This week we are thinking about life on the surface of a pond.

English

• Revise the letters; g, o, c, k.  Can you practice forming the letters correctly so that they are facing the right way and sitting on the line?  Can you draw/write objects that start with these initial sounds?
• Can you read this frog poem and copy out the tricky words?
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• Can you research insects that live on the surface of a pond?  Choose one insect and draw a picture of it and write a sentence about it.
• Listen to the podcast on Cbeebies radio about frogs.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio/show-me-show-me-frogs
• Practice you reading by reading along with this story about a pond on Youtube.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Ok9AWaI7E

Maths:

This week we are focusing on counting in 2's.  

• Listen to the counting in 2's song on Youtube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ
• Play the balloon pop game to practice counting in 2's
• http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/BalloonPopSkip.htm
• Can you fill in the missing numbers by counting in 2's?
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• Can you count your socks?  How many socks do you have? Remember a pair of socks is 2, so count in 2's!
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• What about the odd numbers which are left out?  They also count up in 2's!  Can you continue the number string...
• 1  3  5 ...

Creative/Topic:

• Make a hungry frog by following the instructions on Cbebbies.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/cbeebies-house-frog-make
• Can you make a model of a pond?  Use whatever junk modelling materials you have around the house.  Cotton buds make excellent bull rushes, the bottom of fruit shoot bottles can be cut to make colourful lily pads.
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• Make a frog spawn painting by using old bubble wrap and printing with it or water down paint and use a straw to blow into it to create bubbles.  Then place paper over the top to print the bubbles.
• Can you make a paper plate lily pad?
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• Try this diving frog science experiment.