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.
This week in Reception
As we head towards this very different Christmas, we are thinking of ideas to make this time as festive as possible.
Literacy
We are reading the traditional story, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. The children will be retelling the story and taking part in lots of gingerbread themed activities-our roleplay area has become a gingerbread bakery!
Phonics
This week we are recapping Phase 2 and focussing on ‘tricky words’.
The tricky words learnt so far are the, to, I, no, go, into.
We will be encouraging the children to use these words in their independent writing.
Watch this useful parents and carers guide to tricky words here.
(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.)
Maths
We will investigate the number 5 through number rhymes and stories including 5 currant buns and 5 little ducks.
The children will be introduced to the link between counting forwards and the one more pattern and counting back and the one less pattern.
School menu change and Christmas meal
Maths is everywhere!
The children have been using maths in all the areas of provision to learn about shape, measures and money in our new role-play bakery.
