24 March 2020: Home learning
Phonics
words to read:
words to write:
Phonics activity:
Write a sentence using one of the words you have written. For example:
The clown has a pink waistcoat
How did your child find the writing activity? Remember it’s OK for some words to be spelt phonetically. Encourage your child to write independently, rather than copy you.
Literacy
Choose a new book to read. Stop reading in the middle of the story. Can you guess what will happen at the end? Were you right?
What book did you read? What did your child predict? Let us know.
Maths: order numbers 0-10
Put the number cards from your pack in order. Can you find small objects to count to match. Count carefully!
What objects did your child use for the activity?
Extra activity
Did you make playdough? What did your child make?
23 March 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Words to read:
Words to write: best, think, burnt, spot
Phonics activity: Read and colour 10 words from your word book.
Did your child use their phoneme fingers?
Literacy activity
Visit pobble365.com. This website has daily pictures. Use the arrows to find the most interesting picture you can (or use today’s daily photo) Discuss the photo and write what you can see. Perhaps you are even inspired to come up with your own story based on the image!
Which picture did you use?
Maths: Finding one less
If you don’t have toy cars, you can use anything! Dolls, teddies, pieces of food- any objects you can count!
Challenge: Can you record your findings either by drawing your objects and crossing one off each time or writing it as a number sentence (ie. 5-1=4)
Did your child enjoy the activity? Can they use objects to 10?
Extra Activity
Home learning explained
Your child was given a home learning pack last week. (The packs for those children who were absent can be collected from the office.)
The packs contain some of the resources the children will need to support their learning at home.
Home learning tasks will be posted each day and will include a phonics, literacy and maths activity as well as other ideas and information.
The tasks can be found on the Reception class news page and will be published daily at 9am. Each of the three tasks will take about 20 minutes to complete.
Please use the email below if you are unsure about any aspect of the home learning. We are here to support you and your child’s home learning journey and will aim to reply to emails on the same day.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Sport Relief
The children took part in their Sport Relief challenge, They had to throw and catch a beanbag as many times as they could within 30 seconds. Everyone beat their personal best-including the adults!
Phonics
Thank you for attending our Phonics Mornings this week- we hope you found it useful.
Below are sentences taken from ‘Letters and sounds’ which your child can write independently using their phonic knowledge.
Mark and Carl got wet in the rain.
The farmer gets up at six in the morning.
Jill has fair hair but Jack has dark hair.
Jim has seven silver coins.
I can hear an owl hoot at night.
Nan is sitting in the rocking-chair.
Bow down to the king and queen.
Gurdeep had a chat with his dad.
I can see a pair of boots on the mat.
It has been hot this year.
Don’t forget to let us know about the writing and reading your child is doing at home.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Living and Learning: body image parent and carer guide
Our focus in Living and Learning, for the rest of this half term, is body image.
What is body image?
Body image describes our idea of how our body looks and how we think it is perceived by others. This can include our thoughts and feelings about our height, weight, shape, skin colour, and our appearance and attractiveness more broadly.
This parent and carer guide has been designed to give practical ideas to support your child in building their emotional resilience in this area.
Science
This week the children have enjoyed being scientists. We found some dinosaur ice eggs in the playground.
They worked in teams to work out how to free the dinosaurs from the ice.
Phonics
We have begun Phase 4 of the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics programme. In this phase children will use the phonemes learnt in Phase 2 and Phase 3 to read and spell words with four phonemes.
Children will continue to practise previously learned graphemes and phonemes and learn how to read and write:
CVCC words: tent, damp, toast, chimp
For example, in the word ‘toast’, t = consonant, oa = vowel, s = consonant, t = consonant
CCVC words: swim, plum, sport, cream, spoon
For example, in the word ‘cream’, c = consonant, r = consonant, ea = vowel, m = consonant
They will be learning more tricky words and continuing to read and write sentences together.
Tricky words
said, so, do, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what
Don’t forget our Phonics Mornings this week.
Living and Learning: manners
Our manners focus this week, in Living and Learning, is all about covering our mouth to prevent the spread of germs.
You’re just about to sneeze or cough but, oh dear, you don’t have a tissue. What should you do? Cover your mouth and nose with your hands? Surely that’s what polite people do.
But hold it! If you sneeze or cough into your hands (and then fail to wash your hands straight away), you’ll only be spreading colds and flu germs on everything you touch.
And that’s because germs (as long as they stay moist) can live for HOURS on hard surfaces such as tables, phones and door handles. And not just on objects – everybody you touch will be contaminated, too.
And of course, vice versa – if somebody else has sneezed or coughed on their hands, they’re leaving a germ-trail for you to pick up.
So what’s it best to do?
Here it is in action.
World Book Day themed menu
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Thursday 5th March. Please contact the office, in the next few days, if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action needed if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
