St. Augustine's Catholic Primary School

Concept of the week:  Grouping and sharing.

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-the-concept-of-equal-groups-6wvp8r

Set out 5 bowls and count out 20 sweets, buttons, counters, or pieces of cereal.  Share the 20 items between the 5 bowls equally.  How many in each bowl? 

Adult – share the 20 items again but unequally ask the child what they have noticed. 

Remove 3 of the bowls and 10 of the items.  Can you share these items equally between the bowls?  What do you notice?

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/practising-counting-in-equal-groups-and-adding-them-together-6rr32r

Investigate.  Roll two dice and count the total number of dots, select that number of Lego bricks.  How many equal towers can you make from each number?  Are there any numbers that cannot make a number of equal towers?  Use drawings to show what you have found out.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-counting-in-groups-of-two-to-find-the-total-6mvk2d

The witch’s shoes cut and stick worksheet.  See PDF below.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-grouping-objects-in-tens-to-find-the-total-cmtk8e

Use chalk to draw a hopscotch outside and write numbers 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90.  Get your child to hop on the numbers in order saying them as they count.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-counting-in-groups-of-five-60rkec

Set up a pretend shop with items labelled as 5p.  Ask the child to choose items to buy and count up the total in 5’s.  Pay using 1p or 5p coins.

Story of the week – The king and the moon

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-to-and-reflect-upon-a-new-story-64ukje

Choose your favourite event in the story and paint, draw, or collage a picture of it. Use your picture to tell an adult why it was your favourite part.

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-map-the-story-of-the-king-and-the-moon-cnj36e

Draw your own story map to tell the story.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-step-the-story-of-the-king-and-the-moon-chjpcr

Make a crown for the king using craft materials.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-act-out-the-story-of-the-king-and-the-moon-c4u3ac

Make puppets of the characters to help tell the story to you toys or family.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-the-story-of-the-king-and-the-moon-chorally-and-independently-cru38d

Make a video of you telling the story and send it to evidence me.  You could dress up to tell the tale or wear the crown you’ve made or use your puppets.

Phonics

Sounds to be learnt this week: i and n

Day of the week

Online lesson

Suggested Reading and recognition activity

Writing and letter forming activity

Monday

https://youtu.be/ERD4QJCgk0w

Sort magnetic/foam/post it notes with letters on into __ and not ___.

Write it with a finger in flour or salt on a baking tray.

Tuesday

Lesson 6 - Learning to Blend - YouTube

Spot the letter in books, magazines, in the environment.

Write the shape on your child’s back or hand with your finger, ask them to close their eyes and picture it as you do.

Wednesday

https://youtu.be/Jwj92krKIwg

Write it on post it notes or bits of paper and hide it around the house to find.

Use fabric, clothes or toys to make giant versions of the letter.

Thursday

Twinkl Live Lessons: Phase 2 Phonics - 'N' Lesson 6 - YouTube

Make a collection of items that begin with or contain that sound.  Where is the sound in that word?

Write in in sand or mud with a stick or with chalk on the pavement.

Friday

SATPIN Words | Phonics Blending - YouTube

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Choose phase 2 games and select sounds already learnt.

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Use playdough to make the letter shapes.

I have provided you with some very simple play-based activity ideas that can be done at home.  These are available as another way to keep your children occupied and learning. 

There is no obligation on your part to complete any of them.

Toys/resources

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Train set

Set up a train set and place other toys along the route.  Encourage your child to pretend to be the train sounding out the things they have seen on the track.

Pretend to be a train driver.  Cut up pieces of paper and make tickets for a train journey.  Write on the tickets where you are going, what time the train comes and how much it costs.  Use pennies to buy tickets for your toys.

Pick a number card and add carriages to make the train match the number.

Playdough

Make a healthy meal.  Use playdough to make different foods and place them on a plate. Use post its to label the food.  Talk about balanced diets and healthy foods.

Look at a mirror and use the playdough to make a self-portrait.  Can you model the shapes using your fingers or playdough tools?

Experiment with making different colours using small balls of play dough.  How do you make orange/green/purple

/pink/brown?

What other colours can you make?

Waterplay

Paintbrushes and a bucket of water for drawing and painting on the wall or pavements.

Draw a target with numbers/letters or words on it and use a water gun or squeezy bottle to shoot at the numbers.  Encourage your child to say what they have hit.

Fill a bucket and provide a variety of containers to fill and pour from.  Talk about how full or empty the containers or how many of one container fills another.  If you have food colouring add a few drops.

Sand/mud play

Provide a jug of water and buckets.  How much water do you need to make a perfect castle?  What happens if you add too much?  What happens if you don’t add enough?

Provide different containers to make different shape castles.  Google castles from around the world and try to use sand to make a replica.  Collect natural resources to decorate it.

Use old pots and pans, soil, sand and garden cuttings to make fairy soup.  Write a letter to the fairies inviting them to a dinner party and set up mini dinner party in the garden for them.

Blocks or construction

Make a model and then draw and label it.

Follow instructions from a kit to make a model or look here for Lego model ideas:

50+ Free LEGO Instructions: Learn How To Be a Master Builder! (mykidstime.com)

Have a tower building competition and use a tape measure to see whose is the tallest.

Soft toys

Use a cardboard box to make a puppet theatre and act out your favourite story/book or song.

Have a teddy bears picnic.  Make decorations, lay a table with what is needed, make sandwiches and snacks to eat.

Play hunt the teddy.  Hide a toy somewhere in the house and give clues to find it or play a listening version of hotter and colder.  Use your voice to be louder when the child is close to the hiding place and quieter as they move away.

Physical

Play catch with different shape balls and items.  Take a step back every time the ball is successfully caught.

Use household objects (pillows, bits of clothing, beanbag if inside.  Planks, garden chair, bench etc if outside) to set up a ‘the floor is lava assault course.  The child must make their way around it without touching the ground.

www.cosmickids.com

yoga site, www.gonoodle.com or if you are feeling brave Joe Wicks on youtube!

You will need:

Activity

Space to move.

 Pot of playdough/sponge or stress ball/something to squeeze.

Paper and flat surface.

Pens or pencils.

Morning prayer and calendar.

Dough gym.

Counting to 20 in different ways and steps.

Number recognition activities.

Sentence writing.

Concept of the week:  Numbers within 15 week 2

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

Knowing one fewer than a number within 15 (thenational.academy)

Write numbers 11 to 15 on pieces of paper and turn them face down on the table.  Choose a number card and use that card to make a tower of lego or blocks.  What happens if you take one off and make it 1 fewer?  Which number do you have then?

Tuesday

Applying knowledge of one more and one fewer (Part 1) (thenational.academy)

Use chalk to write numbers 11 to 15 on the floor.  Call out numerals to run to.  For example go to the number 1 less than 13, go to the number 1 more than 14.

Wednesday

Applying knowledge of one more and one fewer (Part 2) (thenational.academy)

I more 1 less worksheet.  PDF below.

Thursday

Using the guess and check strategy for problem solving (thenational.academy)

Activity 2 of oaks lesson worksheet

Using the guess and check strategy for problem solving (thenational.academy)

Friday

Ordering and exploring numbers within 15 (thenational.academy)

Make a line of 15 toys.  Write a numeral on a post it or pieces of paper for each to , 1- 15.  Ask questions such as which toy is in 15^th place?  Which toy comes after 14^th?  Which place is the car in?  which toy is between 11^th and 13^th place?

Story of the week – The lucky duck week 2

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monay

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-speech-and-thought-bubbles-6njk2e

12 Of The Cutest Duck Crafts For Kids - Kids Love WHAT

Choose a duck craft to make with you family.  Take a photo of you making it for evidence me!

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-box-up-a-recycled-story-cgv38d

Split a page into 3 sections. In each section draw what the little duck’s problems were and what she used used to solve her problems.  Leave space in the box to draw what you would change these things to i.e the ladder might become a rope, the bees might become monkeys.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-recycled-story-part-1-6cvk8d

Use what you did yesterday to make a story map with your changes on it.  Write labels for each of the new solutions.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-recycled-story-part-2-c9j38r

Use your story map to tell your recycled story to an adult.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-recycled-story-part-3-6djpac

Split a page into 3 sections and draw a picture of each problem and solution then use an alphabet mat to write a sentence for each picture.

Sounds to be learnt this week: t and p

Day of the week

Online lesson

Suggested Reading and recognition activity

Writing and letter forming activity

Monday

Phonics lesson letter t - YouTube

Sort magnetic/foam/post it notes with letters on into __ and not ___.

Write it with a finger in flour or salt on a baking tray.

Tuesday

(1) Lesson 3 - Reception (Learn to read t) - YouTube

Spot the letter in books, magazines, in the environment.

Write the shape on your child’s back or hand with your finger, ask them to close their eyes and picture it as you do.

Wednesday

Phonics lesson letter p - YouTube

Write it on post it notes or bits of paper and hide it around the house to find.

Use fabric, clothes or toys to make giant versions of the letter.

Thursday

(1) Phonic Lesson - Set 1 Sound - Learning to Read and Write "p" for Reception and Year 1 - YouTube

Make a collection of items that begin with or contain that sound.  Where is the sound in that word?

Write in in sand or mud with a stick or with chalk on the pavement.

Friday

(1) Phase 1 Phonics Letter Sounds (Set 1) - YouTube

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Chose phase 2 games and select sounds already learnt.

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Use playdough to make the letter shapes.

Concept of the week:  Numbers within 15.

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/counting-up-to-15-objects-and-putting-them-in-order-part-1-65hkcc

Matching teen numbers sheet (see attachment).

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/counting-up-to-15-objects-and-putting-them-in-order-part-2-cdj38e

Number Demolition 11-20 Game | Game | Education.com

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/counting-up-to-15-objects-and-putting-them-in-order-part-3-60v6cc

Write numbers 11 to 15 on a post it notes or pieces of paper.  Choose a numeral card and make a tower of leg to represent the number.  After doing this 3 times put your three towers in order from least to most.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/knowing-one-more-than-a-number-within-15-60up8r

Play 1 more and 1 les with numbers to 20 on

Chopper Squad More or Less - Mental Maths Game - 5 to 7 Year Olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Story of the week – The lucky duck

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-and-join-in-with-a-story-ccwp6c

Draw a story map of their own to tell the story.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-map-and-speak-the-story-c4w68c

Make paper puppets of the characters and the things that helped and use them to act out the story.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-step-and-speak-the-story-crt3ee

Draw a picture of the duck and the king and then think of adjectives to describe them.  Think about what they look like, sound like, behave like etc.  Adult to scribe the words around the pictures.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-draw-and-describe-characters-69gpct

Draw a picture of the characters and write a caption describing them.

Writing ideas

• Write it outside with chalk.
• Write it with a finger in flour or salt on a baking tray.
• Write in in sand or mud with a stick.
• Use fabric, clothes or toys to make giant versions of the letter.
• Use playdough to make the letter shape.
• Write the shape on your child’s back or hand with your finger, ask them to close their eyes and picture it as you do.

Recognition ideas

• Sort magnetic/foam letters into s and not s.
• Write it on post it’s and hide it around the house to find.
• Spot the letter in stories.
• Make a collection of items that begin with the sound.
• The letter in signs and number plates.
• Flash cards.
• www.phonicsplay.co.uk

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Concept of the week:  addition and subtraction within 10.

Addition and subtraction within 10 - Oak National Academy (thenational.academy)

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/using-manipulatives-to-count-on-when-adding-60vpat

Using manipulatives to count on when adding (thenational.academy)

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/adding-two-numbers-using-a-number-track-to-count-on-cmvk0t

Adding two numbers using a number track to count on (thenational.academy)

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-the-concept-of-subtraction-as-take-away-part-1-cmu32r

Understanding the concept of subtraction as take away (Part 1) (thenational.academy)

Thursday

Practice counting on an back within 10 on this game. Helicopter Rescue - Mental Maths for 4 to 8 Year Olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Use chalk to draw a ladder and write the numbers 1 to 10 in between each rung.  Stand on 5.  Roll a dice and count on or back from 5 by jumping on the numbers.

Friday

Decorate the Christmas Tree (topmarks.co.uk) give instructions for your child to decorate the tree.  i.e put on 2 more than 3 baubles etc.

Provide a pile of small toys, sweets or cereal.  Make a set of + and – cards (3 of each) mix them up.  Roll a dice and turn over a card.  Take or add to your pile according to the instructios.

Story of the week – Christmas story

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

Nativity Story - CBeebies - BBC forward to the part where the angels speak to the shepherds.

Draw a picture of the angels with the shepherds and write a sentence about how they would feel.

Tuesday

Nativity Story - CBeebies - BBC forward to the part where the wide men follow the star.

Draw a picture of the gift that you would give to Jesus and say why you would choose that gift.

Wednesday

Nativity Story - CBeebies - BBC watch the whole video.

Talk about all of the people that came to see Jesus and why.

Make paper puppets of the characters and talk about what happened I the story.

Thursday

Show your child how to write a letter to Father Christmas.  Together write Dear Santa/Father Christmas, encouraging your child to sound out and record what they can hear.  Print out an alphabet mat to help.   

Draw pictures o your letter of what you would like for Christmas and use your alphabet mat to write labels for each one.

Friday

Watch your favourite Christmas movie together and talk about the story line, characters and setting.

Concept of the week:  Numbers within 10

Numbers within 10 - Oak National Academy (thenational.academy)

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-one-more-within-10-74v3cc

Counting Down From Twenty Song - YouTube

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-one-less-within-10-cgtk0c

Draw a bus with 10 windows.  Have 10 counters as passengers, place 5 on the bus and 5 to one side.  On a pile of cards write + or -.  Turn one card over at a time and either add or minus a passenger. 

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/placing-numbers-within-ten-in-order-chgk8d

Draw a number ladder outside with 1 to 10 in each rung.  Child stands on five and moves forward or back 1.  Where do you land?

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/applying-knowledge-of-numbers-to-ten-to-solve-mathematical-problems-cmtkjr

Learning to Count up to 15 with Teddy Numbers Interactive Maths Game (topmarks.co.uk)

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/using-key-vocabulary-associated-with-ordinal-numbers-1st-to-10th-6dgp4r

Make a tower of 10 blocks or lego turn over a pack of cards with  - + on.  Turn over a card and take one brick off or add one on.

Story of the week – The three little pigs

The Three Little Pigs - Oak National Academy (thenational.academy)

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-role-play-feelings-with-speech-6mv3ac

Look in the mirror and make faces that show different emotions.  Try to think of times when you have felt happy/sad/angry/upset/excited/worried/scared etc.

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-simple-sentences-with-an-adjective-6ct32r

Draw and write feelings speech bubbles for 2 characters.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-recycle-a-story-by-changing-characters-68rkje

Write a sentence about the story with an adjective.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-recycle-a-story-by-changing-characters-and-materials-64wk8d

Act out the story with toys.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-create-a-story-with-a-familiar-lesson-learnt-65k38c

Sequence pictures of the story.

Sequencing The Three Little Pigs Game | Game | Education.com

Concept of the week:  Numbers within 10

Numbers within 10 - Oak National Academy (thenational.academy)

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/recognising-and-counting-numbers-within-7-6hh38c

Collect groups of objects i.e 1 pebble, 2 pegs, 3 dolls all the way to ten.  Make numeral cards to 10 on slips of paper.  Count the objects and match the numeral to it.

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/recognising-and-counting-numbers-within-8-61hp8t

Draw a ten frame (two rows of 5 squares).  Turn over a numeral card and race to put that number of counters (could be cereal, smarties, pebbles) onto the ten frame, one item in each square.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-the-conservation-of-number-within-8-chgp8t

The Gingerbread Man Game - Counting, Matching and Ordering game (topmarks.co.uk)

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/counting-up-to-9-objects-reliably-74v38d

Practice writing numerals with a stick in a baking tray of sand, flour or salt.  Give numeral cards to support.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/counting-up-to-10-objects-reliably-ccw32e

Make numberblocks stick puppets.  See attached PDF.

