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Book of the week: Jack and the Beanstalk

Time to spend on activity

Reading

Read with your child daily. I will attach some links below of story books for you to read online.  After reading, question your child on story.

1. Who was in the story?
2. Where was the story set (setting : forest, home)
3. What was your favourite part of the story?

5//10minutes

English

Monday

 (L.O) Learning objective: To introduce story of the week

The book of the week is Jack and the beanstalk. Please listen to this story with your child and question their understanding at the end.

You can access the story as a video on Youtube.

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

Questions to ask about the story

• 1. Who was in the story?      2. What happened to the cow?
• 3. What did the man give to jack when he took the cow?
• 4. What did mum do with the beans?  5. How was the mum feeling?
• 5. What happened to the beans when jack when to sleep?
• Who lived at the top of the bean stalk? What happened at the end of the story?

15 minutes

Tuesday  

LO: To draw my favourite part of the story from jack and the beanstalk

Starter: Re-cap the name of the story to the children and show/describe them a picture of the characters.

Main: Ask the children to draw a jack from the story. Remember to focus on detail.

Encourage your child to draw the beanstalk also. Remember the beanstalk was very big so we need to make sure it’s a lot bigger than jack.  

 Draw on a paper at home, parents to upload these pictures onto seesaw so your teacher can see and mark it!

10 minutes

Wednesday

Phonics.

L.O: To take part in a listening walk around the house.

Explain to your children that you are going to on a listening walk about the house. Now you need to listen very carefully walk around very quietly

Listening walk. Walk around your house and listen out for the different sounds you can hear.

Go around each room focusing on what sounds you could also here.

• What can you hear when I make a cup of tea?
• Let’s check in the front garden, what can we hear?
• Does the back garden sound the same?

Talk to your children about what they can hear. Encourage good language.

15 minutes

Thursday

L.O: To guess the sound behind the door (Online game)

To follow on from Wednesday listening game, click the link below to take part in a listening game again. This time children have listen out to what animals they can hear.

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/whats-behind-the-door?phase=1

10 minutes

Maths

Monday

Practice counting to 20.

Find random objects around your house, to count. Count your steps, your fingers, how many leaves you can see outside.

Count backwards also.

5 Minutes

Tuesday

L.O: To recognise numerals 1 and 2.

Introduce the number 1 and show the amount on your fingers. Do the same with number 2.

Practice writing these numbers out. (Practice on paper and take pictures for seesaw)

10 minutes

Wednesday

LO: to talk about where objects are

Introduce propositions to the children. (Positions of place)

on / on top of 

*in 

*next to 

*behind 

*under 

Using objects around the house to describe these points. E.g: Look the toy is under the book.

Look at the work sheet and discuss the positions with your child. Ask them what they think. Use the worksheet to encourage conversation about where jack is positioned. When your child gets the hang of this, encourage them to have a go. E.g: where the smiley face? Is behind the beanstalk or infront?

Ask questions! This work sheet does not to be edited, the purpose is for you and your child to discuss the positions.

(Worksheets to look at will be attached on the school website and also on seesaw)

10 minutes

Thursday

LO: To draw objects with positional language instructions

Find work sheet attached on school website and seesaw. Seesaw gives you the option to edit the work sheet and send it to the teacher so she can mark and be proud of your children.

Complete worksheets on seesaw.

Children to follow instructions of where to draw objects. For e.g: Draw a flower in the put. Child to then draw a flower in the pot.

10 minutes

Science – understanding of the world

Friday

L.O: to show a care and concern for the environment.

Starter: Show your child a picture of a labelled plant and discuss the features.

Explain that plants need sun and water to grow. How we need to eat our dinners to grow it’s the same for plants.

Talk your child about how the plant grows. Look at the example of the cycle also.

Task: Go into your front of back garden and look for what plans you can see.

Go back inside and draw a picture of what you saw. Parents to take a picture of the drawing and upload onto seesaw so teachers can see and mark.

15mins

Daily practice for name writing

Daily Name Writing

Can all children practice writing their names out every day.

Parents to write out the child’s name first so children can copy.

Can I remind parents’ names should be written with one Capital letter at the start and the rest lower case.

For example: Miss Pervez

5 minutes

Reading.

Book of the week: Little red riding hood

Time to spend on activity

Reading

Read with your child daily. After reading, question your child on story.

1. Who was in the story?
2. Where was the story set (setting : forest, home)
3. What was your favourite part of the story?

15 minutes

5

English

Tuesday

LO: To recap story of the week

The book of the week is Little red riding hood. The children read the story as a class on Monday. Can parents re-cap the story with the children and question their understanding.

You can access the story as a video on Youtube.

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

Questions to ask about the story

• 1. Who was in the story?      2. Who was the bad guy in the story?
• 3. Why was the wolf bad, what was he doing?
• 4. What happened to the wolf in the end?  5. Who saved the girl?
• 5. What was your favourite part of the story?

15 minutes

Wednesday

Writing

LO: To draw my favourite part of the story from Little Red Riding Hood.

Starter: Re-cap the name of the story to the children and show/describe them a picture of the characters.

Main: Ask the children to draw a scene from the story. This can be their favourite part or any part they remember from the story.  

Remind the children to draw in detail, thinking about the setting also. Draw grandma’s house or the forest in the back of the picture.

Colour your picture in.

10 minutes

Phonics – Phase 1 Rhyme and Rhythm

Thursday

LO: to develop an awareness of rhymes and rhythms

Explain to your child that how we sing songs in nursery we are going to practice at home also.

Songs to sing with actions: 

- Hockey Cocky  

- A ring a ring a roses 

- Farmers in his den 

- Wheels on the bus 

- Incy wincy Spider 

You can search these songs on youtube also.

.

10 minutes  

Maths

Tuesday & Wednesday

Practice counting to 20.

Counting your fingers and toes.

Count backwards also.

5 Minutes

Thursday

& Friday

LO: To select small amounts of objects when asked.

Go around your house and find 10 small objects you can count, this can be anything from coins, to toys.

Lay them in front of you and count with your child.

Ask your child to give you 2 objects. When handed the objects, count with your child to see if the amount is correct.

Try again with asking for 3 objects, 4 objects, 5 objects (ect)

10 minutes

Daily Name Writing

Can all children practice writing their names out every day.

Parents to write out the child’s name first so children can copy.

Can I remind parents’ names should be written with one Capital letter at the start and the rest lower case.

For example: Miss Pervez