Summer Term Week 8 – The Princess and the Wizard Literacy Tasks

Explore the story

Princess and the Wizard Listen to the story and have a chat about it with your adult. Did you enjoy the story? Would you like to be a princess or a wizard? What would you do to escape? What happened to the wizard at the end? More questions are at the bottom of this document to support the discussion and sharing of this story. Like lots of the books we have looked at this is a book contains lots of rhymes. There are lots of rhyming pairs. The words are at the end of this document to help you. Challenge: Can the children match the rhyming pair words together when they hear them said aloud. REMEMBER the adult reads the word to the child to see if they can hear the rhyming words they are not expected to be able to read them themselves.

Escaping the wizard Share the story of Princess and the Wizard again. Each day to escape the Wizard the princess turns herself into different animals and objects. Challenge: Can you write a list of all the things that she turned into? Try having a go at writing the matching days of the week? REMEMBER children are not expected to spell these words correctly, they should use their phonics to write the sounds they can hear in the words in sequence. Grownups remind/ discuss with your child that when writing a list, we just need to write the key words and we must write them one underneath each other.

Invitation Share and recap the story of Princess and the Wizard. Imagine you are having a party like Princess Eliza had. Challenge: Can you write your own invitation to a Princess’ party? Remember to tell people where to come and what time. Can you decorate your invitation?

Fairy Godmother Share and recap the story of Princess and the Wizard Princess Eliza had a Fairy Godmother, she watched over her and kept her safe with her magic spell. Challenge: Imagine you had a Fairy Godmother and she granted you one wish. Can you draw a picture of what you would wish for and write one or two sentences to go with it.

Potion Spell

Revisit the story, try retelling it to a grown up. The wizard uses his magic spells to turn people into stone because he was upset at not being invited to the party. Challenge: Can you write your own potion spell to stop the wizard from turning people into stone? There are some ideas below to get you started. You can use one of the potion page borders or design your own, how magic will it be?

Summer Term Week 8 – Odds and Evens

Maths Tasks

Number blocks

Number blocks Odds and Evens

In this Numberblocks episode learn to recognise which numbers are odd and which are even. What do the children notice? An even number is made up of 2s, an odd number has a one on top. Relate this back to our halving from last week, we could share the even numbers fairly but the odd numbers have one left over

Odd and Even

You will need: Small pots or

containers Objects for counting

Provide pots of items containing quantities from 1-10. Ask the children to count the objects in each pot and decide if they are odd or even/ How can they check? Challenge them to make their own odd and even sets.

Odd and Even You will need:

Selection of cubes or counters

Ask children to collect an odd number of cubes/ counters. How can they check that it is odd? (Put in pairs and see if we have any left over.) Ask the children to collect one more cube and add it to their set. How may do they have now? Do they still have an odd number? Continue to add one more each time, what do the children notice? What is the largest number they can make with their objects? Is it odd or even Challenge Can you cut out the numbers on the sheet below and sort them into odd and even?

Numbers on door

Go for a short walk in your street. Have a look at the numbers in the street. What numbers are they? Can you identify whether they are odd or even? Do you notice anything about the numbers on either side of the street?

ICT game Coconut Game Odd or even Can you identify which numbers are odd and which are even? (Please select 1-10, or 1-20 odd and even, depending on your child’s ability.) https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/coconut-odd-or-even

Phonics Phonics Tasks

The Department for Education is providing Letters and Sounds Phonics lessons online for children in Reception and Year 1. A letter outlining the details of this can be found in the Parental Support tab on our Home Learning Page. The Reception phonic lesson begins at 10am every day and there is an additional session at 11am if your child needs extra support with their blending. After watching each lesson we would ask you to hear your child read and encourage them to practise their blending skills. The lessons can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/channels?view_as=public The videos will continue to be available on the website after they have been uploaded so that you may access them at a time that is convenient to you

Phase 2 Tricky Words

Phase 3 Tricky words

Geraldine the Giraffe's Tricky Words

Symmetrical Crowns Have a look at the princess crowns below, can you colour in the other half to make them symmetrical, which one is your favourite?

Fairy-tale Yoga

Have a go at this Fairy-tale yoga, can you be brave and strong?

Fairy-tale Yoga

Days of the week

Princess Eliza changed herself every day of the week into something new. Can you keep a diary where you record one thing each day, you could draw

pictures or write a sentence about your day. There is a princess one below or you can make your own.

Me, My Family, My World Activities

Designing

Can you design your own wizard hat or sparkly dress for a princess? What shapes and colours will you use?

Party games

Have a go at some of these party game:

Musical statues – can you stand as still as the statues that the wizard turned to stone.

Hide and Wizard – The wizard has to count to 20 and the other person hides, will the wizard find them and turn

them into stone.

What’s the spell Mr Wizard – The instructions for this game can be found on the pages below.

Have fun!

R.E

At Pentecost the disciples of Jesus were given a very special job. Listen to this song as it introduces some of Jesus’

special friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiZq3zDl5D4

What do you think the Disciples had to be like, what type of people were they?

Magic wand or crown

Can you make your own wizard wand or crown to help you retell the story?

Princess and the Wizard discussion questions

Questions to ask before listening/ reading the

story

What can you see on the front cover?

What is the title of the book?

What do you think the book might be about?

Who is the author of the book, have we ever read anything by them before?

Questions to ask while reading/listening to the

story?

Why are they having a party?

What does the wizard want to do to people?

How is the princess escaping from the wizard?

Questions to ask at the en d of the story?

Did you enjoy the story? What was your favourite

part?

What wish would you ask of the Fairy Godmother?

What do you think happened to the wizard?

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Rhyming pairs