Class News

Rainbow Class Presents…

Festive Fun with Rainbow Class!

Please click here to be taken to our special Christmas video. We hope you enjoy it 🌈

Please note, where possible the singing performances have been recorded outside or in a larger space. When recording in the classroom, the room is well ventilated with open windows/ door. Children are encouraged to face forwards during the performance.

We wish you a Merry Christmas…

We couldn’t let COVID-19 ruin all of our Christmas fun; we’ve tried to ensure that children have taken part in as many of our usual Nursery Christmas activities as possible. The main difference, sadly, is that you haven’t been able to join us for them.  Instead, we’ve put together a few short video clips to ensure that you don’t miss out on some essential Early Years Christmas singing!  We hope that you enjoy singing along at home and would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy (and hopefully a more ‘normal’) New Year.

We’ll  look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 05 January. Remember, we have a Training Day on Monday 04 January.  

Christmas Sing-a-Long

Isolating at home? This learning is for you.

Here is some home learning for when you can’t be with us at school.

Remember to send pictures of your child’s home learning to scholesf2@spherefederation.org.

Maths

For this week’s maths learning, we are continuing to learn about the number 5. Spread the activities across the week, at your own pace. For video sessions, your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.

Sessions 1-3 – White Rose Maths Alive in 5 Week 2 

We are continuing to embed our knowledge of five.  Do you know what a 5pence (5p) looks like? What colour and shape is it? Do you recognise a 2p and a 1p coin?  How many 1p or 2p combinations to make 5p can you make?

Can you go on a ‘five hunt’ around your home? What do you find five of? Take photos to record.

We will also be looking at repeating patterns and shapes. Can you spot a pattern, describe a pattern and repeat a pattern? Could you use some toys or objects to create repeating patterns?

Phonics

This week we will be continuing to recap our phase 2 sounds.

Watch and join in the Jolly Phonics songs.

(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)

Lesson 1– Blending

Read each word by saying the sounds then blending together.

pat, doll, fuss, gap, sock, kick, sack

Lesson 2– Recap Phase 1- listening for blends.

Play ‘eye spy’ together, by sounding out things you can see in the environment. For example:

“eye spy with my little eye, something that sounds like d-o-ll” and the child would say “doll”

You can swap roles so your child has a go with both sounding out and blending words.

Lesson 3: These are our tricky words we have learnt so far. They are tricky because we can’t use our phonics to help us read them.

Can you read each word?

Take turns to put the word/s into a sentence. For example ‘I didn’t steal the cookies from the cookie jar.’

Literacy

This week, we are looking at Christmas around the world.

Lesson 1– Think about Christmas in Australia. What season is it there? What season is it here? Can you dress up in an outfit you might wear for Christmas Day in Australia (sunhat, glassses, shorts etc). Take a photograph and send it in.

Lesson 2– Can you find out what Christmas is like in China? Make a paper lantern.

Lesson 3– Can you find out what Christmas is like in Mexico and India? What Christmas plant do they have in common? If you have one at home, why not complete an observational drawing of it.

Topic

Choose some of these activities to complete throughout the week. These are based on our topic – Christmas.  They may spark other interests and ideas that result in other learning opportunities. Let your child lead the learning!

3,4O: Christmas Song

As you’ll all be aware, Christmas looks a little different for everyone this year. This is the same at Scholes, too. We’re still celebrating Christmas, very much so, but we’re doing so with a few differences.

Because we can’t invite you in to school to celebrate with us, we thought we’d quickly put something together to make you smile and feel all Christmassy.

Have a watch of us singing a class Christmas song – you could even sing-a-long!

We hope you enjoy it!

Merry Christmas from Years 1 and 2

We were not able to do our usual Christmas performance this year… but we hope you like this instead!

Reading: performance poetry

This week, our reading learning has been focussed on poetry. We’ve read two poems, answered some comprehension questions, idenitifed key features and read them aloud. We really enjoyed reading aloud ‘The Dragon Who Ate Our School’ by Nick Toczek.

Help at home by…

Asking your child how they made the poem interesting when reading it out loud.

Asking your child to read it aloud to you.

Asking your child to identify some of the key features in the poem.

3,4O: Certificates

Our penultimate week of 2020 was another super successful one in 3,4O. We’ve been writers, scientists, historians, performers and sports stars this week and, as always, our attitude has been superb – trying hard, being kind, being active learners and having a little fun along the way, too!

Here are this week’s certificate winners:

For great learning…

Jimmy – you’ve smashed your tests this week because you consistently try your best. Well done, Jimmy!

For living and learning…

Jayden – you are a great friend to many people because you are kind, considerate and thoughtful.

For Times Table Rockstars…

Jessica – you have improved your average daily time spent on TTR this week – well done, Jess!

Certificates 3/4 NV

Well done to the certificate winners of the week:

For great learning…

Tommy – for sharing interesting facts about the ancient Greeks.

For sport and physical activity…

Aurora and Darcey – lovely team work in WUSU.

For living and learning…

Thomas – good concentration skills.

Well done!

Festive fun!

We’ve had a fun and festive week in Nursery. Children have been busily making cards and decorations – look out for these coming home in the final week. (The contents of the bags have been quarantined and haven’t been touched for 72+ hours, but as always, please follow good hand hygiene procedures.) 

Here are a few of the activities that we have enjoyed this week.

• Making and decorating salt dough decorations and Christmas cards.

• Counting out the correct number of presents using the Interactive Whiteboard.

• Working with friends to decorate the trees outside.

• Making Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in the playdough area and learning to use a rolling pin to roll the dough out flat. In our Dough Disco activities, we’re also learning how to roll a ball using the palms of our hands.

• Writing toy lists and letters for Father Christmas.

• Playing outside and sheltering from the rain in our den.

Look out for our final post of this year on Monday…we’re sure it’s one that you’ll love! 

Reminders

• Remember it’s our Christmas party on Monday 14 December. Please see the previous post for more information regarding clothing, times and £1 donation.
• Water bottles – please make sure these are NAMED and that your child has a water bottle every day, even if they only attend for an afternoon session.

5/6 S Certificate Celebration

This weeks certificate winners are…

For great learning…

Lucy- you always have an amazing positive attitude to your learning. You’re a great role model in our class – well done and keep it up!

For sport and physical activity…

Jessica- you demonstrated perseverance during basketball this week. You just didn’t give up. Well done!

For living and learning…

Mia- you showed a very mature attitude during our Living and Learning (RSE) sessions this week and you asked some great questions. Well done.

Well done everyone!