Super Learners
I really enjoyed our Zoom nursery rhyme sing-alongs this week. Don’t forget our dough disco Zooms- get ready to boogie!
Here is some of our learning from last week.
Have a great week and keep sending me your learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
This week’s update
We hope you are all staying safe and well at the moment. It’s always great to see so many of the class joining us on the daily class Zoom. There are always lots of smiles when the children see their friends. Please do ask if you need us to resend the Zoom details (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org).
We continue to feel proud and happy when we receive learning from home. Keep this up! One more week of learning until the half term break.
Here’s a selection of the learning we’ve received this week.
Super spelling practice, Aliza.
Great writing, while at home on the snow day, Austen.
Always a variety of learning completed at home – with help from a pet!
Keep up the great learning, Daman. We loved the snow volcano!
Super learning across all subjects.
Impressive editing in writing and five minute moves with Joe Wicks to keep energised.
Lots of great learning – keep working hard.
Super writing and even a snow dog!
Great home learning, Saba.
Lexia
Well done to Rico and Hollie for reaching their next level in Lexia.
If your child has already reached the end of the Year 1 learning on Lexia (Level 5 certificate), an alternative can be Phonics Play (username Sphere password Spher3). Select Phase 5 games when prompted.
Numbots
We’ve seen an increase in the usage of Numbots since the children have been at home. Well done to the following children who have achieved these levels.
Rust
Austen, Avneet, Elena, Erica, Evie, Luke, Nate, Raushan, Roshni, Sophie and Tyreece
Iron
Aliza, Charlie, Grace, Haleema, Hollie, Ibrahim Sh, Ibrahim Sy, Keira, Matin, Rico, Rohan, Rory, Saavi, Talha and Victoria
Tin
Daman, Daniyal and Saba
Brass
Hadi
Authors and illustrators
Finally, here’s a link if you would like to hear some stories read by their authors and also the chance to draw alongside some illustrators.
We’ve some fans of Draw with Rob in the class if you’ve not had a look at this online before.
Week beginning 08 February 2021: Home learning
We have reached the last week of this strange half-term!
I hope you enjoy this week’s learning. Keep sending me photos of your learning-I love seeing it!
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
| Monday
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Book of the week- Watch the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes or read the book if you have it at home. Click here
Questions to discuss- 1. What three ingredients do you need to make pancakes? 2. Mr Wolf made a shopping list. Have you ever made a list? What did you make a list for? 3. Why do you think the neighbours didn’t help Mr Wolf? 4. How did you feel when no-one would help Mr Wolf? 5. What did you think about the ending of the book?
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| Phonics- ee
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activity 1: Take turns with an adult to play ‘Roll and Read’ (ee 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. 2. Match to the correct row. 3. Choose a word on the row and read it aloud. Activity 2: Think of two different sentences for each word: queen, bee, teeth and sleep. |
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| Maths- Number 8. Session 1. Click here
Activity: Click here for today’s activities. |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- igh This is a trigraph. Three letters that make one sound.
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be an ‘igh’ detective! Can you find any words in your storybooks with the ‘igh’ trigraph? Activity 2: Click here to play Buried Treasure. It’s on Phonicsplay-Buried Treasure – Phase3 -Set 1-7 – +igh. |
| Maths- Number 8. Session 2. Click here
Activity: Click here for today’s activities. |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- oa
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Click here to read the rest of the story, Toads in the Road. You can sign up on the website free and access the reading books from here. Activity 1: Write a sentence using one of the ‘oa’ words. You might use: croak, roast, toast or toad. 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? Here are this week’s words to blend. Remember to stick them in your book and colour in the words you can read. |
| Maths- Number 8. Session 3. Click here
Activity: Click here for today’s activities. |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky word-you
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activities: Click here for today’s Let’s Go comic. Click here for today’s A Bug comic. |
| Maths-
Play number stacking pancakes.