Story of the week – The three little pigs

The Three Little Pigs - Oak National Academy (thenational.academy)

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-to-and-join-in-with-a-story-cmw3gt

Draw a scene from the three pigs story and write a caption explaining what is happening.  Use an alphabet mat to help you.

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-map-and-speak-the-story-6mw32c

Ask a family member to pretend to be one of the characters and think of questions for them to answer, then swap and you pretend to be the character.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-step-and-speak-the-story-6mvkat

Make a wanted poster for the wolf.  Try to think of as many adjectives to describe him as you can.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-mime-the-moods-in-the-story-c5jpar

Use a show box to make a three pigs puppet theatre. Easy craft: How to make a cereal box puppet theatre - YouTube

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-dance-the-moods-in-the-story-69jp8c

Listen to 3 different pieces of music and dance along.  How did they make you feel?

Concept of the week:  Calendar and time

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/calendar-and-time-3ff3

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-and-discussing-time-and-the-seasons-6mwp8c

Download worksheet

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-and-discussing-time-and-the-seasons-6mwp8c?step=2&activity=worksheet

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-and-discussing-the-days-of-the-week-and-daily-events-6ngkgc

Split a page into 7 sections.  In each section draw something that you normally do on that day.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/using-everyday-language-to-talk-about-and-sequence-daily-events-60tkad

Talk about what you do from when you get up to when you go to bed.  Act out the day with dolls, toys or figures.  Encourage them to use words like first, next, then etc.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/using-ordinal-language-when-sequencing-events-and-measure-short-periods-of-time-6nh6at

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/using-ordinal-language-when-sequencing-events-and-measure-short-periods-of-time-6nh6at?step=2&activity=worksheet

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/consolidating-learning-64rpct

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/consolidating-learning-64rpct?step=2&activity=worksheet

Story of the week – The little mouse deer https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/mouse-deer-and-tiger-c931

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-recycle-the-story-of-mouse-deer-6crp4c

Draw a story map to help you tell your recycled story.

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-join-in-with-the-telling-of-a-recycled-story-68tkje

Draw a picture to represent your recycled story.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-step-a-recycled-story-and-elevate-the-language-6dgk4e

Draw each of your characters, think of 5 words to describe each of the characters from your recycled story and ask an adult to write them around the picture.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-the-story-chorally-and-independently-6rr68r

Make puppets of the characters and think about what they might say to each other.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-create-a-new-story-75k6cr

Make a tiger mask using a paper plate.

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/tiger-mask

Concept of the week:  Shape and sorting https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/shape-and-sorting-3d3d

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/describing-and-sorting-3d-shapes-6mtk2r

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/sorting_3d_shapes/eng/Introduction/SortShapesPop.htm

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-the-characteristics-of-3d-shapes-cmtp4e

Hunt for different 3d shapes around the house.  What can you say about the shapes?  How could you describe them?  What shapes faces do they have? How many corners/edges?

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/using-mathematical-language-to-describe-position-65jk6d

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/location/eng/Introduction/StarterActivity.htm

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/using-mathematical-language-to-describe-position-accurately-cth30c

Hide a toy around for your child to find.  Ask them to describe where they found it using positional words.

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/consolidating-learning-on-shape-and-sorting-ctj66t

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/consolidating-learning-on-shape-and-sorting-ctj66t?step=2&activity=worksheet

Story of the week – The little mouse deer https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/mouse-deer-and-tiger-c931

Day of the week

Topic

Activity

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-and-join-in-with-the-story-of-mouse-deer-6gvpad

Make a spiral snake like the snake in the story.  https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/visual-motor-skills-cutting-scissors/

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-map-the-story-of-mouse-deer-and-explore-the-setting-6gu6ar

Draw a story map of the story.  Use small pictures to represent each event joined by arrows.

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-step-out-the-story-of-mouse-deer-and-explore-the-setting-6dhp2c

Use the internet or books to find out about jungles and make a poster showing what you found out.

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-join-in-with-a-choral-telling-of-mouse-deer-74vket

Use natural or art materials to make a jungle picture. 

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-the-story-of-mouse-deer-independently-6wt64t

Make a mask for one of the characters and try to tell the story to a family member.

Plan for week 8.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  We have now been through all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds.  In the last week of term 5 you should have checked to see which sounds your child was unsure of using the flashcards.  The sounds that your child was not secure with should be the sounds that you now concentrate on in term 6.  Use the same resources, techniques and games that you used before to go over these sounds again.

15 MINS

Share story: Aesop’s Fables

Monday: Read the first of Aesop’s fables.  Who was in the story?  Where was it set?  What was the lesson that the story was try to teach?  Draw two pictures of the dog one with the bone and one after he has lost it.  Draw and write a thought bubble for each.  What was the dog thinking?

Tuesday:  Read the next story ‘The lion and the mouse.’  What favour did the lion do for the mouse and how did the mouse repay him?  Can you think of other stories where the smallest character has helped or saved the day? Or Read the next story ‘The wind and the sun.’  Draw a sequence of 3 or more pictures to retell the story.

Wednesday: Read the next story ‘The cockerel and the fox.’  Play a game of truth and lies.  Think of 3 things to tell someone else, 2 things must be true and 1 one thing must be a lie.  Can they guess which one was the lie? Or Read the final story of ‘The miller, his son and the donkey.’  Use toys to act out the story.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Make an origami dog puppet

https://youtu.be/Wbvs0WTHxkM

Choice 2

Print out and order the story sequence pictures.  You could write the story under each picture.

If you do not have a printer click on the link in the powerpoint and order the story there.

Choice 3

 Make a fox or a cockerel mask.

https://ourpotluckfamily.com/kids-craft-paper-fox-mask/

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/rooster-mask-craft

Choice 4

Dress up in clothes for different weathers and have you family guess what weather you have dressed for

Or

http://d3tt741pwxqwm0.cloudfront.net/KET/evlearnket/Dress-For-The-Season/index.html

Choice 5

Using a broom as a pretend donkey act out the story with your family.

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: Telling the time

Monday: Work through the PowerPoint slides about telling o’clock times.

Tuesday:   Work through the PowerPoint slides about half past or https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock challenge your child to make o’clock and half past times using the online clock.

Wednesday:  watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0clHCBvjsNc Ask your child questions about the times that Mr Wolf did things or Make a mini book of your day, showing the times that you do things.  You could either draw clocks or write the time.

 (After practicing the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Sing and dance along

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-telling-the-time/zk4t8xs

Choice 2

Play what’s the time Mr wolf in the garden with your family.

Choice 3

Make a paper plate clock and use it to make times.

Choice 4

Throughout the day challenge your child to tell the time.

Choice 5

https://www.education.com/game/what-time-game/

10 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

10. MINS

R.E – Remind the children of the creation story from a few weeks ago.  Explain that God made the Earth for us and we are the stewards of the Earth.  It is our job to care for it.  Use collage materials to make a picture of the world.  Sing He’s go the whole world in his hands song.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 7.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  We have now been through all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds.  In the last week of term 5 you should have checked to see which sounds your child was unsure of using the flashcards.  The sounds that your child was not secure with should be the sounds that you now concentrate on in term 6.  Use the same resources, techniques and games that you used before to go over these sounds again.

15 MINS

Share story: Handa’s Surprise http://youtu.be/3GDCdfOk3jk

Monday: Watch the youtube story ‘Handa’s Surprise’ (stop at the end of the story, before the fruit activity).  Talk about ‘surprises’ with your child.  When have you had a nice surprise?  How did the surprise make you feel?  Why was Akeyo surprised? Why was Handa surprised?

Tuesday:  Talk about the different animals in the story. Which ones are your favourites? Encourage them to talk about their favourite animals and why they like them?  Draw, paint or make a model of your favourite animal and make a label for it explaining what it is.

