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: Click here

Active Story Time

Read a story book online, or a hard copy book, 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?

Tuesday

Warm-up

60 Second Challenge: 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 can 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: 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: Click here

Bean Bag Relay Course

For this activity you will need some beanbags.
If you don’t have 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 bean bag at a time and bring it back to the start zone. If you are playing with someone else, you can take in turns and whoever does it the quickest, 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 or 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, you could stand back, aim and throw the sock onto the game board as shown in the picture.

                         

Spanish

30 min per week

Las mascotas (Pets)

Do you have one of these pets?

Try to say the words out loud.

A DOG                    A CAT                      A FISH                    A RABBIT                    A CANARY                    A MOUSE

UN PERRO            UN GATO                UN PEZ                 UN CONEJO              UN PERIQUITO              UN RATÓN

(oon pe-rr-o)         (oon gar-toh)           (oon pess)          (oon conn-eh-ho)       (oon perr-i-kee-toh)     (oon rah-tohn)

Draw a picture of yourself with your pet.

If you do not have one, draw a pet that you would like to have.

Epic books:
Click here! Scroll to page 45 of “My Big Barefoot Book of Spanish and English Words” to see some additional animal names.

I hope that you don’t have any of these animals at home!

Music

60 minutes per week

Listen again to the piece 'Hoe-Down' by Copland.
Click here and move to the beat.

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

I would like you to say and play the following musical pattern, using the instruments you created in week 2:

The lines and dots that are on the sides of this musical pattern tell us to keep repeating the pattern.
When we play a musical pattern over and over, we call this an 'ostinato'.

Say the words and play this on your instrument you made in week 2.

Start by playing this largo (slowly) and speed it up until you are ready to play it with the song.

Play this ostinato through the A section of the song.
It might take a few turns to get it at the right tempo, so keep working at it!

Make your own ostinato to play during the A section of Hoedown.
It needs to be 4 beats long (just like the one above), so draw 4 circles to show the 4 beats.

Draw your rhythms into the circles.
Remember, 1 rhythm per circle, just like when we write the rhythms to a song in class.

Year 1: use Ta, Ti ti and Saa.

Year 2: use Ta, Ti ti, Saa and Tika tika.

Once you have played and written your rhythm, try playing it with the A section of the song.
How does your rhythm sound?

You can always change it if you don't like it.

Add your own words to the ostinato.

Try and make it fit your rhythms, or change your rhythms to fit your words.
See if you can use words that might fit the theme of the music.

If you play an instrument, remember to keep practising the music for Hoe-Down.

See if you can play sections of it with the orchestra! Click here for the sheet music.

Art

60 minutes per week

Paper Snowflakes

Find a piece of white paper and make a square by folding one corner down (as in the yellow diagram).

Cut the thin rectangle off at the bottom to make a square.

                                      



Follow the steps in the next diagram (below) to make a folded triangle shape.

Line up your folds neatly and press flat.

                                    

Copy one of the designs below.

                                                                          

Draw this shape on to your triangle before cutting.

Remember scissor safety and turn your paper for cutting corners, not your scissors.

Now design your own snowflake pattern.

Draw and cut as many as you like.

Keep two aside for next week’s activity. The rest can be displayed for the winter days ahead.


Below is a link to an Art Prize for Learning from Home.

You can be part of a community of students for creating, contributing and connecting from home.

Why Do You Love Your Brain?

Library

30 minutes per week

We are learning about physical and character traits that describe characters in books.

Physical traits are your physical characteristics, like your hair or eye colour that make you unique.

Character traits are aspects of a person's behaviour.

Everyone has physical and character traits including our favourite fictional characters.

Listen to the story ‘Pig the Pug’ from Story Box Library which is about one of LPS’ favourite fictional characters, Pig the Pug. Click here

Short legs and a black nose are two ways to describe Pig’s physical traits.

Greedy and funny are two ways to describe Pig’s character traits.

Draw a chart like the image below and list as many of Pig’s physical and character traits that you can.

                                    

Did you know that there is a new book in the Pig the Pug series coming out soon?
It is titled ‘Pig the Blob.’’

Can you name any of the other books in the Pig the Pug series?