Reception
Home Learning - Reception Week beginning June 1st 2020
Hello everyone,
We hope you are all safe and well and had an enjoyable half term. Mrs Newton and Mrs Collery are in the process of preparing for children returning to school soon. We will be very excited to welcome the children back. However, we understand that not all children will be returning for the last term.
To continue with home learning for the rest of the term we suggest you use some of the resources listed in the table below. Learning from previous weeks will remain on the website in case you missed anything or would like to revisit.
If you have any questions about your child’s learning please contact us at yrr@windwhistle.extendlearning.org. We will continue to monitor Facebook twice a day and look forward to seeing your home learning and sharing your news.
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Mathematics
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Phonics |
Literacy development/ Communication and Language development |
PSED/Understanding the world/ Expressive arts and design |
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White Rose Maths has lovely activities based around a story. It includes really fun maths and arts and crafts activites.
Number Formation
Number Bonds Game
Numberblocks on bbc iplayer or on youtube
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Phonics Play Log in: User name: march20 Password: home Phonics Lessons
Daily phonics lessons from the DfE on youtube.
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The Oak National Academy online lesson for reception children. This website has excellent lessons across the curriculum for reception children. We highly recommend the English lessons to develop communication, Language and Literacy development.
Bug Club: Please continue reading practice with Bug Club. Bug Club is an exciting reading scheme to ensure all children can find books at exactly the right level for them to read and enjoy. It brilliantly combines stunning books, filled to the brim with kid-favourite characters.
To access Bug Club online Username, please e mail us to get your child’s username yrr@windwhistle.extendlearning.org Password: Windwhistle!
School code: pssw
Continue to practice handwriting daily. Have a look at bbcbitesize to practice letter formation
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Cosmic Kids Yoga Get your morning off to a great start with a good stretch! Watch Cosmic Kids Yoga on Youtube for easy to follow instructions.
Joe Wicks YouTube channel: Complete his daily children’s home work outs at 9.30am each day.
Joe Wicks 5 min kids' workouts:
Wake and Shake
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Home Learning Week 3 - Reception Week beginning 18th May 2020
Hello everyone,
Well done everyone for staying home and being safe. Mrs Newton and Mrs Collery are missing all the reception class very much. You have been doing some absolutely fantastic home learning. We love seeing your happy faces on Facebook and Tapestry, well done everybody. We have got some new activities for you to try this week. Mrs Newton and Mrs Collery have been trying out some new wake and shake songs. Our favourite is “Can’t stop the Feeling” and we have included it on Monday’s learning.
Remember it is important to read with your child everyday. Our school has recently acquired a reading programme called Bug Club that we’d like to share with you. Bug Club is an exciting reading scheme to ensure all children can find books at exactly the right level for them to read and enjoy. It brilliantly combines stunning books, filled to the brim with kid-favourite characters. To access Bug Club online
Username, please e mail us to get your child’s username yrr@windwhistle.extendlearning.org
Password: Windwhistle!
School code: pssw
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0
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Mathematics
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Literacy development/ Communication and Language development |
PSED/Understanding the world/ Expressive arts and design |
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Monday Day 1 |
Money: Have a look at coins in your adults’ purse (make sure you ask their permission first). In particular 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p. What do they look like? What can you see on them? Look at these online links.
Listen to the money song on Youtube - The Money Song
(Learn about 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p)
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Little Red Riding Hood If you have the book share it with your child or there is a lovely animated version of this story on Youtube:
Next listen to the The Oak National Academy online lesson for reception children Lesson 1 Using Maps After the lesson, you may want to have your own treasure hunt and design a map to help your grown ups or teddies find the treasure!
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“Can’t Stop the Feeling”
Go Noodle! Get that sunshine in your pocket and that good soul in your feet as you dance, dance, dance along with the Trolls to this awesome JT song!
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Tuesday Day 2 |
Play this game online game to help you recognise British coins.
