Hello,

Your learning today is to watch Miss Hammond’s video and practise the flashcards along with her. Then can you practise your final ‘ing’ game for this week before the test tomorrow! This is a slightly different game to the game I posted the other day. It states it is for 3 players but will work just fine for 2 as long as an adult is helping.

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For Literacy today I would like you to pretend to be the Farmer who planted the Enormous turnip! Yesterday you wrote questions to the farmer, so you know what a shock it was for him to discover that his vegetable had grown so huge. Perhaps your family could interview you pretending to be the farmer to get you into character. Then could you write a diary entry as if you are the farmer? (We looked at how to write diaries when we learnt about the Great Fire of London back in school.) Can you include what you felt like as you describe the events of your day?

You can do this straight onto paper and post to the blog, or you could type it if you would prefer using our blank diary template posted in your 2do’s on PurpleMash. I can’t wait to read your writing.

For phonics today, can you continue to use Miss Hammond’s videos to practise your flashcards. Practise your spellings and then as a little challenge, can you put these words into a sentence?

By now you will be more familiar with our story this week ‘The Enormous Turnip’. Your Literacy work for today is to interview the farmer who planted the turnip seeds. His day turned out very extraordinary, when he discovered his vegetable had grown so large and he needed all that help to pull it out the ground!

Can you think of questions you would like to ask the Farmer? For example, I would love to know ‘How many bowls of soup did your wife make out of such an enormous turnip?’

We learnt about questions in school a few weeks ago, so don’t forget to finish your question with a question mark and keep practising your neatest cursive handwriting. We would love to see your questions to the farmer on the blog.

I hope you enjoyed your learning on Monday. I noticed lots of fantastic art creations. Also some great puppet performances of our new story this week.

We are continuing with our ‘The Enormous Turnip’ work this week, with a focus on remembering familiar and repetitive stories.

Can you read it again today  – this time encourage your child to recite as much of it as possible by themselves. Then can you order the story in the correct sequence? You can do this by cutting out and sticking the sequencing pictures attached. Or you make your own by simply drawing a grid on a piece of paper and your child could draw their own lovely pictures in order themselves. You could try to label what is happening in each picture.

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Also, look out for an Enormous Turnip themed jigsaw on your PurpleMash 2do.

Finally, for phonics today please continue to practise this week’s spellings. Here is a game you could use or copy for fun too.

ing board game

Keep an eye out for Miss Hammond’s great phonics video’s too. Well done everyone.