T2 - Week 4 - At Home Learning

1/5/2020

Hi Room 1 Families!
Here is Week 4's learning at home ideas and activities.
A couple of items you may want to add to your shopping list for writing and developmental activities this week are Jellybeans and Jelly!
Have a great week, I'm looking forward to hearing from you and seeing what you're getting up to at home.

Devotions

The Beginning (Genesis 1:11-13, 27-31)
Big Question - Who made the World?
This Week - God the creator is also God the provider. He made the plants and trees.
MV - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
Songs: In the Beginning
Play Activities: 1) Explore outdoors - look at the different textures, colours and scents of plants and trees in your garden or close by outside areas. 2) Dramatic play 'shops' - set up a fruit and vegetable shop and talk about where fruits and vegetables come from. 3) Bark or leaf crayon rubbings - find some different textured items outside that you can create crayon rubbings from on a piece of paper.
Object Lesson - Using a piece of fruit (apple in example) - cut up and share an apple. Once it is all gone talk about what you would do to get more if there were none left in the house (grocery store, market, tree). Apples grow on trees but where did trees come from? God made plants, trees, flowers and seeds. Talk about what other things God has made. Read Genesis 1:11a - God said to do something and it was done! Make up actions for the different things God made - tall trees, tiny seeds, beautiful flowers, delicious fruit. Talk about why plants and trees are important for us and how this is one way God provides for us (food, shelter). We are to look after and care for creation.

Beginners Bible Story - focusing on the part of the story where God created the plants and trees.

Maths - Addition and Adding Sentences

These lessons introduce different vocabulary that are all asking addition questions. It is important for them to hear and use a variety of words so that when they hear a question with one of these words in it they will know they are needing to add.

1. 'and'

*Children can solve problems using small toys/figurines or Numicon shapes.
*Give your child questions like "At the park, four children were climbing on the monkey bars and five children were on the swings. How many children were there altogether?" *Continue with further questions with different numbers, then get your child to come up with their own questions and to show you how they work them out.
*Ask "Does it matter which number of children you add first?" Talk about if there were three children on the slide and two on the seesaw you could add 2+3 or 3+2 and will get the same answer.
*If your child is up to it, get them to practice writing the number sentences as they solve the problems.

2. 'more'

To continue on learning and the context from yesterday:
*Explain that there were already three children on the monkey bars when four more arrived to play on it. Ask how many children altogether would now be on the monkey bars? (then is introducing the word more and linking that hearing that means they also need to be adding).
*Make up other adding stories where 'more' is added. Encourage your child to use Numicon shapes to find the totals without counting.
*Ask your child to make up and share with you their own adding stories with 'more'.

3. 'plus'

*use two dice to create adding stories and using Numicon shapes to solve the problem (the playground context can still be used or you could just stick to the numbers)
*instead of saying and or more, use the word plus (and show the symbol +)
*continue rolling the two dice to come up with a variety of questions. Saying the number sentence _ plus _ equals __
*practice writing some of these as number sentences _+_=__

4. a different order for an adding sentence

*use or make number cards 1-10 also make a + and = symbol.
*Say "there were seven children in the park on the slide and the roundabout" ask "how many children might have been on the slide and how many on the roundabout?" (there will be multiple correct combinations that make the number seven)
*show how you would use their answer to make a number sentence (using the number and symbol cards) eg 3+4=7
*Ask if there is a different number of children that could be on the slide and roundabout that would still add to seven - this time get them to show you with the number and symbol cards once they have thought of another combination.
*Continue with different 'total' numbers using two pieces of equipment at the park and getting your child to find possible adding sentences that would work.

Here are some follow up adding worksheets they could complete (or continue with any unfinished worksheets from your At Home Learning Pack). If you don’t have a printer you can always write out your own questions for your child to fill in the answer or if they are up to it get them to write down the questions as you read them aloud to them. If your child is still learning to form numbers correctly you could draw shapes to represent the question eg 2 squares plus 3 squares and then they draw the correct number of squares after an equals symbol.

Simple Addition
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Adding Shapes 1
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Adding Shapes 2
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Phonics

Focus on one new sound a day

- My name is ... (letter name - h, r, m, d)
- My sound is ... (letter sound)

Come up with words starting with that sound
Link picture to sound and action
(h h hop, rrrrrrags, mmmmeal, d d drum)
Practice writing the letter correctly
Extra: make a collage/picture page about that sound

hrmd worksheets
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hrmd extension
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Spelling
This week's words - hit, cat, bus

Sound out the word (all of this week's words are easily decodable - each sound is heard)
- h-i-t , c-a-t , b-u-s
Say the word in a sentence
Practice writing the word
Try writing the sentence they came up with and drawing a picture to go with it.

Practice all of this week's spelling words in fun ways - in sand or salt, with chalk, with water and a paint brush on concrete, write as rainbow words etc. Test your child to see what they remember.

Reading

Writing

Here are some writing ideas and sentence starters to choose from for this week.
Get your child to choose one (or more) of their stories, take a photo and send it to Mrs Coe, I will reply to them :)
*Write something about the plants and trees in your garden (linking to devotions)
*Write about JUMPING
*Write about something JOYFUL
*Draw (or make a craft) JELLYFISH - write about what it looks like
*Read or listen to the story Jungle Journey (https://www.getepic.com/app/read/18688) and write your own story about going on a journey through the jungle.
*Make JELLY together. Talk about what it looks like in the packet, once you've added the water and then once it has set. Talk about how you made it and/or what it tastes like. All of these things can spark different things to write about in the following days. You could add a sentence to the story each day giving more information or write with different sentence starters or ideas.
*Write about how the Jelly changed in what it looked like
*Jelly tastes like… (describe in a creative way)
*My wobbly Jelly…
You could also base writing off something you have read, done or seen that day or during the week. Your child could also write about what they are going to share for news.

Oral Language / News

*find something at home beginning with the letter Jj. Send a short video sharing your news (by Thursday) with the class and Mrs Coe will post them on the blog on Friday.
Try to remember to greet the class (Good morning or afternoon Room 1), and tell us about what you are sharing, mum or dad might even ask a question for you to answer to give us some more information.
*Also if you make some Jelly - take a photo of your child with their creation so the class can see!

Developmental

*JELLY - make jelly. Talk about what it looks like in the packet, once you've added the water and then once it has set. Talk or write about how you made it and/or what it tastes like.
*JUMPING - have a jumping competition - who in your family can do the most of a certain type of jumps (star jumps, leap frog jumps, jump rope, etc) in 1 minute.
*JUMP on the trampoline (if you have one).
*JOKES - tell jokes together as a family. See if you can come up with your own knock, knock jokes.
*Get crafty and see if you can make a JELLYFISH.
*JIGSAW puzzles - get any puzzles out that you have at home to play with.
*Make a collage using newspapers, magazine, old cards etc of pictures starting with the letter Jj.

*Have a go making something out of JELLYBEANS and toothpicks or spaghetti.

*Colour, Cut, Paste - jigsaw puzzle - choose one of the jigsaw puzzle templates (one is to draw/colour their own the other has a picture on it already to colour in) once coloured cut out and muddle up the pieces. Try to piece the puzzle back together again and stick onto another piece of paper.