Phonics
Play a game of Quickwrite. How many digraphs and trigraphs can you write in one minute? Make sure to set yourself a timer. Practice this daily and see if you improve. You can also play this game with tricky words.
Play a game of Pictionary. Adults can draw something and you have to write the word as quickly as possible on your own piece of paper. Can you guess the picture before your grown-up finishes drawing? Choose your own pictures to draw or choose from the list below;
chair, bee, snail, boat, duck, star, thorn, hair, beard, cat, pig, car.
Remember that you have the phonics basic code in the back of your reading diary if you need it to find sounds.
Literacy
Discover the life cycle of a plant by watching this short BBC Bitesize video. Discuss the cycle with your family. Do you have any plants or flowers that you can talk about? How did they start their life? What do they need to flourish and grow?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z3wsbk7
Listen to this catchy song about how to take care of a plant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBIQ1fTRzI
Create a your own zigzag book illustrating the life cycle of any plant of your choice.
Finn enjoyed making a zig zag book this morning. A really simple and lovely idea that we’ll do again thank you.
Brilliant, that’s great to hear. You can use a zig zag book for any sequence of events. There will be a story post next week, you could use it for that.
Ruby’s had lots of fun playing Pictionary and doing the Quick Write challenge this morning. We wrote on a mini whiteboard as she thinks this is far more fun than writing on paper! Thank you for these activity ideas.
We love using whiteboards at school too. Pictionary is a lot of fun, we also enjoy playing hangman with words the children can chop up to spell correctly. If the word was ‘star’ for example, I would draw a dot for the s and t and a short line for the ar sound so that Ruby would know it has two single sounds and a digraph. Have a go.