13 weeks in lockdown and countless hot lazy summer days. What an amazing and beautiful week this has been. It has been so hot that the boys didn’t even want to play in the garden. Can’t say we haven’t maxed out our Vitamin D intake. 🙂 Over the weekend, the temperature has dropped a little bit, which was much welcomed as living in a country that doesn’t thrive on air conditioning is hard when the mercury rises. Since the weather was so nice, we extended our minibeast adventure outside and focused on spiders for our bitesize home learning this week.

Note: #JasperBean is in Reception (age 4-5: EYFS), therefore his home learning is specific to him/his age. I have received permission to share parts of his home learning plan from his teachers.

English

We are fully into Phase 4 phonics which has a bunch of tricky words but no new sounds. Therefore we have been revising Phase 2 and 3 sounds, with a focus on “Consonant Blends”, such as “st”, “tr”, “nd”, “pt” etc.

•  Revised
  • First 100 High Frequency Words
  • Phase 3 Phonics
  • Phase 3 and phase 4 tricky words – These songs are very catchy and we love singing along to them.
• Phonics worksheets from Twinkl and Mrs Mactivity.
• Live Phonics from Twinkl Parents Group on Facebook
• This week we read/watched the story “Arrgh Spider!“:
  • • Read the story together and discussed the spiders actions.
    • Came up with some new ideas about what else the spider could have done around the house.
    • Discussed why the first page of the book was upside down and drew a picture of what the spider would see in our house.
    • Did a mini research on spiders and how we shouldn’t be afraid of them.
    • Drew a new page for the book including a short sentence to go with it.
  • You can buy the “Arrghh Spider!” book from here.
• Built sentences with random words.
• Writing challenge – wrote an independent piece about our story last week – Superworm.

• Independent Reading
  • Dinosaurs love Underpants
  • Pirates love Underpants

Maths

• This week we revised calculating as part of our Early Learning goal.
  • Adding and subtracting single digits, with the help of props for double digits.
  • Doubling and halving
  • Spotting mistakes in sums
  • Finding missing numbers and symbols in questions
  • Played a series of maths games on Topmarks

There are a lot of activities and worksheets on Twinkl and Mrs Mactivity (free and paid subscription).

TWO great FREE resources to support and supplement our work.

• National Oak Academy– An online classroom for reception age to year 10.
• BBC Bitesize – Online study support resource for school-age students in the United Kingdom.
  

Some activities

• Daily PE with Joe
• Handprint spider art
• Salt painting spiders web
• Celebrated our favourite soft toys birthday
• Water/Ice play with paper and tin foil boats
• Creating shapes with Duplo
• Puzzle books
• Tap Tap Art
• Spider web throwing game with masking tape
• DIY floating ball toy
• We also celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival this week by sharing a story about, ate some delicious traditional food and lego building!

Running out of activities? Why not have a go at one of these tried and tested boredom busters and don’t forget to follow us on Instagram for activities and inspiration!

Board games

These are some of the board games we played this week:

• Game Of Life
• Crazy Circuits

What will we get up to next week?

Thank you for reading and until next time…  have fun and happy social distancing!

Love MsMamaBean.

Here’s a quick link to our Home Learning Diary. What a journey it has been!

Disclaimer: English and Maths support links and suggestions are part of the children’s at-home learning plan provided by their teacher during social distancing/lockdown. I have only added supplement worksheets, reading and activities to support his learning.