Hello everyone. I hope you all had a lovely day in the sun yesterday, let’s hope it’s the same today!

Here are today’s suggested home learning activities:

Yesterday you looked at recipe books and some lovely cakes so to celebrate World Baking Day on Sunday, today or over the weekend make a cake that you like that you have seen in the recipe book. While you are making your cakes see if you can find any numbers in the recipe, if you do, write them in your purple sketch books. Photos of your lovely cakes would be great!

For phonics today I would like you to go on a listening walk / or just find a spot in the garden and sit down. We may have already done this through home learning but we are going to try it again as it is a very important skill. Walk / sit for just a few minutes and listen to the sounds that you hear. Then draw some of them in your purple sketch books.

Finally, try a bit of yoga in your garden.

Have a lovely weekend and lots of fun!

Leanne

Good morning everyone – it looks like the sun is back!

Here are today’s suggested home learning activities.

As it is World Baking Day on Sunday I would like you to have a look in some different recipe books and find the types of cakes that you like. When you have found one that you like draw a picture in your purple sketch book. Is your drawing exactly the same as the one that you have found in the book, or would you have different fruit or different coloured icing? To further extend this can you copy the words of some of the ingredients that you would need for the cake?

For phonics today please try the following activity: Roly poly:

Rehearse the rhyme with the actions (rotating hand over hand as in the song ‘Wind the
bobbin up’).

Ro … ly … po … ly … ever … so … slowly
Ro … ly … poly faster. (Increase the speed of the action as you increase the speed of the rhyme.)
Now add in new verses, such as:
Stamp … your … feet … ever … so … slowly
Stamp … your feet faster.

Ask the children to suggest sounds and movements to be incorporated into the song.
Say hello ever so quietly
Say HELLO LOUDER!

As it is sunny today go outside and enjoy it. Maybe you could have some races? OR just put some music on and dance!

Have a lovely day and don’t forget to send me photos, Leanne.

Hello everyone!

Here are today’s suggested home learning activities:

Grab some paint and paint your hands and print them on some paper. Once the paint is dry cut them out. Turn your hand prints into a crab. An example is below:

For phonics try this Letters and Sounds activity: It is called ‘Socks and shakers’.

Partially fill either opaque plastic bottles or the toes of socks with noisy materials (e.g. rice, peas, pebbles, marbles, shells, coins). Ask the children to shake the bottles or socks and identify what is inside from the sound the items make. From the feel and the sound of the noisy materials encourage the children to talk about them. Ask questions such as: “Where might we find shells and pebbles”.

Can you find two objects that are a rectangle, two objects that are a circle and two objects that are a square? When you have, draw the biggest one of each in your purple sketch book.

Try a bit of yoga for your daily exercise:

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Hello everyone! I hope you are all well.

Here are today’s home learning suggestions: Today’s activities follow on from the story yesterday, so if you want to watch the story again you should.

Have a look in your food cupboards and see what things you have in there. See if you can make a crab from your food. See below for an idea:

I would love to see photos of your finished product.

For phonics today I would like you to find objects that begin with ‘m’ and objects that begin with ‘g’. Can you put them into separate piles? What did you find? Then watch Jolly phonics (search YouTube).

Today think about the number 5. Can you do five jumps or five claps? What else could you do to show five? Maybe you could do five nose claps too? That is one of our favourites!

For a bit of physical activity go into your garden and make an obstacle course using anything in your garden.

Have a lovely day,

Leanne.

Hello everyone, I hope you had a lovely long weekend and enjoyed the sun! I would love to see photos of what you did over the weekend.

Here are today’s suggested activities:

Listen to the story ‘Don’t Worry, Little Crab’ on Cbeebies (the link is below):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000hs3d/cbeebies-bedtime-stories-752-tom-hardy-dont-worry-little-crab

In the story there is a big crab and a little crab. Look around your house and find four sets of objects. For each set you need two of each in different sizes. See below for an example:

Once you have found all of your objects (they can be anything, you just need two of them) put each set in order of smallest to biggest). Encourage your child to use words such as smaller or bigger. If they need an extension on this try the activity with three objects in each set to make it trickier.

For phonics today, it is a really fun one. This activity is taken from the Letters and Sounds document: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190599/Letters_and_Sounds_-_DFES-00281-2007.pdf

It is called ‘Enlivening stories’:
Involve your child in songs and stories, enlivened by role-play, props and repeated sounds, for example acting out ‘Humpty Dumpty….’ Use your bodies to help make the sounds suggested below.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall (bump, crash, bang!)
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men (gallop, gallop, gallop)
Couldn’t put Humpty together again (boo, hoo, boo, hoo, boo, hoo).

