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17 June 2020: F2 Home Learning

Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2
Phase 3

Words to Read: drip, pram, plug, bank
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ to help blend the words. How many sounds are in these words?
Words to Write: nest, lamp, felt, gulp
You could draw a phoneme frame in your exercise book to help you remember all the sounds.

Phonics Activity: Phonics play – dragons den – phase 4 – CVCC – Set 1-7 plus digraphs

Maths
Focus number 20!
Please see today’s home learning video.

Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle 

1. Listen to the story of the week.
2. What is the setting? Where is the story set?
3. Draw the setting of the story. This will be the background for your puppet show. Here is an example of a setting you could draw.

16 June 2020: Home Learning

Phonics

Tricky words lesson slides-

Today’s video lesson is led by one of our Sphere Federation teachers; Mrs Flynn. Click the link below to be taken to today’s video.

Click here

Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson. 

Maths

1. Watch the Numberblock 20 video.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006rr5/numberblocks-series-4-twenty

2. Can you do 20 hops, claps, jumps? Remember to count each movement and stop at number 20.
3. Write the numbers 0-20 on the floor using chalk, paint or write on paper (make sure they are big enough to stand on).
4. Can you find the answers to these problems?

Find and stand on the number that is one less than 20

Find and stand on the number that is double 7

Find and stand on an odd number

Find and stand on a number that is fewer than 8

Find and stand on a number that is more than 10

Find and stand on an even number

Find and stand on the number that is half of 12

Challenge: Parents/carers give your child some more problems to solve or can your child think of their own number problem?

Literacy

Book of the week: Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson

1. Listen to the story of the week.
2. Who are the characters in the story? Who is in the story?

(Mum Monkey, Dad Monkey, Baby Monkey, Butterfly, Elephant, Snake, Parrot, Frog and Bat)

3. Make puppets for some OR all of the characters. Here is an example of a puppet you could make. These puppets will be used for your puppet show on Friday.

You will need paper OR card, colouring pencils and sticks OR spoons.

Week commencing 15 June 2020: F1 Home Learning ‘What the Ladybird Heard’

We’re sure that you’ll all be familiar with this story; you might even have a copy at home. It’s called What the Ladybird Heard and is written by Julia Donaldson. As you listen, why not join in with the animal sounds!:

Which part of the story did you enjoy the most?

How did the animals trick Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len?

Which is your favourite farm animal?

We think you’ll also enjoy this version where Julia Donaldson tells the same story through a song.

Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.

Creative

Can you make a farm yard? You could use Duplo or Lego to make a farm house or barn for your toy animals and tractors.  If you have a tray with sides or an empty (storage) box with low sides you could make your own farm small world area. In class, we often add Weetabix and other dry cereals to use as animal food. It can be a little bit messy but hoovers up easily at the end of the day!

You could make a little ladybird and use it re-tell the story as it flies from one animal to the next.

 Mark making

Can you draw some of the animals that they found on the farm? Maybe you could draw a map of the farm like Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len used. You could even draw a long wavy line to show where the ladybird flew.

Listening games

Listen closely to the story. What does the ladybird hear? There is a ladybird on every page and he/she hears all the goings on in the farmyard and story. Play your own game, listening to the world around you. Say the phrase “I hear with my little ear something that sounds like…” Describe that you can hear around you.

Here’s a game we sometimes we play at Nursery. Get your listening ears ready… What animal can you hear?  One of the cats purring is a little bit tricky!   

Find out more about ladybirds 

Here’s a short video all about ladybirds. Can you spot any ladybirds in your garden or on a walk?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01cb05t

Mathematics

1) One of the mathematical concepts that children sometimes find difficult is knowing that they can split a group of objects in different ways, but that the total is still the same.  Here is an activity that may help with this.

Draw a ladybird outline and cut out 4-6 spots. Start with 4 spots and count them together with your child. Ask them to put the spots on the ladybird’s wings. How many are there? Talk about how many spots there are on each wing, but that there are still 4 spots altogether. Repeat, splitting the spots in a different way (Eg 2 spots on each wing, or 3 spots on 1 wing and 1 spot on the other). Each time you move the spots, count how many there are on each wing and how many there are altogether. That’s right, there are still 4!

If you return to play again another day, repeat the activity using a different number of spots between 2-6.

2) If you fancy painting, draw some basic ladybird outlines and ask your child to paint or fingerprint a given number (e.g 1-5) of spots on each wing. How many spots are there on both wings? Which ladybird as the fewest/most spots?

