08 January 2021: F2 Home Learning
Phonics
Play the Match Cards blending game on Phonics Bloom.
Parents: Click the above link> Make sure all sets are ticked> Click play
Maths
Making 2D Shapes
1. Gather a selection of small items e.g. sticks, lolly sticks, pen, coins, pebbles or buttons.
2. Explore ways of arranging the items to create a 2D shape.
3. What shape did you make? Can you describe your shape to an adult?
4. Take turns at making and describing shapes to each other.
Parents: Below is a list of questions you can ask to support your child’s thinking.
Creative/Topic
Make an Ice Sun Catcher.
1. Explore your garden and collect a variety of natural treasures.
2. Pour some water into a suitable oven tray or shallow dish from your kitchen.
3. Place a piece of string over one of the corners and leave to freeze overnight.
Artic Yoga
Have a go at some of these yoga poses.
Parents: Your child needs to be on a carpeted floor or mat with enough space for them to stretch out their arms and legs.
I hope you all have enjoyed your first week of home learning activities. Next week, I will be posting daily videos of phonics and maths lessons alongside a week of activities linked to a focus story.
Have a safe and happy weekend!
F2 Home Learning
This is what you can expect to see on your child’s class news page each week during lockdown.
The learning for week beginning 11.01.21 will be posted on Sunday 10.01.21. All subsequent weeks will be posted on a Friday evening.
As teachers are also teaching our key worker children in school, these videos may not be from your child’s teacher. However, every Friday the children will be able to enjoy a story read by an adult from their class.
Each week a menu of activities will be presented that can be completed during the week. This menu will relate to the book of the week. The activities will cover all aspects of the Early Years curriculum. There will also be the following screencasts and videos.
| Monday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Tuesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Wednesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Thursday | A tricky word screencast with follow up activities
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Friday | An Understanding the World video with “ Professor Myers” with follow up activities
A story read by one of your child’s teachers with talk time activities. |
As always your child’s teachers will be available via email for any questions. We will also endeavour contact you by phone once per week, just to check in with you.
07 January 2021: F2 Home Learning
Phonics
Have a go at the Flashcard Time Challenge on Phonics Play.
Say the ‘phase 2’ phonemes before the 2 minute timer ends!
Challenge: Can you do it before the 1 minute timer?
Parents: Login details are Sphere (user name) and Spher3 (password).
Click ‘PhonicsPlay’ > Resources > Flashcards Time Challenge > Start > Phase 2
2. Words to read:
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ or point to the sound buttons to help. How many sounds are in these words?
3. Words to write:
Ask an adult to read out the words. Use your phoneme frames in your home learning pack. Remember to write one phoneme in each box.
map hug net pick
**Challenge words**
Have a go at writing these words on a piece of paper.
pocket fusspot rabbit
4. Phonics Activity
Can you find the hidden letters to spell the tricky words?
The letters needed to spell a Phase 2 tricky word are hidden within each picture. Find the letters and unscramble them to correctly spell the words.
Click here to open the document.
Literacy
Read a story with an adult. When you have finished, ask your adult questions about the story. Were they correct?
Then swap over. Ask your adult to think of questions to ask you.
Maths
1. Watch and sing the Ten Green Bottles song.
2. Finding the total number of items in two groups.
Collect two bowls. Put three bananas in one bowl and two apples in the other bowl. How many pieces of fruit do you have altogether?
Draw a picture to show your answer.
Challenge – Can you make up your own?
Parents: Your child can use any objects for this activity.
F1 Home Learning: Week 1
Well, it’s not quite the welcome back that we had planned! We’ll provide you with more information regarding our remote learning activities this week, but here are some activities for you to do this week.
This week, the activities are all linked to a very popular and familiar tale, ‘The Gingerbread Man’.
If you have a copy at home, share it together or you could watch this online version.
Reading
As you read the story, see if your child can join in with the repeated phrases such as… “Stop! I want to eat you!” and “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread man!”
Talk to your child about the story. What happened? What did the Gingerbread Man say? What happened at the end of the story?
Mark-making
We love drawing our own gingerbread people in Nursery. Draw, paint or print an outline and add in some details. Give your gingerbread person some eyes, a nose and a mouth. How many buttons will you draw? What shape are they?
Mathematics
There are some fun Gingerbread Man counting activities on this website. In Nursery, we don’t expect children to recognise digits at this point so you may need to help your child recognise the numbers as you play together. Count the buttons and remember to say the numbers slowly, touching each button as you count it.
You could continue to play this together using the gingerbread person that you drew. Find something to use for buttons (buttons, pompoms, sweets, coins…) and challenge each other to put on 1-5 buttons. We’d expect some children to be working with numbers up to 3,4 or 5, but some children may be able to count more confidently up to 10 with one to one correspondence.
