· Web viewUse your sound mat to spell and write the word ‘thick’. Read your reading book. Lesson 2 Use the pictures in your pack to create a story map of Dragons in the City

Chinese New Year EYFS

Daily – Try to read or watch at least 3 stories a day.

Phonics

English

Maths

Physical Development, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design

Day 1

Lesson 1

‘sh’ sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fE27v8n7Vw&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNGLy2Tckcy8Kk8u10mXgcmi&index=14

Reading words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaTk1GRH29g&feature=youtu.be

Use your sound mat to spell and write the word ‘shop’.

Read your reading book.

Lesson 1

Listen to the ebook version of your story – Dragons in the City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Lcmftark4

Use your Chinese New Year paper to draw pictures of three of the characters in the story. Can you label the characters with their names?

Watch the letter formation for the digraph sh and then practise writing it in your book.

https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-joins-choice-3.html

Watch the video

Session 1 – Matching 6,7and 8 https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/growing-6-7-8-week-2/

Have a go at playing the matching game with someone in your family. Can you get better at playing the game?

Can you make and play your own version of the game using the template in your pack?

Challenge

Go on a number hunt around your house and see if you can find the numbers 6, 7 or 8 anywhere? Maybe look at the clock? Find a book with page numbers? Can you record some of the places you found them by drawing them in your book?

Read the story in your pack – Dragons in the City.

Talk about the story and look carefully at the pictures.

Make your own paper lantern

During Chinese New Year people decorate their houses using paper lanterns. Use the instructions in your pack to help you make your own paper lantern. You can decorate it using paint or pens.

Physical

Dragons are an important part of Chinese New Year.

Watch and join in with this Cosmic Kids Dragon adventure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWzS2xziI4

Day 2

Lesson 2 -‘th’ sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLBtb1PFV_g&feature=youtu.be

Use your sound mat to spell and write the word ‘thick’.


Lesson 2

Use the pictures in your pack to create a story map of Dragons in the City. Can you cut them out and put them in the right order? When you have done this there will be a space next to each picture for you to write what you can see. Tell the story to a family member in your home.

Watch the letter formation for the digraph ‘th’ and then practise writing it in your book.


Watch the video

Session 2 – Making Pairs

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/growing-6-7-8-week-2/

If you can’t get out on a walk to find natural objects then you can find things around the house that can be pairs. You could find 2 building blocks that are the same, 2 socks the same, 2 pens etc.

Challenge

Can you draw a Chinese New Year dragon that has 4 pairs of legs? That will be 8 legs altogether. You could decorate the dragon by drawing lots of number 8s all over it to make it look like scales. Could you add 8 spikes to the back of your dragon?

Watch these videos that tell you all about Chinese New Year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/chinese-new-year

Use your playdough to make a dragon.

What else can you make? Can you make the other animals in the Chinese new year calendar?

Physical

Listen to and join in with this Let’s Move episode about getting ready for Chinese New Year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g6ty1

Day 3

Lesson 3 – ‘ng’ sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgD6yCIO3pw&feature=youtu.be

Use your sound mat to spell and write the word ‘song’.


Lesson 3

Have your Dragons in the City book with you. There are seven questions in your pack that your grown up can ask you about the story. Use the book to help you answer the questions. Stick the questions in your home learning book one by one and write or draw the answers underneath them.

Watch the letter formation for ‘ing’ and then practise writing it in your book.


Watch the video

Session 3 – Combining 2 groups


Have a go at completing the activity by drawing your own picture.

Can you write all the numbers from 1 to 10. Which do you find the most tricky? Can you try writing it in different places like on a mirror, in some soil, with some chalk or paint?

Physical Activity

Watch this video of a lion dance

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-go-club-chinese-lion-dance?collection=chinese-lunar-new-year

Colour and cut out the dragon mask in your pack. Use the strips of cellophane and tissue paper to add streamers to your mask. Can you make up your own dragon dance while wearing your mask?

Fine Motor:

Use the chopsticks and the challenge cards and in your home learning pack to have a go at the activities. You will find pasta, paper clips and pom poms in your pack to help you.

Day 4

Lesson 4 – Reading words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6GmiiR_2s&feature=youtu.be

Use your sound mat to spell and write the word ‘socks’.


