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Theme: Things in the Sky – Blimps, helicopters, aeroplanes, jets

Monday – 18th May

Theme Discussion

Show and Tell (done in TEAMS groups)

What is a BLIMP? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBVyIiXveM

Language and Literacy Skills

What words starts with l? Where can you hear the l sound in a words? (lorry, lip, lock, lift, pill, lily, hill, pull and lollipop ) Practice writing l with chalk on your driveway / floor / chalkboard (start at the top)

Practice writing your name with the correct formations

Auditory / visual Perceptual Skills

Memory Game – use Transportation Matching memory game. Cut out and place downwards on a table. Pick two up at a time and find the matching pair.

Numeracy Skills Count backwards from 15. Recap on number names to four. Introduce the number name ‘five’. Write it on a flashcard and add it to the other number names. Practice writing numbers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 – remember to start at the top.

Creative Activities

Draw a blimp (oval shape, rectangle tail and wings) Fill a cup half with water, add food colouring and a squirt of sunlight liquid. Blow bubbles with a straw and the bubbles that are formed can be used to print over your blimp.

Life Skills Good sportsmanship. It’s okay to feel disappointed when you do not win. Try to congratulate the winner and accept your loss.

Music and movement Play musical statues Gross Motor See Miss Macs Fun exercises Fine Motor

Cut out your blimp. Try to attach it to your bedroom roof or somewhere higher up. Cut out the memory game.

Story Time Read a story from your bookshelf at bedtime

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

Theme: Things in the Sky - Blimps, helicopters, aeroplanes, jets

Tuesday – 19th May

Theme Discussion

Helicopters: Parts of a helicopter

- Landing skids - Cockpit - Blades - Rotar (there are 2) - Tail

Listen to the noise of a helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XHnupCDM2A

Go for a ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvVuFBHMTk8


Watch and complete the ‘l’ activity on the jolly phonics app Sing the jolly phonics song

Numeracy Skills Snap game – see attached below (number names one to five) Touch count 30 objects (pasta, beans, lego)

Creative Activities

Make a great background and a frame – dip toilet rolls into paint and make circle prints to fill up a page Draw a helicopter . Cut strips of paper to make a propeller

Music See teacher Rachels lovely lesson for today

Gross Motor Practice ball skills- catching and throwing Kids yoga

Fine Motor Playdough: make the letter l. What objects that start with a l, can you make? (log, lion, lemon, )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XHnupCDM2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvVuFBHMTk8


Wednesday – 20th May

Theme Discussion

Aeroplanes

Who drives the aeroplane? Who looks after the passengers? Who has flown on an aeroplane? What is altitude? Why does an aeroplane stay in the sky?

What is an airport? Who has been on an aeroplane?

Literacy Skills Cut out 10 ‘l’ letters - What things can you make using 10 ‘l’ lines?

Do the ‘l’ page in your letter writing booklet

Visual Perception Skills Play I spy (see below) (Optional extra- Give clues: Something beginning with a ‘l’ / something that moves / something long / something colourful) Do your I spy Checklist (see below)

Numeracy Skills Count to 30 Complete the number Dot to Dot activity (see below)

Creative Activities

Draw an aeroplane (add details: a tail design, name your airline company, windows, passengers heads etc. ) Colour or paint. Make a frame using lines

Gross Motor Make an obstacle course in the garden. Design the course and give instructions for someone to complete it successfully Time each other and try to improve on YOUR OWN time each round

Fine Motor Draw and write ‘l’ in a tray of sand/mud/rice Thread pasta/ Cherios / Oatees with string or ribbon or spaghetti

Story Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQvNJU_8dg0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQvNJU_8dg0


Thursday – 21st May

Theme Discussion

Aeroplanes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtO_hY72jeM

Can you make an aeroplane at home with your chairs? How creative can you be? SEND us a picture


Compound words: What does rain and bow make = rainbow / what does cup and cake make = cupcake. Ask the same for sunshine, teaspoon, lighthouse, sandpit, toothbrush. Can you think of any others?

Auditory Perception Skills

Play Bingo- letter or word game (depending on what level your child is ready for)- provided last week

Numeracy Skills Capacity: Use the words – containers, full, empty, half, litres, millilitres. Get out water and different size containers. How many yoghurt pots fill up a milk bottle? How many spoons fill up a cup? How many cups fill up a jug? Use words big, small, little to compare the size of the containers.

