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.
16 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Phonics play – tricky word trucks – phase 3/4
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock 14 video.
2.Can you do 14 hops, claps, jumps? Remember to count each movement and stop at number 14.
3.Write the numbers 0-14 on the floor using chalk, paint or write on paper (make sure they are big enough to stand on).
4.Can you find the answers to these problems?
Find and stand on the number that is 1 more than 13
Find and stand on the number that is double 7
Find and stand on an odd number
Find and stand on a number that is fewer than 8
Find and stand on a number that is more than 10
Find and stand on an even number
Find and stand on the number that is half of 12
Challenge: Parents/carers give your child some more problems to solve or can your child think of their own number problem?
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.Who are the characters in the story? Who is in the story?
Mum Monkey, Dad Monkey, Baby Monkey, Butterfly, Elephant, Snake, Parrot, Frog and Bat.
3.Make puppets for some OR all of the characters. Here is an example of a puppet you could make. The puppets you make will be used for your puppet show on Friday.
You will need paper OR card, colouring pencils and sticks OR spoons.
Here Mrs Flynn used a stick she found outside to hold up the puppet. She used the back of an old birthday card to draw the butterfly on.
If you can’t find any sticks you could use a spoon instead – just like Mrs Flynn has here. This time she used paper to draw the monkey on.
15 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2 or Phase 3
Words:
Phonics Activity:
Phonics play – buried treasure – phase 4 – CVCC – Set 1-7
Maths
1.Watch the video and count backwards from 20 to 0.
Today you will need:
- colouring pencils and paper or chalk and some outdoor space
- 0-13 number flash cards
2.Parents/carers can you hold up and say a number. Children can you draw that many spots either on paper or on the ground.
3.Look at how you can draw x amount of spots in different ways. E.g. you could draw 6 spots by drawing 2 at a time or by drawing 3 spots and then 3 more.
4.Parents/carers ask the children some questions about each number as you go along e.g. what is 1 more/less, what is double… or half…?
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
1.Listen to the story of the week.
This week we are going to be looking at the characters, setting and events in the story. This will then help us retell the story using homemade props.
2.What do we mean when we say character? Setting? Events?
Answer:
Character = Who is in the story. The people/animals in the story.
Setting = Where the story is set.
Events = What happens in the story.
To join in with this week’s creative literacy activities, you will need the following items. Hopefully, these are items you will find in your home.
- Paper OR card and colouring pencils
- Sticks from outside OR a collection of spoons (they can be re-used afterwards)
- Sticky tape
Perhaps if you are going outside for your daily exercise today you could collect some sticks.
Reflection
Your child may be asking questions about recent events in America and subsequent protests across the world.
‘Everyone’s welcome’ by CBeebies is a great resource to help you begin to talk about these recent events with your child.
Sesame Street have also shared a story ‘We’re different, We’re the same’.
This is a great opportunity to teach tolerance, mutual respect and acceptance to others. It promotes empathy and understanding; encouraging your child to consider what makes themselves and others special, valuing the similarities and differences between themselves and others.
Home Learning Pictures
Last week, we posted a video to show how proud we are of everyone. Here is the video again incase you missed it 🙂
We are always so pleased to see so many emails and pictures of the children enjoying the home learning tasks as well as enjoying family time and learning new skills.
This week, we set a task to write some instructions. Did you manage to write any instructions? We have had a few emails sent to us. We have some instructions on how to make flapjacks, how to move chrysalis to their butterfly house and some instructions on how to make glass.
Here are a few more pictures and a video from this week.
12 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
1.Words to Read:
2.Words to Write/ Phonics activity:
Play ‘i spy’ – how many objects can you spot? Write the words to match.
Maths
Literacy
Today, we are going to write the instructions on how to make/do your activity.
What happened first, next, after that, finally?
Use the template or create your own.
Remember to think, say, count, write and check your writing.
Email your instructional writing to scholesf2@spherefederation.org and we will share them with your friends.
11 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock ‘unlucky’ 13 video.
2.Collect some objects (stones, sticks, leaves ect) from outside.
3.Can you count how many objects you have collected?
Today we are going to have a go at estimating. Estimating is when we roughly count the number of objects we can see.
4.Parents/carers can you put some of the objects out in front of your child (you may want to use a towel to cover them up until you are ready to reveal the objects). Give your child a few seconds to look at the objects and ask them to estimate how many they can see.
5.Take turns and continue to do this a few times changing the amount of objects each time.
6.Ask questions e.g. is it more or less than last time? How do you know?
Literacy
Today, we are going to draw a picture and write a list of what you need to do your activity.
Use the template or create your own.
Remember to think, say, count, write and check your writing.
10 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
1.Tricky words
Practise reading all of the tricky words.
You could also have a go at spelling the phase 2 and 3 tricky words using the look, cover and write method.
2.Words to Read:
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ or point to the sound buttons to help. How many sounds are in these words?
3.Phonics Activity: Play ‘Musical Blending’
Write these words on separate scrap pieces of paper.
| feet | queen | spin | chip | string | pink | rain | train |
Spread them out on the floor. Play some groovy tunes and dance away. When the music stops jump on a word and blend it. Keep going until you have read all of the words.
Maths
Literacy
We are going to continue thinking about our instructions for our activity.
1.Can you remember how to do your activity from yesterday?
2.What did you need?
3.What happened first, next, after that, finally?
4.Can you verbally give the instructions to a family member?
5.Can they follow your instructions? Do they make sense?
9 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock ‘unlucky’ 13 video.
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:
Indie has 12 pieces of chocolate, she gives 2 pieces to Elizabeth. How many pieces of chocolate does she have left?
Thea has 7 pom poms and Georgia has 6 pom poms. How many pom poms do they have altogether?
Charlie has 4 cars, Grayson has 2 cars and Joshua has 3 cars. How many do they have altogether?
Challenge: Iris has 6 oranges. She gives 2 oranges to Francesca and 2 oranges to Dylan. How many oranges do they each have?
Literacy
Yesterday, you watched Mrs Palmer pot a plant. Now it’s your turn. Can you think of something to do/make that you will be able to write some instructions for? This could be making a model, making a smoothie, baking a cake, drawing a picture, washing your hands.
Once you have an idea, talk about what you need to do/make your activity?
Have a go at doing/making your activity.
Whilst you are doing your activity think about what happened first, next, after that, finally?