We are Times Table Rockstars!
Wow!
Check out these stats from our Times Table Rockstars tournament…
Currently, 65% of children across Y3,4 have accessed Times Table Rockstars in the last 7 days! This is brilliant and will definitely help our times table recall.
Keep it up!
Living and Learning: Anti-bullying Week
Here are some fun photos from the start of Anti-Bullying Week. The children wore ‘Odd Socks’ to show how we can celebrate our differences but all be part of the same school community. Each and every one of us wore different Odd Socks and it was a great way of sharing and showing how we are all unique.
Active playtimes – keeping happy and healthy
We have got some new equipment to help children keep active and have fun at playtimes. The stacking cups, target net, balance beams and hoops are all very popular and great fun 😀
Living and learning : Odd Socks Day (anti-bullying week)
We all got into the spirit of things today and came to school in odd socks. The message from the Anti-Bullying Alliance is all about encouraging people to express themselves and celebrate their individuality. We watched the Odd Socks day virtual assembly too.
Self-isolating at home?
As you’ll have already seen, it’s World Nursery Rhyme Week. Our activities will all be themed around our favourite rhymes and the 5 rhymes that are the focus of this year’s Nursery Rhyme Week.
If you’re self-isolating at home, here are a few activities that are linked to some of our favourite rhymes that you might like to join in with.
Miss Polly had a Dolly
- Children love role playing being doctors and nurses. You could take turns to be the patient or use soft toys and some old bandages and plasters.
- Get Well Soon is a series on CBeebies that helps to explain about different illnesses. This episode is all about sniffs and runny noses!
Humpty Dumpty
- In our sensory area in Nursery, we’re going to be investigating what happens when Humpty Dumpty falls off his wall! We will build a wall using wooden blocks or Duplo bricks and will hard boil some eggs to use as Humpty Dumpty. Have a go at home; use felt tips to draw a face on Humpty and then see what happens when Humpty cracks. What’s inside? What happens to the shell? Can you put Humpty back together again?
The Wheels on the Bus
- Why not build a bus? Children love to use blankets, chairs and cushions to make things. Arrange them in a line and make seats for siblings or teddies to sit on. What could you use as a steering wheel? Go for a ride on the bus and remember, each passenger needs a ticket! Where will you visit? Remember to sing the rhyme on your journey.
Old MacDonald had a Farm
- What noises do farm animals make? If you have some toy animals, hide them in a bag and make the animal noise. Can your child guess which animal it is? This is a great listening game and one that we’ll be doing in our group time this week. There’s a farm animal listening game here too.
- If you have some small world animals at home and toy tractors, have a go at making a farm. Children love to ‘feed’ the animals using cereals such as weetabix.
- Get creative – can you draw or paint your favourite animal?
How many Nursery rhymes do you know? Have a go at singing them and then look up some new ones. There are lots on-line and some on the CBeebies website.
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
This week’s maths learning introduces the number 4.
This link will take you to all 5 lessons for the week.
- Lesson 1 – Session 1 and activity
- Lesson 2 – Session 2 and activity
- Lesson 3 – Session 3 and activity
- Lesson 4 – Session 4 and activity
- Lesson 5 – Session 5 and activity
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.
Phonics
This week we will be learning h, b, f, ff
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: h Screencast new sound
- Lesson 2: b Screencast new sound
- Lesson 3: ff Screencast new sound
- Lesson 4: These are our Tricky Words this week. Can you rainbow write them? into, I , and, the, go, no
Literacy
This week we are reading the story – Each Peach Pear Plum.
We are having a rhyming week. Can you hear any rhyme in the book? We are singing lots of favourite nursery rhymes this week too. If you have books filled with nursery rhymes then they will be very useful this week.
- Lesson 1: Read or watch the story. Recap the main events. What characters are in the story?
Draw a picture of your favourite character or part in the book.
Challenge: Write a label or sentence to match your picture.
- Lesson 2: True or False. Which of these statements are true or false about the story.
| There is an apple pie. | Bo Peep found her sheep. |
| The three bears go out hunting. | Jack and Jill went up the hill. |
| Cinderella goes to the ball. | Baby Bear trips up. |
| The wicked witch is in a bush. | There is a plum pie. |
Challenge create your own true or false statements.
- Lesson 3: Read or listen to the story. Can you retell the story and describe what happens on each page?
- Lesson 4: Create your own story by changing the setting or characters in the story. Draw your new characters. You can be as imaginative as you like!
Challenge: Label your characters. (e.g. ‘r’ for red shoes or ‘red’ if they can hear all of the sounds).
Topic
Choose some of these activities to complete throughout the week. These are based on our story – Each Peach Pear Plum and a range of nursery rhymes. They may spark other interests and ideas that result in other learning opportunities. Let your child lead the learning!
| Sing along to Ten in the Bed
Can you put ten teddies, dolls or your favourite toys in your bed? Take a photo. |
| Design and make a wall for Humpty Dumpty.
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| Create a Baa Baa Black Sheep.
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| Draw/paint/create a Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
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| Find or create 5 ducks to play and sing Five Little Ducks with. What could they discover around you home?
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| Use cereal to create a sensory farm for Old MacDonald.
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Living and Learning : being the same and being different
We have been talking about how we are the same and how we are different. It can be about how we look, what we like and how we feel. It’s important to celebrate our similarities and differences.
Times Tables Rockstars Tournament
We’re a couple of days into our weekly Times Tables Rockstars tournament. Here’s the results so far…
So, Mrs Allaway’s maths group are currently in the lead in the group tournament. However, Year 3 are beating Year 4 at the moment.
In the past seven days, 50% of the children in Y3,4 have been on Times Table Rockstars. We’d love this figure to be 100% so, if you haven’t been on yet, give it a go.
Keep it up everyone!
If you don’t know your username and password, email your class teacher.
3,4O – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
3,4E – emmamccormick@ spherefederation.org
3,4N – nicolawadsworth@spherefederation.org
World Nursery Rhyme Week
It’s World Nursery Rhyme Week, so we’ll be singing lots of rhymes in Nursery – even more than usual! We know how important Nursery rhymes are for developing early literacy skills; we’re hoping that by the end of the next few weeks, children will be able to confidently sing along to some nursery rhymes or will have learnt some new ones, in addition to those that they already know.
Each year, World Nursery Rhyme Week focuses on 5 rhymes, if you’re not familiar with this year’s rhymes, follow the links below to sing a long at home.
- The Wheels on the Bus
- 5 Little Speckled Frogs
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Old MacDonald had a Farm
- Miss Polly had a Dolly
*Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog (it’s 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.
In Nursery this week, lots of our areas of provision are linked to these rhymes, as well as some other favourites. We have Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars to sort in our maths area, Baaa Baa Black Sheep printing at the creative table, Humpty Dumpty to try and put back together in the sensory area and 5 Current Buns to make at the playdough table.
What’s your child’s favourite rhyme? Send us an email to let us know and we’ll sing it at Nursery this week.
Living and Learning: I know we are all the same and we are all different
Our learning and learning objective this week:
I accept that my friends and I might have different opinions.
We watched a short clip about working together and came up with a recipe for success:
- Problem solving words
and phrases - Think about your own
experiences of the
problem solving activity - What qualities are
important? - How might someone
express their views and
opinions successfully
when working as a team?
Here is a photo that summarises our discussions:
