02 April 2020:Home learning
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for sending me photos of your home learning. Well done!
Phonics
Words to read:
Words to write:
grasp, crunch, shrink, spring
Phonics activity
Literacy
Practise your handwriting. Use the letter formation sheet in your pack.
Don’t forget to use a lead-in!
Maths
Extra activity
Have a great day!
1 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning. It’s April Fool’s day today. Have you played a trick on anyone yet?
Phonics
Words to read:
Words to write:
plum, swim, spoon, float
Phonics activity
Literacy: Story Treasure Hunt
Ask your grown-up to write 4-6 clues about a story you know well and hide the words around the house. For example, if they were leaving clues about Jack and the Beanstalk they might write ‘beanstalk’, ‘giant’, ‘cow’ and ‘Magic Beans’. Try and read the clues by yourself. Can you make a story map re-telling the story from the clues you have discovered?
Which story did you use?
I would love to see your story maps.
Maths: sharing
Try to share different numbers. Which numbers can’t you share?
Extra activity
Have a great day!
Don’t forget to stay in touch.
31 March 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone. I hope you are enjoying your home learning tasks. I’ve enjoyed seeing all the learning you have been doing at home.
Phonics
Words to read:
Practise your tricky words and the words in your blue word book.
Have you coloured them all in yet?
Words to write:
bank, cost, sight, near
Phonics activity:
Write the sentence(adult to read)
It is fun to camp in a tent.
Literacy
Write a sentence about the picture.
Remember:
- think
- say
- count the words
- write each word
- check
Maths: repeating patterns
Draw the snakes and continue the repeating pattern.
Can you make up your own pattern?
Extra activity
Flower painting
I have seen lots of spring flowers around.
Why not have a go at painting some?
Have a lovely day!
30 March 2020:Home learning
Good morning! I hope everyone had a good weekend. I had a lovely walk from my house to the park and I learnt how to bake bread!
What new thing did you do?
Here are today’s learning tasks:
Phonics
Ask your grown-up to say these sounds.
Write them down.
ai, or, oa, ow, igh, ure, air, ear, ur
Words to write:
silk, tilt, damp, kept
Phonics activity:
Fill in the missing letters.
Literacy
Find tricky words in your reading book. Write them down. How many of these words did you find?
Maths: double
Paint or draw a ladybird with a different double.
I would love to see your ladybird pictures.
Please send them to:
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Extra activity
This week, let’s do some science!
Washing up bowl science
Find a bowl and lots of different containers. These might include cups, pans, empty milk containers and jugs. Fill and empty the containers. Which container holds the most? How many cups of water go into the pan?
Change the water by adding food colouring and a drop of bubble bath. Does it look different? Does it smell differently?
Have fun!
Reception Super Learners!
I am so impressed with all your learning this week. Thank you so much for sending photos. Have fun this weekend and keep smiling!
27 March 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone! I hope you enjoy today’s learning activities.
Phonics
Words to read:
Words to write:
hurt, land, trust, chair
Phonics activity
Can you match the pictures with the words?
Literacy
Help to prepare some food.
You could bake a cake or help prepare dinner!
Afterwards, write a set of instructions which explains how you made the food. Don’t forget to write your instructions in a numbered list!
What did you make? Please let me know.
Maths
Enjoy the weekend!
Let me know what you get up to.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
26 March 2020: Home learning
Good morning! I hope you are all enjoying the sunny weather.
Thank you again for sharing your wonderful rainbow pictures.
Phonics
words to read:
words to write:
plan trip grab sniff
Phonics activity:
Literacy
Write a sentence about the picture.
Remember:
- think of the sentence
- say it out loud
- count the words
- write each word
- check
What sentence did you write? Let me know.
Maths: addition
First there were 6 people on a bus. Then 2 more people got on. How many people are on there now?
Draw a picture to help you work out your answer. Can you think of a different maths story?
Challenge
Can you write an addition sentence to go with your story?
Please keep sending photos of your fantastic learning.
Rainbow Cheer
What a lovely surprise tonight when I opened an email to see 30 smiling faces all holding amazing art work. I sent them straight to Mr Roundtree and we both loved all of them! Believe me, in the middle of some quite serious emails that we have been receiving over the last couple of days, this one was, literally, a ray of sunshine! Thank you Reception class – keep smiling!
Rainbows
Thank you so much for sending all your beautiful rainbow pictures. They made me smile!
We enjoyed painting ours outside in the lovely spring sunshine.
25 March 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everyone. I hope you are enjoying the tasks so far.
Phonics
words to read:
tricky words (all current tricky words can be found in your pack and in your word books.)
Can your child tell you what a tricky word is?
words to write:
melt, fact, golf, jump
phonics activity:
Write the sentence (adult to read aloud.)
I must not tramp on the flowers. 
Literacy
Look through a book. Can you find any words with more than six letters? What is the longest word you can find?
What was your child’s favourite word?
Maths: 3d Shape
Can you remember the name of these shapes? What do you know about 3d shapes?
Have a look around your home. Can you find anything that is the same as one of these 3d shapes? Why don’t you draw and label them?
Did you go on a shape hunt today? Please email some photos. If you made playdough you could try making the shapes.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Extra Activity
Lots of children are painting rainbows to put in their windows. Why not paint one too!
Go on a walk and see if you can spot any. I saw two on my ride to school yesterday.