Reception Home Learning Week 10

Good morning Reception!

Although we will be welcoming some children back to school later this week, we will be continuing with our home learning and communication with those at home. If your child is attending school on Thursdays and Fridays, you may still want to follow some of our home learning ideas at the start of the week. Don’t forget that RWI Phonics are starting their ‘Hold a Sentence’ videos today, this will be great daily practice of all of writing techniques. Give it a go!

Apologies to anyone who has had trouble with Literacy Planet recently, there has been a few issues with the school renewing the subscription. Hopefully it should be up and running again now. If you have any problems please do let us know.

If your child is returning to school, this story might be a nice one to share with them before they start.

Back to school story

Summer Reading Challenge

The Summer Reading Challenge is an annual event aimed at 4 – 11 year olds. Children are encouraged to read six books of their choice during the summer holidays with collectable incentives and rewards, plus a certificate for every child who completes the Challenge.

This year, with the disruption caused by Covid-19 and the impact of social distancing on schools and public libraries, the all-new digital Summer Reading Challenge is launching earlier than usual to keep children reading over the summer and support parents and carers with children already at home.

The theme for the Challenge and associated marketing campaign is “Silly Squad” – a celebration of funny books, happiness and laughter, featuring bespoke artwork from award-winning children's author and illustrator, Laura Ellen Anderson.

https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk

Here’s what we’ve got planned this week…..

Reading

We know it is tricky to read everyday, and you may be growing a little tired of your books at home. However it is important to try and keep reading regularly. Oxford Owls has lots of online books of varying levels to read. You should also continue to share stories together, if you’re running out of books Youtube is full of storybooks and CBeebies also has a lot of stories and an app you can download for free. You might also like to get involved with the summer reading challenge mentioned above!

CBeebies Stories - https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories
CBeebies Storytime App - https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/apps/cbeebies-storytime-app

Oxford Owls Books https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/home/reading-site/find-a-book/library-page?view=image&series=Read+Write+Inc.

Teach Your Monster to Read - https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/


Tales Toolkit

Before schools closed we had just begun using Tales Toolkit with the children to develop storytelling and language. Tales toolkit uses four symbols to structure the story and is easy for children to become familiar with. These symbols are character, setting, problem and solution.

Watch the video to find out what the character, setting, problem and solution are. Encourage your child to verbally create a story using these prompts. You may want to scribe their story for them or if your child is looking for a challenge after they have told the story they could have a go at writing it. We would love to hear or read your stories Reception!

Writing

We all love the story The Gruffalo! If you have the story at home, read it together and encourage your child to join in with the repeated refrains. If you don’t, you can listen to the story on Youtube below.

When you are finished discuss what the Gruffalo looks like, encourage your child to use descriptive words. Your challenge this week is to make a ‘Wanted Poster’ to help catch the Gruffalo! Can you write a few sentences to describe the Guffalo, plan your sentences out loud first and then have a go at writing them independently. You could make your own wanted poster or use the template below. Remember once you’ve written your poster to stick it up (on the window, wall or outside, so people can see it! We would also love to see your posters so send us a photo too!

Gruffalo Wanted Poster

Don’t forget your finger spaces between words and remember to use the sound mat to help with letter formation.

Click here to use the Sound Mat 

Maths

This week we suggest you recap doubling before moving on to halfing. To start with, look at halving objects. What does half mean? Do the two pieces need to be the same size? You could cut in half a piece of string, paper shapes (square, circle, rectangle), strips of paper, or pieces of food! The important thing when we discuss ‘halving’ is that the children know when you cut something in half, you get two pieces and these should be the same size!

Once your child understands what half means, you could begin to half quantities. Food works really well for this! I have eight sweets, can you split them in half? What is half of eight? If I have ten cheerios, what is half? You could use lego bricks, pasta, buttons, anything you can think of!

Hit the Button is an online game that focuses less on practical maths and more recall of facts. You can practice doubles, halving and number bonds (this also includes addition), as well as choose the level to practice at. It might be something your child would enjoy playing on, we advise you stick to the lower levels.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

White Rose Maths

This week’s Maths is based around the book Princess Mirror-Belle & the Dragon Pox. You can listen to the story here.

Take a look at the activities, choose the ones you would like to do and let us know how you get on. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/


Other Activities

• Floating and sinking. Collect a variety of objects from around the house. Which ones do you think will float or sink? Why do you think this? Is there any similarities between the items that floated and/or sunk?

• Washing our hands experiment! This is one we will be doing in school this week…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/germs-experiment 

• Create your own Gruffalo! What will you use? Will you draw it? Build it? Model it? Dress up as the Gruffalo?

• Make your own Gruffalo Crumble, yummy! https://mummy2twindividuals.com/world-book-day-no-bake-gruffalo-recipe

Spellings

This week our spellings are a mixture of green and red words, remember to think about whether there is a ‘special friend’ or tricky part in the word. Keep practising the other words you might have found tricky so you can use these in your writing.

Practice writing these spelling everyday, ready for the test on Fridays. One of your teachers will read out these spellings in a video for you to have a go at home. You can find the test on the Facebook page or through the blog on the school website. Good luck!

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RWI Phonics

From June 1st all lessons will be available at 9.30am and set one, two and three lessons will restart. Set two and three speed sound lessons will include new words for reading and spelling. There will also be daily videos to practice reading red words.

Starting on the 15th June there will also be videos for read and hold a sentence.

Joining in daily with the speed sound lessons, is one of our top recommendations to add into your daily timetable during lockdown. Remember you can find them on Youtube or Facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ


Please keep us updated on how you are getting on at home by emailing eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk.

Do not forget about all of the online resources including Phonics Play, Oxford Owls, Topmarks and Literacy Planet. Any questions please contact us and if you discover any great resources please share them with us.


Keep safe and keep smiling,
The Reception Team