Wednesday: Talk about the different fruit that your child likes to eat.  Watch the story again, pause and guess the fruits. Can you guess the fruit by looking at the plant it grows on?

Thursday:  Cut open some different fruits and explore the inside (taste it, smell it, feel it, look at it).  Talk about what you have found out using your senses.

Friday: Use toys to act out the story.  Encourage your child to tell the story using language from the story, for example; soft yellow banana.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Make a ‘surprise’ for a family member or friend.  It could be a card, picture, gift anything that will surprise them!

Choice 2

Can you move like the animals?  Research how the animals from the story move and then try to copy them.  Can your family guess which animal you are being?

Choice 3

 Use playdough or modelling clay to make the different fruits in Handa’s basket.

Choice 4

Use different fruits with paint to make prints.  What patterns can you see in the fruit.

Choice 5

Draw a picture of Handa and Akeyo.  Draw speech bubbles, what are they saying to each other?

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: Positional language

Monday:  Look at the Handa’s surprise story again.  Make a list of words together to describe the position of animals and fruit in the story.  For example: the monkey is in the tree, the giraffe’s head is above Handa, the basket is on Handa’s head.

Tuesday:   Play the 3 second game.  The child has to the count of three to follow your instruction i.e get under the table 1, 2, 3!  Stand on the beanbag 1, 2 ,3! Jump in the paddling pool 1, 2, 3!

Wednesday:  Ask your child to build a simple model or draw a simple picture.  They have to use positional language to describe it to you so you can replicate it.

Thursday:  Play a twist on the game ‘I Spy’ but instead of guessing the word beginning with a certain letter, give clues as to the object’s position, e.g. “I spy with my little eye, something behind the …” or “next to the …”.

Friday:  https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/english/positional-words.html

 (After practising the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Draw and cut out one of the animals from the story.  Hide it around the house and encourage your child to use positional language to explain where it was.

Choice 2

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/location/eng/Introduction/default.htm

Choice 3

Make a treasure map with lots of landmarks on it.  Mark the spot where the treasure is buried and describe the treasure’s position  to someone.

Choice 4

Use toy animals and blocks to set up a scene and encourage your child to talk about where they are.

Choice 5

Go on a walk and play a positions game with a friend or grown-up. Ask them to spot an object and you have to guess what it is. Ask them to give you clues to identify the object, e.g. “It is behind the fence.” or “It is in front of the café.”

10 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

10. MINS

R.E – Take a walk and take photos of God’s wonderful world.  Look at the photo’s together and talk about all of the things we have to be thankful for in the world.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 6.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  We have now been through all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds.  In the last week of term 5 you should have checked to see which sounds your child was unsure of using the flashcards.  The sounds that your child was not secure with should be the sounds that you now concentrate on in term 6.  Use the same resources, techniques and games that you used before to go over these sounds again.

15 MINS

Share story: The legend of Finn McCool

Monday: Read the PowerPoint story together.  Look at a map or Atlas to find Ireland and Scotland and talk about how far away they are from each other.  How long do you think the cause way would have to be?  

Tuesday:  Re-read the story again.  Choose to be one of the characters and have someone ask you questions.  Answer as if you are the character.  For example, pretend to be Benandonner.  “How did you feel when you saw, what you thought was Finn McCool’s baby?”  “I felt worried and afraid that Finn McCool would be too big for me to beat.”

Wednesday: Make puppets to tell the story and have a puppet show for your family.

Thursday:  Use the slides after the Finn McCool story to find out about Ireland’s celebrations, landmarks and traditions.

Friday: Use the PowerPoint, internet or books to find about Ireland.  Make a poster with at least 3 facts about Ireland.  You could use drawings or photos as well as writing.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Use construction toys, blocks, straws of junk to build a bridge between two points.  Test how strong it is.

Choice 2

Make a giant’s mask and stomp around pretending to be a giant.

Choice 3

 Listen to some Irish music and have a go at some Irish dancing.

Choice 4

Make a leprechaun hat.

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Leprechaun-Hat 

Choice 5

Make a mini book of the Finn McCool story.  Try to write a sentence per page to tell the story.

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught-counting in10’s.

Monday:  Sing and dance along to the count by 10’s song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYRTtwZGwj8   

Tuesday:  Show your child a pile of ten 10ps.  How many 10ps are there?  Now swap one 10p coin for ten 1ps.  Explain that they are worth the same.  Imagine that hiding inside each 10p there are ten 1ps.  Now count the 10ps again but in 10s.  What is the pile worth?  Is that different to how many coins there are? 

Wednesday:  Go to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares Paint all of the squares that are in the 10 times table.  What do you notice about the pattern?  What do you notice about the numbers and what changes and what stays the same?

Thursday:  https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/duckShoot/index.html

Friday:  Work through the ‘Counting in tens’ PowerPoint.

 (After practising the number concepts choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Make towers of 10 Lego bricks and use them to help you count in 10’s.

Choice 2

Use chalk to make a number track and write numbers in 10s along it.  Jump along it counting in 10s.

Choice 3

Throw balls or bean bags into a bucket.  Every time you get one in, you get 10 points.  How many points can you get?

Choice 4

Have tubs labelled with 10s numbers i.e. 20, 50, 70.  Use 10ps to put the correct number of 10ps to make the amount in the tubs.

Choice 5

Write 10s numbers on post it notes.  Hide them around the house or garden.  As the child to collect them and order them in a tens number line.

10 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

10. MINS

R.E – Look at the CAFOD Global A-Z slideshow, showing the whole alphabet ask the child to click on a letter.  Ask the following questions: Tell me about this picture?  What do you love about our world?  Tell me what you think is wonderful about our world? Draw something wonderful about our world in a heart shape and thank God for it.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs, I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally, I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 5.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  We have now been through all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds.  In the last week of term 5 you should have checked to see which sounds your child was unsure of using the flashcards.  The sounds that your child was not secure with should be the sounds that you now concentrate on in term 6.  Use the same resources, techniques and games that you used before to go over these sounds again.

15 MINS

Share story: The story of Heidi

Monday:  Read the first 2 slides.  How do you think Heidi felt going up the mountain to meet her Grandfather?  What do you think Heidi could see from the top of the mountain?

Tuesday:  Read the next 2 slides.  What do you think it would be like sleeping in the hay loft? 

Wednesday: Read the next 2 slides.  What are you favourite stories?  Make a top 5 list of your favourite books. 

Thursday:  Read the next 2 slides.  What are the differences between living on the mountain to living in the town? Do you think Heidi liked it?

Friday: Read the final part of the story.  What do you think made Clara well again? 

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Draw or paint a picture of what you think Heidi could see from the top of the mountains.

Choice 2

Make a bed for Heidi.  You could use construction toys or junk.  How would you make her bed soft and comfortable?

Choice 3

Make a goat puppet.  See if you can make one with moveable limbs.

Choice 4

Use construction to make a town or a mountain.

Choice 5

Go for a walk and enjoy the fresh air.  Why not have a go at climbing the biggest hill you can find.  What can you see from the top?

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: 2D and 3D shape properties.

Monday:  Collect as many different shapes, both 2D and 3D as possible.  Look at them together and try to name them.  Ask the child to describe one of the shapes.  What could you say about it?  Are there any mathematical words you could use?  Explain that 2D shapes have 2 special words to remember (these are angle and side) and 3D shapes have 3 special words to remember corners, edges (vertices) and faces.  As you explain use the shapes to demonstrate the areas you are talking about.  Could you describe the shapes now using some of the mathematical words?

Tuesday:  Work through the 2D and 3D shape PowerPoint.

Wednesday:  Play a game of I spy the shape, by describing it using mathematical words.  For example; I spy with my little eye a shape with 5 corners and 5 faces, one square face and 4 triangle faces. 

Thursday:  https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/shiftingShapes/index.html play the shifting shapes game, encourage the child to say what they can see using the mathematical language.  i.e. I can see 3 sides and 3 angles it must be a triangle.