Creative Activities Draw a picture of you with your favourite toy Write your name in the top left hand corner Ask someone to write down what you say about your picture, onto your page Send a pic to your teacher

Life Skills Eat healthy meals and practice good table manners

Music and movement Listen to Major for Minors while working Gross Motor Bounce and catch a tennis ball Fine Motor Make an aeroplane using the Tablespoon biscuit recipe (see below) Story Time Google a story if you would like to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtO_hY72jeM

Theme: Animals in the sky - Blimps, helicopters, aeroplanes, jets

Friday –22nd May

Theme Discussion

Discuss and research Jets


Write a big ‘l’ on a page and turn it into a large, long, lovely lollipop.

Draw things beginning with a ‘l’ and try to sound out the word and write down all the sounds that you can hear (do not correct them as they spell words incorrectly)

Auditory Perceptual Skills

Clap a rhythm for your child (about 5 claps at different speeds or pauses). They need to try to copy it. Complete a puzzle

Numeracy Skills How many days in a week? Name them How many months in a year? Name them (The months of the year are 12 in a row…) How many seasons in a year? Name them Use the words morning, afternoon, evening to sequence the daily routine

Creative Activities

Paper folding. Decorate your paper jet with bright colours on both sides Fold and play. Make two and they can race each other Which one came first/ second? Which travelled further?

Life Skills Tidy up, sorting into the correct containers

Fine motor See tweezer games below – pick one of the activities to play. Gross Motor Run, ride your bike, jump on the trampoline Story Time Your teacher will read you a story on TEAMS

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Transportation Memory Game

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Clip art by PinkPueblo

Make your own snap card game

Stick onto cardboard and cut out the cards

You can say snap if the digits are the same or if the digit is the same as the number name

4 next to 4 = snap

4 next to four = snap

1 one 1 one 2 two 2 two 3 three 3 three 4 four 4 four 5 five 5 five

I Spy with My Little Eye

visit twinkl.com

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/literacy-phonics/letters-and-sounds/letters-and-sounds-activities-and-worksheets

Tick the box when you find the matching picture.

spoon

teapot

beach ball panda

dog cow

hand

envelope

bee jam

lighthouse flag

balloon

fairy

carrot lion

snail moon

mouse

mouth

shorts bath

queen clock

sock tractor umbrella

I Spy with My Little Eye Checklist

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key

sun

football cup

apple teddy

tie

present

rabbit penguin

chicken kite

train

pen

shoe grapes

chair fire

tap

cloud

elephant

monkey toothbrush

fork

watch

giraffe

hook

frog telephone dolphin





hat

bird

burger

zebra

bus

pirate

sheep

cake

butterfly

banana

fox

knife

tomato

log

pig

parrot

dinosaur boat




Tablespoon Biscuit Recipe

Flour

Sugar

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Sugar

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Flour

30 minutes

12 minutes

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You will need:• a variety of different-sized and shaped tweezers- large tweezers are easier to grip and are widely

available from teaching suppliers

• a variety of containers, small pots, tubs, tubes, etc.

• a variety of small-sized materials – rice, pasta, beads, pegs, playdough peas, dried peas, lentils, buttons, pom-poms, etc.

Ideas for Tweezer Games Model the correct grip for holding tweezers. Practise the correct tweezer grip with support and then children to try independently holding the tweezers. Practise squeezing the tweezers together for a set number of times. Give children adequate rest breaks in between. For older children, move on to picking up smaller and smaller items. Use a variety of tongs and tweezers to add interest and to increase levels of dexterity.

• Move It - Children use tweezers to transfer various small-sized materials from one container/pot to another. Children move materials from left to right then right to left, change the position of the containers and sizes of materials within. You could add additional challenge by using a sand timer or seeing how many pieces children can transfer in one minute.

• Rescue It - Use a small plastic character toy and fill a bowl with small cereal or rice so that your little character is just in sight. Use your tweezers to rescue your character from the cereal swamp and transfer them into a bowl! You could adapt this activity for your class topic, for example, dinosaurs, transport, etc.

• Pom-Pom Game- Place two bowls at opposite ends of the room. Fill one with pom-poms and leave the other empty. Using a sand timer see how many pom-poms children can transfer into a bowl in a minute, two minutes, etc.

• Nature Trail with Tweezers - Go on a nature trail outside and see how many items children can collect with their tweezers such as leaves, twigs, pebbles, etc. Provide children with a small container to collect their items.

• Mixing It Up - Provide children with a bowl full of mixed-up items, e.g. buttons, pasta, rice. Can children separate the items into two or three separate containers? Increase the level of difficulty by providing smaller items and increasing the categories to sort.

• Coins – Provide a money bag, purse or just a small bowl of coins. Encourage children to sort the coins into groups depending on colour, amount or size.

Tweezer GamesAdult Guidance

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