Reception Home Learning w/c 22/06/2020

We are very excited to be welcoming many of our reception children back into school for 2 days this week, it will be so lovely to see them. Although the children will be in new groups there will be a familiar member of our Reception team working in each pod. Mrs Browne and Miss Simmons will be able to give them a wave and say hello while Miss Quinn will still be working from home and will be doing a lot of the feedback on the observations.

This week, because the children will be in school on different days, we are going to specify which activities we will be doing in school and which we would like you to do at home.  If your child is in school you do not need to send us observations of school based activities otherwise please continue to do so as before.

Phonics Tasks

Please watch these videos at home:

Watch this week’s phonics lessons from the phonics hub: You can use your whiteboards for these activities.

Please continue  a daily recap all the phonemes, digraphs and trigraphs on the list in the shared folder.  Join in with the Jolly Phonics song to make this fun.

How many phonemes can your child recognise? Make a note of those that they still need to work on and use Mr Thornes phonics to practise them. Click here to go to Mr Thorne Does Phonics YouTube channel

Phonics Suggestions

  • Continue exploring the phonics blending games on the Phonics Play website. 

Click here to go to the Phonics Play website.

Reading Tasks

Please do these activities at home. 

Remember to try and read every day just as you have throughout the year.

Please continue to practise reading the tricky HFW. Join in with these songs for a fun way to practise them:

Phase 3 tricky words song

Phase 4 tricky words song

It’s great to see that lots of you are now using the Bug Club online reading books. Please remember to let us know how you are getting on and if you think the level of books available to you needs adjusting.

Story time

Communication and Language

To introduce this weeks learning and continue our theme of Journeys please watch this story at home ‘The Journey’ by Neil Griffiths  click here to listen to the story. 

It is set to music so you need to listen carefully! When you have watched and listened to the story please talk about it with your child and ask questions:

What sound can you hear at the beginning of the story?

What happened to the boat at the beginning of the story? 

What did the boat pass on its journey? 

What happened to the boat on its journey?

What happened at the end of the story?

Writing Task

We will be doing the writing task in school.

This week we would like you to think about your journey to school.

Use a double page in your writing book or a large piece of paper. 

Can you draw a map of your walk to school (this should be your child’s own version of a map; it may be linear starting at home and ending at school or it may have their own interpretation of the roads – it does not have to be accurate!)

Talk about some of the things that you see on the way to school and draw them on the map. (Eg; shops, zebra crossing, a friends house,  a postbox, a church, a special tree ) label each thing.

Then write some sentences describing your journey to school and the things that you see on the way. Remember to use the ‘everytime we write’ page to help you.

Letter Formation

Please do this activity at home   

  • Find the letter formation activity sheet in the shared folder – this week we are practicing ee, ear, er
  • Find more fine motor support and activities in the shared folder.

Mathematics tasks

  • Daily number games on Number Gym: Please login and click ‘Early Maths’. You will need to enter your personal login. Click here to see instructions to log onto Number Gym. Continue to explore the games we have previously signposted for you.
  • Writing numerals to 0-20.
  • Count to 100 and sing along to this video. Click here

You can do the following activities on a walk, in the car etc.

  • Daily counting to 20/Daily counting back from 20.
  • Daily 1 more/1 less to 20. (E.g. 1 more than 3 is __ / 1 less than 12 is __)

This week’s maths focus: Number skills 

Please make sure you are doing the above tasks daily. It is really important for your child to continue key number skills. These skills and number knowledge will really support your child as they go into Year 1. 

We will be doing the following tasks in school.

  • Make 0 – 20 ‘number cards’ with your child (or you can print them from the shared folder). Support them to form the numbers correctly. Show your child the cards one at a time. Can they tell you the number? Can they find some items to match the quantity? Once you have done this, can they use the number cards and put them in the correct order from 0 to 20?
  • Find the ‘Lorries one more, one less’ sheet in the shared folder. There is also a ‘Dice one more one less’ sheet you can use if your child finds the lorries sheet difficult. Please pick the sheet that best matches your child’s ability, or you can do both!

Please do the following tasks at home. 

  • See the grid below. Can your child recall the facts quickly? You can print the grid (or make your own) and colour in the facts they know and continue to work on the others. If your child finds this difficult, work with them through the facts using items to create the each number and add them together.
  • Find the ‘Maths – Activity sheets’ in the shared folder. Complete a couple to practise key number skills with you child. 
  • Challenge: Can you count in 5’s? 

