Jess Smart

Watch the videos to help you understand some of this week’s literacy learning jobs from the learning pack for this week. You don’t need to do them all in one go!

⭐️ Draw a picture of a whale or snail and write sentences inside with the things they saw on their journey.

⭐️ Design a rescue poster for the whale. Make sure to include where the whale is, what the problem is and whether the people will need to bring any tools. You could add a picture at the top.

⭐️ What animal would you want to travel on? Draw a picture of it and then label why it would be good to travel on. Challenge: Write about your animal using full sentences.

⭐️ There is lots of rhyming in the story. Can you find the rhyming words? Challenge: Can you think of other words that rhyme with the words from the story?

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Watch the video to help you understand one of this week’s maths activities from the learning pack for this week. You don’t need to do them all in one go!

⭐️ Count out ingredients to make a magic potion to turn you super! You could use water, food colouring, bubble bath, leaves and petals, glitter etc. Write or draw how much of each ingredient you need for your potion. Do you need a magic spell to go with it? Which super powers will you have?

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Watch the video to help you understand one of this week’s physical activities from the learning pack for this week. You don’t need to do them all in one go!

⭐️Create some worms out of cooked spaghetti and move them from one place to another using your pinching fingers. You could make it even trickier and use chopsticks or tweezers. Race against someone in your family or time yourself to see if you can get quicker.

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Watch the video to help you understand one of this week’s maths activities from the learning pack for this week. You don’t need to do them all in one go!

⭐️Make some superworms using spaghetti, string or playdough. Can you put them in size order? Which one is the longest/shortest? Are any the same length? Challenge: Try measuring with a ruler or tape measure.

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Watch the video to help you understand some of this week’s learning projects from the learning pack for this week. You don’t need to do them all in one go!

⭐️ Design and make one or a family of superworms. Use string, pasta, beads, cheerios, an old sock stuffed with paper etc. Challenge: Can you make a repeating pattern? Make the worms ‘super’ by creating capes or superhero costumes.

⭐️ Find out a bit more about worms. Then try and create a wormery following these instructions. Challenge: Which day of the week will you find the most bugs outside? Think of a way of recording this.

⭐️ The Islamic tradition of Ramadan begins this week in the 9th month of the Muslim calendar and lasts for a month. This is followed by a celebration called ‘Eid al- fitr’. During Ramadan, Muslims fast during the day. Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam and means not eating or drinking. Eid is a time of celebration to mark the end of Ramadan. Muslims may decorate their hands with beautiful henna at this time. Can you design your own henna pattern? What else can you find out about Ramadan and Eid?

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Watch the videos to help you understand some of this week’s literacy learning jobs from the learning pack for this week. You don’t need to do them all in one go!
⭐️ go bug hunting in your garden or when you go outside each day and use drawings and writing to show what you found where.
⭐️ design your own super character! Remember to draw your character and also write some super sentences. Will you be able to write more than 3 and beat Miss Butcher?
⭐️ create your own super story. You don’t need to make a book or draw pictures as you could just tell the story with your voice or with toys or puppets from home.
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Welcome back Reception, we hope you had a great holiday. Here is your learning for the following week, you can also find it on Tapestry. We will be uploading daily phonics videos as well as one other video per day at least on Tapestry. We would love you to show us your learning by uploading pictures and videos.