2 April 2020: Home learning
Day 9 of your home learning pack
Phonics
Did your child enjoy reading the phoneme or tricky word spotter story today? If so, there are plenty more on Twinkl. Just search ‘Story spotters Phase 3’.
Twinkl are offering parents and carers free access to thousands of resources, so you can select your own activities based on your child’s interests too.
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Maths
Did your child find the missing numbers?
In Foundation 2, we focus on numbers to twenty throughout the year to get a depth of understanding of what the numbers really mean.
Literacy
Was your child able to draw a story map? Please email photos or comments. Here is an example of what your child’s story map may look like.
Please email to let us know how your child’s home learning journey is going. If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails during school hours: scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Learning life skills and learning at home
As well as the home learning we are posting on the website, you might have the opportunity to do some cooking together. It is a chance to read a recipe, develop cutting/chopping skills, watch for reversible and irreversible changes in food and enjoy eating the outcome together! Keep sending photos of what you are up to at home.
Lots of people have starting displaying decorated rainbows and love hearts in their windows too. They are trying to cheer each other up, from a distance. You could join in with this too.
Lots of people have said they’re enjoying the home learning tasks too.
Wake Up Shake Up (WUSU) playlist
A few children seem to be missing our daily WUSU sessions. We have had a lot of email requests for videos that children can dance along to (there is one already on the Year 1 & 2 Class News page). Here is the playlist if you would like to dance along to your favourites. There are more videos in the pipeline…watch this space!
Professor Myers challenges you…
Please email your predictions and results.
scholesf2@spherefederation.org
01 April 2020: Hall of (home learning) Fame
It was lovely to hear how Jessica is getting on with her home learning and she sent some pictures through of her work. Her illustration of a Viking is brilliant, with great attention to detail and some adventurous vocabulary in her noun phrases. I really like the posters she has coloured that display a great positive message for everyone. Thank you. Mrs H.x
1K home learning
It has been great to see and hear what amazing home learning has been going on so far this week. If you haven’t been in touch yet please do. I have really enjoyed your emails so far.
Writing cards and letters to those we cannot visit at the moment is a great way to stay connected.
Lots of you are keeping active both mentally and physically. Getting outdoors is a good way to feel relax and calm. Try close your eyes and find out how many different sounds you can hear.
Hello from all of your Nursery teachers!
Good morning, today we’ve got a few messages to share with you from everyone at Nursery . We hope that you enjoy watching them (more than we enjoyed recording ourselves!) and spotting a few familiar faces. We’re really enjoying seeing your email photographs, so keep sending them in.
Unfortunately, Miss Backhouse isn’t able to record a message at the moment; she’s ok though, so don’t worry. She’d like us to pass on a big ‘hello’ and she hopes that you’re all having lots of fun with your families. Miss Backhouse is being kept very busy looking after her mischievous cats and drawing lots of super pictures. Do you think she’s been drawing Batman and unicorns?
Rainbows
Have you noticed lots of rainbows recently? As we’ve been going on our daily walks and bike rides around the villages where we live, we’ve all spotted lots of rainbows in people’s windows. Have you seen any? If you have already made a rainbow, please let us know and send us a photo of it.
If you haven’t had chance yet, there are lots of different ways to make one. Why don’t you get creative and have a go! There are many examples on the internet already and we’ll post your rainbows as you send them in.
Do you have all the different colours at home to paint a rainbow? Don’t worry if you don’t, experimenting with colour mixing is a great activity. Talk to your child about what happens when they mix different colours. How could you make orange? What happens if you mix blue and yellow? All you need are some paints and paper (or your patio/path outside!). If you wanted some extra ideas, there are some colour mixing resources on Twinkl, such as these finger painting mats.
We often see children painting and drawing rainbows in Nursery and lots of children enjoy singing along to I can sing a rainbow. Why not sing a long at home as you make your rainbows. You could even go on a ‘rainbow hunt’ and look for items around your house that are all the different colours of the rainbow.
Supertato
Finally for today, we hope that you’re having fun with the Supertato activities. Ferdie enjoyed colouring in a picture of the Evil pea yesterday. He also loved making little peas by rolling playdough into ball shapes. This was great for strengthening his paw muscles, but he also practised his counting at the same time! He had to make 1,2,3 or 4 peas and make sure he stopped when he had enough peas in each pod. Ferdie could even say which pea pod had the most and fewest peas in. Well done, Ferdie! Keep sharing your learning at home with us and we’ll be back on Friday with a story time and some of your friend’s photos.
1 April 2020: Home learning
Day 8 of your home learning pack
Phonics
Writing captions or sentences. Before your child puts pen to paper encourage your child to say the sentence and count the words in the sentence – this is a good chance to talk about where the finger spaces would go. Once they have done this, they are ready to write! Encourage your child to then check their writing.
Maths
Was your child able to complete the repeating pattern? You could make your own patterns using objects at home. We had a go too – can your child tell you how to continue the pattern we have made?
Literacy
Did your child write a book review? Please email photos or comments.
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails during school hours: scholesf2@spherefederation.org
31 March 2020: Hall of (home learning) Fame
Lilia and Lleyton have been very busy today working on their expanded noun phrases. I think the art work is amazing – well done! If anyone else would like their work posting, just send it over and prepare yourself for fame!
Toilet Roll Challenge
Some of you may have seen online that people were challenging each other to see how many ‘keepy uppies’ they could do with a toilet roll – it was an online, social media trend.
Well, one of our class got in touch with their effort and challenged Mr Freeman and myself to better it.
Here’s the challenger’s effort (we have his consent to post this)…
Challenger 1 – who actually wasn’t very well at the time
Followed by our responses:
Mr Catherall surprised himself….
And Mr Freeman’s football skills shone through…
Have a go and see if you can beat us.