Important reminder
Are you interested in the class zoom call? If so, please email today to let us know.
Some information if you missed it previously
Before the end of the school year, we are offering Zoom calls with children who remain at home . This will be a great opportunity to get together via zoom in small groups to end the school year.
If your child is still learning at home, and you’d like your child to be part of a Zoom call with Mrs Flynn, Mrs Palmer and some of their classmates, please email us.
Please email us by Monday 29th June to let us know if your child would like to take part.
When you email, you’ll need to provide the name that will appear in the Zoom call – we won’t allow anyone into the meeting if we’re not expecting them. Ideally, the name would be the child’s first and last name, but it can be your name. (And please make sure the name is appropriate.)
We will decide a date and time for this to happen – the zoom calls will be organised for the week beginning 6th July. We’ll send an invitation with the log-in details back to you. We’re sorry – there can’t be much flexibility about the date and time.
29 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Letter formation:
Can you practise your letter formation using the letter formation ditty’s?
Read:
Can you read the sentences and scan the QR codes to check you were correct? You can also click on the links below to reveal the answer.
→Need more of a challenge? Can you play the polysyllabic game?
Maths
This week we are going to learn about two teen numbers.
Numberblock 15 calls himself The Super-Secret Step Squad Agent.
What 5 numbers add together to make 15?
Numberblock 16 can make itself into a square. What other numbers are also square?
Can you solve the following problems?
What is half of 16?
What is half of 8?
How many sets of 4 make 16?
How many sets of 2 make 16?
How many ones make 16?
→Need more of a challenge?
Let’s talk!
This week we will be focussing on developing your child’s communication and language skills through fun, family activities. Your child’s communication and language development is so important. It encompasses speech development, listening skills and understanding. The games this week will focus on these skills to support your child in becoming a good communicator.
Describe that thing!
What you will need:
- A collection of objects from around the house e.g. a teddy, banana, spoon, book.
- A bag/box to hide the objects inside
- Building bricks i.e. lego or duplo – these will be used as points in the game.
- 2 players – 1 ‘describer’ and 1 ‘listener’
How to play:
The aim of the game is for the ‘describer’ to describe the object hidden in the bag and the ‘listener’ to guess what it is.
Every time the ‘listener’ guesses correctly they get a brick for their tower. The ‘describer’ can collect bricks for their tower if they use any adventurous words.
Take it in turns to be either the ‘listener’ or the ‘describer’.
The person with the tallest brick tower at the end is the winner!
Why this game?
This game is a great way to support your child’s communication skills. When being the ‘describer’ they are encouraged to really tune into their listeners needs – as well as use adventurous words to describe something! When being the ‘listener’ it is a great chance for your child to practice being a good listener. When your child responds with relevant comments or questions it shows that they understand what the ‘describer’ is saying.
Pirates Love Underpants!
There were some noisy thunderstorms over the weekend and lots of heavy rain showers. Did you hear the thunder or see any lightening? It made us think of stormy seas…
This week’s story is one of the very popular books from a series of stories written by Claire Freedman; they’re all about aliens, dinosaurs and pirates that love underpants!
We hope that you enjoy listening to ‘ Pirates Love Underpants‘; it’s all about a crew of cheeky pirates that are looking for some golden treasure.
We hope that you enjoyed listening to the story.
- What was your favourite part?
- Did any parts of the story make you laugh?
- Can you remember which animal was waiting underneath the bridge?
- How did the pirates trick the rival pirate crew to steal the treasure?
Here are some activities for you to try that are linked to the story.
Creative – Have a go at making your own pirate hat, patch, telescope or treasure chest. Before you start, gather together some cardboard boxes or tubes from your recycling pile. You could cut out the shape of a hat from an opened out cereal box or you could simply roll up some paper to make a telescope. A clean, empty egg box would make a great treasure chest. It can be as easy or as complicated as you want to make it! We’ve added a few links if you need some help or a starting point.
Music – This week, we thought we’d share another of the songs we enjoy listening to before home time at Nursery. It’s called ‘Port Side Pirates’. We hope you enjoy singing along at home.
Mark making – Every good pirate needs a map! Draw where the pirates have hidden the treasure on the island. Is it next to a tree or in a cave? How will you show where the treasure is? That’s right, X marks the spot. When we were little, we used to use a teabag to stain the paper to make our treasure maps look really old. Did you?
Role play – Grab your hats, telescopes and treasure maps and come aboard! We’re sure that you can make a pirate ship on your bed/sofa/picnic blanket and enjoy sailing the Seven Seas together. What can you see through your telescope? Is that a desert island ahead? Look for the landmarks on your map and go and find some treasure! Ahoy, Maties!
Mathematics
- Investigate capacity using a selection of different containers, bottles and tubs. This activity might be a good one to do in the bath or outside with a bucket or storage box full of water. Children love to play in the water and investigate pouring and filling containers. As they pour, talk to your child about which containers/bottle holds the most/least water. Is it nearly full? Half full? Empty? If you have a funnel or colander in the kitchen, let children explore using these too. If you want to add to the discussion, you could put a hole in one of the bottles. What happens to the water as you try to fill the bottle?
- Treasure hunt – Hide 5 coins outside. As children find them, ask how many there are left to find. Once you have found 2 coins, how many are still missing?
- Listen to this counting story about ’10 Little Pirates’ . Can you join in each time and work out how many pirates are left each time?
