Week 11 - Learning challenges

Hello Tigers and Monkeys! 

We hope you are staying well and have enjoyed the glorious sunshine we have been having! We hope you enjoyed last week's challenge and had lots of fun looking back at your baby photos! 
Scroll down to see this week's learning challenges!

Phonics 

This weeks phonics learning - We are continuing with the fantastic phonics sessions provided on YouTube. Please see the link below:

Don't forget about our friend 'Geraldine Giraffe' . If you type into YouTube search 'Geraldine Giraffe (+ the sound you have been learning) a short 3 min video will appear all about this sound.

 

Also our letter rhymes to help support your letter formation:

 

Maths 

This week we are going to be exploring capacity!

What do you think capacity means Tigers and Monkeys? Can you tell your grown up's what you think this might mean? 

This week there will be some key vocabulary you will be using whilst exploring capacity! 

full        half full        empty        nearly full         nearly empty     

 Monday

Today you will need 3 containers and some water! Using the containers and the water can you make the containers full, half full and empty? Can you tell your grown up's which one is full, empty and half full? Once you are confident in representing full, half full and empty can you represent nearly full and nearly empty?

Tuesday 

Using the containers from yesterday can you represent full, empty, half full, nearly empty and nearly full. If this is a little tricky you could focus on full, half full and empty until you are confident with this. Using your phonic knowledge can you label the containers? Once the labels have been made can you order the containers from empty to full? This could be a little tricky so remember to look carefully and see which has the least amount of water and which has the most. 

Wednesday 

Today you will need lots of different sized bottles! You could use empty shampoo bottles, water bottles or a milk carton! You could even add food colouring to your water if you have any at home! Now you are confident in representing and understanding full, empty, half full etc we are now going to begin to estimate which bottle we think will hold the most cups of water! Discuss with your grown up's how many cups of water each bottle will hold. You could record your estimations in your learning book. Once you have estimated use a cup or a jug to fill the bottles, counting as you do so. Were your predictions correct? Which held the most? Which held the least? (Please keep your containers as you will need these tomorrow too!)

Thursday 

After yesterday's estimating we are going to order our containers to show which container holds the most and which container holds the least amount of water! You will need at least 3 containers to complete this challenge! You can have more if you wish for a trickier challenge. If you used a large jug yesterday can you use a small cup today to fill the containers? Do you think you will need more or less cups? Can you explain why you think this? Once the containers are full and you have carefully counted each cup. place these in order starting with the container which holds the most of amount of cups and finishing with the container which holds the least amount of cups!
Do you notice anything different to yesterday? Don't forget to take a picture of your super learning and sent it to us! 

Fun Friday!

As we have been having lots of fun using water this week we thought our Fun Friday challenge could be water related too! We saw this great idea online and thought our Tigers and Monkeys would love to have a try at making their own water xylophone!! See the picture below on how to make it!