This week's Makaton sign is spider: 

Monday: 

Activity 1:

Sound of the week: r

What does Geraldine Giraffe find?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_NgOtt0Htw

What can you find beginning with r? Can you write r?

Activity 2: 

Arghh spider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQD84blj-w

Questions: Are you afraid of spiders?

Do spiders hurt us?

If you were a spider where would you like to live?

How could you show you are a kind spider?

Tuesday:

Activity 1:

Can you find out about spiders from Andy?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/andys-secret-hideout-spiders

Go on a spider hunt in your house and garden. How many did you find? What did they look like? Were they all the same or did you find different ones?

Activity 2: 

Can you describe the spiders? Use as many describing words as you  can.

Wednesday:

Activity 1: 

Listen to the story The very busy spider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhkZi28sE_E

 Threading a spider web Fine motor skills 

Activity 2: 

How many ways can you group the 8 spider legs? Put the spiders legs on the spider in different ways e.g.

1 and 7    2 and 6 etc

Thursday 

Activity 1:

Can you add the correct number of pegs to the correct numbered spider? Practise your one-to-one counting to check it is correct. Some of you can add two spiders legs together to see how many altogether.

Activity 2: 

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Choose 5-7 age range and zoom activities. Zoom out slowly after discussing what you can see and what it could be.

Friday:

Activity 1: 

Number blocks  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08dr1l3/numberblocks-series-1-the-whole-of-me

Take 5 objects and see how many different ways you can split them into two parts for example 4 and 1 part makes 5 whole number. Try it with different numbers too.