Our week: Ready for Class 1, week 14
Dates: to · Try one activity on a day that suits you. Repeat or pause any part.
Reading & talking
Do: Read it in a phrase. Write my happy cat and a sunny day. Read together, helping with any unfamiliar part. Find my, happy and sunny again and point to final y in each. Let your child draw one phrase. Compare the final sounds without changing your family's pronunciation.
You need: Paper and a pencil
Talk: Do my and fly have matching endings?
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Game (optional): Sight Words
Writing & pencil control
Do: Write for a reader. Help your child say a short instruction for each picture. Write together, beginning with an action word such as find, fold or put. Number the steps. Keep the pictures beside the writing so someone else can use both.
You need: The pictures, paper and a pencil
Talk: Which word tells them the action?
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Game (optional): Story Steps
wasilearn.com/learn/class-1-ready/writing-simple-instructions
Numbers & shapes
Do: Count all, then count on. Make groups of five and three and count all eight squares. Put the groups back. This time say five for the first group, then touch the next squares while saying six, seven, eight. Ask what stayed the same and what changed about your method.
You need: Eight large paper squares
Talk: How did you work it out the first time?
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Game (optional): Add & Take Away
Science & our world
Do: Ball bounce test. Drop each ball from the same height. Which bounces highest? Measure and record. Why is it a fair test?
You need: Different balls, a tape measure or a wall to mark
Talk: Why did that ball bounce higher?
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Game (optional): Gravity Drop
Thinking & feelings
Do: An accidental bump. Draw Ali accidentally knocking over Sara's paper-cup tower. Ask how each might feel. Model "I bumped the tower. Are you all right?" Let your child suggest what could help Sara, rather than deciding that both people must feel the same.
You need: Paper and crayons
Talk: How might each person feel about the tower?
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Game (optional): Feelings Friends
Moving & making
Do: Make a sound palette. A sound palette is the set of sounds you choose from. Rub the cloth, flex the paper and tap the cup gently with the spoon. Pick contrasting sounds for your two places. Can your partner say what changed: the material, the action or both?
You need: A cloth, stiff paper, a large spoon and an unbreakable cup
Talk: Which sounds contrast, and why?
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Game (optional): Helper Heroes
wasilearn.com/learn/class-1-ready/our-neighbourhood-sound-team
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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