Reception Class News

06 May 2020: Home learning

Posted on Tuesday 05 May 2020 by Mrs Wood

Hello! Are you enjoying your learning this week?

The story of the week is one of my favourites.

Here are today’s activities:

Phonics

Let’s revisit the trigraph air.

Words to write:

air fair pair hair

Phonics Activity: Write the sentence. (Adult to read aloud.)

She has fair hair.

Remember to use your phoneme fingers to segment each word. There is one ‘tricky’word-can you spot it?

Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story again. Join in with the animal noises.

In the story the baddies make a map of the farmyard so they can work out how to steal the cow.
Make your own map and label all the places and animals on your map.

Use your map to describe where things are and give directions to your adult to get to the cow; eg turn, next to, under, over etc.

Maths-teen numbers

For tips on how to help your child with maths, this Cbeebies video is very good.

Play this game.

  • Write the numbers 1-10 on large scraps of paper. Place them around the floor.
  • Your child chooses a number to stand on.
  • They must do actions to match that number.
  • E.g. If they stood on 6, they might do eight bunny hops.
  • Now they choose a different number to stand on.
  • Then you have a turn

 

Number 12

Let’s learn all about the number 12.

Challenges

Can you nod your head 12 times?

Find 12 toys and put them in 2 groups. Can you draw the two groups and record what you find?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05 May 2020: Home learning

Posted on Monday 04 May 2020 by Mrs Wood

Hello!

Keep sending the photos of your home learning and other activities. I love seeing them.

moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org

Here are today’s activities:

Phonics

Join me for another quick phonics lesson.

Words to write:

near tear fear beard

Did you remember the trigraph ‘ear’?

Phonics activity

Write the sentence. (Adult to read aloud.)

I can hear an owl hoot at night.

Literacy

Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story again.
Can you join in with me to make the animal noises?
Purr
Miaow
Woof

Cluck
Moo

Can you draw the animals with speech bubbles? What sound do they make?
Write the sound in the speech bubble.

Challenge: Try writing a sentence eg   The sheep said baa.

Maths

Count to 10 and back. Don’t forget the zero!

Practise your number bonds to 10 here.

Number bonds are a pair of numbers that add up to make another specific number. They are sometimes called number pairs .

They can show you how numbers join together and how they break down into different parts.

Teen numbers

We are going to start learning our teen numbers. Teen numbers are a ten and some ones.

Today we are going to learn about the number 11.

Eleven is 10 and 1

Watch Numberblocks to learn about the number 11.

Activities

  • Find 11 small toys or other objects

  • Blink 11 times

  • With a member of your family, show 11 on your fingers

  • Can you see the number 11?

 

 

04 May 2020: Home learning

Posted on Sunday 03 May 2020 by Mrs Wood

Hi everyone. I hope you had a great weekend.

Here are today’s home learning tasks.

Phonics

Let’s read some tricky words and blend some words.

Don’t forget the daily Letters and Sounds lessons

Words to write

(Read the words to your child and let them write them)

bank spot step from

Remember to use your phoneme fingers!

There are 4 phonemes in these words. Write each one.

Phonics activity

Read the sentence.

Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story. Can you spot the rhyming words?

Draw and label the animals from the story.

Maths
Draw or paint some ladybirds. Give each ladybird 10 or 5 spots.
How many spots on one side, how many on the other?

Talk about the calculation on both sides of the ladybird.

Challenge:
Each ladybird must have the same amount of spots on each side. How many different doubles have you got?

Can you record your number sentences?     

Extra activity:  make ladybird biscuits

 

 

 

 

This week’s home learning

Posted on Friday 01 May 2020 by Mrs Wood

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

Posted on Thursday 30 April 2020 by Mrs Wood

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

Posted on Wednesday 29 April 2020 by Mrs Wood

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

Posted on Tuesday 28 April 2020 by Mrs Wood

Hello, Reception!

All your teachers are missing you!

Here are today’s activities for you.

Phonics

Practise your  tricky words at BBC Bitesize.

 

Write tricky words.

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

Posted on Monday 27 April 2020 by Mrs Wood

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

Posted on Sunday 26 April 2020 by Mrs Wood

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

Posted on Friday 24 April 2020 by Mrs Wood

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!

           

 

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