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Today Mrs Spicker is going to show you how to make a caterpillar using careful folds.

⭐Can you make a stretchy long caterpillar with thin strips of paper? Start with your strips of paper in an ‘L’ shape and fold in each strip one at a time.

Just because we can’t be at Whitwell, it doesn’t mean we can’t have hot chocolate! Watch as Miss Hunter makes “the best hot chocolate ever” and then have a go at making your own Whitwell hot chocolate.

It’s not Tuesday but that doesn’t mean that we an’t have some 10s frame fun.

⭐You’ll need a 10 frame (make or draw one), a pack of playing cards and counters/objects. Lay out your ten frame so that it is full with 10 counters. Choose a playing card and take away that many counters from your 10 frame. How many do you have left? Challenge: Can you write a subtraction sentence? 10-3=7

Miss Spicker is going to show you how to do one of your learning projects:

⭐ Arabella Miller has the caterpillar as her pet. Do people in different countries have the same pets? Can you find out what other animals people keep as pets in different places around the world?

Here are some of the literacy jobs for this week:

⭐Do you have a pet? Can you write instructions on how to look after it? If you don’t you could write about a pet that you’d like to have.

⭐Can you learn the song of Arabella Miller and perform it to your family? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoHg4pqkjJ4

This week our learning activities are all based around the story Arabella Miller’s Tiny Caterpillar. We can’t wait to see which three learning activities you chose to share on Tapestry.

Norfolk and Waveney are marking ‘Mental Health Awareness week’ by celebrating all things kind at their virtual ‘Festival of Kindness’. From the 18th- 24th of May their social media will be filled with events- music- talks- activities for families and well-being advice.

They would love to hear about kind things that have happened to you that we can all celebrate. It could be the smallest gesture that made a huge difference, something you have remembered for a long time or something that happened very recently.

Maybe you or your family could submit a poem, artwork or photo around the theme of kindness?
Maybe you want to send a shout out to someone who is particularly kind or someone that you want to make smile?

Send them a message via social media or email marketing@norfolkandwaveneymind.org.uk

Find out more information on their website, here.

This week our story is ‘A Squash and a Squeeze.’ Miss Wright needs to find a container that will hold more food for the old lady’s animals. Can you count with Miss Wright? Which container holds more?

Can you try this at home? You will need some different containers and food such as pasta or rice. See if you can write the number using our number rhymes- for example “down across then down some more, that’s the way we make a 4!”

Charlie Challenge- let’s estimate how many cups of food we will need to fill the container. This means that we need to look at the container and guess a number before we find out the answer! Was your estimation correct?

We’d love to see some of your pictures on Tapestry!

Today’s activity is one to help you get your hands nice and strong. You can use the play dough that you made on Monday, but don’t worry if you haven’t got any, there are other things you can use.