Carry on learning
All the teachers are back in school so we also have some learning from school to share. We are still enjoying seeing what everyone is doing at home still. Please keep sending us photos. We might not be able to respond to emails as quickly as before but we will get round to it!
5 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
1.Practise your letter formation in your home learning book. You can use the letter formation ditty’s in your pack to help you.
2.Write the following digraphs.
Parents: Please read the digraphs to your child so that they do not copy them. They can then write them their home learning book.
For help with pronunciation – please note ‘z’ is not correct as American.
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sh |
ch | th |
ee |
3.Write a sentence to match the picture e.g. ‘fish and chips on a dish’ or ‘I had and chips for dinner’.
Challenge: Can you use an adventurous word in your sentence? e.g. ‘fish and chips are delicious’.
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: The rainbow fish
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.Use your story map to retell the story to somebody at home. For an extra challenge you could write your story!
You can use the actions and sentence starters below to help you.
Story Time
We have another hungry creature this week but it’s not a tiger this time! We hope that you enjoy listening to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle (published by Penguin Books). Try and join in with Miss Logan as she reads the story; we’re sure you know it really well.
Here are some things to talk about or activities to try.
- Can you remember some of the food that the caterpillar ate?
- Have a go at re-telling the story. Remember to try and use some of the words from the story such as “but he was still hungry!”.
- Do you know the days of the week? CBeebies have a song for each day or you might know this song to join in at home.
- Have you ever found a caterpillar or seen a butterfly? We know lots of children have been in the butterfly house at Tropical World. Can you spot any butterflies in this butterfly house? Take a tour.
If you like this story, you’ll love next week’s theme for our home learning activities! Have a good weekend.
Home Learning
Thank you to everyone that has had chance to email this week. It’s always lovely to see your photos and read your news when they pop up in our inbox. Please do send us a quick email if you haven’t had chance yet. We’d love to hear from you. Scholesf1@spherefederation.org
This week, we’ve seen photos of Eid celebrations, fun in the sunshine and children enjoying jigsaws and games, including chess! We also loved watching some videos of the farmers in their fields busy making hay bales. (We’ll try and get the videos converted to show you soon!)
A message from Mrs H
Hello everyone.
I hope you are all feeling happy and healthy today.
Here is a little video message from me.
4 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock ‘unlucky’ 13 video.
2.Mathematical graphics – Can you draw 13 in different ways?
Things your child could draw to show 13:
- 13 candles on a birthday cake
- 13 circles
- Numberblock 13
- 13 yellow ducks
Challenge: Use objects at home to solve the following problem. Can 13 be shared equally? Why not?
Literacy
Book of the week: The Rainbow Fish
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.Use the rainbow animal you drew yesterday to draw your own Rainbow Fish story. You could draw a story map.
Parents: Here is an example of a story map
3 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
1.Say the ‘phase 3’ phonemes before the 2 minute timer ends!
(Username: march20 Password: home)
Challenge: Can you do it before the 1 minute timer?
2.Read the words below
Parents: you could write them in your child’s home learning book if your child cannot read them on your device.
Parents: Select ‘week 4 -> sh’
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: The Rainbow Fish
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.A rainbow animal
Hot or cold?
Many of us will have fond memories of playing this game when we were younger. It’s so simple and children always love to play along.
We hope that you have fun playing today. You’re getting warmer… hot, very hot!
2 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Maths
1.Listen and sing along to the video about the teen numbers.
2.Tomorrow we will be looking at the number 13. 13 is an odd number. An odd number is a number that can’t be split into 2 equal groups. Using Lego, counters or any other objects you have at home can you find any other odd numbers between 0 and 13?
3.Take a picture of your odd number findings and email them to scholesf2@spherefederation.org.
Literacy
Book of the week: The Rainbow Fish
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.Something special
On The Way Home
Welcome back! We hope that you all had a lovely holiday and made the most of the beautiful sunny weather. As we continue to learn from home, please remember to check our website for up-dates and learning ideas on Monday, Wednesday and Friday every week. (All posts will be available from 19:00 the evening before.)
