Week Commencing 11.01.20: Home Learning
| Monday
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Book of the week- Watch the story Lost and Found or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- How is the boy feeling when the penguin first arrives at his door? Why does the penguin follow the boy? What does he want? The penguin was lonely… What does it mean to be lonely? How can we help others when they are feeling lonely? What can we do when we feel lonely ourselves? |
| Phonics- j
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘j’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘j’? Activity 2: Take turns with an adult to play ‘Roll and Read’ (j focus) click here to either print the word mat, or view it on screen. You will need a die or to draw 1-6 dots on 6 pieces of paper and draw at random from a bag. 1. Roll the dice
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Alive in 5!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1 Activity: Click here for today’s activity. Encourage your child to speak in full sentences when describing the number composition, for example: “There are three frogs in the pond and there are two frogs on the grass. There are 5 frogs altogether” or “There are 4 toys on the bed and there is one toy on the floor. There are 5 toys altogether” |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- v
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘v’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘v’? Activity 2: Here is the link to ‘fishy phonics’ on the Phonics Bloom website- click here Select phase 2, set 5. Try the hard level initially, change to easy if this is a bit tricky. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- w
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘w’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘w’? Activity 2: Write ‘yes’ and ‘no on two separate pieces of paper and put them at either side of the room. Ask your child to read these questions (click here) one at a time and then run to either the yes or the no answer. Encourage your child to point to each word on the screen as they read the question. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, draw 5 of anything you like on a piece of paper and cut them out. This will work just as well for the activity! |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words he/she
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a Tricky Word Detective! Can you find any tricky words in the books you have at home? Activity 2: Write a sentence using one of the new tricky words. Steps to writing a successful sentence… 1.Think of a sentence. 2. Say the sentence out loud. 3. Count the words in your sentence. 4. Use your phoneme fingers to segment every word. 5. Check your sentence makes sense. 6. Have you remembered a capital letter at the start, finger spaces throughout and a full stop at the end? Activity 3: Rainbow writing tricky words- use a variety of colours to practice spelling all of the phase 2 tricky words. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Exploring Ice-
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. -Can you carry out the ice experiments in the video from Professor Myers? Remember to make some predictions about what you think will happen first. -Can you draw and label a picture to show what you did? |
| Story time- Oi Frog! With Miss Booth
Click here to watch today’s story. Questions to discuss- What do you notice about the sounds in the story? (It is a rhyming story) Can you come up with a different animal and rhyming object for them to sit on (that has not been included in the story)? |
Story link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
- Make a story map of the key events in the story Lost and Found. We practice creating these lots in class.
- Sometimes, when people lose a pet, they put up posters to help find them again. Can you make a ‘lost’ poster for the Penguin in Lost and Found. Don’t forget to add lots of details describing the penguin, so that the reader knows what to look out for. What does the penguin look like? What colour is it? How big is it?
- The story doesn’t have any speech in it. Ask your grown up to draw out a speech bubble and pretend you are the boy from the story (perhaps you could draw him next to the speech bubble) Have a go at writing what you think he might have said when he first met the penguin.
A writing reminder
How did your child find the writing activity? Remember its okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important that your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling them correctly. We encourage the children to use their own skills, rather than copying an adult.
Understanding the World
Spend some time watching the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo:
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/penguin-cam/
What do you notice about them?
How do they move? (perhaps you can walk like a penguin too!)
Do they like to be alone or in groups?
Do they live on land, in the water, or both?
These penguins are in a zoo. Where can we find penguins in the wild? Ask an adult to help you find this information in a book or by using the internet.
Expressive Arts and Design
- Build a boat for your toys! You could use any construction toys you have at home (such as lego, duplo) natural or found objects outside, or recycled food packaging. Perhaps you could tell a story about an adventure your toys go on in their brand new boat!
- Make a ‘Paper Roll Penguin’ You could follow this guide or, if you do not have coloured paper, create your own version using plain paper, the paper roll and colouring pens or pencils!
Physical Development
Get Moving! Join in with this Jack Hartman Penguin Dance: video
Did you know… ‘PE with Joe’ is back? Joe Wicks is hosting his live PE sessions again from Monday 11th January 2021, 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9am) You can subscribe to his channel here for alerts. A great way to keep fit at home!
Remote learning 11.01 – Zog and the Flying Doctors
This week, our learning is going to be themed around the popular children’s books ‘Zog’ and ‘Zog and the Flying Doctors’. We’re sure that lots of you will have enjoyed watching the new animation over the holidays.
If you are unfamiliar with the story, you can listen to it here and if you would like some quiet time, why not snuggle up on the sofa and enjoy watching it on BBC iPlayer.
Reading
- What was your favourite part of the story?
- Can you remember the characters that the Flying Doctors helped in the story?
- What do you think princesses should be like?
- If you’d like a challenge, try completing this quiz
Phonics
As part of our Phase One phonics learning, we practise making different noises with our own voices.
– Can you roar like a lion?
