Week beginning 21st March 2022.

English activities - 

Watch the video of the Ugly Duckling story from You Tube:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyrmcD8Ym10&t=255s

Talk about the story & talk about what might happen next to the swans.

Task - Can you write a new ending to the story telling us what happened next to the swans?

Where did they go? What did they see? What did they do?

Remember to use your phonics and to sound out all by yourself.

Maths Activities - 

Use the powerpoint to teach about Long & short.

Look at objects around the house can you find 3 objects and put them in order longest to shortest?

Now complete the long and short home challenge.

Use the powerpoint to teach about tall & short.

Compare your teddies/ toys. Can you order them longest to shortest?

Now compare the people who live in your house, can you order everyone from longest to shortest?

Complete the tallest and shortest challenge.

Phonics activities.

Please select the plan for your child's phonic group.

The powerpoints below will support recapping previous sounds.

Mrs Olverson's group can access Phase 2 sounds.

Elm and Ash groups can access Phase 3 sounds.

The tricky word powerpoint will support word recognition.

Week beginning 17th Jan

There are more structured daily tasks on here to keep your children learning whilst they are at home. The daily activities can be found below and are intended to be done in short bursts of 15-20 mins. In school we do short activities and then physical breaks as the children cannot concentrate for long periods of time. Please do not do a whole day of maths, writing or phonics, mix up the different activities as this is what the children are used to in school. Most of all make the learning fun and enjoyable, learning should be very practical and engaging at this age!

If you are unable to complete the tasks for any reason please just let us know, please don't worry if you cannot complete all the tasks.

Don't forget to upload completed tasks onto your child's Class Dojo account. We have set the account so you can upload just a photograph.

Thank you for your support.

Suggested timetable for EYFS.

Please see individual plans for each activity.

For the Topic activities this week we will be using a website called Espresso from Discovery education. We have put the link, username and password on Class Dojo stories.

This website has lots of games, videos and activities on it. There is a great section all about Chinese New Year under the Foundation, Understanding the world section.

For the English and Topic activities this week we will be using a website called Espresso from Discovery education. We have put the link, username and password on Class Dojo stories.

This website has lots of games, videos and activities on it. There is a great section all about Chinese New Year under the Foundation, Understanding the world section.

Week 4 - Home learning 25th January 2021.

Week 2 Home learning. 11th January 2021.

Reading ideas

• Log onto Oxford Owls – you will need to create a Parent account.
• There are lots of books on there that the children have not read but please ensure you check the stage of book & only read the books from the stage your child is at. They may read books from a previous stage but if you go above that stage they may not have the phonic skills to be able to decode & read the books.
• Please choose 2 books for this week to read as we would do in school.
•  We would suggest that you begin reading from the Stage 1.
• None of the children should be reading books above Stage 1+.

Writing tasks.

Top tips for writing with your child..

• Draw lines to help your child focus their writing and letter formation.
• Encourage correct pencil grip.
• Ask your child what they want to write. You repeat it back to them and then both say it again.
• Allow your child to sound out for themselves & only support them to sound out if they need encouragement. We would not expect the children to be using “ea” for read, it would be written reed. Day would be dai, fly would be fligh.
• Don’t worry if they miss some of the middle sounds, developmentally children will hear the initial and final sounds before they hear the middle sounds.
• Keep repeating the sentence back to your child to help them remember what to write next.
• Encourage your child to read back what they have written so far so they can keep track of where they are up to.
• Give them lots of praise & encouragement.

Phonics practise.

• Use your child’s phonics homework book & check which sounds they have learnt so far.
• Practise writing those sounds and write a simple 3  letter word to go with that sound            eg s- sit, b - bat, m - mum
• Practise reading & writing Tricky words – Phase 2 words - I, no, go, to, the & into.
• They must be able to read the tricky words by themselves & begin to write them too.

Online games to play.

www.topmarks.co.uk

Early Years section

• Shape patterns
• Shape monsters
• Underwater Counting
• Ladybird spots
• Gingerbread man game
• Toy shop money game

• Phonics bloom – phase 2 & phase 3 games.

• Washing line rhyme.

• Slides (final sounds in words)

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Go to the free play section or enter Username march20 and Password home. This should enable you to access all games for free.

Play phase 2 or Phase 3 games.

www.numberjacks.co.uk/kids/

You will have to log in to create an account but there are lots of games on there.

www.sparklebox.co.uk

Lots of free phonics & maths worksheets but these will need to be printed.

Online Safeguarding for parents

We want everyone to keep safe during this time. Please can you continue to be mindful of your child’s use of the internet, especially of any social media apps and support them safely in keeping in touch digitally with their friends. Please encourage them to think about online safety rules as they learn and lots of these links can be found on our school website.

Links to Online Safeguarding Site:

• https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
• https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/
• https://nationalonlinesafety.com/
• https://www.internetmatters.org/

We hope that you find this information useful and informative. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or queries through the Class Dojo messaging.

These will be checked frequently Monday – Friday  but please be patient for a reply as we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Don't forget to upload completed work onto your child's Class Dojo account for us to see.