27 March 2020: Home Learning
| Get Crafty!
Use the paper plate in your pack to make a Spring time animal or picture; perhaps you could make a chick or add some cotton balls to make a sheep? Use your imagination to get crafty! If you do not have bits to add and stick, you could draw an Easter picture onto your plate.
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Did your child make a model with recycled items? It would be great to see a photo of it! Please email us – including any comments from your child: stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
| Literacy Activity
Use the laminated letter formation sheet handed out at parent’s evening and your whiteboard pen to practise writing each letter of the alphabet. |
Letters that are often difficult are s,b,d,e and a. Encourage your child to practise these.
| Maths Activity
Numicon Addition: Fill in the answers on the sheet (write the number)- See page 13 of Home Learning pack.
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Can your child count on to find the answer?
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails in school hours.
26 March 2020: Home learning
| Phonics
Words to Read:
Phonics Activity: Play Phase 4 Phonics snakes and Ladders (see page 11 of home learning pack) with an adult or a friend. You will need a die (if you do not have one you could search for ‘virtual dice’ online, or on your phone) Roll the die and read the word you land on. Go up the ladders and down the snakes. Who will be first to the finish?! |
Did you play snakes and ladders today? Was your child able to spot any digraphs and trigraphs? Here are some great videos from MrThorne about digraphs and trigraphs.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mr+thorne+does+phonics
The snakes and ladders games are from an educational resource website called Twinkl. Twinkl are offering parents and carers free access to thousands of resources, so you can select your own activities based on your child’s interests too.
| Literacy Activity
Brenda’s Boring Egg We have been looking after our chick eggs in class and this story is all about hatching some feathery babies too!… If you have access to the internet, you can download the story at: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-53920-brendas-boring-egg-ebook |
Can you hear the rhyming words? Perhaps you could make a list of them. What was the special message in the story? Could you draw and decorate your own special egg- write sentences about what you think your baby duck would look like when it hatches. Don’t forget to make it exciting by adding lots of adjectives!
Can your child tell you the life cycle of a chicken? Please email us your child’s comments:
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
| Maths Activity
Addition (Counting On)
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Ask your grown up to challenge you with different quantities.
Ask your grown up to challenge you with different quantities.
How did you find making number stories for your child? Here are some ideas of number problems you could ask your child (click the link)
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails in school hours.
A Big Thank You!
Thank you to the parents who have been sending us pictures. It has been lovely to see what you’ve been up to!
Here are some examples of what some of our Foundation 2 children have been up to this week.
Phase 2 and Phase 3 Sounds
Good Morning Parent Partners,
We hope you are all staying safe and well.
I have created this slide show video for anyone who is still unsure how the phonemes should sound, or anyone who has been unable to find a suitable video.
I have said the sounds twice each time and given the different ways the sounds can be voiced (th, oo)
I hope this helps- please let us know if you would like any other phonics support.
Quick Reminder!
Please don’t forget to email us any pictures of your home learning. We would love to see how you’ve been getting on and what you’ve been up to!
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
The weather is glorious today!
Make sure you get out in your garden and see what you can find.
You could change the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ to ‘We’re Going on a Bug Hunt!’
Read! Read! Read!
Remember to keep reading lots of books on a daily basis.
Here are some suggestions from Book Trust.
25 March 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Words to read:
| Tricky words- (All current tricky words can be found in your word passports)
Words to Write: melt, fact, golf, jump Phonics Activity: Write the caption (Adult to read aloud); I must not tramp on the flowers. Children may use the phoneme frame on page 9 if needed. |
Tricky words! Ask your child what is a tricky word? “A tricky word is a word you can’t sound out. You just have to know it.”
You can sing the songs for all the tricky words here.
| Literacy Activity
Look through a book. Can you find any words with more than six letters? What is the longest word you can find? |
What book did you use to search for words today? Did your child have a favourite word that they found?
| Maths Activity
3d Shape Detectives! 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?
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Did you go on a hunt for shapes today? What did your child find? Please email any photos or comments to:
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
It is great when we get direct quotes from children. This helps us gain a holistic view of your child’s learning journey.
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails in school hours.
24 March 2020: F2 Home Learning
Phonics
Words to read:
Words to Write:
- Phonics Activity:
Write a sentence which includes one of the words you have written, for example:
The clown has a pink waistcoat.
Remember!
Capital letters
Full stops
Finger spaces
Check your writing
How did your child find the writing activity?
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 we encourage the children to use their own skills – rather than copy from an adult.
Literacy Activity
Twinkl challenge card! “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?”
You could use your school decodable or love of reading book to complete this challenge!
What did your child predict would happen in the story?
Were they right? Or did they come up with a better ending? Let us know via email.
Maths Activity
Twinkl-Careful counting- More and fewer (within 10).
