Core daily activities are listed below. These mirror what we will be teaching in school each day. If your child does some days in school, you only need to do the activities for the days they are at home please.

At the bottom of the page you will also find additional activities you may wish to do with your child over the week - these are not core activities but suggested activities.

Monday 18th January

Please access today's phonics lesson through Tapestry.

Group 1: Today we are learning /j/.

Group 2: Today we are learning a new digraph /th/

For today's mathematics lesson, please use Alive in 5: Week 3, lesson 1.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/alive-in-5-week-3/

Talk4Writing: This week we are going to begin our own innovation of the story, but before we can do that we need to make sure the children really know the origional version. Look back at the videos on tapestry and use your own story map to retell the story. Really encourage your child to retell the story using the language from the story. The story needs to be really embedded in their minds so they have internalised the sentence patterns. We want to avoid them using their own everyday language such as "and then" through the story. Use today to retell the story in as many ways as possible. You could act it out again, use small world figures or use puppets/teddies.

Tuesday 19th January

Please access today's phonics lesson through Tapestry where possible.

Group 1:Today we are learning /v/

Group 2: Today we are learning a new digraph /ng/..

For today's mathematics lesson, please use Alive in 5: Week 3, lesson 2.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/alive-in-5-week-3/

Talk4Writing: For today's activity you might like to watch the supporting video on tapestry.

Today we are going to look at innovating the story to make our own version. You will need a copy of your original story map or you can print mine off from the documents at the bottom on the page.

Start retelling the story – “the hour was late” … but instead of Mr Bear, Mrs Bear and Baby Bear being tired. Who could we have in our story? Let the children choose whoever they would like. If they aren’t sure then perhaps have a selection of characters they could pick from. Continue... So they all went to bed.

Innovate as much of the story as your child wants to. If you want to change the settings you can, but equally if they want to keep the same ones that’s okay too. Allow your child to take control of creating their own story orally. Note changes to the story using post it notes over your original story map.

Additional Activities

This week in mathematics we have explored capacity.

Please watch this short clip of Mary Poppins emptying her carpet bag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3Z2cFXpAk

Could all of those things really fit into Mary Poppins' bag? Could a ship really fit into a bathtub?

Alphablocks episodes relevant to this week's phonics:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nhsyn/alphablocks-series-3-13-thing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qns3f/alphablocks-series-1-10-sail

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r05tz/alphablocks-series-1-16-jaybird

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qnr2w/alphablocks-series-1-8-race

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0873178/alphablocks-magic-words-23-meet-alphablock-w

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0873194/alphablocks-magic-words-24-meet-alphablock-x

Physical Development

Please follow the links to yoga and Joe Wicks to keep your child physically active!! Alternatively get wrapped up and enjoy a nice brisk walk around your local area, looking at the seasonal changes that are happening around you. 

Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Joe wicks is back Live on live Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9am on his YouTube channel keeping your children active!!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