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Book of the week- Click here to watch the story Dear Zoo or read the book if you have it at home. Questions to discuss- Why was the elephant sent back? Which animal was described as being too fierce? Why do you think he kept the puppy and not any of the other animals? Which animal would you like? Why? |
| Phonics- th Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Look at the picture. What can you see?  Write this sentence about the picture. Parents: Read sentence aloud. Remember to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. Below are the steps we use to help us with our writing. 1. Say the sentence aloud. 2. Count the words. 3. Segment each word apart from the tricky words. 4. Read your sentence to check it makes sense! Activity 2: Have a go at blending the phase 3 ‘th’ real and nonsense words. Click here to either print it, or view on screen. |
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2. Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, draw and make your own memory cards. This will work just as well for the activity! |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- ng Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Play Musical Blending. 1. Choose a favourite song. 2. Dance away until an adult stops the music. 3. When the music stops, blend one of these words. 4. Repeat until you have read all of the words. Activity 2: Read the sentence and have a go at writing your own sentence using one of these words. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2. Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. Take photos of your pairs and send them to your class teacher(s). |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- ai Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Play the Picnic on Pluto game on Phonics Play. Parents: Click here > Login in using Sphere (username) Spher3 (password) > Resources > Phase 3 > Picnic on Pluto > Start > Phase 3 > +ai Activity 2: Look at the pictures on this document. Segment and write the words to match each picture. You could print these phoneme frames, or draw your own. Parents: If you are unsure, click here to view the words. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2. Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Zoom Don’t forget today’s Movement Zoom at 11am! Get ready to move and groove to some of our favourite songs. |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky word – my Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activity 1: Tricky Word Puzzles 1. Write each tricky word on a piece of paper. Click here to see if you have used all the tricky words. 2. Get an adult to tear each tricky word into separate letters.  3. Can you put the letters in the correct order? Activity 2: Tricky Word Hunt 1. Write each tricky word on separate pieces of paper. 2. Get an adult to hide them around your house or garden. 3. Have fun hunting for tricky words. Activity 3: Rainbow writing tricky words. Choose some bright coloured pens or pencils to practise spelling all of the phase 2 tricky words (the, to, I, no, go, into) and the phase 3 tricky words you know so far (he, she, we, me, be, my). Below is an example of how to do rainbow writing.  Word Passport Click here for this week’s word list. Remember to use your phoneme fingers when blending! |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2. Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, you could draw your own domino circuit. This will work just as well for the activity! |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Friction Experiment- Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. -Using a variety of toys, carry out your own friction experiment. Before you carry out your experiment, remember to predict which toys you think will travel fast or slow. You could sort them into two groups. – After the experiment, draw and label your results. |
| Story time- Night Monkey, Day Monkey read by Miss Marsden **Challenge** When listening to the story, see if you can hear the rhyming words. Click here to watch today’s story. Questions to discuss: 1. What would life be like if it was dark all the time? 2. Which part of the day do you like best day or night? 3. Can you think of any animals that come out at night? These are called nocturnal animals. Nocturnal animals are awake and active at night and then sleep during the day. Some nocturnal animals can be seen during the day, but most of them spend their whole day resting. Get ready for next week’s Dough Disco! |
Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
1. In class, use Talk4Writing actions to help us retell and act out the stories we learn. After listening to the story, see if you can come up with some actions. You could get an adult to record you and send it to your class teacher!
To help you get started, click here to watch an example.
2. Dear Zoo is a ‘lift-the-flap’ book. Make your own ‘lift-the-flap’ book. You could choose your favourite animals to be underneath each of the flaps. Then, write a sentence underneath each flap. For each sentence try to write the name of the animal and a describing word.
Parents: A writing reminder…
How did your child find the writing activity? Remember, it’s okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important that your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling them correctly. We encourage the children to use their own skills, rather than copying an adult.
Understanding the World
Choose an animal from the book. With the help of an adult, research and find out information about that animal.
Where is its natural habitat? What does it eat? What does it like to do? When the animal lives in a zoo, what does a zookeeper need to do to look after it?
You could use this website or find one of your own.
Maths
1. Choose two or three animal toys. Go on a hunt around your house for different containers. Explore which containers your animals will fit in. Can you explain why they fit in some containers but not others?
2.Patterns are everywhere! Can you recognise any of these animal patterns? Draw your own animal pattern on a piece of paper.
Expressive Arts and Design
Make a lion mask.
Resources:
Paper plate
1 sheet of Yellow and orange paper
Scissors
Glue
Instructions:
1. Cut out the inside of a paper plate, leaving only the outside circle.
2. Cut strips of yellow and orange paper.
3. Glue the yellow and orange paper to the paper plate circle, creating a lion’s mane.
4. Make sure they give a loud ROAR!
Physical Development
1. Get moving and dance along to these songs!
Animal Boogie
Let’s go to the Zoo
2. Make a paper chain snake. This is a great funky fingers activity!
Resources:
Paper (any colours you’d like to use)
Scissors
Stapler
Glue
Googly eyes or draw your own!
Instructions:
1. First, decide on which colours you want to use. You could use two or three colours and try to make your snake a repeating pattern, for example, red, orange, red, orange.
2. Cut strips of each colour.
3. With an adult, use a stapler to connect the chains.
4. Add a head by cutting out a triangle and gluing it to the first chain. You could also add a tail!
5. Glue or draw some googly eyes on the head and add a red tongue, then you’re done!
I hope you all have a great week! Please remember to send photos to stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org. I love hearing about how you’ve been getting on with your home learning.