Lesson 4

Create a Chinese food menu. Look through your storybook of Dragons in the City and use your mini book to draw the different special foods you can see that they have throughout Chinese New Year. Can you label each of the different foods? You can use the Chinese food mat in your pack to help you.

Watch the letter formation for the digraph ‘ck’ and then practise writing it in your book.


Watch the video

Session 4 – Combining groups


Then complete the domino activity.

Extra Challenge

Can you make your own set of dominoes?

Noodles, noodles, noodles

Cook your noodles with an adult and let them cool.

Listen to some music while you wait for them to cool.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio/my-cbeebies-special-day-chinese-new-year?collection=chinese-lunar-new-year

Explore the noodles; how do they feel? Are they slimy, sticky, soft? Can you make letters and shapes with them?

Watch this video on how to use chopsticks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFRzzSF_6gk

Can you use your chopsticks to pick up your noodles and put them on a plate or in a bowl? When you have finished this challenge, can you use your scissors to cut the noodles into different lengths?

Use the length ordering cards in your pack to help you arrange them into shortest, longer and longest.

Day 5

Lesson 5 – review the week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5XfHKJS_M&feature=youtu.be

Use your sound mat to spell and write the word ‘check’.


Watch the letter formation for the digraph ‘ss’ and then practise writing it in your book.


Lesson 5

Watch the video about animals that are found in China.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=12tZ-ggQtY0

Choose one of the animals to draw in your book and tell someone in your family all about it. Now make a list of the things you have learnt about it. If you choose a panda you might write the sounds you can hear in the words black, white, fluffy or write ‘It is big’. Use your sound mat and animal word mat to help you.

Watch the video

Session 5 – Adding More


Play the game with someone in your house.

Challenge

Put your Chinese number cards 0-10 in a bag and take them out two at a time. Which number is more and which number is less?

Make a concertina dragon

1. Find your dragon head, feet and tail. Colour these in using bright colours and cut them out when you have finished.

2. Use the strip of red paper to make the dragon’s body. You need to fold the paper backwards and forwards to make a concertina, as you did for your gingerbread man’s arms and legs.

3. Stick the head, feet and tail to the concertina body.

4. Add a paper straw to the back of the head and tail to help your dragon move.

Can you find the paper dragons in the story?

Physical

Listen to and join in with the next Let’s Move episode about joining in the New Year Parade.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g6ty1

EYFS Chinese New Year

Phonics

English

Maths

Physical, Knowledge and Understanding of the World and Expressive Arts

Day 6

Lesson 6 – Review and practise blending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djUKCWUhmyk&feature=youtu.be

Use your sound mat to spell and write the word ‘puff’.


Lesson 6

Use the letter cards in your pack to make words on your dragon CVC word maker.

Write a list of these words on the postcard template and draw a stamp in the corner. You can then ask a grown up to help you post it through your letterbox and see who finds it.

Watch the letter formation for the word ‘on’ and then practise writing it in your book.


Watch the video

Session 1 – Comparing height


Have a go at using the cubes in your pack to complete the activity.

Extra challenge

Can you measure how many tall some objects in your house are? You could draw them and record the number of cubes high they were.

Make a Chinese paper drum

Follow the instructions to make a Chinese drum using the paper plates, ribbon, beads, glue and lollipop stick in your pack.

You can also watch this video on how to make and play a Chinese paper plate drum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I50bQaMDR24

Day 7

Lesson 7 - review and practise blending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgP65Zcsd9o&feature=youtu.be

Practise writing your name using the cursive letters on your sound mat.


Lesson 7

Play the paper plate drum that you made yesterday.

Draw some pictures to show what you did.

Can you write a sentence to go with one of the pictures?

You might write something like…

‘I stuck it on.’

Watch the video

Session 2 – Comparing Length


Complete the activity. Make playdough snakes of different lengths.

Make a Chinese Zodiac frame

Use the instructions in your pack to make a

Chinese Zodiac frame with lollipop sticks, glue,

ribbon and card.

Choose an animal or symbol to draw from the page below in your pack in the middle of your frame.

Documents

· Web viewUse your sound mat to spell and write the word ‘thick’. Read your reading book. Lesson 2 Use the pictures in your pack to create a story map of Dragons in the City