Make some pancakes: Draw around a circle template on a piece of paper or card. Cut the circles out and write the digits 0-10 on the pancakes. If you have a spatula and a plate that’s great but you don’t need them. Mix up the pancakes and spread them out on the carpet. Your child can scoop up the correct pancake with the spatula and put it on the plate. There are a few things that you can do with this game. 1. Order the pancakes from 0-10 in ascending order. Stacking them one at a time on the plate/in a pile. 2. Order the pancakes in descending order from 10-0. 3. Ask your child different numbers at random to select and put on the plate. 4. Play ‘run and splat’ the number when it is said. 5. Time yourself. How long does it take you to stack your pancakes in order? Can you beat your time? Can you beat your adult? 6. Put the pancakes in a random pile, face down. Decide on a fun action e.g. star jumps, jumping on the spot, running to the kitchen, turning around, hopping etc. Take it in turns to take the top pancake, whatever number you get that’s how many of the chosen action you must do. (A few ideas: This activity can be extended to use different numbers to challenge your child. You might add 11-20). |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Making a volcano-
If you would like to join in this week’s video then you will need: washing up liquid, food colouring, bicarbonate of soda and some vinegar. Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. Click here to watch some children carrying out the investigation, as Professor Myers mentioned. It also might inspire you to make a more elaborate volcano, if you have the time and resources. -Can you carry out the experiment in the video like Professor Myers? -Can you draw and label a picture to show what happened? Handwriting Curly caterpillar letters-let’s practise our curly caterpillar letters. |
| Story time- The Magic Paintbrush with Mrs Allen-Kelly
Click here to watch today’s story.
Questions to discuss- 1. Why do you think Shen was asked only to paint for poor people and not for rich people? Do you think Shen and the villagers were rich or poor? 2. How did Shen escape from prison? 3. How did the villagers feel when Shen returned home with her magic brush? 4. If you had a magic paintbrush that could make anything come to life, what would you draw? Perhaps you could also have a go at painting it at home. Friday 12th February 2021 is the celebration of Chinese New Year! 1. Have a look online or in a book to see if you can find China on a world map! 2. Click here to watch the ‘Let’s Celebrate’ episode of the Chinese and Luna New Year celebration. 3. You might like to have a go at writing numbers using Chinese (Mandarin) characters:
Storytime- The Little Monkey with Mrs Burgess Storytime-Night Monkey, Day Monkey with Mrs Burke |
Story Link activities to select throughout the week:
Literacy
- Be a friend to Mr Wolf and make a shopping list for him. You could make a list of ingredients for him to make his pancakes. Or you might make a list for him to make something else delicious. (Pizza, fruit salad etc)
- Draw and label two characters from the book.
Understanding the World
Spend some time watching this video about wolves click here
- What do you notice about the wolves?
- How many babies does a mother wolf usually have?
- What do wolves eat?
- What helps wolves to keep warm?
- How many teeth do wolves have?
Expressive Arts and Design
- Make a stack of pancakes out of playdough. Can you serve them at you own café with different toppings? How much will each pancake cost? Can people buy drinks at your café too?
Click here for the no cook play dough recipe.
- Make a wolf mask or picture!
- Using construction toys, can you build Mr Wolf’s Village and the houses for all of the different characters?
- Maybe an adult in your house will help you to make your own delicious pancakes. What topping might you choose?
Physical Development
Get Moving Outside! Why not take your numbered pancakes, from the maths activity, outside. Hide them in the garden then find them. Take a number and match it with objects e.g. 3 leaves. Do laps of your garden to match a number. Make an obstacle course and use your numbered pancakes at each station.
Joe Wicks is hosting his live PE sessions, 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!
Zoom sessions
Have your dough ready for some dough disco!!
Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
It’s the fourth week of our new style of home learning – check out the work from our Home Learning Heroes this week!
Scroll down to see these different pieces of our home learning from this week. Can you find your home learning? Can you find a friend’s home learning?
Come back every Friday to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
A very scary looking monster and some great descriptive vocab to go with it by Javier!
Some amazing statement sorting in our Geography learning by Theo!
A typed up character description and very scary accompanying drawing by Kian!
A great character description using some lovely vocabulary by Inaaya!
Some awesome reading skills shown by Amelia!
Two marvellous quotes in Saif’s newspaper report – fantasically punctuated!
An amazing model volcano by Edith!
A beautifully presented piece of science and writing work by Kian!
A wonderful newspaper report by Evie!
Some great learning this week and it’s lovely seeing so many of you on the daily Zoom sessions with such enthusiasm about our learning. Keep it up!
If your work hasn’t been featured on this week’s Home Learning Heroes, please send your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Newsworthy writing
From Mr Catherall, who is leading the Y3,4 home learning writing sessions…
Hi everyone
I hope you’re all happy, healthy and safe. I wanted to share with you – and celebrate – some of the awesome writing that’s been sent in by children across our federation. Home learning is tough. There are many challenges, for children and adults, but these superstars have been ready, resourceful and resilient learners. (Can you remember the other 8Rs for learning?)
