Week beginning – 20 April 2020

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P.E.

30-45 minutes per day

Monday

Warm up

Lay on the floor, keep your tummy close to the floor and crawl from the front door to the kitchen and back like a lizard.

Throwing and catching skills

Practise throwing and catching a tennis ball, rolled up sock or anything that is relatively round with yourself or a partner.

Challenge yourself by counting how many catches you can do in a row.

Try throwing the ball above your head and try and catch it near your head, chest and knees.

Which body part was the hardest to try and catch the ball at?

Tuesday

Warm up

Sit down on a chair and stand up, repeat 20 times.

Animal walk 

Choose an animal and copy how this animal would move (hopping, crawling, jumping, running etc)

Warm up

Jog on the spot for 2 minutes.

Throwing and catching skills

Practise your underarm throwing to a target. You can choose any target e.g. a jumper on the floor or a chair.

• Underarm throw to a target 5 steps away.
• Underarm throw to a target 10 steps away.
• Underarm throw to a big target (e.g couch) 5 times in a row.
• Underarm throw to a small target (e.g. laundry basket).
• Throw to a small target on a wall 5 times in a row.
• Throw a ball up in the air and catch it 5 times.
• Throw a ball at a wall and catch it with two hands.
• Throw a ball at a wall and catch it with one hand.
• Throw a ball as high as you can and catch it above your head.
• Jump and catch a ball in the air.

How many other ways can you throw and catch?

Thursday

Warm up

If you have a ball, walk around the house and practise bouncing a ball and walking.

Rolling

Can you roll on the ground like a sausage without bumping into anything? Stretch your body as long as you can, now try rolling on the ground.

Make your own version of skittles. Find a ball and something in your house to use as skittles e.g. empty milk cartons. Stand about 3m back and roll your ball to knock over the milk cartons.
Try making it harder, by standing further back.

Friday

Warm up

If you have steps in your house, see if you can go up and down the steps without stopping for 3 mins. If you don’t have any steps, you can use a pillow, or a cushion.

Golf

Create 10 targets around your house using old t-shirts flattened on the ground. Fold a pair of socks into a ball and try to kick the socks so they land on the t-shirt.

Go around the course you have created. Make a note of how many kicks it took you to complete the course, then try the course again to see if you can beat your previous score.
Alternatively if your course was too easy, try to add some obstacles in front or near the targets.
You can use a pillow, chair, cardboard box as an obstacle to go around.

Spanish

30 minutes per week

Learning our numbers- Count your Toys

Gather ten toys together and count by 1’s in Spanish. Try counting forwards, backwards and skip-counting if you need a challenge!

Key vocabulary:

1   Uno     (doss)

3   Tres     (tress)

4   Cuatro   (cwat-row)

5   Cinco     (sin-ko)

6   Seis       (say-s)

7   Siente     (see-et-e)

8   Ocho     (otch-o)

9   Nueve   (noo-wave-e)

10 Diez     (dee-ez)

Interactive activity: Languages Online (Arrastra Los numeros) Click here (as this page requires Adobe Flash Player, there is also an alternative song option below)

Optional: Spanish counting worksheet

You can also listen to a Spanish counting song here (1 minute)

Music

60 minutes per week

Make your own musical instruments! Think about how we make percussion sounds in the music room – we hit things together, we shake things, we move one part of the instrument across another.

Some ideas on how to do this:

• Fill most of a small container with rice, sand or pasta and shake it (don’t forget to put the lid on). You can experiment with different materials. Which sounds do you like best?
• Hitting different bowls or pots with a wooden spoon (please ask permission from your parents before doing this – there may be certain ones that are just too important for you to use!)
• Thick sticks can be used to make a musical instrument called claves. You could paint or decorate them any way you like, just think about the sound they will make

Activities with your instruments:

• Playing the beat with songs you hear on the radio. The beat is like your heartbeat – it stays the same!
• Play and sing your favourite nursery rhymes.

Art

60 minutes per week

Winter bird collage

Copying the picture above, draw a large egg shape the size of your paper and divide it with a crooked Y for the head and wing. Use your imagination to draw in a tail for your bird.

Draw in the foot, eye and beak.

Decorate with strips of paper from a magazine (choosing colours from different photographs), wool, fabric, buttons or anything else you can find.

Tearing carefully will give your paper a feathery effect. Use plenty of glue for sticking down.

Library

30 minutes per week

Read a story of your choice or listen to the story ‘Too Many Elephants in the House’ from Story Box Library. Click here

Parts of a book

Choose a book and point to all the parts of the book including the title of the story, the author’s name, the illustrator, the spine and the pages. Does your story have a blurb on the back?