Author: Mrs Wood

Our learning

Hello, everyone.

You have all been doing some amazing learning at home and in school.

Zoom sessions

Next week the children who are learning from home will be invited to a zoom session with their teacher. This zoom session will be with a group of children from their class. You will find the focus of the zoom session  on the website each Friday. Sometimes your child will need to bring something along with them. Your child does not have to join in with these zooms, they are optional. Unfortunately the timings of these zooms cannot be changed as most teachers are teaching in school.

Look out for the link to your child’s zoom which will be sent via email on a Friday.

Keep sending me photos of your learning and we are looking forward to seeing you all soon.

moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org

 

 

Week commencing 11 January 2021:Home learning

Hi, everyone!

I hope you are enjoying this snowy weather and keeping warm!

Here is your learning for this week.

Monday

 

 

 

 

 

 Book of the week- Watch the story Lost and Found or read the book if you have it at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRAAQ8EWzig

Questions to discuss-

How is the boy feeling when the penguin first arrives at his door?

Why does the penguin follow the boy? What does he want?

The penguin was lonely… What does it mean to be lonely? How can we help others when they are feeling lonely? What can we do when we feel lonely ourselves?
Phonics- j

Click here to watch today’s phonics video

Activity 1: Be a ‘j’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘j’?

Activity 2: Take turns with an adult to play ‘Roll and Read’ (j focus) click here to either print the word mat, or view it on screen. You will need a die or to draw 1-6 dots on 6 pieces of paper and draw at random from a bag.

1.       Roll the dice

Match to the correct row.

Choose a word on the row and read it aloud.
Maths- White Rose Maths: Alive in 5!- Week 2.

Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1

Activity: Click here for today’s activity. Encourage your child to speak in full sentences when describing the number composition, for example: “There are three frogs in the pond and there are two frogs on the grass. There are 5 frogs altogether” or “There are 4 toys on the bed and there is one toy on the floor. There are 5 toys altogether”
Tuesday Phonics- v

Click here to watch today’s phonics video

Activity 1:  Be a ‘v’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘v’?

Activity 2: Here is the link to ‘fishy phonics’ on the Phonics Bloom website- click here

Select phase 2, set 5. Try the hard level initially, change to easy if this is a bit tricky.
Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2

Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
Wednesday Phonics- w

Click here to watch today’s phonics video

Activity 1: Be a ‘w’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘w’?

Activity 2: Write ‘yes’ and ‘no on two separate pieces of paper and put them at either side of the room. Ask your child to read these questions (click here) one at a time and then run to either the yes or the no answer. Encourage your child to point to each word on the screen as they read the question.
Maths-  Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3

Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, draw 5 of anything you like on a piece of paper and cut them out. This will work just as well for the activity!

Click here for this week’s word list. Remember to use your phonic fingers to blend.
Thursday Phonics- Tricky words he/she

Click here to watch today’s phonics video

Activity 1: Be a Tricky Word Detective! Can you find any tricky words in the books you have at home?

Activity 2: Write a sentence using one of the new tricky words. Steps to writing a successful sentence…

1.Think of a sentence.

2. Say the sentence out loud.

3. Count the words in your sentence.

4. Use your phoneme fingers to segment every word.

5. Check your sentence makes sense.

6. Have you remembered a capital letter at the start, finger spaces throughout and a full stop at the end?

Activity 3: Rainbow writing tricky words- use a variety of colours to practice writing all of the phase 2 tricky words.
Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4

Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
Friday Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Exploring Ice-

Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers.

-Can you carry out the ice experiments in the video from Professor Myers? Remember to make some predictions about what you think will happen first.

-Can you draw and label a picture to show what you did?
Story time- Stickman with Mrs Burgess

Can you find the rhyming words in the story?

What is Stickman made from? Go on a scavenger hunt outside. Bring back sticks, leaves, seeds or whatever you can find and make a stickperson.

Stickman lives with his family. Draw a picture of your family.

Story Link activities to select throughout the week

Literacy

Make a story map of the key events in the story Lost and Found. We practice creating these lots in class.

 

Sometimes, when people lose a pet, they put up posters to help find them again. Can you make a ‘lost’ poster for the Penguin in Lost and Found. Don’t forget to add lots of details describing the penguin, so that the reader knows what to look out for. What does the penguin look like? What colour is it? How big is it?

The story doesn’t have any speech in it. Ask your grown up to draw out a speech bubble and pretend you are the boy from the story (perhaps you could draw him next to the speech bubble) Have a go at writing what you think he might have said when he first met the penguin.

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

Spend some time watching the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo:

https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/penguin-cam/

What do you notice about them?

How do they move? (perhaps you can walk like a penguin too!)

Do they like to be alone or in groups?

Do they live on land, in the water, or both?

These penguins are in a zoo. Where can we find penguins in the wild? Ask an adult to help you find this information in a book or by using the internet.

