11^th May 2020

Dear Kenny class,

Hello everyone!  

We would love you to continue your journal  to capture what you are doing at home during this time. Just to reiterate the journal could be some kind of notebook or a scrap book or even stapled paper is fine.

In your journal you write:

1. How you are feeling
2. What you have done. This can be any of the work you have done from the blog and anything that you have done whilst at home.
3. What you have enjoyed each day.

We can’t wait to see your journals!

The ideas below are to support you, pick and choose what suits you and feel free to add your own ideas. Your children are likely to have many more things they would like to learn around the topic of space.

Take care and stay safe

Hopefully I will see you all soon

Mrs Woodward and Mr Palmer

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This is a suggestion of how much learning to do over a day with a reception child. Aim for a maximum of 2 hours focused learning interspersed with play based learning and physical activity.  Of course what is important is that you do what works best with your family. The work listed below is more than enough for 5 days of learning so choose the tasks that you would prefer to do.

am 30 min	Sports/ physical activity- Joe Wicks as a suggestion, Disney Zumba
am 20 min	Maths activity – take away – one/two digit numbers take away a 1 digit number. Also number bonds to 10 and learn its 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5, 3+2 and 1+2
am 20 min	Fine Motor control activity- like lego, puzzle, drawing, writing, cutting.
10:30	Snack time- can you help prepare it?
am 2 x 20 min	Reading/ Sharing a story/ Phonics online game- see ideas below Focus on lf, ct – (these all appear at the end of words) Revise all of those practised so far
12:30	Lunchtime
pm 1 hour or longer if you are having fun!	An activity from the ideas below and/or independent learning through play time where your child makes choices.
Pm 20 min	Complete your journal for the day- draw and or write

 

Space

Idea 1

Use whatever resources you can find around your house a build your own rocket ship.

 

Idea 2

Create different sized balls of tin foil to create ‘Space Rocks.’ Can you put them in size order from largest to smallest and compare them using the words largest, smallest, larger, smaller. Can you hide different weighted objects inside the ‘Space Rocks’ and repeat the activity but with heaviest, lightest, lighter, heavier.

 

Idea 3

Research the planets in our Solar system using this chart

Names of Planets	How many Moons	Size

Which Planet has the most Moons?
Which Planet has the least Moons?
Which Planet is biggest?
Which Planet is smallest?

Write the answers in sentences

Idea 4

Online learning sites www.phonicsplay.co.uk, www.topmarks.co.uk  www.phonicsbloom.co.uk, www.topmarks.co.uk, www.ictgames.co.uk www.readingeggs.co.uk (free subscription available) www.teachyourmonstertoread.com, https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-age-4-5-reception/

 

Idea 5

Star Gazing, if you have a telescope you can use it. Parents you can google Starlink which are a series of satellites which can be seen in Space which provide us with internet access. Just look at the stars, can you find the North Star?

 

Idea 6

Listen to and share some stories about Space. Below are some suggested stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c5cb0u0rPM – Whatever Next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL-XDombcw8 – The Darkest Dark (written by a real astronaut)

 

Idea 7

Design and create your own fantasy planet, what is on it, what do the aliens look like.     Examples.

Chocolate World – everything is made out of chocolate
Water Park Planet – Huge water Slides and fountains everywhere.
Greenus – everything is green, the aliens, the trees, the water, the ground.
 

Write a sentence describing your planet.

Idea 8

Use different shapes to create your own alien. What shapes did you make your aliens out of? Can you name your aliens? Write a sentence about what it likes and doesn’t like.

Idea 9

Moon crater science experiment. Use a large tray with a lip i.e a lid from a large box.
Pour flour into the lid until it is covered. Drop different sized pebbles/stones from different heights, and discuss what happens each time. Make reference to meteors hitting the moon.

This and other experiments can be found here .

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-2545463-eyfs-space-science-experiments-resource-pack

Idea 10

Learn twinkle twinkl little star in French or Makaton (sign language).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vVFomX8Eg – French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKsz-fM3gW0 – Makaton (Sign Language)

 

Idea 11

Follow these instructions to create your own Star Garland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz7FewidVrQ

 

Idea 12

Make and enjoy the sensory experience of mecury dough. Simply use cornflour and add a small amount of water, you can also add food colouring if you have some. Can you write your name in it? Use vocabulary to describe the feeling and sensation of it.

 

Idea 13

Create a space themed small world. Can you add labels to the different parts? Enjoy making up spacey stories adding your toys and teddies to the world and making them astronauts and aliens.

 

 

Idea 14

Turn fruit into rocket kebabs!