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Timetable for Home Learning: Reception

Book focus: ‘Flyaway Katie’ by Polly Dunbar- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8Ygw1D_QQ

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

English

Listen to the story of the week. Can you read the instructions to

help you colour the picture of Katie?

English

Paint a picture of Katie using the correct colours from the story.

Can you label your picture? Can you spell the colours

correctly?

English

Mix two different colour paints together and watch what

happens. Have you made a new colour?

Can you write a sentence to explain the change?

English

Katie entered a new world through the picture on the wall.

Can you draw your own new world?

What things would you find there?

English

Make a poster about the new world you have designed.

Why would somebody want to visit there?

What adjectives can you use to describe your new world?

Maths

Run through the ‘Doubling’ PowerPoint on the school

website.

Can you double the butterfly’s spots?

Maths

Doubling fingers! Can you double the given

amount (below 10) using your

fingers? Complete Maths Handout 1.

Maths

Run through the ‘Real Life Halves’ PowerPoint on the

school website.

Can you find any objects in your house that can be cut in half?

Maths

Run through the ‘Halving Numbers’ PowerPoint on the

school website.

What happens to the number? Complete Maths Handout 2.

Maths

Play the ‘Double and Half’ board game with your grown up.

Can you use objects to help you

find the answer? Can you recall any facts?

Reading Answer the questions about the

story on

Reading Handout 1.

Reading Put the jumbled sentence back

together on

Reading Handout 2.

Reading Complete the speech bubble on

Reading Handout 3.

Reading Discuss:

How do different colours make

you feel?

Reading Fill in the missing words on

Reading Handout 4.

Phonics

Play a game of ‘Tricky Word Bingo’, choose 4 tricky words

from the song in Phonics

Handout 1.

Phonics

Add ‘sound buttons’ to the words on Phonics Handout 2.

Do any of the words have

digraphs in them?

Phonics

Write a sentence about the

picture on Phonics Handout 3. Can you use a capital letter, full

stop and finger spaces?

Phonics

Match the captions to the

pictures in Phonics Handout 4. Have a go at matching them

Can you read all the words in the sentence?

Phonics

Play a game of ‘Tricky Word Hid

& Seek’. Can you find any tricky words

hidden around your house?

Understanding the World

Go for a ‘colour walk’ around your

local area/in your garden.

What colours can you see?

Can you find different shades?

Wellbeing

Draw or paint a self-portrait. Label your picture

with some words describing youself.

Are you kind?

What are you good at?

Creative

Colour mixing!

What is your favourite colour?

What happens if you mix red and yellow

together?

Don’t forget to email your work to: receptionwork@parsloes.bardaglea.org.uk

Reading Handout 1

‘Flyaway Katie’ Comprehension Questions:

1. Why was Katie feeling sad?

2. How did Katie feel when she began adding colours to herself?

3. How does the colour red make you feel? Why?

4. How does the colour green make you feel? Why?

5. What does the colour blue make you think of?

6. What is your ‘happy’ colour?

7. If you entered a new world like Katie, what would you like to be there?

Reading Handout 2

Can you cut out the words and put the jumbled

sentence back together?

Look for clues such as the capital letter and full stop.

Where should these words be?

Can you write your own sentence about the story?

red had She

and a green lips

hat.

Reading Handout 3

Create a speech bubble for Katie.

What might she be saying?

How do you think she is feeling? Why?

Use the word ‘because’ in your sentence.

Reading Handout 4

Katie had blue, blue ____________ .

Her lips were __________ and ___________ .

She had a ___________ dress.

I liked/did not like this story because

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

Phonics Handout 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY

Phonics Handout 2

Can you add sound buttons to these words? Remember- use a dot for a

phoneme and a line to show where there is a digragh or trigraph.

Phonics Handout 3

Write a sentence about the picture. Think carefully about the sounds you can hear in each word you are

writing.

Can you spell any tricky words correctly?

Ask an adult to check your sentence.

Have you remembered to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop?

Are there any words you need to practise spelling?

Maths Handout 1

Can you double the dots on each domino?

Can you write the number sentence to match each

domino?

Maths Handout 2

Cut out the food below and halve the amounts

between the two monsters.

Phonics Handout 4

Cut out the captions and pictures below.

Can you match them back together by reading the caption correctly?

Butterfly Doubles

visit twinkl.com

Double 5 is

Double 7 is

Double 9 is

Double 6 is

Double 8 is

Double 10 is

Instructions

Beep! Beep!

Hello everyone! I am the doubling machine.

I love doubling things!

Can you give me some bricks to double?

Can you work out the answer?

Beep! Beep!

Click on the bricks to help Neeta and Karl place them into the doubling machine.Then, click the door to open the doubling machine and look inside!

double 1 is 2

Click on the bricks to help Kajeen and Rita place them into the doubling machine.

How many bricks are in the doubling machine? What is double 2?

double 2 is 4

Click on the bricks to help Paul and Nadia place them into the doubling machine.

Can you open the door and look inside? What happened? Why?

3 and 2 is not a double

Click on the bricks to help Paul and Nadia to try again.What is double 3? Can you check by counting the bricks inside the doubling machine?

double 3 is 6

Click on the bricks to help Anna and Felix place them into the doubling machine. Can you tell a friend what happened?

4 and 3 is not a double

How many bricks should Felix place into the machine to make a double?

Click on the bricks to help Anna and Felix try again.Can you show a friend double 4 using your fingers? What is the answer?

double 4 is 8

Click on the bricks to help Nadifa and Noah place them into the doubling machine.What is double 5? If you and a friend both hold up 5 fingers, how many are there altogether?

double 5 is 10

Thank you for helping me work out all these doubles. Look at all the doubles we found – can you spot any patterns?

double 1 is 2

double 2 is 4

double 3 is 6

double 4 is 8

double 5 is 10

Important Words

number

half

equal

figures we use to count

split into 2 equal groups

evenly balanced and the same size

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

What Are We Learning?

find half of numbers up to 100 using tens and ones

find half of numbers up to 20

find half of numbers up to 10

How Can We Share the Strawberries between the 2 Boys?

We need to make 2 equal sets!

Abdulla Saif

Can you share the 2 camels equally between the 2 sand dunes?

What Is Half of 2?

Answer 1

Can You Share the Arabian Leopards Equally between 2 Mountains?

What Is Half of 4?

Answer 2

Can You Share the 6 Falcons Equally between the 2 Branches?

What Is Half of 6?

Answer 3

Can You Share the 8 Oryx Equally between the 2 Fields?

What Is Half of 8?

Answer 4

Can You Share the 10 Gazelle Equally between the 2 Hills?

What Is Half of 10?

Answer 5

Useful Strategies

Finding Half of 6

half of 6 = 3 Place your pencil on your table and using cubes, make 2 equal sets -one on each side of the pencil!

Useful Strategies

What is half of 40?

Answer 20

Useful Strategies

What is half of 60?

Answer 30

What is half of 30?

Answer 15

Break up one of the tens into ones.

Share the ones equally.

What is half of 50?

Answer 25

Break up one of the tens into ones.

Share the ones equally.

What is half of 120?

Answer 60

Break the hundred into tens.

Share the tens equally.

Problem Solving

Abdulla had 10 sweets. He gave half to Muhammed.

How many is half?

Problem Solving

Miss Shaeen made 8 cakes.She shared them equally between Fares and Shahab.

How many did the 2 children each get?

Problem Solving

Abdul Aziz had 20 stickers.He gave half to his friend, Saeed.

How many did he give to Saeed?

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