24 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Watch Geraldine Giraffe learn about ‘ee’
1.Read the words.
2.Write the words that match each picture.
→Need more of a challenge? I spy! Can you read the words and find the matching object in your house? You might not be able to find all of the objects in your house! I wonder how many you will find?
Maths
Literacy
Can you draw something that you think makes you special? For example, you could be special because you can jump really high? Or because you are always good at making your friends happy. Adults you could share what you think makes your child special.
Your child could then draw something that makes someone they love special. They could share this with the person they love. How does it feel to tell someone why they are special? It makes us feel good to make others feel good.
This is a great activity for not only your child to feel special but to make others around them feel special too.
Extra activity: pass it on smile! We always talk to the children about how special a smile is. It can be passed on to LOTS of people so quickly. If you smile at someone they will often smile back, they then smile at the next person and there you have it, a big line of people passing on smiles. Can your child try this in the house or when they are outside. Not everyone will always smile back but that’s okay, they might not feel like smiling back but I’m sure you’re smile was still nice for them to see.
Zoom
Did you see the ‘daily message (19 June 2020)’ on the school news page?
Before the end of the school year, we are offering Zoom calls with children who remain at home . This will be a great opportunity to get together via zoom in small groups to end the school year.
If your child is still learning at home, and you’d like your child to be part of a Zoom call with Mrs Flynn, Mrs Palmer and some of their classmates, please email us.
Please email us by Monday 29th June to let us know if your child would like to take part.
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.)
We will decide a date and time for this to happen – the zoom calls will be organised for the week beginning 6th July. We’ll send an invitation with the log-in details back to you. We’re sorry – there can’t be much flexibility about the date and time.
Some more details
- Meetings will be with groups of children from the class: no more than 10-12 children.
- The meetings are only for those who are home learning.
- Teachers will have a list of pupils and appropriate Zoom name in advance to allow people to enter.
- Two members of staff will be present throughout the Zoom.
- A parent / carer should be present at home, although you don’t need to be on screen throughout the meeting.
- Teachers will continue to make occasional phone calls home, too, but you might not get a call during the week teachers do their Zoom.
- The meeting will last about 15-30 minutes, depending on the size of the group.
- Some Zoom features will be disabled: the chat function, the record function, and the ‘re-name’ function will all be disabled.
- Participants will all be ‘mute’ on entry; teachers will manage the Zoom meeting by ‘unmuting’ children one at a time.
- Our school rules will still apply (including We respect everyone).
- Your child can be part of the Zoom but choose not to talk – no pressure!
- Teachers are aware of actions to take if a child doesn’t follow ground rules, school rules, instructions: this could include disabling video of anyone who is not following rules, for example.
We’re looking forward to seeing you soon – via zoom!
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
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 🙂
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.
18 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock14 video.
2.Mathematical graphics – Can you draw 14 in different ways? Can you tell a number story about your picture?
Things your child could draw to show 14:
- 14 monkeys jumping on a trampoline
- 14 stars in the sky
- 14 rainbows
- 14 hearts
Challenge: Use objects at home to solve the following problem. Is 14 an even or odd number? How do you know?
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.What happens in the story? What are the events?
3.Retell the story to a grown up or draw a story map of events.
Reading
Reading daily is an important part in supporting your child’s reading development.
We know most parents have been using oxford owls free ebooks to get their child to read daily – fantastic! Typically, a child in reception would be reading ‘Oxford Level 2/3‘, ‘Letters and sounds – phase 3/4’ and ‘Book band Red/Yellow/Blue’.
It might be that you are starting to get through most of the ebooks available that are appropriate for your child’s reading level. If so, here are some more free downloadable books that your child could enjoy. Click on the pictures to download the ebook.
To challenge your child further you could ask your child questions about what they have read. This is a great way to see if your child has really understood the story – encouraging your child to read for pleasure! The following resources are great conversation starters when encouraging your child to talk about what they have read.
17 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Words to Read:
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ to help blend the words. How many sounds are in these words?
Words to Write:
You could draw a phoneme frame in your exercise book to help you remember all the sounds.
Challenge: Can you write a sentence using these words?
Phonics Activity:
Phonics play – dragons den – phase 4 – CVCC – Set 1-7plus digraphs
Challenge: have a go at reading the polysyllabic words instead.
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.What is the setting? Where is the story set?
3.Draw the setting of the story. This will be the background for your puppet show. Here is an example of a setting you could draw.
