Week 8 - Monday 15th June Dear Parents There are new files for you to use if you wish on Tapestry in Documents under ‘Week 8 (June 15th). These both support the slides below OR offer some alternatives. They are worth looking at even if you do not wish to print them they may give you ideas. If you are unsure how to access these please message us on Tapestry or phone the school office and we will happily phone you and talk you through this.
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The text in red is for parents information. You DO NOT need to read this to your child. The text in pink are suggested extension activities if you feel your child would like more work to do or they are achieving the set tasks quickly and easily and therefore need stretching.
Please remember we are all on hand to help you. Just add an observation to your child's Tapestry journal, that way ONLY staff will see what you write, and we can respond just to you. Please continue to keep in touch with us at least once a week on Tapestry.
Many thanks for your continued support and the wonderful work you are doing with your child. From Mrs Rose, Mrs Maskew and the EYFS team.
Further Reading practise Go to Oxford owl website and choose appropriate books for your child to read. Perhaps your family has been playing games or doing quizzes during lockdown? You could read this book ⇢ Remember there are two activities for you to do after you have read the book.
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/reso urce/t-l-5786-phase-3-trickyword-spotter-story
This weeks whole school theme is Investigation. The idea is that you choose which activities you do and in which order.
You could read this↑ book on Oxford Owls. Sun Shadows STEM PowerPoint (teacher made)
You may like to try this investigation on the following slides.
A Riddle to Get You Thinking… I follow you around in the light but I’ll say goodbye to you at the night. What am I? That’s right, I’m your shadow When there is a light source you will nearly always have a shadow somewhere close by. A shadow is made when an object blocks light. The object must not be seen through or the light will pass through and you will end up with no shadow.
Shifting Shadows Take a look around and see what objects you can see that form shadows. You will notice that swings, trees, cars, tables and almost everything else has a shadow!
We are going to look a little closer at shadows and see if we can find out some other interesting things that happen when you have a light source and a shadow. Let’s find out more‌
What to Do 1 Draw a character – it could be a person, an animal or an object - onto a piece of thick cardboard.
2 Cut out your character. the lollipop stick on the back 3 Place of your character.
4 Stick it in place with the sticky tape. 5 Hold your puppet up next to a wall, preferably a white wall.
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Shine the torch or whatever light source you are using onto your puppet. A large shadow of your puppet will appear on the wall.
Now, move your character 7 towards the light. What do you notice? Move your character 8 further from the light.
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What do you notice? Move the light source to one side whilst you hold the character still. What do you notice?
Here’s What’s Happening… When you move the character towards the light your shadow gets bigger. This is because you are blocking out more of the light coming from the light source so the space with no light – the shadow - gets bigger. When you move your character further away from the light source your shadow gets smaller. This is because there is more light coming from the light source making the shadow from the character get smaller. When you move the light source to one side and then another the shadow should move in the opposite direction. This is because light travels in straight lines towards the object so the shadow will always be behind the lines of light from the light source.
Maths This week we are learning about half and halving. Halving numbers is the opposite of doubling numbers. Therefore if your child was able to recall
double numbers last week they may start to recall what half of a number is this week. However the main focus and expectation is for children to
be able to half one whole object into two ‘equal’ parts e.g. toast and use 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10 objects (e.g. grapes) and share these into two halves/groups/bowls so you and your child have half of the grapes each.
Begin by talking about what half means. When do you use the word half in everyday life? E.g. half an hour, half past 10, only eat half of the strawberries, save half of the cucumber for tomorrow, half a pint/bottle, half way home, I am 4 and a half, half a teaspoon.
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/real-life-halves-photopowerpoint-t-n-7647
What Is Halving? This is the whole pizza.
The pizza has been cut into 2 halves. Each piece is the same size.
This is one half of the pizza.
Making Halves This is a whole pizza. Can you click on the knife to cut it into two halves?
You have made two halves. Each piece is a half.
Finding Halves Half of this cake is missing. Can you find the other half?
The two halves make a whole.
Finding Halves Half of this ice cream is missing. Can you find the other half?
Each half is the same size.
Finding Halves Half of this chocolate is missing. Can you find the other half?
The two halves of chocolate are equal.
Finding Halves Half of this melon is missing. Can you find the other half?
How many people can share the melon when it is in halves?
Finding Halves Half of this pineapple is missing. Can you find the other half?
This is the whole pineapple.
Suggested maths activities for the whole week Use Twinkl - filter by EYFS and type ‘halving’ into the search bar for lots of useful slides e.g. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-n-2632-real-life-halves-presentation Some activities are ALSO available in Documents file Week 8 (June 15th) on Tapestry .
ACTIVITIES 1) Provide your child with some real objects to cut/break accurately in ‘half’ or
two pieces that are the ‘same’/’equal’. E.g. one banana, one mushroom, one cup cake, strawberry, grape. You could use playdough to make one cookie, one sausage, one pizza, etc. 2) Watch https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/halving-fruits-for-parrots-powerpoint-t-n-2546972 then play half the pirate treasure. You could use the resources in this weeks file on Tapestry or find it on Twinkl. Or better still improvise and use coins/lids/ beads for ‘treasure’ and 2 boxes to be treasure chests. Then give your child different quantities of treasure to share between two pirates so they have HALF the treasure each. This is ‘fair’.
3) Can your child share several objects into two groups/bowls so you have ‘half each’ e.g. 4 apples, 6 strawberries, 8 fish fingers, 12 grapes. Is it fair if I have 5 grapes and you have 7? How could we make it equal so we have half each? 4) Help your child to see the link between doubling and halving. Use various objects to do this. Afterwards you may wish to use the bee sharing sheet or toy sharing game. If your child can recall double numbers and half of a number you could print off and play this game. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-n-1148-doubling-and-halving-boardgame
5) Please give your child some worded halving problems. Adjust the numbers to match their level of understanding. ENCOURAGE them to use objects (e.g. blocks or bottle lids) to help work out the answers. For example
There are 6 cherries and Dad eats half of them. How many are left? I had 8 breadsticks. I ate half of them. How many did I eat? I have a pack of 10 lollies. Half of them have been eaten. How many are in the box?
Phonics -
if your child needs to practise Phase 3 phonics you could also use BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm
To follow on from last week phonics we are going to revise double letter digraphs oo and 00. Activity 1 Which oo sound long or short?
Activity 2 Can you write more words with the long oo sound in the empty boxes
Activity 3 Can you read these sentences? Identify the long oo ! Make up your Own Sentence. Can you write Your sentence? Read it to your Adult.
Activity 4 Can you read these short OO words ? can you think of any more OO words.? Look on Youtube at Mr Thorne does phonics for More words. How many will Geraldine find?
Activity 5 Read these sentences carfully remeber this is short OO.
Writing ideas for home learners. Write a list of the words you thought of. Don’t forget you are using short OO words. Don't forget to practice the letter formation! How neatly can you write your words ?
Activity 7
We are also going to revising OR Can you think of any more Make a list How many more words do you have?
Activity 8 Read these words identify the Or sound. Does it always sound like or in the word?? Can you make up your own Sentence? Use the words you thought of! Look on Espresso Or Mr Thorne for More ideas!
Activity 9
Some children confuse ar and or when reading words. Spend some time revising ar ask the children what the difference between ar and or is. Can the children explain why some words in this list have a capital letter at the beginning.
Well done you for all your great learning in week 8!