This morning I have come across this fantastic resource particularly for children who love Julia Donaldson stories, which I know many of your children do.
Each day there is an activity based on the story What the Ladybird Heard and can be completed without the book.
Have lots of creative fun and remember to share it with us on Tapestry 😊

Follow the link below

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/

We have just received this email from the farm who sadly couldn’t visit us today. Please share with your child and encourage them to draw a picture of an animal of their choice that they see and write a sentence about it and share it with us on Tapestry. 😊

Hi

I am just popping a farm film onto our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MillCottageFarm/ for you seeing as we haven’t been to your school today.

Enjoy!

Best wishes

Sarah

Sarah & Tom Main

Mill Cottage Farm Experience

Good evening Seahorse and Starfish,

We hope you have had a good a week and have enjoyed your home learning activities! It has been lovely to see so many of you upload your learning to Tapestry. Mrs Conlon, Miss Deacon, Mrs Aquilina and Mrs King have all enjoyed logging on to find out what you have been up to. We have seen some lovely animal creations, from making your collages from stones, grass and flowers to drawing and painting your favourite animals. We have also seen children make cup phones and making repeating patterns when going out for a walk! Such great learning!

Here are your new home learning activities. This includes the rainbow challenges and the phonics learning. Remember to ask your child what phonics group they are in. Just click on the link below to view the home learning activities:

Week 2 – home learning

Please upload any learning to Tapestry.

There is also the opportunity for you to make use of 2 very good educational websites as they have released logins for parents to support learning at home.

1. www.phonicsplay.co.uk – This will support your child’s learning in phonics. It is something we use at school so the children should be familiar with it. The log in is:  Username: march20   Password: home
2.  www.twinkl.co.uk/offer –  Twinkl is offering parents a month of free access to support them during this uncertain time. This website has a wealth of activities to support your child’s learning, be sure to press the EYFS tab at the top of the toolbar.  The free access code is: PARENTSTWINKLHELPS

Speak to you soon, From us all in Early Years

Good afternoon,

We have had a few of you asking for the Supersix words that your children have been learning throughout the year. Attached are the Supersix high frequency words your child will need to knowduring Year R to support their reading. Please click on the link below to open a pdf.

Super six words

Keep up all the brilliant learning at home. We love seeing what you are up to!

From, The Early Years Team

It has been a different week for the children, for those at home as well as those who are still coming to school. We have enjoyed looking at all of your home learning so please keep adding it to Tapestry!

Here are a few of the things that the children in school have been up to so far….

Here is the link if you would like to have a go at making the emoji faces at home:

Emoji face.pdf

Talk to you soon, The Early Years Team

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!