Specialists - Year 1 & 2 Week 4
Week beginning - 4 May 2020
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P.E.
30-45 minutes per day
Download the 60 Second Challenge Activity Tracking Sheet to track your progress! Click here
Monday
Warm-up
60 Second Burpee Challenge: Click here
Jumping
Find a safe space inside or outside your house.
Complete each of the following jumping actions for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
After 30 seconds, rest for 1 minute and complete the next jumping actions.
If you don’t have access to jumping spots, you can draw some spots outside on the ground using chalk, or you can use your imagination and pretend there are spots on the ground.
Can you think of another way to make spots to jump onto?
Can you create a jumping routine with music?
Challenge someone in your house to copy your jumping routine. Click here
Tuesday
Warm-up
60 Second Challenge - Air balloon: Click here
Juggling
Today you are going to practise juggling.
Juggling is a great way to improve your hand-eye coordination.
Find a safe space inside or outside your house.
Complete and practise each of the following juggling activities for 30 seconds to a minute.
After practising, have a rest for 1 minute and complete the next juggling activity.
For some of the activities, if you don’t have a partner to practise with, create your own juggling activity.
When you have finished practising all the activities, can you create a juggling routine with music?
If you don’t have any scarves to play with, you could use a small towel, tissues, a pair of socks, or any soft material or toy from your house.
Challenge someone in your house to copy your juggling routine. Click here
Wednesday
Warm-up
60 Second Challenge - Around the world: Click here
Stretching our Bodies
Today we are going to stretch our muscles.
Stretching is a great way to relax your body and improve flexibility.
Find a safe space inside your house.
Complete each of the following stretches for 1 minute.
Then after each stretching activity, jog on the spot for 1 minute and complete the next set of stretches.
Repeat this until you have finished all the stretching activities. Click here.
Once finished, think of a way you can stretch the following body parts (neck, feet and hands).
Remember to be as creative as you can.
Challenge a family member to see who the most flexible person in your home is!
Thursday
Warm-up
60 Second Challenge - Bean bag throw: Click here
Balancing
Today we are going to learn how to balance.
Balancing is a great way to practise being a professional ballerina, ninja or statue.
Find a safe space inside or outside your house.
Complete the following balancing challenges.
What will you aim to be?
Perhaps you will be a ballerina, ninja or spy? Click here to access your daily balancing challenges.
Do you have what it takes to be a master of balance?
Friday
Warm-up
60 Second Challenge - Bunny jumps: Click here
Jumping
Find a safe space inside or outside your house.
Complete each of the following jumping actions for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
After 30 seconds, rest for 1 minute and complete the next jumping actions.
If you don’t have access to jumping lines, you can draw some lines outside on the ground using chalk, or you can use your imagination and pretend there are lines on the ground.
Sometimes you can even find lines outside on the concrete pavement.
Can you think of other ways to make lines to jump over?
Create a jumping routine with music and see if a family member can guess your jumping pattern? Click here
Spanish
30 minutes per week
El alfabeto (The Alphabet)- Revision
Say each letter of the alphabet. Then, try to spell your name aloud using Spanish pronunciation.
Try your middle name and your surname too!
Using a pencil, can you draw a circle around the letters that we DO NOT see in the English alphabet?
To listen to how these letters sound from the BBC Languages Click here
Music
60 minutes per week
The activities you have been doing over the past few weeks will help you with your lessons from this week on.
You will need the instrument you made from week 2, and your poster from week 3.
Listen to this piece of music called 'Hoe-Down' composed by Aaron Copland: Click here
A Hoedown is a dance from America.
This song is from a ballet about cowboys and a cowgirl.
Can you try and dance and move to the music?
Listen to the song a second time and keep the beat using the instruments you made in your music lesson in week 2.
Did the dynamics in the song change at all?
Write down how the dynamics changed (you may need to listen to the song again and write this as you’re listening).
The picture below is a listening map.
It shows you what is happening at different times in a song.
I have written the times in the music where it changes to a different section.
Tap any of the pictures in time with the beat and be sure to change to the different sections when the music changes sections.
Can you hear when the music changes without looking at the times?
Make your own listening map for this song.
You can draw the instruments you hear or what you think is happening in the music at different times.
Extension for students who play an instrument:
Those of you who would like to learn how to play part of music to Hoe-Down, you can download or view the sheet music for your instrument from the following website: Click here
There are different levels for your instrument.
Art
60 minutes per week
Pop Up Mother’s Day Card
Find a piece of paper or card and fold in half.
Cut two short lines in the middle of the folded side and open up.
Push the cut shape inside the pages of the card and press the card closed.
Then open again and find the cut shape standing up inside the card.
See the picture below called ‘Box Pop-up’.
Place the card on its flat side and glue a cut out picture onto the front of the pop up box.
You can find a picture in a magazine, use a printed photo, or draw something your mum will like.
Can you think of any other way to add a pop up?
Experiment with different ideas for folded or cut pop up shapes, on scrap paper to see what happens.
Finally, glue a piece of paper to the back of your card to cover the cut out areas.
This will be the outside of your card.
Write your message and “Happy Mother’s Day” !
Below are a couple of links to competitions and Art Prizes for Learning from Home.
You can be part of a community of students for creating, contributing and connecting from home.
Library
30 minutes per week
We are looking at making text to self connections.
Read any book you have about a family or read ‘The Runaway Hug’ on Story Box Library click here
Draw and label all the people in Lucy’s family (or the people in the story of your choice).
Draw and label all of the people in your family.
In what way is your family similar or different to Lucy’s? e.g. Lucy and I both have six people in our family.
Lucy has a dog and so do I.
Do you notice any other similarities between your family and Lucy’s?
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