Let’s go to the Dough disco!
At Nursery, the children love dough disco! Its great fun and helps to develop the muscles needed for an effective pencil grip. We enjoy joining in with this disco song at Nursery sometimes and there is also a YouTube channel devoted to daily dough disco routines.
To take part you will need a small ball of dough each. This can be commercially available dough or you could make a batch with your child, it’s easy…
Dough recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup of flour
- ¼ cup of salt
- 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil
- Food colouring (optional)
How to make
- Add the flour to a bowl.
- Mix together the food colouring and water in a separate bowl.
- Mix the two bowls together add more flour if it gets sticky.
- Add the vegetable oil at the end.
- Store in an airtight container.
Then you are ready to go. Happy dancing!
School places September 2020
Accepting your school place for September 2020
Our older Nursery children, who are due to start school in September 2020, will have received their offer of a school place last week. We hope that everyone is happy with their offer and that you were allocated your first choice. Please remember to read the offer information carefully. You MUST contact your child’s allocated school to accept the offer, should you wish to take the place.
If your child has been allocated Scholes (Elmet) Primary School, please contact school to accept your child’s place using the office’s email –scholesoffice@spherefederation.org
School has already sent an email to welcome parents/carers, so please check your inbox and reply with the details requested as soon as possible. Thank you.
Hall of (Home Learning) Fame: writing
Thank you to Evie and Amelie for sending in their writing response to “A Cloudy lesson” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-45TbOGadro.
Free access to NumBots (part of Times Table Rockstars)
Before schools closed, each child was given a username and password to access Times Table Rockstars. This is useful for Year 2 children in particular, but there is also NumBots which is for improving addition and subtraction skills. They are both worth a look. If you have lost your username/password, email vickylatham@spherefederation.org and I will be able to get it for you.
Hall of (Home Learning) Fame: Writing
Well done to all the people who have emailed me your writing task from today. There are some great instructions about clouds, that include good use of imperative verbs – presentation is super also! Here are some examples from Freya, Lilia and Alex D – I’ve enjoyed reading them today, so thank you.
A video message from Mr Catherall
Hi everyone
I hope you are all well and have settled back into ‘school’ life after the holidays. Here’s a little video message from me with a few top tips for thriving over the coming weeks.
21 April 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Maths (1 less)
1.Count backwards from 20 using the song.
Oh no! The song seems to have forgotten the number 0! We talk lots about the number 0 being nothing but still being a number. Try to add the number 0 when singing the song.
2.Solve the number problems.
- I have 5 fish fingers and I eat one. How many do I have left?
- There are 10 children in the park. One child goes home. How many children are left in the park?
- There are 14 chickens in the pen. 1 chicken escapes! How many chickens are left?
- I have 19 Easter eggs. I decide to give one to a friend. How many Easter eggs do I have left?
Parents: Your child could use objects at home to help when counting.
Challenge: Solve the number problems.
Literacy
Book of the week: The smartest giant in town
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.Draw a story map of the story.
Parents: Here is an example of a story map.
Important writing reminder
Remember, it is okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling correctly is important. It encourages your child to use their own skills – rather than copy from an adult.
It is important you do not let your child simply copy your writing. They need to use their phonics skills to write. Here is an example of a child’s writing in Foundation 2.
Hall of (Home Learning) Fame: Easter Edition
Welcome back! As you can see from the pictures, it’s been a busy two weeks of fun filled activities. From den building to nature walks, it looks like you’ve really enjoyed our home learning activity menu.
Making fruit salad
Great to see the reading activity and challenge being done today – making your own fruit salad. Looks delicious!
