Teaching Ideas and Resources:

English

• Make a list of similarities / differences between this book and the original. Which do you prefer? Why?
• The original story was turned into a theatre production. Could you perform this story to an audience?
• Create some speech / thought bubbles to add to the illustrations.
• Make a list of all of the rhyming words in the story.
• Write an alternative ending for the story, in which Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len manage to steal the hen. How might the animals try to rescue her?
• Retell the story (You could draw the characters and make them into puppets to help you)

Task 1:

Listen to the story "What the Ladybird Heard Again" (Above)

Discuss with someone in your family what you liked about the story, or what you disliked.

Talk about how this story is similar to last weeks story "What the Ladybird Heard" and how it is different.

Challenge: Can you draw a picture of the ladybird and add a speech bubble?

If you haven't already managed to do so you might want to do the virtual farm visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InZ5Hr0gVLo before completing task 2.

Task 2:

This week we would like you to look at the writing templates below.

If you are in the Yellow and Red Group we would like you to think of 5 sentences to write about what you can see and hear on the farm. Remember to use your 3 writing goals (Capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.)

Challenge: Try to use the word 'and' in your sentence.

If you are in the Green group we would like you to write 3 sentences "I can see..." Remember to use finger spaces between each word.

Challenge: Now think of your own sentence and write it.

If you are in the Blue group we would you to write a list of animals you might see on the farm. Try and think of the first sound you can hear in the animal name.

Challenge: Use one of the animal names you wrote and put it in the sentence "I can see ..."

Phonics

This weeks sounds are below, these are all sounds we have covered in class before but they are very tricky sounds as some of them have three letters to make one sound, we call these sounds trigraphs. Listen to the clip and then try to write some words that have this sound in them. You could use a phoneme frame to help you.

Don't forget there are lots of fun activities for you to do on Educationcity.com (use the login in your home learning pack) click on the the classwork section and you will find lots of games to play. 

Phoneme frame

To write words using a phoneme frame, sound out each word and write one sound in each box. Some words have one, two, three or more sounds, try to do words with just two or three sounds in them for now.  

      Ear 

Say the word to your child and ask them to sound it out and write it in the phoneme frame. See a list of words for each sound below.

PLEASE TEACH YOUR CHILD THE 'ure' SOUND, LIKE PURE, SURE,SECURE.

There isn't a video for this sound as it can be pronounced is different ways depending on your accent, teach this sound to your child in your own accent.