Physical development – Can you walk the plank at home? Have a look in your garden or whilst on a walk in your local area to see if you can find something to practise balancing along to ‘walk the plank’. You might have a plank of wood that you could lay along the floor, or you could use a rope or rolled up blanket. Children will enjoy carefully balancing along it and then jumping off the end.
We’re sure that you’ll all love the pirate theme this week! Remember to send us photos of your telescopes and eye-patches and save your telescope as it might come in handy for Friday’s story time.
Reminder – Zoom Call
If you would like your child to take part in the Nursery Zoom call, please e-mail us by Monday 29 June. Refer to our previous post for more details.
Calling all library books!
Library books: If you have any Scholes library books at home, then please can you return them to school, where possible.
There will be a box outside school for this. Thank you!
A new youth group coming to Scholes…
I am the leader of The Tribe Youth Group and we are looking at setting up our fourth group in Scholes. We are planning to open in September.We were announced as Youth Group of the Year for Leeds in the recent Child Friendly Leeds Awards. Activities we offer include creative, lifeskills, the I am Me project (which is about health and fitness) including physical and mental health. We also offer outings and community service projects.Please contact 07756-585864 for more information.Jean, The Tribe Youth Group
Home Learning Pictures
Last week, our book of the week was Monkey Puzzle. We had lots of lovely emails to share the stick puppets that you had made and we also had a couple of videos as some children recorded themselves re-telling the story.
Caroline (Hermione’s mummy) has been very busy in the school allotment picking the fresh fruit and vegetables that have been growing. Very soon, there will also be some potatoes too. We think it all looks delicious.
Yusuf and his siblings were asked to be part of a short film for CBBC. The short film is called Where did all the people go? Can you spot Yusuf in the video clip?
Please keep sending us updates on how you are getting on. We enjoy hearing from you.
Reminder:
Before the end of the school year, we are offering Zoom calls with children who remain at home . This will be a great opportunity to get together via zoom in small groups to end the school year.
If your child is still learning at home, and you’d like your child to be part of a Zoom call with Mrs Flynn, Mrs Palmer and some of their classmates, please email us.
Please email us by Monday 29th June to let us know if your child would like to take part.
Have a lovely weekend.
Story Time
We know that lots of you look forward to the end of the week because you love to hear your Nursery teachers reading a story. Today, it’s Miss Pennock’s turn and she’s chosen to read ‘Dear Zoo’. We’re sure you’ll be able to join in with this one at home.
Here are a few ideas of things to talk about or to join in with at home.
- Do you have any pets? We’d love to see a drawing or painting of them if you do. If you don’t have a pet, what pet would you like to have? Would it be a good pet to have or would it be too jumpy, too loud or too fearsome?
- There are some fun games on the Dear Zoo website. Test your memory skills with this pairs game.
- Here is a listening game for you to play at home. Can you work out which animal is hiding?
- Get active and try moving like different animals by joining in with this song!
- Find out what it’s like to look after a pet with Topsy and Tim, or watch an episode of ‘What’s the Big Idea?‘ all about pets.
- Finally, you may want to visit a virtual zoo, here’s a link to Chester Zoo’s virtual zoo page. There are a few videos of the meercats and giraffes at feeding time.
Home Learning
Have you had chance to email us recently? If you haven’t, please do! It’s not too late to send us a quick email with a short message to tell us how you all are. We’d love to hear from you.
Also, please remember to email us before Monday 29 June if you’d like your child to take part in a Zoom call. Please read our earlier post for more details.
Here are some photos from this week and we’ve also managed to add some videos that 2 of your friends sent in of a farmer making hay bales. It’s fascinating to watch. It looks like some of you enjoyed the transport themed activities this week. Esmae has also sent a photo of a damselfly that she spotted at Temple Newsam.
26 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Watch Geraldine Giraffe learn about ‘igh’.
Read:
Point to the words that have the ‘igh’ trigraph in them. Can you segment and blend the words?
Game:
1.Roll the dice.
2.Read the word next to the number.
3.Move to the next word if you roll the same number.
4.Take it in turns to read all of the words.
Parents/Carers: you could print or write the words on paper if they are too difficult for your child to read on your device.
→Need more of a challenge? Choose a pobble365 photo to inspire creative writing. You could try to include a narrative into your writing by using words such as one day, suddenly, then, next, after that and finally.
Maths
Literacy
1.Listen to the story ‘Something Else’ by Kathryn Cave
2.After listening to the story talk to your child about the story. You could read the following synopsis:
Something Else is excluded from everything because he looks different. He does not play the same games, eat the same food or draw the same pictures.
Then one day Something turns up and wants to be friends. However, Something Else does not want to be friends with this creature as he believes that they are not the same and he refuses to eat sandwiches with ‘Urgy stuff’ in them. He sends Something away and then suddenly realizes that he acts like all the other people who always sent him away.
Eventually Something Else and Something become best friends.
3.Ask your child to think about how the two creatures in the book are different from each other and how this makes them feel. For example:
- How did the blue creature feel when the other animals said he wasn’t like them?
- What could the other creatures have done to help the blue creature feel happier?
4.Even very different people can find things in common. Can your child now find similarities between the two creatures?
Life skills
Lilia has been in touch this week to tell me all about what she’s been doing when she hasn’t been in school. Her artistic flair has been demonstrated when she was allowed to paint her shed – it looks amazing and very bright!
She has also been trying out her baking skills too. She made eclairs for the first time and they look delicious. I hope she is saving one for me!
Learning, learning, learning
We have had some lovely emails recently.
The body parts pictures were brilliant and certainly put a smile on our faces!
There is also a video below of some super reading : Funnybones reading
