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Ocean habitat

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Can you create your own ocean? Try an under the table ocean den, a lego masterpiece or even an ocean in a jar!

Maths

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I spy sea creature addition Count how many of each sea creature you can see. Then try to complete the addition statements below  

Baking

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Can you follow the recipe to make some crispy sea creature creations? Ingredients 3 tablespoons    butter or margarine 1 package (10oz., about 40)  Miniature Marshmallows 6 cups rice  cereal Assorted sweets Icing (icing sugar and water/lemon juice and colouring of choice) Mini marshmallows Toothpicks Bamboo skewers Method 1. In large saucepan melt butter over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat. OR  MICROWAVE:  Heat butter and marshmallows on HIGH for 3 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes. Stir until smooth. 2. Add rice cereal. Stir until well coated. 3. Using buttered spatula or wax paper evenly press mixture to cut circles and stars 4. Cut two notches in some of the circles to make fish, forming a tail. Decorate! 5. Try molding your crispy mixture (while it's warm) into shapes of other sea creatures too! Try this alternative if you have premade rice krispie squares  👇 http://mym

PE

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Try this ocean work out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0S-yRxp81s   👈

Phonics

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Long a Snail and Whale both use the long a sound. Take a look at the long a sound with this clip... https://youtu.be/bctrrC21Owk   👈 Play this interactive phonics game to test out your skills!  👇 Digraph /ai/, Phonics game to practice the vowel digraph /ai/ A digraph is the combination of two letters to make one sound. There are key vowel digraphs that help build literacy skills through phonics. This phonics game reviews the vowel digraph /ai/ which makes the 'long /a/' sound. It can be heard in words such as train, rain, snail, tail. It is a good digraph to learn because it occurs in many words. www.kizphonics.com Challenge! Can you work out the ryhming words that match these long a words? Try some additional links here  👇 https://youtu.be/bctrrC21Owk https://youtu.be/ghd898RDjEM  

Reading

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  The Snail and the Whale Think about how the characters felt at different times in the story Read along here  👇 https://youtu.be/x887mPO9X9c   Try watching the BBC animated film here! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cslw/the-snail-and-the-whale   👈 Challenge!

PE

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Are you ready for an under the sea workout? Time to get fit like a fish! https://youtu.be/TCrFUD98U_Q   CBeebies | Andy's Wild Workouts | Under the Sea! Andy goes on an adventure to find the biggest fish in the ocean. Join him as he meets an octopus, white tipped shark and a huge whale shark and learns how to... youtu.be

Science

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Can you find out all about Whales? Learn about Whales Fun Facts for Kids Educational Videos for Students Learn fun facts about the largest mammal to ever set foot on Planet Earth. Helping kids learn and grow enjoy this educational video for students about whales. Jeremiah brings you some fun and exciting things about how fast whales swim, breath, the size of a whales heart and more. Please SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT & LIKE!!! Follow us on Social Media for ... www.youtube.com   Blue whale facts for kids | National Geographic Kids Blue whale facts for kids: learn about these mega mammals, with facts about blue whale size, characteristics, diet, range, behaviour and migration patterns www.natgeokids.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qlhNU1ATE   👈 Draw a picture and write as many facts as you can! Remember CAPITAL LETTERS  Full Stops  ⚫ Finger Spaces  👇

Snail Scrolls

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Can you follow the recipe to bake your own Snail Scrolls!   Ingredients  2 sheets puff pastry 6 tablepoons Marmite 1 Pepper/Carrot/Celery cut into match sticks (for the antenna) Method  1 Preheat oven to 180°C or 160° fan-forced. Line a baking tray with baking paper and set aside.  2 Spread each sheet of pastry with 3 tbsp of Marmite evenly over each sheet.  3 Roll each sheet tightly into a scroll and slice the scroll evenly into 12 pieces. Be sure to leave the last couple of cms unrolled to create the head of the snail. 4 Lie on the tray and bake for 10-15 minutes. 5 Remove pastry snails from the baking sheet and pierce two holes into the top of the snail's head for the antenna. You could use pesto, or cheese in the place of Marmite. If you prefer your snails sweet then try sugar and cinammon or even chocolate spread!

