Foundation StageHome Learning Grid- Mini-beasts — Spiders

Personal, Social and

Emotional

Development.

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Communication and

Language

Literacy(Reading and

Writing)

Maths(Number focus)Use Mathletics too! Addition to 5 focus.

Understanding the World

Expressive Arts and Design

Making Relationships ELG: To show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings.

Self-confidence and Self-awareness ELG: To sustain involvement for longer periods.

Self-confidence and self-awareness ELG: To be confident to speak in a familiar group and talk about own ideas, and choose the resources needed.

Discuss growing with the children and the different ways mini- beasts

Moving and Handling ELG: To hold a pencil effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.

Lots of practising of writing at any opportunity to prepare for Year 1.

Gross Motor Skills—

Moving and Handling: 40-60M: To show increasing control over an object in pushing, patting, throwing, catching or kicking it.

Football skills – ball controlDribbling from A to BKickingSaving Scoring Running

Team gamesUsing apparatus moving like a spider, crawling, creeping, jumping

Have a spider web chalked out on the floor to tight rope walk on

Understanding ELG: To answer questions about our topic and also key activities we take part in.

Other stories you may wish to read with your child this week about spiders include;

Non-fiction mini beast books.

Spinderella Anansi the

spider Insy Winsy

Spider The Very

Busy Spider The Nervous

Spider Longer

Stories with chapters- How are these different? Why can’t we read them in one session?

First facts; bugs.

Speaking ELG: To continue to explore topic vocabulary; diet,

Reading ELG: WALT: Use phonic knowledge to decode words and read them aloud accurately. Use reading comprehension skills to decode a visual image.

Practise writing these sentences daily. Have them displayed and encourage your child to write them down.

Super Sentence writer of the week. A spider has eight legs. A spider can move very fast.Spider’s webs are very strong.

Writing: 40-60MIntroduce Busy Bess to their brand-new topic for this term—Mini-beasts. Discuss with your child what a mini beast is, where does it live, what does it eat, etc?

Tell your child that we will be continuing our big topic by learning about a new small creature. This week we are learning about … Give your child clues to see if they can guess which mini beast we are learning about. They come in a variety of sizes. They like to eat flies. Tell them we are going to learn about spiders.

On Monday, you will begin to

Consolidate:Number: ELG: to solve problems by doubling and halving.

RECAP MATHS WEEK

Number: ELG: to add single digit number together. Working up to 5 this week.

STEM—finding the total amount.

Monday—consolidate doubling/halvingTuesday—exploring addition. WatchNumberblocks:Episode 12: The Whole of MeGive children 5 bean bags to throw into a hoop. How many land inside, how many land outside. How could you record your answer5 = 3 + 2

Move onto giving them 5 counters. Explore how these can be split into two groups. Emphasise total remains the same. Show this on a whole-part circle.

The World ELG: Make predictions and observations and explain why some things occur.

Focus on exploring mini beasts, with a particular focus on spiders this week. Have a look at different species of spiders. There’s one below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP_u08JAxI

Learn some spider Facts:

Spiders are arachnids not insectsSpiders have 8 legs, insects have 6Spiders are found everywhere except AntarcticaMost spiders make silk to make webs to catch preyThe largest species of spider is a tarantula Goliath

Using Media and Materials 40-60M: Lots of activities to choose from;

Toilet roll spiders

Paper spider webs

Paper plate spider web

grow.

Discuss the lifecycle of a spider. Connect to ourselves and how we grow. Discuss the different stages of growing in our lives.

Cosmic Kids yoga and Go Noodle dancing

https://www.gonoodle.com/good-energy-at-home-kids-games-and-videos/

Fine Motor Skills—Lots of fine motor skills activities; cutting, threading, using pincers, tracing letters, peg boards, building construction, buttons, colouring, weaving, pencil control sheets, baking, dojo challenge, using chalks outside, paintbrushes in water, finger drawing in shaving gel, making puppets, writing key words, mixing ingredients, writing letters, threading wool, etc.

Dojo challenge—

Draw a picture of a spider on a web. Where does your spider live?

habitat, webs, strength, carnivores, arachnids, species, silk etc.

Understanding ELG: To follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

Listening & Attention ELG: To listen attentively in a range of situations for longer periods.

explore spiders by using this website, or a mini beast/arachnid information book.https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/spiders

You could label a spider and create a fact file about them in your child’s home learning book.

On Tuesday I would like for you to explore how a science experiment ‘How does a spider eat?’

Record your findings.

On Wednesday read the story Spinderella by Julia Donaldson. You can watch the story online herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjgp3YiaKJw

Create a story map of Spinderella with your child. Practise retelling the story over and over again.

Create pictures from key parts of the story and practise putting them in order from start to finish.

Friday—Create a story synopsis. Write down favourite parts from the story using phonetic spelling.

Sound talk words as you write them down. Remember to encourage phonetic spelling.

Lots of reading practise and tricky word practise.

Guided reading week 7 — Look at the picture ‘Bubble Planets and answer the questions attached to it. You

Wednesday—Continue to explore addition to 5 with active exploration.

Friday—

Bird Eater.Huntsman spider can have a 30-cm leg span

Technology ELG: Use computers to research our new topic.

https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/spider.html

Stick spider webs

Cupcake liner spiders

can find this picture on “Once upon a picture” website.