Nursery (FS1) COVID-19 Provision (Summer '20)
|
|
"Children in Nursery and Reception make good progress because their learning is exciting and their welfare assured."
Ofsted May 2009
School Closure Provision:
As we begin what would have been the Summer Term, we wanted to write and let you know some more information about how we intend to move forward with finding that all important balance of ‘home-learning’ and ‘being at home’.
We have spent some time working out how best to do this and the staff are now going to be updating the Class Pages on our school website with suggested tasks, activities, videos and/or links to learning every week. These will be available from the Monday morning and are for you to access and complete when, and as, it suits. We are conscious that many of you are trying to balance working from home with caring for your children and so have deliberately chosen not to propose a rigid timetable or expectations of when work should be done. This, hopefully, provides you with the flexibility to respond to your child/ren’s needs and wants, as well as fitting around your work, and will ensure that no-one feels pressured or anxious about how much or how little they are doing at home.
As we begin what would have been the Summer Term, we wanted to write and let you know some more information about how we intend to move forward with finding that all important balance of ‘home-learning’ and ‘being at home’.
We have spent some time working out how best to do this and the staff are now going to be updating the Class Pages on our school website with suggested tasks, activities, videos and/or links to learning every week. These will be available from the Monday morning and are for you to access and complete when, and as, it suits. We are conscious that many of you are trying to balance working from home with caring for your children and so have deliberately chosen not to propose a rigid timetable or expectations of when work should be done. This, hopefully, provides you with the flexibility to respond to your child/ren’s needs and wants, as well as fitting around your work, and will ensure that no-one feels pressured or anxious about how much or how little they are doing at home.
06 & 13/07/2020
A message from Mrs Durkin, Mrs Holder & Mrs Flint
I hope that you’ve had a chance to have a go at some of the activities I have put on this page over the last few weeks. And I hope that you’ve had fun doing them! If there are any you haven’t tried, they are still available below. It would be especially useful to have a look at the phonics in preparation for Reception class.
For the last 2 weeks of term I’ve found some summer themed activities that I hope you’ll enjoy. Let’s hope the sun shines on Hampton, especially as many of us won’t be going away on holiday this year! It will be so good to see you all in September; in the meantime, I hope you all have a great summer!
Mrs Durkin, Mrs Holder and Mrs Flint
Have a read of our 'Letter to you for the start of the Summer term' by clicking here.
A message from Mrs Durkin, Mrs Holder & Mrs Flint
I hope that you’ve had a chance to have a go at some of the activities I have put on this page over the last few weeks. And I hope that you’ve had fun doing them! If there are any you haven’t tried, they are still available below. It would be especially useful to have a look at the phonics in preparation for Reception class.
For the last 2 weeks of term I’ve found some summer themed activities that I hope you’ll enjoy. Let’s hope the sun shines on Hampton, especially as many of us won’t be going away on holiday this year! It will be so good to see you all in September; in the meantime, I hope you all have a great summer!
Mrs Durkin, Mrs Holder and Mrs Flint
Have a read of our 'Letter to you for the start of the Summer term' by clicking here.
Mrs Durkin
|
Mrs Holder
|
Mrs Flint
|
Two extra extra-special messages this week, in video form - click on the videos below to watch...
|
NURSERY MESSAGE
|
STAFF MESSAGE
|
Nursery Discussion Board/Blog
For the Discussion board, click on this link to go to the new page set up specifically for you to comment, ask questions and keep in touch with each other and Mrs Durkin, Mrs Holder & Mrs Flint or you can access it directly from the menu bar at the top of the page, using the drop down menus.
Please remember our class rules and be respectful and use it in a positive way.
At this point, all comments will be checked and approved before appearing on the website.
For the Discussion board, click on this link to go to the new page set up specifically for you to comment, ask questions and keep in touch with each other and Mrs Durkin, Mrs Holder & Mrs Flint or you can access it directly from the menu bar at the top of the page, using the drop down menus.
Please remember our class rules and be respectful and use it in a positive way.
At this point, all comments will be checked and approved before appearing on the website.
Additional Information about Reception Induction – September 2020
Children will return to Nursery for sessions on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th September (8.50 am to 12 noon).
Children will attend Reception Class on EITHER Monday 7th September if your surname begins with A to J or Tuesday 8th September for children with surnames from K to Z for a small group session.
These sessions will run from 8.50 am to 1.30 pm. School dinners will be available or children may bring a packed lunch.
On Wednesday 9th September, ALL children will attend from 8.50 am to 1.30 pm.
From Thursday 10th September onwards, ALL children will attend on a full-time basis (8.50 am to 3.10 pm).
Children will return to Nursery for sessions on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th September (8.50 am to 12 noon).
Children will attend Reception Class on EITHER Monday 7th September if your surname begins with A to J or Tuesday 8th September for children with surnames from K to Z for a small group session.
These sessions will run from 8.50 am to 1.30 pm. School dinners will be available or children may bring a packed lunch.
On Wednesday 9th September, ALL children will attend from 8.50 am to 1.30 pm.
From Thursday 10th September onwards, ALL children will attend on a full-time basis (8.50 am to 3.10 pm).
Weeks Sixteen & Seventeen (06 & 13/07/2020)
End of term
Throughout the past 4 weeks, since welcoming children back into school, staff have continued to provide learning activities/opportunities for all children working at home, despite also working full time in class with those in school. Further to the letter on the home page of the website, from Mrs Gaughan, we just wanted to re-itterate that, as we move into the last two weeks of the Summer term, the level of work provided via the website will be reduced to reflect the increase in workload for all staff working in school - this includes (but is not limited to) assessments, children's reports and preparations for the full return of all children in September. We know that you will understand this and thank you for your on-going support.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Summer Themed Activities
There are a variety of summer-themed activities below:
Creative activities:
Design your own sunglasses
Sunflower craft activity
Summer colouring sheets
Paper plate sun
Ice-cream craft activity
Pinwheel Template
Games:
Seaside bingo (3 files: picture boards, picture lotto cards, picture word cards)
Summer pairs matching game
Summer spot the difference
Summer I-spy
Maths:
Seaside counting to 10 booklet
Summer colour-by-number
Summer Counting
2D shape hunt
Summer number dot-to-dot
Fine motor skills:
Summer pencil control
Summer follow the path
Cooking:
Ice-Lollies recipe ideas
Transition Activities
If you have time, you might like to complete these activities to prepare for returning to school next term. If you can, please bring them into school in September - Mrs Brown and I would love to see what you have done!
Getting Ready Challenges
Parents’ guide to preparing for Reception
Starting school checklist
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
Now that we’ve learnt quite a few phonemes (sounds), we need to practise blending them into simple words. This video demonstrates how to do this using sounds we have already learnt. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rejiMU6a44)
End of term
Throughout the past 4 weeks, since welcoming children back into school, staff have continued to provide learning activities/opportunities for all children working at home, despite also working full time in class with those in school. Further to the letter on the home page of the website, from Mrs Gaughan, we just wanted to re-itterate that, as we move into the last two weeks of the Summer term, the level of work provided via the website will be reduced to reflect the increase in workload for all staff working in school - this includes (but is not limited to) assessments, children's reports and preparations for the full return of all children in September. We know that you will understand this and thank you for your on-going support.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Summer Themed Activities
There are a variety of summer-themed activities below:
Creative activities:
Design your own sunglasses
Sunflower craft activity
Summer colouring sheets
Paper plate sun
Ice-cream craft activity
Pinwheel Template
Games:
Seaside bingo (3 files: picture boards, picture lotto cards, picture word cards)
Summer pairs matching game
Summer spot the difference
Summer I-spy
Maths:
Seaside counting to 10 booklet
Summer colour-by-number
Summer Counting
2D shape hunt
Summer number dot-to-dot
Fine motor skills:
Summer pencil control
Summer follow the path
Cooking:
Ice-Lollies recipe ideas
Transition Activities
If you have time, you might like to complete these activities to prepare for returning to school next term. If you can, please bring them into school in September - Mrs Brown and I would love to see what you have done!
Getting Ready Challenges
Parents’ guide to preparing for Reception
Starting school checklist
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
Now that we’ve learnt quite a few phonemes (sounds), we need to practise blending them into simple words. This video demonstrates how to do this using sounds we have already learnt. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rejiMU6a44)
Physical Development
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week we want you to get involved with the South Solihull Sports Partnership ‘Olyp-mix.’ The CSW Virtual Olymp-Mix starts Monday 29th June for 2 weeks (ending on Friday, 10th July).
