Good Morning! It is snowing!
What a lovely surprise to wake up to a blanket of snow this morning .Our first rule of the day is to make sure you go and play out in the snow! Please have a fantastic day outside making precious memories with your families.
We have put together some optional activities for you to complete today. These activities are closely linked to our curriculum and the normal lesson plans that would be set on a Friday. Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Gardner & Mrs Malec
Art
Challenge:
For your Art today, Mrs Marsden would like you to create a snow sculpture outside. Can you make a sculpture other than a snowman? A snow dog?
Top Tips:
- Add food colouring and make it super colourful!
- Mould the snow in your sculpture.
Maths Starter
To begin your maths meaning please listen and sing along to the 5 times table song. After this, have a go at the range of games on Top Marks! The children love the game Hit The Button. Can you beat your last score? Please try and focus on your multiplication and division facts for the 5 times tables as this is our KIRF focus for this half term.
See the links below to sing and play!
See the links below to sing and play!
Maths
As you know our most recent focus in maths is Multiplication & Division. We are going to look at the 5 x table today and working out some multiplication facts. Please follow the PowerPoint and complete the questions below.
Mrs Malec & Miss Gardner have also attached a challenge worksheet taken from the maths scheme that we follow to allow you to extend your thinking and secure your understanding of the 5 times tables!
Top Tips:
- Multiplication means lots of , groups of, times by.
- Draw it out to help you!
- We are counting in groups of 5.
Reading
It is crucial that you are listening to your child read at home as much as possible. Please read with your child today and over the weekend and comment in their reading record. Your child should have an allocated book in their bookbags that is linked to their reading level.
Top Tips:
- Discuss the text with your child - What is happening on page 5? How does this character feel? Why do you think that? What does this word mean?
- Ask your child some retrieval questions (These are questions where they can find and trap the answers in the text).
- Ask your child some inference questions (These are questions where you can not find the answers in the text but you have to use your knowledge of the characters and story to reach a conclusion).
- Focus on the punctuation in the text and encourage your child to use expression when reading speech or when they notice an !
Spelling
On a Friday morning we usually complete our weekly spelling test. As this is not possible today, we are postponing the spellings until Monday morning. Please may you practise these spellings with your child again today and over the weekend so that they are familiar with spelling words that end in le. For example, pebble, marble and table. We have attached the spelling list below if you are unable to find the hard copy in your child's book bag!
Top Tips:
- Play the connect 4 game attached below to embed these spellings! The children get very competitive.
- Discuss the spellings with your child - What is the funny part of this word? What sounds do the letters make?
- Look, cover, say and practise each word.