This morning I have got some colouring for you to do, but instead of a colour by number, it’s a colour by phoneme! So have a look at the sounds and choose the right colours.
This morning can you start off by playing the game below. Helicopter RescuePlease select ‘Find a Number’ then ‘1 to 10’. If you are really confident with your numbers, then you could select ‘1 to 20’ instead.
Then, I would like you to go on a little hunt around your house today whilst doing some counting. So today, I would like you to find the following items. Make sure that you are counting carefully each time. Can you find…
6 socks
2 pieces of fruit
8 pens or pencils
5 toys
7 pieces of cutlery
4 shoes
9 books
3 bags
Have fun. And remember to make sure you put everything back afterwards too!
Afternoon activity
Today is exactly the same as yesterday, choose one or two more vehicles to write captions about. Remember your capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
You may have seen our new Home Learning Policy on the website, on here it states that children in Reception should only be expected to work between 1 and 3 hours a day when they are at home. With that in mind, please do not feel guilty if you only manage to get 1 hour of work done each day! In school we still have plenty of time to play and we certainly aren’t working flat out all day. We quite often get all our work done in the morning and then spend the afternoon, playing, having fun and doing crafts.
So, whatever it is you manage to get done today – well done!! We are all just doing our best in very tricky times.
Morning activity
First, listen to the days of the week song. We have listened to it in school before, but that probably seems like a long time ago now, but see if you can sing along with it. It’s only short so you might want to listen to it a few times.
Then, can you have a go at cutting and sticking the days of the week in the right order?
You can choose whether you do the counting, matching or ordering game and choose your level. You should be able to have a really good go at all of the different games on here by yourself by now.
Then, I would like you to do a little bit of counting around your house today. So, can you count how many of each object you can see:
Chairs
Tables
Doors
Windows
Coats
Photo frames
Beds
Toothbrushes
Towels
Cushions.
Use the sheet below to record your answers if you would like to.
Today I would like you to have a look at the pictures below and choose one or two vehicles to write some sentences about.
So for example, I might choose to write about a hot air balloon. My sentences would be:
‘It is a hot air balloon. It has a basket to carry people.’
Grown ups – remember to let the children sound out as best they can without writing the word for them to copy. Of course, if they choose to write a word which will take a lot of sounding out like ‘submarine’ then it’s fine to write it for them! Just try to let the children use their brains as best they can.
Don’t forget your finger spaces and full stops!
Tomorrow’s activity is going to be exactly the same. When we are in school we wouldn’t do too much writing in one go, but if you are feeling up to it you can always choose three or four vehicles to write about and then have the day off this activity tomorrow!
Hi everyone, I hope you are all still doing well at home. I’m missing you all lots! Here is our work for today.
Morning activity
Today I would like you to write your name, have a look at the letters in it. Can you think of something that begins with each letter of your name and draw a picture of it?
For example, for ‘Miss’ I might draw a picture of a mouse, an igloo, a snake and a sock. Have fun!
You will need to get the flashcards that you made yesterday ready for todays lesson. First, can you have a look at all the numbers and say what each number is? Did you need help, or did you know it really quickly? If you needed help, they are the ones that you’ll need to keep having a go at.
Then, can you use your flashcards and put them in order to 10?
Then order them backwards.
Then get a grown up to take some numbers away, can you order them now and work out which ones are missing?
Have a go at these activities a few times so you get really familiar with recognising and ordering all the numbers to 10.
Afternoon activity
In Room 4, we LOVE children who are really independent and have a go at doing something by themselves before they ask for help.
Today I would like you to have a think about some things that you could be a bit more independent at. Maybe you could learn how to:
Fold your clothes
Make your bed
Lay the table for dinner
Put your shoes and socks on by yourself
Cut up your food
Have a think about something that you’d like to be a little bit more independent with and have a go at doing it today! You will be so proud of yourself when you learn to do something by yourself that you couldn’t do before!
This week we are going to do lots of work with the numbers up to 10
We have a song that we sing to help us draw the numbers in school, but unfortunately it’s behind a password protected website so I can’t link it. But here is a numberblocks song that you could watch to help you remember how to draw each number instead.
Today I would like you to make yourself a set of flashcards with the numbers 0-10. You can make these as exciting as you like by colouring in and decorating each number. You could even draw the right amount of pictures on each flashcard to help you, e.g. 3 bears under the number 3, or 6 smiley faces under the number 6. Have fun, and keep these safe once they are finished as you will need them for your activities later in the week.
Afternoon activity
It is our PE day in school today, so have a go at the cosmic kids yoga below. This is quite an important one at the moment – can you work out why? If the weather is looking nice, then maybe try and get outside for some fresh air and a walk. There might even still be some snow for you to go out and enjoy!
Hi everyone, it’s Friday – you made it to the end of another week of home schooling. Well done!
Morning activity
Can you have a go at cutting and sticking the sounds to make a word to go with each picture? You can do both sheets if you like, or just one, it’s up to you!
If you don’t have a printer, you could make your own version, or just have a go at labelling the pictures you can see.
