Week 6 - Week Beginning 5th October 2020

 Name Writing

• Practise writing your name everyday.

Phonics

We are learning to read and write a different letter each day:

Monday - e

Tuesday - l

Wednesday - h

Thursday - r

Friday - j

Watch the video on espresso about the letter.

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/frontscreen/item61932/grade1/index.html?source=search-all-all-all-all&source-keywords=scraps

Now tell your grown-up some words that start with today's sound. Finally have a go at writing the letter a few times.

Grown-ups: Every day, revisit the previous sounds that they have learnt.

Topic

This week we will continue with our 'Those Nearest and Dearest'.

Activities:

• Talk to your grown-up about who your friends are in school. What are their names? What games do you like to play together? What do you do to make sure you are being a good friend? (Grown-ups: Talk to your child about the importance of sharing and turn-taking).
• Make a picture or card for one of your friends.
• Draw a picture of you and your friends.

Stories: 

The following books are all around the theme 'friendship'. Listen to a different story each day. Discuss the characters and events in the stories.

• Rainbow Fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFORvXhub28&t=27s 
• Pumpkin Soup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDax5kx2-Ks 
• Lost and Found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRAAQ8EWzig 
• Mr Big https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDLsbbGXbI

Maths

Counting Activities (Please do at least one counting activity every day)

• I can count to 20 song with actions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLxWIHRD4E
• Rally Robin counting to 20. (Adult and child face each other. Adult says 1, child says 2, adult says 3, child says 4 and so on until you get to 20)
• Every time you go upstairs, count the steps. Remember to say 1 number name for each step.
• Counting actions. Jump 10 times and count as you do it. 

This week, we are learning to order objects by length or height.

Length Vocabulary: long, longer, longest, short, shorter, shortest

Height Vocabulary: Tall, taller, tallest, short, shorter, shortest.

Please choose a size activity to do each day:

• Watch the video on BBC Bitesize about length and height. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znyyscw/articles/zkgp6v4 
• Length: Ask your grown-up to cut up strips of paper for you. Put them in order from the shortest to the longest.
• Length: Find some objects around your house that you could order by length.
• Height: Choose 3 of your teddies or dolls. Place them in order from the shortest to the tallest. Which one is the shortest? Which one is the tallest? 
• Height: Order the people that live in your house by height. Who is the shortest? Who is the tallest?