Phonics 

Stand up and get ready to join in with this alphabet dance… 

Have a go at playing the buried treasure game below on Phonics Play. Choose which digraphs or trigraphs you would like to focus on in the phase 3 section. After reading the word, discuss what it might mean and say it in a sentence. This should help you to figure out if it’s a real or silly word!

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure

Now have a go at writing your own silly and real sentences. You could base them on our traditional tale characters. For example…. 

The big bad wolf has red fur. 

Little Red Riding Hood went to see her granny.

Literacy

This week we are going to explore the settings of different traditional tales. Talk to your child about settings and what this is. Talk about your local setting and compare it to a busy city center. Talk about differences and similarities.

Choose your favourite traditional tale and have a think about the setting. Look through the pictures inside the story book or pause the story online. Can you describe the setting? What can you see? What sort of feeling do we get about the setting? Does the setting change through the course of the story? 

In Little Red Riding Hood, she has to walk through the deep dark woods to get to her granny’s house. How would you feel walking through here? What might you hear or see? What is the setting like at the beginning and at the end of the story? 

You could even think about how the story would be if the setting was different. If Little Red Riding Hood had to walk across the beach to visit her granny, would she still meet a wolf on her travels? 

Spend lots of time chatting about this to your families or friends.