Watch the CSW SGO launch video here - https://youtu.be/s-RSVM64l70
Click on the link below to find out what you have to do. Don't forget to go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CSWVirtualOlympics to enter your results.
This is your chance to compete against pupils from other local schools. It would be great to see you get involved. You don’t have to take photos, though you can if you want. Just click the survey monkey link on the last page to enter your results. To win you don’t have to get the highest scores – just the highest % of pupils entering. Come on George Fentham, you can do it!!!!
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week we want you to get involved with the South Solihull Sports Partnership ‘Olyp-mix.’ The CSW Virtual Olymp-Mix starts Monday 29th June for 2 weeks (ending on Friday, 10th July).
Watch the CSW SGO launch video here - https://youtu.be/s-RSVM64l70
Click on the link below to find out what you have to do. Don't forget to go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CSWVirtualOlympics to enter your results.
This is your chance to compete against pupils from other local schools. It would be great to see you get involved. You don’t have to take photos, though you can if you want. Just click the survey monkey link on the last page to enter your results. To win you don’t have to get the highest scores – just the highest % of pupils entering. Come on George Fentham, you can do it!!!!
Week Fifteen (29/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
I would like you to practise counting. Can you count backwards from 10 as if you’re launching a rocket! Can you count all the way up to 20? You could use these activities to help you become familiar with numbers 11 to 15 (All about 11, All about 12, All about 13, All about 14, All about 15). There are some farm animals missing on this sheet, can you find them and stick them in to fill the gaps? (Farm missing numbers). If you manage that, you could try putting these delicious looking ice-lollies in the correct order (2 files: Summer number ordering to 10, summer number ordering to 20).
Literacy
I have been thinking about animals in summer weather and wondering whether they like hot, sunny days as much as I do; my cat likes to find shady places to snooze. So this week I’d like you to listen to a great story about a pig and what he did on a sunny day. The book is ‘The Pig in the Pond’ by Martin Waddell. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TSu9rSCxlc). Would you have liked to splash in a pond like the pig on some of the hot days we’ve had lately? Perhaps you are lucky enough to have a paddling pool!
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘l’ for ‘lion’. We try to pronounce this ‘lll’ rather than ‘luh’. This is the ‘pure’ sound and is easier to blend into words (see below).
Can you find some objects around the house beginning with ‘l’? There’s an activity booklet here: ‘L workbook’.
To make the action for ‘l’, you need turn your hands into great big paws (with sharp claws!) and hold them up.
The song (to the tune ‘If you’re happy and you know it’) goes like this:
There’s a lazy little lion in the sun (x2)
There’s a lazy little lion (x2)
There’s a lazy little lion in the sun.
Now that we’ve learnt quite a few phonemes (sounds), we need to practise blending them into simple words. This video demonstrates how to do this using sounds we have already learnt. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rejiMU6a44)
Understanding the World
On the farm, the animals all have their special homes. Some of them live in fields but many of them have a barn, hutch or stable of some type where they can eat and sleep. You can find out more here: (Farm Animal homes). Can you match these animals to their homes? (Animal homes matching). You could test your knowledge about farm animals with this guessing game (Farm What am I?). This powerpoint works best when you play it as a slideshow; the clues will appear one at a time!
Expressive Arts and Design (Carried on from last week)
You may have a toy farm at home with lots of animals and farm buildings to play with but you can design your own farm using some pictures (Farm Cut-outs). You’ll need a big piece of paper or you could print these sheets (Farm poster).
You could also try these colour-by-number farm pictures. You will need to count the number of dots on each section of the picture and then look on the side of the sheet to see what colour you need to use. (Farm colour by number).
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
I would like you to practise counting. Can you count backwards from 10 as if you’re launching a rocket! Can you count all the way up to 20? You could use these activities to help you become familiar with numbers 11 to 15 (All about 11, All about 12, All about 13, All about 14, All about 15). There are some farm animals missing on this sheet, can you find them and stick them in to fill the gaps? (Farm missing numbers). If you manage that, you could try putting these delicious looking ice-lollies in the correct order (2 files: Summer number ordering to 10, summer number ordering to 20).
Literacy
I have been thinking about animals in summer weather and wondering whether they like hot, sunny days as much as I do; my cat likes to find shady places to snooze. So this week I’d like you to listen to a great story about a pig and what he did on a sunny day. The book is ‘The Pig in the Pond’ by Martin Waddell. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TSu9rSCxlc). Would you have liked to splash in a pond like the pig on some of the hot days we’ve had lately? Perhaps you are lucky enough to have a paddling pool!
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘l’ for ‘lion’. We try to pronounce this ‘lll’ rather than ‘luh’. This is the ‘pure’ sound and is easier to blend into words (see below).
Can you find some objects around the house beginning with ‘l’? There’s an activity booklet here: ‘L workbook’.
To make the action for ‘l’, you need turn your hands into great big paws (with sharp claws!) and hold them up.
The song (to the tune ‘If you’re happy and you know it’) goes like this:
There’s a lazy little lion in the sun (x2)
There’s a lazy little lion (x2)
There’s a lazy little lion in the sun.
Now that we’ve learnt quite a few phonemes (sounds), we need to practise blending them into simple words. This video demonstrates how to do this using sounds we have already learnt. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rejiMU6a44)
Understanding the World
On the farm, the animals all have their special homes. Some of them live in fields but many of them have a barn, hutch or stable of some type where they can eat and sleep. You can find out more here: (Farm Animal homes). Can you match these animals to their homes? (Animal homes matching). You could test your knowledge about farm animals with this guessing game (Farm What am I?). This powerpoint works best when you play it as a slideshow; the clues will appear one at a time!
Expressive Arts and Design (Carried on from last week)
You may have a toy farm at home with lots of animals and farm buildings to play with but you can design your own farm using some pictures (Farm Cut-outs). You’ll need a big piece of paper or you could print these sheets (Farm poster).
You could also try these colour-by-number farm pictures. You will need to count the number of dots on each section of the picture and then look on the side of the sheet to see what colour you need to use. (Farm colour by number).
Physical Development
As well as doing lots of sports activities, it’s a good idea to do lots of things to help your fingers and hands develop really good control. You could make farm animals using playdough or clay if you have some.
You could also practise holding and controlling a pencil. You could use these letter outlines and practise forming letters correctly. If you use several different colours to do each letter, you’ll create a lovely rainbow effect. Try to follow the arrows! (Large Tracing Letters)
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week we want you to get involved with the South Solihull Sports Partnership ‘Olyp-mix.’ The CSW Virtual Olymp-Mix starts Monday 29th June. Watch the CSW SGO launch video here - https://youtu.be/s-RSVM64l70
Click on the link below to find out what you have to do. Don't forget to go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CSWVirtualOlympics to enter your results.
This is your chance to compete against pupils from other local schools. It would be great to see you get involved. You don’t have to take photos, though you can if you want. Just click the survey monkey link on the last page to enter your results. To win you don’t have to get the highest scores – just the highest % of pupils entering. Come on George Fentham, you can do it!!!!
As well as doing lots of sports activities, it’s a good idea to do lots of things to help your fingers and hands develop really good control. You could make farm animals using playdough or clay if you have some.
You could also practise holding and controlling a pencil. You could use these letter outlines and practise forming letters correctly. If you use several different colours to do each letter, you’ll create a lovely rainbow effect. Try to follow the arrows! (Large Tracing Letters)
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week we want you to get involved with the South Solihull Sports Partnership ‘Olyp-mix.’ The CSW Virtual Olymp-Mix starts Monday 29th June. Watch the CSW SGO launch video here - https://youtu.be/s-RSVM64l70
Click on the link below to find out what you have to do. Don't forget to go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CSWVirtualOlympics to enter your results.
This is your chance to compete against pupils from other local schools. It would be great to see you get involved. You don’t have to take photos, though you can if you want. Just click the survey monkey link on the last page to enter your results. To win you don’t have to get the highest scores – just the highest % of pupils entering. Come on George Fentham, you can do it!!!!
Week Fourteen (22/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
So many interesting things happen on farms! I have found some more farm-related activities for you to do this week.
I hope you enjoy having a go. I would love to hear how you get on; you could use the Nursery discussion board to let me know.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Physical Development
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
It is GEORGE FENTHAM VIRTUAL SPORTS DAY week. Make sure you click onto the main PE provision page to find out how to get involved. We are going to have a school competition and send out certificates to the class that completes the most challenges. So come on Nursery, let's win the George Fentham Virtual Sports Day!!!!
