Maths
Get your maths brains warmed up with a game of Bullseye. The adult secretly writes a number between 1-10 or 1-20 on a piece of paper. The child has to guess the number. If they guess wrong, give them clues using language of more or less, higher or lower until they can narrow it down to the correct number. When they get it right turn the paper around to show them and call out “BULLSEYE.” Repeat as many times as you like. Let your child be the teacher and write a number for you to guess.
For the next two weeks we are focusing on doubling and halving in our maths learning. We touched briefly on this before the Easter holidays. The children explored dominoes as an introduction to doubles. If you have a set of dominoes at home play a game together.
As the weather is changing and it’s becoming warmer why not go on a doubles hunt in your garden or during your daily exercise. You can find many doubles in nature. Try looking for insects and carefully find the doubles in the amount of legs they have, how many wings they have, how many spots you can see on a ladybird. Talk about doubles in the home; a double bed, a pair of socks, look in the mirror at yourself and talk about the doubles you can see looking back at you. Get creative by creating your own doubles, see the pictures below for some inspiration.
Check out this Numberblocks episode for an introdution to doubles https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08q4jkq/numberblocks-series-2-double-trouble
PE
Our PE focus for the next few weeks is ball skills. Look back at your home learning pack to remind yourself of some great throwing and catching activities you can do using balls or household objects. Remember to make the distance between yourself and your partner or target bigger as you get better for more of a challenge!
The Change 4 Life website has lots of Disney themed 10 minute activities including those with ball skills. Dash’s Ball skills challenge you to do as many keepy-uppys as you can or Buzz’s Superbowl challenges you to catch a ball whilst on the move!
https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups/dashs-ball-skills
https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups/buzzs-superbowl
Thanks Mrs. Bracey! We especially love the ladybugs theme! That’s been a bit of an ongoing them for us as a cream spotted ladybird landed on Edith’s sister the other day! Edith also LOVES ball skills and is brilliant at football! Can’t wait to do this one today!! Would be so lovely to see some SF creations, we miss this! The celebration assemblies are so lovely to see!
I loved seeing Edith’s ladybird art, thank you for uploading it. I’ve added a new post with some of the children’s artwork for everyone to appreciate. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Glad to hear Edith is enjoying ball skills. There’s another session planned for next Tuesday which I think she’ll really love. It was lovely to speak to you all earlier.