Author: Mrs Pope

2 years, 182 days ago
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Work for Thursday 30th March

Hello to all the people at home, I hope you are feeling well.  Here is your work for today if you are feeling well enough.

This morning we are going to be talking about doubling.  Can you get some toys or counters and practically double them. So if Mummy or Daddy builds a Lego tower of 3 blocks, can you double it and find out how many blocks you have in total?  What is the sum you have made? So if you have 3 blocks and double it, you have 3 + 3 which is equal to 6. If you are feeling confident, you can have a go at this doubling sheet.  Can you double the number of spots the ladybird has and write the number sentence underneath.

Double the number of spots on the ladybirds HA

Please can you whizz through our Letters and Sounds graphemes.  Here is a game I know you know well.  Our user name is PPS1 and our password is apple.  Choose phase 2/3 at the beginning of the game.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/flashcards-speed-trials

Can you show your grown-up the actions for each of the sounds?

We normally have a few stories and some singing now.  Can you teach your grown-up this song?  You can always change the animals, just like we do in school.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-down-in-the-jungle/zfqgscw

Here is a story you may enjoy.

 

This afternoon is our PE afternoon.  If you are feeling up to it, you can have a little go at this yoga video.

 

 

Today we are writing to the magical creature that laid the eggs in our garden.  Perhaps you would like to write someone a letter.  You can tell them about your day and draw them a lovely picture too.

I hope you have a fun day, see you soon.

Mrs Pope x

2 years, 183 days ago
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Work for Wednesday 30th March

Good morning everyone,

I hope you had a lovely day yesterday.

We had a message from whatever nocturnal creature laid the eggs in our garden.  The message told us that it had sparkly skin, strong wings and sharp teeth but we still don’t really know what the creature looks like.

This morning I’d like you to draw, paint or collage what we think the creature looks like. Then label it. You can always email me a picture of your ideas so I can show everyone here.

In Letters and Sounds we are looking at a new sound.  The digraph ‘ow’ like cow.

How many words can you think of with the ‘ow’ digraph in?

You could have a go at this roll and read activity. Make sure you get a dice and colouring pens ready.  Roll the dice, subitize the number!  Choose a word from the correct row. If you read it correctly you can colour it in.

ow roll and read

This afternoon is our Forest School afternoon.  We are going to be guiding a partner around the Gruffalo Wood blindfolded.  Perhaps you could do this around your garden, if it is safe to do so!!

Here is a story to enjoy when you have a spare 5 minutes. snuggle up, you could even make yourself a reading den, and enjoy it.

See you soon.

Mrs Pope x

 

2 years, 184 days ago
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Work for 29th March

Hello all you lovely people at home!

Here is your work for tomorrow.

 

Something amazing happened in school today, some mysterious eggs appeared!  We don’t know where they came from, who laid them and why they are here but we are hoping to find some answers.  We have written our questions down so that we may get a few answers.    Have a think at home, you might want to know what kind of animal laid them or why they are so sparkly. Can you have a go at writing a couple of questions yourself?  Remember we have been practising using capital letters, finger spaces between words and question marks.

In our Letters and Sounds today we looked at the digraph ‘ur’.  As usual, here is a little song to help us remember this sound.

 

 

Can you make a list of ‘ur’ words?  We found quite a few in school.

We did our daily mile so perhaps you can see how many times you can run around your garden or how many star jumps you can do, if you feel up to it.

This afternoon we had a bit of an arty afternoon.  First we looked at some pictures of the animals we saw on Friday and we had a go at sketching them just using pencil.  We had lo make sure we looked carefully at the animal and drew it nice and big so we could add all the detail we saw.  Here are some pictures.  If you don’t want to draw these animals, you could use books to find your favourite animal and draw that instead.

animal man pictures.

We also drew some eggs and used water colour paints to add patterns to them.  We mixed the colours carefully and used stripes, dots and shapes to create patterns.