Friday: Push different building blocks into playdough and explore the ‘footprint’ that it leaves.  What do you notice?

 (After practicing the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Use cut out paper shapes to make a shape picture and label the shapes used.

Choice 2

 Print out (see download link) or make your own colour by shapes picture.

Choice 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A

Sing along!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRuLS-Vnjs

Choice 4

Use building blocks to make structures and encourage your child to explain what shapes they used and why.  i.e I used a cube because it has flat faces.

Choice 5

On a walk or around the house spot and make a list of all the 2D and 3D shapes that you’ve seen.  Encourage the child to justify how they know what shape it is.  i.e. it has 2 triangle faces and 3 rectangle faces, it’s a triangular prism.

10 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

Feel free to choose from the YouTube selection as well.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7MH5xEKBGf4vrpJTZR5yMQ

20. MINS

R.E – Share the PowerPoint called ‘Jesus’ rule.’  What is Jesus’ rule?  What will happen when you are happy together?  Why do you like your friends?  What makes a good friend?  Is there anything which might break the friendship circle?  Talk about the things that can make you and others unhappy.   Introduce saying sorry and what it means to forgive each other so we can mend broken friendships. What will help to mend the circle?  Use toys/dolls/cuddly toys to act out saying sorry to others.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 4.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  We have now been through all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds.  In the last week of term 5 you should have checked to see which sounds your child was unsure of using the flashcards.  The sounds that your child was not secure with should be the sounds that you now concentrate on in term 6.  Use the same resources, techniques and games that you used before to go over these sounds again.

15 MINS

Share story: How the world began (a story from Samoa)

Monday:  Read the story ‘How the word began’ on the powerpoint.  How is it similar/different to the Christian creation story (look at the last slide on the powerpoint for this story).

Tuesday:  Click on the link in the last page of the story to take you to pictures of Polynesian islands.  Ask your child to imagine what it might be like to go there.  Use the internet to find out 3 facts about one of the islands. 

Wednesday: Click on the link on the page where Tagaloa makes people.  Look at the pictures of Polynesian people in traditional dress.  Design a head dress for a Polynesian lady.

Thursday: Re-read the story and draw a story map of how Tagaloa made the islands.  Write labels to help tell the story.

Friday: Have a go at retelling the story and recording it with pictures and short sentences.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Make up your own creation story and draw a comic strip to show your ideas.

Choice 2

Write a postcard describing your home to someone that lives on a Polynesian island.

Choice 3

Make a paper flower lei.

https://www.firstpalette.com/craft/flower-lei.html

Choice 4

If you have the movie Moana watch it and talk about how it links to the ‘How the world began’ story.

Choice 5

Make puppets or models to help you retell the story.  You could use playdough, junk, craft materials or construction toys.

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/excersice

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: standard measurements

Monday:  Read the measuring in cm’s slides on the powerpoint.    

Tuesday:  Recap the measuring in cm’s slides.  Have a competition to see who can make a playdough worm that is closes to a given length i.e make a worm that is 5cm’s long, make the worms by estimating the length and then use a ruler to see who was closest.

Wednesday:  Read the measuring in grams slides on the powerpoint. 

Thursday:  Recap measuring in grams sides.  Have a competition to fill a sandwich bag with sand or soil to a given weight i.e make a bag that weighs 300g, fill the bag by estimating it’s weight, then weigh it on kitchen scales.

Friday:  have fun with a tape measure or kitchen scale, exploring length and weight.

 (After practicing the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Collect a range of small items and use the ruler to measure them in cm’s.

Choice 2

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/measuring-in-cm

Choice 3

Collect a range of small items to weigh on kitchen scales.

Choice 4

Play www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html

Choice 5

Make a poster explaining how to weigh and measure things.

10 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

10. MINS

R.E – Remind the children of the stories and discussions about friends.  Work together to create a prayer thanking God for our friends and explaining how they will be a good friend.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 3.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  We have now been through all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds.  In the last week of term 5 you should have checked to see which sounds your child was unsure of using the flashcards.  The sounds that your child was not secure with should be the sounds that you now concentrate on in term 6.  Use the same resources, techniques and games that you used before to go over these sounds again.

15 MINS

Share story: Tiddalick the toad

Monday:  Watch and listen to the Tiddalick story ( www.youtu.be/feXbXXcu5MU )  Discuss what happened in the story and the way Tiddalick behaved.  Talk about the animals in the story and how they only live in Australia.

Tuesday: Look at the slides after the story about Aboriginal people and art.  Talk about other cultures or places that pictures might be used to tell stories or give instructions. 

Wednesday:  Choose your favourite animal from the story and find out about it using books or the internet.  Make a pamphlet or poster about your chosen animal.

Thursday: Listen to the story again and draw pictures to help you remember each part of the story.

Friday: What would you have done to make Tiddalick laugh?  Make up a song, dance or joke that would make people laugh.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Make stick puppets or masks of the animals in the story and use them to act the story out.  

Choice 2

Draw the outline of an Australian animal or print out the templates on the PowerPoint and use a cotton bud dipped in paint to make a dot painting of the animal.  Alternatively you could make your own paints from soil and plants.

Choice 3

Use modelling clay or play dough and natural objects to make an animal from the story.

Choice 4

Use the pictures that you drew to tell someone the story of Tiddalick.

Choice 5

Perform your song, dance or joke and if possible video it and send it to inbox@2buildaprofile.com

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: counting in fives.

Monday:  Practice counting in 5’s to 50 using different movements i.e jump and count, clap and count, nod and count etc.

Tuesday:  watch and join in with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EemjeA2Djjw

Wednesday: make Lego or brick towers of 5 and together count them in fives.

Thursday:  Put up labels or post its with numbers to 50 written in 5’s around the house and challenge child to find each number, bring it back and put them in order.

Friday: give your child post it notes with the numbers up to 50.  Ask them to order them and then take out all the ones that can’t be counted to in fives to make a 5’s number line.

 (After practicing the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Count in 5’s to 50 in silly voices.

Choice 2

Collect as many pairs of gloves as you can and use counting in five to work out the total number of fingers if you don’t have gloves draw around hand prints.

Choice 3

Make a board game that has squares numbered in 5’s.

Choice 4

www.topmarks.co.uk

100 square paint.  Paint all the numbers in 5’s on the grid.

Choice 5

 Collect a purse or pot of 5p coins.  Use counting in fives to work out how much money there is.  Repeat with different amounts of 5ps.

10 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

www.youtube.com/channel/UC7MH5xEKBGf4vrpJTZR5yMQ

10. INS

RE – Remind your child that you had read a story and talked about friendship.  Read the story ‘Good news, according to Mark’.  How do we know they are friends?  What does the picture tell us about friends?  What did Jesus and his friends do? (They worked, told people the Good News of God’s love for everyone, answered questions.)  Where did they go when they were tired?  What did they do together? (eat, shared experiences, rested)  Where do you go when you are tired?  Who do you talk to about your experiences of the day?  e.g. what has gone well/what has not.  Where do you go to be quiet and still?  Draw a picture of your friends.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 2

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  We have now been through all the phase 2 and 3 sounds.  In the last week of term 5 you should have checked to see which sounds your child was unsure of using the flashcards.  The sounds that your child was not secure with should be the sounds that you now concentrate on in term 6.  Use the same resources, techniques and games that you used before to go over these sounds again.

15 MINS

Share story: The wishing tree.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBZFjYOdnlA

Monday:  Listen to the story on the PowerPoint (click on the speak symbol to hear it).  Talk about the characters in the story and the main events.  Did it remind them of any other stories that they know? 

Tuesday:  Listen to the story again and draw your own story map to go with it.  Use the story map to tell the story to someone else.

Wednesday:  Talk about the animals in the story and the setting.  Could this story have happened somewhere else, with different animals?  Together draw a picture showing your ideas.

Thursday: Use your ideas from yesterday to make up your own version of the story.  Practice verbal story telling first.

