Red Group

Poem - My Garden

Read the poem.. Read it to somebody in your house.

Can you find the words in the poem that start the the blends below

Rhyming words:

Fall and tall are rhyming words. Can you think of other words that have a double ll sound at the end? Can you put them on the chart below,

Books for this Week

Book - Who is the Tallest


Access Sunshine Online: Learning Space 1, Level 3


If you are logged in, you can click on this link Who is the tallest?


Read the book and do the activities


Independent activities:

  • Grab a teddy bear and see if you can read the book to your teddy, remember to point to each word as you read.

  • Let’s play with the word ‘but’. It has three letters and three sounds. Can you say the first sound, the middle and the last sound? On some paper or a whiteboard change the first sound to make another word. What word have you made? Try it again but this time change the middle sound. What word have you made now?

  • Who is the tallest in your family? Make a drawing of yourself with the tallest person in your family.

Book - All Dressed Up


Login Sunshine Online: Learning Space 2, Level 7


Listen and read the story 2 times and complete the online quiz.


Retell the story in your own words to someone in your family.

Complete the boxes below by drawing or writing a simple sentence.

Then answer the following questions: (go through the story again if you need help answering the questions)

  • In the title, what does “dressed up” mean?

  • Why is Adam putting on his “best” clothes?

  • Why does Mum say “you will cook” on page 10? What does this mean?

  • What kind of weather was Adam dressed for at the beginning of the story and at the end of the story?

  • What made him change from dressing up to taking off clothes?


Can you find any words with the blend “sh”? Write them down.


_____________ _____________ _____________ _____________


Look through the whole story. Can you find a word with each of these blends?

Then think of another word that starts with the same blend sound, that isn’t in the story.

Rhyming words - Can you think of words that rhyme with took? Write them down.

Example: cook


Draw a picture of a time you go dressed up. Describe your picture to someone in your family and discuss details of what clothes you dressed up in and where you were going.

Example: I dressed up in my favourite flower dress and went to a birthday party.

Book - Staying Still

Access Sunshine Online: Learning Space 2, Level 9


Read and complete the activities


Syllables - Take turns with someone at home to choose a word from the story and clap the syllables. E.g. the word love has one syllable that means one clap.


Try these words first

  • looking

  • cooking

  • butterfly


There are two syllables in ‘looking’ and ‘cooking’, and three syllables in ‘butterfly’


Rhyming - Write down 4 or more words that rhyme with ‘ill’ on a paper



Where do you usually find the contents page? Is it at the back or the front of a book?


If I wanted to read about ‘Breathing’ what page do I need to look at?

What is an index? Where would I find it in the book?

What topic is on page 4?


What topic is on page 3, 4, 16?


What are the pages for ‘feel’?

Book - Animal Inventions


Access Sunshine Online: Learning Space 2, Level 10


A story about how people have imitated or adapted things that animals do.


Read and answer the quiz online.



Can you find some compound words from the book? Write 3 more that are not in the book



How many syllables can you identify in these words?


Words Syllables Count


Book 1


Elephant _____


Kangaroo _____

Crocodile _____


Bulldozer _____


Submarine _____



Complete this sentence and write on a paper.


A diver dives ____________________________.



A glider glides ____________________________.



Choose one animal invention from the book. Draw a picture and write a short story about it, here is how you could set it out

Book - Greedy Cat and the Vet


Click here, Greedy Cat and the Vet, Level 12 - It’s time for Greedy Cat to go to the vet for his check-up and flu injection, but he’s not happy about it and he makes his feelings known!


Once you have read or listened to the story, try these activities. Talk to someone in your family about this story and ask them for help if you need it.


Questions: You can write your answers on your own paper or talk to someone about your answers



  1. What is a vet?

  2. Why is Greedy Cat unhappy about going to the vet?

  3. What is the vet doing to Greedy Cat?

  4. On the last page, what do you think Dad meant when he said, “The cat is fine. But I’m not sure about the vet”.


Challenge questions:


  1. What do you think Katie will tell Mum about the vet visit?

  2. What do you think the vet will tell her family when she goes home?

  3. Have you ever taken your cat to the vet? How did your cat feel?


There’s 5 words in the story with the “ch” sound. Can you find them?


Here’s 1 to help you start: much

Hearing Sounds in Words

For the word of the day, write it out on paper and cut it up. Have the extra letters cut up on pieces of paper as well


Start with showing your child the word, read it to them, read it together, name the letters.

Now look at each sound in the word. To do this, segment the word by saying each individual sound, follow with reading the word again by putting the sounds together


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.


Here are some words for this week.

Reading is Fun - Silly Voices


Have a look at the picture in the first box. Think about what they would sound like when they read the sentence in the second box. Make sure you use your silly voice and have fun. Read it to someone in your house.

Exploring Long Vowel Sound - i


The long i vowel sound is like saying the name of the letter. There are many different letter patterns that we read a word with the long i sound. Watch this video to hear lots of words with a long i sound.


Can you circle and colour all the words with a long i sound, or point them out in the poem?

Practice reading the words below and match them with their picture. The letters ‘ie’ make a long i sound

The letter pattern ‘igh’ makes the long i sound, so if I was sounding out fight it has three sounds f-igh-t. Match these pictures with the words.

Match these pictures with the words. In these words, the ‘y’ is making a long i sound

Match the pictures below with the words. The letter pattern i_e creates a long i sound, the e is silent. Check out this video with words that have the i_e pattern

Contractions


Making 2 words into 1 word by dropping one or more letters are called contraction words.

Write the 2 words that make up the contractions below.


E.g: She’s = she + is


  1. That’s

  2. They’ve

  3. There’s

  4. Doesn’t

  5. Can’t

  6. They’ll

  7. Don’t

  8. You’re


Now have a go at finding the contractions from the sentences below. When you have found the contraction - write the two words that make up that word. The first one has been done for you:

Rhyming


Circle the words in each row that have the same long vowel rhyming sound as the word in the box.

What’s the Last Sound?