Maths
This week we’re going to make some patterns. We have done this in the classroom with beads and pieces of pasta and now I have found some farm pictures that you can cut out and put into the correct place to continue the pattern. Some of the patterns just need two pictures and they take turns to make an alternating pattern, but some of them use 3 different pictures and are a little more complicated; you will have to look very carefully! (Farm pattern activity).
You could see if you can complete shape patterns using this train game (www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns). You could also make a virtual necklace using the String of Beads activity on this site (www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html).
Literacy
One of my favourite books about farm animals is about a very hardworking duck. It’s called Farmer Duck; there’s a lovely animated version of the story here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gug6P8l1q6c). When you’ve seen it, perhaps you could try using these pictures to retell the story in the correct order (Farmer duck sequencing pictures). What jobs did the duck do on the farm? What did the farmer do? What do you think of the farmer? What did the animals do to help the duck?
There’s another story here about someone who helps out on the farm. This time it’s a girl called Jaz, who loves helping her Grandad. (Grandad’s Farm story).
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘f’ for ‘fish’.
Can you find some objects around the house beginning with ‘f’? There’s an activity sheet here: ‘f’ activity sheet.
To make the action for ‘f’, you need to put your palms together and wiggle them like a fish!
The song (to the tune Here we go round the Mulberry Bush) goes like this:
Here comes a fish, he’s swimming fast,
f/fish, swimming fast,
Here comes a fish, he’s swimming fast,
See his find in the water.
You could also practise matching phonemes (sounds) to the graphemes (letters) they begin with using this jigsaw (Phoneme jigsaw).
Understanding the World
On farms in the spring, lots of young animals are born. Can you match the babies to their mothers? Do you know what each young animal is called? I wonder if you can find the one that sounds like it’s a child and not an animal! (Young farm animals activity).
Expressive Arts and Design
You may have a toy farm at home with lots of animals and farm buildings to play with but you can design your own farm using some pictures (Farm Cut-outs). You’ll need a big piece of paper or you could print these sheets (Farm poster).
You could also try these colour-by-number farm pictures. You will need to count the number of dots on each section of the picture and then look on the side of the sheet to see what colour you need to use. (Farm colour by number).
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
So many interesting things happen on farms! I have found some more farm-related activities for you to do this week.
I hope you enjoy having a go. I would love to hear how you get on; you could use the Nursery discussion board to let me know.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Physical Development
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
It is GEORGE FENTHAM VIRTUAL SPORTS DAY week. Make sure you click onto the main PE provision page to find out how to get involved. We are going to have a school competition and send out certificates to the class that completes the most challenges. So come on Nursery, let's win the George Fentham Virtual Sports Day!!!!
Maths
This week we’re going to make some patterns. We have done this in the classroom with beads and pieces of pasta and now I have found some farm pictures that you can cut out and put into the correct place to continue the pattern. Some of the patterns just need two pictures and they take turns to make an alternating pattern, but some of them use 3 different pictures and are a little more complicated; you will have to look very carefully! (Farm pattern activity).
You could see if you can complete shape patterns using this train game (www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns). You could also make a virtual necklace using the String of Beads activity on this site (www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html).
Literacy
One of my favourite books about farm animals is about a very hardworking duck. It’s called Farmer Duck; there’s a lovely animated version of the story here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gug6P8l1q6c). When you’ve seen it, perhaps you could try using these pictures to retell the story in the correct order (Farmer duck sequencing pictures). What jobs did the duck do on the farm? What did the farmer do? What do you think of the farmer? What did the animals do to help the duck?
There’s another story here about someone who helps out on the farm. This time it’s a girl called Jaz, who loves helping her Grandad. (Grandad’s Farm story).
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘f’ for ‘fish’.
Can you find some objects around the house beginning with ‘f’? There’s an activity sheet here: ‘f’ activity sheet.
To make the action for ‘f’, you need to put your palms together and wiggle them like a fish!
The song (to the tune Here we go round the Mulberry Bush) goes like this:
Here comes a fish, he’s swimming fast,
f/fish, swimming fast,
Here comes a fish, he’s swimming fast,
See his find in the water.
You could also practise matching phonemes (sounds) to the graphemes (letters) they begin with using this jigsaw (Phoneme jigsaw).
Understanding the World
On farms in the spring, lots of young animals are born. Can you match the babies to their mothers? Do you know what each young animal is called? I wonder if you can find the one that sounds like it’s a child and not an animal! (Young farm animals activity).
Expressive Arts and Design
You may have a toy farm at home with lots of animals and farm buildings to play with but you can design your own farm using some pictures (Farm Cut-outs). You’ll need a big piece of paper or you could print these sheets (Farm poster).
You could also try these colour-by-number farm pictures. You will need to count the number of dots on each section of the picture and then look on the side of the sheet to see what colour you need to use. (Farm colour by number).
Week Thirteen (15/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
This week we’re going to think about the animals that live on a farm. I know several of you are already very knowledgeable and have family who are farmers; I hope you’ll enjoy doing some of the activities below.
It’s such a shame that we won’t be visiting Umberslade Farm this week as I had planned however, I hope you’ll enjoy watching the CBeebies series, ‘Down on the Farm’ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b0798kz4/down-on-the-farm.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
This week we’re going to think about the animals that live on a farm. I know several of you are already very knowledgeable and have family who are farmers; I hope you’ll enjoy doing some of the activities below.
It’s such a shame that we won’t be visiting Umberslade Farm this week as I had planned however, I hope you’ll enjoy watching the CBeebies series, ‘Down on the Farm’ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b0798kz4/down-on-the-farm.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we’re going to do some measuring. You can watch this video clip to see how to measure and compare items of different length and height www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIQg8e0erEE. You could now try using some lego or duplo bricks to measure the length or height of some of your toys. You might find that you need 9 duplo bricks to make a tower the same height as a teddy but only 4 for a tower equal to a toy car.
Try putting these farm animal pictures in size order (Farm size ordering) and measuring their height with lego bricks. Do you need more bricks for the largest or for the smallest?
To recap on last week’s work on position look at this activity (2 files: Farm positional language, Positions activity instructions).
Literacy
So many fabulous books are set on the farm. I expect you have some at home – perhaps you can find and reread them.
I’ve found a great story set on a farm that I think you’ll enjoy listening to called, ‘The Grumpy Morning’ – you can find it here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8gSVYqdoDE). Can you remember all the animals in the story? How are they feeling? How is the farmer feeling? What do you think happens the next morning?
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘b’ for ‘bone’.
Can you find some objects around the house beginning with ‘b’? There’s an activity sheet here: ‘b’ activity sheet.
To make the action for ‘b’, you need to imagine you’re a dog begging with a bone in your mouth!
The song (to the tune The Farmer’s in his Den) goes like this:
The dog barks for his bone (repeat)
b/b/b/b/b
The dog barks for his bone.
You could also practise blending these sounds into words using this powerpoint (Phonics cvc blending).
Understanding the World
Farmers are busy all year round, looking after the animals and growing the crops that provide our food. Find out more about what happens on a farm in this powerpoint: Animals on the farm. There’s a fun game where you can try being a farmer and see what happens through the year on the farm
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/down-on-the-farm-a-year-on-your-farm.
Expressive Arts and Design
Why don’t you make a picture of your favourite farm animal using paint, crayons, felt-pens or you could collage using glue to stick pieces of paper or fabric.
There are lots of great songs about farm animals. I particularly like this one; have a listen and see if you can join in! (www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0bcNQJXb6s) You’ll find the tune is familiar!
Now I know lots of you are great dancers so I thought you might enjoy joining in with these funny animal dances (www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSA5PvcV0_k). The sheep is my favourite!
You could also make some farm animal stick puppets by cutting and sticking these pictures onto card and then attaching a small stick or a pencil would work too (farm stick puppets).
Physical Development
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week’s virtual games challenge is BASKETBALL and we would really like you to get involved. This link BASKETBALL CHALLENGE shows you what to do and how to enter. You will also find this information on the PE Provision during COVID 19 page at the top of the main school home page.
Come on you can do it! We’d love to see your name on the weekly championship table!!!
This week we’re going to do some measuring. You can watch this video clip to see how to measure and compare items of different length and height www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIQg8e0erEE. You could now try using some lego or duplo bricks to measure the length or height of some of your toys. You might find that you need 9 duplo bricks to make a tower the same height as a teddy but only 4 for a tower equal to a toy car.