(see page 7 in your pack)
How did your child find todays activity?
Remember, you can use objects around the house to count to help your child.
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails in school hours.
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
W/C 23 March 2020: F1 Home Learning
Monday
Phonics- Body Percussion
Play ‘Follow the Leader’ with your family. One person chooses some body percussion (for example, patting their knees, clapping their hands or clicking their fingers), the rest of the family have to copy the leader. Take turns to be the leader.
Activity- Toys
Have a look at your toys at home. Can you find a toy that can move, a toy that makes sounds and a toy that lights up? How do you make them work? Talk to your grown-up about the different ways your toys work. You could draw a picture of your favourite toy.
Tuesday
Phonics- Listening Walk
Go on a Listening Walk with an adult around your house and in your garden. Practise listening carefully to all the different sounds you hear. Talk about what you heard. Did you recognise all the sounds? Were they loud or quiet? Were they long or short sounds?
Activity- Be Creative!
Make a colourful collage. You could use bits of old fabric, paper, cardboard or even natural materials, like petals and leaves from your garden.
Wednesday
Phonics- Listening Walk
Go on another Listening Walk with an adult around your house and in your garden. Talk about what you heard. Did you hear anything different today? You could draw some pictures of the things you heard.
Activity- Counting
Sing number- themed counting rhymes and use your fingers or small props to help you count, e.g. 10 Green Bottles or 5 Little Speckled Frogs.
Thursday
Phonics- Voice Sounds
Play an animal themed guessing game. Make some sound effects for different animal noises and encourage someone to guess what animal sound you are making. You could ‘meow’ like a cat, ‘woof’ like a dog or ‘hisss’ like a snake. What other animal sounds can you make? You could sing ‘Old MacDonald’ with you adult.
Activity- Nature Scavenger Hunt
Go on a nature scavenger hunt around your garden. Use the checklist to tick off the things you find. I wonder what you will find… (see pack for checklist)
Friday
Phonics- Oral Blending
With a grown-up, play a listening game about a visit to a farm. “I went on a farm and I saw…” – instead of saying the animal name, split the word up into 3 letter sounds. Encourage your child to identify the animal by blending the 3 sounds together. For example: “I went to the farm and I saw a c-a-t.” “It’s a cat!” Try the words; cat, dog, pig, hen, cow, fox, duck.
Activity- Positional Language
Use a favourite toy or teddy and place it in different places around your house. You might place it under your bed, on top of the cupboard, in front of the TV or even in the bath! Encourage your child to describe the position of their item.
Please see your pack for other daily fun activities!
Please use the email address below if you have any questions about the home learning activities.
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
23 March 2020: F2 Home learning
Phonics
Words to read
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Was your child able to blend the four daily words today? Encourage your child to use their ‘phoneme fingers’ to help them when reading words.
A phoneme is a unit of sound. So when sounding out words with digraphs/trigraphs those 2/3 letters is one unit of sound. For example; chip is sounded out as ch/i/p – using 3 fingers.
Phonics Activity: Twinkl- Draw a line to match the caption with the picture (see page 5 in your pack)
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!
Did your child have a favourite picture? Did your child make up their own story? Let us know via email. With each photo there are story starters and questions to help encourage your child’s imagination.
Maths Activity Twinkl
Finding One Less:
If you do not 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 on off each time or writing it as a number sentence (ie. 5-1=4)
What objects did you use when finding one less?
Was your child able to predict without counting?
Please use the email address below if you have any questions about the home learning activities.
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
Home Learning – further details
Foundation 1
Your child has been given a home learning pack. These activities will be posted weekly on the class news ‘Foundation’ page at 9am on Mondays. This pack will support your child for two weeks – up until the Easter break. The pack is set out in days but it is entirely up to you how and when you complete these tasks. Also, if you think of some of your own activities, don’t forget to share them with us too.
Foundation 2
Your child has been given a home learning pack. This contains a daily phonics, literacy and maths learning task. The home learning pack has enough learning activities/resources to support your child for two weeks – up until the Easter break. The activities from the pack will be posted on the class news ‘Foundation’ page daily at 9am. In addition we will be adding questions which will help you support your child.
After the Easter break we will be posting online daily learning tasks. These will include a phonics, literacy and maths activity. The tasks will show on the class news ‘Foundation’ page. They’ll be published daily, Monday to Friday, at 9am. Each the three tasks should take about 20 minutes each.
Remember!
Please talk and read with your child on a daily basis. Share stories and read different types of texts. You could even make up your own stories!
We really want to keep in touch with everyone so remember you can email the Foundation teachers.
Email us if you’re unsure about some aspect of the home learning or if you want to share what you have been doing. The email address is the one you use to send your photos of home learning moments .
A reminder of the email address – stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
We will aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning.
We look forward to hearing all about your learning at home this week.