I hope you have a lovely day today. Let me know how you get on, my email is: charlotte.pope@ppce.co.uk

Mrs Pope x

2 years, 187 days ago
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Things to ask me for WB 21.3.22

I cannot believe it is Friday again, the weeks are whizzing by!  It have been another busy week in Room 4.  This week we have continued to practise our counting to 20 and beyond.  Making sure our counting is accurate by touching each object as we count.   Some questions you could ask are:

  • how do you write the number 15 or 13 (they are the tricky ones!)
  • how do we write the number 20?
  • Which is bigger, 17 or 19?
  • would you rather 5 or 15 sweets? Why?

You could play some dice games where the children can show off their subitising skills. This is were you know the number of objects without counting them.  You can only do this to about 5 or 6 so after that, you would need to count the number of objects.   This week we counted pictures of tadpoles. Some we could subitise, some we needed to count.

We have started to count in 2s.  We do this by starting from 0 and saying it loudly, whispering the number 1 and saying the number 2 out loud, whispering 3, shouting 4 and so on.  It is useful to have a number line to 20 to help but some of us are getting pretty confident without.  We have also used a 100 square to practise counting in 10s.

We have to make sure that we say the ‘ty’ part of the number clearly so we don’t confuse it with ‘teen’.

We have been watching our tadpoles carefully.

  • how are the tadpoles different this week?
  • what are gills?
  • what do the tadpoles eat?

In our English work we have been writing questions for our exciting visitor.

  • how do you draw a question mark?
  • can you ask me a question?

On Friday we had a very exciting visitor.

  • what animals did you see?
  • which was your favourite?
  • can you remember an amazing fact about any of the animals?

We have been practising the digraphs ‘oa’, ‘ar’, ‘oo’ and ‘ai’  this week.

  • Can you think of any words with the digraph ‘ar’ in?
  • Can you make/write a list of ‘ar’ words?

Using a paintbrush and water on the path outside, can you remember how to spell: the, to, he, she, me?

I hope you have a lovely, restful weekend and enjoy the sunshine.

Mrs Pope x

2 years, 194 days ago
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Things to ask me for week beginning 14.3.22

Hello,

Well it has been another very busy week in Room 4. I’m sure it was only Monday yesterday!

Here are the things you could ask the children about their learning this week:

  • What is a nocturnal animal?
  • Can you name 3 nocturnal animals?
  • Can you remember what we call an animal that comes out in the day time? (diurnal)
  • Can you name 3 diurnal animals?
  • Are humans nocturnal or diurnal?
  • What does the word habitat mean?
  • Can you name 3 animals that live in a frozen habitat? (penguins, polar bears, seals etc)
  • Can you name 3 animals that live in the rainforest? (monkey, parrot, snake, frog etc)
  • Can you name 3 animals that live in Africa? (elephant, giraffe, lion etc)
  • What are the stages of a frog’s lifecycle? (Frogspawn, tadpole, froglet, frog)
  • This week we have been looking at the vocabulary associated with weight and capacity. We have been finding heavier and lighter using the balance scales and measuring the weight of toy animals using cubes. Perhaps over the weekend you could follow a simple recipe and make something so that the children can continue to use this vocabulary of heavier, lighter, balance, same, measure, scales, weigh, weight.  Here is my favourite biscuit recipe, it’s very simple!

Fork Biscuits

We have learned a few more sounds this week.  The digraphs ‘oo’ – as in moon and ‘oo’ as is book. We have also started to think about the digraph  ‘ar’ like star.  We have been practising the phase 3 tricky word ‘my’  too.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Mrs Pope x

 

2 years, 197 days ago
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Tuesday 15th March

Hello to all those at home, I hope you are well.  Today has been a busy day. we have been looking at our tadpoles and writing about what they look like.

We have talked about the words nocturnal and diurnal and what they mean.  If you aren’t feeling too poorly, you could have a look at this sorting activity. Just let me know if you want it printing out and leaving in reception to collect.

t-t-6835-nocturnal-and-diurnal-animals-sorting-activity_ver_1

In Letters and Sounds we have been looking at the oo digraph.  Sometimes it makes a long oo sound like moon and sometimes it makes a short oo sound like in book.

Can you have a look in some of your books at home and see if you can find any ‘oo’ digraphs.  Are they long or short sounds?

