These are other ideas for home learning.
| Theme/Topic Learning | English | Maths | Life Skills |
| Watch the Gruffalo on Youtube or other download | Think of a new character for the Gruffalo and draw and label it. | Do Spot the difference and dot to dot on the Gruffalo website – if you can’t print then make your own | Use scissors to cut out shapes to make a Gruffalo |
| Learn the Gruffalo song in Makaton – see previous Blog post | Practice retelling the story and draw your favourite part explaining why | Make/draw the characters from the story and talk about the different sizes | Practice making a sandwich, spreading the butter |
| Make an Easter Card | Write your own Gruffalo crumble recipe | Use everyday objects from home to build a Gruffalo and talk about the shapes used and their properties – cube, cuboid, sphere, cone, cylinder, edge, vertices, face | Talk about what food is healthy and what we should eat as a treat. Cut pictures from a leaflet and make a representation of your ideas. |
| Log onto The Gruffalo website and play the games | Make your own Gruffalo book – be the author and the illustrator | Make up problems for the Gruffalo
Eg If he ate double 3 mice, how many would he have? |
Practice fastening shoe laces, buckles, buttons. |
| Research the animals in the Gruffalo and write facts for them including where we would find them in the world | Find the rhyming words in the story | Make a small Gruffalo or use a teddy. Play hunt the Gruffalo and use positional language. | Make a family tree of your family |
| Make a den in your house and pretend to be the Gruffalo. How did you make the den? What did you use? Could you improve it? | Design a wanted poster for the Big Bad Mouse | Compare food at home for comparing heavier and lighter | The Gruffalo’s child was brave when he went to meet the Big Bad Mouse. How else did he feel? How would you feel? Draw your feelings. |
| The animals in the story are all different. How are you the same/different to your friends? | Draw a map and label characters | Tally chart
Count creatures including birds in the garden. |
Help to wash and dry pots. |
| Make a finger puppet and use to retell the story. You could use a toilet roll. | Make a sentence using tricky words. | Make a number track game and use to count on and back. | Talk about being safe when out and about. What dangers would there be and how would you keep safe. |