Step 4: Using your fingers, rub over your hidden drawing- and watch it magically appear! You will see that this elephant’s cardboard was corrugated, and the lines are coming through.

At 18 months old, Beryl the puppy has a mass of 60 kg. Her owners say this is 5 times the mass she was 15 months ago when they first got her.What we are looking for might be closer than we think.” What does this mean? What is the story trying to teach us? Select a number between 2 and 20. Make a poster showing how many different ways to make this number using addition, subtraction, multiplication etc. Carry out some role-play activities in which one person imagines that they are Heather. What questions would you like to ask her? How might she respond? I have set maths challenges using Mathletics today as I wanted you to have access to measuring lessons that wouldn't necessarily need a ruler. These activities will be ongoing and have been set for a week. I will still post more maths activities here for those of you who cannot access Mathletics but I do not expect you to do both. The word ‘​around​’ contains the sound ‘​ou​’. Ask your child to list as many words as they can containing the‘​ou’​sound​.

Work with togetherto identify a ‘caring’ way of talking to people compared to an 'uncaring'way. Discuss their reasoning. How does the persons reaction change if they are listening and responding caringly? How might this work at home? How can we talk caringly? Shape hunt: Take your child on a shape hunt around their house and garden. Look at the different shapes of the windows, doors, and houses. Can they name them? Are they 2D or 3D shapes? Ask them to create a picture of their house or street. Recognise vowel and consonant digraphs and blending by playing this game or add suffixes playing this game. Play ‘Catch’ with your child using a ball or anything else that can be thrown safely. Instead of counting in 1s each time the ball is caught, ask your child to only count every second, fifth or tenth catch. Use these Sorting Cards to help you: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-19730-animal-groups-sorting-cards-photos

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Try it out with some objects to help you. Use even numbers only to start with (end in 0,2,4,6,8) You can use a bar model to help you. Imagine they are going to be one of the characters from the story and an adult is going to be Judge Jenny. What would they say to Judge Jenny? How could they persuade her? You will need a grid each, and two dice, and colouring pencils. Youngest player starts. On your turn, throw the 2 dice. Then colour in a rectangle using the numbers on the dice for the lengths of its sides. Fill your numbers in in the column on the right as a multiplication. You can colour your rectangle wherever you like on the grid as long as there is space. If you don’t have space, you miss a turn. As with several of Litchfield’s texts, his digital, multi-layered artwork always brings a sense of wonder and amazement. Throughout the book, the reader experiences similar emotions to Heather as the narrative unfolds upon our very eyes, in synchronicity. Could you planthe sequel to 'Do Not Wash This Bear' based on the end of the book from Monday's bedtime story?