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Follow the lesson from the Oak National Academy on Little Red Riding Hood
If you don’t have access to the internet. Read/Tell your child the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Encourage your child to talk about their favourite part of the story. Draw/make the wolf from the story. Add word labels to the wolf, e.g. teeth, ears.
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Shadow drawing Chose some objects and place them on top of the paper. Put the objects and paper in sunlight or use a torch (I-pad torch or phone torch). Draw carefully around the objects.
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Wed Day 3 |
Try some coin rubbing.
How to do a Coin Rubbing
Get your sheet of paper and put the coin on top, hold the two steady and start rubbing the crayon or pencil over the coin. You might even make a picture with the coin rubbings
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Little Red Riding Hood: Story Map . In this lesson we draw simple pictures to remember the main parts of the story. Follow the lesson from the Oak National Academy. Little Red Riding Hood story map
If you don’t have access to a computer for this lesson this picture shows an example of a finished story map
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HERO What makes somebody a ‘hero’? Is every hero the same? Do you know anybody who is a hero? Have-a-Go at drawing a picture of your hero . What have they done that is special and ‘heroic’?
Watch this clip: Hero
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Thurs Day 4 |
Today you will be doing some role-play in Maths. Set up a toy shop in your house. Label some toys with price tags (1p, 2p, 5p and 10p). Play shop with a family member taking turns being the shop keeper or the customer. Use real coins to buy items.
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Follow the lesson from the Oak Academy. Little Red Riding Hood writing
Try to write short sentences to go with the pictures from your story may you made yesterday. Or pick your favourite picture and write one sentence to go with it.
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E-Safety Find the Jessie & Friends cartoons at:
Choose Episode 1 - Watching . Use open questions to chat about the cartoons. For example: · What did you think about the cartoon? Which were your favourite parts? · How did Jessie feel when… · How did she get help to feel better? · What can you do if…
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Friday Day 5 |
Practice writing numbers 1-10.
Watch this fun video first to warm up.
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Little Red Riding Hood. Finish writing the story or pick your favourite picture and write one sentence to go with it. Follow the lesson from the Oak Academy. Little Red Riding Hood writing and drawing
If you don’t have access to the online lesson, your finished story might look like this
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Try this Little Red Riding Hood Cosmic Yoga activity Little Red Riding Hood yoga!!!
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Home Learning Week 4 - Reception Week beginning 11th May 2020
Hello everyone
We hope you are all continuing to keep well and safe. We are enjoying seeing your posts on Facebook and on Tapestry, it is lovely to see what everyone is doing. Keep posting!
This week we are learning all about caterpillars and butterflies and listening to the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. For some of our activities we will use White Rose (early years), The activities cover a lot of different areas of learning in our Early Years Curriculum.
Don’t forget to read with your child everyday too. Teach your monster to read is also a fun way to keep learning phonics.
Have fun!
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Mathematics
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Literacy development/ Communication and Language development |
PSED/Understanding the world/ Expressive arts and design |
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Monday Day 1 |
(Early Years Day 1) Shape Hunter! The Hungry Caterpillar is full of a certain shape as he keeps on munching through everything! Do you know why the holes he leaves are like that?
How many circles can you find around your house? |
Enjoy the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Can you draw and label the food the caterpillar eats?
What’s your favourite food?
Maybe you could write a sentence to tell us. I like j-a-m a-n-d h-a-m. |
Learn about an artist who loved using circles in his paintings
Can you make a picture with circles?
Maybe you can use crayons or paint or even chalk outside |
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Tuesday Day 2 |
(Early Years Day 2) Make caterpillars of different lengths. You can draw or paint your caterpillar using circles.
How many body parts has he got? Count together and then talk about how many there would be if there was one more or two more. |
Go on a minibeast adventure and learn more about butterflies
Can you draw and label the life cycle of a caterpillar? Think about what happens first, next and finally
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Fold thin strips of card into different lengths. What can you make. Is it a worm, a snake or a caterpillar?
Which is longer? Which is shorter? Add a head and face. Maybe you could use playdough or plasticine to make long and short creatures.
