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Phonics Maths Creative Story Mon Sing Hello Song Hello! | Super Phonics Maths Creative Story Mon Sing hello song My favourite cake is carrot cake. Little Red Riding Hood made some cakes for This is a very different version of Little Red Riding Hello! | Super Simple Songs What is your favourite cake? her Grandma. Hood on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlcKp3bWH8 Can you ask the members of your Enjoy! With your child talk about people who are family what is their favourite cake? Can you remember how you made a tally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewVqfMc_Hs special to them You could make a tally chart of the chart to find out the most favourite cake Who are the people you like to see? What cake that is the most favourite. Put a that people eat at your house? What was do you do when you see them? Do mark next to each cake as you ask it? you wave? Give them a hug? Give them a someone and the cake that has the kiss? How do you keep in touch with them? most marks is the favourite. Could you make some cakes with a grown Do you use the phone? Do you have a up for the people that live in your house? You can never have enough stories! computer? Do you meet them? How do Maybe you could make the cakes that were people say hello in other countries? What the favourite! about your pets? Do they say hello to you? At bedtime snuggle up and share another story with your child Tues The Secret Handshake Play a game with your secret Make your own telephone This is a very different version of Little Red Riding At the moment touching needs to be kept handshake moves. At the moment, we can’t meet up with all Hood on you tube for those in your own household. Make a pattern sequence e.g. tap the important people in our life. So we are Enjoy! tap, high 5. Tap tap, high 5. Tap tap, using the phone and our computer to keep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewVqfMc_Hs Today we are thinking about saying high 5. Keep repeating the actions in touch with the people we love. Did you hello. Did you know you can have a different and saying the move as you do your know, the telephone has been around since secret handshake for the different people in secret handshake to make a pattern. 1876 - that’s nearly 150 years! your life? I have made up a different secret Now can you add another action to To make a telephone you will need- handshake for all of us in our house. Here your pattern? Tap tap, high 5, blow a 2 plastic or paper cups are some of my ideas: kiss. Tap tap, high 5, blow a kiss. Tap String (about 2meters) You can never have enough stories! Tap tap (tap hands together twice) tap, high 5, blow a kiss. Remember to Scissors. A sharp pencil to make a hole. A fist pump. High 5. Forward tap, back tap keep repeating the pattern. Can you Instructions. The adult needs to make a (tap palm of hands together, then backs of do it faster/slower? I wonder how hole in the bottom of both of the cups. Your At bedtime snuggle up and share another story with hands together. Blow a kiss.) many actions you can add to your child can then poke one end the string into your child Can you and your child think about any pattern? the hole and you can then help them to tie other ideas? Elbow taps, Toe taps, Knee Tap, tap. What will come next in the a knot. Now do the same with the other bumps, Spin around, Shoulder shrug, Hip pattern? How do you know? end of the sting. So you have cups tied onto bumps, Heel bumps….. each end of the string. Make sure you pull the string tight to send the sound vibrations. One person puts a cup to their ear and the other one talks into the cup just like a telephone. It actually works! Wed Can you remember how you made up all of If you cut out the pictures of the red Cut out the pictures of the red riding hood This is a very different version of Little Red Riding your secret handshakes yesterday? This riding hood story (from the attached story. Now colour them in. I wonder if you Hood on you tube time can you put a sound to an action e.g. sheet or one’s you draw yourself), try could put them in order like in the story. Enjoy! tap 2 spoons together to do tap, tap. Stir a putting them in sequence of the (See attached sheet) If you haven’t got https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewVqfMc_Hs spoon in a pan for high 5. Scrape the cheese story. Remember to use words like access to a printer you could draw your own grater for blow a kiss. first, second, next, after, last. pictures from the story and put them in You can never have enough stories! Now play the listening and action game. The These are all good words to know order. grown up plays a sound and you have to do when you are talking about time and the secret handshake. Swap over and you when things happen. At bedtime snuggle up and share another story with play the sound this time your child Thurs What words do you know for hello? In our Have a look at some of the flags from The attached sheet has some templates of This is a very different version of Little Red Riding home, we say hello, hi, good morning, good different countries. You could look at flags for you to decorate. You could paint Hood on you tube evening….You might use different words in the flags on the attached sheet or look them or colour them in so that they look Enjoy! your home. You may speak another at some flags on the internet. Maybe really colourful. If you are really clever you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewVqfMc_Hs language. You may say hello in different you could find a flag that is special for could draw your own flags ways to different people. your family! We have the flags for France, Britain, You can never have enough stories! When I looked at the flags one thing Poland, Pakistan. What is the flag like from Let’s learn how to say hello in that I noticed was that they are all the the country where you were born? At bedtime snuggle up and share another story with some different languages same shape. Cut out your flags carefully on the lines and your child. This time play the video on You Tube How to say Hello in 15 Different Languages - I also noticed that some flags have either make some flags by sticking them on without the sound and see if your child can re tell the How To! | GoNoodle curves on them and some flags have a straw or stick. Or you could make some story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVmsWIh_d0 straights on them. bunting Remember to email some pictures of your You can never have enough stories! . What do you notice that is the same flags and send them to the school email and different on the flags? address as your teachers love to see them. [email protected] Fri Can you remember some of the words to Can you remember, in the story, little Playdough Re tell the story of Little Red and the Very Hungry say hello in different countries. red riding hood has a basket? (See recipe) Lion without the book or watching You Tube. Why don’t you get a basket or a bag I wonder if Little Red Riding Hood had any Ask your child to tell you what happens next. Ask a grown up to write down the words. and collect some things that you could other food in her basket. Maybe she had a put in your basket. For example, sandwich? Pretend to make some different You may even want to act out a favourite part of the Can you match the hello words to the flags cakes, apples, chocolate bars. Then food to put in the basket for Grandma. story or a favourite character. from the different countries? you could tip them out and count them. Maybe altogether or sort them At bedtime snuggle up and share another story with into groups to see how many things your child you have got in each group. You might have 4 cakes, 3 apples, 2 chocolate bars. Then you could talk about are there more cakes or more apples? Or are there more apples or more chocolate bars? .
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