This week's question is 'What is a woodland?'

Phonics

Ask your child if they are in Mrs Millar's Letterland Group or Mrs Taylor's so that you can access the correct work.

This week Mrs Millar's group are learning about Golden Girl and Oscar Orange. Have a look on your Phonics Online account and encourage your child to learn about who these characters are and what sounds their letters make. Listen to their stories and explore their pictures looking for all of the items that have the initial sounds 'g' and 'o'. After learning the songs and chants you can access Phonics Reader 3 stories Is it Dan? and Tom and Tim to practice reading.

Mrs Millar's group are also learning about blending sounds to read words, using the sounds s, a, t, p, i, n, g, o and m. Try making some sound cards by writing a sound on a small piece of paper or card. Repeat this for all of the sounds until you have a full set and then start with the word 'at' place these sound cards on a surface and encourage your child to try to blend them. In Letterland we use something called 'the roller coaster trick' which the children in school will be introduced to this week. If you would like to know what this is then please have a look at the roller coaster trick video on this web page: https://www.letterland.com/training/videos 

Repeat this with words such as dig, gap, gas, tag, sag, nag, not, dot, pop, mop, pod, got

Use your decodable sentence books for lesson 11 and 12 and encourage your child to read the sentences and spot the target sounds. 

Encourage your child to copy these sentences underneath making sure they are using neatly formed letters. If they are finding a letter challenging to form then find the Letterland character on Phonics Online and watch the handwriting song to support correcting their formation.

This week Mrs Taylor's group are learning about Yo-yo Man and Zig Zag Zebra. Have a look on your Phonics Online account and encourage your child to learn about who these characters are and what sounds their letters make. Listen to their stories and explore their pictures looking for all of the items that have the initial sounds 'y' and 'z'. After learning the songs and chants you can access Phonics Reader 7 stories Yo-yo Man's yams and Zig, zag to practice reading.

Use your decodable sentence books for lesson 30 and 31 and encourage your child to read the sentences and spot the target sounds. 

Encourage your child to copy these sentences underneath making sure they are using neatly formed letters. If they are finding a letter challenging to form then find the Letterland character on Phonics Online and watch the handwriting song to support correcting their formation.

During these sessions we will also be revisiting Mr Mean-E. This is a character that the children love to hate. You can find his song and story in the 'digraph and trigraph' section of the meet the Letterlanders section. Mr Mean-E says 'ay' in words like they and grey. 

Magic Maths

This week we will be starting phase 5 of the White Rose maths scheme - titled 'growing 6, 7 and 8. The week's lessons have all been recorded so please encourage your child to watch them and then complete the follow up activities suggested:

Monday:https://vimeo.com/498019083

Tuesday: https://vimeo.com/498021661

Wednesday: https://vimeo.com/498022619

Thursday: https://vimeo.com/498023359

Friday: https://vimeo.com/498023851

Please upload your child's at home learning onto Tapestry.

Understanding of the world and art

This week we will be learning about the minibeasts that we find in the woods. Have a look at this blog: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/05/minibeast-facts/ and then explore this webpage:https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/ to try to find out some information about what minibeast your children might be able to find. If you have a garden, encourage your child to go out into it and try to find some of these minibeasts - make sure you emphasise how we must take care of all living things and that the children must carefully replace them once they have had a little look.

In our art sessions we are going to be learning about drawing snails. We will also look at where China is and ask 'Do they have snails in China?' We will then use the Chinese technique of ink wash painting to try to create snail paintings.

Please upload your child's artwork to Tapestry.

PE

One of our lovely parents highlighted to me that Joe Wicks has paired up with Hey Duggee! to create a series of workout challenges for children. They can be found here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBvIsxs4yYGusHvaTq9vhN0H 

So if your child is feeling well enough to jump around then this might be a great option for them to take part in.

Remember to add a photo of this to Tapestry.