Author: Mrs Wood

Phonics

Words to read:

Words to write:    best, think, burnt, spot

Phonics activity: Read and colour 10 words from your word book.

Did your child use their phoneme fingers?

Literacy activity

Visit pobble365.com. This website has daily pictures. Use the arrows to find the most interesting picture you can (or use today’s daily photo) Discuss the photo and write what you can see. Perhaps you are even inspired to come up with your own story based on the image!

Which picture did you use?

Maths: Finding one less

If you don’t have toy cars, you can use anything! Dolls, teddies, pieces of food- any objects you can count!

Challenge: Can you record your findings either by drawing your objects and crossing one off each time or writing it as a number sentence (ie. 5-1=4)

Did your child enjoy the activity? Can they use objects to 10?

Extra Activity

 

Your child was given a home learning pack last week. (The packs for those children who were absent can be collected from the office.)

The packs contain some of the resources the children will need to support their learning at home.

Home learning tasks will be posted each day and will include a phonics, literacy and maths activity as well as other ideas and information.

The tasks can be found on the Reception class news page and will be published daily at 9am. Each of the three tasks will take about 20 minutes to complete.

Please use the email below if you are unsure about any aspect of the home learning. We are here to support you and your child’s home learning journey and will aim to reply to emails on the same day.

moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org

 

The children took part in their Sport Relief challenge, They had to throw and catch a beanbag as many times as they could within 30 seconds. Everyone beat their personal best-including the adults!

This week the children have enjoyed being scientists. We found some dinosaur ice eggs in the playground.

They worked in teams to work out how to free the dinosaurs from the ice.

We have begun Phase 4 of the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics programme. In this phase children will use the phonemes learnt in Phase 2 and Phase 3 to read and spell words with four phonemes.

Children will continue to practise previously learned graphemes and phonemes and learn how to read and write:

CVCC words: tent, damp, toast, chimp

For example, in the word ‘toast’, t = consonant, oa = vowel,  s = consonant,  t = consonant

CCVC words: swim, plum, sport, cream, spoon

For example, in the word ‘cream’, c = consonant, r = consonant, ea = vowel, m = consonant

They will be learning more tricky words and continuing to read and write sentences together.

Tricky words

said, so, do, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what

Don’t forget our Phonics Mornings this week.

We all know the importance of reading and sharing stories with children. Spending just ten minutes a day reading with your child builds special memories and can become a favourite time of the day.

It  also helps children:

• understand the world around them
• develop social and emotional skills
• build confidence with communication

Storytime is a favourite time of the day in Reception and this term the children have been able to vote for the story they would like at the end of each day.

These are some of the books we have read:

Polar Bear Son-Lydia Dabcovich

Hush Little Polar Bear-Jeff Mack

The Bear-Raymond Briggs

Big Bear, Little Bear-David Bedford

And Tango Makes Three-Justin Richardson

Penguin Small-Mick Inkpen

Cuddly Dudley-Jez Alborough

In addition, the staff in Reception have been choosing their favourite books to share with the class.

This half term I have chosen the book  Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers.

This is a sequel to Lost and Found and continues the adventures of the boy and his penguin.

Mrs Burgess has chosen Little Bear by Hans de Beer.

Why not ask your child about their favourite book?

Remember-if your child sees you reading, they will want to read too.

 

Thank you for attending our recent Stay and Play session.

We hope you had fun!

 

This week we have been learning about the number six. The children used Numicon, cubes and 10 frames to investigate.

This week the children looked at the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy and were inspired to make their own environmental art.

                     

Have  look at our display of the children’s work next time you are in the classroom.