This week's question is 'What magical creatures live in the woods?'

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 Harry Hat Man 'h'. Have a look on your Phonics Online account and encourage your child to learn about who this character is and what sounds the letter makes. Listen to their story and explore their picture looking for all of the items that have the initial sound 'h'. After learning the songs and chants you can access Phonics Reader 5 stories A Hat For 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, u, r, h 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 hat, hen, him, hop, his, hot, hug, hid and has.

Use your decodable sentence books for lesson 20 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 sc, sk, sm and sl. Listen to their chants and then access Phonics Reader 8 It Is Hot! to practice reading. There is a lot to learn in this lesson so we are going to be spreading the content out over the next two weeks.

Use your decodable sentence books for lesson 36 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 'do' - we will be pulling the words apart to discover that the letter 'o' is not making the correct sound in 'do'.

Mrs Taylor's group are also learning about blending and segmenting the sounds to read and write words, using the sounds s, a, t, p, i, n, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, l, ff, ll, ss, j, v, w, x, y, z, qu, ng 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 scab, scan, scam, scuff, skin, skip, skill, skull, mask, desk, slip, slug, slick, slap, smell, smog and smack.

Magic Maths

This week we will be starting a new phase of the White Rose maths scheme - Phase 6 titled 'Building 9 and 10'. 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/508858698

Tuesday: https://vimeo.com/508839297

Wednesday: https://vimeo.com/508840619

Thursday: https://vimeo.com/508841193

Friday: https://vimeo.com/508841701

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

Understanding of the world and art

This week we will be imagining what magical creatures might live in the woods - this is an opportunity for the children's imaginations to take the lead. They can write about and draw pictures of what they believe might be live in a magical woodland world such as fairies.

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.