This week we are going to look at a different story. We are looking at, “There’s an alien in your book” by Tom Flecher. I tried something a little different and had my little one help with the story, hope everyone doesn’t mind. As the English task is an inference/prediction task could you please pause the English video on the front cover and complete the task first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8LCpl3oVD8&feature=youtu.be.
English-Action/doing words
The story this week is brilliant for young children. This is in part due to the action or doing words that are peppered throughout the story asking children to use certain actions. Tomorrow we are going to have a go at creating our own story using the format of, “There’s and alien in your book.” To help us we are going to identify the action words in the story and think of our own that we might want to use.
- Bronze. Going through the story write a list of the action words used in the story. (These are the words that tell you to do something.) The first word is blow.
- Silver. Can you think of 5 of your own action words that you could insert into the story? Words like dance, flap, or crawl.
- Gold. Create your own page of the story, complete with an action word. An example would be. The alien spaceship is running out of fuel, PUSH the spaceship to home.
Maths-introduction to quarters.
It might help learners to use the finding quarters video to support their understanding. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfx6dp3
- Bronze. Have a go at quartering cucumbers, sandwiches, tomatoes ETC. To make a quarter we cut in half then cut it in half again. Once they are familiar they can quarter lego blocks/chocolate squares for exploring quarters of numbers.
- Silver. Activity 1. I would suggest they do this activity practically. You can make your own “picnic” list using items you have round the house
- Gold. Activity 2.
Topic-Animal mask
Using the theme of animals and similarities/differences I thought we would have a go at creating our own animal masks. This will need adult supervision. I have included an instruction video for making an elephant mask but children might want to choose their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPoNV4SdNiY
- Bronze. Make your own elephant mask with adult support.
- Silver. Choose your own animal mask to make.
- Gold. Review your mask. What is great about your mask and what would you improve next time.