Reading at home
We have had a few emails asking what to do when children have finished reading their school reading books.
Any books you read at home will be fine; story books, comics, magazines, dictionaries, atlases, chapter books, recipes or lists. The children don’t need to be able to read every single word independently. You can read to them, take turns, look for words they can read and talk about the book.
There are also lots of e books on Twinkl for free, ranging from traditional tales to information texts – https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/literacy/reading/reading-ebooks
Just keep reading!
Calling ALL Writing Warriors!
If your child is a Writing Warrior and would like to continue to complete the home-learning missions we can help!
We have been given Wiz’s top secret email address and will be able to email any missions completed to him. Wiz will then be able to send a new mission to your child! Just email us (Scholesf2@spherefederation.org) your child’s completed mission. We will then pass this onto Wiz and email back his message and a new mission.
30 March 2020: Home learning
Day 6 of your home learning pack
Phonics
Was your child able to blend the four daily words today? Remember, your child could use their ‘phoneme fingers’ (see video) to help them when reading words.
Maths
Did you find the subitising video on YouTube?
Literacy
Did your child help you cook or bake today? What did they bake? Did they write any instructions? Please email us any photos and comments – it would be great to see your child cooking/baking!
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails during school hours: scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Supertato!
We hope you enjoyed the weekend and found some fun things to do at home and in your garden. This week, we will be thinking about the story Supertato by Sue Henndra. You might have this story at home, but if not we have posted a link to it on YouTube.
Read or listen to the story with your child – talk about the various vegetables that they can see in the story. Are there any vegetables that they haven’t seen before? Which vegetable is their favourite to eat? Talk about evil pea and how he is being unkind to the other vegetables. It is always a good idea to revisit the story throughout the week, your child may even be able to retell the story, in their own words, using the pictures to help them.
Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.
How many different ways do we eat potato? Talk about this with your child eg mashed potato, chips, jacket potato, crisps.
Make your own Supertato or super vegetable – Draw on the eyes with a marker and add a paper cape with sellotape. Send us a picture via the email we would love to see your creations.
Have a try at vegetable printing or drawing your favourite vegetable. What colour is it? What shape is it?
Sorting carrots –Which are long, which are short? Can you put them in order from shortest to longest? Use the words long, longest, short and shortest with your child. How many carrots have you got? Count carefully pointing to each carrot as you go.
Evil Pea – If you have frozen peas in your freezer have a look at them in their frozen state. Feel them, what do they feel like? Watch them defrost. How long does it take? Does it defrost more quickly in different places around your house? Use the words “frozen” and “melting” with your child.
Make a sign – tell evil pea to stop being unkind. Ask your child what they want it to say and write this for them. They can add pictures of evil pea and maybe a STOP sign.
Let us know how you get on by replying to the email address scholesf1@spherefederation.org. We would love to hear about what you have been doing. Also we are happy to answer any of your questions too.
Have fun!
Chick news
If you have been keeping up to date with our chick news, you’ll know that we were going to move the chicks into a bigger cage this weekend. They love the extra space and have been running around and starting to flap their wings. The chicks are getting better at jumping too; they can now jump over the side and escape when we open the door to feed them.
They’re growing quickly and are really hungry; we’ve been filling their food tray up several times a day. This also means that they poo a lot too! Mrs Long’s first job today is to clean them out and give them some fresh water.
They’ll be going back to the farm soon to join the other chicks and mother hens. We’ll let you know when they do and post a few final photographs of them before they go home.
Hello 1K
Hi everyone
It has been lovely to see all the photos of your fabulous home learning. I can see you have been working hard and enjoying the lovely weather.
I have been in school this week and have definitely missed all of your smiling faces. The classroom isn’t the same without you all (athough it is very tidy).
Now that the weather is getting nicer and it is beginning to warm up, my garden is waking up too, with flowers opening, birds singing and insects all around. Have you seen this in your own gardens or when you have been out walking? I have seen bumblebees, butterflies, baby rabbits and a red kite this week. Keep your eyes out for new wildlife and let me know what you see.
I can’t wait to see and hear more of what you have been up to and learning about.
Miss Parling
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Chicks and home learning pictures
Mrs Latham is kindly looking after our chicks. She has some ‘eggciting’ news to share. There are now 6 chicks. With the help of her family they have come up with some great names.
This chick is called Rapid…can you guess why?
We have also had lots of lovely emails, sharing all the wonderful learning that you have been doing at home. It’s great to see that as well as the daily home learning tasks, lots of you have been busy coming up with your own ideas too. For example, becoming scientists and doing the pepper and soap experiment, making dinosaur eggs from ice, going on bug hunts around the garden and making potions.
We love reading these emails. Please continue to send us messages and pictures with what you have been up to. We’ve shared a few pictures of your friends in F2.
We hope the sun continues to shine. Have a lovely weekend.
Lovely learning
The sunshine has helped keep everyone’s spirits up during this first week of our new routine. We hope you are all well and keep sending us pictures of your lovely learning.
27 March 2020: Hall of (home learning) Fame
Hey everyone
I hope you’re all well and keeping safe. Mr Freeman says hi, too.
It has been great to hear from so many people today. If you haven’t emailed me yet please do. It’s been lovely to catch up with people and has really brightened up my mood. If everyone got in touch, I’d be super happy.
Today marks a special day for a few people as they officially get inducted into the Hall of (home learning) Fame. This is a huge achievement so a big well done. If you’d like to be considered for this special accolade please send your photos via email.
This person completed the maths learning and corrected some mistakes. Mrs Hogarth claims she put them there on purpose – I’m not convinced but I’ll let you decide. Congratulations, Alfie – you’ve made it in to the highly prestigious Hall of (home learning) Fame!
This person mixed creativity with PE and came up with an awesome assault course for her whole family – great work. Things like this will definitely keep you and your family happy and healthy. Congratulations, you are in the Hall of (home learning) Fame!
An excellent character description from Lucy here. I love the ENPs (explain to your adults what these are) and the varied language used. Well done, Lucy – you’re in. Welcome to the Hall of (home learning) Fame!
And here, we see a classic ‘working from home pose’ from our final entrant of the day. It’s great to see you’ve been completing the learning tasks to keep your mind happy and healthy. Well done – you’re in. Welcome to the Hall of (home learning) Fame!
Stay tuned for more entrants to our Hall of (home learning) Fame over the coming days. It would be great to have a load of pictures to post.
Send photos to your class teacher’s email address accompanied by #HoHLF. Terms and conditions apply.
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.
P.S When I write these posts, I imagine I’m a mix of Ant & Dec and a really cheesy game show host. It might help if you read them with this in mind!
Marvellous Messages
Thank you very much to all the children who have been in touch with me today. It’s been great to hear from you and hear how you are getting on with your home learning. It has also been really nice that some of you have asked how I am. That’s a really nice quality to show, so thank you.
Here are some photos that I have received from Ava, showing me all the learning she is doing at home. She even tried the soap and pepper experiment to show the importance of washing your hands. At least we don’t have to line up at the sink and sing the Conga anymore! Take care all of you.
Mrs H.x