Try putting these farm animal pictures in size order (Farm size ordering) and measuring their height with lego bricks. Do you need more bricks for the largest or for the smallest?
To recap on last week’s work on position look at this activity (2 files: Farm positional language, Positions activity instructions).
Literacy
So many fabulous books are set on the farm. I expect you have some at home – perhaps you can find and reread them.
I’ve found a great story set on a farm that I think you’ll enjoy listening to called, ‘The Grumpy Morning’ – you can find it here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8gSVYqdoDE). Can you remember all the animals in the story? How are they feeling? How is the farmer feeling? What do you think happens the next morning?
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘b’ for ‘bone’.
Can you find some objects around the house beginning with ‘b’? There’s an activity sheet here: ‘b’ activity sheet.
To make the action for ‘b’, you need to imagine you’re a dog begging with a bone in your mouth!
The song (to the tune The Farmer’s in his Den) goes like this:
The dog barks for his bone (repeat)
b/b/b/b/b
The dog barks for his bone.
You could also practise blending these sounds into words using this powerpoint (Phonics cvc blending).
Understanding the World
Farmers are busy all year round, looking after the animals and growing the crops that provide our food. Find out more about what happens on a farm in this powerpoint: Animals on the farm. There’s a fun game where you can try being a farmer and see what happens through the year on the farm
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/down-on-the-farm-a-year-on-your-farm.
Expressive Arts and Design
Why don’t you make a picture of your favourite farm animal using paint, crayons, felt-pens or you could collage using glue to stick pieces of paper or fabric.
There are lots of great songs about farm animals. I particularly like this one; have a listen and see if you can join in! (www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0bcNQJXb6s) You’ll find the tune is familiar!
Now I know lots of you are great dancers so I thought you might enjoy joining in with these funny animal dances (www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSA5PvcV0_k). The sheep is my favourite!
You could also make some farm animal stick puppets by cutting and sticking these pictures onto card and then attaching a small stick or a pencil would work too (farm stick puppets).
Physical Development
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week’s virtual games challenge is BASKETBALL and we would really like you to get involved. This link BASKETBALL CHALLENGE shows you what to do and how to enter. You will also find this information on the PE Provision during COVID 19 page at the top of the main school home page.
Come on you can do it! We’d love to see your name on the weekly championship table!!!
Week Twelve (08/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Our new learning theme is: Amazing Animals! This is a great opportunity to find out about some of the fabulous creatures that we share our planet with. We’re starting with animals we share our home with: pets. I know that many of you have a much-loved dog, cat, hamster or some other animal that you care for. If not, I’m sure you have family or friends who own pets; maybe you can talk to them and find out about their animals.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Our new learning theme is: Amazing Animals! This is a great opportunity to find out about some of the fabulous creatures that we share our planet with. We’re starting with animals we share our home with: pets. I know that many of you have a much-loved dog, cat, hamster or some other animal that you care for. If not, I’m sure you have family or friends who own pets; maybe you can talk to them and find out about their animals.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week I’d like you to practise using language to describe position: in, on, under, in front, behind, next to etc. Can you describe where the puppy is in these pictures? (Puppy positional language) Now for some counting and number recognition! Mrs Rabbit needs your help counting her little ones (Helping Mrs Rabbit). You can also practise your counting skills and make your own number book (Pet counting booklet). You’ll need your good noticing skills to do this I-spy adding activity (2 files: Pets I-spy count to 10, Pets I-spy count to 10 checklist).
Literacy
There’s a lovely story about a very unusual pet: a chameleon! You can listen to Miss Patsy read ‘My Colourful Chameleon’ here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=khonE1hGNn4).
Can you remember all the chameleon’s hiding places? How did the chameleon hide so well? Can you remember the word for being able to match your surroundings like a chameleon? Miss Patsy asks some other interesting questions you can consider at the end of the story.
Perhaps you could draw a picture of a chameleon – don’t forget to make it very colourful! Can you label the colours you’ve used red, blue, green, pink etc using the initial letter of each word.
There’s an activity featuring pets you can try to practise holding and controlling a pencil (pet pencil control activity).
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘h’.
Can you think of a pet beginning with ‘h’? Practise finding items beginning with ‘h’ here: (h activity sheet).
To make the action for ‘h’, you need to mime putting on a hat!
The song (to the tune The Wheels on the Bus) goes like this:
You’re in the sun, put on your hat
h/h/hat, h/h/hat (repeat).
You can also play this fun game featuring lots of pets to practise rhyming (pet rhyming pairs). There’s another game here (2 files: pet lotto pictures, pet lotto words). For this you need to match the words to the pictures. Look carefully at the words and try to spot familiar initial sounds. You should find some simple words that you can sound out in full such as c-a-t!
Understanding the World
You could listen to the CBeebies radio show ‘My Pet and Me’ (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/my-pet-and-me). There are some interesting programmes about all kinds of pets.
Expressive Arts and Design
I have found a lovely variation of a familiar favourite song ‘Old MacDonald’. In this version, Old MacDonald is a vet, looking after pets! (Old MacDonald’s vet’s song)
There are some great craft activities you could do too: how about making a pet from card (Pet cone-making activity) or a pet that can move it’s arms and legs! (Split-pin pets).
This week I’d like you to practise using language to describe position: in, on, under, in front, behind, next to etc. Can you describe where the puppy is in these pictures? (Puppy positional language) Now for some counting and number recognition! Mrs Rabbit needs your help counting her little ones (Helping Mrs Rabbit). You can also practise your counting skills and make your own number book (Pet counting booklet). You’ll need your good noticing skills to do this I-spy adding activity (2 files: Pets I-spy count to 10, Pets I-spy count to 10 checklist).
Literacy
There’s a lovely story about a very unusual pet: a chameleon! You can listen to Miss Patsy read ‘My Colourful Chameleon’ here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=khonE1hGNn4).
Can you remember all the chameleon’s hiding places? How did the chameleon hide so well? Can you remember the word for being able to match your surroundings like a chameleon? Miss Patsy asks some other interesting questions you can consider at the end of the story.
Perhaps you could draw a picture of a chameleon – don’t forget to make it very colourful! Can you label the colours you’ve used red, blue, green, pink etc using the initial letter of each word.
There’s an activity featuring pets you can try to practise holding and controlling a pencil (pet pencil control activity).
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘h’.
Can you think of a pet beginning with ‘h’? Practise finding items beginning with ‘h’ here: (h activity sheet).
To make the action for ‘h’, you need to mime putting on a hat!
The song (to the tune The Wheels on the Bus) goes like this:
You’re in the sun, put on your hat
h/h/hat, h/h/hat (repeat).
You can also play this fun game featuring lots of pets to practise rhyming (pet rhyming pairs). There’s another game here (2 files: pet lotto pictures, pet lotto words). For this you need to match the words to the pictures. Look carefully at the words and try to spot familiar initial sounds. You should find some simple words that you can sound out in full such as c-a-t!
Understanding the World
You could listen to the CBeebies radio show ‘My Pet and Me’ (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/my-pet-and-me). There are some interesting programmes about all kinds of pets.
Expressive Arts and Design
I have found a lovely variation of a familiar favourite song ‘Old MacDonald’. In this version, Old MacDonald is a vet, looking after pets! (Old MacDonald’s vet’s song)
There are some great craft activities you could do too: how about making a pet from card (Pet cone-making activity) or a pet that can move it’s arms and legs! (Split-pin pets).
Week Eleven (01/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
|
General
Welcome to our new learning theme: Amazing Animals! This is a great opportunity to find out about some of the fabulous creatures that we share our planet with. We’re starting with animals we share our home with: pets. I know that many of you have a much-loved dog, cat, hamster or some other animal that you care for. If not, I’m sure you have family or friends who own pets; maybe you can talk to them and find out about their animals. I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here. Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here. |
|
Maths
You will see in the Literacy section below, that I’m suggesting you read or listen to a great story by Mick Inkpen: The Great Pet Sale. You could find some coins (or print these: coins) and make some price tags (or print these: pet sale price tags) for any toy animals you have. Maybe your family will come and buy a pet at your shop! There are some animal counting sheets here (2 files: pet counting, Great Pet Sale Counting) so you can practise counting and writing the number for the correct quantity. You can also try a simple adding activity using pet pictures (pet addition).
