Zoom Calls for Nursery
We know that some of you have already seen the Daily Message (19 June) about children taking part in a Zoom call before the end of term. Please use the link above to read it, if you haven’t already.
We’re really pleased that Nursery children are also going to be included in this. We’re hoping to organise the Zoom calls for the week beginning 6 July.
If you’d like your child to be part of a Zoom call with us and some of their Nursery friends, please email scholesf1@spherefederation.org by Monday 29th June.
When you email, you’ll need to provide the name that will appear in the Zoom call – we won’t allow anyone into the meeting if we’re not expecting them. Ideally, the name would be the child’s first and last name, but it can be your name. (And please make sure the name is appropriate.)
Once we know how many children are going to take part, we’ll organise the day and time of your meeting and get back to you with the log-in details and more information. We’re sorry – there can’t be much flexibility about the date and time.
We’re looking forward to seeing you all on Zoom soon!
23 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
→Need more of a challenge? Can you complete the activity below? Adults: your child could write the answers in their home learning book.
Maths
1.Watch the video and count backwards from 20 to 0.
You will need objects to use for counting, two ten frames (print or you can make/draw one).
2.Can you solve these number problems:
Jenson has found 10 insects, 2 of them wriggle away. How many insects are left?
Joshua has found 12 frogs. 1 frog jumps back into the pond. How many frogs are left?
Niamh saw 8 birds in the sky. Lorien saw 6 more birds. How many birds did they see altogether?
→Need more of a challenge? Ava has 14 worms. She wants to give half of them to Georgia. How many would they each have? Now Georgia wants to share her worms with Thea. Can she share them equally? If not, how come? How could they make it fair?
Literacy
1.Listen to the story ‘We’re Different, We’re the Same’.
2.Look at your self-portraits from yesterday. What do you see? What is different? What is the same?
3.Ask your child to think about a friend. Can they describe their friend? Can they say one way that they are different to a friend and one way they are the same? You could suggest they think about how they look, what they like doing, their families, pets or where they were born.
Library Books
Hello Year 5/6S
Good morning Year 5/6 S. How are you all this morning? I hope you all had a lovely weekend. The weather is glorious this morning which will definitely make everyone feel happy today. I hope your home learning is still going well. Please make sure you keep emailing me and sending me photos of your work- I love hearing from you. I am missing having all our class together, even though it’s been lovely having some children back in school.
Anyway, enjoy your Monday and the lovely weather.
Missing you all.
Mrs H.x
The Runaway Train
Good morning. We hope that you all had a good weekend and enjoyed Miss Backhouse’s story time on Friday. Today’s story is called ‘The Runaway Train’ and is all about Duffy Driver and his adventures on The Little Red Train. It is one of a series of books written by Benedict Blathwayt.
Did you enjoy the story? Here are some things to talk about after you have listened together.
- What did Duffy Driver forget to do at the beginning of the story?
- Can you remember some of the different types of transport that he used to try and catch up with the train?
- How did Duffy Driver manage to get back onto the train?
Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.
Role play – We love to build trains, boats and other vehicles at Nursery using a whole variety of resources. Can you make a train at home? Have a look around and see what you can find to use. You might put your dining chairs in a line or make a row of cushions on the floor. If you have any cardboard boxes you could use those. Where will you go on the train? What can you see out of the window?
Do you need a ticket? Cut some small pieces of paper and use them as tickets. The conductor could collect them and write on where each passenger is travelling to. Remember, writing for a purpose is great way to get children mark making in Nursery. Writing/mark making of all forms is valued – from lines and circles to zig zags and crosses.
Small world – Do you have a train track at home? Have a go at building a circle track together. Children can usually join pieces of track together, but they often find it difficult to work out how to make the track join together to form a loop. Have a go and send us a photograph of your completed track!
Creative – Have you ever noticed that different vehicles leave different tracks? If it’s a sunny day, drive your toy vehicle through some water and see if it leaves a track on the floor outside. Alternatively, put some paint on a plate and get some paper – the bigger the better! You could use the back of some old wallpaper or wrapping paper. Dip your vehicle’s wheels into the paint and drive it along the paper. What tracks does it make? Remember to wash your vehicles before the paint dries too much!
If you don’t want to get too messy, you could draw your own roads or train tracks. We often put a large cardboard box or piece of paper on the floor at Nursery and ask children to draw roads or track. We then add other details such as ponds and trees. Children love to create their own towns and roads/tracks to drive the trains and cars along.
If you don’t have any small vehicles at home, you could make your own simple train using shoe boxes!
Sing a long at home – These are two of our favourite songs to listen to before home time at Nursery.
- Where will the Magic Train Ride take you?
- This Little Train goes.. We move our arms by our sides, in time with the music, pretending to be trains. Do you need to move your arms quickly or slowly?
Mathematics
- Next time you go for a walk, have a look for the numbers that are all around you. Can you spot any numbers on the cars? Children are not expected to know the numbers yet, but they may begin to recognise numerals of personal significance such as 3 or 4 for their age.
- How many red/blue/white cars can you count as you walk along the path?
- Look at a selection of different vehicles including bikes, cars, buses and vans – How many wheels do they have?
Watch – Find out more about steam trains and different types of train with Catie and her amazing machines.
Get active – Duffy Driver tried to catch the train on a bicycle. Have you got a bike, scooter or ride on toy? Go outside and have a go at using the pedals or balancing. Remember to be safe and wear your cycle helmet.
