Home learning from Friday 20th March 2020

This week we are continuing to focus on animals. Here are a selection of activities to engage your children with across areas of the Early Years Curriculum. Please share any learning your children do on Tapestry.

Understanding the World –

Choose an animal you love. What you can find out about it? Does it come from an egg? Where does it live? How big is it? What does it need to be healthy?

Literacy –

Can you make poster or a booklet all about your favourite animal with the facts you have found out?

Expressive Arts and Design –

Can you make a collage of your favourite animal? Think about the texture of their skin/fur/feathers etc. What materials could you use that you find at home or outside?

Maths – Can you add two groups of animals to find the total number?

Self-confidence and awareness –

Can you get your grown up to record a video of you saying something you are good at and something you want to get better at? Please upload it to Tapestry.

Phonics home learning

Please ask your child which phonics group they are in and teach them the relevant sounds given.

Stingrays- All week-

Blend these sounds to read the word-

hit, bit, kit, sit, pit

Can you find the tricky word I in books you are reading at home?

Encourage your child to read these words daily.

Can your child write them in sand, glitter, shaving foam or any type of chosen messy play?

Can your child write the word in a sentence?

Lobsters 

Each day learn a sound that is given. Practise writing the sound in sand, glitter, shaving foam or any type of chosen messy play.

Then read the words given. Can you put the word into a sentence?

Monday- Learn the sound zz.

Blend and read these words:

fizz, frizz, fuzz, buzz, jazz

Can you think of any other words?

Tuesday- Learn the sound qu.

Blend and read these words:

queen, quack, quit, quick

Can you think of any other words?

Wednesday- Learn the sound ch.

Blend and read these words:

chick, chuck, chop, chip, chin

Can you think of any other words?

Thursday- Practise the sounds you have learnt for this week. Can you write them in a sentence or a story?

Friday – Learn to read the tricky word- go.

Can you find the word in books you read?

Can you write the word in a sentence?

Seals

Each day learn a sound that is given. Practise writing the sound in sand, glitter, shaving foam or any type of chosen messy play.

Then read the words given. Can you put the word into a sentence?

Monday- Learn the sound ee.

The rhyme is ‘What can you see?’

Blend and read these words:

seed, week, deep, feet, keep

Can you think of any other words?

Tuesday- Learn the sound igh.

The rhyme is ‘Fly high’.

Blend and read these words:

high, light, night, right, sight

Can you think of any other words?

Wednesday- Learn the sound oa.

The rhyme is ‘Goat in a boat’.

Blend and read these words:

boat, coat, moat, soak, loaf

Can you think of any other words?

Thursday- Practise the sounds you have learnt for this week. Can you write them in a sentence or a story?

Friday – Learn to read the tricky word- go.

Can you find the word in books you read?

Can you write the word in a sentence?

Dolphins

Each day learn a sound that is given. Practise writing the sound in sand, glitter, shaving foam or any type of chosen messy play.

Then read the words given. Can you put the word into a sentence?

Monday- Learn the sound ar.

The rhyme is ‘Start the car’.

Blend and read these words:

scar, hard, charm, march, part

Can you think of any other words?

Tuesday- Learn the sound or.

The rhyme is ‘Shut the door.’

Blend and read these words:

storm, torch, fork, born, horn

Can you think of any other words?

Wednesday- Learn the sound ur.

The rhyme is ‘Nurse with the purse.’

Burn, turn, fur, surf, curl

Thursday- Practise the sounds you have learnt for this week. Can you write them in a sentence or a story?

Friday – Learn to read the tricky word- go.

Can you find the word in books you read?

Can you write the word in a sentence?

The children were very excited on Monday afternoon when the chick eggs arrived in school. They then came in on Tuesday morning to see one had hatched already! When they cam in on Wednesday five out of the six chicks had hatched and now we are just waiting on one more who has made a little crack in the egg so we are waiting patiently for its arrival.

Here are some of the photos of the children stroking one of the chicks.

The children have been hooked into writing about the chicks daily to explain what they have seen happen from when they came in up to when some of them have hatched. They have also been counting pretend eggs into nest and adding up the total in the tuff tray.

