Our learning
Hello, everyone.
You have all been doing some amazing learning at home and in school.
Zoom sessions
Next week the children who are learning from home will be invited to a zoom session with their teacher. This zoom session will be with a group of children from their class. You will find the focus of the zoom session on the website each Friday. Sometimes your child will need to bring something along with them. Your child does not have to join in with these zooms, they are optional. Unfortunately the timings of these zooms cannot be changed as most teachers are teaching in school.
Look out for the link to your child’s zoom which will be sent via email on a Friday.
Keep sending me photos of your learning and we are looking forward to seeing you all soon.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Week commencing 18 January 2021: home learning
Hello everyone
Snow again! I hope you have been out enjoying the snow (don’t throw snowballs at your parents!)
Here is your learning for this week:
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Book of the week- Watch the story SUPERTATO or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- Where is the story set? Who are the main characters in the story? What fruit and vegetables do you like to eat? Why is it important to eat fruit and vegetables?
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| Phonics- x
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Write a word, caption or sentence to match the picture.
Activity 2: Go to phonicsbloom.com. Choose phase 2 games. Play: Fishy Phonics |
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Tuesday | Phonics- y
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Write a caption or word to match the picture. Activity 2: Here is the link to PhonicsPlay – click here Select phase 3 then +y. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Wednesday | Phonics- z/zz
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘z’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial or ending sound ‘z’?
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words
Click here to watch today’s phonics video
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; – Keeping warm in winter
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. Can you design an outfit to keep Professor Myers warm when she goes out for her winter walks? Can you think of some ways of moving to keep warm when it’s cold outside? Which one worked best?
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| Story time- Superworm
Click here to watch today’s story. Questions to discuss- How did Superworm’s friends save him? How many different ways is Superworm used in the story? Superworm finds lots of ways to help his friends. How can you be kind and helpful to others?
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Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
- Design and label your own character to match the story. You may choose to draw, paint or use real vegetables.
- Pick a character to draw and add a speech bubble. What are they saying?
Understanding the World
- Find some fruits and vegetables around your house. Sort them into different groups.
You might sort by colour, size or texture.
- If you have frozen peas in your freezer have a look at them in their frozen
state. Feel them, what do they feel like? Watch them defrost. How long does it take?
Does it defrost more quickly in different places around your house?
Expressive Arts and Design
- Draw a vegetable.
Use your own imagination or this drawing tutorial.
- Use a mash potato masher to make some super art.
Physical Development
How many pieces did you cut?
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Week commencing 11 January 2021:Home learning
Hi, everyone!
I hope you are enjoying this snowy weather and keeping warm!
Here is your learning for this week.
| Monday
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Book of the week- Watch the story Lost and Found or read the book if you have it at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRAAQ8EWzig Questions to discuss- How is the boy feeling when the penguin first arrives at his door? Why does the penguin follow the boy? What does he want? The penguin was lonely… What does it mean to be lonely? How can we help others when they are feeling lonely? What can we do when we feel lonely ourselves? |
| Phonics- j
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘j’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘j’? Activity 2: Take turns with an adult to play ‘Roll and Read’ (j focus) click here to either print the word mat, or view it on screen. You will need a die or to draw 1-6 dots on 6 pieces of paper and draw at random from a bag. 1. Roll the dice Match to the correct row. Choose a word on the row and read it aloud. |
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Alive in 5!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1 Activity: Click here for today’s activity. Encourage your child to speak in full sentences when describing the number composition, for example: “There are three frogs in the pond and there are two frogs on the grass. There are 5 frogs altogether” or “There are 4 toys on the bed and there is one toy on the floor. There are 5 toys altogether” |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- v
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘v’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘v’? Activity 2: Here is the link to ‘fishy phonics’ on the Phonics Bloom website- click here Select phase 2, set 5. Try the hard level initially, change to easy if this is a bit tricky. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- w
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘w’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘w’? Activity 2: Write ‘yes’ and ‘no on two separate pieces of paper and put them at either side of the room. Ask your child to read these questions (click here) one at a time and then run to either the yes or the no answer. Encourage your child to point to each word on the screen as they read the question. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, draw 5 of anything you like on a piece of paper and cut them out. This will work just as well for the activity! Click here for this week’s word list. Remember to use your phonic fingers to blend. |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words he/she
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a Tricky Word Detective! Can you find any tricky words in the books you have at home? Activity 2: Write a sentence using one of the new tricky words. Steps to writing a successful sentence… 1.Think of a sentence. 2. Say the sentence out loud. 3. Count the words in your sentence. 4. Use your phoneme fingers to segment every word. 5. Check your sentence makes sense. 6. Have you remembered a capital letter at the start, finger spaces throughout and a full stop at the end? Activity 3: Rainbow writing tricky words- use a variety of colours to practice writing all of the phase 2 tricky words.
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| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Exploring Ice-
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. -Can you carry out the ice experiments in the video from Professor Myers? Remember to make some predictions about what you think will happen first. -Can you draw and label a picture to show what you did? |
| Story time- Stickman with Mrs Burgess
Can you find the rhyming words in the story? What is Stickman made from? Go on a scavenger hunt outside. Bring back sticks, leaves, seeds or whatever you can find and make a stickperson. Stickman lives with his family. Draw a picture of your family. Story Link activities to select throughout the week Literacy Make a story map of the key events in the story Lost and Found. We practice creating these lots in class.
Sometimes, when people lose a pet, they put up posters to help find them again. Can you make a ‘lost’ poster for the Penguin in Lost and Found. Don’t forget to add lots of details describing the penguin, so that the reader knows what to look out for. What does the penguin look like? What colour is it? How big is it? The story doesn’t have any speech in it. Ask your grown up to draw out a speech bubble and pretend you are the boy from the story (perhaps you could draw him next to the speech bubble) Have a go at writing what you think he might have said when he first met the penguin. A writing reminder How did your child find the writing activity? Remember it’s okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important that your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling them correctly. We encourage the children to use their own skills, rather than copying an adult. Understanding the World Spend some time watching the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo: https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/penguin-cam/ What do you notice about them? How do they move? (perhaps you can walk like a penguin too!) Do they like to be alone or in groups? Do they live on land, in the water, or both? These penguins are in a zoo. Where can we find penguins in the wild? Ask an adult to help you find this information in a book or by using the internet. Expressive Arts and Design Build a boat for your toys! You could use any construction toys you have at home (such as lego, duplo) natural or found objects outside, or recycled food packaging. Perhaps you could tell a story about an adventure your toys go on in their brand new boat! Make a ‘Paper Roll Penguin’ You could follow this guide or, if you do not have coloured paper, create your own version using plain paper, the paper roll and colouring pens or pencils!
Physical Development Get Moving! Join in with this Jack Hartman Penguin Dance: video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf0uKmKwnKs Did you know… ‘PE with Joe’ is back? Joe Wicks is hosting his live PE sessions again from Monday 11th January 2021, 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9am) You can subscribe to his channel here for alerts. A great way to keep fit at home!
Have fun this week and don’t forget to send me photos of your learning. moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
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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.
