Tuesday 06 July 2021:Home learning
Good morning.
Here are today’s learning activities.
Phonics
Write the oa words.
Challenge
Can you write a sentence using each word?
Practise your ‘tricky’ words.
Maths
Can you draw some ladybirds to show half of a number.
Can you find half of 12, 14 and 16?
Choose a story where the character goes on a journey. Can you draw a map of the places in the story?
Where does the character go first?
Where do they go next?
Can you change the story?
You could use the story Rosies Walk.
What if Little Red Riding Hood didn’t go to Grandma’s house?
Today’s story.
Monday 05 July 2021: Home learning
Good morning!
I hope you had a great weekend.
We are so proud of all your learning last week.
Here are today’s activities which are linked to our Zoom sessions.
Phonics
Write the igh words.
Watch and listen to the Jolly Phonics song.
Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog (it’s along the play bar) and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.
Maths
Doubles
Play the beanbag game.
Find three hoops or buckets and number them 1, 2 and 3.
Throw your beanbags or rolled up socks and add up your points.
How many points did you score?
What is the highest possible score?
Today’s story is ‘What the ladybird heard’ by Julia Donaldson.
Please send your learning to moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
02 July 2021: Home learning
Good morning!
I hope you enjoyed the learning yesterday.
Here are some extra activities linked to today’s learning.
Don’t forget the learning which was emailed to you today.
Phonics
Write the words to match each picture.
Practise ‘tricky words’ with this song.
Phonics Play
Login in using Sphere (username) Spher3 (password)
Maths
Today’s problem solving is based on the book, ‘How many legs’.
Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog (it’s along the play bar) and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.
Can you create your own ‘How many legs’ problems.
You could combine different characters and find the total number of legs they would have altogether.
Explore which characters could have 12 legs altogether.
Use drawings to show your learning.
Today’s story is Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson.
Have a great weekend!
01 July 2021: Home learning
Hello, everyone!
Here are some activities to go along with today’s phonics and maths lessons.
Phonics
Write the words for each picture.
Listen to this tricky word song.
Maths
We read ‘Mr Gumpy’s Outing‘ in class this week. Our maths is linked to this story.
Listen to the story again.
A problem to solve!
Who could be in Mr Gumpy’s boat if there are 10 legs altogether?
Could there be 9 legs in the boat?
Draw a picture to help you work it out.
Make a map
Can you draw Mr Gumpy’s journey down the river?
Draw each of the characters and use the map to help tell the story.
Here’s a story for you.
Please send photos of your learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Reception Class Trip
Due to the current situation in school, we have decided to cancel our trip to Valley Gardens on the 7 July.
Instead, we will walk to Moortown Park for a picnic.
Please send your child in their uniform and with a packed lunch and drink.
We will still have a wonderful time and an ice-cream!
Self-Isolating?
We’re really missing you in school and we can’t wait to have you back.
We hope you’re managing to stay happy, healthy and safe while you’re not with us here in school. You are still very much a part of our school community so please get in touch with us.
You should have received an email with details of the home learning-please check your junk mail.
If you have not received this or have any other questions, please get in touch.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Maths Masters!
We have been so impressed with the maths learning in Reception lately.
The children have a good understanding of tens and ones and can recall number facts including doubles.
This week our maths learning is focussing on grouping and sharing and odd and even numbers.
Literacy
We are continuing to read and retell the story, ‘The Train Ride’ and this week the children will write about where they would like to go on a train.
Phonics
We are nearing the end of Phase 4 and the rest of this term will focus on applying their phonic knowledge to read and write sentences.
Please keep practising the phonemes and words and read with your child. A comment in the reading record really helps us.
The children have been fascinated by maps during our topic. We made a map of Moortown and the children made their own houses. They have enjoyed looking at maps of the local area and beyond and drawn their own maps.
A busy week!
This week has been very busy and very hot.
The children have enjoyed the new playground and spending time learning outdoors.
Our theme this half term will be ‘Journeys’. We have been thinking about the types of journeys we take and how we get there. Please send photos of any journeys your children make-even if it’s just walking to school!
Literacy
We are reading the book ‘The train ride’ and writing about where we would like to go on a train.
Phonics
We are still learning to blend and segment words with 4 or more letters. The children are all attempting to write a sentence and using full stops and capital letters.
Maths
This week’s focus is doubling.
The children have learnt that double means ‘twice as many’. They have been building doubles using real objects and mathematical equipment. 
Please remember to send children with a sunhat and apply suncream as we are making the most of this sunny weather.
Keep sending those ‘wow’ moments and any questions to:
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
This week in Reception
The children have been enjoying lots of physical activities including skipping, movement play and PE.
Phonics
We are continuing our Phase 4 phonics learning and learning to blend and segment words with four phonemes such as; stop, black, float, and storm.
We will continue to send sheets of words home for your child to blend. Please keep practising the phase 3 phonemes, especially ar, or, ow, oi, ur, ear, air, ure and er.
Maths
This week we will continue to learn about subtraction by taking away objects and using ten frames to help us see how many are left.
Literacy
This week’s story is ‘Mad about Minibeasts’. The children have been writing a class minibeast poem and using adjectives to describe their favourite minibeast. They have been making them with playdough.
Have a great half-term break. Hopefully the sun will shine!
Please send any ‘wow’ moments to
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
In Reception this week
We said goodbye to the chicks on Thursday. The children have loved watching them hatch and grow. The caterpillars are finally growing and nearly ready to start building their cocoons- I think the cold weather has slowed them down this year!
Literacy
This week we will read the story, ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson. After retelling the story, the children will make their own super minibeast story. We are encouraging the children to write a simple sentence remembering full stops, capital letters and finger spaces.
Phonics
We will begin Phase 4 of the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics programme. In this phase children will use the phonemes learnt in Phase 2 and Phase 3 to read and spell words with four phonemes.
Children will continue to practise previously learned graphemes and phonemes and learn how to read and write:
CVCC words: tent, damp, toast, chimp
For example, in the word ‘toast’, t = consonant, oa = vowel, s = consonant, t = consonant
CCVC words: swim, plum, sport, cream, spoon
For example, in the word ‘cream’, c = consonant, r = consonant, ea = vowel, m = consonant
They will be learning more tricky words and continuing to read and write sentences together.
Tricky words
said, so, do, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what
Please help your child to learn the phonemes from the previous phases.
We will continue to send words and books home which your child will be able to blend. Please make sure your child’s reading book is in their bookbag everyday as we read often.
Maths
This week the children will begin to realise that a group of objects can be changed by taking away. They will solve problems involving addition and subtraction and tell maths stories using the language, first, then and now.
Please keep sending those ‘wow moments’ and any questions to
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org