This week we are sharing one of Miss Backhouse’s favourite stories. It’s about a little girl who hurts her knee, but you’ll never guess how she does it! The story is called ‘On the Way Home’ and it’s written by Jill Murphy.
We hope you enjoy listening to it or reading the book at home, if you have copy.
This story has a repeated refrain throughout. Did you join in with “And that’s how I got my bad knee,”?
The little girl had a great imagination. Can you think of your own ‘tale’ to tell? Who else could Claire have bumped into and how could she have hurt her knee?
Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.
Creative – Claire told her friends about many different people and creatures that she’d run into on the way home. Which was your favourite? (Wolf, aliens, crocodile, snake, dragon, gorilla, a giant, a ghost, a witch.) Have a go at drawing or painting a picture of them.
Paper plate snake – Draw a spiral onto a paper plate (or circle shape piece of paper/card) and cut around it. Some children may be able to have a go at this part too. Paint it with spots/stripes and add some eyes and a tongue. Tie a piece of string/wool to the middle of the spiral to hang up your snake. Enjoy watching it swirl around!
Phonics – As part of our phonics learning, we talk about the different sounds that we can hear, but also about the different sounds that we can make with our voices. Can you have a go at making some sound effects from the story? Here are a few ideas and you might also think of some of your own for the dragon, gorilla or giant. Would they be loud or quiet noises?
Wolf – Hooooowwwwwwl
Alien ship – Woooooooosh!
Ghost – Woooo Woooo
Snake – Sssssssssssss
Witch – Hehehehehehe
Going down the slide – Wheeeeeeeee
Getting hurt – Owwwww
Mathematics
- Look at a box of plasters- talk about the different shapes and sizes. Which is the largest? Smallest? Are there any square, circle or rectangular shaped plasters?
- Play a game of ‘snakes and ladders’ (or similar dice game) and encourage your child to work out the number that they rolled on the die by looking at the pattern of dots. They may need to count the dots initially, but the more you play, the quicker they will become at recognising the pattern. Being able to move forward a set number of spaces and remembering to stop, is also a great math’s skill to develop.
- If you have access to a printer, there’s a printable game here or you could have a go at making your own by drawing a grid and adding the numbers, snakes and ladders.
- We love this song in Nursery. It’s all about cheeky monkeys who bump their heads!
Role play – Pretend to be a doctor/nurse and take turns to be the patient, or use soft toys. You could get some old plasters or bandages if you have some, or improvise using some kitchen roll and sellotape! Some of you may have a children’s doctor’s kit that you could use too. Encourage your child to mark-make during play; they could write a prescription or answer a phone call and take some patient details.
Watch – Have you ever watched ‘Get Well Soon’ on CBeebies? There are several episodes available on the BBC iPlayer.
There’s also an episode, called ‘Pop on a plaster’ that is no longer available on iPlayer but can be viewed by following the link.
Health and self-care – There’s a lot of talk around good personal hygiene at the moment. Can your child wipe/blow their own nose? Have a go at this. Teach them to look in a mirror at first so that they can see their nose and to ‘pinch and pull’ using a tissue. Some children may find it tricky to blow down their nose into a tissue, but they can still wipe. Remember to talk about throwing your tissue in the bin afterwards and washing your hands well with soap and water for 20 seconds.
1 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
(writing focus)
1.Practise your letter formation in your home learning book. You can use the letter formation dittys to help you.
2.Write the following words
Parents: Please read the words to your child. They can then write them in their home learning book.
chip food queen ship
Parents: If these are too challenging perhaps try writing (or sound talking) these words instead.
sat mat cat rat
3.Can you write a sentence including one of the above words?
Challenge: Use all the words above and turn it into a silly story!
Maths
1.Listen and sing along to the video about the teen numbers.
2.What two teen numbers have we looked at so far? Can you choose one of them (11 or 12) and show it in 1,3 or 5 different ways. You can print and use this word document if you like.
Literacy
Book of the week: The Rainbow Fish
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.Tell a grown up what you think the Rainbow Fish learnt in the story.