This week’s home learning
Thanks for sending the photos of home learning. It was lovely to speak to so many of the children this week. Everybody sounded happy and healthy!
01 May 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Reception!
Here are your Friday activities.
Phonics
Practise your letter formation in your home learning book.
Don’t forget your lead-ins.
Quickwrite! Write the following digraphs.
Please read the digraphs to your child. They can then write them in their home learning book.
qu ch sh th
Phonics activity
Write a sentence for the picture.
Literacy
Story time!
Listen to the story.
Can you make a picture of Elmer? You could draw, paint or make a collage.
Maths-sharing
Solve the number problems.
Use counters, buttons, pebbles or toys to help you.
Extra activity
Helping at home
Pair socks and sort clean laundry
Have a great weekend!
30 April 2020: Home learning
Hello everyone!
Keep sending photos of your amazing learning. I love seeing all that you have been doing.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Phonics
Let’s practise our sounds.
Read the words below.
You could write them in your child’s home learning book if your child cannot read them on your device.
| back | queen | zip | feet |
Phonics activity
Yes/No questions.
Read the questions and answer them.
Don’t forget there are daily phonics lessons here.
Literacy
Book of the week: The tiger who came to tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXtqJp8Az8
Can you change the story?
Draw a picture of an animal that you would like to have tea with.
Retell your story using narrative language e.g. One day, then, after that, suddenly, finally
Send me photos of your stories.
Maths-halving
Listen to a halving story.
Solve the number problems
If needed, your child could use objects at home to help when counting.
Extra activity
Watch this and learn to draw your numbers.
Use lots of different colours!
29 April 2020: Home learning
Hello, Reception!
All your teachers are missing you!
Here are today’s activities for you.
Phonics
Practise your tricky words at BBC Bitesize.
Phonics activity
Look in your reading book.
Can you spot any of these words?
Literacy
Book of the week: The tiger who came to tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXtqJp8Az8
Use your story map to retell the story to somebody at home.
Talk about the story. Do you like it? What is your favourite part?
Would you like a tiger to come to tea?
What would you give it to eat?
Maths-doubling
Practise counting
https://www.thenational.academy/reception/maths/counting-actions-and-objects-up-to-10-reception-wk1-1/
Extra activity
Build a house for an animal
Questions to ask
28 April 2020: Home learning
Hello, everyone! I hope you are enjoying all the activities.
Please keep sending me photos of your learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Phonics
Listen to Oi Frog on BBC Bitesize
Can you spot the rhyming words?
Write the following digraphs:
sh ch th ee
Please read the digraphs to your child so that they don’t copy them. They can then write them in their home learning book.
For help with pronunciation –
Write a sentence about the picture; eg I can see fish and chips.
Remember to use a capital letter and a full stop.
Remember, it is okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling correctly is important. It encourages the children to use their own skills – rather than copy from an adult.
Literacy
Book of the week-The tiger who came to tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXtqJp8Az8
Draw a story map to retell the events of the story.
Maths-subtraction
Play Bud’s number garden at BBC Bitesize
Solve the number problems
Use objects to help or draw the number story.
First, there were 6 ducks in the water. Then, 4 got out of the water. How many are left in the water?
Challenge: There are 6 ducks in the water. Some ducks got out of the water. Now there are only half left in the water. How many ducks got out of the water? How many are left?
I had 8 apples. I ate 3. How many do I have left?
Challenge: I had 8 apples. I ate some and have 5 left. How many did I eat?
There are 5 people in the house. How many shoes will be by the door? Try to count in 2’s to find the answer when counting the pairs of shoes.
Maths vocabulary in Reception
I’ve had some questions about the vocabulary we use in Reception-it is confusing!
The first words children use in maths are more, less, the same, many, lots, fewer, greater than, more than, less than to compare numbers and sets of objects.
During addition and subtraction activities we use:
add, plus, total, how many altogether, one more, equal, the same as
takeaway, subtract,total, how many are left, fewer than
We always use objects-cubes, counters, small toys or anything else the children can move around! We encourage children to draw pictures to help them develop their understanding.
At this stage the children don’t need to write a number sentence.
The important thing is the children’s understanding of number.
27 April 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone!
I hope you had a great weekend.
Here are today’s home learning tasks.
