The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Posted on Sunday 07 June 2020 by Reception Team

We hope that you enjoyed listening to Miss Logan reading ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ on Friday. If you want to listen to it again, you can hear the author, Eric Carle, reading it here.

Did you join in with the story? There are lots of parts of this story that you can join in with.

Can you help to count the fruit and name each food that the caterpillar eats?
Can you say the days of the week?
Can you remember the words that are repeated in the story? But he was still hungry!

Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.

Watch – We love this animated version of the story. There are some other great animated stories by the same author; we like watching ‘The Very Quiet Cricket’.

Creative – printing

Potato printing is good fun. Carefully cut a potato in half and put some paint on a plate. Have a go at printing a caterpillar’s body using the potato. How long will you make it? Can you make a longer/shorter caterpillar? Give your caterpillar some legs using a paintbrush and add two eyes. How many legs does your caterpillar have?
We’re sure that you will all remember making butterfly prints when you were at school! Fold a piece of paper in half and cut out a butterfly shape. Keep the paper folded in half (it helps to stop your child painting on both sides!) and ask your child to paint a pattern (spots, lines, zigzags) to one side. When it’s finished, open the paper out and then fold it over the opposite way and press down carefully so that the paint transfers. Open it out and you should have printed the same pattern onto the opposite side so that you now have a butterfly with symmetrical wings. Remember to send us a photograph of your caterpillars and butterflies!

Fiddly Fingers – Cut out a paper leaf shape. Can you use a hole punch to munch around the edge of a paper leaf? Children love to use hole punchers and it’s a great way to strengthen their finger muscles for writing too.

Mark Making – Have a go at drawing your own caterpillars or some of the food that he ate. There are lots of printable colouring sheets online if you have a printer. Some colouring pages are available towards the end of this booklet, mixed in with a few activities for older children.

Understanding the World – Can you find any caterpillars hiding in your garden? They might be quite tricky to find. Have a look at these caterpillars that Jess found on a minibeast adventure.

What words could you use to describe the caterpillars?

Talk about what happens to the caterpillar at the different stages in its lifecycle. There’s a game to play on Topmarks if you have access to a computer.

Music & movement – Listen carefully to this music clip that Melody plays. What did the music make you think of? Did it remind you of a butterfly fluttering its wings? Did you notice the music getting quicker and slower?

Have a go at moving like a butterfly, flying quickly and slowly and flapping your wings high and low. If you enjoyed this, here’s a butterfly dance to join in.

Mathematics – If you have the story book at home, count the fruit on each page. You could have a go at counting the fruit in your fruit bowl or use toy food if you have a play kitchen. Ask your child to count out some food for The Very Hungry Caterpillar to eat. For example, can you get the caterpillar 4 apples to eat? The Caterpillar wants to eat 3 pizza slices.

If you’d like to play a game, there’s a simple picture matching game that introduces symmetry on Topmarks.

Have fun and remember to e-mail to let us know what learning you enjoy this week. scholesf1@spherefederation.org

F2 Slideshow

Posted on Friday 05 June 2020 by Reception team

We hope you have all had a lovely half term break and have managed to settle back into a routine this week. Before the holidays we asked for you to send in some pictures of the children doing activities that they love. Thank you for those of you that sent in some pictures. We have created a special video to showcase how proud we are of everyone for keeping such a positive attitude in these difficult times.

We hope it brings a smile to your day 🙂

Home Learning Heroes!

Posted on Friday 05 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Hello Everyone.

We’re reached the end of our first week back after half-term, a week when our school opened up to more children. Some of you may be back in school, and some of you are at home.

A huge thank you to everyone who has emailed your teachers.

Here are some photos and a video that you have sent:

Olivia’s Video

Escape Room Clues

Posted on Friday 05 June 2020 by Mr Lindsay

Thank you to Lilia and Charlie for sending in their Esacpe Room Clues. Can you solve the clues to Lilia’s questions?

My Dream Job

Posted on Friday 05 June 2020 by Mr Lindsay

Thank you Amelie for sending in your Dream Job RIC.

My dream job is to be a psychotherapist. I would like to be a psychotherapist because I want to help people that have mental health disorders. Psychotherapy is the treatment of a mental disorder by psychological rather than medical needs. In order to complete my goal, I would need to go to college and university before four whole years of taught training. I would need communication skills, interpersonal skills and patience. A full-time psychotherapist works for roughly 35 hours a week- that’s seven hours a day, five days a week. A trainee earns from £26,565 to £35,577 per year. Child and teen therapists earn from £31,695 to £41,787 per year and a principal therapist (a therapist for adults) earns from £40,428 to £83,258 per year.

What is the smallest amount you could earn as a psychotherapist?

What do you like/dislike about this job?

Why did the author put brackets after ‘principal therapist’?

Carry on learning

Posted on Thursday 04 June 2020 by Mrs Latham

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

Posted on Thursday 04 June 2020 by Reception team

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.

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

Interactive lesson

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

Posted on Thursday 04 June 2020 by Reception Team

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!)