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Wed Day 3 |
(Early years Day 3) Explore your fruit bowl and look at what's in it! How we can sort it? What groups have you got in there? How can you combine these to make some maths problems? Can you make some fruity patterns? |
Join Aunty Mabel and Pippin and learn lots more about butterflies
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Buttterflies have symmetrical patterns on their wings.
Draw or paint a picture of a butterfly..
Don’t forget to make the pattern on both wings the same
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Thurs Day 4 |
(Early Years day 4) Have a look and see if you have any of the food the hungry caterpillar has to eat and make a picnic! How are you going to share your food equally with the people at your picnic. |
Handwriting Watch ‘How to write curly caterpillar letters’ Then have some fun practise writing some of the letter using different coloured pens or pencils or even paint!
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Join in with the butterfly dance and remember the four stages of the butterfly
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Friday Day 5 |
Catch bugs with Curious George. How many can you catch?
(Type bug catcher in the search bar to find the game)
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Practise the air and ure sounds
(Scroll down until you find the trigraphs air and ure 3 letters that make one sound) How many words can you think of? Can you help the wizards make air and ure words? |
Listen to the music as you learn about the Little Blue Butterfly. How does the music make you feel? Does it make you want to fly around like a butterfly?
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Home Learning Week 3 - Reception Week beginning 4th May 2020
Hello everyone
We hope you are all continuing to keep well and safe. We are enjoying seeing your posts on Facebook and on Tapestry, it is lovely to see what everyone is doing. Keep posting! We have got some new activities for you to try.
This week we are going to learn about animals that live in rain forests and has chosen some fun videos and songs for you to enjoy. In maths we are learning about number bonds to 10 with Farmer Pete, DJ Count and the Number blocks.
The activities cover a lot of different areas of learning in our Early Years Curriculum.
Don’t forget to read with you child everyday too. Teach your monster to read is also a fun way to keep learning phonics. Teach Your Monster to Read
Have fun!
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Mathematics
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Literacy development/ Communication and Language development |
PSED/Understanding the world/ Expressive arts and design |
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Monday Day 1 |
Learn your number bonds with Farmer Pete
A number bond is simply a pair of numbers that adds up to another number. "Getting" how numbers are made up is a crucial skill for children so a really good understanding of number bonds - and even some learning by rote of number bonds to 10 - can be very useful.
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Watch Virtual Field trip: Amazon Rain forest on You tube
Talk about and describe animals that live in rain forests I am an animal. I have a long body. I live at the top of the rain forest in the trees (a snake) Take turns to be and describe an animal. Phonics. Listen to the phase 2 and 3 jolly phonics songs on YouTube.
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Listen to singing in the rainforest. Can you join in with the song?
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Tuesday Day 2 |
Listen to the number bonds to 10 song with DJ Count
Use Lego bricks in two different colours. Choose ten of each colour Build a tower of bricks using as many different combinations of the same 2 colours as possible. Start by building 6 towers for the number bonds of 10
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Talk about planning an exhibition through the rainforest. Will it be hot or cold? What will we need to take? Play a memory game ‘In my backpack I will take a magnifying glass, a map……………..
Phonics: Write up to 3 words with each of these graphemes: - j- v- w *Alternatively, adults can write graphemes on to post-it notes that the children can then take and arrange to make up words (eg: jar, vet, week etc.) Ask the children to find the correct grapheme and sound it out accurately.
Sound out and then blend quickly. What is the word? |
Listen to and join in with The Animal Boogie: You tube
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Wed Day 3 |
Enjoy Number blocks and learn all about the number 10
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Learn more about the different animals that live in the rain forest.
Can you draw a picture of an animal and write its name. Maybe you can write a sentence …… The snake is g-r-ee-n. Remember your capital letters and full stops
Phonics: Phonics
Select phase 3 games. Select buried treasure game. Follow the instructions, clicking on phase 3 sounds, and then click “Revise all phase 3 sounds”. |
Go to Art and then to Doodle Animal Alphabet
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Thurs Day 4 |
Use the online game to find number bonds to ten
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Handwriting Watch ‘How to write zig zag letters’ Then have some fun practice writing some of the letter using different coloured pens or pencils or even paint!
