Phonics Thursday 25.02.21
Apologies for any difficulties accessing the phonics video yesterday and links to the tricky word colouring.
These have now been updated if you wish to revisit the activities.
Amazing Writing!
It’s lovely when people send in their learning – as teachers, we really want to see it!
Thanks to these superstars who have sent in their writing recently. There’s lots of things I love about these pieces – pay particular attention to the impactful vocabulary and the varied sentence starters. Well done, everyone!
Week Commencing 01.02.20: Home Learning
| Monday
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Book of the week- Click here to watch the story Dear Zoo or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- Why was the elephant sent back? Which animal was described as being too fierce? Why do you think he kept the puppy and not any of the other animals? |
| Phonics- th
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Look at the picture. What can you see?
Parents: Read this sentence aloud – A moth on the grass. Activity 2: Have a go at blending the phase 3 ‘th’ real and nonsense words. Click here to either print it, or view on screen. |
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, draw and make your own memory cards. This will work just as well for the activity! |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- ng
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Play Musical Blending. Activity 2: Read the sentence and have a go at writing your own sentence using one of these words. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. Take photos of your pairs and send them to your class teacher(s). |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- ai
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Play the Picnic on Pluto game on Phonics Play. Activity 2: Look at the pictures on this document. Segment and write the words to match the pictures. You could print these phoneme frames, or draw your own. Parents: If you are unsure, click here to view the words. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2.
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 word – my
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activity 1: Tricky Word Puzzles 3. Can you put the letters in the correct order?
Activity 2: Tricky Word Hunt Activity 3: Rainbow write tricky words. Choose some bright coloured pens or pencils to practise spelling all of the phase 2 tricky words (the, to, I, no, go, into) and the phase 3 tricky words you know so far (he, she, we, me, be, my). Below is an example of how to do rainbow writing.
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, you could draw your own domino circuit. This will work just as well for the activity! |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Friction Experiment-
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. -Using a variety of toys, carry out your own friction experiment. Before you carry out your experiment, remember to predict which toys you think will travel fast or slow. You could sort them into two groups. – After the experiment, draw and label your results. |
| Story time- The Tiger Who Came to Tea with Mrs Kirby
Questions to discuss: 1.Imagine if a different animal came to tea. How would they behave? 2.How would your family react if a tiger wanted to come to tea? 3.The author uses the words ‘big’, ‘furry’ and ‘stripy’ to describe the tiger. Can you think of any more adjectives? 4. The tiger wasn’t very polite when he ate all of Sophie’s food. Can you think of some manners that he should need to remember when he visits someone else’s house? |
Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
- In class, use Talk4Writing actions to help us retell and act out the stories we learn. After listening to the story, see if you can come up with some actions. You could get an adult to record you and send it to your class teacher!
To help you get started, click here to watch an example. - Dear Zoo is a ‘lift-the-flap’ book. Make your own ‘lift-the-flap’ book. You could choose your favourite animals to be underneath each of the flaps. Then, write a sentence underneath each flap. For each sentence try to write the name of the animal and a describing word.
A writing reminder…
How did your child find the writing activity? Remember, it’s 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
Choose an animal from the book. With the help of an adult, research and find out information about that animal.
Where is its natural habitat? What does it eat? What does it like to do? When the animal lives in a zoo, what does a zookeeper need to do to look after it?
You could use this website or find one of your own.
Maths
1. Choose two or three animal toys. Go on a hunt around your house for different containers. Explore which containers your animals will fit in. Can you explain why they fit in some containers but not others?
2.Patterns are everywhere! Can you recognise any of these animal patterns? Draw your own animal pattern on a piece of paper.
Expressive Arts and Design
Make a lion mask.
Resources:
Paper plate
1 sheet of yellow and orange paper
Scissors
Glue
Instructions:
1. Cut out the inside of a paper plate, leaving only the outside circle.
2. Cut strips of yellow and orange paper.
3. Glue the yellow and orange paper to the paper plate circle, creating a lion’s mane.
4. Make sure they give a loud ROAR!
Physical Development
- Get moving and dance along to these songs!
- Make a paper chain snake. This is a great funky fingers activity!
Resources:
Paper (any colours you’d like to use)
Scissors
Stapler
Glue
Googly eyes
Instructions:
1. First, decide on which colours you want to use. You could use two or three colours and try to make your snake a repeating pattern, for example, red, orange, red, orange.
2. Cut strips of each colour.
3. With an adult, use a stapler or glue to connect the chains.
4. Add a head by cutting out a triangle and gluing it to the first chain. You could also add a tail!
5. Glue googly eyes on the head and add a red tongue, then you’re done!
Zoom
To make sure you are prepared and ready to get your fingers moving, use this simple recipe to make some dough at home.
Hall of home learning fame
Thanks for sending in your amazing work. This week I’d like to celebrate Leiyah’s beautifully presented writing and creative planets model.
We’re closed to all pupils today
We’re closed today because of the very icy conditions and the forecast that this will continue throughout the day.
Key staff for each bubble in school would struggle to get into school safely.
Please check out our Home learning page.
Today’s message – an update (Thursday 13 January 2021)
We try to alert you the day before if we become aware of weather conditions that may affect school openings, although we don’t make any decisions until the morning. Even then, though, it’s a tough call.
When we make the decision, we base it on two main factors: the current weather and the forecast.
Based on these two factors, there’s a very high likelihood that school will be closed tomorrow. This is based on the current amount of snow and the forecast for continuing sub-zero temperatures over night and throughout the day tomorrow. Travel conditions will be dangerous for you and for our staff.
Many schools in the area have already made the decision to close. Please begin to make arrangements now so that you’re prepared – as I say, it’s very likely.
The situation in school is made more challenging at the moment because we need to have different staff to support children in their different bubbles. To try to prevent the spread of coronavirus, we can’t mix children and we can’t move staff. Children in school can’t join with others and be supervised by a limited number of staff who have managed to get to school; adults can’t move to support children in another bubble. (A simple example is that if three children from one bubble are in school, we’d have a minimum of two staff to support and supervise. However, if the three children are from three different bubbles, we’d need at least double the adults.)
Don’t forget you can access home learning here on the website: go to the Learn more section and select Home learning from the drop down menu, or click on this link. (It would be best in most cases to do lessons from Thursday or Friday.)
Thank you for your understanding and support.
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. |
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!
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Ellis- for great learning in all subjects. You put 100% into everything you do and you’re a great member of our class. Well done!
For sport and physical activity…
Connor- for demonstrating perseverance during WUSU. You’ve finally grasped that tricky dance! Well done.
For living and learning…
William W – for being a great member of my class. You make me giggle every day and our class wouldn’t be the same without you. Thank you!
Well done everyone!