Week Commencing 25.01.20: Home Learning
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Book of the week- Watch the Gruffalo or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- 1. How does the mouse feel when he sets off on his journey through the woods? 2. Do you think the mouse likes the other animals: owl, fox and snake? 3. Why do you think the mouse tells the other animals he is going to have tea with the Gruffalo? 4. Do you think the Gruffalo is afraid of the mouse? |
| Phonics- qu
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activity 1: Have a go at reading this sentence. Did you spot today’s new phoneme? Activity 2: Can you work out the missing phonemes for these ‘qu’ words? Write the words in a list. |
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| Maths- Number 7
Click here to watch today’s maths video. |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- ch
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Write the words to match these pictures. You could print these phoneme frames, or draw your own. Parents: If you are unsure, click here to view the words. Activity 2: Have a go at writing this sentence. Parents: Read the sentence aloud. |
| Math – Number 7
Click here to watch today’s maths video. |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- sh
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activity 1: Have a go at writing this sentence. Parents: Read the sentence aloud. |
| Maths- Number 7
Click here to watch today’s maths video. |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words – was
Click here to watch today’s phonics video |
| Maths- Click here to watch today’s video.
Activity 1: Play ‘Guess the Shape’ with an adult. Describe a shape, remembering to say how many sides and corners it has and to be specific, e.g. “It has 4 sides. It has 4 corners. It has 4 equal sides.” See who can guess the most shapes correctly. Activity 2: Go on a 2d shape hunt around your house. What 2d shapes might you find? If you have access to an electronic device, take photos of the shapes you find. |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers – RSPB Bird watching
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. Activity 2: Follow these instructions and make an apple bird feeder.
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| Story time- Handa’s Surprise
Click here to watch today’s story read by Mrs Wilkins. Sit back, relax and enjoy the story. 2. Which is your favourite animal in the book? 3. Which fruit would you like to eat? 4. What is Handa’s surprise? 5. How do you show kindness towards your friends?
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Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
Can you write a recipe for Gruffalo Crumble? Write a list of all of the ingredients you will need. Think about the things that the mouse might find in a deep dark wood.
Can you make a sign to warn people about the Gruffalo ? What would you write on your sign? Think of some interesting warning words.
Can you draw and label a map of the mouse’s journey through the deep dark wood? Who did he meet first in the story? Where did he find the owl?
Understanding the World
Find out about owls and some other birds of prey by watching Andy’s Secret Hideout.
Can you find out some more interesting facts about owls?
Do you have any dried spaghetti at home? How does it feel, is it hard or soft? Adults could you cook the pasta and watch it with your child. Talk about the changes. How does it feel once it has been cooked? Now you have your own bowl of scrambled snake to enjoy.
Expressive Arts and Design
Can you make a Gruffalo or a mouse headband? Use some paper and sellotape then colour it in. You could then act out the story. Are you going to be the mouse or the Gruffalo?
Physical Development
Using your fiddly fingers thread some tubes of pasta onto a piece of string, ribbon or an old shoelace. Can you add on eyes and make your snake slither around?
If you haven’t got any pasta you could make a paper chain snake or cut out a spiral snake from some paper.
Cosmic yoga – Here is a cosmic yoga video that links to owls. It tells the story of Tallulah the owlet. We really enjoy cosmic yoga at school and we hope that you do at home too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aje33UPixE&t=552
Online Gruffalo Activities
Click here and play some Gruffalo games.
Monster maker – make your own Gruffalo – choose your own face, body and legs. What would you call the new Gruffalo? If you have access to a printer you can print it out and colour it in.
Hide and Seek – play the matching game with the Gruffalo cards.
Menu matcher – is a short quiz about the Gruffalo story.
Zoom Meetings
We really enjoyed seeing and chatting to the children who were able to join our Zoom sessions last week. The Zoom session you were invited to is a recurring session during term time. Please join at the same day and time with the link that you were sent.
W/C 25.01.21 Be ready for a ‘Scavenger Hunt’. We will ask you to go and find different things in your house to show and chat about.
