8 May 2020: Home Learning
VE day
Today is VE day and a bank holiday. Here are some ideas of activities you can do at home to celebrate. These are optional activities – it is your choice if you choose to do them. Have a lovely bank holiday!
7 May 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
This lesson involves writing. Your child will need their home learning exercise book (or paper) and a pencil. Alternatively your child could use a whiteboard and pen.
Maths – number 11
- Count to 20 by two’s using this song
- Practise you number formation by writing your numbers from 0-11. Challenge – Can you write your numbers all the way to 20.
- Solve these number problems
- I have 3 pencils in my pot. It fits 11. How many more pencils can fit in the pot?
- Joseph has 11 buttons on his coat. He has fastened 5, how many more are there to do?
- William has 4 apples and Hermione has 7. How many apples are there altogether?
- Mollie had 11 sweets but she gave 4 to Edith. How many sweets does Mollie have left?
Parents: if needed, your child could use objects at home to help when counting.
Challenge: Can you think of your own number problem for your friends to solve? Email your number problem to scholesf2@spherefederation.org and we will post them next week!
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Can you design a wanted poster for the baddies – Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh?
Extra ideas for at home
Can you make your own farm? It could be on the floor, a table top or in a tray. You could get a big piece of paper and draw out the landscape. What crops will you have? Different cloths, e.g. a clean duster could be a field. Will there be a farm house? You could make this from an old box, such as a shoe box. Where will the cows and horses go? Does the farm need fences to keep the animals safe? A little pond could be made from a circular, small tub, perhaps a margarine tub. This is where the ducks might like to be. What’s a baby duck called?
You may have some toy farm animals but if not you could create your own. Draw and cut them out. Imagine a cotton wool sheep or a pom pom sheep. What patterns do cows have? What is a group of cows called?
When you have created your farm act out stories together. What might happen if someone leaves the gate open? Perhaps you can go looking for the hen’s eggs in the straw (chopped up old newspaper).
6 May 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Words to Read:
Remember to blend each syllable and then put them together.
Words to Write:
air fair pair hair
Did you remember the trigraph ‘air’?
Phonics Activity: Write the sentence. (Adult to read aloud.)
She has fair hair.
Maths
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story again. Can you make the animal noises?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu9mPX7DuLA
In the story the baddies make a map of the farmyard so they can work out how to steal the cow.
Make your own map and label all the places and animals on your map.
5 May 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Maths
- Watch the 3d shape song.
- Go on a 3d shape hunt around your house. Can you find a sphere, cylinder, cube, cone? Did you come across any other 3d shapes?
- Can you solve these problems using the 3d shapes you have collected?
Some questions to challenge learning:
What is the shape called?
What can you tell me about the shape?
Why do you think this is the best shape to use?
What might happen if I use this shape instead?
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story again.
Can you make the animal noises?
Purr, Miaow, Woof, Baa, Oink, Neigh, Quack, Hiss, Cluck, Moo
Can you draw the animals with speech bubbles. What sound do they make? What might the animal be saying?
Choose an animal and write what they might be saying in the speech bubble?
4 May 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Words to read:
Can you count the syllables?
Words to write:
bank spot step from
Remember to use your phoneme fingers!
Phonics Activity: Read the sentence and draw a picture to match.
Maths
Sing the ‘number bonds to 10’ song
Draw or paint some ladybirds. Give each ladybird 10 or 5 spots. 
How many spots on one side, how many on the other?
Talk about the calculation on both sides of the ladybird.
Challenge:
Each ladybird must have the same amount of spots on each side. How many different doubles have you got?
Can you record your number sentences?
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story. Can you spot the rhyming words?
Draw and label the animals from the story.
Other ladybird themed ideas!
ladybird biscuits
Week 6 Home Learning Pictures
Wow, we have received lots of lovely emails this week showing us all the amazing and exciting learning you have been doing from home. You have all been working so hard and should be really pleased with yourselves. Please keep sending emails with updates about how you are getting on and please email (scholesf2@spherefederation.org) any questions you may have about your child’s learning.
We have particularly enjoyed seeing your predictions for the floating and sinking experiment set by Professor Myers as well as your wonderful story maps for The Smartest Giant in Town.
1 May 2020: Home learning
Phonics/Literacy (writing focus)
1.Practise your letter formation in your home learning book. You can use the letter formation ditty’s in your pack to help you.
2.Quickwrite! Write the following digraphs.
Parents: Please read the digraphs to your child. They can then write them their home learning book.
For help with pronunciation –please note ‘z’ is American so incorrect for your child. All other pronunciations are correct.
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ng |
ai | ee |
oa |
3.Time to talk!
- Dance to the music.
- When the music stops find a partner.
- Talk to your partner about some news you’d like to share.
Remember: to be a good talking partner your eyes should be looking and your ears should be listening AND hearing.
- Now it’s time to write! Practise saying your news in a sentence. Count the words in your sentence. Now write your news in a sentence. Don’t forget to check your writing! You can draw a picture too.
Challenge: Write your news using a narrative e.g. First, then, after that, finally.
Maths
Writing independence
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 is important. It encourages your child to use their own skills – rather than copy from an adult.
It is important you do not let your child simply copy your writing. They need to use their phonics skills to write. Here is an example of a child’s writing in Foundation 2.
30 April 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Maths(halving)
1.Listen to the halving story.
2.Solve 3 number problems from the card below.
Parents: if needed, your child could use objects at home to help when counting.
Challenge: Can you solve all of the number problems above?
Literacy
Book of the week: The tiger who came to tea
1.An alternative story. Can you change the story to make it your own? For example, it might not be a tiger who came to tea! It may be a different animal.
2.Draw a story map for your alternative story and retell it to somebody at home.
Challenge: Write your story using narrative language e.g. One day, then, after that, suddenly, finally.
29 April 2020: Home learning
Phonics (tricky word focus)
1.Sing the tricky word songs.
2.Write the following tricky words
Parents: Please read the words to your child. They can then write them their home learning book.
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we |
me | be |
you |
Challenge: Can you write these tricky words too?
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all |
was | are |
they |
3.Read your ‘love of reading’ book. Spot the tricky words in your book before reading the story.
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: The tiger who came to tea
1.Use your story map to retell the story to somebody at home.
You can use the actions below to help you.