This week's question is 'What nocturnal animals live in our woodlands?'

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 the digraph 'ck' and Eddy Elephant. 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 sound 'e'. After learning the songs and chants you can access Phonics Reader 4 stories Can he kick? and Is Ed a pet? 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, c, k, ck, e 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 kick, dock, sick, tick, pack, end, ten, men, pet, peg, den, hens and peck.

Use your decodable sentence books for lesson 15 and 16 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 adjacent consonants. Have a look on your Phonics Online account and encourage your child to learn about the spelling patterns for bl, cl, fl, gl, pl and sl. Listen to their stories and explore their pictures. After learning the songs and chants you can access Phonics Reader 8 A robin on a clock to practice reading.

Use your decodable sentence books for lesson 34 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 learning the tricky words 'come' and 'want' - we will be pulling the words apart to discover that the letter 'a' is not making the correct sound in 'want' and the letters o and e are not making the correct sound in 'come' and so is trying to trick us.

Magic Maths

This week we will be continuing in the 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/509848194

Tuesday: https://vimeo.com/509848718

Wednesday: https://vimeo.com/509849169

Thursday: https://vimeo.com/509849788

Friday: https://vimeo.com/509850386

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

Understanding of the world and art

This week we will be learning about the nocturnal animals (animals active during the night time) that we find in the woods. These will be animals such as foxes, badgers, tawny owls and bats. Try exploring this webpage:https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/ to try to find out some information about what animals your children might be able to find. If you have a garden, encourage your child to go out into it and try to spot some of these animals - 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 hedgehogs. We will also look at where China is and ask 'Do they have hedgehogs in China?' We will then use the Chinese technique of ink wash painting to try to create hedgehog 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.