Here is a poem that tells you what kinds of child you are depending on what day you were born. I’ve written what each thing means beside it in Italic.
Monday’s Child
Monday’s child is fair of face (Beautiful)
Tuesday’s child is full of grace, (Graceful)
Wednesday’s child is full of woe, (Worries a lot)
Thursday’s child has far to go, (Will achieve a lot)
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on Sunday
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay. (Happy and Cheerful)
Problem Solving Question:
I was born on a Sunday (a very long time ago!) – what does the rhyme say about me?
Ask your adult which day you were born on and see what the rhyme says about you! (Remember it’s only a silly rhyme and a fun game, you are all of the things on the list really!)
Today’s Activity:
The rhyme tells us that Wednesday’s child is full of woe – woe means worry. Today is Wednesday so we’re going to talk about worries.
Watch this story ‘Silly Billy’ by Anthony Brown and read by a teacher called Alistair!
https://www.facebook.com/abcdoes/videos/230815768302692/
Have a go at making some worry dolls at home!
These Worry Dolls are really simple to make. They originate from Guatemala in South America and are used for children to tell their worries to before they go to sleep. They then put them under their pillow and all of their worries disappear in the night.
They are useful at any time – but maybe especially now as there are lots of things that are changing for us at the moment and maybe making us feel a little bit worried.
If you make some send me some pictures and let me know how they worked out.
Phonics
Practice all of your sounds and then play Buried Treasure on Phonics Play, an excellent free website. Use the details below to log in.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure
Username: march20
Password: home
Maths
This week we are learning about Money. Ask your adult to show you all of the different coins from the UK and tell you which one is which. Can you order them from the coin that is worth the least (will buy you the least toys/sweets) to the coin that is worth the most (will buy you the most toys/sweets).
Play this Money game on Top Marks (another excellent free website):
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game
Story
The story today is read by Mr Corrigan.
Have a great day everyone!
Mr Forshaw