Friday: Now you have your own version of the story have a go at writing it.  This could be as a comic strip with speech bubbles or as a mini book.  Encourage independent writing with this, no copying!  Praise all efforts to sound out and write the correct letters.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

 Make puppets and use them to tell the story as a puppet show.

Choice 2

Choose your favourite animal and make a poster about it.

Choice 3

Use a shoe box to make a scene from the story with paper/card cut outs or modelling clay.

Choice 4

Go to https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Kidz-Zone

and find out about Cafod’s work in Africa.

Choice 5

Use a branch or stick and push it into a bucket of sand or earth.  Cut out leaf shapes and have each member of the family write a wish for the future on it and hang it from the tree.

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: number bonds to 10.

Monday:  Explain to your child that there are pairs of numbers that fit together to make 10 and that knowing these pairs can help us with all sorts of harder maths as we get older.  Work through the number bonds to 10 PowerPoint.

Tuesday:  Together make a pair of hands by drawing around you child’s hands on card and cutting them out.  Make a crease at the bottom of each finger so that the finger can be flat or folded into the palm.  Together count the 10 fingers.  Put 1 finger on 1 hand down.  How many are up?  How many are down?  Altogether there are …?  Explain that the fingers are showing the pairs of numbers that make 10.  i.e. 9 up, 1 down is 9 + 1 = 10.  Repeat this with all the combinations. 

Wednesday:  using the hands made yesterday, have a competition to see how quickly they can find all the combinations and write them down.

Thursday:  On individual pieces of paper write down numbers 0 to 10 twice, so that you have two sets of numbers.  Ask your child to try and pair up the numbers to make 10.

Friday:  play http://www.ictgames.com/saveTheWhale/index.html

(After practicing the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Make towers of ten lego/duplo bricks and break them in different ways to show 2 different towers that still total 10 when together.

Choice 2

Make a number bond bingo game.  On paper draw a grid of 6 squares and ask your child to write a number up to 10 in each square.  An adult calls out a number to 10 if the child has a number that corresponds to make 10, they cross it out.

Choice 3

Make some skittles using bottles.  Half fill 10 bottles with water, set them up like bowling pins and roll a ball at them.  Look at the number bonds you create as you knock down the pins.

Choice 4

Watch https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08phr1g/numberblocks-series-2-ten

Choice 5

Number bonds to 10 worksheet.

10 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

Storytime video links -  Something else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEWDsOql14I

Oi cat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF-EX7uo99Y&t=11s

10. MINS

RE – Read the story ‘By the Stream’ on the Oxford Owls website.  Ask the child the following questions:  How do we make friends?  Why is it important to have a friend?  What do friends do together?  How did the friends help each other?

Have a quiet moment together to reflect on and appreciate how we all have friends and are a friend to others.  Think about our friends.  Appreciate what makes a good friend.  Consider how friendship can be spoilt and how we can make up.  Celebrate friendship.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs, I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally, I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 1.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  We have now been through all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds.  In the last week of term 5 you should have checked to see which sounds your child was unsure of using the flashcards.  The sounds that your child was not secure with should be the sounds that you now concentrate on in term 6.  Use the same resources, techniques and games that you used before to go over these sounds again.

15 MINS

Share story: My Granny went to market.

Monday:  Read the first 2 pages of the PowerPoint story My Granny went to market.  Where did Granny visit?  Click on the star and look at the next slide and compare the two pictures of Turkey and Thailand.  What is different?  What is the same?

Tuesday:  Read the next 2 pages of the PowerPoint story.  Where did Granny visit next?  What did she buy in the different places?  Click on the star and ask the children if they remember learning about the two celebrations shown. How do people celebrate Chinese new year and the day of the dead in Mexico? 

Wednesday:  Read the next two pages.  Where has Granny flown to now?  Click on the star and compare the two drawings.  What is similar/different about these two pictures?  What do you think the two places are like and why do you think that?  What clues are there?

Thursday: Read the next 4 pages.  Where has Granny flown to now?  Use an atlas or globe to find the countries.  How far away are they from each other?  How long do you think it took to get there from where she was before?

Friday: Look at the final page.  Can you guess the final country?  It’s India.  (If we were in school we would be looking at Sikhism so please watch the following clips on CBeebies https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-celebrate-vaisakhi )

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

 Make a poster about a place that you have been on holiday to or would like to go to.  You can draw or make stick pictures of it. Try to include 3 interesting facts about the place.

Choice 2

Find out more about the Mexican festival, the day of the dead using the internet.  You could make colourful masks or a flower garland.  If you have time watch the movie

‘The book of life.’ Or ‘Coco’

Choice 3

Make a magic carpet by weaving strips of paper or wool through a frame.

Google simple weaving and watch you tube video by Michael Wedge

Choice 4

Make or fly a kite (weather permitting) see if you can design one of the Japanese kites.

Choice 5

Listen to some Indian music and have a dance along.  Find some pots and pans to bang for drums.

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: Money

Monday:  Show your child one of each coin and work together to name them and identify their value.  For example a 5p is the same as 5 1ps.  Explore their colour, shape, patterns and size.  Lay them under paper and use a crayon to make a rubbing of each coin. 

Tuesday:  Draw a large picture of each coin (or print them on twinkl) and dot them around the house or garden.  Challenge your child to run to the coin that you call out.  For example; run to the 2p coin.

Wednesday: Label some toys with simple prices (stick to under 10p at first) give your child 1p coins to pay for items in the shop.  If they are confident up the labels to 20p and add in 2p coins as well.

Thursday: Demonstrate how to use 10p coins and 1p and 2p coin to make teen number amounts.  Remind your child that the 10p is just the same as a 10 numicon and the 1 and 2p coins are also like the numicon pieces.

Friday:  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money choose the game that best fits how well your child has understood the concept in the week.

(After practicing the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Complete the coin detective sheet.

Choice 2

If possible, sort coins into different containers, money boxes or purses.  (if you do not have enough coins you could print the sheet provided and cut them out)

Choice 3

Give your child a list of simple jobs with prices (use pence only)

How much money can they earn in a week or day doing the list of jobs.

Choice 4

Draw purses and place coins on each purse, challenge your child to use their counting skills to work out how much is in purse.

Choice 5

 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

At least

20 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

This week we would also have heard the story of Pentecost.   Please share the Pentecost PowerPoint with your child and talk about how we could spread the word of God’s love to other people.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 5.          Monday18th May-Friday 22^nd May

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  Sound to be taught this week ear (as in beard) air (as in chair) ure (as in pure), er (as in hammer).  Children who were learning phase 3 sounds should also go over these to ensure consolidation.  On Friday go through all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds using flashcards.  Put to one side any that your child is unsure of.  These will be the sounds to work on in term 6.

15 MINS

Share story (see PowerPoint).

Here is the seed.

Monday:  Read the poem on the PowerPoint and click the link to play the game.

Tuesday:  Watch the bean growing video on the next slide.  What is happening to the seed on each day?  How is it changing? 

Wednesday:  Look at the how to make a flower instructions.  Explain how instructions need to be step by step and very clear for the person following them.  Together follow the instructions to make a paper flower (you may have to zoom in to read the written instructions).

Thursday: Read the book plants for dinner together.  Encourage your child to sound out and blend some of the simple words.

Friday: Re-read the book together and challenge your child to answer the questions on the final page.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Act out or dance the poem doing different movements for each line.

Choice 2

Make a cress head using an eggshell. 

http://www.planet-science.com/categories/under-11s/our-world/2011/07/grow-a-cress-head!.aspx

Choice 3

Cut open different fruits and vegetables, what do they look like inside.  Use some of them to make prints with paint or use the seeds to grow seedlings.  

Choice 4

Hunt around the garden or on a walk for as many different types of leaves as you can.  Collect a sample of each different leaf and compare them to each other.

Choice 5

Draw a picture of a garden and label all the things that plants need to grow.

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/excersice

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught halving

Monday:  Work through the halving PowerPoint together.