Here are a few ways to extend the activity…
- Which Gingerbread Man has the most/fewest buttons? How do you know?
- How many buttons would s/he have if we added one more? Ate one?
- If you put 1, 2 0r 3 buttons on the Gingerbread Man, can you tell how many there are without counting? Try it!
Creative
- If you have the ingredients, have a go at making your own gingerbread people. It’s always a great hit in Nursery. If you don’t have time this week, add the ingredients to your weekly shop and save it for a weekend treat together.
- Watch ‘Melody’ as she listens to some music that reminds her of the Gingerbread Man story. What did it make you think of?
- If you have playdough at home, have a go at making gingerbread people.
Phonics – Nursery rhymes
During group time this week, we were going to re-visit some of our favourite Nursery rhymes. Sing some together at home. There are lots to choose from here.
As you’re singing, try missing out a word from the end of a line. Can your child fill in the missing word? E.g. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great….. ?
Please remember to let us know how you’re getting on throughout the week and send us a quick e-mail to stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org. We love to find out about your home learning – in whatever form it takes. Gingerbread Man related or something completely different!
06 January 2021: F2 Home Learning
Phonics
1. Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2 – Phonics Bloom
2. Practise reading all of the phase 2 tricky words. You could also have a go at spelling them using the look, cover and write method. Remember to use the letter names when writing them!
3. Words to Read:
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ or point to the sound buttons to help. How many sounds are in these words?
4. Words to write:
ten bat neck top
Ask an adult to read out the words. Use your phoneme frames in your home learning pack. Remember to write one phoneme in each box.
**Challenge words**
Have a go at writing these words on a piece of paper.
sunset rocket laptop bucket
5. Phonics Activity
Write the captions (adult to read aloud)
Remember to use your phoneme fingers when segmenting.
Literacy Activity
Tell a story together using the ‘my turn, your turn’ method.
You – Once upon a time there was
Child…
You – Who lived in
Child…
You – One day, he/she decided to
Child…
Have fun and be creative!
Please email us your stories – we would love to hear them!
**Challenge** Draw a story map of your story and label each of your pictures with a word or sentence.
Maths
You can count just about anything! Have a go at counting different actions. Have a go at these…
10 star jumps
5 claps
3 shoulder shrugs
6 clicks
Can you think of anymore?
Activity
Write out the numbers 0-20 on some paper or card, cut them up and then ask an adult to mix the numbers up – don’t peek! Then, see how quickly you can put them into the correct order. You could ask someone to time you and see if you are faster the second time.
Topic
Go on a winter walk with a grown-up and look around to see the things that have changed since the summer.
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails in school hours.
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
05 January 2021: F1 Home Learning
Happy New Year! I hope that you’ve had a happy and healthy Christmas.
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?
Draw pictures of the things you heard on a piece of paper.
Maths
Build a tower using building bricks, blocks, cubes or anything you have at home.
How tall is your tower?
Can you count all of the bricks?
Can you build a smaller tower?
Topic
We are currently in the season winter. This morning, there might be frost on the floor. Go outside into your garden to explore the frost.
Talk to an adult about…
What happens in winter?
Do you like winter?
How do we keep warm in winter?
Draw or paint a picture of someone dressed for a cold winter day.
05 January 2021: F2 Home Learning
Happy New Year! I hope that you’ve had a happy and healthy Christmas.
Phonics
1. Quickwrite!
Practise writing the phase 2 sounds.
Parents: Please read the sounds to your child. They can then write them on a piece of paper.
Parents: Your child should have this sound mat in the home learning pack which was sent out before Christmas.
2. Words to read:
Was your child able to blend the words? Encourage your child to use their ‘phoneme fingers’ to help them when reading words.
3. Words to write:
mud hat peg cog
Ask an adult to read out the words. Use your phoneme frames in your home learning pack. Remember to write one phoneme in each box.
Literacy Activity
Tell me something about your Christmas holiday.
You could draw a picture and label it with a simple sentence or word.
Remember to use your phoneme fingers when segmenting!
Maths Activity
Sammy squirrel likes to hide nuts for the winter. He has hidden 2 nuts in one hole and 3 nuts in another hole. How many nuts has he hidden altogether? Draw a picture or a number story to show your answer.
Please use the email address below to send photos of your child’s home learning and if you have any questions about the home learning activities.
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
Final week
We’ve had a very busy, festive week in school: pantomime (virtual), Christmas lunch, parties, Christingle and crafts. Well done to everybody for working so hard this term- have a wonderful Christmas!
Christmas Party
Merry Christmas and a happy new year from all of the Foundation Team!
