Reception Tadpole’s Promise Remote Learning 07.06.2021

 Tadpole’s Promise

 

Dear Parents and Carers, 

Please email us at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk if you have any queries or questions with regards to your child’s learning. We will be here to support you! Please find below this week’s learning. We have attached web links for documents and files which you can share with your child and/or children at home. 

Phonics & Reading

Days of the Week Song

Click on link for the 07.06.2021 RWI Virtual School

 for this week’s phonic sounds sessions. We have also added Learning to Blend videos too. 

Learning to Blend

At this stage your child is segmenting the letters ---- c-a-t but then saying another word, e.g sounding out c-a-t and saying the word mat! This is a developmental stage to learning to blend and you may find the additional links in the document useful! 

Links will expire in 7 days.

Phonics Comic

https://phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html

My Book Blog

Reading Questions Booklet 

(Reading and Spelling 15 minutes each)

Please record your daily reading in your reading records.

Read a book or Click here for Oxford Owl electronic  reading books.

My Book Blog

https://mybookblog.org/plogin/broadford-primary-sc/

Please email us at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk for your child’s login information.

(Please note books can only be reviewed on the book blog site not read.) 

Numeracy 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Go through the Number 20 and work out the number problems. Can you make the number on their fingers with a family member? Record different ways of making 20 on paper or a whiteboard.  Go on a number hunt around your home looking for the number 20. Can you represent the number 20 or make the number 20? Write up all the addition number sentences you can find. Practise your numbers from 0-20.	Watch Numberblocks 11-15 What did you notice? The numbers after 10 have a pattern. The numbers 11-15 all start with a number 1. That tells us that they’re built with the number 10. Look at the 10 number card: Numicon Numbers. This shows us that there’s one 10 and nothing else. Look at the number card 11. This shows us that there’s one 10 and 1 more. Go through the Numicon Numbers from 10-15.  Can you make the numbers 11-15? You could use cubes or construction.	Watch Numberblocks 11-15 Look at the Numicon Numbers 10-15. Can you work out which picture goes with which number? How can you tell?	Watch Numberblocks - 16-20. What do you notice? The numbers follow the same pattern as 11-15. They are all built with the number 10. Look at the number card 16.: Numicon numbers This shows us that there is one 10 and one 6. How can we build this number? Look at the numbers 17-20: Numicon numbers Make the numbers 16-20 using cubes or construction. Remember that you need to always start with a tower of 10 to build each number.   Look at the Numicon Numbers 16-20. Can you work out which picture goes with which number? How can you tell?

Mathletics

https://login.mathletics.com/ 

Please email us at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk for your child’s login information.

This should be found in your child’s Reading Record.

Topic

Listen to the story - Storytime/Read Aloud:  Tadpole's Promise, by Jeanne Willis

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Listen to the story and go through the Vocab Slides. Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly and the  Tadpole Lifecycle.	Tadpole makes a promise to the Caterpillar. What would you say to the Caterpillar?	Imagine that you are the caterpillar. Why did you fall in love with the tadpole? Why didn’t you want him to change? How did you feel when he did change?	Go through the Similarities and Differences  of the different animals. How are they similar? How are they different?	The caterpillar describes the tadpole as a ‘shiny black pearl’ and the tadpole describes the caterpillar as a ‘beautiful rainbow’. Can you think of other ways of Describing Animals.
Activity: Complete the life cycle of a frog or the life cycle of a butterfly.	Activity: Complete the Speech bubble writing as the Tadpole. What would you say to the Caterpillar?	Activity: Imagine you are Caterpillar and describe how you felt when the Tadpole changed.	Activity: Write a sentence about the animals comparing their similarities and differences. Similarities/Differences Animals.	Activity: Choose an animal to describe: Describing Animals.

Please use the website links below for any additional learning that you may wish to complete with your child. 

Helpful Websites:

There are lots of new and updated websites providing additional online learning and support  if you wish to complete additional learning activities.

• Oak National Academy Reception taught sessions.

• BBC Bitesize Lessons from the BBC

• Twinkl Home Learning Hub

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Maths

• White Rose Math Reception Home Learning Math sessions from White Rose Math

• https://login.mathletics.com/ 

• Numberblocks BBC iPlayer

Phonics & Reading

• RWI Phonics YouTube 

PE

• PE with Joe Wicks 

• Cosmic Yoga for Kids

 

Wellbeing Wednesday

Reception, on Wellbeing Wednesday you can take a break from your computers and devices and take part in lots of fun, different activities outside or around your home.

This afternoon, complete these mindfulness activities:

Have a teddy bear’s picnic with your favourite toys! You can have healthy picnic snacks and tell your teddies stories. 

