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Week 7  

Here are 6 activities you can do throughout the week! You can always show me your efforts on Tapestry, I’d love to see! 

Keep well and remember to try and have some fun too! Miss Demetriou 

Subject  Activity     

Reading 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4&t=44s 

Here is a song to help with 

learning some previous red words. 

 

Here are another set of red 

words you can practise reading - 

why not make another set of 

flashcards to decorate your 

door/fridge with, you can make a 

zig zag book. You can write them in rainbow colours.  

 

 

I have also attached another grid for you to work through 

and practice your new set of red words. Get your dice and 

colouring pencils ready and get 

reading :D . You could also play 

this on the computer, you will 

just need a dice and you will need 

to ‘fill’ the cell in wherever your 

dice lands. I will attach this to 

the class page.  

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/reading-

robot You can even use this game to practise your red 

words on screen. Just type them in and have a go. 

 

Why not have a go at some of these games to help with 

your blending.  

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding 

the World 

 

 

  

Can you guess what book we are 

going to be 

reading using 

these clues …   

Like a giraffe this character 

has a black tongue.   

A sloth and this character 

have terrible claws.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just like an elephant, this character has terrible tusks.   

 

 

 

 

A dog and this character have 

terrible teeth.  

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Link 1: Dragons Den Select 

phase 3, if your child is 

struggling go back to phase 2. 

  

Link 2: Help A Hedgehog 

Select phase 3, if you find 

your child is struggling go back 

to phase 2. If you want a 

challenge select phase 3 mixed vowel phonemes. 

 

Link 3: Hanging Monkeys 

 

I have attached some examples of activities you can 

create at home to learn your red words. 

 

Activity 1: Draw a picture, which includes red words with a 

colour code to follow.  

 

Activity 2:  

Use the playdough recipe from last week and practice 

writing the red words in playdough.  

Another great way to practice red words, is reading them 

in a sentence.  

This character also has knobbly knees like a giraffe.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This character has turned out toes like a platypus. 

 

He also has orange eyes like a lemur?  

 

Have you guessed it? 

The character I am 

describing is the 

Gruffalo!   

Activity 1 : Draw your own labelled Gruffalo to show me!  

 

Have a read of the story - if you do not have the book, I 

have added a link to the story: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8sUPpPc8Ws&t=181s 

 

Whilst reading can you be detectives and find these objects:  

- A fox  

- Mushroom  

- Pine cone  

- Log  

- White poplar  

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Only do this activity after you have completed the 

Understanding the World task, so you do not ruin the 

surprise.  

 

Can you answer these questions: 

 

- Point to the mouse  

- Point to the fox  

- What did the fox do?  

- What does an owl use to fly?  

- Can you think of another 

type of bird?  

- Have you ever gone for a 

walk in the woods? What did 

you do there?  

- Why does the mouse say he is going to meet a 

Gruffalo for lunch?  

- Why does the Gruffalo want to eat the mouse?  

- What made the fox run away from the mouse at 

the end of the book?   

- What do you think you would do if you met a 

Gruffalo?  

- How could you avoid being eaten?   

- How can we tell that it’s daytime in this story?  

- What does the mouse in this story like to eat?   

- Why can’t the mouse fight the Gruffalo?   

- Daffodil  

- Frog  

- Lily pad  

- Lake  

- Fir tree 

- Bird  

- Rock  

- Squirrel  

- An owl home  

 

Talk about these different objects/species and how they 

would be found in a woodland habitat.  

 

Activity 2: (I’ll add on our class page) Can you sort the animals in their habitat? If you do not have a printer, a 

drawing would be great too, challenge yourself and add some 

more animals and plants. 

 

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- Let’s act out the story – what do we need? 

 

Use the book to help you finish the sentences below?  

 

Phonics 

Phonics Ruth Miskin (RWI) - select the latest video  

After you complete the video, give your child some time to 

write the sound down. A great challenge will be to write a 

silly sentence using the learnt sound.  

 

Have a go at these games. 

Can you spot the sound 

blends and complete the 

words with the correct 

sound?   

 

Maths 

Please refer to My Maths for the next two activities 

 

This week we will be focusing on halving- So focus on the 

activities which involve halving (sharing into 2 groups) rather 

than sharing into groups of 3 or more groups.  

 

This is a great topic to explore in the kitchen. The children 

need to see what a half looks like and this can be done by 

them cutting up apples/cakes/chocolate/banana/orange 

slices etc in half for them to see that 1 object is cut in 2 

equal parts, hence the fraction ½ .  

 

I will attach the 

halving challenge questions to our 

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Link 1: Bowling Alley consonants  

 

Link 2: Phonics Slides 

 

Activities:  

 

1) Why not have a go at making 

this game - write the sounds 

you want to focus on, on the 

rolls/alternatively plastic 

cups/buckets and see how 

many 

balls/pasta/cheerios/marbles  

you can score. 

 

2) Make your own noughts and 

crosses game using sounds 

you would like to focus on. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have attached below my ‘Story hand’ After guessing the story 

of the week, why not draw your own story hand (trace around 

your child’s hand) and go over these key features in the story 

of ‘The Gruffalo’. Add labels and pictures! This is a great way to 

unpick the story.  

 

1. Who are the characters? 

2. Where is the story set?  

class page on the school website.  

 

Nrich challenge: Think outside the box, or should I say 

rectangle to solve this problem. 

 

 

It is also important that 

children work on halving numbers too. Focusing on 

numbers they can half and 

numbers which do not half 

equally is a great discussion to 

have and a chance to introduce 

odd and even numbers.  

 

I will attach this halving mat 

onto our class page, so you can use it to investigate which 

numbers you can half (if you do not have a printer, you can 

easily draw it out). Work through numbers 1-20 (use 

counters/pasta/cheerios etc.) Let me know what you find 

out.  

 

Game Link:  

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3. What happens at the start of the story?  

4. What is the problem in the story?  

5. How is the problem resolved and how does the story 

end? 

 

1) Can you find the halves of these totals? 

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go/resource/T-GO-05-halve

s-up-to-10 

 

 

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Physical 

Education 

Have a go at learning these 

dances and get mum and dad to 

join in too. 

 

Electric Slide - Maximo | 

GoNoodle 

 

U Can't Touch This - NTV | GoNoodle 

 

Fine Motor Development:   

Remember to keep your fingers fit 

too and have a go at making a new 

batch of playdough and enjoy this 

video!  

 

Dough Disco - Incy Wincy Spider  

 

Can you move like these woodland animals?   

 

Religious 

Education 

 

How did Jesus rescue people who couldn’t 

see? 

Turn off the lights and ask the children what they can see. 

Is it hard to see the kitchen/living room/ bedroom now? 

What about if I light a candle or turn on a torch? Can we see 

everything? What would happen if we couldn’t see at all? 

What would be hard? 

 

Read or watch the Bible story of Jesus healing the blind 

beggar.  

 

● What do you think it was like for the man to not be 

able to see anything?  

● How would he know where to go?  

● Why do you think Jesus wanted to heal his eyes? 

 

Activities:  

 

✞ Try to draw your 

friend sitting opposite, 

but with a blindfold on. 

What does it look like? 

Why was it hard? What 

other things would be 

hard to do if you were 

blind? 

 

✞ Make a kaleidoscope, 

using coloured beads 

and paper in a 

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cardboard roll. Think about all the different colours you can 

see and how amazing that is.  

 

 

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