Monday 11th May Today, we would like you to read the story ‘Tadpole’s Promise by Jeanna Willis and Tony Ross. You might have this already at home. It looks like this:

If you don’t have this, you can watch a YouTube video of the story being read aloud here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKMl-a3-uNY

After you’ve read or listened to the story, talk with your parent or carer about what happens in the story. What do you think of the story? Did you enjoy it? What did you like the best? Now, can you answer some of these questions?

Reading comprehension

Tadpole’s promise reading comprehension

What type of tree did the caterpillar sit on?

Willow Ash

How did the caterpillar describe the tadpole?

A shiny black pearl A wrinkly grey elephant

What did tadpole grow first? Two legs A tail

How many chances did the caterpillar give to the tadpole?

Five Three

Why do you think the sky and the trees had changed?

It was a different time of day The seasons had changed

What did the frog do to the butterfly? He cuddled it He ate it

With your adult, talk about where the caterpillar and the tadpole went, what happened to them?

Tuesday 12th May Today we’d like you to practice your fine motor skills! Make a wiggly tadpole or caterpillar

Equipment: flour or salt, a tray, your finger or a paint brush, pencil or stick Instructions: Use your finger or the stick or paintbrush to make a wiggly tadpole

The Pond Equipment: green food colouring and cornflour/ small world play (frogs and pond life) Instructions: Use a stick or your finger to mark make or write out words related to the story

Grips for holding the equipment

Can you practice the ‘caterpillar’ letters in your tray? You could try to write some words too!

What words can you think of that have these letters in?

Wednesday 13th May Today is all about finding out facts.

Can you write 3 facts about a caterpillar, butterfly, tadpole or frog? Once you have written some information about what you know, can you find one more, new, interesting fact out? You could make this in to a fact file, using the sheet below, design a poster or a PowerPoint presentation, it can be any way that you like!

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Thursday 14th May Today is all about phonic sounds: Find the letter/environmental sound

Equipment: A frog toy, green paper and pen Instructions: Parents/carer will call out a sound and the frog need to jump on the correct sound. This can be done with single letter sounds, or for use blending words. The phonics sounds are;

Phase 2 Phase 3

• Set 1: s, a, t, p.

• Set 2: i, n, m, d.

• Set 3: g, o, c, k.

• Set 4: ck, e, u, r.

• Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

• Set 6: j, v, w, x.

• Set 7: y, z, zz, qu.

• Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng.

Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

Friday 15th May Today we are looking at retelling part of the story, there are lots of ways that you can do this. Below are some of the ideas but you can also think of your own! Idea 1: Can you draw a picture from the story and write a sentence about it? Don’t forget to use your finger spaces, full stops and capital letters!

Idea 2: Create a story map- order the story, you could draw pictures in each box, write sentences or stick the pictures below in order.

Idea 3: With someone in your family, could you act out the story? You could make face masks to do it, dress up or make headbands. You could even film it and email it in!