Week 9 – A message from your teachers
Over the last 8 weeks we have enjoyed seeing your pictures and sharing them on the class news. This week, we would like to share some pictures of us with you.
During the week we keep ourselves busy by planning, recording lessons and answering your lovely emails but at the weekend we like to take a break and spend time with our family, doing the things we love.
Mrs Palmer has been painting and decorating and enjoying walks in the sunshine.
Mrs Myers has been busy in her garden. She is growing lots of fruit and vegetables.
Mrs Flynn has been sewing in the garden.
Mrs Kirby has been busy making decorations for a cake.
Miss Hulme has been busy doing some mindfulness colouring.
Have a lovely half term and please email (scholesf2@spherefederation.org) a picture of your child doing something they enjoy. We are making something special to share with you all 🙂
A fantastic storyteller…
Lorien has re-told the story ‘The Gruffalo’ using props. We really enjoyed listening to it and thought you would too!
22 May 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
(tricky word focus)
Sing the tricky word songs.
Phase 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY&t=1s
Phase 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
Words to Read:
Tricky word countdown! Can you read the tricky words?
Phonics Activity:
Practise writing the tricky words.
Fill in the blanks using the tricky words above.
You don’t need to copy and write the whole sentence – just write the tricky word that you think is missing.
Answers
- he
- she
- we
- me
- be
- was
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson
1.Listen to the story of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJumAZx1t8
2. Draw a story map of the story.
Parents: Here is an example of a story map.
Story Time
We can’t quite believe that this is the last Friday before half term. Some days and weeks have flown by, others have been harder to get through. We hope that you’ve enjoyed some of our ideas and suggestions for your learning at home. We’ve loved reading all about your adventures and can see how much you’re all learning and growing.
Our final story for this half term is read by Miss Morris. It’s called ‘Alfie in the garden’ and is written by Debi Gliori.
Alfie had a good imagination in the story; he enjoyed pretending to be different animals.
- Can you remember which animals he pretended to be?
- What noise did the rainstorm make?
- The grass made a ‘swish swash’ noise in the breeze. Can you think of another story where the grass makes the same sound?
We’ll post some holiday activities soon; these will be there for you as ideas or in case you are stuck for something to do one day and need some inspiration. We hope that you enjoy your half term, even if it isn’t quite the half term that we may have had planned or hoped for. Stay safe and well.
Home Learning
Finally, we know you all love to see photos of your friends so here are some of their smiling faces to end the week.
Can you spot…?
- a chocolate caterpillar
- a back-to-front jigsaw
- some of No-Bot the Robot’s friends
- some sheep
21 May 2022: Home Learning
Phonics
Maths
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. The problem blob has been up to mischief – he is stopping things from being shared fairly. The Numberjacks need your help!
Literacy
Book of the week: Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson
- Listen to the story of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJumAZx1t8
2. Draw who is in the story (characters), what happens in the story (events) and where the story is (setting).
Happy and healthy home learning
We pride ourselves on being a happy and healthy place to learn when we are at school. One of our recent tasks has been thinking about how to stay healthy – particularly important at this difficult time. We’ve had some lovely posters that children have designed.
We have also enjoyed seeing the practical maths learning all about fractions. Cutting into thirds was tricky!
We love seeing your creative sides too. Tie-dye is a great skill to learn. What a fab t-shirt!
Shape hunt
We loved listening to ‘No-Bot the Robot with No Bottom’ on Monday. Did you? Thank you for sending in some photographs of your robots; we’ve seen some super robots so far. It’s not too late to send us an e-mail if you’ve built one too. When we looked at your robots, we could see lots of different shapes.
Today, we’d like you to go on a shape hunt around your house or when you go out for a walk.
You might want to draw the shapes and tick them off when you see them, or you could take a picture of the different shapes that you find.
Talk about the properties of shapes. How do you know it’s a triangle? Can you count the number of sides and corners?
Let us know how many shapes you find. Remember to visit us again on Friday. Until then, we’ll leave you with this shape song to watch!
20 May 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Practise saying the phonemes.
Phonics play – flashcard speed trials – phase 3
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/flashcards-speed-trials
Log in: march20 password: home
Words to read:
Phonics activity:
Read the sentence and draw a picture to match.
You must not tramp on the flowers
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJumAZx1t8
2. Why do you think it is important to share? How does it make you feel? How does it make your family feel? How does it make your friends feel?
Draw a picture of a time you shared with someone? Can you write a sentence about how you felt?
Home Learning
Freya has done a great job presenting her ideas about sustainability. She talks about how we dispose of our waste and the impact that plastic has on our oceans.
If anyone else has done a great poster, please send it to me – I’d love to see it.
If you haven’t been in touch with me for a while, send me a quick email to let me know what you’ve been up to.
Record reader
Thomas only started the 13 Storey Tree House today and he’s already on page 120. The way he’s going, he won’t need this brilliant book mark that he made.
