Week of 29th June

Reading Tasks

Phonics Tasks

Monday:

Watch the weekly story-time with Mrs Mirza: It’s Great to Work Together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL7bTY0eivU

Talk to someone at home and answer the following questions:

• What would you do if you were Tia?
• How does Tia make up for not listening to others?

As children build their awareness of how others are reacting to them, they will find it easier to respond in an understanding way.

Tuesday:

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

Wednesday & Thursday:

Nursery: Read to your child a simple story and ask them to retell the story to you or another family member.

Reception: Children to read to parents daily.

Visit Oxford Owl for free eBooks that link to your child’s book band. You can create a free account. Complete the linked Play activities for each book.

Friday:

Find all of the animal books in your house-

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

Daily Phonics for Nursery: use the following link to learn the songs and associated sounds: https://vimeo.com/106231366.

Daily phonics for Reception: please continue accessing and working on the daily lessons through the Letters and Sounds DfE Youtube. You should access the learning to blend lessons if your child needs more work on blending sounds to read words, or the Reception lessons if they are confident with the sounds and blending them to say or spell a word.

Additional Phonics activities:

• Play this animal sound match game.
• Nursery: Sing the song, ‘Old McDonald Had a Farm’. Instead of saying the name of the animal, make the sound. Can your child figure out which animal it is?

Reception: Sing the song, ‘Old McDonald Had a Farm’. Instead of saying the name of the animal, make the sound. Can your child figure out which animal it is? Reception age children to include writing the digraphs/ trigraphs they can hear in the song e.g. ee, igh, ee, igh, oa.

• Sing Nursery Rhymes and songs together. Add in actions and change the words. Can children think of different rhyming words to add in? Repeat old favourites and learn new rhymes. You can find an A-Z of Nursery Rhymes here.

Writing Tasks

Maths Tasks

Monday:

Nursery: Draw an animal of your choice. Label the parts of the animal.

Reception: Reception children to include and create a fact file e.g. where does it live? What does it eat?

Tuesday:

Practice name writing. Can they write their first name? Middle name? Surname?

Wednesday:

Practice forming the letters of the alphabet, you could use this website to learn rhymes to help with forming letters accurately: https://biddickpns.co.uk/learning/writing

Thursday:

Ask your child to write out the tricky words they are working on at the moment on pieces of paper and turn them into a pairs game.

Friday:

Big and small animals- Draw as many big animals as you can on one piece of paper and as many small animals as you can on another sheet of paper. Write out the animal names next to the images you have made.

Monday:

Play this counting game. Count how many of each animal you can see.

Tuesday:

Nursery: Practise counting backwards from 10. This can be done through playing hide and seek, singing number songs, chanting, board games etc.

Reception: Practise counting backwards from 20. This can be done through playing hide and seek, singing number songs, chanting, board games etc.

Wednesday:

Nursery: Use the ‘Five Frames’ on this game and practise recognising amounts. This can also be done by reading a dice when playing board games, playing with cards, identifying how many food items on the plate etc. This can be done by reading a dice when playing board games, playing with cards, identifying how many food items on the plate etc. 

Reception:Use the ‘Tens Frames’ on this game and practise recognising amounts. This can also be done by reading a dice when playing board games, playing with cards, identifying how many food items on the plate etc. This can be done by reading a dice when playing board games, playing with cards, identifying how many food items on the plate etc. 

Thursday:

Watch a Numberblocks clip at: BBC or CBeebies.  Use this guide here to give you ideas on what to do with your children whilst watching an episode. 

Friday:

Learn the song, ‘The Animals Went in Two by Two’  

Ask your child to draw out two of each animal and practice writing the numeral 2.

Wider Curriculum Tasks  - Linked to: It's Great to Work Together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL7bTY0eivU

30 Days Wild task

PSHE activity:

• Can you think of times when you work or play with others in a group or a team?
• How do you feel when others take charge during group work or games?
• Can you think of any times when you haven't included everyone in the group? How do you think this made them feel? How might you do things differently next time?

Talk through your thoughts, ideas and answers with an adult at home.

Purple Mash Activity ToDo:.

• Fill your Chest with your Treasure Hunt Goodies: You have just completed the Treasure hunt with Tia and her class-mates, what did you find? Make them and put them in your treasure chest for safe-keeping!

Creative Activity:

• Tia, Abby and Ryan tidied up at the end of the treasure hunt. To keep things tidy at home, make your very own tidy-up toilet-roll desk organiser! You could choose to make a castle, a book-worm or perhaps a range of smiley faces! You may even decide to make something else instead!

During June, it is 30 Days Wild. Each week we will set you an activity to do from their suggested activities.

This week’s activity is:

Name that wildflower. 

When you are out for a walk, take a closer look at the flowers. Have a look at the flowers growing through the cracks, on verges and in meadows and see if you can identify them using the chart below to help you. The UK's native wildflowers are often some of the most beautiful and best for wild creatures.

If you want to do more, go to this Twitter account for the daily activities:

You could also check out the Wildlife Watch YouTube channel for more activities, with new #WildlifeWednesday videos every Wednesday at 10am!

Alternative options:

• Visit Oak Academy for video lessons for your child’s year group: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/schedule/#schedule

• Twinkl - to access these resources click on the link and sign up using your own email address and creating your own password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.

• Classroom Secrets are producing English and Maths themed Home Learning Packs, attached as a document below should you wish to use it.