Tuesday
Handwriting letter 'r'
Phonics
I will be delivering a live phonics lesson at 10.30 for all children to attend. Please have a pen and paper ready for the spelling part of the session.
Please also complete daily spellings, handwriting and any extra phonics games from the phonics game tab on cherry remote learning page.
This week's spellings:
what
now
how
when
from
them
Please practice spellings at home for a short time each day.
Writing
Yesterday for our Adventure you made sleeping potions at home to put the 3 headed dog to sleep so we could creep past and enter the cryptic caves. If you didn't do this, you could do it today before your writing or have a look at the video below. I would like you to write a set of instructions for making the sleeping potion. You must make sure your instructions are clear and easy to follow, and you need an equipment list. At the start of each instruction you need a time adverbial, have a look below:
Method:
1. First put the eye drops into a glass.
2. Next ....
3. Then .......
4. After that ........
5. Finally ..........
You will need:
Willow sap
Lagoon Juice
Magic Mix
Eye drops
bowl or cup
spoon
In your instructions you need to use 'bossy verbs'. These tell you what to do -
put
take
shake
make
push
pull
squeeze
stir
Sleeping Potion
Maths
Today the children are exploring 'quarters'. Yesterday we learnt that when half we split it into 2, today we are learning that quarters means splitting into 4. It is important the children recognise that every quarter is the same size and 'equal'. It would be valuable to show this using cut out shapes or cake or anything you can cut up. Using visual and physical representations will help the children understand.
How to help at home
There are lots of everyday ways you can help your child to understand fractions. Here are just a few ideas.
1. Fractions and food
Food always provides a fun (and tasty) opportunity to explore fractions!
When cutting a sandwich, show your child how you can cut a whole sandwich into two equal parts, and explain that we call each part a half. Point out that we could put the two halves together again to make the whole. Try halving in different ways, such as cutting a whole sandwich into two equal rectangles or triangles.
Why not show your child that we can find the quarters of a sandwich by first cutting it in half and then cutting those pieces in half again? Ask your child to find one of the equal parts and explain that this is one quarter. Try finding quarters in different ways, such as cutting a whole sandwich into four equal rectangles or triangles.
2. Use toys
Learn about fractions using some of your child’s favourite toys – little figures, blocks, teddies, cars, you name it.
Gather together a collection of toys. Show your child how to halve quantities by asking them to split their collection of toys into two equal groups. So, if they have ten cars, they can split them into two groups of five.
You could also show them how to find one quarter of quantities by splitting their toys into four equal groups.
3. Drawing shapes
Grab some paper and colouring pencils. Draw a circle, square, rectangle, and equal-sided triangle and ask them to find and colour in one half. Next, draw another shape and ask your child to colour in one quarter.
4. Fractions all around us
Point out the fractions all around you – such as when you are in the shops (for example, price offers) or in recipes ( tablespoon) and so on. Talk about what the different numbers mean.
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