Reception home learning week beginning 18.05.20
Reception, hopefully by now you should have all received your card and stone bees. We just wanted to remind you that we are thinking about you and we do miss you. We want you to stay safe, well and most of all happy and we will do all that we can to keep you that way! It was so lovely to see so many of you as I delivered the cards and bees and to have a chat with you all. (at a safe distance of course!) I have been really impressed at the creative ways that you have been kept busy and I love to see pictures on the school gallery. The emails are a great way of keeping in touch and bring a smile to my face. Thankyou.
This week’s home learning is going to centre mostly around the books ‘Aaaargh Spider.’ (This is a funny story all about a spider’s wish to be part of a family and the things it does to try to become their pet!) and ‘The very busy spider.’
Literacy ideas:
Listen to the 2 spider stories linked above.
Make a list of some of the animals in ‘The very busy spider ‘ story.
Talk about the events in the stories. Encourage the children to use story vocabulary such as ‘first’, ‘next’, ‘after that’, ‘finally’. Help children to create their own simple story map to help them re-tell the story. (This is simply a large s shape on paper; one end represents the beginning and the other the end of the story. Children draw simple pictures or write captions to show the events in the order they happened. The children can then use their story map to tell someone else the story or even write it down themselves.
Children draw their own spider and label it or write simple sentences about it: ‘My spider is pink and fluffy'. ‘My spider is rainbow coloured’ ‘My spider is black and hairy.’
Go on a bug hunt, write a fact sheet about one of the bugs; use the internet to find out information.
Play a game of Forest phonics on Ict games
Create rhyming spider legs. Draw and cut out a circular spider body and add eyes and mouth. Cut 8 rectangles of paper for legs. Write op on the spider body, then help the children to think of words that end in op to write on each leg. e.g chop, shop, mop, hop, pop. Make more spiders with en, og, at, ig, ee rhyming words. ( They can make up real or fake words!!)
Draw a web with capital letters on or print it here. Use milk bottle lids or buttons with lower case letters on and children match them to the capital letters.
Make your own very busy spider. Circular body, stick on concertina legs, then write down what you are busy doing. (I am busy eating chocolate!)
Write the animals from the very busy spider on pieces of card (horse, cow, sheep, goat, pig, dog, cat, duck, rooster, owl, spider, fly) Encourage the children to use phonics to read them and then to write them down themselves. Then draw a picture to match it. (or print out a set of words and animal pictures from the very busy spider and play matching games.)
Maths ideas:
Take a look at white rose maths home learning this week. Look at summer term week 4 (w/c 11th May) for lots of ideas linked to the very busy spider!
Draw some spiderwebs with numbers at the side. Children use finger paints to print the correct number of ‘spiders’ onto their webs.
Draw 2 large spider webs side by side. Roll a dice and count out flies onto the webs for the spider to eat. Roll the dice again and count out flies for the second spider. Which spider has more flies? Which has fewer? How many altogether? Write simple number sentences to show how many altogether.
Create simple subtraction sentences using a spider web with flies on. ‘If there are 5 flies on the web and the spider eats 3, how many are left?’
Sometimes we try to get children to explain their thinking, so we might say: ‘There are 10 flies on the web, the spider eats 5. Mrs Hulland says there are 4 flies left. Is she right? How do you know?
Use spider web (Pieces of string) to measure things in the house.
Use sticks and string to create different shaped spider webs.
Draw a grid with 10 boxes. Children create repeating patterns choosing what to put into each box, e.g spider, spider, fly, spider, spider, fly. They can use printed pictures, their own drawings or other representations such as plastic bugs or buttons.
Think about the number 8. Find different ways to show 8: on fingers, with cubes, as lines or circles on the page, as a number, etc.
Draw or paint three different sized spiders. Cut them out and put them in order of sized smallest to biggest.
Creative ideas:
Make glittery spider webs using glue and glitter.
Make play dough spiders, using pipe cleaners for legs
Create your own spider web using a circle of card with holes punched around the edge. Use wool to thread through the holes to create a web pattern.
Make hand print spiders.
Go on a bug hunt in the garden.
Make your own egg box spider.
Decorate biscuits or cakes to be spider webs.
Paint rocks to be spiders of all different colours; even a rainbow spider.
Make spider shaped sandwiches.
Make spider puppets and sing INncey Wincey spider.
5 steps to well being:
Connect: Eat spider shaped sandwiches and biscuits as a spider picnic. Talk to your family and ask them how their day was and what they have done.
Be active: Balance along spider web lines. Do spider man crawls/ lunges (Joe Wicks style )around the garden. Practise the spider yoga pose.
Take notice: Next time you see a spider in your house, catch it in a glass and look closely at it! Use a magnifying glass if you have one.
Keep learning: Find out 3 things about spiders.
Give: Paint a spider onto a rock and leave it for someone to find on their walk.
