We have finished learning about different ways to say the graphemes that we already know. I don’t want to start a new section of phonics until we return to school so today I would like you to practise the ones we have learnt today.
Click on Discovery Education and play some videos of the alternative pronunciations you need more practise on.
Then go to phonics play and play some of your favourite games!
Watch the video of me reading the whole story.
Pattan is very grateful for the pumpkin. We call this gratitude.
How does Pattan show his gratitude?
He kept a seed from the pumpkin and planted it.
Is this a way we would show gratitude?
Why? Why not?
Which Bible story do you know that is similar to this story by the Irula tribe in the Sahyadri mountains?
Noah’s Ark.
Can you write a story similar to these two?
Think about:
Who is in the story? The characters.
Where the story might start.
What makes the rain come?
How do they escape? Be imaginative.
What do they do after to be people?
It is Friday so start it off with a dance!
Here is a picture of Hiyab’s artwork from last week.
What do you think it is?
What has he used?
How is his piece of art similar to the artist Patrick Dougherty?
Now look at some other artists who use natural materials to create art.
How are they similar to Dougherty’s artwork? How are they different?
Today’s Maths includes lots of games to recap things you have learnt recently and a while a go. Let me know what you think.
Click on the names of the games to go to the website.
You’ll need your log ins for the next set of games
Can you give the robots the other number to make 20?
Tricky word practice today!
Click 
to play tricky words trucks.
Read the story and see if you can find all of the phase 5 tricky words.
oh, Mr, Mrs, people, looked, called, could, asked, their
English
Listen to the story so far and then read the next two pages with your parents.
Why was Kanni singing a lullaby?
What lullabies do you know?
Below is a sound clip taken from a film called Life of Pi. It is a song that Pi’s mother sang to him when he was a baby. It is sung in Tamil which is a similar language to the language that the Irula people would have sung.
Here are the words in Tamil and English to Pi’s Lullaby.
Can you write your own Lullaby and have a go at singing it?