Monday 19 July 2021: Home learning
Good morning, everyone.
I hope you had a great weekend!
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
Write the ‘ow’ words.
Maths
Estimate the number of sweets in the jars and then count them to check.
Here is today’s story.
Don’t forget to draw a picture and write a sentence for Mr McGriffiths.
Tell him something interesting about yourself.
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Friday 16 July 2021:Home learning
Good morning!
I hope you are enjoying the sunshine and your home learning.
Today would have been our ‘Skip into Summer’ challenge. If you have a skipping rope at home why don’t you complete the challenge at home.
Here is the link to the video. You will find lots of tips and ideas for skipping here.
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Write the ‘oi’ words.
Handwriting
Practise writing some curly caterpillar letters.
Maths
- Grab a handful of objects. How many do you have? Ask someone else to grab a handful too.
If your friend has more than you, how many could they have?
If your friend has fewer than you, how many could they have?
Use a number track to talk about which numbers are smaller and which are greater.
2. Gather together some of your favourite toys. Make a tent or use a box to hide them in.
Create your own number stories by adding and removing toys.
Meet your new teacher.
Here is today’s story.
Thursday 15 July 2021: Home learning
We are so sad we are not in school again, but we are looking forward to seeing you all on Zoom and back at school next week.
Here are some activities linked with today’s learning.
Phonics
Can you write the ‘ur’ words?
Seaside missing sounds
Can you complete these words?
Maths
Sing 10 in a bed.
Sing a rhyme that counts backwards, such as 10 in a bed or 10 green bottles.
Use ten toys to act out the rhyme ’10 in a bed’.
Make some number cards and order them from 10 counting backwards to 1.
Listen to today’s story.
Thursday 08 July 2021: Home learning
We have reached our last day of home learning! We are really looking forward to going back to school and seeing everyone tomorrow.
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
Can you write the ar words?
Practise tricky words with this song.
Maths
Can you write the teen numbers represented by these?
Play the track game with at home.
Play a track game at home. You could make a game or play a board game you have.
Here is today’s story-one of our favourites!
Wednesday 07 July 2021:Home learning
Hello everyone!
Here are your learning activities for today.
Phonics
Write the oo words. Can you sort them into short oo and long oo?
Maths
Watch Numberblocks .
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 complete the part part whole models?
Make some number cards on paper from 11-20.
Ask a helper to change something on the number line.
Can you spot what they have changed?
Can you correct the mistake?
Extra activity
Yesterday we drew a map of a story.
Can you draw a map of your journey to school?
Here is today’s story.
Don’t forget to send me photos of your learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
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
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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