Phonics Maths Creative Story Mon The circle song When I went on my daily walk I saw a car and Playdough Circle by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlXnXf6F the wheels were circle shapes. (See recipe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYbG Sq8 When you go on your daily walk have a look Can you use your circle collection to play VMgVU1Q to see what you can see that have circles on with the playdough? Sing the song and do the actions them. Can you take photos of all the things You could make a big circle using the You can never have enough stories! that you see that have a circle shape on playdough and put your circle shaped things them? You could draw pictures of the things on it. At bedtime snuggle up and share another that you saw or print off the photos. Save Big ones, small ones, tiny ones story with your child them for this week’s phonics ideas Tues Collections Kandinsky flowers Make a pair of binoculars using 2 toilet roll The Story of Circle You can go on a circle treasure hunt and fill Ask a grown up to draw some different sized middles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcs58 your basket/bag with things that are a circle circles for you to cut out. Stick the biggest Ask your child to have a look through the xKl6Jc&t=127s shape or that have circles on them. Explore, circle on the paper. Now find the next biggest binoculars to see what they can see. They feel and touch all the things in your basket. circle and stick it on the biggest circle. Repeat could have a look through them inside their Talk to your child about what they have in until the smallest circle is in the middle. Did house and outside in their garden. You can never have enough stories! their basket and discuss what they are used you know that when you put circles together Maybe use them when you go out for a for. (It is a round bowl and you put your like this they are called ‘concentric circles’? walk. What can you see? At bedtime snuggle up and share another cereal in it) Give your flower a stalk. Now you have made story with your child Is it hard or soft? What shape is it? Has it got a flower in the style of Kandinsky, who was an a curve? artist

Wed I spy Use your collection of circle things that your Ask a grown up to draw you some circles to The Story of Circle and Square On your walk you saw lots of things that had child has in their basket. cut out. Remember to cut on the line. Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AePd circles on them. Tip them all out and think of a rule of how ask a grown up to cut out some strips of F_J3a1I Cut out all the pictures of what you saw. they can sort the circle collection. One of the paper. Circle have a curve. Stick the circles Now can you play I spy with a grown up. rules could be things that are made of on the paper and now put some glue at You can never have enough stories! I spy with my little eye something that begins plastic/not plastic Another rule could be each end of the strip of paper; now all over with the sound ‘c’…….yes car. things that are blue/not blue. it. See if you can make some curves like At bedtime snuggle up and share another (Save you pictures for tomorrow to play Can your child think of any other rules to sort bridges and stick them over the circles story with your child another game) their collection? You could also talk about which one of your circle objects is the biggest and smallest.

Thurs Please can I cross the river? Use your collection of circle things that you Rice cake funny faces Story on circle drawing have in your basket. Tip them all out. For this game you can only use things that Remember how you sorted them yesterday, You will need rice cakes, yogurt and round https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6aX8 have 1 syllable (1 clap) can you sort them again into different piles. fruit e.g. grapes, blueberries, plums, kiwi, UMkYys Put a piece of material or a towel on the Can you count each pile of circle objects? apricots. ground and put some of the pictures that you To count them carefully – it helps to put them Put some yogurt on your rice cakes and This time play the video on You Tube have drawn or photographs of the things that in a row. make a funny face using fruit. I used Kiwi without the sound and see if your child can you saw on your daily walk that have circles You need to count slowly and touch each and blueberries for the eyes, a strawberry re tell the story. on them. Explain to your child that they have object as you say the number name. That’s to for the nose and a segment of orange for to pretend that it is a river and that they have make sure that you have the right amount. To the mouth. I wonder what fruit you are You can never have enough stories! to ask to cross it by saying, ‘Please Mr make sure that you know how many objects going to use. You could make a funny face fisherman can I cross your water’? If the there are altogether. rice cake for all the people that live in your At bedtime snuggle up and share another fisherman says ‘only if you find a c-ar’. They ‘There are 6 big circles’. house. Remember to send in some photos story with your child then have to find the picture of the car and Can you clap that amount? to school! cross the river to the other side. Repeat with 1,2,3,4,5,6 [email protected] the other words e.g. b-u-s (bus), b-igh-k (bike) h-ou-s (house)

Fri Again using your pictures or photos ask a 5 Frame Potato printing Story on circle drawing grown up to write the word to match the Adult to print off the 5 frame (or draw one) Print a picture using potatoes. If you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6aX8 picture e.g. bus Remind your child about when they went haven’t got any paint you could use food UMkYys Your grown up will show you the words and around the house, or outside collecting objects colouring or even turmeric mixed with a pictures and give you ideas of how you can that have a circle shape. Ask your child to little water. With a grown up cut the potato You can never have enough stories! match the word e.g. bike. The sounds that I collect 5 objects. Ask your child to place one in half so that you have 2 parts. Now you can hear in the word bike when I say the word object in each space on the 5 frame. Ask ‘are have a circle shape to print with. Dip one At bedtime snuggle up and share another out loud are a ‘b’ and ’k’. Let’s have a look at there any spaces?’ half of the potato into the paint and then story with your child all the words and find a word that has a ‘b’ This time ask your child to place 4 objects on put it onto the paper to make a print. You and a ‘k’ in it. Look, this is the word bike. Can the 5 frame reminding them that only one could dip it into a different colour now. you find the picture of the bike and put them object goes in one space. Now ask ‘are there Maybe you could use a big potato and a together? any spaces?’ Encourage your child to tell you little potato to make a pattern how they know. Repeat with 3,2,1 objects