We played a word matching game. Cut the cards out, turn them face down and see if you can match the cards by remembering where they are.

word match 1

This afternoon is PE so make sure you get outside in the sunshine if you are able.  We are also having some ‘Child Initiated Time’ so make a plan for something you would like to do, perhaps make a den or draw a picture, then have a go.

We have been sharing lots of stories about animals, You might like to watch this one.

Have a lovely day, let me know if you need anything.

Mrs Pope x

 

2 years, 201 days ago
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Things to ask me for WB 7.3.22

Well it has been another busy week in Room 4.  Here are some things you could ask your children about their learning this week.

  • What is a habitat? (a place where an animal or plant lives)
  • What is a baby sheep, pig or duck called? If you want to challenge your children further you could ask what a baby whale, horse or elephant is called.
  • Can you describe what is a rainforest like?
  • We have been finding ‘one less than’ this week. Can you find one less than  5,  8  or 9.  If you want a challenge, try finding one less than 19, 16 or 12.
  • Can you show me a way to make 5 on one hand? Can you show me a way to make 5 on 2 hands? Can you show me another way?
  • we have been looking at blending words for reading this week. Here are some games we are really good at if you’d like to have a go at home.

Buried Treasure (phonicsplay.co.uk)

User name: PPS1

Password:  apple

we have focused on phase 3 and you can choose which set from the ones shown below.  Feel free to recap any sounds in phase 2 as well.

 

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you all next week.

Mrs Pope

2 years, 208 days ago
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Things to ask me for the week beginning 28.2.22

 

Things to ask me 

Week beginning 4.3.22

  • What is our new topic for this half term? (Animals)
  • What is our brand new roleplay area? (a jungle vets)
  • what is the action for the trigraph ‘igh’ (a salute and in igh igh captain)
  • can you think of any words with the ‘igh’ sound in? (night, light, right, lightning, knight etc)
  • can you name 3 animals that walk? (elephant, dog etc)
  • can you name 3 animals that fly? (blackbird, wasp etc)
  • can you name 3 animals that swim? (shark, goldfish etc)
  • show me a way to make 5 using your fingers. Can you show me another way? Can you show me another way? You can ask this for other numbers too.
  • This week we have been talking about worries. What can you do if you have a worry? (share it with a grown-up you trust)
  • Can you name one ingredient that you would use if you made pancakes?
  • Why do Christians make pancakes (to use up all the nice food before Lent begins)
  • Where did Jesus go for 40 days and nights (desert)

It has been another busy week in Room 4 and the children have, as always, been amazing.

Sounds learnt this week Tricky words recap
 ee, igh Was, the, to, into
2 years, 224 days ago
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Colomendy tomorrow!!!

Good afternoon,

We are so excited about tomorrow.  We hope you are too.

The weather looks a trifle wet. Please can you make sure you have a waterproof coat. If you have waterproof trousers, feel free to bring them in your case. Do not go and buy them if you do not have them.

Make sure you bring a teddy and you are ready for adventure!!!!!

See you tomorrow,

Mrs Pittaway and Mrs Pope xx

2 years, 226 days ago
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Calling all Colomendiers…

Good evening,  I hope you are all getting excited for our adventures!

Thank you for all completing and returning the Emergency contact and medical information form.

We will be sending home a Residential Medication Request Form today.  This is for children who take regular medication or any children who may need medication (for example antibiotics whilst away) please do not return this until Thursday morning. We would then ask you to ensure you hand the completed form and the named medication (enough for the duration of the visit) to either Mrs Pittaway or Mrs Pope before we leave. Inhalers will be kept by the member of school staff with your child’s group. If you child does not require any medication you do not need to return the form.

Give your children a huge hug and kiss as you drop them off as usual on Thursday at the usual time but please don’t hang around to wave the bus off. This can be more upsetting for the children.

Please can the children bring their suitcase and a back pack.  In the back pack they will need named hats, gloves, water bottle and a good snack for later.  We will take fruit with us from school.

It would be great if you could help the children take a LFT in the morning before coming to school.

We aim to arrive back at school around 3.30pm on Friday. This is so that the traffic around school has had chance to move off.  We will take the children into school and dismiss them from Room 3’s classroom door.

Have a lovely evening, if you have any concerns, please just let us know.

Mrs Pittaway and Mrs Pope