Class News

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

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…

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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

Hello 5/6 S

Here is a video message from Mrs Hogarth.

Remote Learning – The Gingerbread Man

Well, it’s not quite the welcome back that we had planned! We’ll provide you with more information regarding our remote learning activities this week, but here are some activities to get you started.

This week in Nursery, we were going to read a very popular and familiar tale, ‘The Gingerbread Man’.

If you have a copy at home, share it together or you could watch this online version.

Reading

As you read the story, see if your child can join in with the repeated phrases such as… “Stop! I want to eat you!” and “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread man!”

Talk to your child about the story. What happened? What did the Gingerbread Man say? What happened at the end of the story?

 Mark-making

We love drawing our own gingerbread people in Nursery. Draw, paint or print an outline and add in some details. Give your gingerbread person some eyes, a nose and a mouth. How many buttons will you draw? What shape are they?

Mathematics

There are some fun Gingerbread Man counting activities on this website. In Nursery, we don’t expect children to recognise digits at this point so you may need to help your child recognise the numbers as you play together. Count the buttons and remember to say the numbers slowly, touching each button as you count it.

You could continue to play this together using the gingerbread person that you drew. Find something to use for buttons (buttons, pompoms, sweets, coins…) and challenge each other to put on 1-5 buttons. We’d expect some children to be working with numbers up to 3,4 or 5, but some children may be able to count more confidently up to 10 with one to one correspondence.

Here are a few ways to extend the activity…

• Which Gingerbread Man has the most/fewest buttons? How do you know?
• How many buttons would s/he have if we added one more? Ate one?
• If you put 1, 2 or 3 buttons on the Gingerbread Man, can you tell how many there are without counting?  Try it!

Creative

• If you have the ingredients, have a go at making your own gingerbread people. It’s always a great hit in Nursery. If you don’t have time this week, add the ingredients to your weekly shop and save it for a weekend treat together.
• Watch ‘Melody’ as she listens to some music that reminds her of the Gingerbread Man story. What did it make you think of?
• If you have playdough at home, have a go at making gingerbread people.

 Phonics – Nursery rhymes

During group time this week, we were going to re-visit some of our favourite Nursery rhymes. Sing some together at home. There are lots to choose from here.

As you’re singing, try missing out a word from the end of a line. Can your child fill in the missing word? E.g. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great….. ?

Please remember to let us know how you’re getting on throughout the week and send us a quick e-mail to scholesf1@spherefederation.org.  We love to find out about your home learning – in whatever form it takes. Gingerbread Man related or something completely different!

Home Learning

Following the news last night, we will be producing a daily interactive home learning menu.

Here some lessons and activities to complete today.

Phonics

Listen and join in the Jolly Phonics songs.

Point and say each sound on the sound mat.

Write the word to match each picture.

Write a caption to match the picture.

Maths

Watch the number formation song. 

Write numbers and find objects to match each  numeral.

Topic

Draw and label one of your Christmas presents or favourite toy.

Challenge – write a sentence.

School closure – including Nursery

Please see the whole school announcement regarding school’s closure today, including Nursery.

https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/find-out/news/#news0 

Let’s read – new books!

Each class chose £100 worth of new books to refresh our reading corners. They were delivered just before Christmas and the children couldn’t wait to get stuck in! We particularly bought non-fiction (information) books that can be dipped into. The Lego, animal and science-based lift up flap books were a particular hit.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We hope that you’ve had a happy and healthy break over the Christmas holidays.

Remember, we have a training day on Monday 04 January. We’re looking forward to welcoming you back to Nursery on Tuesday and can’t wait to hear all about the fun that you’ve had over the last two weeks. We’re also looking forward to meeting our new families on Friday, when our new children will join us for a settling in session.

This week, we will focus on settling children back into Nursery routines and we’ll be looking for any new interests that children have. Don’t forget to send us an email if your child has suddenly become engrossed in something new at home! We will add their new interests to up-date our ‘What makes us tick’ notice display in Nursery. We use these interests to inform our planning and learning activities in Nursery.

See you soon! Foundation One Team