Week beginning – 27 April 2020

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P.E.

30-45 minutes per day

 

Monday

Warm up

Can you position your body in these poses and hold for 20 seconds?

Don’t forget to keep taking long slow breaths.

                                                            

 

Angry Birds Target Practice - Underarm Throw

 

Step 1: Build a tower using empty paper rolls, empty water bottles, milk cartons, cereal boxes, cardboard boxes or anything you can build a tower with.

Make sure you ask your parents if you are allowed to use certain equipment around the house.

 

Step 2: Choose a spot to throw from. Place the objects so you know where your spot is. Throw the ball to try to knock over as many targets as you can in 3 throws using any soft object shaped like a ball.

 

Step 3: Increase the distance by moving further away and see how many you can knock over in 3 throws again.

                                                              

 

 

Tuesday

Warm up - jog on the spot to your favourite song.

 

Laundry basket Skee-Ball

You will need: Empty cereal boxes, laundry baskets, scissors and soft plastic balls (if you don’t have any balls, scrunch up newspaper to make a ball).

 

Set up: To create a curved ramp, join two flattened cereal boxes together lengthways with sticky tape and bend into a U shape. You can use sticky tape to keep the shape in place.

Place the laundry basket at a distance from where your ramp will be.

 

To play the game, tilt the ramp at an upwards angle, and roll the ball up the ramp so that they launch into the laundry baskets. It works best if you kneel to roll the ball.

Aim to roll the ball into the basket with the highest points.

Add up your score.

You can play against yourself or another family member. Keep your ramp in a safe place, as we will play this game again!

                                                                

 

Wednesday

Warm-up

Find a safe space in your backyard or inside your house to skip around listening to your favorite song.

For example, Mr M skipped all the way from the laundry door to the back fence in his backyard, skipped around a couple of trees and returned back to the laundry door.

He repeated this five times while listening to his favourite Frozen song ‘Let it Go’!

 

Balloon Throwing and Catching - Use a balloon to throw up in the air and catch.

 

• Can you throw the balloon up and catch it with two hands?
• Can you throw the balloon up and catch it with one hand?
• Can you clap your hands in between each catch with two hands?
• Can you clap your hands between your legs and catch with two hands?
• Can you clap your hands between your legs and catch with one hand?
• Can you throw the balloon up, jog to a wall and then back to catch the balloon before it touches the ground?
• How many claps can you do and still catch the balloon?

 

Can you think of any other challenges you can do when throwing a balloon and catching?

 

Thursday

Warm up - Go Noodle Fabio’s Meatball Run Click here

 

Balloon Challenges - Using the balloon from yesterday, use your palm to tap the balloon into the air? How many taps can you do before the balloon hits the ground?

Keep the balloon up in the air by only using one body part at a time:

 

            Head

            Shoulders

            Elbows

            Knees

            Feet

 

 

Friday

Warm-up

Skip from your bedroom to the kitchen (or any safe area in your house) and back 5 times.

 

Soccer Kick Challenge

Roll up a pair of socks into the shape of a ball.

Kick your socks into a basket as many times as you listen to your favourite song.                                                                (Mrs Yue-Lamb’s best was 15. Can you beat her?)

 

Kick your socks into a basket 5 times in a row.
(Mr M can do it 20 times in a row. Can you beat his score?)

 

Kick your socks and land them on the couch 5 times in a row.

How long did it take you?

 

Make a set of goals using water bottles, cereal boxes, toilet paper rolls (anything that would suit) and see how many goals you can kick from a distance of 3 arm lengths.

 

 

Spanish

30 minutes per week

 

Las frutas y vegetales en tu casa (The fruits and vegetables in your house)

Find as many fruits and vegetables as you can in your house.

Say their names out loud when you find them.

They can be fresh, frozen or canned!

