The journey home
The chicks have grown even more since our last post on Monday. Mrs Long was having to refill their food several times a day! Yesterday, we decided it was time for them to return home to the farm where they can enjoy having a larger space to run around in.
Here are a few photos of them this week; you can see how much their feathers have grown. They also got even better at jumping and 3 of them managed to jump out of the cage when it was opened!
They were quite happy on the journey to the farm, pecking the box and eating some more food! Here are some photos of their journey and them waiting to meet Robert, the farmer.
We hope you enjoyed watching our chicks grow as much as Mrs Long and her family did. In the future, when places re-open, you might enjoy visiting them in their new home with your families.
3 April 2020: Home learning
Day 10 of your home learning pack
Music time!
Did your child make their own actions to the spring song? Can your child see any signs of spring in the garden?
Maths
Doubling! When teaching your children to double we talk about adding the same amount again. There is a fun doubles song your child may enjoy singing.
Letter formation
Has your child been singing the letter formation ditty’s whilst writing? Letters that are often difficult are s,b,d,e and a. Encourage your child to practise these.
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
Story Time
Happy Friday, Nursery! Have you had a good week? We hope that you enjoyed seeing all of your teachers on Wednesday and that you had fun joining in with some of the Supertato activities. What was your favourite?
Today, Mrs Beesley is going to read one of our favourite Nursery stories, ‘The Monkey with a bright blue bottom’ written by Steve Smallman (published by Little Tiger Press). The story is about a cheeky monkey who stumbles across a paintbox and decides to have some fun. Nursery, don’t tell your grown up what happens; we know you love the funny ending!
Here are a few questions and things to talk about after you’ve listened to the story.
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- Why did the monkey think the birds were pretty?
- What colour were all of the animals at the beginning of the story?
- What happened when the leopard growled in his sleep?
- Can you remember what the monkey painted on the bear? (What are spectacles?)
- How did the animals feel when they woke up and saw what the monkey had done?
- How do you think monkey felt when he was surrounded by all of the animals? Does he feel differently at the end of the story when they all laugh at him?
- Which is your favourite animal? Why?
- Think about the animals at the beginning of the story (grey) and at the end of the story (colourful). Which do you prefer? Why?
If you enjoyed the story and would like to do a few activities, here are a couple of ideas to get you started.
- Twinkl has some jungle animal colouring pages if you have a printer.
- We enjoy singing and moving to the songs ‘Animal Boogie‘ and ‘Walking through the jungle‘ at Nursery. Can you move like the animals in the story? You could hide some toy animals around the house or garden and make some binoculars (cardboard tubes or roll up some paper) to go on your own jungle walk.
- Draw and cut out some basic animal outlines and enjoy being cheeky monkeys with some paints or pens. What colour would you make a snake? What pattern would you draw on a giraffe?
Home Learning
Thank you again to everyone who has been in touch via our email. We really love to see what you have all been doing whilst keeping safe at home. It’s great to see so many happy faces. Here are a few of your friends learning and having fun at home…
Miss Morris and Miss Logan have enjoyed joining in too! Miss Logan made a ‘book in a box’ for Supertato and his veggie friends.
02 April 2020: Hall of (home learning) Fame
It’s great to know that you are all still working well on your learning at home. Some people have even created very precise learning timetables – I’m really impressed! I love it when people are organised.
Below are a couple of photos from Lilia and Freya who have been busy completing the year 6 maths challenges. Well done!
Arty afternoon
Today, with my children, I have been researching the artist Henri Rousseau, a French painter born in 1844. He created many paintings of jungles, however because he had never visited a jungle, he based his ideas on trips to botanical gardens in Paris. My children and I had a go at creating our own jungle scenes and we used water colours to add colour.
Can you guess which one is mine?
Have a go at researching an artist and creating your own piece of art. Have fun!
Mrs H.x
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.
“Setting this up is really easy to do – go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS”
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
