Download Home learning for Commotion in the Ocean

Ideas for Home Learning:
Week ending 30th June and 7st July 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. Thank you.
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This week, our focus text is called, ‘Commotion in the Ocean’.
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You can watch and listen to this story on the
internet; just type the title into the search bar.
The text is a collection of poems about different
underwater creatures.
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Create your own ocean scene in a box. For inspiration, search
for images of ‘ocean diorama’ on Google!
Instructions:
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Find a box at least as big as a shoe box. This will be the stage
containing your ocean scene.
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Decorate the inside of the box to look like it's an underwater
scene. For example:
1. Paint or collage the inside of the box to resemble the water. A little glitter makes a wonderful
addition, to make the sea sparkle!
2. For the ocean floor, you could sprinkle sand over some glue; think about how you could
represent other features such as rocks, seaweed, coral and shells. Maybe your underwater
scene will have a shipwreck or a treasure chest too!
3. Think about the ocean creatures you would like to include in your scene; you could find out
about these in books or on the internet. Draw or print out pictures of your chosen ocean
creatures; use thin card or thick paper, so that they don’t bend too much. Cut carefully
around the creatures.
4. Hang the underwater creatures in the box using tape and thread.
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Once you’ve made your ocean scene, you could introduce a main character (e.g. a mermaid or a
deep sea diver) and use your imagination to create your own story.
In the text and amongst the commotion in the ocean, there is a treasure chest.
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Practise your reading and writing skills by playing ‘treasure
hunt’, with family or friends. If you are going to look for the
treasure, then someone will need to write and hide clues, for
you to find and read; if someone else is going to hunt for the
treasure, then you will need to write and hide the clues, for
them to find and read.
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To start a treasure hunt, the first clue is given to the person
looking for the treasure. It will lead to the second clue and so
on. (If help is needed, use the “hot and cold” method, to help
them find the next clue.) The last clue will lead to the
treasure…but what will the treasure be?!
Real or Nonsense Words
Using the link below, you can practise sorting the real or nonsense words on the Phonics Play game –
choose Phase 2 or Phase 3 and the letters, digraph or trigraphs that you want to practise.
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html
You could also use the Fishy Count game below to practise counting 1 to 10.
http://www.primarygames.com/math/fishycount/
Or practise your counting up and back on the number line below!
And just for fun…
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Play ‘FLAPPING FISH’ with members of your family or friends.
1. Cut fish shapes out of paper.
2. Each player has a fish and a newspaper (or something to flap).
3. On the word ‘go’, each person has to move their fish across the floor by flapping the
newspaper behind it. They must not touch the fish with their hands or feet. Who will be first,
second, third, etc., to reach the finish line?
Do you go swimming? Do you have swimming lessons?
Who else in your family swims? Can you make a list.
How well can you all swim?
What special equipment do you need? Could you record this by
drawing pictures of what you need.