Year R – Monday’s Home Learning

Listen to the story of Elmer’s Weather on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DuvooLLGJms

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Talk with your child about all the different weather that Elmer experiences in the story and all the things he does in that weather. 

Encourage your child to draw a picture about their favourite weather and write a sentence about what they like to do.  E.g. I like to go to the beach when it is sunny.

Remember to encourage your child to use the sounds they know to write. This may mean each word is not spelt completely correctly e.g. beech, sunnee.

Draw a cloud with some large raindrops falling underneath. In the raindrops write the numbers (0-20) that your child finds the most difficult to recognise in each raindrop.

On smaller pieces of paper draw a group of objects (e.g raindrops/suns) to match the quantity on each of the drops on your cloud page. e.g .

 Turn all the smaller pieces of paper face down on the floor/table. Ask your child to pick one, turn it over and count the objects. If they count accurately they can place a counter on the corresponding numbered raindrop.

Design a Weather wheel

Talk with your child about the different types of weather they know. Using a paper plate or a large circle of card, create a weather wheel like the one in the picture.

Each day ask your child to change the weather wheel arrow to match the weather they can see outside. (alternatively you can use a peg rather than a spinning arrow to mark the weather by clipping it to the side of the wheel)