We know from talking to your mums, dads and carers on the phone that lots of you are trying hard with your phonics. Here are a few games and activities which are free on phonics play. Just use the username march20 and password home.

Ms Wilson’s group click here

Ms Holbrook’s group click here

Mrs Yale’s/Mrs Parrish’s group click here

Miss Smith’s group click here

If you are in Ms Wilson’s group and are feeling extra brave and up for a trickier challenge have a go at these. Mums and dads…the teaching ideas downloads are useful for ideas to extend the activities. Compound word splat is a good game to start with.

Up for a challenge – click here.

Hello Reception. This is the final week in our animal theme. For literacy we would like you to watch Rumble in the Jungle (or share the book if you own it).

Then choose from the following:

Dress up as an animal from the story and try and move / sound like it. We would love to see some photos and videos.

Write some clues without giving away the animals name and read it to a grown-up. Can they guess the animal you were thinking of? E.g. It has stripes. It runs fast. The first letter in its name is z.

Make a flap book where you draw the animal and hide it under a paper flap. You could add your clues to each page.

Imagine you could be an animal. What would you be? Can you write a story about turning into an animal and the adventures you would have?

Week 5

Focus: Design an animal.

Activity: Can you design your own animal?

Key Questions:

• What qualities would your dream animal own?

• Can you think of adjectives (describing words) when designing your own exciting creature?

• Encourage your child to draw a picture or make the animal out of recyclable materials e.g. used cereal boxes, egg boxes etc.

Video

Click the link to watch Rory singing. What a fabulous rendition of Old McDonald.

This week our learning is based around the song Old McDonald Had a Farm. First of all have a go at singing it. Then you could have a go at one of the following literacy linked ideas:

• write a list of all the animals you might see on a farm
• practise singing it, then dress up to perform it to your family – you could create tickets to sell and a menu of refreshments such as popcorn and drinks
• make a booklet all about farm animals by describing: their colour, special features, noise it makes, where they live, feet, number of legs. E.g. A duck can be white. It has a beak. It says quack. It has two legs. It lives on a pond. It has webbed feet.
• Video yourself singing and dancing to the song and send us the video to post online.

Click below for the song