A Christmas song by 3/4E
We’re very excited to share ‘something Christmassy’ with you all. We chose a catchy song!
All week, 3/4E have been practising the singing and dance moves so that we could perform our version of All I want for Christmas – is you!
We hope you enjoy it; we think it’ll make you smile!
5/6B would just like to say…
Merry Christmas to all! After a fantastic first term back at school, we wanted to spread some Christmas joy at the end of a difficult year. Therefore, we decided to create our own dance to a Christmas classic!
Just click the link below to watch it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JUiMQxsHOVAoZiNrJeu1pwRiZusUDwX6/view?usp=sharing
We hope you enjoy it – we enjoyed making it!
Sunshine Christmas
Sunshine Class have enjoyed learning and performing Christmas songs and dances for you to enjoy.
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!
| Draw your Christmas tree. |
| Create a Christmas table mat. |
| Make some Christmas wrapping paper with potatoes and paint. Wrap some items from around your home. See if your adult can guess what you’ve wrapped before they open it.
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| Go outside on a ‘collect five hunt’. Five sticks, leaves, stones, blades of grass, plant pots, balls etc. Have a look for signs of Winter too. |
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!