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One More and One Less Can you complete our one more and one less table? Look at the number of stars and calculate one more and one less than the amount. Can you draw it out with your grown ups?

Look at the front cover of our book... What do you notice? 🤔 Who are the main characters? 👥 Who is the author? 📝 Can you draw a picture of Mummy pig and label her body parts? ✏️ Read along here!  👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP76odqLTU0

Can you read these tricky words? Can you write them? Can you say them in a sentence to your grown ups?  Challenge Can you write the sentences and fill in the missing word? We __ to school. __ run fast. Mum said __. We went to ___ park.

  Robins 1 had an amazing experience planting trees in our outside area a few weeks ago.  We spoke about how trees grow, what they need to grow and how we can help plants and other living things.  The children helped Miss McGill plant each tree and were able to take turns and share the equipment.  Well done Robins 1. 🌲👏

 Can you remember the skeleton dance we learnt at school?  Can you show your grown ups? Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpvuqj5nv6U Can you remember the Months of the Year song?  Can you tell your grown ups all the 12 months? Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9bnYRzFvk

 For your Maths task today, can you practise forming the numerals 0-10? Can you complete this Rosie’s Walk addition activity with your grown up?

 For your Phonics task today, can you look at these pictures? What can you see? What do all these things begin with? Can you practise forming the grapheme ‘o’? Can you read this word? Can you read this sentence?

 For your English task today, can you name these things that are in Rosie’s Walk? Remember to use your Phonics knowledge and sound out the words slowly.

 Could you practise singing our songs for the Christmas Virtual performance?  Song 1 - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6mDRhKAcA Song 2 - We Wish You a Merry Christmas Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OF7KGyDis

For your Phonics task today, can you look at these pictures? What can you see? What do all these things begin with? Can you practise forming the grapheme ‘g’? Can you read these words?

 For your Maths activity today, can you play the Shape Monster game on the TopMarks website? Link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/shape-monsters Can you make a shape pizza? Can you colour the shapes in these colours? Circles – red Triangles – blue Squares – green Rectangles - yellow

 For your English task today, can you listen to the story of Rosie’s Walk again? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdviuJ4H20 Activity: Look at this picture, can you label parts of Rosie the hen?  Remember to use your Phonics, can you hear and write the first sound in each word on your own?

 Amazing Home Learning Phonics work completed today. 😊👏✍📚

 If you have completed the Phonics, Maths and English activities set today,  could you make your own Little Red Hen story mask of the characters? 🐔 

 For your Maths activity today, can you watch Session 3 on the WhiteRose Hub website?  This session links to your work last week on recognising shapes and patterns. Link: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/week-1/ Can you complete this activity with your grown-up? Can you match and recognise the shapes you find? Can you use the language of size?

 For your Phonics task today, can you write the correct words in these phoneme frames?    What is this a picture of? Can you write the word? Have a look at the sounds above, can you make any more words with these sounds? Example: tin    tap Challenge: Can you write a sentence with one of these words in?  Example: the pan is hot How many sentences can you write?

 For your English task today, can you listen to the story of Rosie’s Walk ?   Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdviuJ4H20 Before listening to the story, have a look at this picture. What can you see? What do you think the story might be about? Who might be in the story? Is the story similar to the Little Red Hen? Which story did you prefer? Who were the characters in Rosie’s walk?

 Last weekend Hindus all across the world celebrated the festival Diwali.  Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights.  To celebrate Diwali, family and friends gather and enjoy food, gift swapping, parties, lighting their homes up with diva lights and they create Rangoli Patterns. Can you watch these videos with your grown-up and find out all about Diwali? Link:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-celebrate-diwali Can you make your own Rangoli pattern with pasta, chalk or other objects?

 For your Phonics activity today, can you watch Geraldine the Giraffe on YouTube? Can you help her pronounce the 's' sound properly? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUmUpf-JNoU   Can you find any items around your house that begin with ‘s’ ? Challenge: Can you play the Spooky sounds game on ICTGames? Link:  https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySounds/index.html    Instructions: -         Click Set 1: s,a,t,p -         Listen to the sound which appears on the cauldron -         Click and drag the sound bubbles the match the sound that you heard into the cauldron

 For your Maths activity today, can you play the Shape Pattern game on the TopMarks website?  Link:   https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns  Can you recognise the shapes in the sequence? Can you select which shape needs to come next in the pattern? Challenge: Can you go on a shape hunt around your house or garden?  What objects can you find that are circles, squares, rectangles and triangles?

 For your English activity today, could you watch the Talk for Writing video of The Little Red Hen by Pie Corbett? Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdvJZD-cplg  Talk for Writing is a strategy used in school to support early writing. We use actions to retell the story, this then helps the children when writing as the story becomes more memorable to them.  Can you copy the actions? This activity links to these Reading objectives: •Listens to and joins in with stories and poems, one-to-one and also in small groups. • Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories. •Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.

 If you have completed the Phonics, Writing and Maths work set today,  can you listen to some songs ? Can you join in at certain parts? What instruments can you hear? This activity meets the Expressive arts & design: Exploring media and materials objectives:  •Begins to build a repertoire of songs and dances.  •Explores the different sounds of instruments. Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtwQ8K29yE0 Can you watch Mr Tumble Chick, Chick Chicken? Can you copy any of the makaton signs that he uses? Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUBq5RsIYDg

 For your Phonics task today, can you tell your grown up what these sounds are?   Can you read these tricky words ? Can you read this silly sentence?  Can you watch this video, how many words can you read? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJx0ILwV8

 In Maths today could you watch the Shape Song on Youtube?  Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTeqUejf3D0&list=PLBCINYK5ChNptVR2-BgGmWoBKliLIOBN-&index=24  How many shapes can you recognise?  Can you draw different shapes and create a shape picture? Can you count how many shapes you have used? How many squares, triangles, rectangles and circles?