Week 4 Learning

Week 4

Reading /Phonics

Monday- Share the story ‘The Snail and the Whale’. If you don’t have a copy at home watch this online reading.  

Monday- Ask your child if they can hear the sounds that come at the beginning of snail and whale. Can they think of/ or find other things that begin with the same sound? They could create a poster or take photographs of the things they see.

Tuesday- read a story to your child and talk about what is happening in the story, the characters, where the story takes place and what might happen in the story.

Tuesday- Buried Treasure: Write out some real words and made up words (e.g. tud, jup, fub). Place these in a pile and using 2 containers, label one as ‘Treasure’ and the other as ‘Bin’. Can your child read the word and decide if it is real? If it is real it goes in the treasure chest, if not it goes in the bin. Simplify this activity for Nursery by sounding the words out for them. 

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

Wednesday- Play Buried Treasure online on PhonicsPlay (phase 2)

Thursday- Watch the online storybook- ‘Sharing a Shell’. Discuss how the crab felt in the story at each stage. Your child could draw a picture to represent the crab’s feelings. 

Thursday- Sing ‘1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive’. Click here for the words. Can your child learn this by heart? 

Friday- Ask your child to look at the books you have in your house. Can they find any other books about creatures that live under the sea? Can they group the animal books e.g. farm animals, jungle animals, under the sea animals?

Friday- Play Fish for Sounds – write out some letter sounds that correspond to objects found in the sea – s for sand, f for fish. Try and write them outside in chalk or similar and encourage your child to trace over them.  

Weekly Writing Tasks & Weekly Maths Tasks- Making Simple Patterns

Monday- Ask your child to draw a picture and write about their favourite underwater creature. They could label the picture too. 

Monday- Can your child join in with tongue twisters: red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry? 

Tuesday- Have a try at Snail Writing. Using hair gel, shaving foam or any other slimy liquid, show your child how to form the letter ‘s’ using your finger. If your child can, ask them to try the word ‘snail’. Repeat for other words. 

Tuesday- Ask your child to make a simple shape pattern or a colour pattern by visiting String of beads CHALLENGE: Make your own repeating pattern.

Wednesday- Ask your child to close their eyes and imagine being at the beach. Can they draw a picture list or, if they are able, use their phonics to write a word list of all the things you can see, taste, touch, smell and hear?

Wednesday- Can your child make a repeating pattern using objects around the house/garden i.e. apple, banana, apple, banana. CHALLENGE: Ask your child to build on the above to create more complex patterns e.g. apple, apple, banana, apple, apple, banana. 

 Thursday- Help your child practise letter formation.

Thursday- Ask your child to create repeating patterns with actions: Clap hands, tap knees, clap hands, tap knees. Make your own action patterns. CHALLENGE: one person makes the action pattern, the other person is to listen and repeat

Friday- Listen to the song Henry the Crab- Ask your child to draw a picture of what they think Henry the crab looks like.CHALLENGE- Can they write a letter to Henry and ask him about what it is like to live under the sea?

Friday- Draw the outline of a fish for your child to make a pattern in. Could they make the pattern out of 2D shapes? Can they make a repeated pattern?