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My Learning Challenges
Term 5 - The Deep Dark Wood Monday 4th – Friday 8th May
Daily Literacy Tasks
Mud writing
Find a small patch of soil in your garden to practise your
writing, use a stick to form
each letter.
Have a go writing your name.
then write the following
tricky words, saying the word as you write it.
Tricky words to practise: he, she, me, be, we, was, my
Too tricky? Try: I, the, no, go, to, into
Further challenge The tricky words above + all, are, her, they, you
Make your own deep
dark wood trial map
Re-read or listen to
‘The Gruffalo’.
Make your own map of the
‘deep dark woods’ and add
the mouse’s trail through the
woods.
Add the homes of each of
the animals that mouse meets
on his journey and draw a
trail to show the order that
he meets the other animals.
Where did mouse tell the
other animals he was meeting
the Gruffalo? Can you draw
these places onto your map?
Woodland Labelling
Look at the woodland picture
on page 2. Can you write
labels for each of the
animals within this picture?
Too Tricky?
Can you write the initial
(first) sound for each of the
animals you can see?
Further challenge
Write some sentences about
what you can see in the
woodland picture or use your
imagination and think of some
other animals (or fairies?)
that could live in the woods.
Could you write some
sentences describing them?
Suggested sentence starter:
In the woods I can see…
Design a Terrible Creature
Draw your own terrible creature. You could play ‘Gruffalo roll’ (below) to help
you create it. You could play with your
family taking turns to roll and design a
creature each.
Copy to print is here:
https://bit.ly/2yS7DUu
Once you have your design talk to your
family about the features of your creature.
Use your phonics to help you name and label the creature you have designed.
Too Tricky? Write the initial (first) sound for each label.
Further challenge Write some sentences about your creature.
Can you make up your own rhyme about your
creature’s features?
Leaf word making
Collect 10 leaves on a local
walk or make your own leaves
from paper. Write the
following sounds onto your leaves with a felt tip pen:
a, i, c, s, p, d, r, sh, ch, ng
Make a word with three of
your leaves and then write it
down on paper.
How many words can you make
with the sounds on your
leaves?
Too tricky? Try the letters and sounds:
s, a, t, p, i, n, d, g, o, c
Further challenge Try: b, l, p, t, m, n, oa, ee, igh,
oo
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Term 5 - The Deep Dark Wood Monday 4th – Friday 8th May
Woodland Scene
My Learning Challenges
Term 5 - The Deep Dark Wood Monday 4th – Friday 8th May
Daily Maths Tasks
Rain Prediction
How much rain do you
think we will get in a
week? On Monday, using a
marker pen (or similar),
draw a line across a 2litre
bottle (or milk bottle)
where you think the
rainwater will fill up to.
You can check it every
day if you want to but
don’t pour it away! On
Friday, see if you were
right!
Further challenge:
Can you measure how
much rain has fallen using
a ruler/ tape measure?
How long?
See if you can use the
internet/books to find out
the following:
How long is the longest snake
in the UK?
How small is the smallest owl
in the UK?
How long is a UK fox’s tail?
What size are most mice in
the UK?
Further Challenge:
How big do you think a
Gruffalo would be if it were
real? Write down your guess,
(If you have a tape measure
you could then see how tall
your guess would be!)
Owl Subtraction!
Draw an owl with 10
feathers! (5 on each wing)
Roll a die (or use a dice app)
and take that number away
by colouring them in. How
many do you have left?
Further challenge:
Can you write the number
sentence you have made?
Remember to start the with
biggest number e.g. 10
Then write a take away
symbol – and then the
number the die gave you
followed by = and your
answer!
- =
Snake patterns
Make a snake out of dried pasta and
string or ribbon if you have it. Create a
pattern by colouring them in using felt
tip pens or crayons/paints etc.
Further challenge:
Can you make some more patterns?
What have you got at home that you
could use?
Lego Snake Subtraction
Make some Lego snakes.
(Lego towers on their side-
or you might be feeling
more creative!)
Start with 10 Lego bricks,
take some away, how many
do you have left? How
much smaller is your
snake?
