Good morning Reception class,
I hope you are all keeping safe and healthy at home and enjoying learning with your family.
Here is today’s home learning.
Communication and Language
Word webs
Let’s do another word web to continue to build upon your child’s vocabulary. I think there are many words we can explore in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. For example,
poor, market, crossroads, magic, amazement, potty, supper, colossal, humungous, greedily, dodged, slithered, axe, toppling
Reminder of what to do
- Choose a word to start a discussion.
- Write the word in the middle of a piece of paper eg. ‘magic’.
- Ask your child what he/she knows about ‘magic’.
- If your child hesitates, look at a book or Google together and start the discussion from there.
- Encourage your child to lead the conversation and write down his or her ideas. Perhaps your child could draw some pictures.
- This is a nice activity for you to model writing ‘scribing’. However, you could just sit and chat about your word.
Talking about new words in this way helps your child remember the new words.
Letters and Sounds
Today’s new sound – ‘ar’ (digraph two letters but one sound)
This video introduces the ‘ar’ sound.
Below is a short game – identify the long ‘oo’ or ‘ar’ sound.
The following video supports blending and reading ‘ar’ sound words.
Below is the action for the long ‘ar’ – pretend you’re at the dentist, open mouth wide and say ‘ar’.
Show your child how to write ‘ar’ using the correct letter formation.
Letter formation for ‘a’ and ‘r’ can be found in your child’s letters and sounds book.
Encourage your child to ‘have a go’ at writing the ‘ar’ sound.
For challenge
Only if your child is ready. Write the following words:
For extra challenge
Write a sentence and draw a picture to accompany the sentence.
Literacy
Story Map – Jack and the Beanstalk
Watch my Jack and the Beanstalk video first. See yesterday and Monday’s blog.
Once your child has listened to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, draw a story map together.
Below is my Jack and the Beanstalk story map.
Display the story map in a prominent position where it can be seen. It can then be used as a visual reminder for your child when retelling the story.
Maths
One small step for Jack, one giant step outside!
What to do:
- You may wish to prepare this activity for tomorrow to surprise your child.
- Make a giant footprint ideally outside in some mud or sand. If you do not have a garden just cut out a large footprint from a piece of paper and leave it by the door – or the old Santa trick in flour or talcum powder. Try to make the footprint as large as it can possibly be.
- Write a letter from the giant:
- Pretend to find the letter from The Giant and read it to your child.
- Ask your child to look for the evidence.
- Once the footprint is discovered, talk about it eg. ‘How long is the footprint?’ ‘How wide is the footprint?’ ‘How big do you think The Giant actually is?’ ‘Show me how long a toe might be!’
- Ask your child to wonder how tall The Giant might be if this is his footprint. Encourage your child to visualise The Giant’s height by comparing it to buildings near your home.
- A good opportunity for you to model mathematical words such as wide, long, height.
- Encourage your child to measure the footprint. At this stage, children begin measuring using non-standards units such as forks, bricks, sticks etc.
- Your child could use their measuring object to measure other items around the house. For example, ‘The Giant’s footprint is 6 forks long, the table is 10 forks long’. ‘I wonder which is the longest?’ ‘How do you know?’
Make a story chair/story area
Create a specially decorated chair or story area with your child. This then becomes a special place for your child to tell all sorts of stories. All you need to do is choose a chair and drape different fabrics over it or your child may wish to make some decorations for the chair. Maybe add dressing up clothes, fairy lights, some writing materials etc. Of course, you could also use the castle (den) suggested in my blog yesterday.
I look forward to hearing all about your child’s home learning on Tapestry.
Nicola Palmer