draw a rainbow with the colour in order - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Make sure you draw the colour red at the top of the rainbow and the last colour of violet at the bottom of the rainbow. Learn to say the colours in order, then learn to write them
Make a rainbow
Resources: clear glass and a white sheet of paper
Fill three-quarters of a glass with water and move all your supplies (the glass and a white sheet of paper), toward a sunny window.
Place the paper on a nearby table or windowsill and hold the water glass above it.
Watch as the sunlight passes through the glass, bends and forms a rainbow on the blank page.
In the sky, rainbows form when sunlight refracts or bends just like it did when it passed through the water and onto your paper.
Snow
If a cloud is cold enough it will freeze the water vapour that is in the cloud into ice crystals. When lots of ice crystals stick together they form a snowflake that falls from the cloud. Check out this short video about snow
Make Some Ice
Find some small plastic containers that are ok to put in the freezer or an ice cube tray. Fill your containers with water and place in the freezer and leave them there till the next day.
Get your ice out of the freezer. To get your ice out of your containers you might need to gently tap them or briefly run under the tap to loosen them.
Ice is cold like snow, take your ice outside to play with
Hold it in your hand, how does it feel?
If you drop your ice does it break?
Can you stack your ice pieces or cubes on top of each other?
Leave a piece of ice out in the sun, keep an eye on it to check out how it changes
Does your ice slide along the concrete if you give it a push?
Maybe you could collect some items from nature like tiny leaves or petals, fill you container with water again, place your nature items in and then pop back in the freezer overnight - check them out the next day
Make a Paper Snowflake
Resources:
Pencil
Sheet of square white paper
Pair of scissors
Instructions:
Get a square piece of paper or trim a piece of paper so that it is square.
Fold your square in half diagonally (have a look at the picture below).
Fold your triangle in half – again diagonally (look at the picture below).
Fold paper in thirds … one side to the front, the other to the back. (Unfold the triangle you just folded. Here you will see a crease in the middle of your triangle. Fold the long edges of each side to the centre crease.)
Trim the extra piece of paper off the end of your small triangle.
Around the outside of your triangle, cut some fun designs — circles, squares, triangles, squiggles … anything goes.
Unfold your paper and look at your masterpiece.
Voila! A snowflake
A story to finish our week of Weather - What kind of Day is Today?