Good morning!

I hope we ARRRRR feeling well this morning! 

What’s a pirate’s favourite shop? 

ARRRRRRGOS! 

 What is a pirate’s favourite lesson in school?

English

Today we are going to pretend we are real pirates! First find out what your pirate name is: 

Have a go at the purple mash/mini mash pirate mash cam.

Reception: enter mini mash – click on the drop down for pins – choose mash cams – pirate mash cam – click the face to put your face in! Don’t forget to save it! 

Year 1: enter purple mash – click on your to do’s – find pirate mash cam – click the face to put your face in! Don’t forget to save it and hand it in. 

Mild: 

Draw a picture of you as a pirate! What makes you a pirate? Do you have an eye patch? Can you have a go at copying your pirate name?

Medium: 

Can you draw a picture of your self as a pirate? What makes you a super awesome pirate? Can you write your name and a sentence to explain what makes you a super cool pirate? It could be a special skill, or an awesome hat or even that you are famous for doing something incredible like finding lost treasure! 

Spicy:  

As above but can you include: what you look like, what you are good at and what your pirate ship looks like!

Maths: 

Mild: 

Have a go at this game. Choose either up to 5 or up to 10 for a challenge. 

Medium: 

Have a go at this game. Choose up to 10 or up to 20 for a challenge! 

Spicy: 

Have a go at the medium game and choose up to 100 (tens). 

Challenge: Have a go at this odd and even game. 

Extra Activities: 

Have a go at designing your pirate flag to match your pirate character!

Flag

Howdy!

English

Crab, Blob and Brush would normally all be found in a habitat called a rock pool. 

Mild: 

Have a look at these pictures. What can you see? Can you say the name of any of these creatures? Choose one or two and find out what they are! Can you find out all about them? Watch some videos all about them! 

Medium: 

Who else lives in a rock pool? Can you write a list of all the animals you might find in a rock pool. Remember, words in a list go one underneath the other. 

Spicy: 

Write the list from above and choose three creatures to research. Write a sentence or two about each of your chosen creatures. 

Maths

Make skittles using empty plastic bottles or cardboard tubes. You could draw faces on them or decorate them to look like sea creatures! Use a soft ball or balled up socks to knock them down.

Mild: 

How many have you knocked down? How many are left? 

Medium: 

Can you double the number that you have knocked down? 

Spicy: 

Can you write the number sentence for the doubled number? For example, if you knock over three, the number sentence would be 3 + 3 = 6. 

Cheeky challenge: Can you add up all of your totals?

Extra Activity

Look on a map or go on google maps. Can you find the location of your nearest beach. How would you get there? How long would the journey take? Can you plan your journey?

Hello! I hope you are all well! 

English 

Create your own house! You will need scissors, an A4 piece of paper, a pencil and a ruler. An adult can do this part. 

First, hold your piece of paper horizontally and fold the edges into the middle. 

Second, use a pencil and a ruler to draw a roof onto the front. 

Third, cut out the roof. 

Once you have your house, you can decorate the front to look like your house! 

Mild: 

Think about who lives inside your house. Can you draw a picture of all of the people who live in your house? 

Medium: 

Can you draw all of the people who live in your house and write their names? You could also draw some of the rooms inside your house and write the names of the rooms as well! 

Spicy: 

In the centre part of the house, you can draw and label your family. Turn the house and on the inside of the doors, please write some sentences to tell me all about your house! What does it look like? What does the kitchen, living room and your room look like? 

Don’t forget capital letters, finger spaces and full stops! 

Maths

Today there is only one activity that can be differentiated depending on your child’s needs.

In the story, there is a jumble of sea creatures! They don’t usually go in the same group all together. 

Adult: collect some random items from around your house (for example building blocks, small animals, toy food, some socks, jewellery, toy cars, trains, crayons etc.)

Can your child sort these items in group? How do they sort it? Can they explain why? Do they put all the animals together? Do they sort according to colour?

We do this activity in a variety of way in school because it is a good basic introduction to mathematical ‘sets’. 

To simplify this activity, just choose two or three items and ask your child to tell you which one doesn’t belong in the group or why they are all in a group together. 

To make this activity harder, ask your child to find lots of different ways to sort the same items. 

This is called problem solving and it’s a really important mathematical skill.  

Extra Activity

Go outside with a pot of water and a paint brush. Can you paint a picture on the floor/wall fence with the water? Can you write any words? 

Good morning everyone!

English

Mild:

Have a go at tracing over these shells and words: Tracing. If you can’t print the sheet, just have a go at drawing your own shell and writing over the words!

Medium:

Crab, Blob and Brush’s shell is too small. They all need special things from their home. Can you think what those things might be?

Can you design a new shell home for the three friends? What would it look like? Would it be special?

Draw a fancy new shell and add labels. Can you write a sentence? Start it off with “The new shell will have… “

Don’t forget capital letters, finger spaces, and full stop!

Spicy:

As above but add an explanation. Why is this design much better than their last shell? Start off with “This shell is the best because…” Try and write more than two reasons as to why it is so special.

Maths

Today we are talking about ordinal numbers. This is being able to use the language of  first, second, third etc. and to be able to put these in the correct order.

Mild:

Have a look at the pictures of Blob, Brush and Crab.

Who lived in the shell first?

Who lived in the shell second?

Who lived in the shell third?

Medium:

Make your own bristle worms. Use your worms to have races. For each race, award the winners 1st, 2nd 3rd. All you need is paper and straws. You can play with all the family to make it more challenging!

Spicy

Make bristle worms and have races just like above. This time, put a timer on for 10 seconds, who can travel the furthest? Add a finishing line – who can complete a race in the fastest time? Make sure you award the 1st, 2nd and 3rd!

Extra Activity

Listen to this super fun and catchy song:

Can you make up your own dance moves? Or even your own words? 

Baby Brush do do do … 

Hello and welcome back to a brand new week!

I hope you are all feeling bright and beautiful!

This week we are learning all about the story “Sharing a Shell” by Julie Donaldson. Have a listen to the story here:

English

In the story, Crab is very protective of his shell. This is because he loves it dearly. Sometimes when we love something a lot, we don’t always want to share it because it’s so special! Sometimes its even better to share our something special with our friends and family and they can enjoy it too! That’s what Crab does in the story! Is there something that is very special to you? 

Mild

Can you draw a picture of your special something and even try and write it’s name? If you can’t write it’s name, maybe you can copy the word if an adult writes it for you!

Medium

Can you draw a picture of your special something and write a sentence to tell me all about it? You could write, “My special something is …” Or you could write “It is called…”

Spicy

Can you draw a picture of your special something and write all about your special something? Start with writing what it is. Then you could write why it is special and who you would like to share it with! 

Maths 

Mild

Have a go at this lovely Crab dot to dot!

Medium

Have a go at this Dot-to-Dot!

Spicy

Have a go at drawing your own Sharing a Shell picture and make it into a dot to dot by drawing dots with numbers! See how high you can go!

Extra Activities

Be Super Sea Spies and listen to the clues in here: Who am I

Then see if you can guess the animals!