W/C 01.02.21 We will ask your child to join in Dough Disco during the Zoom call. Please could you have some play dough ready. Here is a simple recipe to make your own if needed.
Have a brilliant week of learning and fun! Remember to email photographs of learning to scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Week Commencing 18.01.20: Home Learning
| Monday
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Book of the week- Watch the story SUPERTATO or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- Where is the story set? Who are the main characters in the story? What fruit and vegetables do you like to eat? Why is it important to eat fruit and vegetables? |
| Phonics- x
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Write a word, caption or sentence to match the picture.
Activity 2: Go to phonicsbloom.com. Choose phase 2 games. Play: Fishy Phonics |
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Tuesday | Phonics- y
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Write a caption or word to match the picture.
Activity 2: Here is the link to PhonicsPlay – click here Select phase 3 then +y. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Wednesday | Phonics- z/zz
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘z’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial or ending sound ‘z’?
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activity: |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; – Keeping warm in winter
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. Can you design an outfit to keep Professor Myers warm when she goes out for her winter walks? Can you think of some ways of moving to keep warm when it’s cold outside? Which one worked best?
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| Story time- Superworm
Click here to watch today’s story. Questions to discuss- How did Superworm’s friends save him? How many different ways is Superworm used in the story? Superworm finds lots of ways to help his friends. How can you be kind and helpful to others?
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Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
- Design and label your own character to match the story. You may choose to draw, paint or use real vegetables.
- Pick a character to draw and add a speech bubble. What is your character saying?
Understanding the World
- Find some fruits and vegetables around your house. Sort them into different groups.
You might sort by colour, size or texture.
- 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?
Expressive Arts and Design
- Draw a vegetable.
Use your own imagination or this drawing tutorial.
- Use a mash potato masher to make some super art.
Physical Development
1. With an adult, cut some fruit or vegetables to make a heathy snack.
How many pieces did you cut?
2. Superhero PE – create your own moves or use these below.
Zoom sessions
Next week, the children who are learning from home will be invited to a zoom session with their teacher. This zoom session will be with a group of children from their class. You will find the focus of the zoom session on the website each Friday. Sometimes your child will need to bring something along with them. Your child does not have to join in with these zooms, they are optional. Unfortunately the timings of these zooms cannot be changed as most teachers are teaching in school. Look out for the link to your child’s zoom which will be sent via email on a Friday.
We are looking forward to seeing you all.
Week Commencing 11.01.20: Home Learning
| Monday
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Book of the week- Watch the story Lost and Found or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- How is the boy feeling when the penguin first arrives at his door? Why does the penguin follow the boy? What does he want? The penguin was lonely… What does it mean to be lonely? How can we help others when they are feeling lonely? What can we do when we feel lonely ourselves? |
| Phonics- j
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘j’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘j’? Activity 2: Take turns with an adult to play ‘Roll and Read’ (j focus) click here to either print the word mat, or view it on screen. You will need a die or to draw 1-6 dots on 6 pieces of paper and draw at random from a bag. 1. Roll the dice
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Alive in 5!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1 Activity: Click here for today’s activity. Encourage your child to speak in full sentences when describing the number composition, for example: “There are three frogs in the pond and there are two frogs on the grass. There are 5 frogs altogether” or “There are 4 toys on the bed and there is one toy on the floor. There are 5 toys altogether” |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- v
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘v’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘v’? Activity 2: Here is the link to ‘fishy phonics’ on the Phonics Bloom website- click here Select phase 2, set 5. Try the hard level initially, change to easy if this is a bit tricky. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- w
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘w’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘w’? Activity 2: Write ‘yes’ and ‘no on two separate pieces of paper and put them at either side of the room. Ask your child to read these questions (click here) one at a time and then run to either the yes or the no answer. Encourage your child to point to each word on the screen as they read the question. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, draw 5 of anything you like on a piece of paper and cut them out. This will work just as well for the activity! |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words he/she
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a Tricky Word Detective! Can you find any tricky words in the books you have at home? Activity 2: Write a sentence using one of the new tricky words. Steps to writing a successful sentence… 1.Think of a sentence. 2. Say the sentence out loud. 3. Count the words in your sentence. 4. Use your phoneme fingers to segment every word. 5. Check your sentence makes sense. 6. Have you remembered a capital letter at the start, finger spaces throughout and a full stop at the end? Activity 3: Rainbow writing tricky words- use a variety of colours to practice spelling all of the phase 2 tricky words. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Exploring Ice-
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. -Can you carry out the ice experiments in the video from Professor Myers? Remember to make some predictions about what you think will happen first. -Can you draw and label a picture to show what you did? |
| Story time- Oi Frog! With Miss Booth
Click here to watch today’s story. Questions to discuss- What do you notice about the sounds in the story? (It is a rhyming story) Can you come up with a different animal and rhyming object for them to sit on (that has not been included in the story)? |
Story link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
- Make a story map of the key events in the story Lost and Found. We practice creating these lots in class.
