Hello to our new class
Hello Reception class and your families – we hope you are all well.
It has been a very strange end to the school year. Usually the children would have visited their new classroom and staff and we would have shared with them what would happen in September as they change year group. This year, sadly, this has not been possible.
Please don’t worry. All the adults in Year 1 are very excited for September, to meet you all in person, and to welcome you to your new class. We will work hard to help you settle and get you back on track with your learning.
Mrs Weekes has recently sent some information about your transition to Year 1 and as we can’t see you all in school at the moment, here are some messages for you from your new teachers.
A message from Mrs Bharath…
Hello, Reception class. I am excited to work with you again in Year 1. I hope you are all keeping busy and that you enjoy the summer holidays. See you, raring to go, in September!
We all hope you and your families have a happy and healthy summer holiday. Stay safe and well. See you in September!
Week 14: 13 July 2020: Home learning
Hello!
This is the last week of our school year.
What a strange year it has been!
This week’s learning will include reflecting on the past year and looking forward to Year 1.
Phonics
Practise your handwriting.
Try these phonics activities:
Literacy
As we approach the end of this strange year, I’m sure you’ve got lots of memories.
What have you learnt this year?
Draw a picture and write a sentence. “ I learnt how to…’
Maths
Watch Numberblock 19
19 is one ten and nine ones.
Use counters or small objects to make 19.
Can you jump 19 times?
Can you hop 19 times?
Clap 19 times.
Super learning!
Week 13: 10 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone.
Don’t forget to send your ‘personal best’ scores to me.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Phonics
Tricky word songs
Sing these tricky word songs:
Phase 3
Phase 4
Literacy
Think about your time in Reception and choose one of the headings below. Draw a picture and write a sentence.
Maths
Maths-numbers
Listen to Oliver’s vegetables
Extra activity
Let’s get active!
Don’t forget to email your child’s ‘personal best’ scores.
Have a great weekend!
Week 13: 09 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Here are your Thursday home learning activities.
Phonics
Read the tricky words. Try to say each word in a sentence.
Write a sentence using some of the tricky words.
Words to read:
Literacy-Writing
As we near the end of a very unusual academic year, you or your child might be thinking about Year 1.
Usually at this time of year, to support your child’s transition, we would ask them to write a letter to their Year 1 teacher. This is a great way for your child to tell their teacher about who they are and start their learning journey with their new teacher.
Can your child write a letter and email it to us? We will then give it to their Year 1 teacher.
Your child might like to write;
-What makes them special
-What they like and don’t like to do/eat
-What their favourite book is
-Who is in their family
Remember to
- Think of a sentence
- Say it out loud
- Count the words
- Write each word
- Check it
Maths
Watch numberblocks 18
Listen to the story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’
You can use ten frames or objects to help you.
Extra activity
Sing a song about vegetables.
Let’s get active!
This week is ‘sports week’ and so we will be suggesting daily sports activities that your child can do at home to keep active. Next week, to follow on from ‘sports week’ we will explore how to live a healthy lifestyle.
‘Personal bests’
Can you do the activities below and improve your ‘personal best’ each day?
Virtual sports day results and skipping challenges
Well done to all children who took part, at home and at school, in the virtual sports day yesterday.
The results are in and can be accessed here.
Here’s our overall school results for each challenge (out of 217 schools).
Netball challenge 56th
Keepie uppie challenge 27th
Rugby challenge 93rd
Speed bounce challenge 46th
Skipping challenges
If you are interested in trying another physical activity challenge, Jodi from Skipping School – a regular visitor to school, is running a daily skipping skill challenge this week. Sadly, Year 2 and Year 4 have missed out on their skipping festivals this year so these videos will help the children to recap the skills they have learnt at school.
Week 13: 08 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning! Are you enjoying your PE challenges this week? Don’t forget to record your ‘personal bests’.
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Practise all the phase three phonemes.
Today we’ll practise the phoneme ‘ar’.
Write the ar words.
Let’s play quickwrite!
