Well done again for another wonderful week of home learning. A massive well done to everyone for making it to the final week of term! This week we have an exciting week planned for you based around Chinese New Year. 2021 is the Year of the Ox! This is a whole school theme and a lot of the activities are the same for each year group, in the hope that this will allow parents with children in multiple year groups to complete the activities alongside each other. The activities that are designed to be used across all of the year groups detail how to adapt the activity to suit the age group, however please feel free to use the suggestions from Reception and Year 2 to allow you to extend or reduce the challenge for your child as required.

Also this week is Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 9th February, so this weeks Monday’s Assembly is Miss Ross telling a story about Smartie Penguin. As well as a timetabled session on the Tuesday itself.

These are our whole school E-Safety Rules which we will discuss during this week, I’m sure you will agree that a good understanding of how to use the internet safely is particularly important at this moment in time!

There are 2 links to folders for you access the printables this week, one is the Year 1 specific resources here and the other is whole school resources here.

You can print a copy of the blog here.

Forward planning: (Information already sent out by email last week)
Please note that for the cooking lesson on Wednesday afternoon, you will need to support your child. See list of ingredients below:

• 2 egg whites
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 tbsp sunflower oil
• 100g plain flour
• 2 tsp cornflour
• 100g caster sugar
• Pinch of salt
• Milk or white chocolate and sprinkles for decorating (optional)

Monday

Daily Phonics

Video – Recap the split digraphs (a_e, o_e, e_e, i_e and u_e) and applying to spelling and writing
Powerpoint – if you would rather work through at your own pace. (Pdf version)

Session 1 – The Story of Chinese New Year 🐂

2021 is the Year of the Ox. Watch this short story of how all the animals were chosen for the different years for the celebrations of Chinese New Year. CBeebies – Puppet Show of Story You could also look at the powerpoint together about the story. Then look at the poster.  There are 12 animals altogether. Can you find out which animal represented the year that you were  born? Then you could find out the animals for each of your family. Do some of you share the same animal?
You can print off sheets of the animals that represent you and your family to colour or draw your own.
You may want to make puppets like in the clip to retell the story.

Session 2 – Chinese maths session
Video showing how to count to 10 in Mandarin.
Powerpoint to look at demonstrating how to form Chinese numbers 0-10.
Children can then have a go at either writing their own numbers using anything they like, such as pencils or paint.
Or they could have a go at one of these sheets:
Tracing Chinese Numbers
Number bonds to 10

Session 3 – Geography: Creating a Map of China

Learning Objective:
–To locate China on a map and to create a map of China showing some of its physical features. 
Watch the video of the lesson here. Find the lesson slides and map template here. Your task is to use what you have learnt about China to create a simple map showing some of China’s physical features.
Reception: to use pictures to represent some of China’s features on a map. 
Year 1: to use a combination of pictures and word labels to show features on a map.
Year 2: to label the capital city of Beijing and other parts of China on a map and to use a basic key to show representations. 

Tuesday

Daily Phonics

Recap the graphemes taught and apply to blending.
Ideally these games are all best done at your child’s level if you are able to do this with your child. However the first 2 games require you to mark as correct or not for your child so there is a video of Miss Ross playing the games if you are not able to do this.
Phonics Play login details:
Username:  jan21   Password: home
– Flash card sounds – speed trial (phases 3 & 5a option, reduced challenge: phase 3)
– Tricky word recognition truck game – if you hover over the phases you will be able to see the words that it practises (Phase 5a or 5b Tricky words, reduced challenge: phase 3 or 4)
– Dragons den blending practise to sort into real or fake words (Phase 5 and either ‘Revise all’ or pick a sound to focus on, reduced challenge: Phase 3 ‘Revise all’)
Video Alternative if you are not able to do the above

Session 1 – How is Chinese New Year Celebrated?

Look through these presentation slides together (including links to video clips):
Reception PDF
Year 1/ Year 2 PDF
Questions to discuss together:
What special things did you notice people … eating/ wearing/ saying/ doing?
How do you celebrate a new year?
Challenge: see if you can fold a paper hongbao and put a gift or message inside for someone.

