Thursday Fine motor activity

If you don’t have any stencils at home, can you make your own stencils out of cardboard/card and trace around whatever shape your choose to make.

Maths

Starter: Alternate between whispering and shouting numbers from 0-20. .g shout 0, whisper 1, shout 2 etc.. Activity: Show your child one of their soft toys. Let them feel it. Send your child around the house/outside to find an item they think is heavier than their soft toy. Bring it back and use the balance to see if they were right. Now send them to find something lighter than their soft toy. Bring it back and check to see if they were right.

Break Phonics Resources needed:

• Paper or a whiteboard

• An ipad/tablet or computer/laptop

1. Read a book every day. Can be one of your school books/a book from home/a book from Oxford Owls website.https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ 2. Lay out the flashcards in front of you of the sounds that have been learnt this half term.

You say a sound, and your child picks up and shows you the correct sound as quick as they can.

3. Watch the ‘Mr. Thorne Does Phonics’ video all about the sound ‘air’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3rWZYN5jno Can you look around your house for anything with the ‘air’ sound in. Ext: Can you write the words of the objects you find with the ‘air’ trigraph in. 4. Practice on a whiteboard/a piece of paper writing the letter sound ‘air’.

Challenge: Once you have practiced writing ‘air’ and have got the formation right, can you challenge yourself to sound out and write ‘hair’ then a sentence with the word ‘hair’ in. 5. Cut out the pictures on the worksheet and stick them with the correct ‘air’ word.

6. Tricky word of the week – you

Practice reading and writing this word. Children need to be able to recognise tricky words in a sentence, as these cannot be sounded out.

Can you sprinkle some flour/salt/glitter/sand/shaving foam into a tray. Your child can practice writing it using their finger.

Brain breaks

Take a brain break from all this learning! Join in with this Rainforest dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDfXEvDK9o

English Resources needed: If possible, print this booklet off at home. Or read the questions/activities online and complete on paper at home.

https://www.talk4writing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reception-Sue.pdf Complete page 20 of the booklet today

Lunch RE

The Creation Story Read the Creation Story again to refresh your childs memory of the story. This week, draw a picture of your favourite part of the creation story and write what happened on that day, e.g ‘on day 2, God made the sky’ and draw a beautiful picture of the sky or they could label the picture with words e.g ‘sky’ ‘God’ There is a template below for your child to write and draw on. Extension: Can you make all the different things God made on each day, using your play dough?

Mindfulness I think it is important for us to find things to be thankful for, especially in the current situation we find ourselves in. Make a wellbeing gratitude jar together following the instructions below. Every time you think of something you are grateful for, write it down or ask an adult to write it down and put it in the jar. Anytime you have a spare few minutes, read some of the things you have put in the gratitude jar.

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Phase 3 Vowel GraphemesI Can Read!

Read the words and match the picture to the word.

hair pair air

chair fair

Gratitude Jar

You will need:

• glass or plastic jar

• scissors

• paintbrush

• white glue

• Gratitude Jar label

• tissue paper or colourful paper

• paper scraps to record your moments of gratitude

Cut shapes out of the colourful paper or tissue paper.

Add your Gratitude Jar label.

Using your paintbrush, put glue on the parts of the jar that you want to decorate.

You can paint over the colourful paper with extra glue if you would like to. This will give a nice, shiny effect.

Carefully stick the shapes you have cut out on to the jar.

Enjoy using your jar. At the end of each day, read the pieces of paper you have added to the jar and reflect on what we have to be grateful for.

Gratitude Jars are a brilliant way of celebrating all the things we have to be thankful for. Celebrations of the wonderful things in our lives can enhance and improve our wellbeing. Use these craft instructions to create your own Gratitude Jar and note down anything you feel grateful for each day, recording each one on a small piece of paper. Drop the piece of paper in the jar and reflect on all the ideas you have collected later on.

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Instructions

Gratitude Jar

Gratitude Jar

Gratitude Jar

Gratitude Jar

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