How to play:
One player points to an ‘ar’ picture.
The other player has to write the word that the picture shows.
(car, jar, scarf, shark, farm, sharp)
You could play this game outside with chalk.
A timer to time how quickly your child writes can make it more exciting too!
Literacy
Listen to the story –We’re Different, We’re the Same.
Can you draw something that you think makes you special?
For example, you could be special because you can jump really high? Or because you are always good at making your friends happy.
Adults you could share what you think makes your child special.
Your child could then draw something that makes someone they love special. They could share this with the person they love.
How does it feel to tell someone why they are special? It makes us feel good to make others feel good.
This is a great activity for not only your child to feel special but to make others around them feel special too.
Extra activity: pass it on smile! We always say how special a smile is. It can be passed on to LOTS of people so quickly. If you smile at someone they will often smile back…they then smile at the next person…and there you have it…a big line of people passing on smiles. Get your child to try in the house or when outside. Not all people will smile back – that’s okay…they might not feel like smiling back… but I’m sure you’re smile was still nice for them to see.
Maths
Listen to the story– The Shopping basket by John Burningham
We’re going to play a memory game.
Let’s get active!
Don’t forget to record your scores!
Week 13: 07 July 2020 Home learning virtual sports day
Week 13: 07 July 2020: Home learning
Hello, everyone!
Today is West Yorkshire Virtual School Games Sports Day.
There is a live opening ceremony from 10am.
The video will include a performance, warm up, and competitions children can take part in throughout the day. All activities are designed to be done at both school and in the home.
If you want to take part, children will have until 10am on Wednesday 8 July to submit their scores online.
https://www.youtube.com/user/WestYorkshireSport
If the challenges are too difficult-use the challenges set on here and try to beat your ‘personal bests’.
Phonics
Sing the alphabet. Remember letters have a sound and a name.
Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Let’s blend some longer words.
Write a sentence for this picture.
Literacy
Listen to the story ‘We’re Different, We’re the Same’.
Look at your self-portraits from yesterday. What do you see? What is different? What is the same?
Ask your child to think about a friend. Can they describe their friend? Can they say one way that they are different to a friend and one way they are the same? You could suggest they think about how they look, what they like doing, their families, pets or where they were born.
Maths-teen numbers
Watch Numberblocks to learn about the number 18.
I hope you are enjoying your sports challenges!
See if you can beat your scores today.
Week 13: 06 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
How was your weekend? Keep sending me photos.
Here are your home learning activities for today.
Phonics
Practise phase 3 digraphs.
Can you read and answer the yes/no questions?
Challenge: Can you write your own yes/no question? Email it to us and we can put it on the class news to challenge your friends!
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Need more of a challenge? Have a go at these outdoor phonic challenges.
Read the words below.
How many of these can you spot outside today?
boots path tree plant park rain grass
Literacy
Listen to the story We’re Different, We’re the Same.
What you will need:
A box, a mirror, paper, colouring pencils and/or collage materials.
Place a mirror inside a box. Ask your child to guess what is inside the box. Explain that we will all see something different when we look inside.
After you have looked inside, draw/create what you saw.
This is a nice activity to get the whole family involved in.
Talk about and encourage your child to discover that everyone is different, however some of us have similarities.
Maths-counting on and back
Count to 20 and back again.
This week we will learn to count on and back from a number to add and subtract.
You will need a number track to help you.
Use a number track to solve these problems.
Extra activity
Let’s get active!
This week is ‘sports week’, so we will be suggesting daily sports activities that your child can do at home to keep active.
Can you do the activities below and improve your ‘personal best’ each day?
Email your scores at the end of the week!
Tomorrow is West Yorkshire Virtual School Games Sports Day
There is a live opening ceremony from 10am.
The video will include a performance, warm up, and competitions children can take part in throughout the day. All activities are designed to be done at both school and in the home.
If you want to take part, children will have until 10am on Wednesday 8 July to submit their scores online.
https://www.youtube.com/user/WestYorkshireSport