Week beginning – 27 April 2020

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P.E.

30-45 minutes per day

 

Monday

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

 

Angry Birds Target Practice - Underarm Throw

Step 1: Build a tower using empty 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 and place an object 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. Repeat.

                                                              

 

Tuesday

Warm up - Stretching

Turn on some relaxing music and do the following poses for 10 minutes. See if you can hold each pose for 30 seconds.

                                                              

 

 

Laundry basket Skee-Ball

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

 

Set up: Create a curved ramp by joining 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.

See the picture below for set up.

 

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

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

Ask someone to add up your score (1 point for the closest basket and 2 points for the next basket rather than 50 and 100).

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 favourite 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

Whole body movement

Set a timer and complete each animal movement for 45 seconds. Then after you finish each movement, complete the next animal movement and so on.

This should take you approximately 10 minutes.

Frog Jumps

Bear Walk

Gorilla Shuffle

Starfish Jumps

Cheetah Run

Crab Crawl

Elephant Stomps

 

Choose your own animal and walk or move how they would.

 

                                                               

 

Balloon Challenges - Using the balloon from yesterday.

Can you use your palm to tap the balloon up 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

 

Los colores y los números (The colours and numbers)

This is another treasure hunt for you! Find the following:

 

UNO ROJO (one red) object

DOS VERDE (two green) objects

TRES AZUL (three blue) objects

CUATRO AMARILLO (four yellow) objects

CINCO ROSA (five pink) objects

 

Optional interactive learning: To learn how to say the words in Spanish, visit Languages Online (Colour the Cars): Click here

Note for parents and carers: Adobe Flash Player needs to be enabled on your computer for this activity to display.

Here are some instructions if you don’t know how to do this: How to install Flash Player

 

 

Music

60 minutes per week

 

Get moving to the music!

Join in with the dancing and singing of the song ‘Twist and Shout’ on Go Noodle. 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 about the following words we use in our music lessons.

Look after your poster and make it colourful so we can put some on the walls in our music classroom when we are back at school.

 

Here are the words:

High sound - draw yourself showing the high sound with a ribbon or your body

Low sound - draw yourself showing the low sound with a ribbon or your body

Fast - draw something that moves fast

Slow - draw something that moves slowly

 

After you have completed your poster, can you move high and low, fast and slow?

 

 

Art

60 minutes per week

 

Shadow Drawings

This activity can be done outside, in a sunny spot inside or using a lamp.

Lay your paper down and stand your toys at the edge of your paper, on a hard flat surface in the light so you can see the shadow on your page.

You might use the floor or a table, depending on where the light is coming from.

 

When your toy is still and you have a good shadow on your paper, carefully trace around the edges of the shadow with a pencil or marker.

This solid shape is called a silhouette (pronounced sil-oo-et).

You can trace a few different toys to fill your page.

When you have completed your tracing, you can colour the images and sign your name in the bottom corner.  

The following images show someone tracing their toys and then their whole body, in chalk on the pavement.

                                  

 

 

Perhaps you can do this when you have finished tracing your toys.

Have you noticed what happens to your shadow throughout the day?

 

 

Library

30 minutes per week

 

Nursery rhymes are fun to say. They have words that sound the same.

In the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle, ‘moon' and ‘spoon' sound the same; they rhyme.

                                                           

What nursery rhymes do you know?

To read along with some nursery rhymes from EPIC library click here.

 

Draw a picture of your favourite nursery rhyme or write down some of the rhyming words in the nursery rhymes you listened to.