Thatcham Park Primary School

Phonics

Go onto the Oxford Owl website – see below for details of how to set up a parent account.  Your Read Write Inc books that were issued in your pack will signpost you to the correct Read Write Phonics book level for new reading.  Make sure that you work through these methodically so that you don’t miss out any sounds. 

Choose your second favourite game that you have played this term on Phonics Play – guidance see below for how to access this.  Can you score 10 points by the end of the game?!  Play the game more than once this week – what will your highest score be?

You could also look at the alien word PowerPoint and practice blending the sounds to work out what their names are.  Can you make up your own alien words using the Set 2 and 3 sounds?

Reading and Literacy

As we are continuing with our theme of Animals this week, we have set a reading comprehension about the different creatures who live in the Rainforest.  Read the text carefully and then answer at least one sheet of the questions.  Try to challenge yourself to answer more than one set of questions! 

Read some poems from a book from home or an Oxford Owl eBook.  Talk to an adult about the poems.  What were they about?  Did they rhyme?  Were they acrostic poems (where the name of the creature or thing that the poem is about is down the side?  Can you write your own poem about an animal?  It is up to you which structure you use.

Maths

Look at the White Rose home learning for the week beginning 06.07.2020.  There are 4 videos to watch and the associated worksheets are on our school website.  This fortnight’s theme is Fractions and Time, which is new learning for us.

Think about the different times of day at which you do certain things.  Draw a story map of your day showing the order of events.  Include your different meals, activities, washing, sleeping, playing etc.

There are some sheets below about days and dates for you to complete.

Spellings

Practise the first five spellings and write 3 sentences using a spelling word in each.

Practise the next five spellings and write 3 sentences using a spelling word in each.

Topic

Look at the information PowerPoint on the website about the different animals which live in the rainforest.  You will need to do this with a grown up as some of the words are a bit tricky.  Choose one of the creatures from the PowerPoint and create your own fact file about them.  Then, complete the Rainforest animals sorting activity.  If you can’t print the worksheet on the website at home, why not draw your own Rainforest animals?

Watch the video of ‘The Chimpanzees of Happytown’ below.  Chutney and his friends created their ideal place to live by cheering up Drabsville and making it colourful and beautiful.  What would your ideal place to live be like?  Draw or paint a picture of it. Write a description of it – remember to write in full sentences and use interesting adjectives. 

Phonics

Go onto the Oxford Owl website – see below for details of how to set up a parent account.  Your Read Write Inc books that were issued in your pack will signpost you to the correct Read Write Phonics book level for new reading.  Make sure that you work through these methodically so that you don’t miss out any sounds. 

Continue to practise the sounds on the sounds sheet and see if you can use them in independent writing.  Practise blending your sounds by reading the alien words on the school website.

Play the ‘Picnic on Pluto’ game on Phonics Play – see below for how to access this.  This is always one of our favourite ones as it is all about the burping aliens!  Can you score 10 points by the end of the game?!  Play the game more than once this week – what will your highest score be?

Reading and Literacy

Read a fiction book from home or an Oxford Owl ebook.  Talk to an adult about the story.  What did you think about the ending?  Do you think that it could have ended in a different way?  How could you improve the ending?  Write your own version of the ending and share it with someone from your family.

As our theme is Animals this week, we have set a reading comprehension about a man who is lucky enough to work as a vet in a zoo.  Read the text carefully and then answer at least one sheet of the questions.  Try to challenge yourself to answer more than one set of questions! 

Look again at the categories of animals on the Powerpoint about animal classification.  Pick one of the groups of animals and write an information page about it.  Remember to include information about what their bodies are like, what they eat, how they have their babies and where they live.

Maths

Look at the White Rose home learning for the week beginning 22.06.2020.  There are 4 videos to watch and the associated worksheets are on our school website.  This week and next week the learning is all about place value (tens and ones), which we have covered in school but it will be good to cover it again.

Carry on practicing counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.  Use your 50 grids from last week’s home learning to support you with this counting.