Expressive Arts and Design

Build a boat for your toys! You could use any construction toys you have at home (such as lego, duplo) natural or found objects outside, or recycled food packaging. Perhaps you could tell a story about an adventure your toys go on in their brand new boat!

Make a ‘Paper Roll Penguin’ You could follow this guide or, if you do not have coloured paper, create your own version using plain paper, the paper roll and colouring pens or pencils!

Physical Development

Get Moving! Join in with this Jack Hartman Penguin Dance: video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf0uKmKwnKs

Did you know… ‘PE with Joe’ is back? Joe Wicks is hosting his live PE sessions again from Monday 11th January 2021, 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9am) You can subscribe to his channel here for alerts. A great way to keep fit at home!

 

Have fun this week and don’t forget to send me photos of your learning.

moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org

 

08 January 2021:Home learning

Hello, Reception.

I hope you have enjoyed the learning activities this week.

This is what you can expect to see on your child’s class news page each week during lockdown.

The learning for week beginning 11.01.21 will be posted on Sunday 10.01.21.  All subsequent weeks will be posted on a Friday evening.

As teachers are also teaching our key worker children in school, these videos may not be from your child’s teacher. However, every Friday the children will be able to enjoy a story read by an adult from their class.

Each week a menu of activities will be presented that can be completed during the week. This menu will relate to the book of the week. The activities will cover all aspects of the Early Years curriculum. There will also be the following screencasts and videos.

Monday Phonics screencast with follow up activities.

Maths screencast with follow up activities
Tuesday Phonics screencast with follow up activities.

Maths screencast with follow up activities
Wednesday Phonics screencast with follow up activities.

Maths screencast with follow up activities
Thursday A tricky word screencast with follow up activities

Maths screencast with follow up activities
Friday An Understanding the World video with “ Professor Myers” with follow up activities

A story read by one of your child’s teachers with talk time activities.

As always your child’s teachers will be available via email for any questions. We will also endeavor contact you by phone once per week, just to check in with you.

Here are today’s activities:

Phonics

 

Practise the phase 2 phonemes.

(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.)

Read the words and draw a picture to match the captions.

Don’t forget there are some really good games on Phonicsplay

username: sphere

password: spher3

Maths

Practise writing number 5.

Don’t forget Numbots.

Art

Storytime

Have a great weekend. Don’t forget to send me photos of your home learning.

07 January 2021:Home learning

Good morning!

I hope you are all enjoying the cold weather!

Here are your lessons and activities for today.

Phonics

We will recap some phase 2 sounds.

Activities

Maths

Before the holiday we investigated the number 5.

Watch Numberblocks 5 alive!

Activities

 

 

 

Talktime

Talk about what is happening in the picture.

Draw a picture of you in the ice or snow.

Storytime

Jack Frost

 

6 January 2021: Home learning

Good morning, Reception.

Here are today’s activities.

Phonics

This week we will recap the phonemes(sounds) from phase 2.

Practise the sounds in your phonics books.

Words to read:

 

Maths

Let’s recap the number 4.

Sing the number 4 song from Numberblocks.

Make a collection of objects to represent the number 4. How many different ways can you find?

Storytime

Listen to today’s story.

Don’t forget to send me photos of your learning!

moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org

 

 

Home learning

Hello, everyone, and Happy New Year!

This wasn’t the start of the new year that we expected!

Here is where you will find lessons and activities for you to keep learning at home.

Please email me if you have any questions or want to send photos of your learning.

moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org

This half term our topic is ‘Winter’.

We will be looking at the signs of winter and how to keep warm. We will investigate ice and snow and learn about the animals, people and landscapes of the polar regions.

In maths we will learn all about the numbers 5-10.

We will continue Phase 3 phonics.

Phonics

Practise all the phase 2 phonemes.

Maths

We have been learning all about the number 5.

Activities

 

 

This week’s learning

Phonics

This week we will begin phase 3  ‘Letters and Sounds’.

The purpose of this phase is to:

  • teach more graphemes, most of which are made of two letters (digraphs), for example, ‘oa’ as in boat. 
  • practise blending and segmenting a wider set of CVC words, for example, fizz, chip, sheep, light
  • learn all letter names and begin to form them correctly
  • read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them
  • read and write words in phrases and sentences.

Here are some examples of words your children will be reading: tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil

(Remember: these words all contain three phonemes).

During phase 3 the children will learn more ‘Tricky Words’.

he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all, said

Children will begin to write sentences independently.

Definitions

Blending– Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word .

Segmenting– Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear.

Phoneme–Phonemes are sounds that can be heard in words.
e.g. c-a-t

Grapheme–This is how a phoneme is written down.

Digraph –This means that the phoneme comprises of two letters
e.g. ll, ff, ck, ss

Maths

We are continuing to investigate the number 5 and find one more and one less than a number. We will be learning about the properties of shapes with four sides.

Literacy

This week we will be introducing capital letters and full stops and beginning to read and write simple sentences

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