We are beginning to reinforce time language with the children by encouraging them to talk about what they did yesterday, today and what they are going to do tomorrow. Please ask your children what they did at school each evening to support this vocabulary.

Have a wonderful weekend

From the Year R team.

The children had a fantastic day dressing up as a character from their favourite book and getting involved in lots of activities based around the books they love.

The children made their own Gruffalo crumble, potions from Room on the Broom, wrote their own books, re told stories as well as writing about their favourite book to share with a friend.

In the afternoon Year 1 joined us to share their favourite story with our Year R children.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

From the Year R team.

The children have settled straight back into their excellent learning this week.

We have started our new topic which is animals. We began by introducing the book Dear Zoo. We then told the children the very sad news that Mr Cunningham does not want any animals to visit the school. So the children decided to write letters to him to try and convince him to let us! Children asked for cats, dogs, rabbits and chicks. Hopefully we can persuade him and have some visitors soon!

The children have also begun to learn about the different types of habitats of animals and why they like to live in particular environments. We went on a very muddy welly walk to go and collect lots of different natural objects to make our own habitats in the classroom.

On Ash Wednesday the children had a small service in our classrooms led by Mr Cunningham and Miss Keogh where the children received ashes on their foreheads and said a prayer. The children then reenacted this during their discovery time thinking about the meaning of the service.

In maths we have been focusing on positional language. When playing with your children at home please could you encourage them to use words such as on top, next to, in between, under and inside to describe the positions of different objects.

Have a lovely weekend

From the year R team.

We have had such an eventful last few weeks!

We had a visit from a drama company… they took us on an adventure to Australia, we met many of the wildlife there and had to hide from a cheeky crocodile who didn’t like children! The children had a fantastic time.

On Thursday 6th February the children dressed up as their favourite animal to raise money for The Stubbington Ark. We managed to raise £71.00 and met the fundraising manger at the Ark who showed her appreciation for what the money could do to support them on looking after unwanted animals.

Finally, on STEM day the children got to explore the changes that happen when we make biscuits and how all the ingredients combine to make dough and then to an actual biscuit when it is cooked in the oven. The children really enjoyed the process of making biscuits, we are sure the enjoyed eating them after too!

Our book focus this week has been Norman The Slug with the Silly Shell. The children have been designing new shells for Norman using repeating patterns, they have made parachutes for him and even boats out of different materials and tested to see if they float.

The children have continued to show great enthusiasm for our mini beast topic. They have been outside digging in the mud to find the bugs on the bug hunt tick sheet we provided for them. The children have been talking about the types of habitats the worms live in and why they live there.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

From the year R team.

Today we learnt all about Chinese New Year. We loved watching the dragon dances and were amazed by how many different colours are in the Chinese New Year Parade. We know that 2020 is the Year of the Rat and understand that there are 12 animals that each have a year named after them as they were the ones to successfully and quick cross the river.

We had great fun learning all about Chinese New Year, here are some photos of us!

Thank you to all the families that joined us in celebrating our liturgy. The children did exceptionally well at remembering their lines, actions and all the words to the songs.

Here are some photos of the children acting out the story of The Good Samaritan as well as the children sharing what they do to show kindness.

We hope you all have a great week.

From the year R team.

This week we have enjoyed measuring amounts. We talked about full, half full, nearly empty and empty. The children then explored this in their discovery time using this language.

The children have also been retelling parts of the Superworm story by looking at a picture and writing a caption.

Please continue to read with your children at home. Their books will be changed next week during their phonics lessons.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

From the Year R team.

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas break. The children have settled back into routine so well and have been working so hard.

We have started our Mini beasts topic by looking at the book Superworm. The children have enjoyed writing ‘wow words’ to describe the bugs in the story as well as designing their own bug and giving it a name.

In maths we have been looking at comparing amounts by saying which has ‘fewer’ which has ‘more’. The children have been able to use this language during discovery time and explain what it means. Please carry on this at home perhaps when doing the shopping looking at different bags of fruit or veg.

The children have also started in their new phonics groups. They have been given a book suitable for their reading ability and the sounds they are currently focusing on. If your child receives a book that they have already had please continue to read the book as it will build on their fluency.

Our year group liturgy is on Tuesday 21st January at 10.30am in the school hall. All families are welcome to join.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

From the year R team.