Our week: Ready for Class 1, week 10
Dates: to · Try one activity on a day that suits you. Repeat or pause any part.
Reading & talking
Do: Read before sorting. Write hear, near, hair and fair. Help your child read each card before sorting by ear or air. Say each pair naturally. Ask which words rhyme within each pair. Let your child choose a word and explain its meaning through speech or drawing.
You need: Four large paper word cards
Talk: Which word rhymes with hair: fair or near?
We noticed:
Game (optional): Rhyme Time
Writing & pencil control
Do: Notice the tricky part. Write the and said. Read them aloud. In said, notice the familiar s and d and point out that ai represents the sound heard in bed. Mark the part to remember in a different colour. Choose just one word if that is enough.
You need: Paper and two coloured crayons
Talk: Which part of this word do you already know?
We noticed:
Game (optional): Sight Words
Numbers & shapes
Do: Bundle sums. Show 23 and 14 with bundles. Put the tens together and the ones together. How many altogether?
You need: Straw bundles from the tens and ones unit
Talk: Should we add or take away? How do you know?
We noticed:
Game (optional): Add & Take Away
wasilearn.com/learn/class-1-ready/add-and-subtract-to-one-hundred
Science & our world
Do: Texture hunt. Find something rough, smooth, soft, hard, bendy and stiff. What is each one made of?
You need: The house
Talk: Can you find something bendy and something stiff?
We noticed:
Game (optional): Sort It Out
Thinking & feelings
Do: Choose your reminder. Together plan a pretend picnic with a mat, mango and water. Your child chooses a spoken link or quick drawing to remember them. Later, recall the three things together and check. Ask what helped and what they would choose next time.
You need: Paper and crayons
Talk: Would you use the same idea next time?
We noticed:
Game (optional): Memory Match
Moving & making
Do: Plan who makes each part. Choose a shared picture, such as a garden gate. Decide which parts could use rings from the cup rim and broad rectangles from the folded cloth. Sketch a plan and agree one part for each person. Explain how the shapes will fit together.
You need: Paper, a large unbreakable cup, a whole folded cloth and crayons
Talk: Which shapes could make this part of our picture?
We noticed:
Game (optional): Shape Builder
wasilearn.com/learn/class-1-ready/print-a-cooperative-picture
A possible rhythm: one or two strands a day, on the days that suit you. Swap days freely. Games are optional and never replace the home activity.
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