Author: Catherine Warland

Hello Everyone!

I hope you are well.

Today I have been thinking about one of my favourite stories that reminds me of the lure of free gifts you sometimes get if you send off tokens.

There’s a Lion in My Cornflakes serves up the benifits of individuality and the drawbacks of consumerism.

If you had to collect tokens what animal would you like to recieve in your cornflakes?
If you had a lion what would you do with it?
What would your mum do if you bought so many cornflakes?
What animal would you prefer a grizzly bear or a crocodile? Can you give your adult the reasons why?
What would you do with a lifetime supply with cornflakes?
What room in your home would you keep a pet lion?

For Maths I would like you to have a go at ordering using the language of size.
Look at the image of spoons.

which spoon is the smallest?
Which spoon is the largest?
What spoon would you eat your cornflakes with?
How many spoons do you have in your home?
Can you order the spoons from tallest to shortest?

For our Expressive Arts and Design activity why not make a lion from a wooden spoon.
You will need:

A wooden spoon
A black felt tip
If you do not have yellow string you can make the mane with strips of paper.
Some additional paper
Some pens
Glue

To create:

Draw eyes onto the spoon
Draw the face
Create a mane by attaching strips of wool or paper
Add ears to your lion. This can be made with the additional paper
Add additional embellishments like a tail or a bow tie like the image above.

Have a roar-some time

Best Wishes

Miss Bagnall

Hello Everybody!

As it is Friday I thought I would promote Fine Motor Skills essential for writing by suggesting a weaving activity.
Weaving can help children learn to create patterns and work through problems that they may encounter whilst weaving.
It can also be an artistic expression.
I will show you Paper weaving and this is great for Maths, Speaking and Listening and Expressive arts and Design.

You will need:

• Paper in various colours
• Glue
• scissors
• A ruler (can be done by eye)

To set up and complete:

• • • • • Cut the paper into a square shape

          Fold  the piece of paper in half

          Srart from the folded edge
          Cut evenly spaced slits (mine were about 2 1/2 cm) ​About 2 fingers in width
          Stop 2 cms from the opposite edge

          Unfold the paper
          
          Cut coloured strips of paper
          Mine are longer than the frame and about 2cm wide (Two fingers in width)

          
          Weave your first strip
          Go over and under the frame slits

          
          Move the woven strip to the top and begin the next one .
          Weave the second strip in an opposite pattern to the first,
          If your first slit went over and under then your second slit should go under and over.

          
          Weave the rest of the strips

          
          Apply glue to excess pieces on the strips

          
          Fold the excess pieces over the edges of the paper frame
          Press the glue in place.

          
          Flip the paper over
          Congratulations you have completed your paper weave.

          
          For Maths Why not try weaving Outside with a fence and fabric. (cut up some oid material in school I have used an old duvet cover / sheet / wool

          Ask your child to count how many times they have gone in and out?
          Ask how many pieces of fabric have you used?

          Best Wishes

          Miss Bagnall

Hello Everyone!

Continuing with the theme of Reading why not play some reading games with your child.

Odd one out is a great game to promote reasoning skills.

I have provided some examples that can be used in Reading, Maths and Understanding the World.

You need to ask your child to find the odd one out in a group. This can be done with with physical items as well as pictorial.

Show your child the things you want to identify the odd one from and ask them to discuss their reasons.

This is great for reading as your child will need to label the objects.

For Maths why not introduce yor child to odd and even numbers?

The example above uses Numicon but you could use counters in groups. (I like to use sweets or biscuits especially at home. At school I would use counters)

You will need two bowls or you could draw two people and name them Odd Todd and Even Steven.

For example you could have three counters one for me one for you and one for me. Oh no there is none for you. That’s odd those sweets must belong to Todd.

Repeat for an even number. I have two and you have two thats the same lets give them to Even Steven to look after.

Continue this for numbers up to 10.

Best Wishes

Miss Bagnall