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2 years, 301 days ago
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Home Learning 2.11.21

Here are the activities for anyone self isolating today.

 

Letters and Sounds

Please have a look at your sound mat and go through all the Phase 2 sounds and tricky words. Hopefully you are starting to get more confident with these now that we have finished learning all of Phase 2.

Then, have a go at writing the CVC words below. You can print out the sheet or just write them straight onto paper. Remember to use your sound mat and word builder to help you.

CVC Words

 

Maths

This week we are learning about 2d shapes. Have a look around your house, can you find anything that’s the same shape as a circle, square, triangle and rectangle?

Then, put these shapes into a bag and take it in turns with your grown up to feel the shape and describe it to each other. For example, I might say ‘It is a shape with 4 straight sides and 4 corners, all the sides are the same length.’ and you would be able to guess from the clues that it’s a square.

 

Forest School

This afternoon we were starting to make Christmas decorations, maybe take the time to start decorating your house if you haven’t already, or make a new Christmas decoration!

 

Have a lovely day!

Miss Roberts

2 years, 309 days ago
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Wednesday 24th November

Hello everyone at home,

 

Here’s what we’ve been doing in school today.

 

Letters and Sounds

Go on to the Phonics Play website using the username pps1 and the password apple. Have a go at going through your sounds and tricky words using the flashcards game. Remember we are learning Phase 2 at the moment.

Then we had a go at writing captions to go with a picture. Using your sound mat and word builder, can you sound out and write the following sentences:

pat a dog

peg up the socks

the sun is hot

Then can you have a go at drawing a picture to go along with them.

 

Maths

Today we had a go at ordering our numbers to 10. You might want to start by making flashcards of the numbers up to 10, don’t forget how to form each number properly! Then mix them up and order them up to 10. Could you order them backwards too? Maybe you could take one of the numbers out and see which one is missing.

 

Afternoon

This afternoon we had child initiated time – so enjoy having a play! We also had a nativity rehearsal, so you might want to have a go at singing some of the songs at home too.

 

Miss Roberts

2 years, 314 days ago
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Friday 19th November

Hello to all of you self-isolating at home!

Here is what we have been up to in school today.

 

Maths

Today we started off by counting up to different numbers and back down to zero again. Can you do this with numbers 7, 11, 20, 15, 9?

Then we had a look at a number track. Have a look at the one below, what numbers can you see?

Then we had our own number tracks with different numbers missing. Can you complete the sheet below with the missing numbers? If we weren’t sure what number was missing, we started at 1 and counted up until we got to the missing number. Don’t forget our number rhymes to help you form each number!

Missing Numbers

 

Forest School Diaries

Yesterday in Forest School we went on a hunt for different words around the school grounds and we wrote them down next to the correct picture once we found them. When we completed our Forest School diaries today, we drew some of the places that we found the words and had a go at using our word builder and sound mat to write a few of the words down. Can you have a go at writing some of the following words down using your word builder or sound mat?

cat, dog, pen, net, mop, peg, sun, map

Or you could even set up a word hunt in your own house!

 

PE

This afternoon we had PE with our crossbar coaches. You might want to do some yoga, or have a go at playing our traffic light game. Remember the words for the different actions:

Red = stop

Amber = walk on the spot

Green = walk / jog / run (depending on space)

Windscreen wipers = move body side to side

Speed camera = jump in the air in a star shape

 

If you wanted to do yoga, have a look at the video below

 

We then finished the afternoon with a Nativity rehearsal, so you might want to have a go at singing some of the songs we’ve learned.

 

Have a lovely day!

Miss Roberts x

2 years, 341 days ago
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Half Term Challenge

You might have noticed some of your children showing you a magic way that we have learnt to put our coats on. It’s a great way to encourage a little bit of independence as it’s a really easy way for them to put their coats on by themselves. Over half term, could you encourage children to keep having a go at putting their coat on independently until they are really confident with it? It would also be amazing if you could help show them how to do their zips up too.

With the colder weather approaching it’s hard work helping 30 children to put their coats on all at the same time, so the more they can do themselves the better!

Have a watch of the video below if you aren’t sure of the method then have a watch of the video below.

Have a lovely half term everyone – you have definitely earnt it!

3 years, 6 days ago
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Tapestry

Just an apology about there not being any observations on Tapestry yet. We have changed over our IT system and are still waiting for the Tapestry app to be loaded onto the iPads. I have lots and lots of photos ready to go for when it’s live, but unfortunately it’s just a waiting game at the moment!

I promise all children are having lots of fun in school, they’ve settled in brilliantly and I think they are going to be a real bunch of superstars!

3 years, 18 days ago
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Parent phone calls

Hello,

Just to let you know, I have managed to ring half the parents so far today. If I haven’t managed to contact you about how your child is settling in then I will do this next Friday, but please feel free to email me or speak to me at the door after the sessions in the meantime.

Miss Roberts

3 years, 25 days ago
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Welcome to school!

Hi everyone,

I am so excited to get to meet all your lovely children properly next week. I’ve got lots of exciting things planned and I’m sure they are going to love coming to school.

Just a quick reminder about PE and Forest School.

Forest School will be on a Wednesday. Children need to come into school wearing clothes for outside on these days, and there’s no need to bring uniform for them to change into afterwards. Please bring wellies and waterproofs in for us to keep in school.

PE will be on a Thursday. Children need to come in wearing their PE kit on these days, some PE sessions may be taking place outside, so please remember to make sure children have a PE jumper / fleece with them on these days too.

Forest School and PE will be starting the week beginning 20th September, once all children are in full time, so no need to worry about this for the next few weeks!

Also, please remember to make sure your child has a water bottle with them in school each day. We politely ask that it is water in bottles and not juice, as this is our school policy.

See you all next week,

Miss Roberts

3 years, 69 days ago
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Name change!

Just to make you aware, as a result of my upcoming divorce, in September my name will have changed from Mrs Garcia to Ms Vincent – hence the name change on my emails and on this post! My new class have been told this, but it’s not a problem if anyone forgets as I answer to most things!!

Have a great summer everyone.

3 years, 72 days ago
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Next Week

I can’t believe our last few days of Reception are finally here! It looks like it’s going to be a scorcher, so please remember sun cream, sunhats and water bottles every day this week.

We will be sending a few bits home with the children this week, including their books that they have been working in this year. I will choose 3 children and keep their books in school for a year, and theirs will be sent home at the end of next year. So please don’t worry if your child comes home without their books.

We will also be sending wellies and other Forest School bits home this week, so please can you all send your child into school with a carrier bag to bring them home in? Or just take them with you in the morning / at the end of the day if you would prefer.

Remember there is no Forest School on the last day – so come in uniform on Wednesday please!

If you haven’t already, please have a little hunt for any reading books at home and send them into school. We will be passing on their reading records to Year 1 so that the adults in there know which books to start off with next year, so please send these in too.

 

Thank you!

Miss Roberts