For some of your daily exercise, have a go at this Moana dance.

Have a lovely day and hopefully the sun will be back today!

Leanne.

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoyed making crumble yesterday.

Here are today’s suggested activities:

On Class Dojo on stories there is a video. Please watch it. I hope you enjoy it – it is a story about cake!

For phonics today try the following activity:

Our sound box/bag
Make collections of objects with names beginning with the same sound. Create a song,
such as ‘What have we got in our sound box today?’ and then show the objects one at a
time. Emphasise the initial sound (e.g. s-s-s-snake, s-s-s-sock, s-s-s-sausage).

Today, design and make some medals for you and the people that you live with. Then tomorrow you can all wear them together to enjoy the day! See below for some ideas on shapes:

Don’t forget to keep moving too!

Have a lovely long weekend and I’ll be back with some activities on Monday.

Leanne

Hello! We’re half way through the week again!

Here are today’s learning suggestions:

Yesterday you made a list for apple crumble ingredients. Today, see if you can find the ingredients and then make an apple crumble ready for Friday’s celebration. Follow the link below for an apple crumble recipe.

https://www.kidspot.com.au/kitchen/recipes/apple-crumble/udtxwmak

For phonics today go into one room (only one room!) in your house and see how many objects beginning with m you can find. In your purple sketch book practice drawing m and then draw some of the objects that you found.

Make some name cards for Friday. Draw large  rectangles on a piece of card or paper and then cut it out. Decorate all of the rectangles. With help write your family members names on each card (one on each card) and keep safe until Friday.

Have fun! Leanne.

Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed making the bunting yesterday.

Today we are carrying on with preparations for a V.E day celebration.  75 years ago a popular treat was apple crumble. Do you like apple crumble? Below is a list of ingredients that are needed for apple crumble. Please draw the ingredients for the list. If you want to copy some of the ingredient words as well that would be great! Please use your purple sketch book for this.

Ingredients: apples, water, plain flour, unsalted butter, brown sugar

For phonics please practice drawing the following sounds:

s    a   t    p    i    n    m

Now find one object for each sound e.g snake for s, apple for a. Which is your favourite object that you found? Can you draw it?

For a physical activity today make some space in your garden and see how many laps you can do in one minute. Try one minute of running, one minute of hopping and then some other things. Which is the easiest way to do the most laps? Maybe you could have a competition with somebody at home?!

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Hello everyone, I hope you have had a lovely weekend. As it is V.E. day on Friday and many of us would have been joining in with various celebrations, this week we will focus on preparing your own event.

What does a triangle look like? Draw one in your purple sketch book. Can you find any in your house / garden? Draw what you find. Next find some blue, red and white paper or card and cut out lots of large triangles. Once you have done this attach them to string or wool using sellotape or by punching holes into the triangles. This will make some lovely bunting ready for V.E. day on Friday.

Next find a large piece of white paper / card or even an old sheet. Then find lots of bits that are blue, white and red to make a collage of the Union Jack flag which is shown below. Keep this safe ready for Friday.

For phonics today: Letters and Sounds:

Make your own socks and shakers:
Partially fill either opaque plastic bottles or the toes of socks with noisy materials (e.g. rice, peas, pebbles, marbles, shells, coins). Ask the children to shake the bottles or socks and identify what is inside from the sound the items make. From the feel and the sound of the noisy materials encourage the children to talk about them. Ask questions such as: Where might we find shells and pebbles?

Have a lovely day doing this craft activities, Leanne.

Well….it’s Friday and we are into May already!

The weather has taken a turn for the worse but the sun keeps trying to poke through so hopefully the weekend will be a sunny one!

Here are today’s suggested activities:

When I go to the beach I always make a sandcastle but….I usually forget my flag to go on top! Could you please make a flag that would go on top of your sandcastle. You can use paper and crayons or some craft materials. Make it with whatever you want! Do you think the flag that you have made would stand up in sand?

Use the Letters and Sounds document to play ‘Describe and Find it’  page 11 (use any animals – farm, zoo etc). Link below:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190599/Letters_and_Sounds_-_DFES-00281-2007.pdf

Use the shapes that you made yesterday to make a picture. Colour them in (if not on coloured paper)  and then glue them into your book to make a picture.

Relax and have a listen to a lovely story on Cbeebies:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09l66zn/cbeebies-bedtime-stories-10-pearl-mackie-ellies-magic-wellies

I hope you enjoy these activities. Have a lovely weekend.

Leanne