Year R Home Learning Week beginning 6th July

2020

Hello again everyone, we hope you are all ready for another great week of learning. You may have noticed a thread going through our last few Home Learning sheets, as we have included a lot

about being fit and healthy. This week we are really focusing on it. Have fun.We know that home learning cannot work in the same way for everyone, so please ensure that you follow a home learning timetable that works for your family. Don’t forget that we are still looking at all the lovely things you do, if you are able to put them on Tapestry or send in an email. If you have any general queries or specific questions about the home learning, please send them to homelearningew@rosecroft.school.

Have any of you tried any of the extra lessons on Oak National Academy? These are simply extra ideas for those of you who would like to do a bit more or try some different things. Every week they have daily

online video lessons for you to enjoy and join in with: you can pick and choose. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/reception#schedule

However we are learning this week, let us all do our best to have fun, try our best, keep safe and keep others safe too.

With love from all the Reception adults.

Things to do every day Reading – Share a book together. It can be any book at all, but children are more likely to have a try

at reading some of it themselves if they like the book. Favourite books that you have been reading to your child may be a good way to entice them to read. Please support them in reading the words and telling them ones which they get stuck on. You would be surprised how well children can make very sensible guesses of words when they can say some of the sounds and also know the story. Most of all make this a pleasurable time that you can share together.

Phonics – This week is rhyme week. Remember words that rhyme end with the same sound, e.g. hop and shop but NOT hop and hat. Each day choose one of these words: hop, van, red, mat, book, rain, cake – write it on a piece of paper and then write as many words that rhyme with it. Grown-ups, if your child says a word that rhymes but is not spelled the same as the original word, that is fine; please just remind them that it is a different way of writing the sound.

Number – Subtraction or taking away is our daily challenge this week. All you need is a container with small things in e.g. marbles, buttons, pieces of pasta etc., a dice or spinner, a piece of paper, and a pencil. Take a big handful of items from the container and put them down, count the number of items and write the number down. Next to it write the symbol for taking away ‘–‘. Roll the dice or twist the spinner and write the number that it lands on next to the ‘–‘ sign and next write the equals sign ‘=’. What it the answer? You need to take away the number of items shown on the dice or spinner away from your pile of items: the number that you have left is your answer e.g. I have a pile of 6 pieces of pasta, the dice shows 4, so I take away 4 pieces of pasta, which leaves me two pieces of pasta so my equation would look like this 6 – 4 = 2. Some of you may be able to work it out in your head or to count back on a number line by jumping back from the number of items you have, but don’t forget to check your answer. If you want more of a challenge you can make the numbers as big as you are comfortable with.

Maths This week we are continuing our learning using ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ by Vivian French and Alison Bartlett but

this time for our maths work.All the activities can be done without the book but if you would like to hear the story and do not have a copy, you can access one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yvllKqyVUc. The daily lessons can be found at

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/: scroll down to Summer Term week 10 (w/c 29th

June) where you will find the daily videos to watch. If you wish, you can also use the associated powerpoints and activities for each day by clicking on ‘Get the activity’. You can always develop the activities to make them

more challenging.

LiteracyThis week we will be learning a story that might be new to you – ‘Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog’ by Jeanne Willis

and Tony Ross. Note to grown-ups – lessons 4 and 5 are not about how much the children can write: it is about them having a

go and trying their best. They have lots of skills they can use, especially the sounds they know. If your child gets stuck, just help them as much as they need; they will probably surprise you as to how much they can do.

Whatever they complete, please really celebrate what they have written.

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lessons 4/5

Listen to the story read for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfL6YLV3VpUTell a grown-up what was happening in the story and explain why you think the cat and dog changed.

Listen to the story again.In this lesson, we will be using language to describe a page from the book. Look very carefully at the picture on the next page of this sheet. Look at the details of the picture; not just what is happening at the table. Talk with a grown-up about what you can see; give them as much detail as you can. Ask them to write down what you say.

Listen to the story again.In this lesson, we will be adding more detail to our description. As you look at the picture even more closely than you did yesterday, ask your grown-up to read to you all the observations you made yesterday. Ask them to read them again one at a time and to make notes as you add some more details about the picture. For example, yesterday you might have said that a mouse is carrying a fish. Could you add that the tiny mouse is only using one finger but the fish is very big? What other words could you use for big? Have you noticed the jelly on the floor? What colour is it? What is inside it? Use the most exciting words you can.

