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.