08 January 2021:Home learning
Hello, Reception.
I hope you have enjoyed the learning activities this week.
This is what you can expect to see on your child’s class news page each week during lockdown.
The learning for week beginning 11.01.21 will be posted on Sunday 10.01.21. All subsequent weeks will be posted on a Friday evening.
As teachers are also teaching our key worker children in school, these videos may not be from your child’s teacher. However, every Friday the children will be able to enjoy a story read by an adult from their class.
Each week a menu of activities will be presented that can be completed during the week. This menu will relate to the book of the week. The activities will cover all aspects of the Early Years curriculum. There will also be the following screencasts and videos.
| Monday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Tuesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Wednesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Thursday | A tricky word screencast with follow up activities
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Friday | An Understanding the World video with “ Professor Myers” with follow up activities
A story read by one of your child’s teachers with talk time activities. |
As always your child’s teachers will be available via email for any questions. We will also endeavor contact you by phone once per week, just to check in with you.
Here are today’s activities:
Phonics
Practise the phase 2 phonemes.
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog 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.)
Read the words and draw a picture to match the captions.
Don’t forget there are some really good games on Phonicsplay
username: sphere
password: spher3
Maths
Practise writing number 5.
Don’t forget Numbots.
Art
Have a great weekend. Don’t forget to send me photos of your home learning.
07 January 2021:Home learning
Good morning!
I hope you are all enjoying the cold weather!
Here are your lessons and activities for today.
Phonics
We will recap some phase 2 sounds.
Activities
Maths
Before the holiday we investigated the number 5.
Watch Numberblocks 5 alive!
Activities
Talktime
Talk about what is happening in the picture.
Draw a picture of you in the ice or snow.
Storytime
6 January 2021: Home learning
Good morning, Reception.
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
This week we will recap the phonemes(sounds) from phase 2.
Practise the sounds in your phonics books.
Words to read:
Maths
Let’s recap the number 4.
Sing the number 4 song from Numberblocks.
Make a collection of objects to represent the number 4. How many different ways can you find?
Storytime
Listen to today’s story.
Don’t forget to send me photos of your learning!
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Home learning
Hello, everyone, and Happy New Year!
This wasn’t the start of the new year that we expected!
Here is where you will find lessons and activities for you to keep learning at home.
Please email me if you have any questions or want to send photos of your learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
This half term our topic is ‘Winter’.
We will be looking at the signs of winter and how to keep warm. We will investigate ice and snow and learn about the animals, people and landscapes of the polar regions.
In maths we will learn all about the numbers 5-10.
We will continue Phase 3 phonics.
Phonics
Practise all the phase 2 phonemes.
Maths
We have been learning all about the number 5.
Activities
Merry Christmas!
We have reached the end of a very busy and different first term.
We have been really impressed with how well the children have settled and it’s been wonderful to see the progress they have made.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Christmas!
Enjoying Christmas dinner and the Santa Dash.
Santa dash Friday 11 December
This week’s learning
Phonics
This week we will begin phase 3 ‘Letters and Sounds’.
The purpose of this phase is to:
- teach more graphemes, most of which are made of two letters (digraphs), for example, ‘oa’ as in boat.
- practise blending and segmenting a wider set of CVC words, for example, fizz, chip, sheep, light
- learn all letter names and begin to form them correctly
- read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them
- read and write words in phrases and sentences.
Here are some examples of words your children will be reading: tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil
(Remember: these words all contain three phonemes).
During phase 3 the children will learn more ‘Tricky Words’.
he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all, said
Children will begin to write sentences independently.
Definitions
Blending– Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word .
Segmenting– Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear.
Phoneme–Phonemes are sounds that can be heard in words.
e.g. c-a-t
Grapheme–This is how a phoneme is written down.
Digraph –This means that the phoneme comprises of two letters
e.g. ll, ff, ck, ss
Maths
We are continuing to investigate the number 5 and find one more and one less than a number. We will be learning about the properties of shapes with four sides.
Literacy
This week we will be introducing capital letters and full stops and beginning to read and write simple sentences
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Learning about 5
We have been investigating the number 5 this week.
The children were given 5 connecting cubes and encouraged to explore the different shapes they could make.
They built stairs with the cubes to look at the pattern of one more and used Numicon to find the different ways of making 5.