- Sometimes, when people lose a pet, they put up posters to help find them again. Can you make a ‘lost’ poster for the Penguin in Lost and Found. Don’t forget to add lots of details describing the penguin, so that the reader knows what to look out for. What does the penguin look like? What colour is it? How big is it?
- The story doesn’t have any speech in it. Ask your grown up to draw out a speech bubble and pretend you are the boy from the story (perhaps you could draw him next to the speech bubble) Have a go at writing what you think he might have said when he first met the penguin.
A writing reminder
How did your child find the writing activity? Remember its okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important that your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling them correctly. We encourage the children to use their own skills, rather than copying an adult.
Understanding the World
Spend some time watching the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo:
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/penguin-cam/
What do you notice about them?
How do they move? (perhaps you can walk like a penguin too!)
Do they like to be alone or in groups?
Do they live on land, in the water, or both?
These penguins are in a zoo. Where can we find penguins in the wild? Ask an adult to help you find this information in a book or by using the internet.
Expressive Arts and Design
- Build a boat for your toys! You could use any construction toys you have at home (such as lego, duplo) natural or found objects outside, or recycled food packaging. Perhaps you could tell a story about an adventure your toys go on in their brand new boat!
- Make a ‘Paper Roll Penguin’ You could follow this guide or, if you do not have coloured paper, create your own version using plain paper, the paper roll and colouring pens or pencils!
Physical Development
Get Moving! Join in with this Jack Hartman Penguin Dance: video
Did you know… ‘PE with Joe’ is back? Joe Wicks is hosting his live PE sessions again from Monday 11th January 2021, 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9am) You can subscribe to his channel here for alerts. A great way to keep fit at home!
Home Learning
An update on our Home Learning…
This is what you can expect to see on your child’s class news page each week during lockdown.
The learning for week beginning 11.01.21 will be posted on Sunday 10.01.21. All subsequent weeks will be posted on a Friday evening.
As teachers are also teaching our key worker children in school, these videos may not be from your child’s teacher. However, every Friday the children will be able to enjoy a story read by an adult from their class.
Each week a menu of activities will be presented that can be completed during the week. This menu will relate to the book of the week. The activities will cover all aspects of the Early Years curriculum. There will also be the following screencasts and videos.
| Monday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Tuesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Wednesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Thursday | A tricky word screencast with follow up activities
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Friday | An Understanding the World video with “ Professor Myers” with follow up activities
A story read by one of the Foundation 2 (Reception) team, with talk time activities. |
As always, your child’s teachers will be available via email for any questions. We will also endeavor contact you by phone once per week, just to check in with you.