– If you don’t want to wake the sleeping King, what could you say? ( Shhhhh)
– What noise does Zog make when he lands? (Bang, crash, thump!)
– What noise do you think Princess Pearl says when she sees a silly, frilly dress? (Eugh!)
Can you think of any other sound effects that you could make from the story?
Mark-Making
Do you have some wrapping paper left over or some old wall paper? Turn it over and roll it out on the floor. Hold it down at the corners using some tins/books/tape. Can you draw a giant map for Zog to show him where to go? What will be on your map? You could draw some trees for a forest or a tall mountain. What about a castle or a river?
Remember, in Nursery, the process of mark making is the most important part. The end product may not ‘look’ exactly like you think it should, but the marks that your child has made will mean a lot to them. If you have time, try to draw a little bit with your child before leaving them to continue alone. As you draw, talk about your marks and what they show (keep them simple). It’s great if they can talk to you about what they are drawing as they make each mark.
- Here’s a Zog colouring sheet if you have a printer at home. We try to talk about choosing the correct colour for things at Nursery.
- You might also like to try and follow the lines very carefully with your pen to help Zog win a golden star .
Mathematics
Watch this song about 2d shapes and talk about the names of the basic 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle and rectangle). Then, look at these pictures of castles and see what shapes you can spot. How you know it’s a triangle? How many sides does that shape have? Can you see a shape with a curved side?
Pictures taken from Twinkl Google images.
Extension ideas
– Cut up a selection of different sized shapes and ask your child to create their own castle or maybe even a dragon picture. There are lots of ideas online. What shape would be good to use to make a doorway or window?
– Have a look on Google images at castles to see what other shapes you can spot.
Creative
- We love to create buildings using Duplo in Nursery. If you have Lego or Duplo at home, can you build a castle?
- Sir Gadabout has a shield and a sword in ‘Zog’. We know that some of you love to play ‘knights’ so maybe you’d like to have a go at making your own shields using any recycling items that you have such as cardboard delivery or cereal boxes etc.
- Role play being a doctor/nurse and help to make some of your toys better. Use your imaginations to think about what could be wrong; in the story, the mermaid has sunburn and the lion gets a sore throat. You could make a bandage (toilet roll) or use some old plasters that are hiding at the back of a cupboard somewhere.
- Before lunch, we often choose to listen to this song about a dragon on the doorstep.
Physical Development
Fiddly Fingers
Draw or print a dragon outline. Get some clothes pegs and show your child how to squeeze them to open them. Use the pegs to add spikes onto the dragon’s back (like in the dinosaur photo below). You could challenge them to add 2 blue spikes or 3 yellow ones.
Movement
Get moving and join in with this Happy Dragon dance!
Independence skills
In the story, the Lion has a sore throat and cold and needs to blow his nose a lot! Can you blow your own nose? Next time you need to blow your nose, get a tissue and look in the mirror. Hold the tissue to your nose, pinch your fingers gently around the tissue and blow. Remember to pinch and pull as you move the tissue away from your nose. Look in the mirror to check that your nose is clean and do it again if you need to. What’s the last thing that you need to do? Throw your tissue in the bin or flush it away and then wash your hands well.
Key Worker activities
Watch these videos (click on the two links below) and join in our Key Worker activity at home. Listen carefully to the clues and animal noises. Which animal is it?
If you enjoyed playing, have a go at the game at home. We’d love you to make up your own clue and send a video for us to guess which animal you have!
We often play games that help to develop our visual and memory skills. Look carefully at the animals and see if you can work out which is missing! You can easily play this game at home- just choose 5-6 items and find a tea towel or towel to hide them.
Friday Story Time
This week’s story time is a book called ‘Do not bring your dragon to the library’ and is read by Miss Whitaker. We hope you enjoy listening at home; click on the video link below.
‘Do Not Bring Your Dragon To The Library‘ written by Julie Grassman.
Have a great week of home learning. Please make sure you e-mail us each week to let us know how you all are and which activities you’ve enjoyed.
Home Learning
An update on our Home Learning…
This is what you can expect to see on your child’s class news page each week during lockdown.
The learning for week beginning 11.01.21 will be posted on Sunday 10.01.21. All subsequent weeks will be posted on a Friday evening.
As teachers are also teaching our key worker children in school, these videos may not be from your child’s teacher. However, every Friday the children will be able to enjoy a story read by an adult from their class.
Each week a menu of activities will be presented that can be completed during the week. This menu will relate to the book of the week. The activities will cover all aspects of the Early Years curriculum. There will also be the following screencasts and videos.
| Monday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Tuesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Wednesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Thursday | A tricky word screencast with follow up activities
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Friday | An Understanding the World video with “ Professor Myers” with follow up activities
A story read by one of the Foundation 2 (Reception) team, with talk time activities. |
As always, your child’s teachers will be available via email for any questions. We will also endeavor contact you by phone once per week, just to check in with you.
