08 May 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Today is a Bank Holiday to celebrate VE Day.
The activities today are a little bit different.
Have fun!
For information and ideas of how you can celebrate at home click here.
- Make some bunting
- Colour a Union Jack
- Make some cupcakes
More ideas here
Storytime
Listen to one of our favourite stories here
Have a great day and a lovely weekend!
Don’t forget to send me photos!
07 May 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Reception!
How are you all getting on with your learning? Please let me know.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s tasks.
Phonics
Today we will revisit the trigraph ure
Can you remember what a trigraph is?
Watch this BBC Bitesize clip
Words to read
Can you point to the trigraph?
Handwriting
Let’s practise our curly caterpillar letters.
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Retell the story using a story map.
Maths
Counting practise
- Take a cup and ten identical coins
- Ask your child to sit facing away from you and the cup
- One at a time, drop coins into the cup
- Your child must listen and count
- When you stop, they tell you how many coins are in the cup
- Repeat several times. Can they be correct three times in a row?
Challenge
- Drop coins into the cup with your child’s eyes shut
- Take one out
- How many are left?
Shape
Cut out simple 2D shapes from paper. Make different sizes and colours.
Can you describe the properties of the shapes? Talk about the number of sides and size.
Have a fun day!
What have we been up to?
Hello
Here are some pictures of the various activities Year 2 have been up to.
Super Scientists
Great Geographers
Super spellers
Marvelous Mathematicians
Restful Readers
https//drive.google.com/open?id=1MrmNXspNI2il7Pi62a2tzYaHQn51OhgV
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VPdQix5WdnQI1RNdCLyF0Qrh1ItL8Wue
Keep up the good work!
06 May 2020: Home learning
Hello! Are you enjoying your learning this week?
The story of the week is one of my favourites.
Here are today’s activities:
Phonics
Let’s revisit the trigraph air.
Words to write:
air fair pair hair
Phonics Activity: Write the sentence. (Adult to read aloud.)
She has fair hair.
Remember to use your phoneme fingers to segment each word. There is one ‘tricky’word-can you spot it?
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story again. Join in with the animal noises.
In the story the baddies make a map of the farmyard so they can work out how to steal the cow.
Make your own map and label all the places and animals on your map.
Use your map to describe where things are and give directions to your adult to get to the cow; eg turn, next to, under, over etc.
Maths-teen numbers
For tips on how to help your child with maths, this Cbeebies video is very good.
Play this game.
- Write the numbers 1-10 on large scraps of paper. Place them around the floor.
- Your child chooses a number to stand on.
- They must do actions to match that number.
- E.g. If they stood on 6, they might do eight bunny hops.
- Now they choose a different number to stand on.
- Then you have a turn
Number 12
Let’s learn all about the number 12.
Challenges
Can you nod your head 12 times?
Find 12 toys and put them in 2 groups. Can you draw the two groups and record what you find?
05 May 2020: Home learning
Hello!
Keep sending the photos of your home learning and other activities. I love seeing them.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s activities:
Phonics
Join me for another quick phonics lesson.
Words to write:
near tear fear beard
Did you remember the trigraph ‘ear’?
Phonics activity
Write the sentence. (Adult to read aloud.)
I can hear an owl hoot at night.
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story again.
Can you join in with me to make the animal noises?
Purr
Miaow
Woof
Cluck
Moo
Can you draw the animals with speech bubbles? What sound do they make?
Write the sound in the speech bubble.
Challenge: Try writing a sentence eg The sheep said baa.
Maths
Count to 10 and back. Don’t forget the zero!
Practise your number bonds to 10 here.
Number bonds are a pair of numbers that add up to make another specific number. They are sometimes called number pairs .
They can show you how numbers join together and how they break down into different parts.
Teen numbers
We are going to start learning our teen numbers. Teen numbers are a ten and some ones.
Today we are going to learn about the number 11.
Eleven is 10 and 1
Watch Numberblocks to learn about the number 11.
Activities
- Find 11 small toys or other objects
- Blink 11 times
- With a member of your family, show 11 on your fingers
- Can you see the number 11?
CHALLENGE INCOMING from Mr Wain and Miss Wilson…
… to a trick shot challenge!
Here’s Mr Wain’s and here’s Miss Wilson’s!
Who has got the best trick shot?
Who can play it cool the best?
Who can find the most ridiculous items?
We’re challenging you to find what you can from around your home or garden and complete a spectacular shot. Send in your videos and we can answer this important question:
WHO CAN ‘TRICK SHOT’ BETTER… Y5 OR Y6?!
jenwilson@spherefederation.org
oliwain@spherefederation.org
Ramadan
Last week, part of our home learning was about Ramadan. One of our class mates sent us this learning to tell us more about it.
04 May 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone. I hope you had a great weekend.
Here are today’s home learning tasks.
Phonics
Let’s read some tricky words and blend some words.
Don’t forget the daily Letters and Sounds lessons
Words to write
(Read the words to your child and let them write them)
bank spot step from
Remember to use your phoneme fingers!
There are 4 phonemes in these words. Write each one.
Phonics activity
Read the sentence.
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story. Can you spot the rhyming words?
Draw and label the animals from the story.
Maths
Draw or paint some ladybirds. Give each ladybird 10 or 5 spots.
How many spots on one side, how many on the other?
Talk about the calculation on both sides of the ladybird.
Challenge:
Each ladybird must have the same amount of spots on each side. How many different doubles have you got?
Can you record your number sentences? 
Extra activity: make ladybird biscuits
Home learning
Hello Year One!
Well done for completing another week of home learning! I’m super impressed with the learning that’s happening at home. Here’s some pictures showing some of the fantastic things that have been going on.
Lots of science, maths, geography and art!
Someone has been learning how to ride her bike. Go go go!
Look at this amazing model of the Empire State Building!
One lucky person celebrated her birthday last week. Happy Birthday! We all hope you had the best day. The cake looks delicious.
Finally, a HUGE well done to this young man! Last week, he decided that he wanted to run 2.6 miles and raise money for the NHS. On Friday, he completed the run and raised over £2600!
WOW! Incredible effort! We’re all very proud of you.
Home learning
First of all, click here for an important message we’ve received from one of our class mates. As well as staying connected with your family and friends, who you can’t see right now, it’s great that you are staying connected with us.
Here’s some more of your home learning and other activities you’ve been doing to keep busy.
Lexia
Well done, Javier for reaching your next level. Great work!
Reading
Fluency texts and Pobble comprehension
Writing
Adverbs
Maths
Money
Using Connect 4 to learn halves
Measuring
Staying safe online
Geography
Drawing maps with keys
Science
Exploring for plants
Can you identify these plants that one of our class mates found?
I’m looking forward to testing out an app called Picture This to help to identify plants when you are out and about.
Here’s what else you’ve been up to this week.
Painting
Working with clay
Cracking codes
Making scrapbooks
Making a lava lamp (and being a safe scientist)
Playing scrabble
Finally, sit back and enjoy this brilliant Stop Motion movie.
