Good morning parents and children,
I hope you all had a good day learning at home yesterday. From next week, I will provide a timetable of the week’s activities to assist your weekly planning. Many thanks to those parents who have already posted their child’s home learning on Tapestry.
Here is today’s home learning.
Communication and Language
Story book of the day
Sharing a book with your child is fun! It’s a time for closeness, laughing and talking together – and it can also give your child a flying start in life and help them become lifelong readers.
Top tip: Encourage your child to spot words they can read themselves eg. tricky words learnt so far or words from their word bag.
Set up a process to enable your child to choose a story book for the day by creating a special designated space showing your child’s name. Your child could choose their book and place it by their name when they get up in the morning.
Letters and Sounds
Today we are going to learn a new sound – qu. This is a digraph – two letters but one sound. Please watch the following video with your child.
The last word in the video ‘queen’ also includes the ‘ee’ digraph which we will learn in due course.
Ask your child to make a duck’s beak with their hand. Open and shut like a duck quacking.
Here is the song associated with the sound:
Maths
Continue our ‘measure’ maths focus following on from Step 1 posted yesterday.
Gather all members of the family together. Ask everyone to stand next to each other and compare heights. Talk about ‘taller’ for when things are vertical.
Funky Fingers
Our hands are quite complex pieces of machinery and are made up of lots of different joints and muscle groups. These joints and muscles have to interconnect and work together to provide maximum dexterity for writing. At school we begin each day with a finger activity. We have already done this activity in class so hopefully your child will impress you!
• Teach your child how to tie a knot using a piece of string, shoe lace or rope.
• Lay the rope flat on the table to show your child how to tie a knot.
• How many knots can your child tie?
• Ask your child to un-tie the knots. This can be very challenging where rope is easier.
• You could have fun with different types of knots.
• Learn to tie your school tie.
Sorry, the teacher in me has to say this word of caution, talk to your child about the dangers of playing with rope and creating knots. I recommend supervision with this activity.
Religious Education – Epiphany
Having introduced the concept of a celebration yesterday, celebrate Epiphany with your child.
The 12 days of Christmas ends with the Epiphany, which is traditionally celebrated on January 6. The feast itself is a celebration of the three kings arriving to visit baby Jesus. There are many ways you can celebrate this beautiful feast day with your child at home. So let’s dive into the ideas!
Making the three kings with children is a really fun way to celebrate the Epiphany and get the true meaning of the day across to them. The picture below provides an idea but I don’t expect your child to create these elegant looking kings. I appreciate this may depend on what arts and crafts you have available at home. Recycle household materials is a great alternative and embrace your child’s creativity.
The star is a common symbol for the Epiphany since the kings followed the star to find the new born king, baby Jesus. Make a star shaped Epiphany sandwich. This is great because you don’t have to cook and it requires basically no prep. Just your standard sandwich stuff and a star shaped cookie cutter (if you have one at home).
Wearable crafts always seem to be a huge hit. So what better way to celebrate the Epiphany with your child than to make their own King crowns?
I look forward to hearing all about your child’s home learning on Tapestry.
Have a great day!
Nicola Palmer