Isolating at home? This learning is for you.
Here is some home learning for when you can’t be with us at school.
Remember to send pictures of your child’s home learning to scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Maths
This week’s maths learning is on our focus number 4.
Click on the screencast links below:
Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
More maths fun at home…
In class this week, we will be setting up a ‘shop’ and using pennies to pay for items. Perhaps you would like to play shop at home too?
Phonics
This week we will be learning l/ ll and ss.
Watch and join in the Jolly Phonics songs.
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
- Lesson 1: Screencast new sound l/ll
- Lesson 2: Screencast new sound ss
- Tricky words recap- watch the tricky words youtube video to recap all the words we have learnt in phase 2!
- We have now reached the end of phase 2! Until the end of term we will be doing lots of revision of the sounds we have learnt so far!
Here are all of our sounds on a mat. Go through the sounds each day.
Have a go at reading the following words:
Literacy
This week we are moving on to a new Pirates topic and reading the story – Pirates Love Underpants
- Lesson 1: Watch the story. Recap the main events. What characters are in the story? Create a story map of the events that happen.
- Lesson 2: Oh No! Someone has stolen the golden underpants! Can you create a WANTED poster describing the person we are looking for. Draw the person and add some word labels to describe them, using your sounds.
- Lesson 3: Make a treasure map. Add words to label the map. You might like to have a go at tea staining your map to make it look old and well-used!
- Lesson 4: Create your own pirate adventure by changing the setting or characters. Add your new characters/setting to your story map or create a new one. You can be as imaginative as you like! Make sure you tell your story to an adult, so they can let us know all about your super adventure!
Topic
Choose some of these activities to complete throughout the week. These are based on our new Pirate topic! They may spark other interests and ideas that result in other learning opportunities. Let your child lead the learning!
| Draw a Pirate!
Use your own imagination or this drawing tutorial. How to draw a pirate tutorial. Great for listening and attentions skills, following step-by-step instructions. |
| Make a floating bottle top boat with things you find around the house
Great for using materials with purpose, experimenting with floating and sinking and using vocabulary to describe the process. |
| Go on a shape ‘treasure hunt’ around the house
Can you find an object to match each shape: circle, square, rectangle and triangle.
Great for keeping active and shape recognition! |
| Buried Treasure Phonics Game- Free to play
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure Great for practising phonics skills and using technology to complete an age appropriate programme. |
| Popcorn and the Pirates Cosmic Yoga
Great for keeping active and mindfulness. |
| Peg Pictures!
Draw and cut out a sea animal. Use your fiddly fingers to peg on some parts of your creature. It could be an octopus with 8 legs, a spiky fish or a shark head with sharp peg teeth!
Great for fine motor skills, imagination and understanding the world (sealife) |
More Nursery Rhyme Fun…
Our World Nursery Rhyme Week learning areas…
Rainbow Class Superstars singing their favourite nursery rhymes…
(click the image below)
Rhyme Week
It has been a week full of rhymes for Rhyme Week.
We performed our favourite nursery rhymes and used our characters to help us act them out. Can you guess what rhymes we have been recreating?
Our focus book this week was – Each Peach Pear Plum.
We had lots of fun playing I spy to find the characters hiding on each page.
As well as nursery rhyme week, it was only anti-bullying week. Lots of children came to school in the socks to celebrate their individuality and how we are all unique!
Home-Link Challenge
In class, children have loved creating treasure maps and exploring the classroom and outside for treasure. Our provision next week will be based around pirates to support their interest.
Can you create a map of a journey you go on outside or in your house? You might choose add landmarks you see, arrows to show your journey or label your map.
Email your maps to – scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Anti-bullying week 19-20 November 2020
This week, it’s Anti-Bullying Week and the theme for this year is ‘United against bullying’.
We took part in Odd Socks Day this Monday to celebrate our differences.
STOP is a key message linked to bullying. In our school, STOP stands for two things:
- the definition: Several Times On Purpose
- the solution: Start Telling Other People
Recently, our school council (now called the Junior Leadership team) met to review our school definition of bullying and our child friendly anti-bullying policy. Thank you to the JLT for their valued contributions. As a result, our definition and policy have now been updated.