Think back to the Dienes equipment that we used when we leant about place value in school.  The tens in a 2 digit number are represented by the 10s stick and the ones are represented by the small cubes.  Look at the photo here and then make your own Dienes tens and ones so that you can use this to support you in your home learning.

In a 2 digit number, the first digit represents the tens and the second digit represents the ones.

This is a really important fact when partitioning 2 digit numbers.

Pick a number from your 50 grids and use your homemade Dienes equipment to represent it.  Remember to put the tens first and the ones after.  Try to represent 2 or 3 2 digit numbers each day.

Spellings

Practise the first five spellings and write 3 sentences using a spelling word in each.

Practise the next five spellings and write 3 sentences using a spelling word in each.

Write some sentences and facts about your favourite foods using the set 2 and 3 sounds – you will find these on the sound mat on the school website.  Remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops so that your sentences make sense!

Topic

Look at the Powerpoint on the website about the different classifications (groupings) of animals.  Talk to someone in your family about the features of the different types of animals.  Print, cut out and sort the pictures of the different animals.  If you don’t have access to a printer, you could draw your own animals to fit into each category.

RE – Judaism – Shabbat

Watch these videos about Shabbat and the way that it is celebrated by families.

Draw and write about the special meal that the family have as part of their celebrations.  Which foods do they eat?  What do they have to drink?  What special objects or traditions do they have on or around their table?

PSHE – Healthy Me

Think about the different objects in your kitchen or bathroom which are used for cleaning, personal hygiene, decorating etc.  Look at the photographs of objects on the website and sort these into ‘Kitchen’ and ‘Bathroom’.  Can you think of any extra ones that you can add to each group?  Then, sort each group into whether you could safely use them on your own or if they need to be used by an adult and write some sentences to explain why.

Phonics

Go onto the Oxford Owl website – see below.  Your Read Write Inc. books that were issued in your pack will signpost you to the correct Read Write Phonics book level for new reading.  Make sure that you work through these methodically so that you don’t miss out any sounds. 

Continue to practise the sounds on the sounds sheet and see if you can use them in independent writing.  Practise blending your sounds by reading the alien words on the school website.

Play the ‘Pick a Picture’ game on Phonics Play – see below.  Choose the ‘Digraphs’ option when prompted (although you can also play the Phase 2 and Phase 3 games if you wish to).  Can you score 10 points by the end of the game?!  Play the game more than once this week – what will your highest score be?

Reading and Literacy

Read a book from home or an Oxford Owl e-book.  Talk to an adult about the bad character.  What do they do?  What do you like or dislike about them? Would you want to be their friend?

Look on Purple Mash at your 2Dos.  This week’s Literacy is based around the e-book ‘Ned and the Three Bears’ on Serial Mash.  We will release a different chapter each day for you to read and talk about at home.

Each day we will release the Serial Mash activities on Purple Mash to go with the chapter for the day.  There is a quiz, a writing activity and a third activity to complete each day.  This will help you demonstrate your understanding of the story as well as being lots of fun!

Maths

Look at the White Rose home learning for the week beginning 08.06.2020.  There are 4 videos to watch and the associated worksheets are on our school website.  This week’s White Rose learning is based around multiplication and division, which is new learning – we have not covered this before in school.

Carry on practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.  Look on Purple Mash at your 2Dos.  This week we have set the A-fish-metic activity for you to work on your adding and subtracting – pick Level 2 when you go onto the game.   You can play the game as many times as you like this week, can you keep on beating your previous score?

Number bonds to 20

This week we would like you to keep practicing your number bonds to 20 (2 numbers which when added together make 20).  Can you draw pictures or find objects in your house to represent the different number bonds?  How many different ways of making 20 by adding 2 numbers together can you find?

Spellings

Practise the first five spellings and write 3 sentences using a spelling word in each.

Practise the next five spellings and write 3 sentences using a spelling word in each.

Write some words and sentences about your favourite sport or leisure activity using the set 2 and 3 sounds – you will find these on the sound mat on the school website.  Remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops so that your sentences make sense!

Topic

PSHE

For the next few weeks we are going to be focusing on Healthy Me as our main area of PSHE learning. 

