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
For this week’s maths learning, we are continuing to learn about the number 5. Spread the activities across the week, at your own pace. For video sessions, 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.
Sessions 1-3 – White Rose Maths Alive in 5!
Number 5 picture story
One way that we learn about number bonds and number composition in class, is through number stories. Look at the picture below and ask your child what they notice about the picture (‘There are 5 elves’/ ‘There are 5 presents’)
Next, have a look at the differences and talk about them in full number sentences, for example:
Q: How many elves are wearing trousers, and how many are wearing skirts?
A: There are 2 elves wearing trouses, there are 3 elves wearing skirts. There are 5 elves altogether.
Q: How many elves are wearing belts and how many are not wearing belts?
A: There are 4 elves wearing belts, there is 1 elf not wearing a belt. There are 5 elves altogether.
What other features, questions and number sentences can you come up with?
Phonics
This week we will be continuing to recap our phase 2 sounds.
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– Blending
Read each word by saying the sounds then blending together.
Lesson 2– Recapping sementing to write and digraphs at the end of words
Grab a piece of paper and a writing tool. Ask your child to write the following words- Remind them the think about which representation of the sound they should use at the end of a word:
Lesson 3– Recap Phase 1- listening for blends.
Play ‘eye spy’ together, by sounding out things you can see in the environment. For example:
“eye spy with my little eye, something that sounds like t-a-p” and the child would say “tap”
You can swap roles so your child has a go with both sounding out and blending words.
Lesson 4: These are our tricky words we have learnt so far. They are tricky because we can’t use our phonics to help us read them.
Can you read each word?
Play tricky word pairs. Write the word twice and lay face down. Take turn to find matching pairs of the words. Ensure you both say each word you turn over.
Literacy
This week, we are reading The Jolly Christmas Postman
Lesson 1– Read the book if you have it at home or watch the story below, read by a VERY special reader!
Make a story map of the Postman’s journey. Which characters did he visit along the way?
Lesson 2– In the story, some characters are sent cards. Make your own Christmas card with your own design on the front. Don’t forget the important features:
- We write To and the person’s name, so that the person who the card is for, knows that the card is for them.
- We write From/ Love from, and then your name so the person who the card is for, knows who has sent them the card-you!
Lesson 3- In the story, The Jolly Christmas Postman meets Humpty Dumpty. Can you make a list of things that Humpty Dumpty needs to be repaired and to feel better, after his fall.
Lesson 4- Which is your favourite character that the postman meets in the story? Talk about why they are your favourite. Can you use your imagination to come up with a Christmas adventure for your favourite character? Tell an adult your story and create a story board of pictures.
Topic
Choose some of these activities to complete throughout the week. These are based on our topic – Christmas. They may spark other interests and ideas that result in other learning opportunities. Let your child lead the learning!
| Draw Father Christmas/ Santa Claus- for a ‘star challenge’, you might like to add labels for the different parts of his outfit!
Use your own imagination or this drawing tutorial. |
| Use some old boxes, packaging and other materials to make a Santa/ Elf or Reindeer headband.
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| Make some salt dough together using this simple recipe:
2x cups of plain flour 1x cup of salt 1x cup of water Make some salt dough stars that you can turn into decorations! |
| You can make some great fine motor activities with a few simple house hold items and Christmas decorations:
-A kitchen drainer or toy shopping basket. -A string of tinsel -A few baubles -A peg Activity 1 Thread and weave tinsel through the holes in the drainer/ shopping basket. Activity 2 Once the weaving is finished, drop in some baubles with strings attached between the weaves. Use the peg to try and pick up the baubles through the gaps! |
| Cosmic Kids yoga- Christmas Special!
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