Friday 22nd January

Morning Boys and Girls.

You have all been working so hard either by using Active Learn, interacting with family and playing home games or by doing lots of life skill task and of course by completing some on the tasks set on this web page. 

​Literacy
Today I would like you to play 'I Spy'. Please pick a game from below.

Game 1: Make a sensory 'I Spy' bottle. This clip will suit the girls out there. You can create the same for boys by using left over cracker toys and bits and bobs that are on the bottom of the kitchen drawers. 

Game 2: Can you find and name the objects in the picture?

Game 3: Open the 'I Spy' button below. Can you find an object beginning with 's,a,t,p,i,n'? Can you find more objects around the home that start with those sounds. To extend this activity further can you list the objects that you find. How many can you find beginning with 's', 'a' etc.

I Spy

Fine Motor
​Drawing doesn't always have to be done sitting at a table or by using your fingers and hands. Here are a few fun ways to get both the sides of the of the brain working. Parents try it too. It's not easy making your less dominate side work. Why not try it to music. Music motivates your body to move in different ways depending on the track!

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Maths
Game 1: Sing the song'1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive'. Then either in a bowl of water, in the sink or bath. Use your child's toys to recreate the song. If you have toy fish, all the better.

Underwater counting

Game 2: Paint the beans so that one side is red and the other side is gold. These are ʻmagic beansʼ. Give the ten magic beans to a child. They shake them in their hands and then drop them on to the table. How many are gold and how many are red? Write an addition on a piece of card to match the number sentence they have made, e.g. 8 + 2 = 10 . Give the beans to another child and repeat. Continue, asking children to tell you when they think you have made all the ways of making 10. Put all the additions cards in order so that children can see if any are missing. Ask a child to arrange the beans to make any missing additions.

Game 3: You will need a coat hanger and 10/20 pegs. Show ten pegs on a coat hanger with the same colour pegs together. Partition them into nine pegs and one peg. Turn the coat hanger round to show that 9 and 1 makes 10 and so does 1 and 9. Write on the whiteboard, side by side: 9 + 1 = 10 and 1 + 9 =10 . Repeat for 8 and 2, 7 and 3, 6 and 4, then 5 and 5. Ask your child to close their eyes while you hide the last two pegs (as children see them) with a cloth.  Ask your child to open their eyes. Show me ten fingers. Now show me how many pegs you can see on the coat hanger. How many fingers are folded down? That's how many are hiding! Write on the whiteboard: 8 + ☐ = 10, then write 2 in the box. Ask your child to close their eyes again whilst you hide five pegs. Open your eyes. Show me, on your fingers, how many pegs you think are hiding. Write on the whiteboard: 5 + ☐ = 10. Remove the cloth. Were they right? Repeat, hiding other numbers of pegs up to ten, including ten. Each time, write an empty box for your child to complete. When you hide all ten pegs, write: 0 + ☐ = 10. I hid all of them! I've added a worksheet to promt you.

Ways to Make

Keep safe and well.
​We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

​Cofion oddiwrth Edwards a Povey xx​