Ideas for Home Learning:
Week Ending 23rd June 2017
Dear Parents/Carers,
Please find below some ideas for guiding your child’s learning at home. Please encourage
your child to complete one or more of these activities, with your support.
In addition, we would love to hear from you about your child’s home learning; please use
the home learning diary to jot down your observations or you could email these to us at:
[email protected] . Thank you.
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Over the last week, our focus text was called ‘Whatever Next!’, by Jill
Murphy.
 You can listen to this story on the internet; just type the title into the search bar.
In the story, Baby Bear finds a cardboard box, which he imagines is a rocket.
 Use your imagination:
Think of a place you would like to
visit.
How would you get there?
Perhaps you could find a cardboard
box, like Baby Bear did and
imagine it will transport you to your
destination.
You could design and make features
to add to your box. Look on Google
images for inspiration!
 Baby Bear told his mum about his adventures. Tell someone in your family about
your adventures. Perhaps you could draw and/or write about your adventures.
On the moon, there were moon rocks but not much else.
Perhaps you could make some edible moon rock cakes! Here’s a
recipe you could follow:
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Ingredients
225g/8oz self-raising flour
75g/2½oz caster sugar
1 tsp baking powder
125g/4½oz unsalted butter, cut into cubes
150g/5½oz dried fruit
1 free-range egg
1 tbsp milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
Preparation method
1.Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a baking tray with
baking parchment.
2.Mix the flour, sugar and baking powder in a bowl and rub in
the cubed butter until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs, then
mix in the dried fruit.
3.In a clean bowl, beat the egg and milk together with the vanilla extract.
4.Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until the mixture
just comes together as a thick, lumpy dough. Add a teaspoon more milk if you really
need it to make the mixture stick together.
5.Place golf ball-sized spoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking tray. Leave
space between them as they will flatten and spread out to double their size during
baking.
6.Bake for 15-20 minutes, until golden-brown. Remove from the oven, allow to cool
for a couple of minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool.
In the story, Baby Bear packed a picnic for his journey.
 Perhaps you could have picnic, at home or elsewhere.
 Who will you invite to join you for your picnic?
 Plan your picnic by making a list of all the things you will
need. If you’ve made some moon rock cakes, you could
include them in your picnic too!
 Use your list to help you remember what you need to
pack.
 It would be lovely to see some photographs of you
enjoying your picnic, with family and/or friends!
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A note to parents/carers:
In maths, we have been practising counting back to 0, starting at different numbers (up
to 20).
Please help your child continue to practise this skill at home. For example:
 Limit time to complete an activity (e.g. “I’m going to count back from 14; when I get
to 0, you need to be in bed!”) Encourage your child to count backwards with you.
 Draw your child’s attention to timers (e.g. on microwaves) and encourage them to
count back by reading the numbers on the display.
 Scrolling through TV channels or tracks on CD players offers another opportunity to
count back.
Short but frequent times, spent together enjoying activities which practise this number
skill are the best way of helping your child to become confident.