Session 2 – Maths 📸

Learning objectives
-To find 1 more/less than a number within 50
Input:
Video (powerpoint or pdf if you would rather work through at your own pace). Video explaining how to use tens and ones knowledge to find one more and one less than a number. It is the ones digit that changes, except there are 2 extra rules
1. If you are doing 1 more and ones digit is a 9 you moved into the next bundle of ten.
2. If you are doing 1 less and the ones digit is a 0 then you go into the previous bundle of ten.
Activity
Sheet – 1 more/less within 50
Reduced Challenge: Sheet – 1 more/less within 10
Extra Challenge: Sheet – a 1 more/less problem within 100

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Session 3 – Computing: Safer Internet Day
Learning objectives
– I know the internet can be fun and good to help me learn!
– I am familiar with our schools E-safety rules
– I know what private information is and that I shouldn’t share this online (name, age, birthday, address)
– I know what a digital footprint is and that it is difficult to remove.
Input
Video – Watch the video of Miss Ross reading Digiduck’s Famous Friend. This recaps our whole school E Safety rules and then discusses what ‘private’ or ‘personal’ information is.
Activity
Create a private information passport to help children understand what private information is (name, age, address, family and friends names, school, passwords etc). There are a number of ways you could do this, using the paper template below, creating your own template or using Purple Mash to create one. You could also come up with a anonymous username you could use online rather than sharing your name, mines unicorn61!
Passport template
Purple Mash – if you choose to use Purple Mash it should be set as a ‘2Do’ (however if not go to ‘English’, then ‘2Publish’, then selecting the ‘My character is…’ template). They can then draw a picture of themselves on the left and list their private information on the right. Miss Ross’s example below is mostly blank so that my information is private!

Optional extras:
Purple Mash – E Safety Quiz about how to create and keep your passwords safe (again should be in your child’s 2Dos).
Please see here for extra ESafety videos aimed at infant age children. https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/jessie-and-friends-videos/

Wednesday

Daily Phonics

(Please note I do say Thursday in the video below but I switched the sessions round on account of the amount of writing asked of children on different days!)
Play these games at your child’s level to recap previous learning of sounds and words:
– Flash card sounds – speed trial (phases 3 & 5a option, reduced challenge: phase 3)
– Tricky word recognition truck game – if you hover over the phases you will be able to see the words that it practises (Phase 5a or 5b Tricky words, reduced challenge: phase 3 or 4)
–Video – Recap the graphemes taught (/ear/: ere, eer and /air/: ear, are) – please fast forward past the sounds and words flash cards at the beginning if you were able to play the games above that do this at your child’s level
Powerpoint – if you would rather go through this at your own pace (Pdf version)

Session 1 – Making Chinese Dragons!

As we are thinking about how many people will be celebrating Chinese New Year, we have seen that  one of the great symbols of China culture is the Chinese Dragon.  Chinese dragons are a symbol of China’s culture, and they are believed to bring good luck, happiness and wealth for the new year. 
As a school we thought we could get creative and make our very own Chinese Dragons. 
Here is a video that will show you one idea.
Here are some more examples of the different ideas you could think about:

Session 2 – Maths: 10 more/less

Learning objectives
-To find 10 more/less than a number within 100
Input
Video – explaining how to use tens and ones knowledge to find ten more and ten less than a number (powerpoint or pdf if you would rather work through at your own pace)
Activity
Sheet – 10 more/less within 100
Reduced Challenge: Sheet – 10 more/less within 50 working with multiples of 10
Extra Challenge: Sheet – a 10 more/less problems to solve within 100

Session 3 – Cooking fortune cookies

For this lesson, we ask that you work with your child and ensure their safety when cooking. The ingredients you will need:

• 2 egg whites
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 tbsp sunflower oil
• 100g plain flour
• 2 tsp cornflour
• 100g caster sugar
• Pinch of salt
• Milk or white chocolate and sprinkles for decorating (optional)

Please encourage your child to help measure the ingredients using scales.
Click here to see the lesson slides with the recipe or click here to watch the video lesson and cook along with Miss Simmons. 

