Atlas Class Everyday tasks Tuesday 12th May 2020 ( 12.5.2020)
Maths task
- How do we measure?
- Words to learn to help do this activity:-
- Tall, tallest, taller than, small, smallest, smaller than, short shortest, shorter than, long, longest, longer than, measure,
- Phrases to use:
- How tall is this? How long is this?
- Is this one the tallest/ shortest/ smallest?
- Is this taller/ longer/ shorter than that one?
- What you will need:-
- Your hands, feet, a piece of wool or ribbon or string a cushion, a sofa or a bed
- What to do:-
- Practice walking with one foot placed directly behind the other ( toe behind and touching the heel of your other foot). Walk in a straight line with your arms out to help reduce your wobbling!
- Now place a cushion ( or big book flat) on the floor. Walk along the floor NEXT to the cushion or book. Toe to heel and count how many footsteps you had to walk from the beginning to the end of it.
- Then use the bed or sofa- Walk along the floor NEXT to the sofa or bed- Toe to heel and count how many footsteps you had to walk from the beginning to the end of it.
- Which one is longest? ( say – “This one is long, this is the longest. It is longer than this one”)
- Investigate
- Investigate-
- Can you find something that is 4 footsteps long?
- Can you find something longer than your sofa/ bed?
- Can you find something shorter than your sofa/ bed?
- In your home learning journal can you draw your cushion/ book and the number of footsteps
- Then draw your bed/ sofa and the number of footsteps
- More Maths if you prefer:- Parents please can you open the following bbc webpage and help your son join in with the Maths activity each day.
BBC Bitesize daily lessons Maths Y1 Tuesday 12th May - (or if you prefer some of you can click on and use Y2 instead)
There are also some English and topic activities you might like to use too.
English phonic/ writing task:
We are split into 2 groups for our phonics work.
- If you are in Mrs Masters’ group [ BH SE LL HW RL LB] then please COPY OUT THESE WORDS TWICE** and then CUT OUT EACH WORD:-
they them for of were was any many looked saw said all are
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- **we will be using these words to play lots of phonic games this week and next week, so please feel free to write each word using felt-tips onto cardboard ( perhaps the back of a cereal packet?)
- 5 Games to play this week using the words:-
- HUNT THE WORD-parents choose 4 words, show them to your son. Can he read it to you or you read it to him and he repeats it back. Then place the words in 4 separate parts of the garden or house. You say the word and your son has to run and find it. ( do this every day using 4 different words)
- SENTENCE MAKER-use these words (they looked for) and finish the sentence e.g. They looked for stars/ They looked for aliens creeping around/ They looked for peace and quiet/ They looked for chocolate. ( Mrs Osborn’s favourite!) Can you make a really funny or silly or long sentence?
- SPLAT THE WORD- choose 2 words and put them on the floor or table in front of you. Use your hand or a wooden spoon to take turns to say one word and winner is the one who splats the word first. Repeat! ( please take care!)
- COPY ME QUICK - Choose one word and copy the word as fast as you can and as many times as you can in 30 seconds
- SOUND-SWAP Use these sounds f g e a o m r l c from your brown envelope to make the following words:- make sure you “say the sound as you point to EACH sound, then say the word”
- l-o-t l-e-t g-e-t m-e-t
- m-e-n m-a-n r-a n f-a-n c-a-n
- If you are in Mrs Osborn’s group [ LL CC CT JT OH ZB], then please COPY OUT THESE WORDS TWICE** and then CUT them all out so you have 2 copies of each word.:-
little you can then there his her went that the out
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- **we will be using these words to play lots of phonic games this week and next week, so please feel free to write each word using felt-tips onto cardboard ( perhaps the back of a cereal packet?)
- Games to play this week using the words above:-
- HUNT THE WORD-parents choose 4 words, show them to your son. Can he read it to you or you read it to him and he repeats it back. Then place the words in 4 separate parts of the garden or house. You say the word and your son has to run and find it. ( do this every day using 4 different words)
- SOUND-SWAP Use these sounds eigh ay a_e d p t s m l from your brown envelope to MAKE and then WRITE words:- make sure you “say the sound as you point to EACH sound, then say the word”
- e.g. d-ay = day/ eigh-t = eight/ t- a- p e = tape how many words can you make?
- SENTENCE MAKER-use these words (then that there little her went out) and complete this part of a story!
- Once upon a time ------- was a ------ cat. She wanted to go --- to play and run . But the wicked witch said “No you cannot do ---- !” So ----- the little cat ---- to sit in --- cat basket.
- STORY ENDING- Can you finish the story? How does it end? Did the cat curl up and go to sleep or did she creep out? What happened after that?
- STOPWATCH CHALLENGE-
- Put out all your words and ask your parent to use their stopwatch on their phone and time you to see how many words you can read in 30 seconds
- Put out all your words and ask your parent to use their stopwatch on their phone and time you to see how many words you can write in 30 seconds
Reading:
Read a book (from your book bag or one from home). Copy the title of your book into your home learning journal. Copy one sentence from your book each day until you have written 5 sentences. Then try to re-read those sentences you have written to your parents.
Topic:
ART/ D & T - Face Sculpture
- You will need:- recyclable materials- cardboard, plastic containers and lids e.g. plastic milk tops, lolly sticks, used silver foil or any clean recycling material
- What to do:- try to arrange the recyclable material to make into a face picture. You might use milk bottle tops as eyes, lolly sticks for eyebrows, a toilet-toll tube as a nose etc. How inventive can you make it? When you have finished you can simply clear all of it up again and put it back into the recycling box!
In school or at home to if the weather is ok or if you can do this in your garden, you can use the wild area to collect a selection of twigs and stones and fallen leaves to make your face sculpture picture.