Daily Challenges Week 6
w/c 08.02.21
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Pre-Writing
Using the guides, can your child trace the dotted lines?
They can use pencil, pen or crayon.
Use the words up, down and over, as this is what they follow in
school.
The sheets are more challenging towards the end, so feel free to
have a go!
Literacy 1
Little Red Riding Hood: word and picture matching
Remind your child about the story. Either go through the
PowerPoint, or play a video to remind them of the characters.
Can your child match the word to a picture from the story? Try
and encourage your child to point to the correct picture after you
have said the word.
They can then colour in the picture if they like!
Literacy 2
Goldilocks revision: big/small
Gather together items from around your home that are the same,
but different sizes.
Place them all on the floor or a table in and see whether they
can sort them into two groups – big and small.
If you do not have enough items at home to use, or feel a visual
would help, then please use the Teddy Bear’s Picnic resource. This
will also help with their cutting skills!
Phonics
Please choose the appropriate level activity for your child.
Phase 1 – Print out and cut out each of the images in the Phase
1 object cards. Print out the Robot and cut out a slit in its mouth
for posting the object cards.
Give your child a choice of 2 pictures, for example, dog and
bed. Say one of them so the letters are clear – for example, “dog”.
Can your child choose the correct picture and post it in the robot?
Repeat for all the images.
Phase 2
This week, focus on the letter ‘t’.
Check the ‘Letter t’ document for suggested activities.
Maths 1
Counting objects
Can you practise counting up to 5? Use the ‘counting cars’ sheet
to help you.
If your child has any toy cars at home, perhaps use these to
help them count and visualise the amounts of each number.
If you go on a walk down your street, can your child count the
cars they see?
Consolidate numbers
Use the Bumblebees PowerPoint to practise counting from 1 –
10.
You can play these videos to help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4K9oi7oBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_lgJgBbqWE
Can you put the correct number of people on the bus? You can
focus on numbers 1-5, or 1-10. Do what best suits your child.
Maths 2
Decorating Shapes
Look at some basic 2D shapes using the PowerPoint, and trace
each one with your finger.
Play videos to help being shapes to life!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjv39j6/articles/ztpwdmn
Draw the 4 basic shapes, circle, triangle, square and rectangle
onto paper or card using a thick black pen. See the picture to the
right. Guide your child in drawing the shapes.
Get some items that your child could stick within the shape:
beads/buttons/pasta etc.
How many sides does a triangle have? Count together. A square?
What shape looks like the wheels on a bus? Try and relate the
shapes you have explored with things around your house, or whilst
you are out on a walk!
Arts & Crafts
Vegetable printing
Session 1:
Can you take a range of vegetables and cut them in half
long-ways. Get some paint or a mixture of flour/coloured water
(using food-colouring) and dip the flat side of the
carrot/parsnip/swede etc into it and print it on some paper or
fabric.
Session 2:
After your work has dried, cut them out and get them ready to
use them in a garden display.
In a foil tray or old plate, put some nature items from your
garden or local park, such as soil, as well as a few stones, leaves
and twigs, to create a vegetable patch. Now add your painted
vegetables on to the soil and you can pretend that this is where
you would plant some seeds to grow!
Sensory
Sensory bags
While each child's "bag" should be based on his or her
individual sensory needs, here are some suggestions that may help
you get started:
• Something to squeeze - stress balls, etc. • Two footprints
that can be put on the floor for jumping or stomping on
• Lotion with one of the more calming scents, such as
vanilla
• Two handprints that can be placed on a wall as a deep pressure
"push place".
Things you might need:
· Zip lock bags
· Strong tape (if you want to attach bags to the floor)
· Foam
· Gel
· Paint
· Food of different shapes/textures
· Food dye
· Oil
P.E.
Please follow this link for P.E. suggestions where appropriate
for your child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7CDHLCjIw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj2ZgQqsNA
