Week 14: 13 July 2020: Home learning
Hello!
This is the last week of our school year.
What a strange year it has been!
This week’s learning will include reflecting on the past year and looking forward to Year 1.
Phonics
Practise your handwriting.
Try these phonics activities:
Literacy
As we approach the end of this strange year, I’m sure you’ve got lots of memories.
What have you learnt this year?
Draw a picture and write a sentence. “ I learnt how to…’
Maths
Watch Numberblock 19
19 is one ten and nine ones.
Use counters or small objects to make 19.
Can you jump 19 times?
Can you hop 19 times?
Clap 19 times.
Latest update
As we come towards the end of the school year, we are so impressed to still receive messages with great learning and other experiences you are having while being at home.
This week, we’ve heard a great story from one of our class mates who, during lockdown, has been selling old toys and books on a stall to raise money for the NHS, their football club and Hope Pastures Donkey Sanctuary. They raised an amazing total of £135! They even had the opportunity to meet some of the donkeys as a thank you for supporting the charity. Fantastic effort!
We’ve also been hearing about visiting the sporting hero’s scarecrow hunt in Boston Spa, lots more yummy fruit kebabs, making home made lemonade, virtual sports day (including the gymnastics challenge), creating some Warli Art (a very famous form of art in India), achieving best young football player at their football team awards and of course, some fantastic home learning.
Also, well done to Rufus, Evan, Kian and Tommy who have achieved their next level on Lexia. Great work!
Can you find the treasure?
This week, in our Year 3/4 bubble, we’ve been part of Captain One Eye’s crew and after we read our instruction text about how to make a treasure map, we decided to have a go ourselves. The children followed the instructions to create their own versions including their directions to the treasure. Next, it was time to make our own treasure boxes and consider what treasure is important to us in our lives.
Super learning!
Week 13: 10 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone.
Don’t forget to send your ‘personal best’ scores to me.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Phonics
Tricky word songs
Sing these tricky word songs:
Phase 3
Phase 4
Literacy
Think about your time in Reception and choose one of the headings below. Draw a picture and write a sentence.
Maths
Maths-numbers
Listen to Oliver’s vegetables
Extra activity
Let’s get active!
Don’t forget to email your child’s ‘personal best’ scores.
Have a great weekend!
Week 13: 09 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Here are your Thursday home learning activities.
Phonics
Read the tricky words. Try to say each word in a sentence.
Write a sentence using some of the tricky words.
Words to read:
Literacy-Writing
As we near the end of a very unusual academic year, you or your child might be thinking about Year 1.
Usually at this time of year, to support your child’s transition, we would ask them to write a letter to their Year 1 teacher. This is a great way for your child to tell their teacher about who they are and start their learning journey with their new teacher.
Can your child write a letter and email it to us? We will then give it to their Year 1 teacher.
Your child might like to write;
-What makes them special
-What they like and don’t like to do/eat
-What their favourite book is
-Who is in their family
Remember to
- Think of a sentence
- Say it out loud
- Count the words
- Write each word
- Check it
Maths
Watch numberblocks 18
Listen to the story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’
You can use ten frames or objects to help you.
Extra activity
Sing a song about vegetables.
Let’s get active!
This week is ‘sports week’ and so we will be suggesting daily sports activities that your child can do at home to keep active. Next week, to follow on from ‘sports week’ we will explore how to live a healthy lifestyle.
‘Personal bests’
Can you do the activities below and improve your ‘personal best’ each day?
Virtual sports day results and skipping challenges
Well done to all children who took part, at home and at school, in the virtual sports day yesterday.
The results are in and can be accessed here.
Here’s our overall school results for each challenge (out of 217 schools).
Netball challenge 56th
Keepie uppie challenge 27th
Rugby challenge 93rd
Speed bounce challenge 46th
Skipping challenges
If you are interested in trying another physical activity challenge, Jodi from Skipping School – a regular visitor to school, is running a daily skipping skill challenge this week. Sadly, Year 2 and Year 4 have missed out on their skipping festivals this year so these videos will help the children to recap the skills they have learnt at school.
Virtual sports day
So it wasn’t quite our normal sports day but today we’ve enjoyed taking part in the virtual school games sports day.
First, we watched the opening ceremony video and took part in the warm up before completing the different activities. All the children tried hard to beat their personal best and the results have been submitted.
We’ve even created our own physical activity challenges that we’ll try out next week.
Did you take part at home? Hope you’ve entered your results. You’ve got until 12pm on Wednesday 08 July.
Week 13: 08 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning! Are you enjoying your PE challenges this week? Don’t forget to record your ‘personal bests’.
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Practise all the phase three phonemes.
Today we’ll practise the phoneme ‘ar’.
Write the ar words.
Let’s play quickwrite!
How to play:
One player points to an ‘ar’ picture.
The other player has to write the word that the picture shows.
(car, jar, scarf, shark, farm, sharp)
You could play this game outside with chalk.
A timer to time how quickly your child writes can make it more exciting too!
Literacy
Listen to the story –We’re Different, We’re the Same.
Can you draw something that you think makes you special?
For example, you could be special because you can jump really high? Or because you are always good at making your friends happy.
Adults you could share what you think makes your child special.
Your child could then draw something that makes someone they love special. They could share this with the person they love.
How does it feel to tell someone why they are special? It makes us feel good to make others feel good.
This is a great activity for not only your child to feel special but to make others around them feel special too.
Extra activity: pass it on smile! We always say how special a smile is. It can be passed on to LOTS of people so quickly. If you smile at someone they will often smile back…they then smile at the next person…and there you have it…a big line of people passing on smiles. Get your child to try in the house or when outside. Not all people will smile back – that’s okay…they might not feel like smiling back… but I’m sure you’re smile was still nice for them to see.
Maths
Listen to the story– The Shopping basket by John Burningham
We’re going to play a memory game.
Let’s get active!
Don’t forget to record your scores!
Home learning heroes!
Today sees the very first voyage of some excellent homemade vessels.
The task was to design, make and evaluate a boat. In iterative design, this evaluation would inform the next adaption (or iteration) of the design which would continually improve the initial product.
Here are some of the awesome and successful ships made at home.
Top sailing, captain Zidaan.
Excellent evaluation, Laila!
Impressive origami, Dan!
Check out this ingenious design!
Keep up the great work, year six!