A message from Mrs Beesley and Mrs Long
Well done for making it through the first week of lockdown (again)! When we heard the news late on Monday evening, we quickly adapted our Nursery plans to include some learning activities that you could enjoy at home. We hope that you enjoyed listening to ‘The Gingerbread Man’ story and that you found some time to join in a few of the activities.
Here’s a short video message from Mrs Beesley and Mrs Long.
Our theme for next week is all about a little orange dragon… Can you guess which book we’re going to listen to? We’ll post all of the activities and videos for next week on Sunday. Please choose as many of the activities as you would like to do. We know that most families are trying to juggle both work and learning at home, often with two or more children in different year groups. This is very hard and it’s impossible to replicate ‘Nursery’ at home. Try to just have fun together when you can and remember that we learn through play in Nursery. We also try to follow children’s interests so if they’re interested in something else, don’t worry about adapting our activities to suit your child.
From next week, we will post all of our learning activities for the following week on Friday afternoon. Hopefully, this will give you a chance to read through them and gather any bits that you might need.
Please try to email us each week to let us know how you are. It doesn’t have to be a long email, just a quick hello and maybe 1 or 2 photos of what you’ve enjoyed. We’ll post some of these photos at the end of the week so that your child can enjoy seeing their friends learning at home too.
Scholesf1@spherefederation.org
If you have any feedback on things that you enjoyed or anything that you found difficult, please do let us know.
Have a good weekend at home and enjoy getting some fresh air on one of your favourite lockdown walks.
08 January 2021: Home Learning
| Friday 08.01.21- Home Learning |
| Phonics- Word Box
Re-read the words you have covered so far. Have a go at writing 5 words from the word boxes (read aloud by an adult) |
| Science
Today Professor Myers is showing us an experiment on why hand washing is so important! -To watch professor Myers’ video click here -Have a listen to this fun handwashing song, which reminds us how to ensure we wash our hands properly. -Make a poster to show people how to wash their hands. -Have you had a go at the experiment at home? Don’t forget to send us your photos! |
| Physical Activity
Pretend to play ‘snowball fight’ 1.Roll up a pair of socks in your hands, use your ‘funky fingers’ to squeeze and pat your ‘snowball’ 2.Play catch and pass with another person in your house, using your ‘snowball’ 3. Find a bucket, box or another target. See if you can throw your ‘snowball’ into the target!
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| Craft activity
Ice painting (One to prepare the night before!) Use an ice cube tray and mix a little paint or food colouring in water, add a lolly stick or natural stick from outside and freeze overnight. You will have your very own ice paintbrush J Use your brush to paint a picture- you might want to take this activity outside! Discuss what happens to your ice brush as the ice gets warm.
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07 January 2021: Home Learning
| Thursday 07.01.21- Home Learning |
| Phonics
Complete today’s phonics video with Mrs Allen-Kelly: You will need a pen and paper ready, or something to write with. |
| Maths
Recapping up to number 5 Please follow this link and join in with Session 2 today. |
| Literacy
(Technology link) Yesterday, we heard the story Little Penguin Learns to Swim. For today’s literacy activity, we would like you to find out a little more about your favourite polar animal from the story. Use a non-fiction book or the internet to learn a fact about your animal. Draw and label a picture of the animal you have chosen.
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| Nature Activity
Signs of Winter- talk time: How do we know that it is cold outside/ what can we see? What have you noticed on the ground this week? What clothes do we wear in Winter and why? Perhaps you could find a suitable ‘Winter outfit’ in your cupboard. What do you like to do outside in Winter? Don’t forget to send us pictures of you enjoying the snow or a Winter walk outside. |
Happy New Year 1,2V
Hope you are all doing ok. Here is a video message from me.
Home Learning Update
Here is a video message about some changes to home learning. The email addresses for your teachers are below.
sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org
marklindsay@spherefederation.org
benfreeman@spherefederation.org
06 January 2021: Home Learning
| Wednesday 06.01.21- Home Learning |
| Phonics
Revisit phase 2 sounds: Revisit phase 2 tricky words:
Read the caption:
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| Maths
Recapping up to number 5 Please follow this link and join in with Session 1 today. |
| Literacy
Watch the video of Mrs Allen-Kelly reading Little Penguin Learns to Swim. Have a chat about the following questions: -Which polar animals did little penguin come across in the story? -How was little penguin feeling about getting into the water at the start? -What did little penguin notice about his friends and learning new things? -Can you think of a time when you had to be brave when learning something new? |
| Physical Activity
Take part in the ‘Winter Wonderland’ cosmic yoga video. Great for our bodies and minds! |
Messages from your teachers…
Hello Reception!
We hope you are all well and ready for a new term of learning, whether you are at home or at school.
Here are some special messages from your teachers…
Here is an example table of what might be posted in a typical week of home-learning for Reception:
Whilst some activities are subject to change, there will always be a phonics, maths and literacy activity Monday-Thursday and a science and story-time activity each Friday.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns:
scholesf2@spherefederation.org