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.
New date for Zoom catch-up: Tuesday at 10am
Hello everyone,
Sorry for another change in date for the meeting. It’s going to be at 10am on Tuesday now.
NEW: If you attended the previous meeting, you can also join this one. Just email to let me know.
paulwilks@spherefederation.org
Thanks
Mr W
Hobby Half Day
In school, the children get an afternoon a term where they take part in different hobbies. As this can’t happen this term, we decided to have an activity themed morning painting pottery. After choosing their preferred money pot, the group set to work painting. We each chose song to listen to whilst working!
Well done, everyone! 
This week’s update
Thank you for continuing to send us your home learning or other activities. We always enjoy receiving your messages.
Here’s an update from this week’s learning with some real life science.
Enjoying the school video – have you seen it yet?
Wow – snail eggs!
Observing caterpillars while they grow and turn into chrysalis. Finally, the butterflies appear.
Imaginative artwork
Potatoes harvested after scraps were planted at the start of lockdown.
More capacity maths, tessellations and Andy Goldsworthy art…
More great learning…
This week’s learning
Another great week of learning! Lots of fantastic Superworm designs.
We made a wormery at school after finding a worm in our outside area.
Here are some highlights.
This week’s learning
Hello Year One!
There’s been lots more amazing learning going on, at home and in school!
Lots of you took on the challenge of taking your learning outside whilst it’s been sunny. Have a look at the photos below and see if you can spot yourself or your learning:
26 June 2020: Home Learning
Good morning. I hope you’ve had a great week.
Have you enjoyed the learning this week? Please send photos.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
Tricky word songs Sing the tricky word songs.
Phase 3:
Phase 4:
Read the sentences. Can you spot the phonemes ar and ow?
Write a sentence
Bow down to the king and queen.
Literacy
Book of the week: Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Draw your own Super animal! What superpowers does your worm have?
Send me photos of your super animal-I can’t wait to see them!
Maths-counting
Super Shop
Create your own yucky supermarket by labelling tins of minibeasts!
Collect tins and packets for this activity!
Make labels for each tin and packet. Think about the size of the tin. How many of each minibeast will fit in?
Set up your shop and go shopping. Combine your tins of yuck!
How many minibeasts would you have if you bought 3 slugs and ten spiders?
Try different combinations.
Make price tags for your tins and packets.
Send me photos of your ‘yucky’ shop.
Extra activity
Make a collection of worms and see if you can cut them into different lengths. Talk about the lengths and measure with a ruler or tape measure.
Of course we’re not going to use real worms! You could use cooked spaghetti, string, playdough or wool.
Can you order them by length?
What is your longest worm as long as?
What is your shortest worm as short as?
Here is a silly rhyme that I used to sing when I was at school!
25 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Here are your home learning activities for today.
Phonics
Practise reading and writing tricky words.
Can you write a sentence about this picture?
Remember to use a full stop and a capital letter.
Literacy
Book of the week: Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story of the week.
What happens in the story? What are the events?
Retell the story to a grown up and draw a story map of events.
Maths-time
Get fit and sing a teen number workout song.
Extra activity
Sing the song ‘There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden’ with Mr Tumble.
Zoom Meeting!
Hello Year 4s!
I really enjoyed talking to everyone at the ‘meeting’ today! It was great to see you all.
If you didn’t attend today’s session, please join me at the next one. However, I’ve changed the date as the planned Thursday session did not have many takers.
The new date will be Monday 29th June at 10am.
Please email me to let me know if you’d like to attend.
Thanks
Mr W
24 June 2020: Home learning
Hello, everyone! I hope you are having great week so far.
Please send me photos of your learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Phonics
Practise phoneme ow/ar at BBCBitesize
Phonics activity
Just add ‘ar’
Read a book at Oxford Owls
Literacy
Book of the week Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story.
Superworm is a rhyming story. Can you write down the words that rhyme?
Superheroes have a superhero costume. Can you design a costume for Superworm?
Maths
Let’s make worm number lines.
Superworm is super-long!
These worms look like our number lines at school. Draw your own worm number lines. Start at different numbers or write your numbers backwards!
Extra activity
Make a playdough worm or make a worm with pasta!
How long is your worm?
You can find details of these activities here.