In the Y3,4 phase, we spent last week building up to writing our own news report about a (made-up) volcanic eruption. This links to our geography and science learning.
Here are a small selection of the wonderful examples we’ve been sent in from all three schools. If you’d like to send yours in, I’d love to see it (send me an email – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org).
From my class at Scholes (Elmet)… I love the varied sentence starts in this one (Late on Friday night, On Saturday, In the escape).
We’ve got a budding journalist at St James’ CE… I really like the news report structure here.
Back to Scholes (Elmet) for some another great piece… This time, I really like the main news section (the first paragraph in bold) because it’s exactly like you’d read in a newspaper or online.
Some amazing writing from Moortown… I love the expanded noun phrase (the orange, glowing liquid) and the vocabulary (predicted, nightfall, terrified) in this one.
Another super piece of writing from my class at Scholes (can you tell I’m proud?!)… There’s a lot to celebrate here – particularly the vocabulary (menacing, catastrophic, awoke, ear-splitting, historic)…
Back at Moortown for another great example of journalistic writing… I particularly enjoyed the use of questions to engage the reader and the way this writer has presented their news report in the style of a newspaper.
Another impressive report from Scholes… In this one, I love the vocabulary (citizens, fled on foot, vast amount).
Whatever writing you’ve managed to do at home, well done! After the last lockdown, writing was one of the few areas that we noticed children hadn’t progressed in. Try to help by completing at least one of the writing lessons each day (and always keep a focus on handwriting).
Home learning superstars
Well done Year 2 for all the amazing home learning you are doing. You and your families are working so hard and doing such a great job.
Take a look at some fantastic examples of learning that is happening at home.
Wonderful writing from William, Avneet, Alasdair, Rayhan, Soham, luca, Henry, Charlie and Harjas.
Magnificent maths from Alasdair, Charlie and Harjas.
Keep it up, Year 2!
Please keep sending me your amazing learning.
Super learners
Well done Year 1 and your families for another great week of learning. We’ve been sent lots of super learning and we are always pleased to see how you are all getting on.
Here’s a selection.
Keep working hard, Aliza.
Daman – the geographer, scientist and artist
Great concentration and learning at home
Mastering number bonds in maths and impressive writing, Grace
Working hard at home and enjoying the big garden bird watch
Super maths learning, Rico
Keep working hard, Saba
Beautifully presented learning, Saavi
Super home learning and birthday celebrations
Great science investigation and writing, Evie
Great maths and phonics practice, Roshni
Super home learning across all subjects
Continuing to read is important while you are at home.
There are some online books that you can access for free (you can search by age and by phonics phase – Phase 5 Letters and Sounds).
Here’s a link to some story books online that you might want to listen to.
We’ve had some lockdown birthdays since Christmas so happy birthday to these children.
Rico, Sophie, Luke, Hadi, Hollie and Grace
Finally, well done this week to Roshni, Sophie and Matin for achieving their next level in Lexia.
Well done, everybody. We are very proud of you. Hope you have another productive week, stay safe and keep in touch.
Super learners!
It was lovely to see lots of you at our Zooms last week.
Thank you for sending me photos of your learning and playing at home.
Don’t forget this week’s Zoom theme is nursery rhymes. Which is your favourite?
Have a happy and healthy week.
Week commencing 01 February 2021: 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? |
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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 writing 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.
Words |
| 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! Handwriting Click here to practise the letters a c d g |
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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 lion who wanted to love with Mrs Burke **Challenge** When listening to the story, see if you can hear the rhyming words. Questions to discuss: 2. What did he do to show he was very brave? 3. How do you feel when you help someone? |
Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
- Retell the story using a story map.
- 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.
- What pet would you like? Draw a picture and try to write a sentence.
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!
2. 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 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!
Playdough
Here are some recipes for playdough.
Or
Zooms
Don’t forget to join in your zoom session! Get ready to sing some of our favourite nursery rhymes.
Zooms
Hello Reception.
We are really missing you all and are looking forward to seeing and chatting to you at our Zoom sessions this week.
The Zoom session you were invited to is a recurring session during term time. Please join at the same day and time with the link that you were sent.
This week be ready for a ‘Scavenger Hunt’. We will ask you to go and find different things in your house to show and chat about.
Here are some extra stories to enjoy this week.
The little book of manners with Mrs Burgess.
The Gruffalo’s Child with Mrs Burke
Have a brilliant week of learning and fun!
Remember to email photos of your learning to