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Reception Home Learning Week Commencing 27th April 2020
We hope you have enjoyed the first week of our new topic!
Please continue to keep a look out on our Facebook page for videos of
phonics teaching and for some more ideas of things you could be doing at
home…
…and to find out what the teachers and TA’s have been up to!
Thank you for all of your incredible efforts with Home learning. We are all
really enjoying seeing the wonderful things you have been doing at home.
One day, your children will look back on this as a really lovely time spent with
their family.
If you would like your work to go on the website, please email it to:
Phase 5 phonics sounds:
ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw,wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey,
a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e
Here are all of the Reception tricky words:
Once you have learnt them by sight, please practise writing them and putting them
into sentences.
I, the, to, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, you, they, all, are, my, her said,
some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what, have, like, so, do, oh,
their, people, mr, mrs, looked, called, asked, could
Phonics This week, please focus on: ie and ea
These are alternative sounds – the children already know
‘igh’ and ‘ee’, so you can re-teach these alongside them.
We will post two teaching videos this week to the Facebook
page. (Monday and Wednesday)
Writing Writing from a stimulus
Every other week, we practise writing from a stimulus. We give
the children an interesting picture and encourage them to talk
about what they see and why. We encourage deep and
philosophical thinking from the children and encourage lots of
questions.
We then encourage the children to write some words, a
sentence and more increasingly, a story about the picture.
We usually model the writing together on the whiteboard
before going off to attempt to write it as independently as
possible. For some, this might be a few words with correct
formation of letters, for others, extending sentences to include
adjectives and using correct punctuation. We also encourage
children to think about narrative and write a story about the
picture. Be led by your child, but do push them to do their best
writing.
Below is a suggested picture, however, if there is a different
picture you would like to use (for example, a more personal
picture of family or a past event or a picture that you feel will
capture your child’s interest) please feel free to use that:
Maths This week, please focus on: Addition
More details below.
Understan
ding of
the World
‘Out of the egg’
This week, we have received a letter from a Mummy and
Daddy DINOSAUR! (Attached below, but feel free to use your
own version) Maybe your child could find the letter by the letter
box in the morning in an envelope with their name on, or it
could have accidentally been sent to the wrong Mr…/ Miss…
and gone to a family member who skypes you to let you know!
It could even come through as a special email on your
phone/tablet.
Did any of you think it could have been a dinosaur egg from
your research last week?
This week please could you create a research project about
one of the following dinosaurs:
T-Rex
Pterodactyl
Stegosaurus
Diplodocus
Triceratops
Please think about things we might need to know if the egg is
that kind of dinosaur! How would we look after that kind of
dinosaur? What do they need? E.g. What do they eat? (Will we
need to grow some trees?) Are they awake in the day time or
night time (nocturnal)? How big will they grow? Etc.
Please be as creative as you like with the presentation, you
could create a poster, a video, a PowerPoint, art work, a prezi
presentation, a song, a letter back to the dinosaurs… the list is
endless!
If you could then share this on the Facebook group for
everyone to see, we will all be able to learn about all of the
different dinosaurs from what everyone has found out!
You will be the teachers!
Expressive
Arts and
Design
Can you create a ‘habitat box’ using all of the information you
have gathered. You could use a shoebox and add all of the
things your dinosaur might need inside (e.g. trees, food,
somewhere to live etc.)
RE The Story of Noah’s Ark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCLRcA9mlQE
Please listen to the story of Noah’s Ark. You could use the
summarised version below if you prefer.
A long time ago, the people of the world were not treating
each other kindly. God was very sad, and so he decided to
send a flood to cover the entire world. However, one man,
Noah, and his family were very good people, so God told Noah
to build a big boat and to gather two of every kind of animal to
be kept safe in the boat when the flood arrived.
Noah tried to warn the people to change their ways so that
they could hear God too. But they would not listen, and they
kept on with their selfish lives. Noah built the ark as God had
commanded and soon he, his family, and all the animals were
drifting in the flood waters. It rained for forty days and forty
nights.
