11 May 2020: Home learning
| Phonics
1.Phonemes: Use the digital flashcards on ‘Teach your Monster to Read’ to practise all phase 2 and 3 phonemes. 2.Words to Read:
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ or point to the sound buttons to help. How many sounds are in these words? 3.Words to Write: scoop, frost, street, blend You could draw a phoneme frame in your exercise book to help you remember all the sounds. 4.Phonics Activity: Write the sentence (Adult to read aloud);
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| Literacy Activity – Letter writing
Write a letter to a family member or friend you are unable to see at the moment. You could tell them about the learning you have been doing and what other activities you’ve been up to. Remember to include: finger spaces, capital letters, full stops and to check your writing! |
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Sending a Hug
Keeping in touch with family and friends is really important. Have you spoke on the phone, sent a letter or had a video chat with them?
Have you sent a hug?
Check out this great way of sending a lifesize hug!
Home Learning
It has been another amazing week of home learning! It was great to see so many of you practically making halves of shapes, objects and amounts.
Quiz of the Week
It’s back. And, this time, there’s an even bigger budget! Check out the video here.
Play along with your family, or against your friends, and have some fun!
As always, let me know what you think – it would be great to get some pictures of you playing along.
Happy quizzing!
Fabulous fractions, time, maps, poems and VE Day preparations
We have seen some great learning this week. All about fractions, time, maps, poems and super VE Day celebrations.
A great video explanation all about 2 equal groups.
Week 7 Home Learning Pictures
It has been another busy week for everyone in F2. We’re so proud of how well everyone is adapting to this change to routine and continuing to do so with such positivity. Please continue to keep in touch as we love to hear from you (scholesf2@spherefederation.org).
We’re very impressed at seeing and hearing about all the additional skills you are learning during this time. Such as riding a bike, cartwheeling, sewing, designing tree houses, caring for plants, fruit and vegetables in your allotments/gardens and we’re seeing lots of creative tasks too. All of these additional activities support you child’s Characteristics of Effective Learning (CoEL). There are 3 CoEL:
- playing and exploring – children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’;
- active learning – children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements; and
- creating and thinking critically – children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.
The focus of the CoEL is on how children learn rather than what they learn i.e. process over outcome. Underpinning the CoEL is the understanding that during their earliest years, children form attitudes about learning that will last a lifetime. This will support them to become creative, and adventurous learners throughout their lives.
Professor Myers challenges you!
Paper aeroplanes – video
Please email your predictions and findings.
scholesf2@spherefederation.org
8 May 2020: Home Learning
VE day
Today is VE day and a bank holiday. Here are some ideas of activities you can do at home to celebrate. These are optional activities – it is your choice if you choose to do them. Have a lovely bank holiday!
Story Time, Home Learning and a Trick Shot!
It may be a special VE Day Bank Holiday, but we still thought you’d enjoy a story time with one of our Nursery team. Today’s story is read by Miss Pennock and we think it’s a story that many parents/carers will relate to right now. It’s called ‘Five Minutes’ Peace’ by Jill Murphy (published by Walker Books) and is all about the Large Family.
Here are a few questions you could talk about after you’ve listened to the story.
- Who are the characters? Can you remember any of their names?
- What did Mrs Large want to do? What did she put on her tray?
- Can you remember what tune Lester played on his recorder?
- Which story did Laura read to Mrs Large?
- How do you think Mrs Large felt when all of her children went into the bathroom?
- What was your favourite part of the story?
If you enjoyed the story and would like some activities to do at home, here are a few ideas.
- Sing along to ‘Elephants have wrinkles‘ at home. This is one of the songs we sometimes listen to before lunch at Nursery.
- Laura read Little Red Riding Hood to Mrs Large. Have you read this story? You might enjoy watching the CBeebies ballet which tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood through ballet dancing.
- Do you have any instruments at home? Try playing a tune or shaking along to ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little star’ like Lester. If you don’t have any instruments, have a go at making some. There are some suggestions to get you started here, but we’re sure you’ll have lots of your own ideas.
- If you have some little toy elephants (or other animals), you could put some bubbly water in a bowl and let them have a bath like Mrs Large.
- Why not help an adult at home to make a tray like Mrs Large did. You could could add a snack, a drink and find a book or magazine too. Then, sit down somewhere quiet and enjoy five minutes’ peace! (That’s Mrs Long’s plan later…)
Remember Nursery, try to give your grown-ups five minutes’ peace this weekend! Try to play somewhere by yourself for a little while or sit and look at a book quietly. Think about poor Mrs Large!
Home Learning
Thank you to everyone who has been able to email us with an update on how you all are. Lots of people seem to have found the previous week trickier than others. Perhaps the change in weather, or simply just that we’ve been at home for 7 weeks now – that’s tough! It’s longer than the summer holidays when we all have lots of plans, outings and gatherings with friends and family. Keep going! You’re all doing a great job. Please remember that our ideas are just suggestions and there are no expectations to complete them. From our own experiences of family life in lockdown, sometimes it’s good to take a step back and have a break too. Perhaps a movie, a cuddle on the sofa with a book or a walk in the sun.
Whatever you choose to do each day, we really do enjoy seeing your photos and reading about the things you have been getting up to. This week you have been really busy again.
- There were some brilliant tinfoil boats. We think the highest number of pennies in a boat was 67. However, we know that some of you ran out of 1p coins and had to use other, heavier coins as well. Well done, everyone!
- You created some fantastic fish to swim in the sea with Barry; we loved all of the different colours that you used.
- And a few more activities including glow-stick dancing in the dark, counting paper fingers, painting VE Day bunting and playing in the great outdoors.
- Finally, before we say goodbye for the long weekend, here is another entry into the Trick Shot Challenge. What a great shot!
07 May 2020: Hall of (home learning) Fame
Hello everyone
Welcome back to another edition of the Hall of (home learning) Fame #HoHLF – are you chanting? I think here some people!
Today, we have a mix of learning and trick shots (insert audience ‘wooooooo’ noise here).
So, here goes…
We start with an incredible trick shot.
Awesome work – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame. Congratulations!
Lucy sent in some methods she has to stay calm:
Well done, Lucy – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame. Congratulations!
Molly also sent in some tips for staying calm:
Well done, Molly- you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame. Congratulations!
Our next entrant has been busy…again!
He smashed his art learning:
Has prepped for his VE day celebrations:
And, updated us on the development of the porch he’s been helping to build:
Awesome work! Well done – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame. Congratulations!
Our final entrant sent in this video which combines reading with extreme sports to pull off a seriously impressive trick shot.
Incredible stuff – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame. Congratulations!