Phonics: Phonics Write up to 3 words with each of these graphemes: - x - y - z *Alternatively, this can also be done by writing graphemes on to post-it notes that the children can then take and arrange to make up words (eg: mix, yak, zigzag etc.) Ask the children to find the correct grapheme and sound it out accurately. Sound out and then blend quickly. What is the word? |
Get your morning off to a great start with a good stretch! Watch Cosmic Kids Yoga on Youtube for easy to follow instructions.
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Friday Day 5 |
Watch this video on number formation
Now watch it again, pause, and write each number, forming them correctly.
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Listen to the story of ‘Elmer the Elephant’ on Youtube. Elmer is different and he's definitely not like any other elephants. is being different a good thing or bad thing?
During the story, Elmer realises that he likes being unique and special. What makes you special? Are you very good at doing something? Are you kind, funny or helpful? Draw a picture of something that makes you special and unique.
Phonics Write up to 3 words with each of these graphemes: - zz - qu oa *Alternatively write graphemes on to post-it notes that the children can then take and arrange to make up words (eg: buzz, queen, boat etc.) Ask the children to find the correct grapheme and sound it out accurately. Sound out and then blend quickly. What is the word? |
Elmer the elephant has lots of different colours. Draw or paint a picture of Elmer using all your favourite colours.
Sing along with this song ‘It’s good to be me”
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Home Learning Week 2 - Reception Week beginning 27th April 2020
Hello everyone
We hope you are all continuing to keep well and safe. We are enjoying seeing your posts on Facebook and on Tapestry, it is lovely to see what the children are doing. Keep posting! We have got some new activities for you to try and please remember you can post on Facebook and Tapestry.
This week we are going to learn about the ocean and our learning is based around two stories, Night Pirates and Commotion in the Ocean. For some of our activities, we are using White Rose maths (Early years Summer Term Week 2 - 27th April). The activities cover a lot of different areas of learning in our Early Years Curriculum. Phonics will be added to Tapestry and Facebook every day. Have fun!
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Mathematics
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Literacy development Communication and Language development |
PSED/Understanding the world Expressive arts and design |
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Monday Day 1 |
Subitise with a Pirate.
Subitising is the ability to look at a small number of objects and instantly recognise how many objects there are without needing to count. Watch this youtube video with your child to help them develop this skill.
Can you make number flashcards from 1-10 or 10-20 (ensure that all your numbers are the correct way around). Stick them up around your house - on the stairs, on doors, chairs etc. Anytime you walk past them can you shout the number? |
Enjoy the Night pirates by Peter Harris and Deborah Allwright
Can you draw a picture of a pirate? How would you describe him? Use your phonics to help you write some words e.g b-a-d f-a-t th-i-n or maybe a sentence. He is bad. He has one leg.
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Summer Term week 2 (27th of April)
Make a telescope with a kitchen roll. How many different patterns can you make with colours or shapes?
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Tuesday Day 2 |
Subtract with a pirate. Watch this fun video about subtraction
Practice subtraction up to 5/10. On the IXL website.
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PHONICS: Practice your phonics by watching Mr Thorne and Geraldine The new sound today is /ure/ as in cure. Try writing some words using the trigraph /ure/ Play Buried treasure on phonics play.
User name: march20 Password: home Click on resources, then buried treasure. Then choose phase 3 and select the ‘air’ trigraph to practice. |
Floating and Sinking Walk the plank with the objects, which ones float and which ones sink? Count how many objects are left each time you take one away
Summer Term week 2 (27th of April)
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Wed Day 3 |
Have a treasure Hunt. Use positional clues (e.g. under the chair, behind the table ) to help find the treasure Summer Term week 2 (27th of April) |
Listen to and enjoy Commotion in the Ocean
Learn about the different creatures that live in the ocean Can you draw a picture of a sea creature and write its names e.g c-r-a-b sh-ar-k. Maybe you can write a sentence – The shark is big. Remember your capital letters and full stops.
