Home learning grid for school closure (First level) 4 Remember to include Say-Write-Make-Do in as many activities as you can.

Writing Reading NumberUsing the writing prompt cards below choose any one of these cards and write a description. You could extend it and make up a story.Remember to use the check list:Start with capital letterAdd powerful adjectivesConnectives, because, so, alsoJoined up handwriting, neat and does it make sense.

Ongoing continuebe an independent/creative writer and write about thing that interests you.

Read the information on Roald Dhal that is attached here. Then choose one of the comprehension challenges hot, spicy or mild.How much do you understand when you are reading. You can then check your answers.

Sumdog reading and grammar activities.

Practise counting in 4’s forwards and backwards to 40. Go beyond if you can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSn2O4mTYD4

Play Hit the Button – 4 x tablehttps://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Spelling Talking & Listening MathsCan you find ee, ea. e-a -y words.Make up a game, song, chant, follow these examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6JhJepjSt8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PJGqbCeRU4

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

Listen to this story of ‘The Little Red Hen’. Now act it out, make a play with your toys or have an audience and re-tell the story.You could do this with any of your favourite books.Just enjoy and have fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLzna0Hrsco

Symmetry sorting. Play the game sorting out shapes, letters and pictures which show symmetry.https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting

Try drawing a picture with one line of symmetry. A butterfly is always a good starting point.

Something fun! Problem to solve! IDL Theme/ProjectPenny toss game

Fill a washing up bowl or pan,

halfway with water.

Place an open plastic container

carefully on top of the water so

that it floats.

Have each player stand three

feet from the bowl or pan.

Give each player the same

number of pennies.

Award a point for each penny

that lands in the container.

The player with the most points

after all the pennies have been

tossed is the winner.

If you are playing alone, keep

track of how many pennies land

in the container in a row.

How many phones can you charge at the same time? Tip – try to enlarge the picture to see what’s going on.It’s tricky but you can do it

Research the artist Jackson Pollack. Watch this clip and see if you can create a picture in the style of Jackson Pollock using chocolate. Best thing is you can eat it after you have taken a picture of it.https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/make-chocolate-painting

You don’t have to use acetate just use a clear plate.

If you don’t have to use chocolate , use paint ( but remember you can’t eat it.

Religious & Moral Education Modern LanguagesAfter watching the clip, talk to your family about what the message is. Use the 5 W questions( Why, What, Who, Where, When), to discuss what you thought of Sam’s decisions and what the story is trying to tell us.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xpMwnuM8ZU

Revise the colours in French. Do you remember this song? Leon le Cameleonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trsEbqJ9L3E

Health & Wellbeing Sciences/TechnologiesMake a feelings poster and draw and name as many facial expressions as you can. Chat about these feelings.

P.E. - Join Joe Wicks live on YouTube, Monday – Friday at 9am for a half hour work out!

Try this little experiment on buoyancy then retell to someone in your house. Amaze them with what you have found out.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQisfD-izVs

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