Further challenge:
Can you do the same with
20 Lego brick snakes?
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Term 5 - The Deep Dark Wood Monday 4th – Friday 8th May
Creative Time Activities
Makaton Gruffalo Song Watch this clip of Julia Donaldson
singing a song about The Gruffalo: https ://bit.ly/2yZV7C4 Could you learn the song and join in with
the Makaton signs?
Once you have had some practise maybe you could perform it in front of your
family?
The Gruffalo Song He has terrible tusks and terrible claws
and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
He’s the Gruffalo, Gruffalo, Gruffalo. He’s the Gruffalo.
He has knobbly knees and turned-out toes
and a poisonous wart at the end of his
nose.
He’s the Gruffalo, Gruffalo, Gruffalo. He’s the Gruffalo.
His eyes are orange. His tongue is black.
He has purple prickles all over his back. He’s the Gruffalo, Gruffalo, Gruffalo.
He’s the Gruffalo, Gruffalo, Gruffalo.
He’s the Grr...rr...rr...rr...ruffalo.
HE’S THE GRUFFALO!
Send a Hug Resources: Large strip of paper, a
pencil, paint or pens to decorate, piece of paper (if you want to write a
message to your loved one), large
envelope, stamp.
Post a hug to somebody that you love.
Lay a large strip of paper down on the
floor and lay on it stretching your
arms out as seen in the example below. Ask an adult to draw around
your arms and head then you can
paint or colour your outline so that it looks just like you!
Ask an adult to write your loved ones
address on a large envelope and to carefully fold your ‘hug’ to send. Add
a stamp and then post your ‘hug’.
Funny Shadow People
Resources: A sunny day, pebbles,
paper, pens, scissors, glue,
anything that you can find to make ‘props’ for your picture –
leaves, shells, sticks, etc.
In the sun lay out your pebbles and other ‘props’ to create a
funny face, or draw eyes, nose,
mouth, etc. onto paper and cut
these out to use. Block out the sun to create a shadow, lining
the shadow of your face up with
the funny face you have made, then take a picture.
How are shadows made?
Woodland Homes
Can you remember where the
animals in ‘The Gruffalo’ live?
Use natural materials to create an ideal home for a
woodland creature or design
your own bug hotel. The
example bug hotel below has been made with cardboard
tubes and natural materials.
Cardboard Bug Design your own bug
using recycled
materials. The examples
below have been made
using cardboard, bottle
tops and bubble wrap.
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Outdoor and Active Activities
Gruffalo Yoga
See if you can do this Gruffalo
inspired yoga! It is quite long so you
don’t have to do all if it- just see
how much you can do!
https://bit.ly/35meZf8
Gruffalo Actions
https://bit.ly/2KO7B2B
Listen to the first song (up to 1:00min aprox) and make up some
actions for it!
Record your video! We look forward to seeing your awesome
dance moves!
Gruffalo trail!
In your garden (or on your daily exercise) see if you
can make a trail for the Gruffalo story. E.g. the mouse
goes into the forest first- how could you make a forest
in your garden? Then he sees fox at his underground
house- how could you make that? (you could use leaves
and twigs or you might have some other ideas!). See if
you make each of the places in the story!
Story Time Activities
Julia Donaldson Story Time And Review
Julia Donaldson is the author who wrote ‘The Gruffalo’ and the illustrator is
Axel Scheffler. They have also written and illustrated many other wonderful
stories.
Step one: Go to this website:
https://bit.ly/2z0P9Rt
Make A Story Sack
A story sack is a bag (or box) with lots of things to help tell a story. They
usually have the book in too.
Choose a Julia Donaldson book that you like (or have at home) and make a story
sack for it! Put objects in it to help you tell the story.
Here are some examples of what you could put into your bag:
· The book
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Pick one of the lovely stories to listen to (you might even like to watch more
than one!) and then answer the questions below:
Look at the front cover, what do you think the book will be about?
What do you think will happen at the end?
What happened in the story?
Who are the characters?
Where is the book set?
· Toys to represent the characters
· Play food if there’s food in the story
· Items of clothing
· Song words if there are any songs in the book
· Puppets
If you don’t have anything that could be put into it, you can
make them instead!