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Join the dots to make an animal
Which ones live in the ocean?
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Thurs Day 4 |
Make or draw a pirate ship. Don’t forget the flag. Is your ship big or small? How many pieces of treasure will fit on it?
Summer Term week 2 (27th of April) |
Can you hear the rhyming words in Commotion in the Ocean -look, book, land, sand, sea, me Can you think of any more words that rhyme?
Next play Make a Match (weeks 1-2) on phonics play
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Watch ceebeebies Underwater: creature reports What can you find out about sea creatures? Which is your favourite?
Can you join the dots to make the animals. Which ones live in the ocean? |
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Friday Day 5 |
Look through your telescope to find as many different shapes as you can? Can you draw them?
Friday activity Summer Term week 2 (27th of April) |
Learn to write long ladder letters
Practise writing one armed robot letters. |
Join in with Youtube: Lets Dance Kids: A Pirate we shall be. Can you move like a pirate on his ship?
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Home Learning Week 1 - Reception Week beginning 20th April 2020
Hello Reception parents/ carers
We hope you are all well and keeping safe. We are enjoying seeing your posts on Facebook and on Tapestry, it is lovely to see what the children are doing. It would be fantastic to see how the children get on with these new activities, please remember you can post on Facebook and Tapestry.
This week we are beginning to think about ‘Animals’ and our learning is based around two stories, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz. For some of our activities, we are using White rose maths (Early years) but starting on week 2 for ‘What the Ladybird Heard’. The activities cover a lot of different areas of learning in our Early Years Curriculum. Have fun!
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Mathematics
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Literacy development/ Communication and Language development |
PSED Understanding the world Expressive arts and design |
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Monday Day 1 |
Counting the number of legs and the number of animals in the story. How many in each group? e.g. horses
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What the Ladybird Heard –‘Talking together’ pages. Describing the animals by their different features e.g. My animal has 2 legs, feathers and a beak (chicken) You could write down the names of some of the animals, or even write a sentence about them. Remember to use your sounds to help e.g. d-o-g.
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Play ‘A Year on Your Farm’
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Tuesday Day 2 |
Dotty Ladybirds! Making ladybird biscuits (if not you could draw some instead).
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Phonics Play Log in: User name: march20 Password: home Click on ‘free resources’ and then Tricky word trucks.
There are lots of other fun activities on Phonics play. Have a look!
Then select Phase 3 Tricky words
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Click on Doodle dot to dot
There are lots of different animals to try!
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Wed Day 3 |
Making maps –describe where the baddies go for e.g around the pond
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Enjoy the story and listen out for all the rhyming words. Can you think of anymore? Which is your favourite animal?
Lion- rhyming words e.g roars and jaws shivers and quivers |
Zoo webcams- have a look and see what the animals get up to! |
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Thurs Day 4 |
Kim’s game –can you remember which object is missing? Can you do it with different shapes? Count them all.
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Make your own jungle picture Talk about your picture to a grown up. Which animals have you chosen and what colours are they? Can you write a sentence about it? e.g. I can see a lion and a snake. I can see a yellow sun.
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Go to the bottom of the screen and click on the ‘Doodle elephant’, have fun giving the animals some extra detail!
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Friday Day 5 |
Dice games –recognising spot patterns on a dice. Try and play some other ‘dice’ games.
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Handwriting Watch ‘How to write long ladder letters’ Then have some fun practice writing some of the letter using different coloured pens or pencils or even paint! Also, try to practise the letter sounds and letter names of these letters too. ‘j’ for jelly, juggle & jug, ‘l’ for lion, ladder and lolly
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Click on ‘Maze’
To make the rocket move use the arrow keys or tap your finger (if on a mobile)
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