Phonics
The Government have commissioned a daily letters and sounds phonics lesson for children in reception and year 1. The videos go up daily beginning today and there are three to choose from:
10am- Reception phase 3 and 4.
10.30am- Year 1 phase 5.
11am- Learning to blend- phase 2 recap. This is great if your child is finding it tricky to belnd all of the phonemes back together to make a word.
I will be watching all three lessons tomorrow morning so feel free to join in with these instead and let me know what you think!
Here is the link to the youtube page.
Reception
Today’s grapheme is ‘oa’.
Revise all of your phase 3 flashcards and then watch Mr Thorne does phonics.
Have a go at Mrs Summerfield’s game for today’s activity.
Year 1
Today’s grapheme is ‘e-e’.
Revise all of your phase 5 flashcards and then watch Mr Thorne does phonics.
Have a go at Mrs Summerfield’s game for today’ activity. You could use the same sounds for revision or select your own from any of your phase 5 sounds.
Literacy
This week’s story is going to be Jasper’s Beanstalk. If you don’t have the story at home, have a look at this story powerpoint.
Jasper’s Beanstalk
In the story Jasper gets very confused when trying to grow a beanstalk. Can you write a set of instructions so that next time he knows exactly what to do?
You could include a picture diagram to go with each set of instructions. Year 1s I expect to see numbered points and time connectives such as first, next, then, finally. Reception- a couple of words for each instruction would be great!
Maths
Reception
For today’s starter play I count, you count but this time counting backwards. You start on 10/20 dependent on how confident your child is with number and then they say 19 and so on.
This week we are moving onto subtraction by counting back. We are going to begin by using the first then now method:
You could draw your own bus or use anything else that your child may like e.g boat, shop, lego house. Place 5 people onto the bus and say ‘First there were 5 people on the bus’. ‘The 2 people got off the bus’. As you say this remove the 2 people. ‘Now there are 3 people left on the bus’. If your child understands this concept, see if they can record the number sentence e.g. 5 – 2 = 3.
Begin by using numbers to 5 or 10 depending on how confident your child is, you can then move on to numbers to 20.
Year 1
For today’s starter have a go at recalling all of your number bonds to 10. Can you think of what the matching number bond to 100 would be?
Go to the White Rose website and complete the tutorial and activity for Summer term week 2 lesson 1- Find a half.
Science
This is an optional extra for you to have a go at but is by no means compulsory.
For this experiment you will need white flowers, food colouring and some clear cups to place the flowers into. If you haven’t got these items you could just watch the video and pause every so often to discuss what is happening.
There is a full explanation of how to do the experiment, a video and a scientific explanation on this website for you.