Hi all,

Mrs Mottram has put together a list of Forest School activities that you can do with your children over the coming weeks:

• Go bird watching in your garden and see if you can identify any of the birds.
• Listen to the different bird songs in your garden, can you identify which birds are making the noise?
• Have a wander around your garden and look at the different plants and trees that you can see. Can you name any of them? You could use a computer or a non-fiction book to help you.
• If you have a stethoscope, put it in a tree trunk and listen to the sap rising.

Take photos and let us know how you get on!

I have uploaded the times tables for the coming weeks to Times Tables Rock Stars for Year 1 children. If your child was in School on Thursday/Friday then they will have been sent with a log in to access the sight. If you do not have a log in then please email me and I will do my best to retrieve it.

I have initially set 1 table per week as the format may be slightly different than what children are used to. I have then built up varying combinations to consolidate children’s learning.

The link for Times Table Rock Stars website is here.

Phonics

Reception

Children have been learning the sounds from phase 3 of the Letters and Sounds program. I am beginning at the start of the program again to consolidate children’s learning.

I would recommend using the phonics flash cards that were sent home by holding each one up in turn for your child to say the phoneme. The grapheme that children will be looking at today is ‘j’, show them the Mr Thorne video on youtube focusing on ‘j’.

Then go to the phonics play website and play the Reading Robot game focusing on phase 2 sounds initially but moving onto phase 3 if your child is finding this easy.

Year 1

Children have completed all of the phases of Letters and Sounds and are now consolidating their knowledge. I would recommend using the phonics flashcards that were sent home by holding each one up in turn for your child to say the phoneme. I am beginning at the start of phase 5 with the grapheme ‘ay’. Watch the Mr Thorne video on youtube focusing on ‘ay’.

Then go to the phonics play website and play the Reading Robot game focusing on phase 5 sounds.

If you are unsure about any aspect of phonics you can look back at my previous posts with an overview of phonics and with phonics apps.

Maths

Reception

As a maths starter ask your child to choose a number song to sing- ten green bottle, 5 cheeky monkeys, 5 speckled frogs, 5 currant buns. Get them to hold up the corresponding number of fingers and fold 1 down each time something is taken away.

You will need two dice for today’s activity. Take turns to roll the dice and say 1 more and 1 less than the number you roll. You can make this more challenging by using both dice.

Roll both dice and write down the number sentence before working out the total. e.g if you roll a 2 and a 5 your number sentence would be 2 + 5 =  You can further challenge your child by adding a third dice.

Children can use the number line sent home to help them or physical resources such as pom poms, counters, pasta etc.

Play the Teddy Numbers game on Top Marks. You can select either numbers up to 5, 10 or 15 depending on your child’s confidence.

Year 1

Year 1 will be looking at place value with numbers to 50. Children will be representing numbers to 50 by identifying how many tens and ones each number has for example, 37 has 3 tens and 7 ones. Children will then identify 1 more and 1 less than with numbers to 50, they can use the 100 square to help them if needed. To further challenge your child- complete the table at the bottom of page 5 with numbers above 50.

Complete pages 3, 5 and 7 of this home learning pack:

Year 1 maths

Play the game Shark Numbers on top marks.

Literacy

Reception

Keep a daily diary of your activities whilst you are home learning. Children can design a front cover for their diary and practice writing their full name using their kinetic letters and the days of the week. Children may want to draw a picture showing different parts of their day with simple captions. Your child may need support to segment their chosen words for spelling, say the word slowly for them and if they are still struggling break it down into the individual phonemes e.g park would be p- ar- k. Get them to record the sounds that they hear even if this is just the beginning or end sound. Once they have finished ask your child to read their work back to you and record underneath what they say. 

Year 1

Keep a daily diary of your activities whilst you are home learning. Children can design a front cover for their diary and practice writing the days of the week and months of the year.

Choose 3 items from around your home and write clues using adjectives (e.g It has blue fur.) and positional language (It lives next to my bed.) to describe them. Read your clues to a member of your family and see if they can guess the object. Remember to use capital letters at the start of your sentence, finger spaces in between your words and a full stop at the end.

Try to write 3 clues for each item. At the end of each set of clues write the sentence- What am I? Remember to use a question mark at the end!

Please contact me with any queries, Miss Pullinger.

Dear Parents

I will be sending regular updates via the website with suggested work covering all areas of the curriculum for your child to complete if they are not attending school.

I would recommend, where possible, that you read with your child everyday. Mrs Mottram has sent home additional reading books to assist with this and I will send out a link to free eBooks that correspond to your child’s phonics phase.

In addition I will send daily phonics and maths challenges for your children to complete at their own pace.

Miss Pullinger