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Little Gems

Week Beginning 18th January – 22nd January 2021

Message Mrs Arnold if you have misplaced passwords for Reading Buddies or Hwb

Topic of the week Animals big and small

Monday 18th January

Tuesday 19th January

Wednesday 20th January

Thursday 21st January

Friday 22nd January

Animals big and small





Language, Literacy and Communication

Friendship – what makes a good friend?

Talk to Mum and Dad about what you think a good friend is.

Draw a picture of you, on the same piece of paper draw a picture of your friend. This could be someone from the Little Gems or someone you know.

How do they make you feel?

Can you copy the word underneath, maybe it is Happy, may be it is that they make you Smile.

Practise writing your name then copy your friends name.

Do you know any of the letter sounds in your name?


Can you create a picture form the story?

Have a look at the picture of Nanook and Suka, two best friends.Sign into Hwb and go onto J2E.

Can you draw Mrs Arnold a picture like the one from the story showing the two best friends having lots of fun.

If you cannot sign into hwb, draw the two best friends on a piece of paper.

Don’t forget to draw their smile.


Can you make a cave?

In your house talk to Mum and Dad about where you could build a cave.

With a focus on vocabulary

Use words such as under, over, inside, behind when talking whilst making the cave.

Think about things that you can use to make a cave, maybe some blankets or the duvet from the bed.

Can you create a cave by putting the blanket over the top?

What will you take in your cave?

Discuss and ask the question why?

Once inside the cave you could share a storybook together. Talk about the book, the characters and what happened in the story.

Share your cave adventure pictures with Mrs Arnold.


Mother and Baby match up

Have a look at the animals. Can you match up the mother animal to her baby.

With an adult can you name the animal?

Can you name their baby?

Dog – puppy

Cat – Kitten

Cow – calf

Look at vocabulary and learning new words – use pictures to help your child to identify which baby animals go with the mother animal and discuss.

Here is a link for twinkl with a matching mother animals to their babies

Please see attached sheet, alternatively you could make or print your own.

Welly Walk

When you are out for your exercise walk take a piece of paper and pencil with you.

Can you draw a picture of the things that you see on your walk?

What is the weather like today?

Can you draw Mrs Arnold a picture of what it looks like outside?

Is the sun shining, or is it raining? Is it cold and frosty? What is the ground like, is it hard and icy or is it soft and muddy?

Maths and Numeracy

Can you make a snowflake?

Follow the instructions below to make a snowflake. Use the scissors carefully to snip the paper like Mrs Arnold has shown you.

How to make paper snowflakes

Begin with your square piece of paper and fold it in half diagonally to make a triangle.

Fold the triangle in half from the top corner to the bottom one, making a smaller triangle.

Fold the triangle into three, from left to right.

Cut across your paper to create a straight edged triangle.

Cut out a few snowflakes – have a look at the different patterns that they make.

Do any of them look the same?

Maths and Numeracy

How many animals do Nanook and Suka meet in the story?

Can you count them all?

How many animals are there?

Can you write each number, think about what each number looks like.

Ask an adult to help you to write each number

1,2,3,4,5

Can you use shaving foam or flour? Ask an adult to help, spread the shaving foam or flour on a table. Use your finger to write each number in the shaving foam or flour.

Maths and Numeracy

Number songs and rhymes

What is your favourite number rhyme?

My favourite is four little fingers, four little fingers, four little fingers, tap tap tap. Do you remember that song? Can you sing it to Mum, Dad or a brother or sister?

What is your favourite song?

Do you like…..

If you’re happy and you know it?

The wheels on the bus?

Incy Wincy Spider?

Baa baa black sheep?

Share your songs with Mum and Dad – what other songs can you think of?

You could record yourself singing them and send it to Mrs Arnold.

Maths and Numeracy

Can you create a repeating pattern?

Use your animals to create a simple pattern.

Either use toys that you have at home or can you draw pictures of animals.

If you draw a cat and a dog, can you create a simple pattern so you could have cat, dog, cat, dog, cat

Extension - what else can you use to make a pattern – can you create a pattern using claps and stamps.

Stamp your foot, clap your hands once, stamp your foot.

Parents you will need to explain what a repeating pattern is, so doing something the same, repeating what you do. Model it for them so that they can see it first then encourage them to create their own, support where needed.

Maths and Numeracy

Can you make a chart of all the things that you saw on your welly walk?

You could even collect the things that you saw and stick them on to your chart, such as a leaf a stick some mud.

Natural objects chart

I found

Science

Can you make Snow?

Follow the step by step instructions to make snow paint

Once you have made your snow paint, can you get some dark coloured paper and paint Mrs Arnold a picture

To make simple snow paint you will need

1 cup of water – with extra if needed

1 cup of flour

1 cup of salt

Add everything together in a bowl and watch as your snow paint starts to form.

ICT

Can you go onto your hwb account, go to J2E have a look for paint. On there, there is a background for artic animals where the polar bears live in our story.

Can you create a picture on there for Mrs Arnold

See what animals you could add to your picture on J2E paint.

Expressive Art

Choose your favourite character from the story. Can you draw Mrs Arnold a picture of them. You could choose Nanook or Suka, the seals or the seagulls, or even the artic fox cubs or maybe there is someone/ something else that you would like to draw.

Choose your medium – ie will you draw your picture, paint your picture or use sticky bits to glue and stick pieces to your favourite character from the story.

Send a picture of your picture to Mrs Arnold.

Health and Wellbeing

Can you do some mindfulness?

Ask a grown up to put some relaxing music on

Below is an example

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

Whilst the music is on, sit on your bottom, cross your legs and fold your arms, then close your eyes.