Maths

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Under the Sea Subtraction Can you complete these subtractions? Count the number of creatures then use the numberline to help you to take away. Can you write them as subtraction statements? for example... 🐟 🐟 🐟 🐟 - 1  =           4 - 1 = 3 Challenge! Can you create some of your own subtraction questions using sea creatures?

Reading

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  It's time to read our story again! The Snail and the Whale Read along here  👇 https://youtu.be/x887mPO9X9c   Try watching the BBC animated film here! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cslw/the-snail-and-the-whale   👈 Challenge! Snail went on a very exciting adventure.  Can you draw and  describe some of the things she saw on the way?

Phonics

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Long A Snail and Whale sound the same but have different spellings. We're going to investigate the different digraphs that make the Long A sound . 'ai'  'a_e' 'ay' Long Vowel Letter ai/a-e/ay - English4abc - Phonics song This is a fun, long vowel a phonics song for learners of English. A colorful, animated music video to learn how to pronounce the, "long ai/a-e/ay" sound. Cop... youtu.be Play this interactive phonics game to test out your skills!  👇 Digraph /ai/, Phonics game to practice the vowel digraph /ai/ A digraph is the combination of two letters to make one sound. There are key vowel digraphs that help build literacy skills through phonics. This phonics game reviews the vowel digraph /ai/ which makes the 'long /a/' sound. It can be heard in words such as train, rain, snail, tail. It is a good digraph to learn because it occurs in ma

Design

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Can you create your own snail? Take a look here for inspiration  👇 https://iheartcraftythings.com/12-colorful-snail-crafts-for-kids.html  

PE

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Under the Sea PE Can you join in with this Under the Sea  dance routine? https://youtu.be/SH-7A3NVQbY?t=31   👈 or you could try this tricky one! 👇 https://youtu.be/24JS0gjS5RM Challenge! Can you make your own dance routine to this song? Can you teach it to your family?

Phonics

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Pirates at sea have buried treasure. Can you use your decoding skills to read the different words and work out which are the real 'treasure' and which are fake? https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure   👈 Try writing out the words with sound buttons to help you to blend! This clip helps to explain sound buttons.   https://youtu.be/8pbImXbGOxw 👈 Challenge! Can you write out the sentences for the pictures? Can you add sound buttons to help you sound out the words? The first one is an example for you.

Reading

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It's time to read our story again! The Snail and the Whale Read along here  👇 https://youtu.be/x887mPO9X9c   Try watching the BBC animated film here! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cslw/the-snail-and-the-whale   👈 Challenge! Using the story can you think of some words that describe snail ? Words that describe tell us what something is like. What does snail look like? How does snail act? ​

Maths

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Let's go fishing! The fish are labelled with numbers 1 to 20 Can you catch the fish in the right order? Can you catch them in reverse order?

Science and design

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Can you create your own sea creature? Using parts of a real sea creature can you create your own fantasy sea creature? You can make up your own parts too! Can you give your sea creature a name?  Can you write sentences about it?   This is my creature. It is a hexor. It has six legs. My hexor is blue and yellow.

Phonics

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'ai' Snail has the 'ai' sound. Use these videos to learn about this sound and then try out the game on phonics play! https://youtu.be/EQGObQTTR-g   👈 https://youtu.be/LnXaN-CvR9s 👈 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDzpV3jFefs 👈 How many 'ai' words can you think of? Try the game here  👇 https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/buried-treasure Remember to select 'ai' words!

Time to get creative!

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Can you create your own Whale? You might use lego... You might recycle a milk carton... You might use playdough... What else could you use?

PE and Music

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Can you join in with the Big Blue Whale Dance? https://youtu.be/Parej8Fi0es   👈 

Maths

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Under the Sea Addition Can you complete these additions? Count the number of creatures separately then together.  Can you write them as addition statements? for example... 🐟 🐟 + 🐟 🐟 =           2 + 2 = 4 Challenge! Can you create some of your own addition questions using sea creatures?