06 May 2020: Home learning
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
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
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
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!