We look forward to reading your emails and finding out all about your adventures this week.
22 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Read: Play tricky word countdown
Write: Write the tricky words on scrap pieces of paper to help prepare for the game below!
Parents/Carers: you could read the words below and ask your child to write them without looking.
Activity: Play tricky word boo!
How to prepare:
Write some tricky words on scrap pieces of paper.
Fold them up and put them into a cup.
Write the word ‘boo’ on some scrap pieces of paper.
Fold them up and put them into a cup.
How to play:
1.Collect a word out of the cup and read it. Remember to keep the words you read.
2.Take it in turns to take a word out of the cup to read.
3.If you get ‘boo’ put all your words back.
4.The person with the most words wins!
→Need more of a challenge? Can you fill in the gaps in the sentences below? Adults: the challenge here is for your child to spell the ‘high frequency words’ correctly rather than what we usually expect – phonetically.
Answers:
1.Do you have any pencils?
2.She went to the park.
3.Come over here right now!
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock 14 video.
2.Can you count backwards from 20 to 0?
3.Can you do 14 hops, claps, jumps? Remember to stop at 14.
4.Can you show 14 on a ten frame?
5.Can you tell a less than number story using first, then and now? E.g. First there were 14 bees in the hive. Then 2 flew out. Now there are 12 bees left in the hive.
→Need more of a challenge? Can you share 14 toys between each member of your family? How many do you each have? Is it fair? How could you make it fair?
Literacy
Listen to the story We’re Different, We’re the Same.
What you will need:
A box, a mirror, paper, colouring pencils and/or collaging materials.
1.Place a mirror inside a box. Ask your child to guess what is inside the box. Explain that we will all see something different when we look inside.
3.After you have looked inside, draw/create what you saw. This is a nice activity to get the whole family involved in.
4.Talk about and encourage your child to discover that everyone is different, however some of us have similarities.
Home Learning Pictures
This week, the outdoor maths activity proved to be a hit. Well done everyone for using your maths skills to answer lots of tricky questions and also the grown ups for having to think of lots of additional questions too!
We have also had some more instructional writing through. We now know how to bake a cake, make a Sonic, make a key ring and make a flapjack.
Finally, it’s been lovely to see some of you enjoying the creative task of making stick puppets for the story of the week.
Have a lovely weekend 🙂
Hall of (home learning) Fame
Hello everyone
We hope you’re all OK and are keeping yourselves happy, healthy and safe.
This week, we’ve all completed some awesome home learning. However, one topic in particular seemed to catch the attention of our forward-thinking, considerate class members: Black Lives Matter.
If you haven’t seen this learning, you’re in luck. These awesome entrants to #HoHLF have summarised it perfectly for you.
Click here to see an amazing presentation from Ellis – well done, Ellis! You’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame #HoHLF.
And, click here to see another amazing presentation from this superstar.
Well done, you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame #HoHLF.
19 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Sing the tricky word songs.
Words to Read:
Tricky word countdown! Can you read the tricky words?
Phonics Activity:
Can you spot any tricky words in the story? How many did you find? Now, read the story.
→Need more of a challenge? Can you go on a tricky word scavenger hunt? Adults – you could write the tricky words on paper and hide around the house OR write them in chalk hidden outside. You’re child could then use a tick sheet to find and read the tricky words.
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
1.It’s puppet show time! Use the puppets, setting and story map you have made to retell the story ‘The monkey puzzle’.
2.You could record your puppet show and email it to us.
Here is a quick example of how you could present your puppet show by Mrs Flynn.
Story Time
It’s been lovely to receive so many positive comments about our website posts this week -thank you. We’re really pleased to hear how much children are enjoying listening to their Key Workers read stories each week. It’s good to know that seeing some familiar faces is helping many children that are missing being at Nursery and playing with friends.
Miss Backhouse is going to read today’s story. It’s called ‘Look Out Ladybird!’ and is written by Jack Tickle (published by Little Tiger Press) . It’s all about a little ladybird that is learning to fly.
Here are a few activities that you might like to join in.
- If you enjoyed the ‘Under the sea’ counting game on Topmarks, you may also like counting the ladybird’s spots too.
- Did you like the hunting for minibeasts? This weekend, there’s a ‘Great Yorkshire Creature Count’ that you could join in with. You can find out more about it on the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust website.
- The Ladybird was trying to learn how to fly in the story and it made us think of other things that fly. At Nursery, children love to make their own kites using resources in our craft area. If there’s a windy day and you have a kite, see if you can fly it high up into the sky. If you don’t have one, join in with Maddie and have a go at making your own. You could gather some sticks or use BBQ skewers if you have some. Be careful with the scissors and sharp points.
- Watch ‘Let’s Go For a Walk‘ and find out about bugs and how to do bark rubbings on a tree. We’d love to see a photo if you have a go at doing a bark rubbing too.
- Sometimes, it’s nice to have a sweet treat to enjoy at the weekend. We know lots of grown ups love to join in with The Great British Bake Off. Why not have a go at baking some Ladybird cupcakes or biscuits? Yum yum! If you wanted to make it healthier and keep it simple, you could just add chocolate dots to strawberries like the decorations on the cupcakes.
Home Learning
Lots of you went on minibeast hunts before the rain set in on Thursday. Mrs Beesley has seen lots of ladybirds in the garden at school and Mrs Long spotted an orange ladybird on a leaf in Temple Newsam. Did you find any? Here are some photographs of your friends from this week.
