Week 1 - Around the World
Reading Tasks
Monday
Listen to stories from around the world - including: Handa's Surprise, The Tiger’s Child and If The World Were a Village.
https://safeyoutube.net/w/pDV5
https://safeyoutube.net/w/UGW5
https://safeyoutube.net/w/4HW5
Tuesday
Choose one of the above stories to share again. Ask your child to retell the story in their own words once they are familiar.
Wednesday
Follow the story All Are Welcome Here with your child. Discuss how your child’ school makes everybody feel welcome.
https://safeyoutube.net/w/UKV5
Thursday
Play memory games, ‘I went to the market, I bought… The next person repeats the above sentence remembering the items bought already and adding a new one to the list each time. Use fruits like in Handa’s Surprise.
Friday
Your child can practice reading the tricky words: into, he, she, me, we, be, you, are, they, my all, her. Look at newspapers, magazines or leaflets together and circle these words with a felt tip pen or highlighter.
Phonics Tasks
Monday
Ask your child if they can think of a fruit or vegetable for each letter of the alphabet i.e. a=apple, b=banana.
Tuesday
Play Odd and Bob. Children sort real words and nonsense words by sounding out.
https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/odd-and-bob?phase=2
Wednesday
Sound Sprint - Make some sound cards (you could use paper). Place and spread them out across the floor. Ask your child to run and stand on the sound you call out. Say simple words as a challenge e.g. f-o-x.
Thursday
Splat the Letter- Write out the letters for the sounds your child has been practising on pieces of paper and spread out on the floor. Take it in turns to shout out a sound and both players have to try and splat the sound with their hand.
Friday
List countries from around the world e.g. Spain, Peru. Ask your child to identify the initial sound each country begins with. Can they identify other sounds e.g. S-p-ai-n?
Writing Tasks
Monday
Encourage your child to look at the food in your kitchen and find out what countries some of it comes from. Search on a map for those countries. Help your child to trace the letter with which the name of those countries start.
Tuesday
After listening to the story Handa’s Surprise, ask your child to name and draw different fruits that they know. Label them using describing words.
Wednesday
Ask your child to play in role as Handa from Handa’s Surprise. Ask them questions and they must answer as Handa e.g. ‘Handa, what is your favourite fruit?’ They might answer by saying ‘My favourite fruit is tangerines. I was very excited to find lots of them’.
Thursday
Your child can draw a picture of a suitcase and all the things they might take on holiday.
CHALLENGE: Ask your child to label the items.
Friday
Ask your child to pretend they are on holiday. Get them to make a postcard to send to someone at home. Ask your child to draw a picture of what they are doing on holiday. Can they make a list of what they are doing?
Maths Tasks
Monday
Watch this video to support counting back from 10.
https://safeyoutube.net/w/aNW5
CHALLENGE: Ask your child to start at 10 and take away 1. Repeat this until they get to zero. Do they recognise the amount is getting smaller?
Tuesday
Generate your own subtraction number stories. Use real life objects at home to show this e.g. ‘I have 4 bananas. I eat one. How many are left?
Wednesday
Use a teddy and count backwards making deliberate mistakes. Can your child spot the mistakes? Mistakes can include omitted numbers, repeated numbers or a number in the wrong place. CHALLENGE: Ask your child to spot the mistake when the numbers are written down.
Thursday
Look at these pictures of flags from around the world with your child.
https://www.worldometers.info/geography/flags-of-the-world/
Can they spot any shapes in the flags and can they name them?
Friday
Use the tens frames to subtract/take away numbers.
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/tenFrame/index.html
CHALLENGE: Ask your child to write the accompanying number sentence e.g. 10-1= 9.
Project Work
Flags
Look at flags from around the world. Discuss which are your child’s favourites and why? Ask your child to design and make their own flag using 2d shapes.
Food Tasting
Find some different foods/fruits from around the world and taste each one. These might include: pizza (Italy), curry (India) and taco (Mexican) or the fruits from the story Handa's Surprise. Your child can create a chart putting a tick next to each food they like and a cross next to the foods they dislike over the course of the week.
Pleasing Puppets
Make your own Handa’s Surprise character puppet. Click here for more ideas.
https://littleangeltheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Education-Pack-2014_Handas-Surprise.pdf
Toys from Around the World
Look at this photography project of children with their toys from around the world.
https://www.gabrielegalimberti.com/toy-stories/
Discuss how life is the same and how life is different in other countries. Can your child draw their favourite toy and write a sentence explaining why this is their favourite?
Where in the World?
Discuss with your child where your family comes from in the world. If you have them available, show your child photographs of where you, or their grandparents, grew up. This might be similar to where they live now or completely different. Encourage your child to think about the differences between the places