Literacy
You can watch Grandma Fran reading the story, The Great Pet Sale on YouTube here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go6dSfm-g6g). When you’ve heard the story a couple of times, perhaps you can find a family member or a toy to retell the story to, trying to remember all the events in the right order! Think about what kind of pet you’d most like to have and see if you can draw it. Try sounding out its name to label it. There’s a pet picture frame here (Great Pet Sale frame) you might be able to print and use for this.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘r’ – pronounced ‘rrrrr’ like a lion roaring!
Can you think of a pet beginning with ‘r’? Practise finding items beginning with ‘r’ here: (r activity sheet).
To make the action for ‘r’, you need to turn yourself into a rabbit (your hands become the ears!)
The song (to the tune Hickory Dickory Dock) goes like this:
Ronnie the rabbit is grey, He runs around in the hay,
He r/runs, r/runs, Running all over the hay.
There’s a fun Alphablocks activity about a cheeky dog here (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/alphablocks-dog).
This will help you practise blending sounds to make words!
Understanding the World
When we have an animal at home, it’s important to know how to look after it properly. You can look at CBBC’s pet school (www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/pet-school) for some ideas. There are some things that all pets need to be healthy and happy, can you think what they are? You can play a game here (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/my-pet-and-me-game) to look after a kitten or a hamster. There’s a guessing game that will test your noticing skills here (Guess the pet game) and you can match pets to the correct object here (Pet matching activity).
Expressive Arts and Design
Can you make a picture of your favourite pet? It might be your own animal, or you could paint or draw the pet you’d most like to have at home. You could use this digital tool to make a picture (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/my-pet-and-me-make-a-picture). There are some pet dot-to-dot pictures here (pet dot to dot).
You will see in the Literacy section below, that I’m suggesting you read or listen to a great story by Mick Inkpen: The Great Pet Sale. You could find some coins (or print these: coins) and make some price tags (or print these: pet sale price tags) for any toy animals you have. Maybe your family will come and buy a pet at your shop! There are some animal counting sheets here (2 files: pet counting, Great Pet Sale Counting) so you can practise counting and writing the number for the correct quantity. You can also try a simple adding activity using pet pictures (pet addition).
Literacy
You can watch Grandma Fran reading the story, The Great Pet Sale on YouTube here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go6dSfm-g6g). When you’ve heard the story a couple of times, perhaps you can find a family member or a toy to retell the story to, trying to remember all the events in the right order! Think about what kind of pet you’d most like to have and see if you can draw it. Try sounding out its name to label it. There’s a pet picture frame here (Great Pet Sale frame) you might be able to print and use for this.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘r’ – pronounced ‘rrrrr’ like a lion roaring!
Can you think of a pet beginning with ‘r’? Practise finding items beginning with ‘r’ here: (r activity sheet).
To make the action for ‘r’, you need to turn yourself into a rabbit (your hands become the ears!)
The song (to the tune Hickory Dickory Dock) goes like this:
Ronnie the rabbit is grey, He runs around in the hay,
He r/runs, r/runs, Running all over the hay.
There’s a fun Alphablocks activity about a cheeky dog here (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/alphablocks-dog).
This will help you practise blending sounds to make words!
Understanding the World
When we have an animal at home, it’s important to know how to look after it properly. You can look at CBBC’s pet school (www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/pet-school) for some ideas. There are some things that all pets need to be healthy and happy, can you think what they are? You can play a game here (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/my-pet-and-me-game) to look after a kitten or a hamster. There’s a guessing game that will test your noticing skills here (Guess the pet game) and you can match pets to the correct object here (Pet matching activity).
Expressive Arts and Design
Can you make a picture of your favourite pet? It might be your own animal, or you could paint or draw the pet you’d most like to have at home. You could use this digital tool to make a picture (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/my-pet-and-me-make-a-picture). There are some pet dot-to-dot pictures here (pet dot to dot).
Week Ten - Half Term (25/05/2020)
It has been an incredibly hard couple of months for everyone, in whatever capacity, therefore we are not setting any directed work or activities for you over what would have been the half term break. This is a conscious decision to enable you, your parents and the staff to stop, take a break, relax, regroup and refresh before we begin again at the start of June, in whatever format that may take, based on the latest Government guidance.
If you would like to carry on and complete some activities during this time, please scroll back and do some of the activities set previously if you didn't manage them at the time, or you can use some of the wonderful online resources that we signposted for you right at the start of this period - these links are all at the bottom of this page. There is also educational provision being offered through:
- JIGSAW PSHE: A link to the 'Calm Me' audio file that we would use within the classroom to support the children with Mindfulness.
- BBC Bitesize: A range of different resources, lessons and activities aimed at specific age ranges.
- Department for Education recommended online provision list.
- Oak National Academy: An online portal providing virtual lessons (DfE recommended).
- Robin Hood Academy: An academy in our region providing a range of online learning resources and projects.
From Monday, 1st June we will resume posting online resources to support you, and your child/ren, with 'Home Learning', however the format this takes will begin to evolve from that point onwards, to reflect our increasing 'in-school' provision.
Have a good week.
It has been an incredibly hard couple of months for everyone, in whatever capacity, therefore we are not setting any directed work or activities for you over what would have been the half term break. This is a conscious decision to enable you, your parents and the staff to stop, take a break, relax, regroup and refresh before we begin again at the start of June, in whatever format that may take, based on the latest Government guidance.
If you would like to carry on and complete some activities during this time, please scroll back and do some of the activities set previously if you didn't manage them at the time, or you can use some of the wonderful online resources that we signposted for you right at the start of this period - these links are all at the bottom of this page. There is also educational provision being offered through:
- JIGSAW PSHE: A link to the 'Calm Me' audio file that we would use within the classroom to support the children with Mindfulness.
- BBC Bitesize: A range of different resources, lessons and activities aimed at specific age ranges.
- Department for Education recommended online provision list.
- Oak National Academy: An online portal providing virtual lessons (DfE recommended).
- Robin Hood Academy: An academy in our region providing a range of online learning resources and projects.
From Monday, 1st June we will resume posting online resources to support you, and your child/ren, with 'Home Learning', however the format this takes will begin to evolve from that point onwards, to reflect our increasing 'in-school' provision.
Have a good week.
Week Nine (18/05/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
|
General
This half-term we’ve considered the changes that happen as various creatures grow and develop... caterpillars become butterflies, tadpoles turn into frogs, baby birds hatch from eggs. This week we’re going to think about how people change from birth and grow into adults. Have a look at a photo of yourself as a baby - if you can find one - and think about all the things you can do now that you couldn’t do then. You should be able to make quite a long list! What are the things you are most looking forward to doing when you grow into an adult? Maybe you’d like to fly a plane, climb a mountain or learn to play the trumpet! I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here. Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here. |
|
Maths
As we grow from a baby, every part of our body develops and increases in size. Can you draw around your hand and ask your family if you can draw around theirs too? Can you put all the hands into size order starting with the smallest?
Next you could find one shoe that belongs to each member of the household and put them in order too? This time you could start from the largest and go down to the tiniest. Whose is the biggest/smallest? There’s a size ordering activity with shapes you can have a go at here (Shape size ordering) and an activity to compare quantities here (comparing shoes – quantities).
Literacy
There’s a nice story about a little boy called Titch here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8Pg5iwJL4). Titch was desperate to do all the things his big brother and sister can do, but at the end of the story something amazing happens with something very tiny indeed! There’s a similar, but longer animated Titch story here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8Pg5iwJL4.
Can you think about what you’d like do when you grow up? Perhaps you could try drawing and writing about it on this sheet (When I grow up).
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘u’ – as in umbrella/underwear/under.
What can you find at home beginning with ‘u’? Please remember that it is the short vowel sound that we are looking for. Here’s an activity for you (u activity sheet).
To make the action for ‘u’, you need to pretend you’re holding onto an umbrella!
The song (to the tune Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star) goes like this:
U/Umbrella in my hand, rain falls down across the land,
Raining from the clouds up high, underneath I’m warm and dry,
U/Umbrella in my hand, rain falls down across the land.
Here are two games to help you recall phonemes we’ve learnt previously (Initial sounds game 1, Initial sounds game 2)
Understanding the World
We all start life as babies and grow rapidly into toddlers, children, teenagers and finally adults. Find out more about these changes here (growing-up powerpoint). BBC Bitesize has a great video clip all about how humans grow and change (www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z4tmhyc). There’s also a really lovely chance to see how CBeebies’s baby Evangeline developed during her first year of life (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/cbeebies-baby). There’s a stages of growth sequencing activity you could do here (growth sequencing).
