What’s been going on at home this week?
Here’s a quick catch up of some the super activities happening at home. This week we’ve had caterpillars, plants (and worm juice), painting, four leaf clovers, conjunctions, eggsellent experiments, reading thermometers, temperature adjectives, super heroes, transition to Year 3 activities and two HUGE fruit kebabs!
It’s been great to see all the photos that have been sent this week – thank you.
Charlotte’s Web
The children in school have been enjoying listening to a story called Charlotte’s Web.
Charlotte’s Web is a children’s novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams and it was published on October 15, 1952. The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte.
One of the all-time great classics of children’s literature. This gentle story has inspired readers for generations. Readers discover how we should make and keep friends and how we should treat each other.
Wilbur the pig’s life has already been saved by Fern, but when he is sold to her uncle, he realises his life is in even more danger.
His heroine is a hairy spider who sucks the blood out of flies, aided by a rat, and they’re working to save Wilbur from the reality of every working barn. Enter Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider. Charlotte is determined to keep Wilbur from the chopping block, and comes up with an ingenious way to do just that. Charlotte’s Web is a classic tale of friendship, bravery and some animal magic.
This week, the children have made their own versions of Charlotte. The concentration in the room was quite something!
Well done, Years 3 and 4!
Week 12: 03 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone!
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Sing these tricky word songs.
Phase 3
Phase 4
Read the sentences with the digraphs or and oi.
Words to write:
Write the words to label each picture.
mast clap pram drum gran frog twin stop brick slug plum brush grass crab
Read the sentences and colour the sea creature.
Literacy
Story of the week-The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson
Watch The Snail and the Whale
The snail wants to see more of the world.
He chooses a different way to travel.
Draw the way the snail travels next.
Where will he go?
Maths-positional language
Sing a funny song about position.
Can you answer these questions?
Extra activity
Do you remember the rhyme with Mr Tumble last week?
Listen to it here.
Here’s a new rhyme about a snail.
There’s a snail at the bottom of the garden,
And his name is Christopher Crawl.
There’s a snail at the bottom of the garden and he’s crawling up my wall.
He crawls all nigh, he crawls all day,
Slowly crawling on his way.
There’s a snail at the bottom of the garden and his name is Christopher Crawl.
Have a great weekend!
Here’s a story for you.
Week 12: 02 July 2020: Home learning
Hello everyone!
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Don’t forget to send me photos of your learning.
Phonics
Sing a ‘tricky word’ song.
Read the tricky words. Try to say each word in a sentence.
Write sentences using some of the tricky words.
Words to write:
Match the words to the pictures below.
pond milk gift band hump sink tent belt hand pink lamp bank
Let’s talk!
This week we will be focussing on developing your child’s communication and language skills through fun, family activities. Your child’s communication and language development is so important. It encompasses speech development, listening skills and understanding. The games this week will focus on these skills to support your child in becoming a good communicator.
What you will need:
Building bricks e.g. lego or duplo
Building instructions –
2 players – 1 ‘engineer’ and 1 ‘builder’
How to play: The aim of the game is for the ‘engineer’ to look at the instructions and tell the ‘builder’ how to build the model.
Why this game?
This game is a great way to support your child’s communication skills. When being the ‘Engineer’ they are encouraged to really tune into their listeners needs – all whilst giving instructions! When being the ‘Builder’ it is a great chance for your child to practice being a good listener. Responding with relevant comments or questions shows that your child is understanding what the ‘Engineer’ is asking them to do.
Literacy
Book of the week: The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story
What was your favourite part of the story?
Draw your favourite part of the story.
Maths
Watch numberblocks 17
17 is an odd number. We will look at some odd numbers with the snail on his journey.
In each picture, does the snail have an odd or even number of friends?
Extra activity
The snail travelled all over the world. Do you know the names of the continents?
Look at this map of the world and join in with this song.(You may recognise this from class assemblies!)
Home learning heroes
Our home learning continues to be awesome!
We’ve been saving the world with our magnificent maths skills…
We’ve been showing our fab reading skills in different ways…
And writing some truly fantastic poetry about some extremely important issues…
Or about things that matter to us…
Well done everybody! As always, thanks for working so hard!
Week 12: 01 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone!
I hope you are enjoying your learning this week.
Today’s learning activities.
Phonics
Watch Geraldine Giraffe to practice ‘ow’.
Words to read:
Practise the phoneme ‘oo’.
Sort the words. Which have the long ‘oo’ sound and which words had the short ‘oo’ sound?
For example;
Food has the long ‘oo’ sound
Book has the short ‘oo’ sound
Let’s talk!
Follow my instructions
What you will need:
Simple ingredients and utensils to make a snack – this could be cheese spread on crackers, sliced fruit or toast.
2 players
How to play:
The aim of the game is for your child to follow your instructions when making a snack. Your child will need to listen very carefully so that you don’t have to help at all. For example, verbal cues only rather than non-verbal (such as pointing).
To make this more challenging you could have different sized utensils or different coloured ingredients.
Here is an example below:
Making fruit salad
1. Get the largest banana from the fruit bowl.
2. Get one small and one large orange from the fruit bowl.
3. Get a handful of red and green grapes from the fruit bowl.
4. Use the smallest knife to cut the banana into slices and put it into the large, green bowl.
5. Peel the orange and separate into segments. Put it into the large, green bowl too.
6. Put 8 red grapes and 10 green grapes into the large, green bowl.
Make sure your child listens to what you say and doesn’t ask you to point. The aim of the game is for your child to understand your language through verbal instructions.