Thursday

Daily Phonics

(Please note I do say Wednesday in this video but it is meant for Thursday!)
Play these games at your child’s level to recap previous learning of sounds and words:
– Flash card sounds – speed trial (phases 3 & 5a option, reduced challenge: phase 3)
– Tricky word recognition truck game – if you hover over the phases you will be able to see the words that it practises (Phase 5a or 5b Tricky words, reduced challenge: phase 3 or 4)
–Video – Recap graphemes au, aw, oy, ou and ir and apply them. Again please fast forward past the sounds and words flash cards at the beginning if you were able to play the games above that do this at your child’s level.
Powerpoint – if you would rather go through this at your own pace (Pdf version)

Session 1- Writing about Chinese New Year 📸

Watch the video which will talk you through the task. There is also a powerpoint version of the slides which will help as you write.

Use the pictures to help create a sentence. On the sheets there are a number of pictures. You may just want to choose 1 or you could have a go at more. Write a sentence to go with the picture. What is the picture showing? Talk through the picture and your sentence or sentences first.

You could write on the sheet or cut out the pictures and stick them in your books to write underneath. Each set of pictures also has a mini word bank which will help to give you some ideas.

You can write a simple sentence or older children could really push themselves to include lots of adjectives and maybe conjunctions. Examples below:
The dragon is red.        
The dragon is fiery red.
The dragon dances up and down and is shaking and spinning to the beat of the drums. It has one rippling movement but is made by lots of different people working together. It is beautiful.

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Session 2 – Maths: 10 more/less on hundred square

Learning objectives
-To find 10 more/less than a number within 100
Input
Video – explaining how to use tens and ones knowledge to find ten more and ten less than a number (powerpoint or pdf if you would rather work through at your own pace)
Activity
Sheet – 10 more/less within 100 pattern spotting on a hundred square. Try to discuss and encourage your child to explain the patterns that they notice.
Extra Challenge: Sheet – a 1 more/less and 10 more/less sections of a hundred square to complete.

Session 3: Dance

Learning Objective: Learn to perform dances using simple movement patterns.
Please follow this BBC Podcast that will talk children through a dance lesson based on Chinese New Year. There are two episodes, please aim to complete Episode 1: Getting Ready and then move on to the 2nd episode if you wish. You could begin by visiting the Cbeebies page and scrolling to the video called Celebrating Chinese and Lunar New Year to see the celebrations.

Friday

Whole-School Assembly: managing worries

Daily Phonics

Recap the graphemes taught and apply to blending and reading
Play these games at your child’s level to recap previous learning of sounds and words:
– Flash card sounds – speed trial (phases 3 & 5a option, reduced challenge: phase 3)
– Tricky word recognition truck game – if you hover over the phases you will be able to see the words that it practises (Phase 5a or 5b Tricky words, reduced challenge: phase 3 or 4)
–Alternative spellings activity – Scroll down the page and find the games that look like the picture below. Choose a sound to focus on the alternative spellings of on Phonics play. So for example the one below goes through the different ways of spelling the /oi/ sound (as oi and oy), but there are lots to choose from that you may have spotted your child finding particularly tricky.

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Session 1 Art: Making Chinese Lanterns

You will need red paper or card for this craft if possible. Alternatively you could decorate plain paper to make it more special!
You can watch a video here. Further ideas include decorating the paper lantern, making lots of mini ones to make bunting, practising Chinese writing on the lantern (after you cut it but before you glue it together).
If your child enjoys craft here are some more ideas based on the animals of the Zodiac.

Session 2 – Maths Fluency Session

Powerpoints – 2 powerpoints to choose from that recap and consolidate either counting in 2s or counting in 10s from last week (please choose the one you think your child needs more practise with).
Counting in 2s powerpoint (pdf version)
Counting in 10s powerpoint (pdf version)
Daily 10 also built into the powerpoint

Session 3

Session 3: Please use this time for finishing off or extension of a task. You can also use this time for ELLI time. The children can explain this further to you. It’s where we think about the ELLI animals that help us think about the different ways in which we learn. We can use this to help us make choices for play and learning.
🦄Unicorn-Being creative.
🐝Bee-Working as part of a team.
🕷Spider-Making connections with their learning.
🦉Owl-
🐱Cat-Being curious. Asking questions.
🐢Tortoise-Slowly and carefully working or making.
🦎Chameleon-Changing plans or ideas.
If you want more information or a story about our ELLI animals follow the link to our website here.

✨You have done it… you have made it through a whole term of home schooling! ✨