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?
This week’s learning
Lots of great learning this week! I loved the Zoom phonics game and all your self-portraits.
Keep sending me photos.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
19 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Are you ready to perform your puppet show today?
Phonics
Phonics
Sing the tricky word songs.
Phase 3
Phase 4
Practise the phoneme oo.
Phonics Activity:
Can you spot the phoneme oo in the story?
Now, read the story.
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
It’s puppet show time! Use the puppets, setting and story maps you have made to retell the story ‘The monkey puzzle’.
You could record your puppet show and email it to us-we would love to see it!
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Maths-number bonds
Draw 10 cheeky monkeys. Can you place them in the trees? How many monkeys are in each tree?
Enjoy this song!
Have a great weekend!
18 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning! I hope everyone is having a great week so far.
Here are your learning activities for today.
Phonics
Practise tricky words at BBCBitesize
Practise writing tricky words using a sheet like this.
Don’t forget there are daily phonics lessons here.
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle 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 or draw a story map of events.
Maths-number
We are learning about the number 16. Sixteen is a square number. Can you remember the other square numbers we have learnt?
Watch Numberblocks.
Can you draw 16 in different ways?
Things you could draw to show 16:
– 16 monkeys jumping on a trampoline
– 16 stars in the sky
– 16 rainbows
-16 hearts
Challenge: Is 16 an even number? How do you know?
Extra activity
Reading
We know that reading daily is an important part in supporting your child’s reading development.
Some parents have been using oxford owls free ebooks to get their child to read daily – fantastic! Typically, a child in reception would be reading ‘Oxford Level 2/3‘, ‘Letters and sounds – phase 3/4’ and ‘Book band Red/Yellow/Blue’.
It might be that you are starting to get through most of the ebooks available that are appropriate for your child’s reading level. If so, here are some more free downloadable books that your child could enjoy.
