Home Learning – Week Commencing 31.01.22

Reading – Please read one of the books you have been assigned on Rising Stars each day.  The idea is to read a book more than once to build up fluency.  Once you have read a book a couple/few times so you are more fluent, please complete the quiz at the end and move it to the ‘finished’ section.

Don’t forget to practise your spellings (too, room, book, took, the) every single day on your whiteboard, to be ready for your spelling test on Friday.

Phonics

• Monday - Recap phase 2/3 phonemes using the Phase 2 and 3 phoneme mats (given out at the beginning of the year, links also below). Watch the video clip to learn the long ‘oo’ phoneme with Mrs Parker: https://youtu.be/OdEohIJhEGM. Log in to Education City and play Zoom to the Moon.
• Tuesday -  Recap phase 2/3 phonemes using the Phase 2 and 3 phoneme mats. Watch the video clip below to learn the short ‘oo’ phoneme and then click on the link to learn more about it with Mrs Parker: https://youtu.be/8jK4j9OPesU Log in to Education City and play The Big Cook Book.

• Wednesday – Have a go at the Long oo Word Reveal (link below).  Then, see if you can write the words room, cool, stool & moon on your whiteboard.
• Thursday – Recap phase 2/3 phonemes using the Phase 2 and 3 phoneme mats.  Then, could grown ups write some ‘oo’ words on small pieces of paper and hide them round the room?  Go on  a word hunt – how many can you find?  It is a long ‘oo’ or a short ‘oo’ in the word?
• Friday- Recap on key words the, to, I, no, go, into, is, it, as, at, his, can, get, up, am, an, he, she, we, me, be, you, all, are, her was, they, my, mum, dad, had, put, if, see & but.  Can children read these words on sight?  Practise a couple of times.  Practise spelling the key words the, to, no, go, I, into, he, she & they on your whiteboard. 

English -This week, we will be looking at the story Owl Babies.

Please note - the way we work the English on a carousel system, means your child may have already done the English work on Owl Babies.  Ask them - they will probably know! ☺  If they have, go to one of the previous home learning weeks and complete a week on English they haven't yet done - either Three Little Pigs, writing about an arctic animal or looking at the Homes non-fiction book - these will all be found in the previous weeks of home learning.

• Monday – Follow the link and listen to the story of the Owl Babies:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPQRiSTYFHo  Then have a go at answering the following questions about the story:
• What are the characters names?
• Where do they live?
• How do the owls feel throughout the story?
• Where do you think mummy owl went?
• Tuesday- The story was set in the woods, so watch/listen to the clips:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3dEOA4giio
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liq9KeAsNB4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sEDCaS9zU

Discuss what the woods look/sound like. Think of different ‘wow’ words to describe what they can see or hear. E.g. gloomy, shadowy, owls hooting, dark, mysterious, quiet, spindly/bare trees, spooky.         

• Wednesday- Listen to the story Owl Babies again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPQRiSTYFHo . Think of different ‘wow’ words to describe how the owl’s feel throughout the story. E.g. confused, lonely, scared, worried etc.   Then, with a grown up, read the labels on the Owl Labelling sheet below, and write the labels in the right place on the owl.
• Thursday-  Write your own speech bubble for Sarah, Percy or Bill. How do they feel? If you were Sarah, Percy or Bill, what would you say? Please remember to sound words out using your phonic fingers and use pre-cursive letters, finger spaces, a capital letter and full stop.
• Friday – Finish off your writing from yesterday, if you need to and then complete a spelling test of this week’s words: too, room, book, took, the.  How many did you manage to get right?

Maths

• Monday – Watch the video about comparing height - https://vimeo.com/509848194 then have a go at the activity: https://assets.whiterosemaths.com/fixed/wrm/2021/01/PDF-Growing-6-7-8-Session-1-Comparing-Height.pdf
• Tuesday - Watch the video about comparing length - https://vimeo.com/509848718 then have a go at the activity: https://assets.whiterosemaths.com/fixed/wrm/2021/01/PDF-Growing-6-7-8-Session-2-Comparing-Length.pdf
• Wednesday – Watch the video about days of the week - https://vimeo.com/509849169 then have a go at the activity: https://assets.whiterosemaths.com/fixed/wrm/2021/01/PDF-Growing-6-7-8-Session-3-Days-of-the-Week.pdf
• Thursday - Watch the video about measuring height - https://vimeo.com/509849788 then have a go at the activity: https://assets.whiterosemaths.com/fixed/wrm/2021/01/PDF-Growing-6-7-8-Session-4-Measuring-Height.pdf or, if you don’t have the resources, try measuring different the height of different items around the house using lego cubes or pasta shapes.
• Friday – Watch the video about time - https://vimeo.com/509850386 and then have a go at the activity: https://assets.whiterosemaths.com/fixed/wrm/2021/01/PDF-Growing-6-7-8-Session-5-Measuring-Time.pdf

Topic

It’s Chinese New Year on Tuesday this week, so our week will be all about Chinese New Year.

• Monday – Watch the video below about Chinese New Year.  Talk about what you have found out.  Then, watch the video of the lion dance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJusyaRAq1I a traditional dance at Chinese New Year.  Do some research on the internet with a grown up and find out how to say ‘Happy New Year’ in Chinese and also find out which animal it is this year – the year of the……?

• Tuesday – Today is Chinese New Year!  We would love you to try some Chinese food today!  Prawn crackers, noodles, rice – so many yummy Chinese foods.  Perhaps you could try Chinese food for tea!  Complete the colour by number (link below) to celebrate the year of the tiger. 
• Wednesday – Go onto Google Earth on the computer with a grown up and find where China is.  Find some pictures of the Great Wall of China, which is a landmark in China and talk about what you see.  The Chinese language is different from ours.  Have a look at some Chinese writing on the internet – how is it different from our language?  Have a go at writing numbers 0-10 in Mandarin (Chinese), using the link below.
• Thursday – Look at the pictures below of Chinese lanterns.  Follow the instructions on the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZKYGmuZn0  to make a Chinese lantern in coloured paper or card.  You can use glue instead of a stapler.  You could then decorate it using gold pens or glitter if you have some.
• Friday – To finish off our weeks work all about Owl Babis in English, join in with the Cosmic Kids Yoga episode ‘Tallulah the Owlet’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aje33UPixE .