Mathematics suggestions

  • In the shared folder, find the ‘Superhero missing numbers’ sheet. 
  • Continue to watch your beanstalks grow and compare them to other plants. Remember to use the language taller, tallest, tall, shortest, shorter, short.
  • Continue to count in 5’s and 10’s.

Understanding the world

We will be doing this task in school.

  • We are thinking about the story ‘The Journey’ by Neil Griffiths this week. In the story we saw a little boat floating on a river. We are going to think about floating and sinking, exploring what materials would be best when building our own boat to float in some water. Floating and sinking is a fun science concept for children to explore. At home why not set up a floating and sinking learning tray and explore how and why different objects float and sink when placed into water. We can then use these materials to make our own boat. 

What will you need:

·         A large container filled with water, 

·         2 containers to sort floating and sinking objects 

·          a range of floating and sinking objects e.g.a large rock, bottle top, paper, wooden peg, lolly pop stick, feather, coin, key, gem stone, button, shell, leaf.

  • In the story we saw lots of rubbish in the ocean during the boat’s journey. We think it is very important to keep our oceans clean and we were wondering if you can think of some things we can do to help the pollution of the oceans. One thing we thought of was reducing the plastic we use- what could we do to make sure we are using less plastic? See if you can come up with some ideas and discuss why it is important.
  • Last week when we watched the video ‘Lets talk about race’ we started thinking about our ‘story’ the ‘journey’ of our life so far. Can you think about your journey so far as a 4 or 5 year old, starting with you as a baby. Have a look at some baby photos and photos as you have got older. Can you make a timeline of these photos? Maybe you can remember something really fun/happy about those photos that you could discuss altogether. 

Expressive Art and Design

Please try this task at home

  • As mentioned above we have been exploring floating and sinking materials. Like in our story, can you make your own floating red boat? Here are some materials you can use to make a boat that floats? Here’s an example list to get you started followed by some examples:

·         Paper (will it need to be waterproofed?)

·         Foil

·         Plastic container

·         Cork

·         Egg cartons

·         Cardboard (will it need to be waterproofed?)

·         Orange peel

·         Straws

·         Craft sticks

·         Sticks from a tree or other pieces of wood

  • Make an origami boat: Click here to see some instructions to help you

PSHE

Due to the importance of well-being this can be done at home or in school. 

We think it is really important each week to speak about how we feel and things we can do to be kind, this week see if you can have a go at any of these activities.

Feelings – Keep making time to talk about how you are feeling. Here are some ‘Tell me how you feel sheets’ to help form some discussions. 

Wellbeing –  add a leaf to a Tree of Thankfulness in our shared folder. You can decorate your leaf any way you want to and display somewhere in your house to remember the things you are thankful for. 

Kindness challenge – This week, watch the Bucketful of Kindness story and  fill a bucket with kind acts

Have a look at this poster and talk about a new day being like a clean piece of paper, moving on from any setbacks the day before.

New Day Poster

Play this game – you will need 2 dice (or small pieces of paper with numbers 1 to 6 written on each one to pull out of a bowl)

Roll a positive question

Listen to your child’s answers and point out that all these good things can help us hope for more good things in the future.

Have a look at the Up-lifting Ways Poster in our shared folder and talk about how you could do those things this week.

Physical Development

  • Continue with Joe Wicks daily P.E sessions daily  live at 9am. These can also be accessed at any time during the day on YouTube.
  • Learn a new game that you can play with the people in your household. This is a great opportunity to spend some time outside. Here is a game everyone can be involved with:

Set up your own ‘pass the baton game’

Complete a relay race, by using an object from your house (maybe a stuffed animal). Race against other members of your family or support bubble. 

Jumping rabbits 

Can you set up some obstacles in your garden, for example cones or hoops and practice jumping over or through different obstacles.

  • Can you beat Miss Quinn in another challenge? She was able to jump up and touch her toes 19 times one minute- Can your child beat this? See if you can improve on this each time.
  • Take part in a yoga class, using cosmic kids. Click here for one about ‘Popcorn and the pirates’’ 
  • Listen to BBC Let’s move dance routines; you can involve other members of your household with this. Click here for Part two: ‘News travels fast, Greedy Zebra’’ 

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