After many weeks of waiting, the flood went away and Noah,
his family, and the animals were able to return to land. Noah
prayed to God to thank him for keeping them safe. Suddenly a
bright rainbow filled the sky. This was God's promise that he
would never flood the earth again.
Task
1) Can you think of two questions that you would ask Noah.
I wonder how he was feeling whilst on the Ark? What did
he see?
Whilst we have been at home, it has been wonderful to hear
lots of you have created rainbow pictures to display in your
windows. These are a great symbol of peace and hope (as well
as cheering up passers-by).
2) Can you imagine you see a rainbow in the sky? Draw a
picture of what you would like to find at the end of the
rainbow and tell someone in your family why.
Other activities linked to other areas of the curriculum:
Mathematics: Can you practise counting in 2s? You could use
objects to represent the animals boarding the Ark.
Expressive arts and design: Can you do some junk modelling to
recreate Noah’s Ark? Which materials and shapes would work
best? Do they sink or float?
Understanding the World: Sometimes we can see rainbow
colours when we blow bubbles. Have a go at blowing some
bubbles outside and see if you can see a rainbow? Do you
know why this happens?
Letter from Mummy and Daddy Dinosaur:
Dear Reception Red and Yellow,
We hope this letter reaches you in time because… WE NEED YOUR
HELP!!
WE ARE TIME-TRAVELLING
DINOSAURS!! We have been travelling through time and space having so much fun
learning about how the world has changed. But, we accidentally left
our precious egg behind! Have you found it? Was it at your school?
Or at your house? We visited both (you have some cool toys by the
way!).
We are trying to come back to pick up our egg but our time
travelling machine stopped working when we came to visit the
Numberblocks, so now we are stuck here (but learning lots about
numbers!).
The egg is going to hatch soon; please, please, please could you look
after our precious little dinosaur when he or she arrives? Do you
know how? Do you know all of the things a dinosaur needs? Are you
up to the challenge? It’s a very important job!
We would be so very grateful if you could help us please!
Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
A very worried Mummy and Daddy Dinosaur!
Here are a few ideas of things you can do to
help your child learn about addition. Please
remember, these are just ideas and there is no
expectation for you to do all or any of these
activities. The most important thing is to keep it
quick, fun and to follow your child’s interests.
If you don’t have
this book at home,
there are several
readings of it on
YouTube and a
PowerPoint of the
book on TES. (You
may need to sign
up but this is free).
To create a 1-3 dice, take a normal dice and
cover numbers 4,5,6 over with stickers and write
1,2,3 on them again.
Maths This week’s focus: Addition
To create your own number track, cut a strip of
paper and split it into 10 boxes, label boxes 1-10.
The children can make their own number tracks
too! You could create a big one where children
draw that number of items in each box e.g.
Stars.
Although we have a ‘focus’ each week, please do not feel you need to limit your child’s
maths experience to just this. Below are some other ideas of things you could be doing:
Have a range of pompoms (with numbers on) in a small box and both of you
have a straw. Also have the same numbers on pieces of paper turned over so you
can’t see them. Choose one of the numbers but don’t look at it. Set a timer and
both of you try to suck up pompoms and put them in your own box/hoop. Turn
the number on the piece of paper over and look through your pompoms to see
who got that number and is the winner!
Practise your Number bonds to 10 and have a sing at the same time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9tjBUiXs0
BAKE!! This is your excuse to make some cakes or bread or both (let’s face it, the
lockdown diet is one of a kind!) Encourage your child to measure out the
ingredients, equally share the decorations and possibly make a pattern?
Alternatively, you could do this to make playdough. Below is the recipe I always
use:
Watch an episode of Numberblocks, eat your cakes and relax! You’re doing such
a great job! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks
Ingredients:
2 cups plain flour (all purpose)
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (baby oil and coconut oil work too)
1/2 cup salt
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
1 to 1.5 cups boiling water (adding in increments until it feels just right)
gel food colouring (optional)
Few drops glycerine (my secret ingredient for stretch and shine!)
Method:
Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl
Add food colouring TO the boiling water then into the dry ingredients
Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough
Add the glycerine (optional)
Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it vigorously for
a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most
important part of the process, so keep at it until it’s the perfect consistency!*
If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right.