Phonics
Can you say the phonemes with me?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1acaibg8TyEpayiRb8WfT1KuDj3tAuJnD
Words to read:
Phonics activity
Read the sentence below:
From today there are Letters and Sounds lessons every morning at 10am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/channels?view_as=public
Literacy
Book of the week: The tiger who came to tea
Listen to the story of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXtqJp8Az8
Draw who is in the story (characters), what happens in the story (events) and where the story is (setting)
Maths-addition
Count on and back in 1s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znfk8xs
Solve the number problems below:
Use objects (counters, small toys, buttons etc) to represent the objects.
You can use a 10 frame and counters.
- Georgina has 6 grapes. Ben has 4 grapes. How many
grapes do they have altogether - Jake has 3 blueberries. Sue has 7 blueberries. How many
grapes do they have altogether? - Kevin has 5 raisins. Joe has the same amount. How many do they have altogether?
- Jennifer has 8 strawberries. George has 2 strawberries. How many do they have altogether?
Challenge: Practise your number bonds to 10.
Extra activity- Art
Create a self portrait
You will need:
Explore what you like in the mirror. Discuss the different features you see. Draw your face large enough to fill the page and add position features such as your eyes, nose and mouth.
Sit opposite your adult and draw each other at the same time-this can be quite funny!
Home learning highlights
Thank you for sending me photos of your all your amazing learning at home. Thanks again for the amazing photo message you sent-we all loved it!
24 April 2020: Home learning
Hello Reception!
Thank you for sending photos of your home learning.
Keep sending your learning, drawings, paintings and let me know what you are up to.
Here are Friday’s home learning tasks.
Phonics
Practise your letter formation in your home learning book.
Quickwrite
Write the following digraphs.
qu th sh ch
Please read the digraphs to your child. They can then write them in their home learning book.
Phonics activity:
Can you write a word using each of the digraphs?
Challenge:
Can you write a sentence using each word?
Literacy
Join me to sing some nursery rhymes!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pwXSt0we12inq6u4ym_4lAu3N4oBnTnS
There are 100+ nursery rhymes at BBCbitesize.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-a-to-z-index/z4ddgwx
Which is your favourite?
Maths
Fill 3-5 cups with water.
Put a different amount in each.
Order the cups from the fullest – emptiest.
Encourage your child to use words to describe why they have ordered the cups in the way they have. For example, least, most, full, empty, half, quarter.
Can you help the wizard?
Which potion is half full?
Which potion has the least?
Why not make your own potions?
Extra activity
Have a great weekend!
23 April 2020: Home learning
Hello! Thank you so much for your lovely message! I miss you all so much, but your happy, smiling faces made me smile too!
Here are Thursday’s home learning tasks.
Phonics
Words to read:
Words to write:
king, path, keep, meet
Phonics activity
Practise phase 3 sounds ng, ee, th at BBC bitesize.
Go to the website and scroll down the primary page to find Phase 3 phonics videos and interactive games. They are great!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
Literacy
Book of the week: The smartest giant in town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiPrA8E3qE
Draw a character from the story and write a speech bubble.
For example, you might draw the goat in the boat and write “You are such a good giant!”.
Maths-subtraction
Count to twenty and back again.
Remember to include 0!
Solve the number problems
Extra activity
Play Kim’s Game
22 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Sing the tricky word songs.
Phase 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0&t=3s
Phase 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY&t=1s
Words to write:
Please read the words to your child. They can then write them in their home learning book.
the no he she
Challenge: Can you write these tricky words too?
my was they are
Phonics activity
Play the Phase 3 tricky word flashcard game.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/TrickyWordTrucks.html
Literacy
Book of the week: The smartest giant in town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiPrA8E3qE
Use your story map to retell the story to somebody at home.
Can you remember the actions we use?
Maths-addition
Count to 20 using the song.
Oh no! The song seems to have forgotten the number 0! We talk lots about the number 0 being nothing but still being a number. Try to add the number 0 when singing the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA
Solve the number problems.
Count in 1s on BBCbitesize
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znfk8xs
Don’t forget to look on BBC bitesize for lots of games and ideas. Although it starts at Year 1, there are some lessons suitable for Reception.
Extra Activity
Yesterday we looked for signs of spring.
I woke up this morning to some very noisy birds!
If you can, sit really quietly somewhere either in or outside.
What can you hear?
Can you hear any bird song?
Can you identify the birds?