 

Key vocabulary:

An apple- una manzana         (oo-na man-zar-na)

A pear- una pera                     (oo-na pair-a)

A watermelon- una sandía     (oo-na san-dee-a)

A carrot- una zanahoria         (oo-na zan-a-or-ee-a)

Some peas- unos guisantes   (oo-nos ghee-san-tays)

A banana- un plátano             (oon plar-tan-o)

An avocado- un aguacate       (oon uh-gwa-kar-tay)

An orange- unn naranja         (oo-na nar-ran-ha)

A cucumber- un pepino         (oon pep-ee-no)

A capsicum- un pimiento       (un pee-mee-en-tow)

A potato- una patata               (oo-na pa-tah-ta)

An onion- una cebolla             (oo-na se-bo-ya)

 

 

Music

60 minutes per week

 

Get moving to the music! Join in with the dancing and singing of the song ‘Twist and Shout’.

Maximo has some dance moves to teach you. See if you can follow along: Click here

 

Create your own dance moves to this song.

See if you can use some of the ones Maximo shows you, and some of your own dance moves.

 

Learning Task

Make a poster to use during your music lessons. This will help you answer questions in some of our next lessons.

Draw some pictures and write what each of the words mean.

I have included information for each word, but I would like you to put some of them into words you understand and that will help you remember them.

 

Look after your posters and make them colourful so we can put some of them on the walls in our music classroom.

 

Year 1:

Beat - the pulse (like our heartbeat) in the music. It stays the same

Rhythm - the sounds and silences on a beat.

 

Ta = 1 sound on the beat

Ti ti = 2 sounds on the beat

Saa = no sound on the beat

 

Ostinato - a repeated pattern in music

Tempo - the speed of a song

 

Allegro = fast

Largo = slow

 

Melody - the pitch we sing

La = our high sound (broken love heart)

Sol = our middle sound (gate)

Mi = our low sound (magic carpet)

 

Year 2:

Beat - the pulse (like our heartbeat) in the music. It stays the same.

 

Rhythm - the sounds and silences on a beat

Ta = 1 sound on the beat

Ti ti = 2 sounds on the beat

Saa = no sound on the beat

Tika tika = 4 sounds on the beat

 

Ostinato - a repeated pattern in music

Tempo - the speed of a song

Allegro = fast

Andante = walking pace

Largo = slow

 

Dynamics - how loud or soft the music is played

Forte = loud

Piano = soft

 

Melody - the pitch we sing

La = our high sound (broken love heart)

Sol = our middle sound (gate)

Mi = a skip below ‘sol’ (magic carpet)

Do = our lowest sound/home base (muscle!)

 

 

Art

60 minutes per week

 

Drawing and Decorating a BLOCK LETTER

Fold an A4 page in half horizontally, so the halves are shorter.

Remember to join your corners carefully and press the fold firmly.

Then tear or cut down the fold.

Use one of the sheets to draw the first capital letter of your name, nice and large, in pencil.

Draw around the outside edges of the lines of your letter, as shown below.

 

Take your time if your letter has curves.

Rub out the lines in the middle of your big letter and you have your block capital letter.

 

Decorate the inside of your letter with shapes, patterns or drawings.

You could give your letter fur and eyes, or windows and a door.

Perhaps your letter has scales and fins, wings or wheels!

 

You might like to use the second half of your paper to do the same thing with the first letter of your surname.

 

                 

 

 

Library

30 minutes per week

 

We are looking at the purpose of a blurb.

A blurb is the text on the back cover of a book.

It is a brief summary of the story without giving away the ending.

The aim of the blurb is to get the reader interested in reading the book.

 

Find a book in your house and read the blurb on the back.

What does the blurb tell you about the story?

Does it make you want to read the book?

 

Read a book of your choice (but please don’t read the blurb on the back of the book beforehand)

or click here to read the Story Box library book ‘Barney’.

 

Write a short blurb for the book you have read.

Make sure you include some of the characters and a little bit about the story.

Read the blurb on the back of the book you read.

Was the blurb that you wrote similar?