08 January 2021: Home Learning
| Friday 08.01.21- Home Learning |
| Phonics- Word Box
Re-read the words you have covered so far. Have a go at writing 5 words from the word boxes (read aloud by an adult) |
| Science
Today Professor Myers is showing us an experiment on why hand washing is so important! -To watch professor Myers’ video click here -Have a listen to this fun handwashing song, which reminds us how to ensure we wash our hands properly. -Make a poster to show people how to wash their hands. -Have you had a go at the experiment at home? Don’t forget to send us your photos! |
| Physical Activity
Pretend to play ‘snowball fight’ 1.Roll up a pair of socks in your hands, use your ‘funky fingers’ to squeeze and pat your ‘snowball’ 2.Play catch and pass with another person in your house, using your ‘snowball’ 3. Find a bucket, box or another target. See if you can throw your ‘snowball’ into the target!
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| Craft activity
Ice painting (One to prepare the night before!) Use an ice cube tray and mix a little paint or food colouring in water, add a lolly stick or natural stick from outside and freeze overnight. You will have your very own ice paintbrush J Use your brush to paint a picture- you might want to take this activity outside! Discuss what happens to your ice brush as the ice gets warm.
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07 January 2021: Home Learning
| Thursday 07.01.21- Home Learning |
| Phonics
Complete today’s phonics video with Mrs Allen-Kelly: You will need a pen and paper ready, or something to write with. |
| Maths
Recapping up to number 5 Please follow this link and join in with Session 2 today. |
| Literacy
(Technology link) Yesterday, we heard the story Little Penguin Learns to Swim. For today’s literacy activity, we would like you to find out a little more about your favourite polar animal from the story. Use a non-fiction book or the internet to learn a fact about your animal. Draw and label a picture of the animal you have chosen.
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| Nature Activity
Signs of Winter- talk time: How do we know that it is cold outside/ what can we see? What have you noticed on the ground this week? What clothes do we wear in Winter and why? Perhaps you could find a suitable ‘Winter outfit’ in your cupboard. What do you like to do outside in Winter? Don’t forget to send us pictures of you enjoying the snow or a Winter walk outside. |
06 January 2021: Home Learning
| Wednesday 06.01.21- Home Learning |
| Phonics
Revisit phase 2 sounds: Revisit phase 2 tricky words:
Read the caption:
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| Maths
Recapping up to number 5 Please follow this link and join in with Session 1 today. |
| Literacy
Watch the video of Mrs Allen-Kelly reading Little Penguin Learns to Swim. Have a chat about the following questions: -Which polar animals did little penguin come across in the story? -How was little penguin feeling about getting into the water at the start? -What did little penguin notice about his friends and learning new things? -Can you think of a time when you had to be brave when learning something new? |
| Physical Activity
Take part in the ‘Winter Wonderland’ cosmic yoga video. Great for our bodies and minds! |
Messages from your teachers…
Hello Reception!
We hope you are all well and ready for a new term of learning, whether you are at home or at school.
Here are some special messages from your teachers…
Here is an example table of what might be posted in a typical week of home-learning for Reception:
Whilst some activities are subject to change, there will always be a phonics, maths and literacy activity Monday-Thursday and a science and story-time activity each Friday.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns:
scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Home Learning
Following the news last night, we will be producing a daily interactive home learning menu.
Here some lessons and activities to complete today.
Phonics
Listen and join in the Jolly Phonics songs.
Point and say each sound on the sound mat.
Write the word to match each picture.
Write a caption to match the picture.
Maths
Watch the number formation song.
Write numbers and find objects to match each numeral.
Topic
Draw and label one of your Christmas presents or favourite toy.
Challenge – write a sentence.
It’s Christmas!
It has been a busy half term with lots of fun and learning along the way.
This week has been a Christmas filled extravaganza.
The children loved watching the pantomime. Thank you Friend of Scholes Primary (FOSP) for paying for us to watch this!
Sunshine and Rainbow have also become expert sprout peelers!
We enjoyed our Christmas dinner with some extra dinner guests.
We had a visit from Professor Myers. She had been in touch with Santa and the elves to bring a candy cane experiment.
How strong is a candy cane?
We tested different objects in our classroom and recorded our results.
From everyone in Sunshine and Rainbow, we would like to wish you all a merry Christmas!