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Has your child got a favourite sportsperson? This could be their P.E. teacher! Ask them to write an information booklet about this person. They can research or use any facts they know. Try to use different sections like childhood, training and championships.

What we are looking for might be closer than we think.” What does this mean? What is the story trying to teach us?Needs of an animal. Can all animals be kept as a pet? Think about a particular animal and find out if that animal could be a pet. I have added more activities to Mathletics to support your maths learning this week. Please keep up the brilliant work on there. How do we know that Heather and her new friend are having a nice time when they first meet? Can you describe their expressions and body language? Carry out some role-play activities in which one person imagines that they are Heather. What questions would you like to ask her? How might she respond?

Work with togetherto identify a ‘caring’ way of talking to people compared to an 'uncaring'way. Discuss their reasoning. How does the persons reaction change if they are listening and responding caringly? How might this work at home? How can we talk caringly? Shape hunt: Take your child on a shape hunt around their house and garden. Look at the different shapes of the windows, doors, and houses. Can they name them? Are they 2D or 3D shapes? Ask them to create a picture of their house or street. The other is parts of a plant for science. We started to explore this when we were outdoor learning in the school grounds: How were these experiences different? Compare them and discuss it. What would you need if you were blind in a seeing world? The very next morning I woke to the clanging, metal sound of the washing machine turning over downstairs........Animal grouping: Group animals into two columns. Identify animals that can fly and cannot fly. What do animals eat? David Litchfield decided to draw a picture and post it online every day for one year. The following video was used to promote an exhibition that shared the pictures. Could you try to complete a drawing every day to improve your own skills? Step 3: Wait until the glue is dry- then wrap up your cardboard with foil. You can tape it if you like, but it stays pretty well on the cardboard if you fold it over

Create a fact file about your favourite animal. Research an animal of your choice and explore the vocabulary required to describe them. Create a timeline that shows the events from the story. Can you make a timeline of your own life so far? What local / national / international events have taken place during the time that you have been alive? Write a letter from Heather to the alien from the time when she is waiting to meet her friend again. Its bye bye to fractions for a bit (some of you will be pleased to know) and onto measure. yay! You can start of by using items from the house. Which things are longer and which things are shorter? How many tins of beans high are you? Your younger brother? How many high is Mum or Nan?Try it out with some objects to help you. Use even numbers only to start with (end in 0,2,4,6,8) You can use a bar model to help you. Use this link to find a video to explain todays learning when counting fractions. There are also challenges to go along with it that can be printed. Write a short review of the story to add to a shelf in a library or bookshop. Could you write a review for an online bookstore? If you don’t have access to books or magazines use the learners guides https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zyhp34j) Mrs Mills, Mrs Bailey, Mrs Cooke and Mrs Hudson are all working away to put the best learning opportunities for you on here. Each day we will add new activities for you to have a go at and new challenges for you to explore. We are an Abbeywood Family and I know you will be lifelong learning from home.

Design a machine that could help Heather communicate with her alien friend when they are separated. Hide and seek: Write a set of instructions on how to find something in your bedroom. Think about the positional language to help find the object. You could include a map. Labelling, making lists, descriptions, diary entry, giving advice, letters, welcome home banner Main Outcome: You will need a grid each, and two dice, and colouring pencils. Youngest player starts. On your turn, throw the 2 dice. Then colour in a rectangle using the numbers on the dice for the lengths of its sides. Fill your numbers in in the column on the right as a multiplication. You can colour your rectangle wherever you like on the grid as long as there is space. If you don’t have space, you miss a turn. Each lesson includes their resources. These lessons are made for a Year 3 class, however, they could be used for Year 2 or Year 4 too.The word ‘​around​’ contains the sound ‘​ou​’. Ask your child to list as many words as they can containing the‘​ou’​sound​. The word ‘sport’ contains the sound ‘or’. Ask your child to list as many words as they can containing the ‘or’ sound. Your child might identify words that contain an alternative spelling for ‘or’ such as oor/ore/aw/au. There is something nostalgic and poignant in David Litchfield’s storytelling. We don’t know why Heather is quite so desperate to be discovered by aliens and taken into space. Yet her vigil is shown to us in sequences as one long night, followed by other long nights, as she flashes her torchlight into the sky longing for an other worldly response. Draw pictures of different animals. Sort the animals into two groups; suitable for a pet and not suitable for a pet. Explain why animals were sorted in a particular way. Carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plant material including fruit, leaves, vegetables, omnivores eat a mixture of meat and plant material. (Animals that eat other animals are called carnivores. Animals that eat plants are called herbivores. Animals that eat both plants and other animals are called omnivores)