Tuesday: Recap what half means.  Give your child beads, small toys, sweets or cereal and ask them to share them between two toys.  Repeat the game with different amounts and make sure that your child can say ….is half of ….

Wednesday:  Work through the ‘what is half?’ PowerPoint

Thursday: Make different size balls of playdough and challenge your child to cut the balls in half. 

Friday: Work together to play http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/interactive/halfornotimm/halfornotimm.htm

(After practicing the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Maths consolidation activities

Choice 1

Practice sharing amounts between 2 toys.

Choice 2

Stick up on a wall numbers to 10.  Challenge them to shoot the number that is half of… with a water pistol, squeezy bottle or nerf gun.

Choice 3

Help to make a sandwich. Can you cut it in half?

Choice 4

Draw shapes on paper for your child, challenge them to cut the shapes in half.

Choice 5

Use playdough cutters to make shapes and then cut them in half.

At least

20 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs, I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 4.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  Sounds to be taught this week ar (as in star) or (fort) ur (as in surf) ow (as in cow) and oi (as in boil).  Children who were learning phase 3 sounds should also go over these to ensure consolidation.

15 MINS

Share story (see PowerPoint).

Frog life cycle poster.

Tuesday:  Look at the poster together (see PowerPoint) and click.  Read the first piece of information about frog spawn.  How does it sound different from other eggs?  If you have slime, tapioca, water beads or bubble wrap you could make your own pretend frog spawn.

Wednesday: Look at the poster again and click for the second bit of information about how tadpoles breathe.  Draw a picture of a tadpole and work together to label it.

Thursday: Look at the poster again and click for the third piece of information about why tadpoles grow legs.  Research on the internet how many different species of frog there are.  Choose your favourite and draw a picture of it.

Friday: Look at the poster and read the final piece of information about why frogs are noisy.  Research the sounds frogs make and have a go at making them yourself.

.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Make a mask and make a frog obstacle course to hop round in the garden.

Choice 2

Use a cardboard box to make a pond scene.

Choice 3

Play either

http://mrcrammond.com/games/science/froglifecycle.swf

or

http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/temp-images/scorm/elsci12/na/en/0-328-63602-9/A22953/swf/actart_casc_frog.swf

Choice 4

Watch the time lapse video on the final slide.  Talk about what you can see happening and encourage comments and questions.  Use playdough to make each of the frog’s life cycle stages.

Choice 5

 Make up a lifecycle dance and get your family to guess what each move represents.

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: sharing

Tuesday:  Ask your child what they know about sharing.  Together make a mind map of all your child’s ideas.  Explain that sharing isn’t just about being kind to others, it is also about sharing amounts fairly, dividing them up.

Wednesday: Explain that the table needs to be laid for lunch/dinner and that each person needs 1 knife, 1 fork, 1 spoon, a cup and a plate.  How many of each thing will we need for the family to have dinner?  Have a go at laying the table for real.  

Thursday:  Show your child a jug of water and a range of smaller containers/bowls/bottles of the same size.  What could we do to share the water in the jug between the containers?  How would we make it fair?

Friday:  Roll out a long sausage of playdough and demonstrate cutting it into even portions for some toys.  Draw your child’s attention to the size of each piece and making them equal.

(After practicing the number concept choose one of the following activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Maths consolidation activities

Choice 1

Give your child 3 pots and some sweets, cereal or small toys to share between the pots (make sure the total is divisible by 3).  Ask how many is in each pot and change the total each time.

Choice 2

Set up a tea party for your toys.  How many plates/cups/cakes etc will you need?

Choice 3

Water play with different jugs and containers.  You could add food colouring to the water to make it easier to see.  Practice sharing the water from a larger container into several smaller ones.

Choice 4

Practice cutting up playdough snakes into equal pieces.

Choice 5

Play

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/dogs/

At least

20 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs, I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally, I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 3.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  Sound to be taught this week ai (as in rain), ee (as in see), igh (as in light), oa (as in boat), oo (as in boot).  Children who were learning phase 3 sounds should also go over these to ensure consolidation.

15 MINS

Share story (see PowerPoint).

The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Monday:  Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar story on the PowerPoint.  Talk about what he ate on the different days and encourage your child to recall the story as independently as possible.

Tuesday:  Read the story again and discuss what happened to the caterpillar.  How did he change? 

Wednesday: Draw pictures of the caterpillar at different stages and demonstrate/support your child to write labels for the pictures i.e. little egg, small caterpillar, fat caterpillar, cocoon and butterfly.  Use the alphabet mats to support the writing (see how to support writing sheet)

Thursday: Read the story again and encourage your child to act out each part of the story (you could make a mask to aid this or have plastic/real food as props).

Friday: Together make a story map of the events in the story (see word document attached with example story map on it)

After talking about the book choose one of the following activities:

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

Make a hungry caterpillar puppet.

(try googling for ideas)

Choice 2

Use the internet to find out about the life cycle of a caterpillar.

Choice 3

Make a mini non-fiction book about caterpillars/butterflies.

Choice 4

Go on a bug hunt around the garden/woods and record what you see or find.

Choice 5

 Make butterfly paintings with paint and folded paper

Or

Make a leaf caterpillar. Put a small ball of clay or playdough on to the end of a stick or toothpick for a head.  Collect green leaves and tear them into pieces. Thread them onto the stick to make the caterpillar’s body.

(Take care with sharp ends!)

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: Doubling

Monday:  Go through the doubling PowerPoint with your child.  Talk through each slide and what the machine is doing.

Tuesday:  Set up a mirror on a table or on the floor and a pot of small toys, bricks or beads.  Roll a dice and place that number of items in front of the mirror.  Ask the child to count how many there are and then ask them to look into the mirror and count again.  What has happened to the amount?  If they are unsure explain that it has doubled.  Experiment with different amounts.

Wednesday: Watch the numberblocks episode ‘Double trouble’ on you tubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bot83VxMLqM Use Lego or blocks to make doubles towers.  Make two towers of the same amount and then put them together.

Thursday:  Make a grid with doubles answers on it e.g. 2, 4, 6 etc and play a game of doubles bingo.  Ask questions like…. Have you got double 1?  Have you got double 2? 

Friday:  Outside stick up paper targets with 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20 on them.  Give your child a water gun or squeezy bottle of water.  Call out a double for them to shoot at i.e. Squirt double 3. 

(After practising the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Maths consolidation activities

Choice 1

http://www.maths-games.org/ladybird-doubles.html

Choice 2

Make your own doubles dominoes by giving your child rectangles of paper.  Use a cotton bud to put dots on one side and then fold in half to print the same amount on the other.

Choice 3

Play double down game with 2 dice.  Set a 5-minute timer.  Take turns to roll 2 dice and every time you roll double numbers you get that number of points (use cereal, smarties, or any other small items as counters).  Winner is the person with the most points when the timer goes off.  If you use food as a counter, winner gets to eat the points!

Choice 4

Hide doubles facts and their corresponding number sentences around the house or garden and challenge your child to match them up again.

Choice 5

Print out doubles colouring sheet or draw your own for your child to colour.

At least

20 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs, I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally, I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

Plan for week 2.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from KS1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  Sound to be taught this week qu (as in quick), ch (as in chip), sh (as in shell), th (as in think) and ng (as in bang).  Children who were learning phase 3 sounds should also go over these to ensure consolidation.

15 MINS

Share story (see PowerPoint).

   Spring poem

Monday:  Take a walk around the garden or out in the neighbourhood.  Spot as many signs of spring as you can.  Use all your senses.  What can you see?  What can you hear?  What can you smell?  What can you feel?  Collect some items or take pictures.

Tuesday:  Read the first slide of the spring poem.  Did you see any of these things while you were out?  Together, write an ‘I can see’ verse based on what you saw.  Scribe most of the words for your child but encourage them to take over and use their phonic knowledge to write some of the words independently (see ‘how to support writing’ for tips).

Wednesday: Read the next slide and repeat Tuesdays session for ‘I can hear.’

Thursday: Read next slide and repeat for ‘I can smell.’

