17 June 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying this week’s learning.
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2
Phase 3
Words to read:
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ to help blend the words. How many sounds are in these words?
Words to Write:
Phonics Activity:
Phonics play – dragons den – phase 4
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story of the week.
What is the setting? Where is the story set?
Draw the setting of the story. This will be the background for your puppet show.
You could paint, draw or collage a jungle scene.
Maths-number
Count from 0-15.
What number is next?
Let’s learn about the number 16. Sixteen is one ten and six ones.
Watch Numberblock 16.
Can you do 16 hops, claps, jumps? Remember to count each movement and stop at number 16.
Write the numbers 0-16 on the floor using chalk, paint or write on paper (make sure they are big enough to stand on).
Can you find the answers to these problems?
Find and stand on the number that is 1 more than 14
Find and stand on the number that is double 7
Find and stand on an odd number
Find and stand on a number that is fewer than 8
Find and stand on a number that is more than 10
Find and stand on an even number
Find and stand on the number that is half of 12
Challenge: Parents/carers give your child some more problems to solve. Can your child think of their own number problem?
Extra activity
Watch ‘Do baby animals look like their parents?’
16 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Here are the home learning activities for today.
Did you collect the sticks you will need for today?
Phonics
You will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Let’s recap the digraph oo, oo
Phonics activity
Just add oo to make the words.
Watch BBCBitesize oo
Literacy
Story of the week: The Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story.
Can you name all the characters in the story?
They are: Mum Monkey, Dad Monkey, Baby Monkey, Butterfly, Elephant, Snake, Parrot, Frog and Bat.
Make puppets for some OR all of the characters. Here are examples of some puppets you could make.
These puppets will be used for your puppet show on Friday.
You will need paper OR card, colouring pencils and sticks OR spoons.
You can use a stick to hold up your puppet. Draw your butterfly on card.
If you can’t find any sticks you could use a spoon instead – just like this. Draw the monkey on paper.
Maths-shape
Try counting in 2s.
Make a square spy glass to find the squares.
Extra activity
Draw a self-portrait and think about what makes you unique.
Send me your self-portraits.
15 June 2020: Home learning
Hello! I hope you’ve had a great weekend. I’m hoping the sun will shine this week!
Keep sending photos of all your learning to moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2
Phase 3
Words to read:
Phonics activity:
Play buried treasure.
You can log-in at Phonicsplay
Username: march20
Password:home
Literacy
Story of the week: The Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson
This week we are going to be looking at the characters, setting and events in the story. This will then help us to retell the story using homemade props.
What do we mean when we say character? Setting? Events?
Talk to your adult about these:
Character = Who is in the story. The people/animals in the story
Setting = Where the story is set
Events = What happens in the story
Retell the story.
To join in with this week’s creative activities, you will need the following items. Hopefully, these are items you will find in your home.
• Paper OR card and colouring pencils
• Sticks from outside OR a collection of spoons (they can be re-used afterwards)
• Sticky tape
Perhaps if you are going outside for a walk today, you could collect some sticks.
Maths-teen numbers
Watch the video and count backwards from 20 to 0.
We have learnt these teen numbers.
Describe them to your adult. “Twelve is one ten and two more.”
Extra activity
Listen to a story.
This week’s learning
It was lovely to talk to lots of you this week.
Keep sending photos of your learning-I love to see what you’ve all been up to.
12 June 2020:Home learning
Hello everyone. It’s Friday again!
I hope you have all enjoyed this week’s activities.
Phonics
Phonics activity:
How many objects can you spot? Write the words to match.
Literacy-storytime
Listen to the story
Spiderella by Julia Donaldson.
Watch a clip about minibeasts
Maths-measuring
How wide is your bed? How long is your bed?
This week we are looking at non-standard measuring. The key words we will be using are long, wide, more, less, the same.
For this activity we will not be using tape measures or rulers. Choose an object to measure with-this can be anything! You can use your feet, hands, tins of beans, spoons, pieces of paper…
Measure your bed. “How many…long is your bed?”
“How many…wide is your bed?”
Try again with different objects.
Draw around your foot and cut it out. Measure these objects with your foot.
Art
Have a lovely weekend!
11 June 2020:Home learning
Good morning!
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
Practise phoneme igh at BBCBitesize
Words to read:
Handwriting
Let’s practise the letters e, f and s
Literacy
Can you write a sentence about the photo?
Maths
Today we are going to have a go at estimating. Estimating is when we roughly count the number of objects we can see.
Put some objects out in front of your child (you may
want to use a towel to cover them up until you are ready to reveal the objects). Give your child a few seconds to look at the objects and ask them to estimate how many they can see.
Take turns and continue to do this a few times changing the amount of objects each time. Ask questions e.g. is it more or less than last time? How do you know?
10 frames
Say how many spiders are on the 10 frames. Don’t count-use your subitising skills!
10 June 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone!
I hope you are having a good week. Keep sending me photos of your learning.
Here are today’s learning activities.
Phonics
Practise phoneme oa at BBC Bitesize
Practise writing the tricky words we have learnt.
Try using this look, say , cover and write sheet.
Phonics activity
Play ‘Musical Blending’
Write these words on separate scrap pieces of paper.
feet queen spin chip string pink rain train
Spread them out on the floor. Play some groovy tunes and dance away. When the music stops jump on a word and blend it. Keep going until you have read all of the words.
Literacy
Watch Incy Wincy spider. Can you hear the rhyming words? See if you can spot the digraph ai. Write the words with the digraph ai
Maths
Count to twenty and back again.
Draw your Incy Wincy maths stories.
Extra activity
Watch Charlie and Lola
09 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Phonics
Sing an alphabet song
Let’s recap the phoneme oa
Words to write:
boat, goat, croak, night, bright
Phonics activity:
Write the oa and igh words.
Literacy
Story of the week: The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Listen to the story.
Can you remember what animals were first, and then next?
Encourage your child to retell the story using appropriate language e.g First, the horse asked the spider…
Maths
Count to 20 and back again. Don’t forget 0!
Draw your spider stories.
Extra activity
08 June 2020:Home learning
Hello everyone. I hope you had a great weekend.
Remember to send me photos of your learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Phonics
Sing the Jolly phonics songs.
Words to read:
chip queen rain look
Read and answer the yes/no questions
Literacy
Story of the week: The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle 
Listen to the story.
Draw and label the animals from the story.
Maths
Write the numbers 0-15 on the floor using chalk, paint or write on paper (make sure they are big enough to stand on).
Can you find the answers to these problems?
Find and stand on the number that is 1 more than 14
Find and stand on the number that is double 4
Find and stand on an odd number
Find and stand on a number that is fewer than 5
Find and stand on a number that is more than 7
Find and stand on an even number
Find and stand on the number that is half of 10
Challenge: Can you make up your own problems?
Reception learning
I hope you’ve all had a great week.
Thanks for sending me photos of your learning at home. You’ve all been really busy.
We’ve been busy at school too!