You could also go for a walk in your local area. What did you notice on your walk? Did you see any animals or notice any changes to any of the trees or wildlife?

You may want to help your family with any chores around the house. You could tidy your room or help with folding clothes away or washing up.

Why not help your family to prepare and make a healthy dinner or bake something delicious in the afternoon! 

We hope you enjoy taking part in Wellbeing Wednesday. 

Please let us know what you got up to and share your learning with us!

 

Please email us at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk to contact a member of the Reception Team. Please submit work using a Parent Postcard on Evidence Me. Keep checking the Broadford More Blogs page EYFS Blog Page and Facebook page for updates. 

 

Best wishes

The Reception Team

Reception Newsletter Summer 2 07.06.2021

 

            

 Dear Parents and Carers, Term: Summer 2

We hope you have had a wonderful holiday with your families and are rested for the exciting term ahead.

105 Books to Read.

Please remember to record your 105 reading books and bring your child’s record to school. Your child will receive a certificate for every 5,10 and 15 books read! This time should be in addition to a bedtime story, where you are reading just for pleasure. Aim for ten minutes a day. Of course there will be days when it doesn’t happen due to special events, trips out or extreme tiredness.

Reading

We will continue to share our home learning pages each week. The home learning document is a great way to see what we will be learning each week in class too. Each week we will still be sharing a sound session, and the word and spelling time sessions too. If you are unsure of your child’s RWI group, please email us at eyfs@broadford.Havering.sch.uk.

The children’s reading is progressing well, with some strong sound recognition and blending skills. The more they practice these skills the more fluent your child will become at decoding words, this then allows them to develop their comprehension skills. We would like to remind everyone that the school’s expectations related to homework, is to read every day. 

Try to make reading a part of your daily routine, finding a time that this fits in with your schedules at home. This could be when you first get home  from school or after dinner. This time could include your child reading t green and red words, and sharing a story together. 

Journeys

Our focus this term will be Journeys & Transitions. We will be looking at the comparisons and contrasts between our local area and places around the world. We will also be looking at similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. We will be focusing on journeys and transitions from Reception to Year 1. Our focus texts this term will be, A Tadpole’s Promise, Handa’s Surprise, The Gruffalo, The Way to School, Lost and Found, Journey and  Billy’s Bucket.

Communication and Language 

We are encouraging children to use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events. The children will also be encouraged to discuss and share about their holidays, home life and the environment. Our focus this term will be on Journeys. 

Physical Development 

As we continue to develop the children’s fine motor strength we will be focussing on their letter and number formation as well. Particularly encouraging and correcting backwards formed letters and numbers. This term we will be focusing on our letter and number formation, ensuring the children have the right patterns, formation and direction. It is vital we encourage these from the beginning, so the children do not form bad habits. We ask if your child is writing at home and forms a letter or number backwards that you work with them to write it the correct way. We will also be continuing  with fine motor activities to strengthen our hand and finger muscles. Of course we will still be working on our gross motor skills in the outdoor areas and during PE lessons. 

Maths

We will begin the term recapping our number recognition to 20. We will be focusing on addition and subtraction of two-single digit numbers to 20. patterns, doubling, halving and odd numbers, and measuring length, weight, capacity and height.

Literacy 

We will be focusing on writing simple sentences that we can read back, as well as spelling our red words correctly. We will also be focusing on our local areas and the world around us.

Understanding the World 

The children will be comparing different places around the world as well as their local environment. We will also be looking at similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. 

Helpful Websites:

• Phonics Play (https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/): Click on the free phonics play and then children for phonics games. Most children are working within phase two or three at this point. Our favourite games are Picnic on Pluto (reading real and alien words) and Pick a Picture. 

• Topmarks (https://www.topmarks.co.uk/): Lots of maths games that are Early Years appropriate.

• School EYFS Blog (http://www.broadford.havering.sch.uk/?page=rss)

Diary dates

Thursday 27th May	Last day of half term
Friday 28th May	INSET day school closed
Monday 7th June	Return to school
Friday 16th July	End of year reports will be sent home
Thursday 22nd July	Last day of the school year
Friday 23rd July	INSET day school clo

Messages:

     

• Please ensure your child has a named set of spare clothes on their peg at all times. 

• All uniform should be labelled with your child’s name including shoes!

• Please can toys from home stay at home. We have lots in school and it saves toys being lost or broken. 

• We ask that your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day each week so it can be changed and your child read with.

If you have any questions or concerns please speak to your class teacher. If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is: eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

        

Kind regards,

The Reception Team