Lesson by Olivia Davies
Learning Intentions:
- To listen to and respond to a story.
- To write a simple sentence.
Step 1: Activity overview for parent, carers and pupils
There is an introductory video (approximately six minutes) to watch with your child. This video contains a story and introduces the sound of the week to support the learning. This lesson links to ‘Phoneme of the week ‘r’. There are a selection of short activities linked to the story ‘Ten Little Robots’ by Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty for you to choose from. Many of these can be repeated several times during the week to help to consolidate your child’s learning. Regular short bursts of learning are the most effective.
There are some support sheets that can be downloaded and printed if you have access to a printer. However, printing is not essential for completing many of the activities.
Step 2: Introduction to the activity and additional information
Listen to the video clip below about the phoneme ‘r’ and listen to the story ‘Ten Little Robots’ by Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty.
How many robots were in the story?
Did you notice what shapes the robots were made from?
Step 3: Tasks to carry out for this activity
All the activities below link to the story ‘Ten Little Robots’ by Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty.
You can choose as many as you like to complete this week. You may choose a different one for each day or choose a couple to repeat throughout the week.
Activity 1
Can you join in with the actions as you sing the robot action song to the tune of ‘The Wheels on the Bus’. See below.
Activity 2
If you could make a robot what special things would it be able to do?
- Draw a picture of a robot.
- What special power does your robot have?
- Write a sentence to describe your robot?
Activity 3
Can you make up some directions for your robot to follow?
- You could use the cards provided below to help you – or make up your own.
- Remember to include ‘start’ and ‘stop’ in your instructions.
- Can you give your robot instructions to move from one room to another in your house, or from one part of your garden to another. Alternatively, you could use JIT Turtle for this task.
Robot-coding-cards
Activity 4
The ‘Ten Little Robots’ are made up of different shapes.
- Can you design and make a robot using rectangles, squares, triangles and circles?
- How many of each shape did you use?
- Write a sentence to describe your robot.
Activity 5
Look at the paintings by the artist Eric Joyner.
Talk about the paintings with an adult:
- What colours and shapes can you see?
- How many robots are in each of the pictures?
- What else can you see in the pictures?
- Can you make a robot painting?
Once you have completed the task you can email anything you create (photos, documents, screenshots etc.) directly to your teacher or directly upload it to any of the available places in Step 5.
Step 4: Look over the success criteria for this activity:
Success criteria #1: I can talk about a story I have heard.
Success criteria #2: I can write a sentence.