Good Morning,
I hope you had a great day yesterday.
Below are some learning activities for today.
English
| Learning Objective/Focus: | To begin to know some features of a newspaper report. | |
| Main input (explanation) | Look at the attached newspaper report about Goldilocks. | |
| Activities | Look at today’s phoneme and complete the activities on the slide. | |
| Discuss the features of the report. What do you notice about the text type, the layout, the headline. Is it a story? | ||
| What is the report about? What information have you found out from the report? Which sentences do you like and why? | ||
| Extension Activity Ideas | Look at the newspaper report about the Highway rat. Try to spot the headline, the punctuation used. What the story is about? Are there any witnesses? A witness is someone who makes a statement about what they have seen or heard when the event happened. |
Maths
| Learning Objective/Focus: | To compare number sentences. | |
| Main input (explanation) | Children compare number sentences using greater (more) than, less than and equal to. | |
| Activities | In these pairs of numbers which number is less? 17,3 2,9 10,11 Which number is greater in these pairs? 5,7 8,12 16,20 | |
| Compare the calculations using less than, greater (more) than and equal to. (you might want to complete the calculations in each pair first!) 5+4 4+5 7+9 6+3 5+6 2+1 11+ 4 20 – 5 9 + 3 17- 3 | ||
| Use the symbols for greater than > Less than < And equal to = to compare the calculations. 3 + 8 8 + 3 18 – 5 18 12 + 4 12 – 4 | ||
| Extension Activity Ideas | Find the answers; Whitney has 16 sweets and eats 7 of them. Mo has 17 sweets and eats 8 of them. Who has more sweets left? Explain how you know. Alex says “any number less than 11 would make this correct. 7+11 < 7 + __ Do you agree with Alex? Explain why. |
Foundation Subjects
| Subject | Art | |
| Learning Objective/Focus: | To recognise the work of Georgia O’Keeffe | |
| Main input (explanation) | Georgia O’Keeffe is perhaps most famous for painting flowers. Look at the document to discover about her life and art works. | |
| Activities | Look at the art work by Georgia O’ Keeffe and talk about what you see. Are the flowers painted close up or at a distance?What colours does she use? What do you think she used? What do you like or dislike and why? | |
| Choose one of Georgia O’ Keeffes flower paintings carefully observe and draw the picture. | ||
| Choose one of Georgia O’keeffes flower paintings and carefully observe and make a copy. Look carefully at the colours she has used. What will you use to colour yours? | ||
| Extension Activity Ideas | Make a 3d flower. You could use different paper, egg boxes, pom poms or any other recycled materials you have. |
Hope you have fun. I look forward to seeing your flower drawings.