In these two lessons, we will be writing our own description of the picture. Ask your grown-up to read to you your wonderful descriptions of the picture to remind you of what you said. You now need to write your descriptions: of course your grown-up can remind you of what you said as you go along. Don’t forget that when we write we need capital letters at the beginning of sentences, full stops at the end of sentences, and finger spaces between words. You are all amazing at using the sounds you have learned to write words, so you can be confident that you can do this writing. Try to be as neat as you can, making sure that the letters are formed correctly and are about the same size.All the Reception teachers are looking forward to reading your amazing descriptions on Tapestry or email.

Picture for Literacy lessons 2 and 3

https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/free-resources – lots of short learning activities linked to the curriculum. We use this a lot at school. https://www.new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ParentsMenu.htm – info for parents and Interactive games – choose Phase 2 and Phase 3.https://nrich.maths.org/13371 – a great maths website which develops mathematical thinking.

https://www.purplemash.com/login/ – cross-curricular website for nursery and primary school children.https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 When you first access ‘Bug Club’ you will need to enter the ‘School ID’. Our School ID is 7kaq.https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ – lots of tablet friendly e-books from the Biff & Chip series and project X.

Children’s Art Weeks29 June 2020 - 19 July 2020

This week: Connecting across generations

What do you need to stay healthy?Watch this short video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

“Children’s Art Week” a UK-wide programme by Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, started on 29 June.

Here is the Engage website with further details: https://engage.org/happenings/childrens-art-week

Here are some ideas for what you could do this week: make your family tree if you didn’t last week.

There are some ideas in the photos here, or at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXP68UK3Vwc

draw a picture of yourself at the age you are now, 35 and 85 - be as serious or silly as you like!

make a handprint picture, starting with the oldest member of your family and finishing with the youngest;

make one picture using photos of different generations of your family;

how about making a mobile from things around your house and recycling to represent all your famiy – instead of using 3D shapes like in the picture you could make something for each person e.g a flower for mummy, or a teddy for baby etc.; or

the last idea is to ask everyone in your family to draw a picture of their first toy and put them together in age order.

We are sure that you have even more ideas. As always, it would be fantastic if you can send in pictures of your masterpieces.

v=UxnEuj1c0swThis week we are going to focus on exercise.

Each day you need to do some sort of exercise e.g. riding your bike, playing football, hopping,

making your own obstacle course, dancing: there are some fitness circuit cards at the end

of this pack too. You will need an adult to help you because I

want you to keep a record of what you do, how long you do it for, how you feel at the end of it and what the weather is like (because that can affect how much you can do and how you feel at the end of your exercise). At the end of the week, look back at your record and think how much you have done. What days did you enjoy the most? Why? Did you do more exercise on

the days you enjoyed it most? What other forms of exercise can you try? Well done for

keeping yourself healthy. There is a Joe Wicks log at:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/joe-wicks-exercise-log-t-pe-277 to give you an idea but

you can record your fitness however you want.

RestDo you like going to bed and sleep at night? “No”, I hear

some of you say! Now ask your grown-ups if they like going to sleep: I think that most of them said “yes”. Having enough sleep is really important for helping us to stay

healthy. Have a look at this lesson, while I have a little nap: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/why-is-

sleep-importantNow you know why sleep is so important. So don’t moan at your grown-ups when they say it’s bed-time and you don’t feel tired: they are only doing this to help you stay

healthy. What is your bedtime routine? If you haven’t got one, why

not make one.

Let’s get messyRemember that washing our hands is an

important part of keeping healthy too, and we need to do that when we get messy so this will give you extra practice. It will also be fun and

that is good for you too. I couldn’t decide which idea to put down so I have given you a

link to so that you can choose what to do. What you are able to do will also depend on what you have available at home. So listen to the

choices your grown-ups give you.https://famly.co/blog/inspiration/10-messy-

play-ideas-for-hands-on-learning/ (I know this makes reference to toddlers but it is just as

relevant to 5 year olds and even 50 year olds).