Welcome to Wednesday

Phonics: Letters and Sounds lesson 42. Adjacent consonants and longer vowel sounds.

Picture of the day: Still thinking about buildings out and about – here is a picture of some animals looking out of their windows. What shapes can you see in the windows? I wonder what they can see out of their windows? Talk about some of your ideas. When you write today, tell me what the cat or the dog can see out of their window. A good way of starting your sentence could be The dog can see…….  The cat can see…….  or you might want to start in a different way. Make your sentences longer by using the word and.

Maths: Another episode of NumberBlocks today! This episode is called square club. Enjoy watching the fun they have at their club and the trouble that happens too!

When you have watched the episode, talk about what happened and about the square numbers. Then you could try one of these activities:

• Use mulitilink (interlocking cubes) to make your own square numbers. Use some of the language they used in the episode when you talk about them.
• Use square shapes (base of a square duplo brick, square sponge, cut a potato into a square shape) to print square numbers using paint. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00063vq/numberblocks-series-4-square-club

Other Activities

Drawing: Following on from the picture of the day, draw what the cat or dog can see out of their windows. Or you could look out of your window and draw what you can see. Maybe cut the paper into the shape of your window – is it a square or a rectangle?

Warm up for handwriting with this dough disco.

Handwriting: Try this activity to help form your letters correctly. Get a small tray and put some salt to just about cover it. Have your sound board next to you to check the correct formation of each letter – grown ups can check and support with this. Use a pen with a lid (you are just tracing the shape in the salt) and try to hold it correctly too. If you don’t have any salt, try flour, sugar glitter or shaving foam.

Here are the rhymes for helping you to form each letter correctly.

Getting Outside: Today you will need a viewer (shaped window) to take outside with you. Take it with you as you go on a walk. Look out for interesting buildings or parts of a building – windows, doors, bricks, chimney, pipes, steps… Here are a few examples of the window viewers – they are easy to make with strips of card or by cutting out a window from some card.