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Home Learning Project WEEK 1 – Animal Kingdom

Weekly Maths Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) Weekly Writing Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day)

● Practise reciting numbers to 50/100/passed 100

● Backwards from 20● Order 5 random numbers within 10

from smallest to largest – then within 20

● Count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s – how far can you go?

● Using a number line to 10 can you say which is 1 more/less than a given number – can you do it mentally without the number line?

● Solve adding and take away problems within 10 using the symbols -, +, =

● Making sets to match a number to 20

● Learn halves:- Half of 2 is 1, Half of 4 is 2 etc to 10

● Learn buddy bonds to 5 (2 +3, 3+2, 1+4, 4+1, 5+0, 0+5)

● Try the maths games on this website Crickweb

● Keep practising your letter formation – write out the alphabet and practise the ones you haven’t yet mastered!

● After listening to the Hare and the tortoise story (in the reading section) Draw each animal and soundtalk some describing words around them – slow, fast, mean, steady etc

● Sound talk a sentence about each picture into your book. Don’t forget capital letter to start and a full stop on the end.

Keep practising your check up words – please go over previous ones so you don’t forget them! Say them in a sentence and get a grown up to write it out for you to copy and practise your handwriting.

Weekly Phonics Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day)

Weekly Reading Tasks (aim to do 1 per day).

Daily phonics – go over digraphs – th, sh, ch, ng and blend words. This can be oral blending (e.g. spoken out loud sh-i-p) or written if appropriate. Interactive games here and here

The consonant and vowel digraphs they need to be learning are here these will be on the learning pack every week for your child to learn over the next few weeks

Use magnetic letters or letters on cards to play FULL CIRCLE with the list below – only changing one

Listen to the story of the Hare and the Tortoise find a Youtube cartoon of it here. Discuss how the characters are different and what the story is trying to teach us.

You can create a free account at Oxford Owl This will allow you child to access free e-books they can read. Try the age group 4-5 as this will give you a variety of e-books for your child to practise reading.

Read a variety of books at home. Favourites can be repeated. Hearing the patterns of language in a story will support your child’s

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sound at a time to make the new word. Get a grown up to say the word - can you hear which sound to change? Start with spelling SHIP and off you go!

Play phonics noughts and crosses. Draw out a grid and write a digraph (sh, th, ch, ng, ai, ee, ea, oi, oo) in each part of the grid.

Take it in turns to name what is written in the grid. If you say it correctly you can add your nought or cross in that square.

language development. Encourage your child to tell you

stories about random pictures. It doesn’t matter whether you use a family photo or turn to an advertisement in a magazine. Simply ask your child to tell you who the characters are, what they are doing and why they are doing it. Assure them there is no right answer; it’s a story from their imagination. You can model by telling a story of your own.

Learning Project - to be done throughout the week

For our project this week please can you chose 2 activities to do throughout the week

Animals live in lots of different places. Can you draw/paint on paper or on JIT MIX on Hwb add a new page for each animal - one animal for each different place - at home, on a farm, in the zoo, in the ocean, in the forest and in the arctic. Can you overwrite/copy/sound talk the name of the animal next to it.

Play animal charades- Take it in turns to act as different animals. Add in noises as a clue.

Sort different animals into feature groups – animals that have tails, animals that have 4 legs, animals that are one colour/stripy/spotty. Can you think of any other ways to sort animals?

Find all of the animal books in your house- Ask your child to look through the books in your house and to find any with animals on the front cover. Ask them to sort the books into groups of their choice e.g. animals that can fly, swim, big, small, live on a farm/ at the zoo.

Create an animal den- Provide your child with blankets and sheets to make an animal den. Act out being an animal in the den.

Choose a soft toy animal or small animal figure and create a junk modelled container for it.

Take part in a BBC podcast dance to the Hare and the Tortoise story – find it here to download.

Sing some animal related nursery rhymes together – perform old ones and learn some new ones! You’ll find a lovely selection here

Philosophy at home!Take some time to talk to your child and discuss some of the questions

below. What do you think? Can you give reasons for choice?

sh, ch, th, ng, p, n, r, c, a, iship, chip, chin, thin, than, can, cash, rash, rang, ring, rip, ship

Worship at Home

Gather as a family and play some quiet music and follow the guided meditation in the home pack or use the Prayers for Home on the Ten:Ten website. Pray at regular times in the day –Morning – ‘Good morning Lord we praise your Holy name…Grace Before Meals – ‘Bless us O God as we sit together …Grace After Meals – ‘Thank you God, for the food we have eaten …Night Prayer – ‘Now the day is over …Say a decade of the Rosary as a family.

Additional learning resources parents may wish to engage with

Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - These packs are split into different year groups and include activities linked to reading, writing, maths and practical ideas you can do around the home. Twinkl - to access these resources click on the link and sign up using your own email address and creating your own password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS. Phonics play – great games linked to the different phases of phonicsPobble365 – the images on here are changed daily. Underneath are activities pupils can complete linked to writing, grammar etc. Woodlands Junior – is great for research! Researchify – a search engine which provides relevant and appropriate search results for children. BBC Bitesize has some good videos and guides as well as some games that children can play online BBC Bitesize Foundation Phase

Would you rather….Have 3 arms or 3 legs?

Would you rather….Have a car that could fly or a car that could go underwater?