EYFS Work Pack – 29.6.20

Hello again Foxes and Squirrels! I hope you enjoyed last week’s story, it really is one of my favourites! This week, our story is ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ by Ronda Armitage – the same person that wrote ‘A New Home for a Pirate’. This is a fun story about a Lighthouse Keeper whose

lunch gets eaten by pesky seagulls! You can find a video of Miss Graham, our Deputy Head Teacher, reading our story of the week by going to the Children’s page on our school website and clicking on the Video Resource Centre. You can also find school assemblies here, too. Once you have listened to

the story, you have can have a go at the activities below. There are 5 English, Maths and Topic activities for you to enjoy. For Maths and English, we are using the objectives from the Oak National Academy so that the children both in and out of school are receiving similar learning. It is best if you can complete the English and Maths activities in order, as the learning follows on each day. You will also find some Phonics activities, handwriting and tricky words to have a look at. We hope you enjoy

your home learning this week!

Please don’t forget to email homelearning@cliffedale.lincs.sch.uk with examples of work that you are really proud of, or put them on Tapestry. I would love to put your work on the Summer Term

Learning Gallery on our class page on the website!

English

Monday

Our story of the week is ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ by Ronda Armitage. Take a look at the video of Miss Graham reading the story via ‘children – video resource centre’ on the school website, or read it with your adult if you have the book at home! In the story, the Lighthouse Keeper (and the seagulls) enjoy some really yummy lunches! What do you like to have for lunch? Talk to your adult about your favourite lunch!

ACTIVITY

Today, can you write a yummy lunch Menu for the Lighthouse Keeper? You could draw pictures of each item and label the pictures. Perhaps you could even make the lunch later on!

Tuesday

Re-watch or re-read our story of the week! Can you remember the name of the main characters? What happens to the lunch? What do Mr and Mrs Grinling do? What happens at the end of the story? Challenge your adult – can they remember what happens in the story? Talk to your adult about your favourite part of the story – what happens and why is it your favourite part?

ACTIVITY

Today, can you draw a picture of your favourite part of the story and write either key words or a sentence or two about what happens, and why it is your favourite part of the story? I chose the part where the Mr Grinling gets to enjoy his lunch at the end of the story, with no pesky seagulls! The key words I wrote were ‘yummy’ and ‘lunch. Then I wrote, ‘Mr Grinling has his yummy lunch with no cheeky seagulls around’.

Wednesday

Can you remember what happens in the story? See if you can read your key words or sentences from yesterday back to your adult. Re-read the story, listen carefully and see if you can identify the key parts.

ACTIVITY

Today, can you make a story map by drawing pictures of the key parts of the story in the right order? You can look at mine below to help you. Can you also add labels or captions to go with your pictures?

Thursday

Oh no, Mr Grinling is going on holiday and needs somebody to look after the lighthouse for him while he is away!

ACTIVITY

Using the template below, can you design a poster to encourage people to help Mr Grinling by becoming the lighthouse keeper for a week? You might want to draw a picture of the lighthouse with the light shining out to see to show how important it is to protect the ships and sailors!

Friday

Your poster design looks fantastic! But how will people know what the problem is? We need to add some writing!

ACTIVITY

Today, we need to add some writing to our poster so that people know what we need. You could read key words like ‘lighthouse keeper’, ‘1 week’, ‘job’, ‘light’, ‘ships’, ‘rocks’, ‘help’. You may be up for a challenge and you may want to write a sentence or two! You could write, ‘Mr Grinling is going on holiday. Will you be the lighthouse keeper? You need to clean the light and help the ships see the rocks.’

Maths

Monday

The Lighthouse Keeper is always around lots of water! Today, we are going to learn about capacity. Capacity is how much liquid a container can hold and how full it is.

Key words:

ACTIVITY

Can you have a go at the sorting worksheet below: which containers are full, which containers are half full and which containers are empty?

full half

full

empty

Tuesday

Yesterday we talked about capacity – can you remember what capacity means? Can you remember the 3 key words we looked at yesterday?

_____________ _____________ _____________

ACTIVITY

Today, we are going to compare and order different capacities. You can see above that I’ve ordered the glasses from the full to empty. Can you have a go at doing the same, as part of the challenge below?

Wednesday

Today, we are going to think about weight. Weight is how heavy or light something is. We can compare weights by using the words ‘heavier than’ and ‘lighter than’.

Key words:

ACTIVITY

Today, can you collect a range of items from around your house and sort them into heavy and light. Then, can you have a go at choosing the heaviest and lightest objects. After that, can you sort the rest of the objects from the heaviest to the lightest?

Thursday

Today, we are going to think about length. Length is how long or short something is. We can compare weights by using the words ‘longer than’ and ‘shorter than’.

Key words:

ACTIVITY

Today, can you compare the length of different objects around your house? Perhaps your TV remote is longer than the battery inside of it? What is the longest object you can find? What is the shortest object you can find? Then have a go at the colour by length activity below.

heavy light

long short

Friday

Today, we are going to have a go at measuring objects! You can use any items you have around your home to do the measuring, as long as they are all the same size, for example, counters, cubes, bricks, beads, pasta swirls, nuts.

ACTIVITY

Use your chosen object to measure the caterpillars below. Make sure you write down your measurements. How do you know which caterpillar is the longest? What do you notice about the number of objects you have needed to measure the longest caterpillar? What do you notice about the number of objects you have needed to measure the shortest caterpillar?

After you’ve measured the caterpillars, can you cut them out and put them in order from the longest to the shortest? Don’t forget to use the words ‘longer than’ and ‘shorter than’ to compare the caterpillars.

Topic

This week, in Topic, we are going to learn about everything to do with lighthouses! Including how they work and what job they do.

Activity 1

With your adult’s permission, do some research on lighthouses. You can use the lighthouses PowerPoint and the following YouTube link as a starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKRVWPP2si0

Can you find out:

• Where you find lighthouses • What job they do • Who looks after them • How they work • And any other interesting information you find!

It is up to you how you present your ideas – you might want to paint a picture of a lighthouse and write some key information around it, or you may want to make an information leaflet about lighthouses. The choice is yours!

Activity 2

Can you create a seaside scene, including a lighthouse? If you have blue paint and wax crayons, you can have a go at creating the seaside scene that we would have been doing if we were together in school. The instructions are below:

• Start by using your wax crayons to create your seaside scene. Don’t forget the house on the rocks, the wire between the house and the lighthouse with the lunch basket coming down, the seagulls, and the lighthouse.

• Think about what might be under the sea – you might see seaweed, fish and rocks. Draw these with your wax crayons.

• When you have finished, brush a layer of blue paint over the seaweed, fish and rocks that you have drawn in the sea. You will then have the blue sea, but you will still be able to see the elements that you have drawn under the sea!

Activity 3

For lighthouses to work really well, they need to be visible at night! Have a go at conducting this fun shadow experiment! You can also have a go at the light and dark PowerPoint quiz and the shadow matching worksheet, if you like.

Activity 4

Can you design your own lighthouse? You may want to paint it, make it, build it out of lego – the choice is yours! Make sure that you include a repeating pattern!

Activity 5

You have worked so hard this week, so perhaps you could enjoy some ‘Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ themed colouring!

Phonics

This term in Phonics, we are going to revise our Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs. Each week, you will have a number of sounds to revise and mini activities to do! The games on Phonics Play are still free to use at home and can be found here: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/#

This week, the sounds that we will be revising are:

zoom

coach

night

tooth

Tricky Words

Handwriting

Can you have a practice at writing these letters correctly? Can you sit them on the lines?