Additional activities
Here are some activities linked to our Elmer story:
Colour Scavenger Hunt
Look around your house for objects that are different colours of the rainbow.
Can you write a list of things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, indigo, violet…
Creating pictures using Purple Mash
There are some lovely art programs on Purple Mash. You could try the colour spinner or the wet paint program. https://www.purplemash.com/#tab/mm_art/mm_2paintapic
Create your own Elmer the Elephant
You will need a milk carton, some tissue paper or paper and glue. Ask an adult to cut the milk carton just below the handle. Then you can have fun sticking on all of Elmer's colours using coloured tissue paper or paper.
Number bonds poster
Can you make a number bonds rainbow poster by finding all of the pairs of numbers that add up to 10?
Colour spinner
Create your own colour spinner- make sure that you ask an adult to help you to make the hole in the spinner and attach the pencil.
Grow your own rainbow
Try this experiment. You will need kitchen roll paper, felt tip pens, 2 bowls of water, thread and a paperclip.
Phonics
Be a detective and see if you can spot our sounds for the week in these stories. Can you write down some of the words that you find? There is a story for each sound.
Here's a fun phonics game. Can you find the word to match the picture?
Here are some maths games:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/addition-to-10
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue