Our learning for today…
Literacy
- practice all of your sounds using your sound chart.
- practise ‘red word reading’ with this PowerPoint presentation. Go up to and including the book colour of your Literacy group. Grown ups remember the children should no ‘sound out’ these words as they don’t follow the normal rules and that is why they are ‘red’ or tricky- remind the children ‘you can’t fred a red’. Encourage children to talk about what makes the word tricky eg ‘the’ – is sounds like the ‘e’ should be an ‘i’
- Pink and Green groups only – Use your sound booklet to practice the ‘-ir’ sound. Can you read the words shown, talk about how many sounds they have and even try to write these without peaking? Ask your grown-up to tell you them one-by-one. To challenge yourself, try to write a sentence containing one or more of your words.
- Red group only – please play this game again to develop word reading confidence and fluency, choosing the phase 2 option …https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/index.html
- This is the first day of time given to working through the next ‘Talk4Writing’ home unit. We will use this over the next 2 weeks (on Tuesdays and Fridays) so pick parts that suit you and work through tasks at your own pace. Remember, these have been specifically created for parents and children to extend their literacy during the closure of schools so I hope they are ok for you all. I have heard nothing to the contrary so assume they are going
well!https://www.talk4writing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/R-Mouse.pdf
Mathematics – measurement (length)
1.Use this BBC Bitesize lesson to recap prior learning about length. It will provide an introduction to remind you and also a few activities.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf4vbdm
2. Find 5 items/objects from around your house and arrange them according to their length. Find something you have many of such as pegs, lego blocks, pieces of pasta etc (choose just one of these as your way to measure so as we can then compare) First, guess how many of your chosen non-standard unit of measure you think each object with measure. Next, actually measure each object. Check how close your guess or estimate was. Were you close, did you guess longer or shorter? Look here is my example of how I got on…
3. Question to think about – what other ways can we measure the length of something?
Other learning tasks for today – (Health/Life skills)
- Do a job in the house all by yourself. Get a grown up to tell you about how to safely and effectively do it. If you can take a photo before and after and send it into us so we can see your terrific tidying!
- Look at what you have in the house and talk to your grown-up about what you are having for you lunch or tea. Can you make a part of it all by yourself or help a grown up to? For example, can you make your own sandwich or maybe a healthy wrap, a fruit salad by carefully chopping or even pack yourself a lunch just like if you were ‘packed lunch’ at school. Remember to take a picture of any of your creations and send them in for us to see!
All of the skills you practise in these tasks are important learning for life lessons. Have fun!
