Week beginning 8/06/20

English Learning

This week our English will focus on:

The Gingerbread Man  

Before Watching:

• This week we are continuing to think about fairy tales. Can you remember which fairy tale we looked at last week?
• What do you think this fairy tale might be about?

While you are watching:

• Who bakes the gingerbread man?
• What does the gingerbread man say while he is running?
• Which animal chases the gingerbread man first?
• How many people and animals chase the gingerbread man?
• Why does the gingerbread man get onto the fox’s back?
• What adjectives are used to describe the fox in the video?
• How did the fox manage to eat the gingerbread man?
• Were your predictions about what might happen to the gingerbread man correct?

Activities:

1. Re – enact The Gingerbread Man fairy tale. You could use toys, draw puppets or pretend to be the characters. You could draw your own masks for each of the characters? How might each character’s voice sound?
2. Using the sentences on the attached document, please sequence the fairy tale. Choose a star level. 1 * sequence the pictures, 2** sequence the pictures and given sentences, 3*** sequence the pictures and have a go at writing your own sentence for each picture to retell the story.

DOCUMENT 1 Gingerbread Man sequencing

3. Write descriptions of the main characters – the gingerbread man, the old lady and the fox. (For example, ‘The gingerbread man was brave.’). See if you can extend your sentence using the connective ‘because’ to explain your description (For example, the fox was cunning because he tricked the gingerbread man.)
4. What do you think the old lady, the gingerbread man, the fox and the old man are thinking as the gingerbread man runs away? (For example the old lady may be thinking ‘Am I dreaming?’ ‘Did I put magic in my baking?’) Use the attached thought bubbles to write some of your ideas,  DOCUMENT 2 Thought Bubbles
5. Draw a picture of your favourite part of this fairy tale and write a few sentences about what happened.

Spellings and Grammar Learning

Choose a set of spelling to challenge yourself.

Spelling words

Set 1: chip, chop, chin, chat, chick

Set 2: paw, draw, claw, straw, thaw

Set 3: awful, haunt, torch, drawn, launch

Grammar

Specific nouns

For example rather than saying dog you would use a breed of dog such as Labrador or Alsatian.

Activity 1:

Write 2 or 3 alternative specific nouns for these nouns

– dog – (For example Labrador, Alsatian, Boxer)

– flower – (For example rose, bluebell)

– cat

– tree

– bag

Activity 2:

Improve these sentences by changing the noun for a specific noun

For example; The dog ran past the tree – The Alsatian ran past the tall oak tree.

• The cat was stalking the mouse.
• The child carried a bag.
• The dog sniffed the flowers.

The cat climbed up the tree.

Phonics

focus on the sound /u-e/ (split diagraph as in tube)

Watch Mr Thorne Does Phonics /u-e/ https://youtu.be/CQXnqp8g9WM

Play Picnic on Pluto using Phonics Play focus on the /u-e/ sound. On game select phase 5 then u-e. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/PicnicOnPluto.html

Let’s keep active!

Every week day morning at 9am Joe Wicks will be holding a live PE lesson on his YouTube Channel: The Body Coach TV. You will also find 18 Kids Workouts to do at Home; Get involved and get active!

You can make a free account with ‘Go Noodle’ to use at home. This has a range of activities to keep you moving, as well as some lovely calming activities like yoga and rainbow breathing. We use this a lot at school. www.gonoodle.com

Other activities

Art/DT

Bake your own gingerbread man and decorate him. What could you use for each of the different features e.g. eyes? You could use coloured icing, chocolate buttons, sprinkles, raisins, mini biscuits, orange rind…

Click on the attached document to find a recipe and method.

DOCUMENT 3 Gingerbread Man recipe

If you are not able to bake a gingerbread man, you could draw a picture and design your own gingerbread man. Think carefully about how each different food item might look. You could even label your design so you or someone else could make him/her at another time.

Music

Have a go at singing this song about The Gingerbread Man running to the tune of ‘London Bridge is falling down.’ If you still have your home made instrument from last week you can use this to play along too. Can you create your own band to practise and then perform this song to another family member?

DOCUMENT 4 Gingerbread Man song

Geography

Using the attached world map, see if you can find the UK.

Can you find any other countries that you know? Maybe a country you have been to, a country that different family members live/have visited or a country that you have heard of. To take this even further you could find out a fact about a country that interests you.

Next, see if you can locate France on the map.

Watch this clip of Barnaby Bear in France. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zsbkq6f

Discuss and then draw ways that Barnaby could get home to England from France.

Computing

This week we are going to revisit our learning on algorithms by using the different levels of the program ‘2go’ to practise giving step by step instructions to complete a task.

RE

Please look at this PowerPoint about belonging and click on the video link on one of the slides.

DOCUMENT 6 Belonging PowerPoint

Use this as a point for discussing how we get a sense of belonging to different groups in our lives (such as our own family, a football group, a religious group, a club, the school community.) Talk about how this is important and how it makes you feel.

PSHE

Think about a time when you have felt proud.

Draw a picture of what you did and what happened to make you feel proud.

Share this with your adult.

An example could be when you tried really hard to complete a fantastic piece of work and you received a head teacher award.