Child friendly anti-bullying policy
What is bullying?
In our school, this is what bullying means:
Bullying is where you hurt someone, physically or emotionally (including online), several times on purpose.
What might bullying look like?
If any of these things happen several (lots of) times, it is bullying.
- Hurting peoples’ feelings, for example, name calling, teasing, threatening, ignoring, leaving people out or spreading rumours
- Hurting peoples’ bodies, for example, hitting, punching or kicking
This could be in person or online (cyber bullying) and could be because of someone’s race, disability, gender, appearance, age or any other protected characteristic.
What could you do if you are being bullied?
Start
Telling
Other
People
Who could you tell?
- Miss Hague, Miss Pallister, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Beesley or Mr Roundtree (they are child protection staff)
- Any other members of staff
- Friends
- Someone in your family
- A trusted adult
- Childline (0800 1111)
- Write a worry slip and put it in your classroom Voice Box or the whole school worry box
- Email stayingsafe@spherefederation.org
Our views on bullying
STOP bullying – bullying is wrong! We’re a happy and healthy school.
Parent Partnership
Please find our Parent Partnership presentation link below. It is a PowerPoint presentation. If you are unable to access the file, please let us know.
After you have viewed the presentation, please let us know if you have any questions.
The Reception Team.
Isolating at home? This learning is for you.
Here is some home learning for when you can’t be with us at school.
Remember to send pictures of your child’s home learning to scholesf2@spherefederation.org.
Maths
This week’s maths learning introduces the number 4.
This link will take you to all 5 lessons for the week.
- Lesson 1 – Session 1 and activity
- Lesson 2 – Session 2 and activity
- Lesson 3 – Session 3 and activity
- Lesson 4 – Session 4 and activity
- Lesson 5 – Session 5 and activity
Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Phonics
This week we will be learning h, b, f, ff
Watch and join in the Jolly Phonics songs.
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
- Lesson 1: h Screencast new sound
- Lesson 2: b Screencast new sound
- Lesson 3: ff Screencast new sound
- Lesson 4: These are our Tricky Words this week. Can you rainbow write them? into, I , and, the, go, no
Literacy
This week we are reading the story – Each Peach Pear Plum.
We are having a rhyming week. Can you hear any rhyme in the book? We are singing lots of favourite nursery rhymes this week too. If you have books filled with nursery rhymes then they will be very useful this week.
- Lesson 1: Read or watch the story. Recap the main events. What characters are in the story?
Draw a picture of your favourite character or part in the book.
Challenge: Write a label or sentence to match your picture.
- Lesson 2: True or False. Which of these statements are true or false about the story.
| There is an apple pie. | Bo Peep found her sheep. |
| The three bears go out hunting. | Jack and Jill went up the hill. |
| Cinderella goes to the ball. | Baby Bear trips up. |
| The wicked witch is in a bush. | There is a plum pie. |
Challenge create your own true or false statements.
- Lesson 3: Read or listen to the story. Can you retell the story and describe what happens on each page?
- Lesson 4: Create your own story by changing the setting or characters in the story. Draw your new characters. You can be as imaginative as you like!
Challenge: Label your characters. (e.g. ‘r’ for red shoes or ‘red’ if they can hear all of the sounds).
Topic
Choose some of these activities to complete throughout the week. These are based on our story – Each Peach Pear Plum and a range of nursery rhymes. They may spark other interests and ideas that result in other learning opportunities. Let your child lead the learning!
| Sing along to Ten in the Bed
Can you put ten teddies, dolls or your favourite toys in your bed? Take a photo. |
| Design and make a wall for Humpty Dumpty.
|
| Create a Baa Baa Black Sheep.
|
| Draw/paint/create a Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
|
| Find or create 5 ducks to play and sing Five Little Ducks with. What could they discover around you home?
|
| Use cereal to create a sensory farm for Old MacDonald.
|
Our busy week of learning, celebrating and remembering…
Another busy week here in Reception! We posted about our Remembrance Day activities on Wednesday. We’ve also been celebrating…
Diwali
Understanding the World: People and Communities: Early Learning Goal; Children… know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions.
