Week beginning - 11 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 Challenge - Catch and clap: Click here

Active Story Time

Read a story book online or a hard copy about natural and living things.
You can read this by yourself, with a sibling or a parent/carer.

Every time you read about an action that an animal can do, for example the elephant stomped, perform the action together.

How creative can you be with your movements?

Challenge yourself to find the different ways you can do that action, for example you could stomp slowly or stomp loudly.

Can you make up some imaginative sentences and actions of your own and tell an adult about your sentence?

Tuesday

Warm-up

60 Second Challenge - Climb the mountain: Click here

Not in my backyard

Steps: Place a skipping rope, towel or string on the floor.
Spread soft toys or bundled socks all over the playing space (on one side of the rope) as the ‘rubbish’.

On the signal “READY, SET, GO!” throw each piece of ‘rubbish’ across to the other side of the rope ('out of your yard').

Use a stopwatch to time how long it takes to get all items across the line.

If there is a second person you can play with (sibling or parent), then they will be on the other side of the rope and the game becomes a ‘battle’ to see who can throw the most ‘rubbish’ into their neighbour’s yard.

If you are able to have someone film you throwing, based on the correct overhand and underarm technique, what feedback can you give yourself to improve your technique?

Questions: When you were rushing what happened to your technique?

Do you think people rush when playing team sports? If so, what makes them rush?


                     

Wednesday

Warm-up

60 Second Challenge Fast feet: Click here

Ball Handling Activities

All you need is a ball, a soft toy or anything round you can catch.

Can you complete more than 5 ball handling activities?

Mr M and Mrs Yue-Lamb can complete ALL the ball handling activities! See if you can challenge yourself and get through as many activities as possible. There is no time limit. Practise for as long as you can.

Click here to download your ball handling challenges!

Thursday

Warm-up

60 Second Challenge - Figure eight: Click here

Bean Bag Relay Course

For this activity you will need some beanbags.
If you don’t have any bean bags you can use soft toys or soft small cushions.

Make a simple relay course. Set out a start zone and an end zone using your cones.
If you don’t have cones you can make your own using coloured paper, or be creative and use some of your toys as cones.

On ‘GO’ you must run and pick up one beanbag at a time and bring it back to the start zone.

If you are playing with someone else, you can take turns to see who completes the task quicker - whoever is the quickest to complete the task, wins!

If you don’t have someone to play with, time yourself and see how fast you can complete the obstacle course.

You can make this game harder by introducing skills you must do during the relay for example, instead of walking can you hop, skip, jump, run backwards or balance the bean bag on your head.

                      

Friday

Warm-up

60 Second Challenge - Obstacle course: Click here

Tic Tac Toe Relay

You will need a partner for this game. If you don’t have a sibling you can wait and ask a parent to play this game with you when they are free.

Each person will need to find 4 objects which are the same (e.g. 4 black socks and 4 white socks).

Mark out the grid displayed below 10m away from your starting position (e.g. using rolled up towels, rope or even just draw it on paper).

One player at a time runs to the grid and places one item on the grid and runs back to the starting position. Then the other player takes one of their items and puts it on the grid.

Play until all squares have been filled.

The player with 3 of their objects in a straight line wins.

Another way you can play this game is to stand back, aim and throw the sock onto the game board as shown in the picture.

                      

Spanish

30 minutes per week

Counting: Cuántos? (How many?)

Can you count, in Spanish, different things in your house?

How many chairs do you have?

How many windows?

How many tables?

How many beds?

How many cupboards?

Key vocabulary:

1   Uno     (oo-no)

2   Dos     (doss)  

3   Tres     (tress)

4   Cuatro (cwat-row)

5   Cinco   (sin-ko)

6   Seis     (say-s)

7   Siente     (see-et-e)

8   Ocho   (otch-o)

9   Nueve   (noo-wave-e)

10 Diez          (dee-ez)

You can also listen to a Spanish counting song Click here

Music

60 minutes per week

We will be continuing to explore the music from 'Hoe-Down' by Copland.

Listen to the piece again: Click here

Change the way you move in the different sections you looked at last week.

Can you gallop like a horse?

Can you skip or hop to the music?

The story of Hoe-Down is on a ranch - a farm that has only animals.

Listen and read along with the song book of 'The Farmer in the Dell' from Epic: Click here.
Once you have listened to the story, sing along with the song a second time.

The last part of the song is about the farmer combing the horse. What else does the farmer have to do?

Make up some more words to the song.
Perform your parts of the song to someone in your house - it could be your parents, brother or sister, your pet or your toys (you can set them up like an audience at a concert!).
Try and play the instrument you made while you sing your song.

Don't forget to take a bow at the end of your song!

Art

60 minutes per week

Spiral Snake

Draw a spiral with a snake head on the end.

You can use a paper plate, or a piece of paper using a dinner plate to trace a circle.
Decorate and colour the spiral.

If you can find some photos of snakes, you might see a pattern you can copy.
Cut out your head and your spiral lines.
Attach a piece of thread or string to the end of its tail and turn to watch the snake spiral.

Library

30 minutes per week

Read ‘Nursery Rhymes Collection’ from EPIC library click here

The first rhyme in this book is ‘Hickory Dickory Dock.’

Make a clock face using a paper plate or draw a clock face on a piece of paper.

Draw some arrows to use as hands on your clock. If you have a split pin, you could cut two arrows out and attach them to your clock face.

Draw a little mouse and then use your mouse and your clock to say the rhyme out loud.

If you have made hands that move, change the time as you say the rhyme.
You can say one or all the verses of the rhyme.