Why this game?
This game supports your child’s listening and understanding skills. Using size, colour and quantity when giving instructions will challenge your child to really tune into and understand what you are asking them to do.
PASS IT ON! Your child could then ‘pass it on’ and give the instructions to another family member. Challenge your child to only use their words and not use actions when giving their instructions.
Literacy
Story of the week- The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson
The snail visited lots of places. Can you draw a map of where he went? Label your map.
Maths-numbers
Count to 20
We have been learning about teen numbers.
Join me to learn about the number 17.
Seventeen is one ten and seven more
Let’s learn about the number 17.
Draw 17 in lots of different ways.
Extra activity-art
This is ‘The snail’ by the artist Henri Matisse.
He made his pictures by tearing paper. He called this technique ‘painting with scissors’.
Can you see a spiral pattern?
Cut and stick coloured paper to make your own snail.
Transition to Year 1
About this time, if it was a normal term, you would be invited to a meeting about your child’s transition to Year 1. You won’t be surprised to know that this is not going to happen. However, I know many of you will be wondering what Year 1 will look like. Presuming that we will be all back to some kind of normality in September, I have prepared a presentation to explain what will change for your child:
If you have any questions, please email headofmoortown@spherefederation.org or ring the school office.
Looking forward to seeing you all in September.
Knowledgeable Kahooters!
Recently, within our Y5/6 reading lessons, we have been completing Kahoot’s based on texts that we have read.
Our first Kahoot was about the story: Gaby to the Rescue.
Out of 49 of us who played, there could only be three places on the podium.
These have gone to… (drum roll)
Congratulations to Eliza, Daisy and F (whoever you are)!
Keep up the good work, everybody!
Week 12: 30 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Don’t forget to send me photos of your home learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Practise phase 3 phonemes with Jolly Phonics.
Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Let’s recap the phoneme oi
Words to read:
Write a sentence to go with the photo.
eg The boy has lots of coins.
Phonics activity
Just add ‘or’.
Write the words with the ‘or’ phoneme.
- Let’s talk!
This week we will be focussing on developing your child’s communication and language skills through fun, family activities. Your child’s communication and language development is so important. It encompasses speech development, listening skills and understanding. The games this week will focus on these skills to support your child in becoming a good communicator.
Pirate treasure!
What you will need: - An object to represent ‘treasure’. This could be a coin or a favourite teddy bear.
- 2 players/pirates
How to play:
The aim of the game is for one pirate to hide the treasure and describe where it is hidden. The other pirate needs to listen to the description and find that treasure!
Take it in turns to either hide the treasure or find the treasure. Remember only use words – no pointing or actions allowed!
Encourage good language skills such as;
• Pre-positional language e.g. underneath, on top, in front of, behind
• Descriptive language (what size is it? Colour?)
• Adventurous words
For example: “The treasure is in the LARGEST room in the house. It is hiding UNDERNEATH something red, SPARKLY and TINY.”
Why this game?
Just like yesterday’s game this activity supports your child’s vocabulary, listening and understanding skills. When describing where the treasure is hidden your child is challenged to use adventurous vocabulary and tune into the listeners needs. When finding out where the treasure is hidden your child is challenged to listen to the speaker and understand what they are saying.
Literacy
Story of the week: The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story
How did the snail feel?
Talk about how the whale felt.
Maths
Watch numberblocks five and friends.
Draw or print out a spiral pattern. Use your ‘funky fingers’ and paint dots around your spiral.
Snail maths! Solve these number problems and draw the story.
Extra activity
Learn about snails
Week 12: 29 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning. I hope you had a great weekend.
Here is today’s home learning.
Phonics
Practise your handwriting by writing the curly caterpillar letters.
- Let’s talk!
This week we will be focussing on developing your child’s communication and language skills through fun, family activities. Your child’s communication and language development is so important. It encompasses speech development, listening skills and understanding. The games this week will focus on these skills to support your child in becoming a good communicator.
Describe that thing!
What you will need: - A collection of objects from around the house e.g. a teddy, banana, spoon, book.
- A bag/box to hide the objects inside
- Building bricks i.e. lego or duplo – these will be used as points in the game.
2 players – 1 ‘describer’ and 1 ‘listener’
How to play:
The aim of the game is for the ‘describer’ to describe the object hidden in the bag and the ‘listener’ to guess what it is. Every time the ‘listener’ guesses correctly they get a brick for their tower. The ‘describer’ can collect bricks for their tower if they use any adventurous words.
Take it in turns to be either the ‘listener’ or the ‘describer’. The person with the tallest brick tower at the end is the winner!
Why this game?
This game is a great way to support your child’s communication skills. When being the ‘describer’ they are encouraged to really tune into their listeners needs – as well as use adventurous words to describe something! When being the ‘listener’ it is a great chance for your child to practice being a good listener. When your child responds with relevant comments or questions it shows that they understand what the ‘describer’ is saying.
Literacy
Story of the week –The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story.
Snail went on an exciting adventure.
Describe, draw and label the places that he saw.
Maths-pattern
Numberblocks songs
Make a spiral dangler.
Extra activity
Make your own edible snail shells.
Spread a wrap with chocolate spread, roll up tightly and cut into slices.