Friday: Read final slide and repeat for ‘I can feel.’ Together decorate your completed poem with spring pictures.

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

 Flower or plant painting.

There are two ways to do this. Either:

Place a leaf between two sheets of paper and bash it with a hammer (supervision required) to leave a chlorophyll print.

Or

Use flower heads and paint to make different prints.

Choice 2

Practice and then perform your poem with actions to your family.

Choice 3

Feely bag of found items from walk.  Place items in a bag and take turns putting your hand in without looking.  What could it be?  Can you describe how it feels?

Choice 4

Paint or draw a spring picture.

Choice 5

Make flower petal/herb playdough together.  What can you smell?

https://theimaginationtree.com/natural-herbal-playdough/   

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/Excercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: Number formation

Monday:  Make a collection of numerals from around the house.  This could be number books, magnetic numbers, game boards with numbers, number flash cards, anything with a numeral.  Together, look at all the different styles but draw attention to the fact that the shape stays the same.

Tuesday:  Look at the PowerPoint of number formation rhymes and use a finger to make the shapes in a tray of sand or salt.

Wednesday: Say one of the number rhymes from the PowerPoint, without revealing the numeral and see if your child can use the rhyme to make the matching numeral in the tray of sand/salt.

Thursday:  Draw two grids with six squares.  Roll a dice and write the numeral that represents the dots in one of the squares.  Have a race to write all six numbers.  Repeat the game with 2 dice to practice numbers 7 to 12.

Friday:  Make your own bingo grids and play a game of bingo.

(After practicing the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Make numerals using playdough.

Choice 2

Use water and a paint brush to write numerals on a wall or patio outside.

Choice 3

Lay out large sheets of paper or newspaper and felt tip pens.  Try to cover the sheets with numerals.

Choice 4

Write numerals on a family members back and see if they can guess the numeral that was written.

Choice 5

 Watch, sing and dance along

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y0QvlFGxqA

At least

20 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen turn off the sound for these.

Finally, I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow.

You could also create a profile on www.teachyourmonstertoread.com

Plan for week 1.

Length of time

Activities/lessons

15 MINS

Physical activity

Either a run around the garden, bounce on trampoline or use https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers (choose from ks1 videos, the children will tell you the ones they like best!)

15 MINS

Phonics Stage 1 – 3

Start with flash cards of previously learnt sounds or log in to www.phonicsplay.co.uk (user – caritas password – caritas) and play flashcards or tricky word trucks.  Sound to be taught this week w (as in wind), x (as in box), y (as in yellow) z (as in zoom) and qu (as in quick) Children who were learning phase 3 sounds should be taught ear (as in beard) air (as in chair) and ure (as in pure).  After that they will have covered all the sounds once, please use the last 2 days of the week to keep practicing using the phase 3 sounds to spell and read.

15 MINS

Share story

Monday:  Read the story ‘The bad-tempered Ladybird’ (see PowerPoint).  Try to recall all the animals that the Ladybird met.  What did they ladybird say to each of them? 

Tuesday:   With your child draw a story map, showing each animal that the ladybird came across.  Encourage Your child to write a label for each animal (see example below of a story map).

Wednesday:  Act out the story using toy or paper puppets.  You can change the animals and make up your own version.  Encourage your child to use language that matches the pattern of the story.

Thursday: Recap the story and talk about the ladybird’s manners.  How should we talk to others?  What are good manners and what are bad?  Together make list of good manners and spend the day practising them.

Friday: See the PowerPoint slide at the end of the story about the ladybird’s lifecycle.  Talk through the different stages and how the ladybird changes.  How is that different from humans?  What were you like when you were born?  How are you different now?  How will you be different in the future?

(After talking about the book choose one of the following activities.)

30 MINS

Creative and active play

Choice 1

 Together paint stones or egg box sections like ladybirds and hide them around the garden for a ladybird hunt.

Choice 2

Make puppets of the animals that the ladybird met.

Choice 3

Draw two ladybirds or print them out and draw speech bubbles.  Encourage your child to write what they are saying to each other.

Choice 4

Make some ladybird wings from a card.

(Please google for inspiration).

Choice 5

Look at photos of family members as babies, children and then adults.  How have they changed?  Do you look like any of your family?  How might you change as you get older?

At least

75 MINS

Free play time

Don’t forget photos and notes emailed to 2 simple!

60 MINS

Outdoor play/exercise

15 MINS

Phonics Stages 4 and 5

15 MINS

Maths

Concept to be taught: counting in twos.

Monday:  Practice counting in2’s to 20 using different movements i.e. jump and count, clap and count, nod and count etc.

Tuesday:  Watch and join in with the counting by twos song by scratch garden on You Tube.

Wednesday: Make Lego or brick towers of 2 and together count them in twos.

Thursday:  Put up labels or post its with numbers to 20 written in 2’s around the house and challenge child to find each number, bring it back and put them in order.

Friday: Give your child post it notes with the numbers up to 20.  Ask them to order them and then take out all the ones that can’t be counted to in twos to make a 2’s number line.

(After practising the number concept choose one of the flowing activities to consolidate)

20 MINS

Choice 1

Count in 2’s to 20 in silly voices.

Choice 2

Find 2’s of things in the garden or on your walk and count.

Choice 3

Make a board game that has squares numbered in 2’s.

Choice 4

www.topmarks.co.uk

100 square paint.  Paint all the numbers in 2’s on the grid.

Choice 5

Sing the song 10 fat sausages sizzling in a pan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBjFM-Di7_M

At least

20 MINS

Stories and songs of your child’s choice.

20 MINS

Child reading to an adult.

As you may have noticed from your packs, I have chosen not to send home lots of school reading books.  The reason for this is that there will not be an opportunity to change these books and so it would be best to find alternative reading material.

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html have short decodable comics using the sounds that your child has been learning.

www.vooks.com have a large range of children’s audio books.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/# have colour banded books that match the ones we have been using at school.  Most have been reading pink or red band books and some have been reading yellow and blue banded books.

http://www.kizclub.com/reading1.htm have books that can be printed or read on screen. Turn off the sound for these.

Finally, I am sure you have a wealth of picture books at home that your child enjoys.  They may not be able to read every word to you but if, as you are reading to them, you need to encourage them to take over and read the occasional decodable word, their confidence will begin to grow!

A

Home Reading each day

(At least 20mins)

You could use Oxford Owls if you run out of books!

Oxford Owl for Home
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

B

A phonics activity

Log into www.phonicsplay.co.uk

User – caritas

Password – caritas

And play phase 2 games.

(phase 3 for children who have learnt digraphs)

Practice writing the sounds in different ways:

• In sand/salt.
• With paint.
• With felt tip pens.
• With chalk outside.
• With water on a wall.

C

Maths Activity

Play board games that involve counting on.

Sing number songs.

Build towers and add more or take off bricks.

Go on a shape hunt.

Measure things with a tape measure and use language like longer/shorter etc.

Choose games from the maths age 3 – 5 and 5 – 7 on

www.topmarks.co.uk

D

Free play

Play with:

• Construction toys.
• Physical play outside.
• Crafting and drawing.
• Singing songs, making music and dancing.
• Messy play.

Possible/Adaptable Daily Schedule-Adapt for your family to suit their age and needs

8.30-9.00

Morning Walk

Family walk and talk time with or without a dog!

Yoga or “Just Dance” if it’s raining.

9.00-10.00

Academic Time

Choose from A B C.

10.00-10.30

Break time

Have a snack and a drink, check on your pets, play in the garden. No electronics!

10.30-11.30

Academic time

Choose from A B C.

11.15-12.00

Physical play outside

Running, climbing, jumping, riding etc.

12.00-1:00

LUNCH

1.00-1.30

Quiet Time

Choose from A B C.

1.30-2.30

Free play

Choose from D.

2.30-3.00

Electronics/Craft time/Cooking/Junk Modelling

Alternate between online activities and Arts and Crafts. Maybe look at the website links at the end of this letter to learn a new language or learn something exciting!