Today we are going to finish learning about height and length. I would like you to have a little look through your toy-box and choose your 10 favourite toys. Can you put them in order of height from smallest to largest?
Which is your largest toy? Which is your smallest? Which ones are medium sized? Can you add any more toys to your collection?
Afternoon activity
This afternoon I thought you might like to have a nice easy afternoon and do some crafts. Sticking with our transport topic, I’d like you to use any craft materials you have at home to make a mode of transport. I’m hoping that most of you have toilet roll tubes at home, so have a go at making a vehicle out of one of those. You can be as creative as you would like, but there are some ideas below to get you started if you aren’t sure. I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Rocket
Racing Car
Plane
Train
Helicopter
Tractor
Story
Today there is a story on Tapestry for you!
Enjoy your day and have a fantastic weekend. I’m looking forward to seeing what you have all been doing.
Hello everyone, here’s what we will be doing today.
Morning activity
Today I would like you to have a go at the letter formation sheet below. This set of letters are called the ‘curly caterpillar’ letters and are the ones that we often struggle with forming correctly.
Then, I would like you to draw a picture of your family, but can you draw everyone in height order? So the shortest member of your family first, all the way up to the tallest member of your family.
If you’d like to, you could label all the members of your family too.
Afternoon activity
We are going to learn about past and present vehicles. The past means things that happened before today, and can mean a long time ago. Have a look at all the vehicles below, can you recognise what they all are?
Think about whether this is a new vehicle (one that we would see today) or an old one (one that we might have seen a long time ago). Talk about how they are different from the vehicles that we see today and why they might have changed.
Then you might want to have a go at the sheet below to spot the difference between the old and new versions of each type of transport. If you are feeling very brainy today, you could even have a go at labelling the pictures!
Apologies again, I usually record the story for Tapestry in the morning once I get to school. There were a few hiccups with getting to school today due to the floods, so I will upload a story tomorrow instead. In the mean time, today you could choose your favourite story from home for your grown up to read.
I hope you all have a brilliant day, I’m looking forward to seeing how you all get on.
Hi everyone, we’re halfway through the week now and I hope you are having a good one. Here’s our work for today.
Morning activity
Please complete the missing number sheet below. There are two sheets available, but please just pick which one you would like to complete. The second one is a little bit trickier as the numbers go backwards instead of forwards – have a go at this one if you want to challenge yourself!
If you don’t have a printer, then you could just read the numbers off the screen and work out which the missing ones are.
Today we are moving on and learning about height. This means how tall something is. I would like you to have a little look around your house – can you find anything that is taller than you? Can you find something that is shorter than you? Can you find anything that is the same height?
Draw pictures / write the objects that you find using the sheet below, if you like.
Can you complete the Phonics cut and stick activity below? If you don’t have a printer, you could always read the words off the screen and then draw a matching picture for each.
There are 3 sheets here, so just pick one to print off.
I hope you had fun measuring all the different items around your house yesterday! Today I would like you to cut out the pictures of the caterpillars and put them in order of length from the shortest to the longest. This is something you should be good at doing by yourself without much adult help.
If you don’t have a printer, maybe find the objects that you measured yesterday and put them in order from shortest to longest instead.
Today we are going to do a little bit of writing. I would like you to write some sentences about yourself that start with ‘I am’. Watch the PowerPoint below to explain how I’d like you to do this.
Hello everyone, I hope you all had a good weekend and that you are ready for another week of home learning. Here’s your work for today.
Morning activity
Can you complete the colour by number below? If you don’t have a printer, you could always draw a picture and then add numbers in to make your own – or if you have a colouring book you could get your grown up to add numbers to it instead.
This week we are going to be learning about length and height. Length means how long something is and height is how tall something is. Today we are going to be learning about length.
Today I would like you to find some building blocks that you can use to measure with, then I’d like you to use these to measure different items around your house. There is a sheet to fill out below if you would like to with all the different items that you could measure, or choose your own items to measure.
Which item that you measured is the longest? How many blocks long was it? And which item was the shortest?
Hello Room 4, it’s finally Friday! Only a little bit more home learning and then you can finally enjoy your weekend.
Morning activity
Can you remember the Noah’s Ark story from Tuesday? Have another watch below if you can’t.
Can you draw some pictures of the animals that you think might have been on Noah’s Ark? Remember to draw two of each animal! Keep your drawing safe as you are going to need it for this afternoon.
Today we are going to play a game to practise all the addition and subtraction skills that you have learnt over the last few weeks. Below is the game to play – you will need some Lego, Duplo or something similar and a dice.
Remember the animals that you drew this morning? Well you’ll need to get that picture out again, this afternoon I would like you to label some of the animals that you have drawn. Remember to use your word builder and sound mat to help you.
Grown ups – remember that 4 and 5 year olds are not expected to write every word perfectly. They will just need to sound out the word and write the words that they hear. For example, they might write ‘giraffe’ as ‘juraf’ – that is absolutely fine! That’s what we are expecting them to do. I know it’s tricky – but don’t be tempted to write the word out for them to copy as it won’t help them in the long run. Even if they just hear the first and last sound (j f) that is alright for this time in the year too!