Listen to the music and breathe in and out and relax. Do this for a few minutes.

Then visit cosmic kids yoga.

Here is an example

Frank the Frog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8xx7c6_z0

Health and Wellbeing

Can you do 5 star jumps?

Can you count each star jump?

Can you touch your toes five times?

Can you count each time you touch your toes?

Can you hop on one foot?

Now hop on the other foot.

How many jumps can you do? Try jumping on two feet, can you count your jumps?

What else can you do?

Send a picture to Mrs Arnold.

Book of

the day:

Best of friends or Not

Read by Mrs Arnold

Book of the day:

The Three Little Pigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s7cz6p7jew&list=PLA0KytfKDJiisleteghd3UYV1Q1iPIKDP

Book of the day: ‘

Owl Babies

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

Book of the day:

Have a look on Reading Buddies.

Choose a book to share.

Share with Mrs Arnold what book you chose.

Book of the day:

You choose your favourite storybook and share it with someone in your family.

Share with Mrs Arnold which book you chose and why it is your favourite book.

Little Gems

Week Beginning 18

th

January

–

22nd

January 2021



Monday

18

th

January

Tuesday

19

th

January

Wednesday

20

th

January

Thursday

21st

January

Friday

22nd

January






Language, Literacy and

Communication

Friendship

–

what makes a good

friend?

Talk to Mum and Dad about what

you think a good friend is.

Draw a picture of you, on the

same piece of paper draw a

picture of your friend. This could

be someone from the Little Gems

or someone you know.


Can you copy the word

underneath, maybe it is Happy,

ma

y

be it is that they make you

S

mile.

Practise writing your name then

copy your friends name.

Do you know any of the letter

sounds in your name?


Communication

Can you create a picture form the

story?

Have a look at the picture of

Nanook and Suka, two best

friends.

Sign into H

wb and go onto

J2E.

Can you draw Mrs Arnold a picture

like the on

e

from the story showing

the two best friends having lots of

fun.

If you c

an

not sign into hwb, draw

the two best friends on a piece of

paper.

D

on’t forget to draw their smile

.


Communication


In your house talk to Mum and

D

ad about where you could build

a cave.


Use words such as under, over,

inside, behind when talking

whilst

making the cave.

Think about things that you can

use to make a cave, maybe some

blankets or the duvet from the

bed.

Can you create a cave by

putting the blanket over the

top?


D

iscuss and ask the question

why?

Once inside th

e cave you could

share a storybook

together.

Talk about the book,

the

characters and what happened in

the story.

Share your cave adventure

pictures with Mrs Arnold.


Communication


Have a look at the animals.

Can

you match up the mother animal

to her baby.

With an adult can you name the

animal?


Dog

–

puppy

Cat

–

Kitten

Cow

–

calf

Look at vocabulary and learning

new words

–

use pictures to help

your child to identify which

baby animals

go with the mother

animal and discuss.

Here is a link for twinkl with a

matching mother animals to their

babies

Please see attached sheet,

alternatively you could make or print

your own.

Welly Walk

When you are out for your

exercise

walk take a piece of

paper and pencil with you.

Can you draw a picture of the

things that you see on your

walk?

What is the weather like

today?

Can you draw Mrs Arnold a

picture of what it looks like

outside?

Is the sun shining, or is it

raining? Is it cold and frosty?

What is the ground like, is it

hard and icy or is it soft and

muddy?

Little Gems

Week Beginning 18

th

January – 22nd January 2021



Monday 18

th

January Tuesday 19

th

January Wednesday 20

th

January Thursday 21st January Friday 22nd January




Animals big and small Animals big and small


Communication

Friendship – what makes a good

friend?

Talk to Mum and Dad about what

you think a good friend is.

Draw a picture of you, on the

same piece of paper draw a

picture of your friend. This could

be someone from the Little Gems

or someone you know.


Can you copy the word

underneath, maybe it is Happy,

may be it is that they make you

Smile.

Practise writing your name then

copy your friends name.

Do you know any of the letter

sounds in your name?


Communication

Can you create a picture form the

story?

Have a look at the picture of

Nanook and Suka, two best

friends.Sign into Hwb and go onto

J2E.

Can you draw Mrs Arnold a picture

like the one from the story showing

the two best friends having lots of

fun.

If you cannot sign into hwb, draw

the two best friends on a piece of

paper.

Don’t forget to draw their smile.


Communication


In your house talk to Mum and

Dad about where you could build

a cave.


Use words such as under, over,

inside, behind when talking

whilst making the cave.

Think about things that you can

use to make a cave, maybe some

blankets or the duvet from the

bed.

Can you create a cave by

putting the blanket over the

top?


Discuss and ask the question

why?

Once inside the cave you could

share a storybook together.

Talk about the book, the

characters and what happened in

the story.

Share your cave adventure

pictures with Mrs Arnold.


Communication


Have a look at the animals. Can

you match up the mother animal

to her baby.

With an adult can you name the

animal?


Dog – puppy

Cat – Kitten

Cow – calf

Look at vocabulary and learning

new words – use pictures to help

your child to identify which

baby animals go with the mother

animal and discuss.

Here is a link for twinkl with a

matching mother animals to their

babies

Please see attached sheet,

alternatively you could make or print

your own.

Welly Walk

When you are out for your

exercise walk take a piece of

paper and pencil with you.

Can you draw a picture of the

things that you see on your

walk?

What is the weather like

today?

Can you draw Mrs Arnold a

picture of what it looks like

outside?

Is the sun shining, or is it

raining? Is it cold and frosty?

What is the ground like, is it

hard and icy or is it soft and

muddy?

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