Learning Project – Week 8 – The Rainforest Age Range - EYFS

Weekly Maths Tasks – aim for 1 per day Weekly Reading Tasks – aim for 1 per day • Numbots.

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• Use a toy (soft toy) and count forwards and backwards making deliberate mistakes. Can your child spot the mistakes? Mistakes can include omitted numbers, repeated numbers or a number in the wrong place. Ask your child to spot the mistake when the numbers are written down.

• Missing numbers to 20 (sheet attached)

• Lizard problem solving (sheet attached)

• Listen to and sing The Days of the week song: Ask your children questions e.g. What day is it today? If today is Monday what day will it be tomorrow? etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ

• Days of the week (sheet attached)

• Watch Go Jetters: Amazon Rainforest https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07ff060/go-jetters-series-1-19-amazon-rainforest-south-america Can your child tell you where the tree frog was found? What sound did it make? Which rainforest insect steals the picnic? What happens when the tree frogs aren’t there to eat the ants?

• Help your child to look through cookery books for a recipe involving cocoa/chocolate. If you have the ingredients, make the sweet treat!

• Enjoy listening to Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth by Eric Carle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDsYTyUBfAY

• Listen to - If I ran in the Rainforest –Dr Seuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LPhlt66BnQ

Weekly Phonics Tasks – aim for 1 per day Weekly Writing Tasks – aim for 1 per day • Play ‘I Spy in the Rainforest’. ‘I spy, with my little eye,

something beginning with t. CHALLENGE: Change it to ‘I spy, with my little eye, my word includes the digraph ee e.g. ‘Tree’.

• Play sounds snap – write out these sounds onto card (ee/or/sh/ch/qu/ar/ng/ai/oa) and then play snap. This will help your child to recognise the sounds and say them quickly.

• Phase 3 (worksheet attached)

• Phonics play: Sentence reading and making game https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/SentSubPhase4.html

• Talk about the rainforest with your child: Imagine you are in the rainforest: What can you see? What can you hear? Ask your child to draw a picture of the rainforest and write a sentence about what they can see or hear.

• Using the picture (attached) from ‘Slowly , Slowly said the Sloth’ – add labels to the picture using words to describe him e.g. soft fur, sharp teeth.

• Ask your child to create a rainforest animal mask then talk about the sounds that different animals make. CHALLENGE: Can they write a sentence to describe the animal e.g. I like the monkey. He is cheeky. He jumps in the trees.

• Write a letter or text message to a family member.

• Rhyming words (sheet attached)

Learning Project – to be done throughout the week

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about the world’s rainforests. Learning may focus on the plants, animals and insects that inhabit the rainforest, food that originates there and weather patterns. It could look at plants and animals that can be found in the garden too.

• Which Animals Live in the Rainforest? Watch this video about animals in the rainforest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMdD6TTDZ_g

Can they remember any facts? Can they name any of the animals? Can they describe the animals? Ask your child to make their own explorers outfit (e.g. binoculars, sunhat, backpack) and head out to the garden or on your daily walk. What creatures can your child find? Are they similar to any you might see in the rainforest? Take photographs.

• Draw a Picture of a Rainforest Animal: Ask your child to draw a picture of a rainforest animal. Can they use computing software to recreate their picture? Try Paint.

• Make a Collage of a Rainforest Animal: Use collage to create your own rainforest animal using recycled materials from around the house. Share your finished creation to inspire others on Tapestry.

• Dance: Listen to a piece of music and make up a dance. Watch this dance

for ideas: Rainforest Explorer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDfXEvDK9o

• Rainforest Music: Make a rainmaker (see instructions attached)

Week 8 Name:………………………………..

Target: To be able to recite the days of the week in order.

Can you colour days green and the keywords blue?

Sunday Thursday Saturday I the

in at and is Tuesday

Friday my it Wednesday go

went Monday into he she

What days make up the weekend? ___________________________

What day is it today? ___________________________________

What day will it be tomorrow? ______________________________

What day was it yesterday? _______________________________

Challenge: Can you say the months of the year?

What month is your birthday?______________________________

Week 8 Name:……………………………………………………….

Missing Numbers: Fill in the missing numbers

3 4 5 8 9 11 12

3 4 6 9 10

10 13 14 16 18

11 13 16 19

Week 8 Problem solving

Lucy and Lee the lizards love to eat flies. Altogether they eat 10 flies.

How many flies did each lizard eat?

Find different ways to answer the question.

One has been done for you.

Lee 5

Lucy 5

Total 10

Name:……………………………….Week 8 Homework

1. Put the sound buttons on the words below. Use a dot for single sounds and a dash for digraphs(sounds with two letters) e.g cat chip

dog pen shed paint

2. Reading words (ask your child to read these words and then draw a picture to match below):

car road chick fish ring

Reading and spotting mistakes:

I understand how to use a capital letter and a full stop when writing a simple sentence.

i am sad ……………………………………………………… the cat sat on the mat …………………………………………… my dad can skip ………………………………………………………………………………………. My child completed the work: (circle) with support/independently

My child found this: (circle) easy medium hard

Week 8 Name:……………………………………….

Continue a rhyming string

cat and ___________

pan and _________

bee and __________

pig and __________

frog and _________

Week 8: Name:…………………………………………………..

Can you add labels to the picture? Try using words to describe him e.g. soft fur,

sharp teeth.

Can you write a super sentence about this picture?

Homemade Instruments - Rainmaker This homemade Rainmaker is a fun way to make lots of noise

You will need:

A snack tube or a long cardboard tube (such as used for kitchen foil)

Paint (gold or silver)

Glitter and sequins

Glue

Lentils or rice

To make:

Paint your tube and leave to dry. Decorate the tube with sequins and glitter.

Fill the tube about 1/5 full of rice or lentils and glue the lid on securely. If you are using a kitchen foil

tube, you will need to cut circles of card or paper and fix them very securely over each end.

Tip the tube from side to side to hear the rice fall.