Activities
To help keep you busy we have compiled another set of activities.
Complete as many as you wish and share what you do on Tapestry and on our Facebook group. Each week we will look at a different text and share activities. Reception will share some maths activities for you to try and we will look at our new topic.
The teachers will continue to send messages, read stories and share other activities on Tapestry.
Literacy
This week we will be reading We’re going on a Bear Hunt. Mrs Nelson has read the story on Tapestry.
You can find a link to the story performed by Michael Rosen here too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds
Reception –
Day 1: Read the book together. Encourage your child to join in with the repeated part of the text. Could you Facetime with a friend and read it together?
Can you read it again but this time acting it out. A Bear hunt around the house.
Day 2: Recap the story. Can you draw parts of the story in the correct order? What came first? Grass, mud etc Or sequence pictures your grown has drawn.
Day 3: Look at describing words. Long, wavy grass. Find things to describe – look at cold, hot, bumpy, smooth. Collect things that are the same and write a list of them. E.g. All shiny things.
Day 4: Have a teddy bears picnic – write invitations for all of the teddies invited, write a menu for the picnic.
Day 5: Talk about feelings – how does the bear feel? Is he an angry bear or was he looking for a friend? Look at the very last page when he’s on the beach by himself.
Watch We’re going on a Bear Hunt short film or Michael Rosen the author using sign language on google/you tube.
Challenge: Can you write a new version of the book using a different animal – e.g. We’re going on a dinosaur hunt.
Don’t forget the St Oswald’s ‘Going on a bear hunt’ see news page for details.
Top tip: Always remember to explore the front cover of a book, look at the name on the book and talk about it being an author as well as exploring the blurb and publisher. All the underlined terms are ones the children should be familiar with.
Nursery
Day 1: Read the book together. Encourage your child to join in with the repeated part of the text. Could you Facetime with a friend and read it together?
Day 2: Can you read it again but this time acting it out. A Bear hunt around the house?
Day 3: Recap the story. Can you draw parts of the story in the correct order? What came first? Grass, mud etc
Day 4: Have a teddy bears picnic – write invitations for all of the teddies invited and/or write a menu for the picnic. Remember mark making at this stage is fine.
Day 5: Watch We’re going on a Bear Hunt short film or Michael Rosen the author using sign language on google/you tube.
Don’t forget the St Oswald’s ‘Going on a bear hunt.’ See our news page for details.
Top tip: Always remember to explore the front cover of a book, look at the name on the book and talk about it being an author.
Numeracy (Reception)
This week we would like to focus on halving.
Introduce the word half. Look at things that we cut in half- pizza, apples, cake, easter eggs etc. Make play dough snakes and chop in half. Explore how both sides are the same size.
Look at halving numbers- build towers using lego or duplo, then half them. Count how many in one half. This is half of the total.
Use the halving mat below or a paper plate with a line drawn down the middle to half a group of objects (sweets, raisins, cars, bricks etc) Place a larger number of objects in one half. Discuss if you have halved them. Is this fair? Can we make this half?
Extension
Look at halving odd and even numbers. This episode of Numberblocks explores odd and even numbers. Can we half odd numbers? What happens? Why? Introduce the word remainder if you wish.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08r2l4d/numberblocks-series-2-odds-and-evens
Link to our work on doubles. The children were becoming confident at knowing their doubles. Can they link this to halving. 1+1= 2 so half of 2 equals 1. We loved this doubles rap to learn our doubles facts.
Solve problems involving halving. See this sheet for inspiration.
Topic
Our new topic this half term was going to be ‘How to be healthy!’ Over the next few weeks we will send you some activities linked to being healthy.
Decorate a piece of paper with some healthy foods – you could draw them, cut them out from the free leaflets that come through the door or print some off and cut them out.
Can you write a menu for a healthy eating day? -What healthy breakfast would you have? -What would be a healthy snack? -What would you have for lunch or dinner?
Can you make one and try it – was it yummy?
Post what your healthy food, healthy day or any healthy food you make on Tapestry. We would love to see.