We had some fantastic Diwali home-link emails last weekend. Thank you and well done to the children in Sunshine and Rainbow Class who watched the video and shared what they had learnt with their friends.
When we looked at the festival, we shared our knowledge and made links to some celebrations we already know:
“It is The Festival of Light”- Perla
We noticed that during Diwali, there are special meals, people spend time with their family and people give and receive presents. We discussed other celebrations that have similar traditions:
“Christmas!”- Edward
We’ve been colouring and decorating Rangoli patterns, making Rangoli patterns with coloured rice, carefully painting Mehndi patterns on hand outlines and writing Diwali cards. We learned the story of Rama and Sita and that the festival represents good (light) winning over evil (darkness)
The children really enjoyed Diwali dancing in PE on Wednesday. The first dance used dance moves to journey through the five days of Diwali. If your child would like to revisit this at home, you can find the link here
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Our final traditional tale (which also links to the final week of our current focus number-3), was The Three Billy Goats Gruff. As well as story-telling and story mapping, the children have been thinking about materials…
Children in Need
A HUGE thank you for your donations and participation in our Children in Need celebrations. Today, the children have enjoyed…
Reminder: Next week is Anti-bullying week.
On Monday 16th November we’re asking children to join in with Odd Socks Day, celebrating our differences and that we are all unique. We’ll also be talking to the children about what makes us special and how we respect the differences of others.
Home-Link Challenge
Next week is also World Nursery Rhyme Week . In class, our provision will be based around well-known nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes are so important for early development in Literacy. They help with sequencing, re-telling narratives and hearing rhyme (a really important skill for phonological awareness for reading and writing)
We’d like you to practise telling or singing a nursery rhyme of your choice with your child. These should be easy enough to find online or just practise ones you already know. We’d like the children to feel confident enough to perform these in front of their friends in a little show (if they want to)
Your child might also like to draw a picture of their chosen rhyme, for a classroom display.
Remembrance Day
Today we shared our knowledge and experiences of Remembrance Day and learnt some new facts too.
The people who died in the war. That’s why we are doing poppy day. Louie
Remembering the soldiers that died in the war. Emelia
After our 2 minute silence, we reflected on what we were thinking about.
I was thinking about the soldiers. Ruby
I was thinking about the war and what could have happened. Toby
To celebrate the day we planted some poppy seeds outside, painted poppies using our fingers, made hand print poppies with real poppy seeds and made tissue paper poppies.
Children in Need
We are going to be celebrating BBC Children in Need on Friday 13 November.
The Junior Leadership Team voted for a ‘dress as you like day.’ Children can come to school in non-uniform.
We would like to raise as much money as possible for Children in Need and are therefore asking for a voluntary donation. On the morning of the 13th, there will be some buckets placed in the playground for you to drop off your donations.
Thank you in advance for your support and co-operation.
The Junior Leadership Team
Highlights of this week!
The children have jumped straight back in, starting Autumn 2 with amazing confidence! Here are some highlights of another fantastic week in Reception:
We have been showing off our story-telling skills again this week! Click here to watch clips of Rainbow Class retelling this week’s story, The Three Little Pigs
Home-link challenge for w/c: 09.11.20
We will be setting home-link challenges each week, which link to the current or upcoming learning in class. You can send in your child’s home learning any day in the week it is set for.
Next week is a super-busy, with lots of important dates and events to learn about:
Wednesday 11th November 2020- Remembrance Day
Friday 13th November 2020- Children in Need (Children can wear their own clothes on this day, voluntary donation)
Saturday 14th November 2020- Diwali, Festival of Light
We will be doing lots of activities in class but in preparation for next week, we have a couple of home challenges you can take part in…
- Watch this quick video/ song about Diwali. Talk about what you see and hear in the video. In what ways do people celebrate Diwali? What is the festival a celebration of? Click here
- Find out why we use the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance. Where could you look to find this information? Perhaps you would like to make a poppy at home? You could paint one, draw one or make one out of recyclable materials.
Please email your child’s responses and any pictures of poppies you have made at home. Thank you.