Draw a picture of yourself and write around the outside all the different healthy choices that you make in your day to day life.  Think about the foods that you eat, the exercise that you do, the different hygiene activities that you carry out to keep your body healthy and safe.

RE – Judaism

Jewish people worship God together in a special building called a synagogue. Find out about what synagogues are like and which special objects they have in them and record your findings in an interesting way. 

These keywords might help you…

Ark, Torah, Scroll, Eternal Light

Topic

For the next few weeks we are going to be focusing on Animals as our area of Topic learning. 

This week, we are thinking about how animals can be defined by the type of food that they eat.  The important terms are CARNIVORE (only eats meat), HERBIVORE (only eats plants) and OMNIVORE (eats both meat and plants).  Look at the powerpoint on the website about eating types and then complete the Venn diagram to sort and classify the animals.  Remember – the animals that eat meat and plants (the omnivores) go in the middle section.

Phonics

Go onto the Oxford Owl website – see below how to set up a parent account.  Your Read Write Inc books that were issued in your pack will signpost you to the correct Read Write Phonics book level for new reading.  Make sure that you work through these methodically so that you don’t miss out any sounds. 

Continue to practise the sounds on the sounds sheet and see if you can use them in independent writing.  Practise blending your sounds by reading the alien words on the school website.

Play the Reading Robot game on Phonics Play – see below for how to access this.  Choose Phase 3 when prompted.  Can you score 10 points by the end of the game?!  Play the game more than once this week – what will your highest score be?

Reading and Literacy

Read a book from home or an Oxford Owl ebook.  Talk to an adult about the bad character.  What do they do?  What do you like or dislike about them? Would you want to be their friend?

Look at the PowerPoint below of Jack and the Beanstalk.  Fill in the attached story features information sheet.  Create a storymap of Jack and the Beanstalk, remember to include your arrows linking the different events and the way that it snakes around the page.  Can you identify where the beginning, middle and end of the story are? If you don’t have access to a printer you could copy the table out and answer the questions for this activity and the next one without needing to complete the table.

Use the planning to sheet to organise your own ideas for a story based on Jack and the Beanstalk.  Use this information to create a storymap for your new story.  Then, write and illustrate your story and share it with someone in your family.  It would be fantastic if you included the story language – ‘Once upon a time’ and ‘They all lived happily after’.

Maths

Look at the White Rose home learning for the week beginning 01.06.2020.  There are 4 videos to watch and the associated worksheets are here.  This week’s White Rose learning is based around mass and capacity and although we have previously covered this it is useful revision.

Carry on practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.  Look on Purple Mash at your 2Dos.  This week we have set the Sequence Snake activity for your to work on your number facts.  Start off with Challenge A and when you are confident move onto Challenge B.  You can play the game as many times as you like this week, can you keep on beating your previous score?

Look at the ‘Compare Capacity’ activity cards.  There are some useful notes here for the adult who is helping you with this.  These reasoning activities are linked to the White Rose Maths theme for this week.

Spellings

Practise the first five spellings and write 3 sentences using a spelling word in each.

Practise the next five spellings and write 3 sentences using a spelling word in each.

Write some words and sentences about the best thing that you have done since the lockdown started using the set 2 and 3 sounds – you will find these on the sound mat on the school website.  Remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops so that your sentences make sense!

Topic

PSHE

For the next few weeks we are going to be focusing on Healthy Me as our main area of PSHE learning.  Think about your daily routine and complete the form about what you do at different points in the day to stay fit and healthy.  If you do not have access to a printer, ask an adult to copy the questions out so that you can answer them.

RE – Shabbat

Look at the information PowerPoint about the Jewish festival of Shabbat.  Make a poster to share what you have found out.  Remember to use pictures, facts and key vocabulary to show off your learning!

Topic

For the next few weeks we are going to be focusing on Animals as our area of Topic learning.  To get started, choose your favourite animal and think of a creative way to show what you know about it.  If you look at Purple Mash on your 2Dos, there is a template where you can upload a picture of what you have made.  You can use junk modelling, make a poster or leaflet or anything else that appeals to you!  If you choose to make the poster or leaflet, why not use one of the Purple Mash templates?