Week Beginning Monday, April 27th
I hope that you had a great weekend.
International Week
This week we are holding an International Week across the Early Years culminating in a ‘Food and Flag’ event on Friday at 11:00AM. As part of International Week we will be finding out lots about Canada!
Plan for the Week
You can find our plan for the week here.
Book of the Week
Our Book of the Week this week is: I Want my Hat Back written by the Canadian author Jon Klassen – it was voted best picture book in Britain and the United States of America when it was published. (You can view the book here.)
Song of the Week
Our song of the Week is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a Canadian one entitled: The Canada Goose Song. You can find the lyrics here, along with lots of other Canadian songs that you might like to try.
Don’t worry if you have never head of the song before as it is song to the tune of Row, Row, Row your Boat.
Things to do Everyday
Remember that there are some things that should do EVERYDAY! One is to read our Book of the Week. A second is to sing our Song of the Week. We have also to get physical everyday – that means, we need to do something that increases our heart rate, makes us breathe faster and feel warmer.
Letters and Sounds (Learning to Read and Write)
I was very impressed with how well everyone did doing Letters and Sounds in a slightly different way last week.
To remind you, we have 2 mains aims at the moment. First we want your child to begin to able to read and write words that contain adjacent consonants, such as: ‘tr’, ‘st’ and ‘mp’. The other thing that they will be learning is to read and write polysyllabic words, that is, words containing more than one syllable, such as, carpark or boatmen.
Today’s 2 adjacent sounds are ‘n’ and ‘t’ and the PowerPoint slides can be found here (on which you can move things around) and the PDF can be found here (you can use these anywhere).
Maths – Estimating and Building
Ask your child to plan how they will build a building or barn for some animals or other small toys. Discuss how many bricks they might need. Ask your child how high they think the barn should be so that the animals will fit in? How long? How wide? Can you guess how many bricks you might need altogether? Ask your child to build the barn and see how close their guesses were.
Now ask them to think about building a fence around all the barn. How many bricks do you think you’ll need? Do you think you’ll need more than 20? More than 50? After it is built help your child to count the number of bricks.
Something Else…
Also each day I will suggest a particularly fun activity. Today I would ask your child to make a Canadian flag. They can use whatever they want to create the flag but do send me a photograph.
Have fun and take care of each other.
Yours, Terry