Expressive Arts and Design
There’s a fun song with lots of great actions you can learn here (Changing My Size song, Changing my Size audio). You’ll know the tune, it’s ‘If you’re happy and you know it’!
There are some colouring sheets here (growing up colouring).
As we grow from a baby, every part of our body develops and increases in size. Can you draw around your hand and ask your family if you can draw around theirs too? Can you put all the hands into size order starting with the smallest?
Next you could find one shoe that belongs to each member of the household and put them in order too? This time you could start from the largest and go down to the tiniest. Whose is the biggest/smallest? There’s a size ordering activity with shapes you can have a go at here (Shape size ordering) and an activity to compare quantities here (comparing shoes – quantities).
Literacy
There’s a nice story about a little boy called Titch here (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8Pg5iwJL4). Titch was desperate to do all the things his big brother and sister can do, but at the end of the story something amazing happens with something very tiny indeed! There’s a similar, but longer animated Titch story here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8Pg5iwJL4.
Can you think about what you’d like do when you grow up? Perhaps you could try drawing and writing about it on this sheet (When I grow up).
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘u’ – as in umbrella/underwear/under.
What can you find at home beginning with ‘u’? Please remember that it is the short vowel sound that we are looking for. Here’s an activity for you (u activity sheet).
To make the action for ‘u’, you need to pretend you’re holding onto an umbrella!
The song (to the tune Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star) goes like this:
U/Umbrella in my hand, rain falls down across the land,
Raining from the clouds up high, underneath I’m warm and dry,
U/Umbrella in my hand, rain falls down across the land.
Here are two games to help you recall phonemes we’ve learnt previously (Initial sounds game 1, Initial sounds game 2)
Understanding the World
We all start life as babies and grow rapidly into toddlers, children, teenagers and finally adults. Find out more about these changes here (growing-up powerpoint). BBC Bitesize has a great video clip all about how humans grow and change (www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z4tmhyc). There’s also a really lovely chance to see how CBeebies’s baby Evangeline developed during her first year of life (www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/cbeebies-baby). There’s a stages of growth sequencing activity you could do here (growth sequencing).
Expressive Arts and Design
There’s a fun song with lots of great actions you can learn here (Changing My Size song, Changing my Size audio). You’ll know the tune, it’s ‘If you’re happy and you know it’!
There are some colouring sheets here (growing up colouring).
Week Eight (11/05/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
|
General
Lots of animals lay eggs of different kinds; we’ve already found out about butterflies and frogs’ eggs this term. In my garden I can hear birds of all kinds building nests and preparing for their eggs to hatch. On my walks around the lake near the golf club, I’ve seen ducklings and goslings too! The eggs we’re most familiar with are, of course, laid by hens. Lots of us enjoy eating the hens’ eggs that we buy from the shops but some of the eggs stay at the farms and hatch into chicks. I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here. Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here. |
|
Maths
You could ask the members of your family how their favourite way of eating eggs and complete a tally chart. Here’s my family’s choices (Tally chart example) and a blank chart for you to complete (Tally chart My Family).
We have tried counting a quantity and finding one more, so this week we’re thinking about one less. If you listen to the Five Little Ducks rhyme (Five little ducks rhyme), you’ll see that the mother duck starts with 5 ducklings, but they keep swimming away and she finds another has gone so she has one less. See if you can work out how many she has each time you say the rhyme/sing the song. You might like to practise this using these resources (2 files - Five Little Ducks Counting Cards, Five Little Ducks Number Sentence).
Literacy
There’s a lovely story about Five Little Chicks that you’ll enjoy listening to on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsuCLtnyJNc). Can you remember the five things the chicks thought they might like to eat? What did Mama hen find them to eat at the end of the story? Did you notice any rhyming words in the story?
Brenda’s Boring Egg is another story I think you’ll like; you can find it here (Brenda’s Boring Egg pp). What was boring about Brenda’s egg? Why was she sad? What did her chick look like when it hatched? How did the other hens feel at the end of the story?
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘e’ – as in egg/envelope/elephant...
What can you find at home beginning with ‘e’? Please remember that it is the short vowel sound that we are looking for.
To make the action for ‘e’ involves holding an imaginary egg carefully in both hands.
The song (to the tune ‘Here we go round the Mulberry Bush”) goes like this:
‘Here is an egg it’s in my hand, e, e, egg in my hand (x2) e, e, egg’
Here’s an activity to remind you of some of the phonemes we’ve learnt. You could cut out the pictures and match them to the correct letter (grapheme). (2 files - phoneme picture cards, activity sheet).
Understanding the World
Lots of farmers keep hens and collect their eggs to send to the shops and some families have them as pets. Listen to Ameya explain what it’s like to look after chickens on CBeebies Radio www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio/my-pet-and-me-chickens).
It looks like hard work hatching from an egg! Have a look at the following time-lapse video clips (www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38tIGO5TFY, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E6w8j7ZO9A), and this Powerpoint, to see what happens.
Did you see how the tiny bird uses its beak to break the shell? Did you notice how the soft feathers take a while to dry out after they’ve hatched?
Expressive Arts and Design
I have found a great, simple playdough recipe (Yellow Playdough recipe). If you have the ingredients, you might like to try it. You could make 5 little ducklings and put them on a blue pond!
You could make your own duckling stick puppets by cutting out these pictures and sticking them to some card (5 little ducks stick puppets).
Here’s a couple of colouring pictures you might enjoy too (2 files - Hen and chicks colouring, duck pond colouring).
You could ask the members of your family how their favourite way of eating eggs and complete a tally chart. Here’s my family’s choices (Tally chart example) and a blank chart for you to complete (Tally chart My Family).
We have tried counting a quantity and finding one more, so this week we’re thinking about one less. If you listen to the Five Little Ducks rhyme (Five little ducks rhyme), you’ll see that the mother duck starts with 5 ducklings, but they keep swimming away and she finds another has gone so she has one less. See if you can work out how many she has each time you say the rhyme/sing the song. You might like to practise this using these resources (2 files - Five Little Ducks Counting Cards, Five Little Ducks Number Sentence).
Literacy
There’s a lovely story about Five Little Chicks that you’ll enjoy listening to on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsuCLtnyJNc). Can you remember the five things the chicks thought they might like to eat? What did Mama hen find them to eat at the end of the story? Did you notice any rhyming words in the story?
Brenda’s Boring Egg is another story I think you’ll like; you can find it here (Brenda’s Boring Egg pp). What was boring about Brenda’s egg? Why was she sad? What did her chick look like when it hatched? How did the other hens feel at the end of the story?
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds, HOWEVER, they are really intended for use by children from RECEPTION age and up and so are linked here purely for informational purposes.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘e’ – as in egg/envelope/elephant...
What can you find at home beginning with ‘e’? Please remember that it is the short vowel sound that we are looking for.
To make the action for ‘e’ involves holding an imaginary egg carefully in both hands.
The song (to the tune ‘Here we go round the Mulberry Bush”) goes like this:
‘Here is an egg it’s in my hand, e, e, egg in my hand (x2) e, e, egg’
Here’s an activity to remind you of some of the phonemes we’ve learnt. You could cut out the pictures and match them to the correct letter (grapheme). (2 files - phoneme picture cards, activity sheet).
Understanding the World
Lots of farmers keep hens and collect their eggs to send to the shops and some families have them as pets. Listen to Ameya explain what it’s like to look after chickens on CBeebies Radio www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio/my-pet-and-me-chickens).
It looks like hard work hatching from an egg! Have a look at the following time-lapse video clips (www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38tIGO5TFY, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E6w8j7ZO9A), and this Powerpoint, to see what happens.
Did you see how the tiny bird uses its beak to break the shell? Did you notice how the soft feathers take a while to dry out after they’ve hatched?
Expressive Arts and Design
I have found a great, simple playdough recipe (Yellow Playdough recipe). If you have the ingredients, you might like to try it. You could make 5 little ducklings and put them on a blue pond!
You could make your own duckling stick puppets by cutting out these pictures and sticking them to some card (5 little ducks stick puppets).
Here’s a couple of colouring pictures you might enjoy too (2 files - Hen and chicks colouring, duck pond colouring).
Week Seven (04/05/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
This week we’re going to be thinking about frogs! Just like butterflies, their lifecycle is very interesting. I hope you enjoy finding out about them. Some of you might have access to a pond and may even have seen frogspawn, tadpoles and frogs. Do let me know if you have!
