This week's question is 'What diurnal 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 Clever Cat and Kicking King. 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 Yes or No? and Stop! 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 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 kit, kid, Kim, cat, can, cap, cog

Use your decodable sentence books for lesson 13 and 14 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 Quarrelsome Queen and the digraph 'ng'. Have a look on your Phonics Online account and encourage your child to learn about who/what these characters and spelling patterns are. Listen to their stories and explore their pictures. After learning the songs and chants you can access Phonics Reader 7 stories A Quick Quiz and Ding Dong to practice reading.

We will also be learning a new suffix this week, to add to the suffixes 's' and 'es' we learned a few weeks ago. This week we will be learning about 'ing' by adding it to base words such as peck, kick, miss, pass, hang and pack.

Use your decodable sentence books for lesson 32 and 33 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 word 'was' - we will be pulling the word apart to discover that the letter 'a' is not making the correct sound 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/500528141

Tuesday: https://vimeo.com/500528665

Wednesday: https://vimeo.com/500529031

Thursday: https://vimeo.com/500529464

Friday: https://vimeo.com/500529845

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

Understanding of the world and art

This week we will be learning about the diurnal animals (animals active during the daytime) that we find in the woods. These will be animals such as blue tits, blackbirds, squirrels and butterflies. 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 squirrels. We will also look at where China is and ask 'Do they have squirrels in China?' We will then use the Chinese technique of ink wash painting to try to create squirrel 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.