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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
23 June 2020:Home learning
Good morning!
Did you get a chance to make a wormery yet? If you do, please send me photos.
moortowneyfs@spherefedertion.org
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
Practise the phoneme oo/oo with Geraldine the Giraffe.
Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Let’s recap the phonemes ow, ar
Phonics activity
Read the words. Some are real words, some are nonsense words. We call these ‘alien’ words. How many ‘alien’ words are there?
Literacy
Story of the week: Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story.
Wizard Lizard magically makes Superworm go missing!
Can you design a poster to help find Superworm?
Remember to include lots of detail:
• A picture of Superworm
• A description of Superworm. What does he look like?
Maths
Count to 20 in 2s.
Watch numberblocks counting in 2s.
You will need objects to use for counting, two ten frames (print or you can make/draw one).
Use the 10 frames to solve these number problems:
Jenson has found 10 insects, 2 of them wriggle away. How many insects are left?
Joshua has found 12 frogs. 1 frog jumps back into the pond. How many frogs are left?
Niamh saw 8 birds in the sky. Lorien saw 6 more birds. How many birds did they see altogether?
Challenge: Ava has 14 worms. She wants to give half of them to Georgia. How many would they each have?
Extra activity
Learn about worms and wormeries here.
22 June 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend.
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Sing a tricky word song.
Write some tricky words on scrap pieces of paper to help prepare for the game below!
Parents/Carers: you could read the words below and ask your child to write them without looking.
Activity: Play tricky word boo!
How to prepare:
Fold the tricky words up and put them into a cup.
Write the word ‘boo’ on some scrap pieces of paper.
Fold them up and put them into a cup.
How to play:
1.Collect a word out of the cup and read it. Remember to keep the words you read.
2.Take it in turns to take a word out of the cup to read.
3.If you get ‘boo’ put all your words back.
4.The person with the most words wins!
Literacy
Look at the photo of a worm.
Can you describe it?
You could use words like: slimy, wiggly etc
Story of the week-Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story and join in with the Superworm chant.
Think of some new words to describe Superworm.
Draw Superworm and label your drawing with some of the words.
Maths-symmetry
Sing some Numberblocks songs.
Extra activity
Why not make your own wormery?
