24 April 2020: Home learning
Phonics/Literacy (writing focus)
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.Quickwrite! Write the following digraphs.
Parents: Please read the digraphs to your child. They can then write them their home learning book.
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qu |
ch | sh |
th |
3.Time to talk!
- Dance to the music.
- When the music stops find a partner.
- Talk to your partner about some news you’d like to share.
Remember: to be a good talking partner your eyes should be looking and your ears should be listening AND hearing.
- Now it’s time to write! Practise saying your news in a sentence. Count the words in your sentence. Now write your news in a sentence. Don’t forget to check your writing! You can draw a picture too.
Challenge: Write your news using a narrative e.g. First, then, after that, finally.
Maths
Story Time
It’s Friday again and another week of being in ‘lockdown’ completed. Well done! We hope that you’re all remaining happy and healthy at home. Keep sending us your e-mails; we really do love to see your photos and read about all of the activities that you’ve been doing at home. We’ll share some of your photos at the end of this post so that you can see what your friends have been doing too.
As it’s the end of the week, we thought we’d continue with our popular Friday Story Time posts; we’ve had a lot of positive feedback to say how much children have enjoyed hearing some familiar voices . Today’s story, is another Nursery favourite. It’s called ‘ The Paper Dolls’ and is written by Julia Donaldson (published by Pan Macmillan).
Miss Logan is reading the story, and in case you’re wondering, she’s sitting in Nursery’s book corner because she has been working in ‘Big School’ this week. She’s been helping to look after Key Worker children that still attend school at some points during the week. As you can see, Nursery is exactly the same; we really hope to be all sat together, listening to stories again soon.
Here are a few questions and things to talk about after you’ve listened to the story.
- What were the girl’s slippers like?
- Can you remember what was on the girl’s ceiling?
- Who do the Paper Dolls meet along the way? (Dinosaur, pigs, tiger, crocodile, a boy)
- What do the Paper Dolls say to all of the animals/people they meet?
- Can you think of another story where the character says “You can’t catch me…”?
- What did the boy do to the Paper Dolls? How do you think the little girl felt?
- Can you pick out any of the rhyming words in the story?
If you enjoyed the story and would like to do a few activities, here are a couple of ideas to get you started.
- You could try to make your own paper dolls at home. Here is a link to a template or you could experiment with the traditional way of folding paper like Julia Donaldson talks about here. Send us a picture of all of your attempts!
- When you’ve cut out your dolls, draw faces on them and colour in their clothes. What would you name them?
- Can you make up a story together about an adventure for your dolls? Where would they go? Who would they meet? What might happen?
- Talk about memories. Parents/carers – What happy memories do you have from your childhood? Did you have a favourite toy? You could call a relative and ask them what they liked to play with as a child.
Home Learning
We hope that you enjoyed reading ‘Simon Sock’ this week. Did you help to sort the socks into pairs at home? We hope so!
Please remember, our ideas are just suggestions and there are many different ways to learn at home together. Children in Nursery learn through play. Baking, painting, jig-saws, role play, physical games outside, playdough, building Lego models, singing songs and reading stories are all activities that involve lots of opportunities for children to learn and develop skills included in the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. ‘Learning’ for Nursery children does not have to include children being sat at a table practising letters and counting, although your child may also enjoy this. We know that it can be very hard juggling work commitments and learning from home with other children in the house as well. Mrs Long, as well as others, has two young children at home. It can be hard! Keep talking to each other, read, have fun and play together as much as you can.
Here are some of the photos that you have emailed of your learning. Some are ‘Simon Sock’ activities and others are things that children have been interested in at home.
Writing: Supporting your child
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.
23 April 2020: Hall of (home learning) Fame
Hello and welcome back to another edition of…(insert drum roll)…Hall of (home learning) Fame! #HoHLF
I’m now imagining everyone is at home chanting “HOHLF, HOHLF, HOHLF” out of sheer excitement – are you? Nope? Ok, just me. Anyway…
These superstars have really got back in to the swing of their home learning and have sent some images for us to celebrate:
Our first entrant has been super busy. She got creative…
Had a birthday…
Made a disgusting Kale and sock soup (disclaimer: She didn’t actually make a soup using these ingredients. It was a treasure hunt.)
And, wrote an awesome set of instructions.
Well done – you’re in the Hall of Home Learning Fame #HoHLF
“HOHLF, HOHLF, HOHLF!” Still just me? Really? Ok, moving on.
Our next entrant has also been busy.
He thought…really hard.
He retrieved facts from a text and visualised the setting.
And, prepare to be amazed, he learnt how to lay bricks. That’s right folks. You heard it! This superstar took a break from learning to build a porch.
Great work. You’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame! “HOHLF, HOHLF, HOHLF!” Go on, you know you want to…
Our third superstar took time off from celebrating her birthday (Happy Birthday, Bo!) to keep going with her learning. True commitment!
Well done, Bo! You’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame. “HOHLF, HOHLF, HOHLF!” Really guys? Help me out here. I’m only trying to lighten the mood – get involved in the chanting!
Alfie, our next entrant, wrote a set of instructions about creating a cloud – didn’t even know you coul do that but I’m going to try as soon as I get home!
Well done – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame. “HOHLF, HOHLF, HOHLF!” Yay! Finally, one person joined in. Everyone else will surely follow now.
Our final entrant also wrote a set of instructions.
Well done, Emma – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame. “HOHLF, HOHLF, HOHLF!” Yes – everyone’s doing it! The village of Scholes and surrounding areas are deafened by the loud chanting. Join in if you haven’t already…”HOHLF, HOHLF, HOHLF!”
That’s all for this edition. Stay tuned for more.
Send photos to your class teacher’s email address accompanied by #HoHLF. Terms and conditions apply*.
If you want a challenge, I wrote this article with a clear idea in my head about my audience (who I’m aiming it at) and purpose. What was the purpose of this article? Did it work? How did my audience affect the style I wrote it? Would I write the same if this was a more srious article? Or, aimed at people I didn’t know?
*Terms and conditions: you must send a picture to be entered into the Hall of (home learning) Fame. Winners will be posted on this section of the website and will receive their prize as soon as they read it. The prize is a virtual high five from the Year 5,6 team.
23 April 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Maths(subtraction)
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.
Parents: Your child could use objects at home to help when counting.
Challenge: complete the number problems.
Literacy
Book of the week: The smartest giant in town
1.Draw a character in the story and write a speech bubble.
For example, you might draw the goat in the boat and write “You are such a good giant!”.
Mr Lindsay’s tips and quiz
Here is my first attempt at a video message – you should see the blooper reel!
Hall of (Home Learning) Fame: writing
Here are another couple of responses to the writing lesson about clouds. Well done Imogen and Ava.
A message from your teachers!
22 April 2020: Home learning
Phonics (tricky word focus)
1.Sing the tricky word songs.
2.Write the following tricky words
Parents: Please read the words to your child. They can then write the words in their home learning book.
| the | no | he |
she |
Challenge: Can you write these tricky words too?
| my | by | they | are |
3.Play the Phase 3 tricky word flashcard game.
Parents: Select ‘Phase 3 tricky words’ or for a challenge select ‘Phase 3 ALL HFW’.
(Username: march20 Password: home)
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: The smartest giant in town
1.Use your story map to retell the story to somebody at home.
You can use the actions below to help you.
