25 March 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone. I hope you are enjoying the tasks so far.
Phonics
words to read:
tricky words (all current tricky words can be found in your pack and in your word books.)
Can your child tell you what a tricky word is?
words to write:
melt, fact, golf, jump
phonics activity:
Write the sentence (adult to read aloud.)
I must not tramp on the flowers. 
Literacy
Look through a book. Can you find any words with more than six letters? What is the longest word you can find?
What was your child’s favourite word?
Maths: 3d Shape
Can you remember the name of these shapes? What do you know about 3d shapes?
Have a look around your home. Can you find anything that is the same as one of these 3d shapes? Why don’t you draw and label them?
Did you go on a shape hunt today? Please email some photos. If you made playdough you could try making the shapes.
Extra Activity
Lots of children are painting rainbows to put in their windows. Why not paint one too!
Go on a walk and see if you can spot any. I saw two on my ride to school yesterday.
Home Learning
Here’s another photo of one of our classmates and her busy day of home learning. Looks like great fun!
24 March 2020: Home learning
Phonics
words to read:
words to write:
Phonics activity:
Write a sentence using one of the words you have written. For example:
The clown has a pink waistcoat
How did your child find the writing activity? Remember it’s OK for some words to be spelt phonetically. Encourage your child to write independently, rather than copy you.
Literacy
Choose a new book to read. Stop reading in the middle of the story. Can you guess what will happen at the end? Were you right?
What book did you read? What did your child predict? Let us know.
Maths: order numbers 0-10
Put the number cards from your pack in order. Can you find small objects to count to match. Count carefully!
What objects did your child use for the activity?
Extra activity
Did you make playdough? What did your child make?
Home Learning!
Hope you all had a good day and that the home learning tasks went okay. Have a look at what these two got up to today…..
Some great history themed crafting and an innovative use of skipping ropes!
23 March 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Words to read:
Words to write: best, think, burnt, spot
Phonics activity: Read and colour 10 words from your word book.
Did your child use their phoneme fingers?
Literacy activity
Visit pobble365.com. This website has daily pictures. Use the arrows to find the most interesting picture you can (or use today’s daily photo) Discuss the photo and write what you can see. Perhaps you are even inspired to come up with your own story based on the image!
Which picture did you use?
Maths: Finding one less
If you don’t have toy cars, you can use anything! Dolls, teddies, pieces of food- any objects you can count!
Challenge: Can you record your findings either by drawing your objects and crossing one off each time or writing it as a number sentence (ie. 5-1=4)
Did your child enjoy the activity? Can they use objects to 10?
Extra Activity
Home learning explained
Your child was given a home learning pack last week. (The packs for those children who were absent can be collected from the office.)
The packs contain some of the resources the children will need to support their learning at home.
Home learning tasks will be posted each day and will include a phonics, literacy and maths activity as well as other ideas and information.
The tasks can be found on the Reception class news page and will be published daily at 9am. Each of the three tasks will take about 20 minutes to complete.
Please use the email below if you are unsure about any aspect of the home learning. We are here to support you and your child’s home learning journey and will aim to reply to emails on the same day.
Home Learning
Daily home learning tasks will be published on the homework section of the school website. Please support and encourage your child to complete these. Mrs Taylor and Mrs Freeman will be contactable via email.
Thank you and stay safe.
Improving our vocabulary
In an English lesson this morning, we’ve been using dictionaries and iPads to find definitions for some words which we’ll be using in writing later this week.
The Y3,4 Easter production
Current government guidance around the coronavirus outbreak is clear that schools should remain open. However, there is a possibility that schools may close at some point.
If schools were to close, children would miss out on valuable learning time with their teacher. (We have plans in place to provide some home learning in the event of school closures, but this won’t be the same as children coming to school to learn with their teacher.)
Because we prioritise learning, we want to ensure children are benefitting from as much time as possible in the classroom.
Based on this reason, we’ve decided to cancel the Y3,4 Easter production. This is because the production involves quite a lot of time in rehearsals. Whilst this can be a useful time for children to develop wider skills, we want to prioritise learning in the class – just in case later on learning in the class is missed.
We’re continuing to follow government guidance. This decision is not due speculation about bans on mass-gatherings, for example.
Sports Relief
On Friday, the children completed a Sports Relief challenge. Their challenge was to see how many laps of the MUGA they could do in 30 minutes. They set their own target and tried to achieve it. You can see on their faces how much fun they had!
