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
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!