Library Books
22 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Read: Play tricky word countdown
Write: Write the tricky words on scrap pieces of paper to help prepare for the game below!
Parents/Carers: you could read the words below and ask your child to write them without looking.
Activity: Play tricky word boo!
How to prepare:
Write some tricky words on scrap pieces of paper.
Fold them up and put them into a cup.
Write the word ‘boo’ on some scrap pieces of paper.
Fold them up and put them into a cup.
How to play:
1.Collect a word out of the cup and read it. Remember to keep the words you read.
2.Take it in turns to take a word out of the cup to read.
3.If you get ‘boo’ put all your words back.
4.The person with the most words wins!
→Need more of a challenge? Can you fill in the gaps in the sentences below? Adults: the challenge here is for your child to spell the ‘high frequency words’ correctly rather than what we usually expect – phonetically.
Answers:
1.Do you have any pencils?
2.She went to the park.
3.Come over here right now!
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock 14 video.
2.Can you count backwards from 20 to 0?
3.Can you do 14 hops, claps, jumps? Remember to stop at 14.
4.Can you show 14 on a ten frame?
5.Can you tell a less than number story using first, then and now? E.g. First there were 14 bees in the hive. Then 2 flew out. Now there are 12 bees left in the hive.
→Need more of a challenge? Can you share 14 toys between each member of your family? How many do you each have? Is it fair? How could you make it fair?
Literacy
Listen to the story We’re Different, We’re the Same.
What you will need:
A box, a mirror, paper, colouring pencils and/or collaging materials.
1.Place a mirror inside a box. Ask your child to guess what is inside the box. Explain that we will all see something different when we look inside.
3.After you have looked inside, draw/create what you saw. This is a nice activity to get the whole family involved in.
4.Talk about and encourage your child to discover that everyone is different, however some of us have similarities.
Home Learning Pictures
This week, the outdoor maths activity proved to be a hit. Well done everyone for using your maths skills to answer lots of tricky questions and also the grown ups for having to think of lots of additional questions too!
We have also had some more instructional writing through. We now know how to bake a cake, make a Sonic, make a key ring and make a flapjack.
Finally, it’s been lovely to see some of you enjoying the creative task of making stick puppets for the story of the week.
Have a lovely weekend 🙂
19 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Sing the tricky word songs.
Words to Read:
Tricky word countdown! Can you read the tricky words?
Phonics Activity:
Can you spot any tricky words in the story? How many did you find? Now, read the story.
→Need more of a challenge? Can you go on a tricky word scavenger hunt? Adults – you could write the tricky words on paper and hide around the house OR write them in chalk hidden outside. You’re child could then use a tick sheet to find and read the tricky words.
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
1.It’s puppet show time! Use the puppets, setting and story map you have made to retell the story ‘The monkey puzzle’.
2.You could record your puppet show and email it to us.
Here is a quick example of how you could present your puppet show by Mrs Flynn.
18 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock14 video.
2.Mathematical graphics – Can you draw 14 in different ways? Can you tell a number story about your picture?
Things your child could draw to show 14:
- 14 monkeys jumping on a trampoline
- 14 stars in the sky
- 14 rainbows
- 14 hearts
Challenge: Use objects at home to solve the following problem. Is 14 an even or odd number? How do you know?
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
1.Listen to the story of the week.
2.What happens in the story? What are the events?
3.Retell the story to a grown up or draw a story map of events.
Reading
Reading daily is an important part in supporting your child’s reading development.
We know most parents have been using oxford owls free ebooks to get their child to read daily – fantastic! Typically, a child in reception would be reading ‘Oxford Level 2/3‘, ‘Letters and sounds – phase 3/4’ and ‘Book band Red/Yellow/Blue’.
It might be that you are starting to get through most of the ebooks available that are appropriate for your child’s reading level. If so, here are some more free downloadable books that your child could enjoy. Click on the pictures to download the ebook.
To challenge your child further you could ask your child questions about what they have read. This is a great way to see if your child has really understood the story – encouraging your child to read for pleasure! The following resources are great conversation starters when encouraging your child to talk about what they have read.
17 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Words to Read:
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ to help blend the words. How many sounds are in these words?
Words to Write:
You could draw a phoneme frame in your exercise book to help you remember all the sounds.
Challenge: Can you write a sentence using these words?
Phonics Activity:
Phonics play – dragons den – phase 4 – CVCC – Set 1-7plus digraphs
Challenge: have a go at reading the polysyllabic words instead.
Maths
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
Phonics play – tricky word trucks – phase 3/4
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock 14 video.
2.Can you do 14 hops, claps, jumps? Remember to count each movement and stop at number 14.
3.Write the numbers 0-14 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 1 more than 13
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: The monkey puzzle
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. The puppets you make will be used for your puppet show on Friday.
You will need paper OR card, colouring pencils and sticks OR spoons.
Here Mrs Flynn used a stick she found outside to hold up the puppet. She used the back of an old birthday card to draw the butterfly on.
If you can’t find any sticks you could use a spoon instead – just like Mrs Flynn has here. This time she used paper to draw the monkey on.
15 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2 or Phase 3
Words:
Phonics Activity:
Phonics play – buried treasure – phase 4 – CVCC – Set 1-7
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
- 0-13 number flash cards
2.Parents/carers can you 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: The 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?
Answer:
Character = Who is in the story. The people/animals in the story.
Setting = Where the story is set.
Events = What happens in the story.
To join in with this week’s creative literacy 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.
Reflection
Your child may be asking questions about recent events in America and subsequent protests across the world.
‘Everyone’s welcome’ by CBeebies is a great resource to help you begin to talk about these recent events with your child.
Sesame Street have also shared a story ‘We’re different, We’re the same’.
This is a great opportunity to teach tolerance, mutual respect and acceptance to others. It promotes empathy and understanding; encouraging your child to consider what makes themselves and others special, valuing the similarities and differences between themselves and others.
Home Learning Pictures
Last week, we posted a video to show how proud we are of everyone. Here is the video again incase you missed it 🙂
We are always so pleased to see so many emails and pictures of the children enjoying the home learning tasks as well as enjoying family time and learning new skills.
This week, we set a task to write some instructions. Did you manage to write any instructions? We have had a few emails sent to us. We have some instructions on how to make flapjacks, how to move chrysalis to their butterfly house and some instructions on how to make glass.
Here are a few more pictures and a video from this week.