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
We’re going to do some counting and very simple addition this week.
Please practise counting out different quantities of objects such as fruit, toys, pencils – anything really. Check you have counted accurately, moving one object each time you say each number. Can you then try thinking about the number that is one more? So if you counted 7 pencils and then found one more, how many would you have now?
There’s a frog themed adding one more activity here (Add one more frog) and a game you can make (3 docs - Lily pond one more game, Frog counters, One more game instructions) so you can practise this skill.
Literacy
I’m sure many of you will be familiar with the rhyme: Five Little Speckled Frogs.
There’s a lovely animation here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_hzAlnSw5w . It is a little different from the traditional version and I’d like you to listen very carefully for the rhyming words. The first ones you’ll hear are frog and log but there are lots more!
When you’ve found all the rhyming words in the song, you could try matching the frogs that rhyme on this sheet (rhyming frogs). There’s a great story about a frog that was once a prince that I’m sure you’ll enjoy here (frog prince pp).
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘k’ – as in key/Kite/king...
What can you find at home beginning with ‘k’? You’ll notice that this sound (phoneme) is exactly the same as last week’s (c) when you say it out loud.
The action for ‘K’ involves turning a pretend key to unlock a door.
The song (to the tune ‘There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza) goes like this:
‘There’s a key in my pocket, k-key, k-key (x2)
Now unlock the door’
Understanding the World
Frogs lay their eggs in wet areas like ponds and amazing changes take place as they develop from the tiny squashy eggs we call frogspawn into tadpoles and finally into frogs. You can find out more about this here (www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zttckqt and frog life cycle pp). If you can find some card or stiff paper, you might like to make this frog lifecycle headband (headband).
Expressive Arts and Design
I hope you’ve been singing along to the Speckled Frog song! Perhaps you could make a percussion instrument such as a maraca (shaker) using a yoghurt carton with some rice inside or a drum made from a tin and some sticks. You might be able to decorate your instrument with stickers or paint or even turn it into a green frog! So now you could listen to Paul McCartney’s Frog Chorus (your parents will recall this one for sure!) and play along. It has a very regular beat, so you should be able to keep in time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcDVH8DiBnM
There’s a lovely spring frog picture for you to colour here (frogs colour by number). Be sure to use the right colours and try to stay in the lines!
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
This week we’re going to be thinking about frogs! Just like butterflies, their lifecycle is very interesting. I hope you enjoy finding out about them. Some of you might have access to a pond and may even have seen frogspawn, tadpoles and frogs. Do let me know if you have!
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
We’re going to do some counting and very simple addition this week.
Please practise counting out different quantities of objects such as fruit, toys, pencils – anything really. Check you have counted accurately, moving one object each time you say each number. Can you then try thinking about the number that is one more? So if you counted 7 pencils and then found one more, how many would you have now?
There’s a frog themed adding one more activity here (Add one more frog) and a game you can make (3 docs - Lily pond one more game, Frog counters, One more game instructions) so you can practise this skill.
Literacy
I’m sure many of you will be familiar with the rhyme: Five Little Speckled Frogs.
There’s a lovely animation here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_hzAlnSw5w . It is a little different from the traditional version and I’d like you to listen very carefully for the rhyming words. The first ones you’ll hear are frog and log but there are lots more!
When you’ve found all the rhyming words in the song, you could try matching the frogs that rhyme on this sheet (rhyming frogs). There’s a great story about a frog that was once a prince that I’m sure you’ll enjoy here (frog prince pp).
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Our sound this week is ‘k’ – as in key/Kite/king...
What can you find at home beginning with ‘k’? You’ll notice that this sound (phoneme) is exactly the same as last week’s (c) when you say it out loud.
The action for ‘K’ involves turning a pretend key to unlock a door.
The song (to the tune ‘There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza) goes like this:
‘There’s a key in my pocket, k-key, k-key (x2)
Now unlock the door’
Understanding the World
Frogs lay their eggs in wet areas like ponds and amazing changes take place as they develop from the tiny squashy eggs we call frogspawn into tadpoles and finally into frogs. You can find out more about this here (www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zttckqt and frog life cycle pp). If you can find some card or stiff paper, you might like to make this frog lifecycle headband (headband).
Expressive Arts and Design
I hope you’ve been singing along to the Speckled Frog song! Perhaps you could make a percussion instrument such as a maraca (shaker) using a yoghurt carton with some rice inside or a drum made from a tin and some sticks. You might be able to decorate your instrument with stickers or paint or even turn it into a green frog! So now you could listen to Paul McCartney’s Frog Chorus (your parents will recall this one for sure!) and play along. It has a very regular beat, so you should be able to keep in time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcDVH8DiBnM
There’s a lovely spring frog picture for you to colour here (frogs colour by number). Be sure to use the right colours and try to stay in the lines!
Week Six (27/04/2020)
General
Our topic for the summer term is Growth and Change and we will be looking at the life cycles of the butterfly, frog and hen, as well as considering how we develop from babies into adults.
In addition, we will be continuing to work on our literacy, phonics and maths skills.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Maths
I’d like you to think about patterns this week. At school we have made alternating patterns with 2 colours or 2 shapes; now can you please make your own caterpillar with alternating colour duplo bricks or beads (click here for some Caterpillar Pattern Challenge cards). You can also try creating repeating patterns with 3 or 4 colours. There are some caterpillar patterns for you to complete here (caterpillar patterns + complete the caterpillar).
Butterflies have stunning symmetrical wings (a mirror image of one another). Have a look at these games to begin to understand symmetry (www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching).
Literacy
I hope you enjoyed The Very Hungry Caterpillar story. I have another story about a caterpillar that I’d like you to read this week. It’s called ‘The Cautious Caterpillar’ and you can read it here (Cautious caterpillar pp). Can you remember the caterpillar’s name? What sound does it begin with? (see link to phonics below). Can you find any other words in the story beginning with this sound? What do you think ‘cautious’ means? When you think you know the story quite well, try putting these pictures in the correct order to help you retell the story accurately (Cautious caterpillar story sequencing).
There are some fun pencil control activities related to the Hungry Caterpillar story here (caterpillar pencil control).
Phonics
Our sound this week is ‘c’ – as in cat/caterpillar/car/camera...
What can you find at home beginning with ‘c’?
The action for this sound involves using your fingers as cat’s whiskers. The song (to the tune The Farmer’s in his Den) goes like this...
‘The cat has got the cream x2, ccccc , The cat has got the cream.’
We would have been hosting our 'Phonics Parent Workshop' this half term, so I have included the Powerpoint slideshow for you to view. Click here.
Understanding the World
Can you sequence the stages of the butterfly’s lifecycle from egg through to butterfly? Try cutting out and sticking the correct pictures into the boxes on this activity (lifecycle of a butterfly pp + Eyfs butterfly lifecycle activity). Have you got any information books (non-fiction) on caterpillars or butterflies? Or perhaps you can use the internet to find out more. Are there any other creatures that have a similar lifecycle?
Expressive Arts and Design
Can you make a symmetrical butterfly picture? Try cutting out a simple paper butterfly shape and painting a pattern on one wing only. Fold your paper over and press so the pattern transfers onto the other wing. Notice how the wings make a matching pair - wow!
There’s a funny, catchy caterpillar song that you might like to listen to and sing along with here www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUBBh4QzTU.
General
Our topic for the summer term is Growth and Change and we will be looking at the life cycles of the butterfly, frog and hen, as well as considering how we develop from babies into adults.
In addition, we will be continuing to work on our literacy, phonics and maths skills.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Maths
I’d like you to think about patterns this week. At school we have made alternating patterns with 2 colours or 2 shapes; now can you please make your own caterpillar with alternating colour duplo bricks or beads (click here for some Caterpillar Pattern Challenge cards). You can also try creating repeating patterns with 3 or 4 colours. There are some caterpillar patterns for you to complete here (caterpillar patterns + complete the caterpillar).
Butterflies have stunning symmetrical wings (a mirror image of one another). Have a look at these games to begin to understand symmetry (www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching).
Literacy
I hope you enjoyed The Very Hungry Caterpillar story. I have another story about a caterpillar that I’d like you to read this week. It’s called ‘The Cautious Caterpillar’ and you can read it here (Cautious caterpillar pp). Can you remember the caterpillar’s name? What sound does it begin with? (see link to phonics below). Can you find any other words in the story beginning with this sound? What do you think ‘cautious’ means? When you think you know the story quite well, try putting these pictures in the correct order to help you retell the story accurately (Cautious caterpillar story sequencing).
