MONDAY - LESSON ONE
Read the story or listen to the video of Mrs Burrough reading the story, But Martin. You may want to just listen to the story without stopping first of all then read it again and stop to talk about the book as you read. You can ask questions. When your child is answering the questions, try to encourage them to answer in full sentences rather than with one word answers.
- “How are the children feeling on their first day back?”
- “What do you think Martin is?”
- “How did their feelings change after they saw Martin?”
- “What are the children called?”
- “What do the children look like?”
- “What did the children do when they saw Martin?”
- “What activities did the children do in the playground?”
- “How did Martin help the children?”
- “What did the children paint at school?”
- “What did Martin paint?”
- “How did the children get home?”
- “How did Martin get home?”
After you have talked about the book, we are going to focus on the adjectives in the story to try to understand what they mean. See if you can find things around the house that are smooth, golden, round, brown, square, red, long, white, black, silky, bouncy, spiky & floaty. Once you have found the objects talk about them using the adjectives. For example, “We have found a smooth jam jar, a golden ring, a round marble, a brown shoe, a square coaster, a red ribbon, a long tape measure, white cotton wool, a black stapler, a silky scarf, a bouncy ball, a spiky cactus and a floaty ribbon.” Make sure your child knows what they all are and can describe them. Then choose a about eight items to play Kim’s game. If your child is good at recognising one item missing, try taking away two, three or four items.
I hope you have fun today.
TUESDAY - LESSON TWO
Reread the story or listen to the story again. Repeat some of the questions from yesterday’s lesson to see if they have a better understanding of the book.
- “How are the children feeling on their first day back?”
- “What do you think Martin is?”
- “How did their feelings change after they saw Martin?”
- “What are the children called?”
- “What do the children look like?”
- “What did the children do when they saw Martin?”
- “What activities did the children do in the playground?”
- “How did Martin help the children?”
- “What did the children paint at school?”
- “What did Martin paint?”
- “How did the children get home?”
- “How did Martin get home?”
Today we will be exploring verbs.
Turn to the page that says, ‘When they saw him Lee giggled, Lloyd shouted, Billy whistled and Angela gasped But Martin….. BLEEPED’
Ask your child if they can remember what each child did at this point. Act out the verbs giggled, shouted, whistled, gasped and bleeped. Emphasise that these verbs are sounds we make with our mouths.
Then on the following page, it says, ‘Then they began to play. Lee skipped, Lloyd jumped, Billy chased and Angela cartwheeled But Martin….FLOATED!’ Emphasise that these words are verbs that describe an action with our bodies.
Explore some verbs for example: skip, jump, hop, walk, sprint, giggle, shout, whistle, gasp, shout, moan, whisper, mumble, grumble, chuckle, groan, paint & catch. You may come up with lots of your own verbs. Talk about what each one means and try acting them out.
Play a game where you choose a verb card then act it out and the person who is watching has to guess which verb you are acting out. Use the verb picture cards that are attached.
WEDNESDAY – LESSON THREE
Reread the story or listen to the story again. Repeat some of the questions from yesterday’s lesson to see if they have a better understanding of the book.
- “How are the children feeling on their first day back?”
- “What do you think Martin is?”
- “How did their feelings change after they saw Martin?”
- “What are the children called?”
- “What do the children look like?”
- “What did the children do when they saw Martin?”
- “What activities did the children do in the playground?”
- “How did Martin help the children?”
- “What did the children paint at school?”
- “What did Martin paint?”
- “How did the children get home?”
- “How did Martin get home?”
Today we will be exploring verbs in the present tense.
What activities did the children in the story do at school? Think about the activities in the playground as well as the activities in the classroom.
What activities do you like doing at school or home?
Write some of them down in the present tense. For example, skipping, jumping, painting, colouring, building, playing.
Encourage your child to draw a picture of what they enjoy doing then write a sentence in the present tense. For example…
I like playing in the role play.
I like dressing up.
I like jumping in muddy puddles.
THURSDAY – LESSON FOUR
Reread the story or listen to the story again. By now your child may want to join in with the reading of the story.
Repeat some of the questions from yesterday’s lesson to see if they have a better understanding of the book.
- “How are the children feeling on their first day back?”
- “What do you think Martin is?”
- “How did their feelings change after they saw Martin?”
- “What are the children called?”
- “What do the children look like?”
- “What did the children do when they saw Martin?”
- “What activities did the children do in the playground?”
- “How did Martin help the children?”
- “What did the children paint at school?”
- “What did Martin paint?”
- “How did the children get home?”
- “How did Martin get home?”
Tell your child that they are going to choose to be one of the children in the story and will be writing home to a family member, either Mummy, Daddy, Granny, Grandad etc. to tell them what happened at school that day.
Choose the character in the book that they want to be then decide on three things that they would like to tell their family member.
Start their letter with Dear…..
Help your child to construct their sentences. Encourage to segment each word to hear the sounds within the words and if they need help with the spellings pleased help them. They can use the word mats if they would like to.
I look forward to reading your letters.
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