Summer 2 Week 2Our theme of the week: ‘All about our

local area!’ *Take a look at the blog each day too for songs and ‘Wake up Shake up activities’ for you to enjoy!

What else is happening?Bike Week6th Jun to 14th Jun 2020Organised by Cycling UK, this is an annual opportunity to promote cycling and show how cycling can easily be part of everyday life.Event Website

Ocean Day Monday 8 th June World Oceans Day - link to website https://worldoceansday.org/ Event organised by The Ocean Project to raise awareness of the oceans and the living creatures that make their home there.Children could make a socktopus – dig out any old socks you may have!

More about World Oceans Day

Our ‘Book of the Week:’ ‘On the Way Home’ by Jill Murphy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URRAMHToe4s  

Other stories…https://youtu.be/BLs4r8lHUSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS7atVOzDf4

Weekly Maths Tasks(Aim to do 1 per

day)

Weekly Speaking, Listening

and Social Skills(Aim to do 1 per

day) Don't forget topmarks.co.uk have

lots of fun and interactive games that you may want to try! From underwater counting to creating your own shape pattern train!

Money sorting games to challenge yourself....

Top Marks Coin Sorting Game Top Marks Money Buying Children to create homes.

Children to recognise and put the correct amount of windows on the home. Extension using different coloured windows children to complete simple addition sentences?

Pocket book of Children's Rights

These are activities that can be used at any time during the day.. We are encouraging children to build upon social skills already taught, and to be able to develop the skills to be able to work and share their new spaces kindly and cooperatively with each other. Respecting the rights of others and themselves to be safe.

Talk about what we have to remember to do at the moment to keep ourselves safe. Make a ‘stay safe’ poster with pictures and labels.

What can you use to make the shape of a home? Lollypop sticks? Count how many lollypop sticks needed to be used? Can children write number sentences using their creations? Children to throw the bag or any

other piece of equipment at two numbers to create their own number sentences, using counters/number line to support working out.

How about the children have a go at rolling a ball down a ramp?

Children to predict how far their plastic ball will travel. Children to have their

Talk about your favourite place to be:

Why is it special?

What is there?

Is it outside or inside?

What does it look like?

Who do you normally share it with?

Draw your special place.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-m-2597-rainbow-page-borders

Practise the ways to communicate with our friends that we learnt last week. Practise sing language that we learnt last week. Add new signs.

https://www.british-sign.co.uk/

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/british-sign-language-bsl-emotions-and-feelings-flashcards-t2-dc-373

Have a ‘Totally No Talking Ten Minutes!’ Whole bubble to only

own plastic ball to roll down the ramp and measure the distance. Encourage children to use the language near/far/nearer/further/longer/shorter. Children to talk about what they could do next time to make it travel further or nearer? How might increasing the level of the ramp make a difference to the distance of the ball? Encourage children to talk about the force they use etc and compare the distance of their balls to their peers.

communicate through hand signals and signs. Afterwards...what did we say to each other? What did we need to do...MAKE EYE CONTACT! CONCENTRATE! NOT LOOK AWAY! TAKE TIME TO WORK OUT WHAT THE OTHER PERSON HAS ‘SAID’ AND HOW TO RESPOND

What things have we found tricky at school now that things have changed? What have we found easy? How could we help each other but in a ‘safe’ way? Draw a picture.

Weekly Phonics Tasks

(Aim to do 1 per day)

Weekly Reading/Writing

Tasks(Aim to do 1 per

day)Why not have a look at the links below for a whole host of activities for the children to apply their skills!

Phonics Bloom Online Phonics games

Letters and Sound Games Online Phonics games

BBC Bitesize Phonic Videos Online Videos and games

Phonics Play Epic Phonics: Yes/No Questions Whiteboard writing of sounds and

simple sentences Twinkl: Ispy read and find sheets Twinkl: I can read sheets : cutting

Take a look at our ‘Book of the Week.’ Before reading the story, look at the front cover. What might happen to the girl on the way home? Talk about the characters, settings, predict what may happen? Ask lots of questions!

Zig-zag books with sugar paper. How about folding up a pice of paper into a ‘zig zag!’ Children to draw the animals in order from the story on each page of the zigzag and write a

and sticking activity

Tricky word wall writing with chalk (if no chalk you could use a wet paintbrush.

short sentence underneath/challenge - or draw their own animals they might see on the way home!

Can you make a new page for the book, in which Claire tells another friend an unusual way that she hurt her knee? Draw another book cover!

There are lots of characters from different stories in the book, e.g. the big, bad wolf, the woodcutter, gigantic giant. Can you think of other books that they appear in?

Speech Bubbles! What about a different style of writing? Have a go at writing what Claire or her friends said inside a speech bubble – or make up your own!

Park keeper word search Word search - click here

Why not write a letter or a post card to a family member you haven’t seen/ to a friend/ to your class/teacher at school or to Mr Duncan.

Post card template

Learning Projects that you may like to try during the week!