Writing

Write a thank you letter to Santa to say what you are grateful for and tell him all about your Christmas holidays. Remember to use capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and your phonics to sound out spellings. 

Reading and Phonics

Access phonics play (no subscription needed to access free games) and see if you can get the maximum score on the real and nonsense words activities. Can you use any of the real words in a sentence? 

PhonicsPlay - Phase 5 Resources

Reading: Retell your favourite story but change one of the characters. 

Maths

Practice your number fact fluency on hit the button.

Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

If you have cubes at home you could use these to help you. There are also many place value games you could play to help embed your knowledge of our current topic: Place Value to 20. 

Place Value and Odd and Even Numbers Maths Games

Geography

Our next topic is Bright Lights, Big City- all about our capital city, London! What can you find out about London? How is it different to Stoke on Trent? Use Google Earth to walk the streets of London and see what landmarks you can spot. 

Science

Our new topic is Seasonal Changes. How is the weather today different from what you'd expect the weather to be like in a few months. Come up with some questions about the weather and see if you can research to find the answers.