Hello!  How are you all?

We have been wondering if you have lost any teeth? Or if you have grown a little bit? Or if you have learnt some new skills?

You could always email us through Purple Mash to tell us all about it.

Here are some ideas for you this week.  Remember you can upload photos of your work straight to Purple Mash and these will then be marked and rewarded that way too – please give it a go.

Maths

We are still highly recommending the White Rose Materials to support your child in Maths at home. We are using these to support learners in class too. Next week’s story focus is the book ‘Zog’ by Julia Donaldson, you can hear it read here.

This week’s NRich task can be found here. It is called Line of Four and may be a good one for siblings to play together once you have mastered it!

To support extending their problem solving skills through games and challenges please take a look at 'I see Maths' Ks1 games too.

Also encourage your child to use their Numbots login regularly for short bursts to practise their recall of number bonds and help to build their robots too. It is absolutely reasonable to type the answers in for them if they are fluently solving the questions but are not able to type them in quickly enough.

English

Phonics for Reception There are some excellent videos for teaching phonics here. The Set 1 videos go over the sounds we have already learnt, with a word time and spelling session and is shown at 9.30.  Set 2 videos are learning a new sound and spelling with this sound. There are two new activities, one  called ‘Read and hold a sentence’: reading and writing practice for children reading set 1 and 2 sounds, and ‘Red Words’ for practising the tricky words which cannot be decoded.

This week Reception will be using the Oak Academy Materials 8,9,10,11,12,  English, based around engineers and the jobs they do. These lessons are best followed in sequence, starting with lesson 8. Included in the lesson are some phonics activities too as well as a quiz to recap the learning. Tap on the green buttons at the bottom of the page to make sure you do all the activities.

Online reading books  are available here. Try to do a little bit of reading every day.

Practise handwriting every day.

Write a diary for your favourite days. There is a diary set up in your Purple Mash 2Dos. You can draw a picture and write a sentence or two about what you did. If you tap on the green tick at the top right hand corner, there is a writing checklist and on the left, some prompts to help you along.

Storytime with Nick

From Monday 20th April, Storytime with Nick will be released; films of well-loved stories read by Nick Cannon, a trained actor, teacher and trainer and a wonderful storyteller. See him in action here.

Science

Animal Bodies

By the end of this lesson the children should be able to say:

I can say the names for animal body parts.

I can say the body parts that I see in pictures of animals.

Look at different animal body parts in turn.

Odd One Out

In pairs, children guess the odd one out by comparing animal bodies, giving reasons for their choices. The children may be able to find more than one valid answer to these questions!

Game

Remind children of the vocabulary to be used when describing animals.

Choose an animal without letting the other person know what it is. Describe the body parts of an animal to your partner who has their eyes closed. Can they guess what it is?

Complete the activity in your Purple Mash 2Dos

Bizarre Beasts

Can you draw the 'Bizarre Beast' on the worksheet below, or design your own with a range of body parts? Label your picture and upload onto Purple Mash.

R.E.

I know what a Synagogue is

I know that it is important to show respect to the beliefs of others

Recap the features of the church and explain that this week we are going to look at the features of a place of worship for Jewish people.

Show the children this video about a synagogue or watch the presentation below.

Talk about what you have noticed in the Synagogue and describe your favourite object, saying why you like it.

PE

Click here to find the activities for each day this week, including a daily challenge. Why not post a blog about this? We'd love to hear how you're staying active!

Take part in our 'Virtual Sports Day'. Click here for details. 

Extras

Picture News  Activity ideas linked to an issue current in the news

There’s a design your own dinosaur art task on Purple Mash for you too.

Collective worship at the Oak National Academy on Thursdays, or with Fischy Music   and Picture News  on Mondays.

Take a look at the Eco Activities page and let us know how you get on with one of the activities this week.

Outdoor Learning

There is a project called 30 Days Wild from the Wildlife Trust- which runs every day throughout the month of June. Can you do something 'wild' that links to nature every day during June? We'd love to hear about any that you manage to do- why not post a blog about what you have done? Scroll down to see the ideas here for each day.