There are some fun pencil control activities related to the Hungry Caterpillar story here (caterpillar pencil control).
Phonics
Our sound this week is ‘c’ – as in cat/caterpillar/car/camera...
What can you find at home beginning with ‘c’?
The action for this sound involves using your fingers as cat’s whiskers. The song (to the tune The Farmer’s in his Den) goes like this...
‘The cat has got the cream x2, ccccc , The cat has got the cream.’
We would have been hosting our 'Phonics Parent Workshop' this half term, so I have included the Powerpoint slideshow for you to view. Click here.
Understanding the World
Can you sequence the stages of the butterfly’s lifecycle from egg through to butterfly? Try cutting out and sticking the correct pictures into the boxes on this activity (lifecycle of a butterfly pp + Eyfs butterfly lifecycle activity). Have you got any information books (non-fiction) on caterpillars or butterflies? Or perhaps you can use the internet to find out more. Are there any other creatures that have a similar lifecycle?
Expressive Arts and Design
Can you make a symmetrical butterfly picture? Try cutting out a simple paper butterfly shape and painting a pattern on one wing only. Fold your paper over and press so the pattern transfers onto the other wing. Notice how the wings make a matching pair - wow!
There’s a funny, catchy caterpillar song that you might like to listen to and sing along with here www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUBBh4QzTU.
Week Five (20/04/2020)
General
Our topic for the summer term is Growth and Change and we will be looking at the lifecycles of the butterfly, frog and hen as well as considering how we develop from babies into adults.
In addition, we will be continuing to work on our literacy, phonics and maths skills.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Maths
This week can you please revise understanding of basic 2D shapes. The four basic shapes should be familiar: circle, square, triangle and rectangle. We have named them and can hopefully identify some of their features such as the number of sides they have.
You might like to go on a shape hunt around your home, create a picture from shapes or try the butterfly shape activity.
Literacy
Please read The Very Hungry Caterpillar Story. If you don’t have the book, there are many excellent versions on YouTube. Discuss the story and ask your child to retell it using pictures as prompts (story sequencing activity attached).
What would it be like to be a caterpillar or a butterfly? Which would you prefer to be?
Phonics
Our sound this week is ‘o’ – the short vowel sound as in octopus/orange/office/olive/
ostrich. The action for this sound involves putting both hands together and wiggling 8 fingers to represent the octopus’s legs! The song (to the tune ‘Lou, Lou skip to my Lou my darling’) goes:
Octopus you have lots of legs x 3
Count them, there are 8!
We would have been hosting our 'Phonics Parent Workshop' this half term, so I have included the Powerpoint slideshow for you to view. Click here.
Understanding the World
The story of the Hungry Caterpillar is an excellent starting point for a discussion about the lifecycle of the butterfly.
This truly amazing transformation can be seen in time-lapse video and there are animated versions on YouTube. I particularly like The Amazing Life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AUeM8MbaIk)
Have a go at some 'caterpillar colouring' by clicking here.
General
Our topic for the summer term is Growth and Change and we will be looking at the lifecycles of the butterfly, frog and hen as well as considering how we develop from babies into adults.
In addition, we will be continuing to work on our literacy, phonics and maths skills.
I have added our Overview for Parents for this term, so you can see the areas we would be covering. Click here.
Maths
This week can you please revise understanding of basic 2D shapes. The four basic shapes should be familiar: circle, square, triangle and rectangle. We have named them and can hopefully identify some of their features such as the number of sides they have.
You might like to go on a shape hunt around your home, create a picture from shapes or try the butterfly shape activity.
Literacy
Please read The Very Hungry Caterpillar Story. If you don’t have the book, there are many excellent versions on YouTube. Discuss the story and ask your child to retell it using pictures as prompts (story sequencing activity attached).
What would it be like to be a caterpillar or a butterfly? Which would you prefer to be?
Phonics
Our sound this week is ‘o’ – the short vowel sound as in octopus/orange/office/olive/
ostrich. The action for this sound involves putting both hands together and wiggling 8 fingers to represent the octopus’s legs! The song (to the tune ‘Lou, Lou skip to my Lou my darling’) goes:
Octopus you have lots of legs x 3
Count them, there are 8!
We would have been hosting our 'Phonics Parent Workshop' this half term, so I have included the Powerpoint slideshow for you to view. Click here.
Understanding the World
The story of the Hungry Caterpillar is an excellent starting point for a discussion about the lifecycle of the butterfly.
This truly amazing transformation can be seen in time-lapse video and there are animated versions on YouTube. I particularly like The Amazing Life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AUeM8MbaIk)
Have a go at some 'caterpillar colouring' by clicking here.
Weeks Three & Four (06 & 13/04/2020)
Easter Holiday.
Easter Holiday.
Weeks 1 and 2 (23 & 30/03/2020)
Links to the resources provided in the Nursery School Closure Pack (in case you missed it) and other sites.
Click on the relevant link and it will open in a new window, where you can download and/or print.
- Nursery Ideas
Links to the resources provided in the Nursery School Closure Pack (in case you missed it) and other sites.
Click on the relevant link and it will open in a new window, where you can download and/or print.
- Nursery Ideas
Nursery Discussion Board/Blog
This is our Discussion board, a place for you to ask questions and keep in touch with each other and Mrs Durkin, Mrs Holder or Mrs Flint.
Please remember our class rules and be respectful and use it in a positive way.
If we find that children/parents are not using the Discussion Board appropriately we will remove it.
This is our Discussion board, a place for you to ask questions and keep in touch with each other and Mrs Durkin, Mrs Holder or Mrs Flint.
Please remember our class rules and be respectful and use it in a positive way.
If we find that children/parents are not using the Discussion Board appropriately we will remove it.
Links to EYFS specific activities/games
A range of educational resources - www.topmarks.co.uk
A range of activities, covering different topics - www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
A range of activities, covering different topics - www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html
You might be able to use some of the activities on the following pages, but they are aimed at Reception age;
Maths Skills - https://uk.ixl.com/math/reception
English Skills - https://uk.ixl.com/ela/reception
Educational Companies offering free access to their resources:
A list of educational companies offering free access to their software - https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/135609/list-of-education-companies-offering-free-subscriptions/
Twinkl- https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/how-to-utilise-twinkl-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown-a-guide-for-schools
TTS Home Learning Activity Booklets - https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html
Classroom Secrets - https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/home-online-learning/
Teacher’s Pet - https://tpet.co.uk/latest-resources/
Tutortastic - www.tutortastic.co.uk/blog/homelearning
Phonicsplay - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The Body Coach (Daily PE Workouts) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
12 Museums/Art Galleries Virtual Tours A set of museums that are offering their virtual tours for free, allowing you/your children to visit without leaving home - https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours
As well as the structured/guided learning provided, or downloaded, there are many things you could do with, or get your child to do. Click on the link below for some ideas.
https://parentzone.org.uk/article/10-ways-safely-entertain-your-kids-home?utm_source=Parent+Zone+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d7c5afa46e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_13_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ee27d9000-d7c5afa46e-179516521
A list of educational companies offering free access to their software - https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/135609/list-of-education-companies-offering-free-subscriptions/
Twinkl- https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/how-to-utilise-twinkl-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown-a-guide-for-schools
TTS Home Learning Activity Booklets - https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html
Classroom Secrets - https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/home-online-learning/
Teacher’s Pet - https://tpet.co.uk/latest-resources/
Tutortastic - www.tutortastic.co.uk/blog/homelearning
Phonicsplay - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The Body Coach (Daily PE Workouts) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
12 Museums/Art Galleries Virtual Tours A set of museums that are offering their virtual tours for free, allowing you/your children to visit without leaving home - https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours
As well as the structured/guided learning provided, or downloaded, there are many things you could do with, or get your child to do. Click on the link below for some ideas.
https://parentzone.org.uk/article/10-ways-safely-entertain-your-kids-home?utm_source=Parent+Zone+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d7c5afa46e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_13_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ee27d9000-d7c5afa46e-179516521
All information contained on this website is available, free of charge, in paper format from the School Office.
© Copyright George Fentham Endowed School.
All rights reserved. Some content is licensed or used by permission of other copyright holders.
© Copyright George Fentham Endowed School.
All rights reserved. Some content is licensed or used by permission of other copyright holders.