 Can you spot the difference?

Click here (activity)

15 June 2020: Home Learning

Phonics

Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.

Phase 2 – https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/flash-cards?phase=2

Phase 3 – https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/flash-cards?phase=3

Words to read:

Phonics Activity:

Phonics play – buried treasure – phase 4

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/buried-treasure

Maths

1. Watch the video and count backwards from 20 to 0.

Today you will need:

• colouring pencils and paper or chalk and some outdoor space
• 0-20 number flash cards

2. Parents/carers hold up and say a number. Children can you draw that many spots either on paper or on the ground?
3. Look at how you can draw x amount of spots in different ways. E.g. you could draw 6 spots by drawing 2 at a time or by drawing 3 spots and then 3 more.
4. Parents/carers ask the children some questions about each number as you go along e.g. what is 1 more/less, what is double… or half…?

Literacy

Book of the week: Monkey puzzle

1. Listen to the story of the week.

This week we are going to be looking at the characters, setting and events in the story. This will then help us retell the story using homemade props.

2. What do we mean when we say character? Setting? Events?

To join in with this week’s creative activities, you will need the following items. Hopefully, these are items you will find in your home.

• Paper OR card and colouring pencils
• Sticks from outside OR a collection of spoons (they can be re-used afterwards)
• Sticky tape

Perhaps if you are going outside for your daily exercise today you could collect some sticks.

Answers:

Character = Who is in the story. The people/animals in the story.

Setting = Where the story is set.

Events = What happens in the story.

Home Learning Heroes!

Let’s see what our home learning heroes have been up to over the past few weeks…

Did you manage to watch this week’s story time? It was a poem called Nuts about Nuts. One of the challenges was to add your own rhyme or mini-poem about your favourite food.

Well done to Willow, who came up with this fantastic poem:

I like tuna pasta,
I like it when it’s hot,
I like tuna pasta,
I like it when it’s not,
I like tuna pasta,
I like it in a dish,
I like tuna pasta,
Even though it’s fish!

Remember to send us your home learning pictures: stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org

Home learning help

The teachers at school have been talking to some families who are continuing to learn from home this week. There was a common topic of conversation : this is all dragging on and becoming quite tricky at times!

It has been a long time since we have all been back at school with our classes and we understand that home learning is challenging. Here are a few links that might help if you are wanting more activities to engage your child.

This is great for working on all number facts and you can try to improve your own score. We use this in school on iPads but can also be played on laptops : https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Passwords for Numbots or Times Table Rockstars are the same : https://play.numbots.com/#/intro or https://ttrockstars.com/ Email your teacher if you have lost it.

Loads of resources on here including reading : https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/parents

For reading and phonics games : https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Maths teaching videos and other resources : https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Variety of lessons, recorded by teachers : https://classroom.thenational.academy/

We love Go Noodle for a sing and dance : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2YBT7HYqCbbvzu3kKZ3wnw

Or Cosmic Yoga Kids for a more relaxing workout : https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Please ring school or email your child’s teacher if you need support and we will try to help.

Carry on learning

It has been lovely to welcome a few more members of 1/2 back into school this week. However, I’m missing each and every one of you who can’t join us right now. Thank you to the children who have continued to send me emails and photographs of your home learning. It really helps me feel like I’m still your teacher!

Art work

This week, some children have been following this link to learn how to draw different characters, animals and objects.

Story Time! Nuts about Nuts

Today’s story is a poetry book by Michael Rosen. As you listen to the poem, I wonder if you notice any of these things…

• Rhyming words
• The change in rhythm (is there a pattern to the changes?)
• Any funny / nonsense ideas
• Repetition

Click here to watch Mrs Allen-Kelly read the poem.

Can you think of a rhyme to go with your favourite foods? You could be doing ‘Flips for Chips’, ‘want to stare at a pear’ or even be a ‘winner for roast dinner’! Let us know what you come up with:

stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org

12 June 2020: Home Learning

Phonics

Circle that word! You can use these sheets on screen,  to look at each picture and point the the correct phase 4 word…

CVCC and CCVC Words Worksheet, Circle That Word!

Maths

Have a go at these 2d shape challenges from tts:

Literacy

Today, we are going to write the instructions on how to make/do your activity.

What happened first, next, after that, finally?

Use the template or create your own.

Remember to think, say, count, write and check your writing.

Email your instructional writing to stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org and we will share them with your friends!