Its Thursday – another week is nearly over! Think back over the week so far. What have you enjoyed doing? Tell us in the comments below.
Okay, let’s get the day started!
PE
Follow the link below for your daily exercise.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Starter
In your home learning book write today’s date
Thursday 7th May 2020
Draw a face to show how you are feeling today.
What’s the weather like today? Draw a picture to show the weather. Is it the same as yesterday? Do you think it will be the same tomorrow?
Phonics
We are going to practise the o-e split digraph a little bit more.
Yesterday we looked at reading words with the phoneme in. Today we are going to focus on spelling words with it in.
Can you read the words:
bone, home, note, alone, stone, woke
Ask your adult to read these words and you spell them in your home learning book.
awoke, explode, those, envelope, prone, stoke
Do you know what prone and stoke mean? Maybe you could find out.
Did you find any of the words tricky to spell?
Write the sentence:
I woke up in my home.
Now mark your work with your adult.
Using another o-e word can you make a new sentence?
English
Ask somebody to read the Beegu story to you while you do the actions you have made.
Have another look at the playground Beegu visited.
You have already written some fantastic sentences describing what Beegu can see in the playground. Now you are going to write some sentences in your home learning book about what Beegu can see the children doing.
Do you remember what a word that describes an action or movement is called? That’s right, it is called a verb.
Your sentences will need to use a verb. Here is an example to help you.
The girl is running.
The word running is a verb. It tells you what the girl is doing.
If you want to challenge yourself, make your sentences more interesting by describing how and where the girl is running. Here is an example to help you.
The girl is running fast on the grass.
Remember:
Aa – capital letters Sp – use your phonics to spell
finger spaces CE – spell tricky words correctly
. – full stops WOW – use exciting words
ABC – make capital letters the biggest
abc – form letters correctly
pqht – form ascenders and descenders correctly
Email us your work so we can put it on the website to show your friends.
Handwriting
Watch the video on Espresso for how to write e. Can you remember which letter family e belongs to?
Practise with your magic pencil in the air. Ask someone in your family to put a little bit of flour, salt or sugar (any powder will do) on a plate and practise making e in it.
Now practise writing e on the sheet in your home learning pack. Remember to start in the middle of the grey line and stay inside it.
Science
Today we are going to start learning about plants in Science. Do you remember which groups of animals eat plants?
Click on the link below to find out about plants.
https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/34300/darwins-lookouts-assemblies
There are many different kinds of plants but in this activity we are going to think about flowers. How many different flowers can you think of? Write a list in your home learning book. What is your favourite flower? Draw a picture of it in your home learning book.
Go onto Espresso, Key Stage 1, Science, Plants, Activities and play the Flowers Snap game
We are going to think about which flowers are ‘wild’ and which are ‘garden’ flowers. Click on the link below to find out. Ask a member of your family to help you read it.
Wild or Garden Flowers Information
Look back at the list of flowers you recorded in your home learning book. Do you know if they are wild flowers or garden flowers?
Draw 2 big circles in your home learning book. Write ‘wild flowers’ above 1 circle and ‘garden flowers’ above the other. Click below to see what to do.
Now write your flowers in the correct circle. If you are not sure can you research and find out? Can you remember the flowers you saw on the information sheet above? Put them into the correct circle as well.
If you have a garden, do you have any flowers growing in it? What are they? If not, look out of the windows in your house, can you see any flowers growing anywhere? What are they?
Music
Can you remember where the composer Gustav Holts came from? So far you have listened to two movements from The Planets Suite:
Mercury – The Winged Messenger
Venus – The Bringer of Peace.
Today you are going to listen to Earth – The Bringer of Life.
Do you think this piece of music will sound the same as the others? Why do you think that? What instruments do you think you can hear? What is the tempo like? Does the music stay at the same tempo? What is the volume of the music like? Does the music stay at the same volume? How does the music make you feel?
Find the musical instrument you made a few weeks ago and play along with the music.
Can you dance to the music? How does the music make you want to move? Will your movements be fast or slow? Will they be smooth and floaty or sharp and jerky?
Talk to an adult or family member about the music. What do they think of it?
Click on the link below to hear the music – Earth – The Bringer of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpgvmHBpatA
Story time
Click on the link below to enjoy a story with your family.