Good morning everyone,
Here are my suggestions for today.
Communication and Language/Literacy
Exploring the story of Little Red Riding Hood
I hope you enjoyed my video of Little Red Riding Hood yesterday. I have already mentioned many strategies that help children learn stories and ultimately begin to create their own stories. I will leave it up to you how long you decide to focus on this story. I’m guessing this will depend upon your child’s enthusiasm. Here’s a reminder of what you can do:
Discussing the story
Ask your child to tell you what they liked, disliked, any puzzles or patterns.
Move onto to discussions about what the characters did and how they may have felt.
Talk about some of the key words eg. ‘What is a wolf?’ Find out all about wolves.
Drama and storytelling
Act out the story. Perhaps make a den to represent Grandma’s house or act it out whilst on your daily exercise.
Make a story box or story map to retell the story.
Changing stories
Substitute some of the key words eg. instead of a wolf perhaps Little Red Riding Hood met a dragon.
Make additions. The story of Little Red Riding Hood often includes Little Red Riding Hood’s mother making a basket of food and telling her not to talk to the wolf.
Perhaps your child may wish to add a new character or an additional event that happened to Little Red Riding Hood on the walk.
Alter the ending – perhaps the wolf is sorry and Grandma invites him for tea.
Letters and Sounds
Is it right?
This game will very much depend upon your child’s stage in their spelling skills. It works by writing different variations of a word and asking your child to identify the right word. Children love to tell us when we’ve got something wrong! You can play it using words based upon the use of phonics or to help your child learn tricky words.
Using phonics
Tell your child the word you are going to try and write. Write a couple of variations and ask your child to identify the correct word and tell you why the others are not. Perhaps use your child’s word strips for this game.
For example, you may say ‘I’m going to write the word chips’
You write: cip, chip, chips
Your child may identify the right word and tell you that you forgot the ‘ch’ sound and didn’t put a ‘s’ on the end of the other word.
Ask your child to write down the correct word.
Tricky words
Tricky words are the star shapes words in your child’s word bag. These words cannot be sounded out and the correct spelling is learnt. Here are some suggestions:
wos, woz, was
dur, the, thur
go, goa
migh, my
hur, her
cum, come
sed, zed, said
lighk, like
Ask your child to write down the correct word. Discuss – ‘How do you know?’ ‘How do you remember?’
Maths
Draw a map to Grandma’s house – drawing maps
Ask your child to draw a map to show Little Red Riding Hood how to find Grandma’s house. Questions to ask:
- Where do you think Little Red Riding Hood’s house might be?
- Where are the woods?
- What would you find in the woods?
- Where is Grandma’s cottage?
I’d also like to share this picture, a maze for Jack to travel along the beanstalk and find the golden egg at the end.
Another idea is to ask your child to draw an outline of the road where you live. Can your child show where on the map you live and mark some other things in your road such as a postbox, a lamp post or tree, or where a friend lives.
Whatever map your child decides to draw, ask your child to explain their map to someone.
Physical Development – Healthy Eating
Fill a basket with healthy food to take to Grandma’s House
Ask your child to suggest what kinds of foods they think would help Grandma to get better, for example, eggs, fruit, milk. Perhaps talk about the different ways we can cook foods or provide your child with a selection of different foods to try.
Ask your child to draw a picture of healthy foods. You may wish to draw the basket for your child.
Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you all have a great day.
Nicola Palmer