Remember, it is okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling correctly is important. It encourages the children to use their own skills – rather than copy from an adult.
It is important you do not let your child simply copy your writing. They need to use their phonics skills to write. Here is an example of a child’s writing in Foundation 2.
Phonics
Parents: Please read the digraphs to your child so that they do not copy them. They can then write them their home learning book. For help with pronunciation, please see the video previously uploaded by Mrs Allen-Kelly.
3. Write a sentence to match the picture e.g. ‘fish and chips on a dish’ or ‘I had and chips for dinner’.
Challenge: Can you use an adventurous word in your sentence? e.g. ‘fish and chips are delicious’
Literacy
Book of the week: The tiger who came to tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXtqJp8Az8
Parents: Here is an example of a story map.
Maths- Subtraction
Oh no! The song seems to have forgotten the number 0! We talk lots about the number 0 being nothing but still being a number. Try to add the number 0 when singing the song.
Parents: if needed, your child could use objects at home to help when counting.
There are 6 ducks in the water. Some ducks got out of the water. Now there are only half left in the water. How many ducks got out of the water? How many are left?
I had 8 chicken nuggets. I ate some and have 5 left. How many did I eat?
There are 5 people in the house. How many shoes will be by the door? Try to count in 2’s to find the answer when counting the pairs of shoes.
This week we will be thinking about the story Simon Sock by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet .
We were lucky enough to all get this free book via the Book Trust this year. If you got a copy share it with your child, if you didn’t here is a link to the story. Talk about the story. How many socks for different occasions do you have? Why is it alright to be friends with someone who doesn’t look like you?
Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.
Sorting activity – get some socks and then sort them into pairs. What patterns can you see? Which socks are big and which are small? Can you sort your socks into pairs? Can you make a pattern with your socks black, white, black, white?
Mark making activity – draw a sock shape or cut one out for your child. Let them design their own pattern on it. Use lots of different colours to create a stripy pattern or a spotty pattern
Creative activity – use an old or odd sock to make a puppet. Draw eye shapes and stick them on with glue or sellotape. Add any other decorations that you have around your house.
Working on our muscles for writing – make a small washing line with wool, string or thread. Tie it between 2 chairs, at a height that your child can reach. Using some household pegs ask your child to peg their socks onto the line.
Math’s activities with socks – make a pile of socks. Can you ask your child to give you 4 socks from the pile? Choose any number below 5 see how they get on then extend to 10. Split a pile of socks (maximum of 10) into 2 piles. Ask your child to count how many socks there are altogether eg 3 in one pile and 4 in another. Change the amount each time.
Self – care – teach your child how to put their socks and shoes on independently. This is a skill that they will need when they arrive in Foundation 2 in September. Taking the time now will really help your child when dressing on their own after PE in September.
Let us know how you get on by replying to the email address stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
We would love to hear about what you have been doing. Also we are happy to answer any of your questions too.
Have fun!
Phonics
Please see today’s phonics video (posted at 10.00 am)
Literacy
Book of the week: The tiger who came to tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXtqJp8Az8
Maths- Addition
(in the tune to twinkle, twinkle little star)
5 and 4 add up to 10
6 and 4 make 10 again
7 and 3 will also do
Look carefully, so will 8 and 2
9 and 1
0 and 10 completes the way of making 10.
Parents: if needed, your child could use objects at home to help when counting.
Challenge: Practise your number bonds to 10 and you won’t need objects to find the answers.
Take a look at the super home-learning this week!
Leo made a special card for Captain Tom for his 100th birthday! He posted it to him. He has also been very busy with his home-learning challenges.
W has been learning about capacity. She also sent in a lovely picture from her in-school learning at our federation school, Scholes.
L had a lovely Easter half term. She has been very busy exercising lots , baking and finding Easter eggs! She also sent in pictures of her home-learning challenge workbook from this week.
Please use the following link to access this week’s maths video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16hUqFqYo-yRc9kqNryihvbxGT-TY0IGe/view?usp=sharing
Take a look at what some of our children have been up to over the Easter break!
If you would like to share pictures from home, send them to:
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
Please use the following link to access this week’s phonics video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yTj2UUlSn9rbTaHtFgKOY10q9bBQNXnM/view?usp=sharing
Welcome back to home learning! We hope you had a lovely Easter together.
Over the next few weeks, we will be encouraging F1 to focus on a story for their home learning .
This week, we will be thinking about the story Oh dear by Rod Campbell. He also wrote the story Dear Zoo, maybe you would like to listen to that too! You might have this story at home but if not we have posted a link to it on Youtube.
Oh dear
Dear Zoo
Activities
Read or listen to the story with your child – talk about the story with your child. Discuss all of the animals that Buster visits on the farm. Talk about the young of these animals and their names eg. sheep – lamb, a horse- foal. Listen to the story again encouraging your child to join in with the repeated phrase “No eggs here, Oh dear” How many eggs can they see in the nest at the end of the story? How many animals are in the story?
Can you draw a chick?- Perhaps draw the basic outline of 2 circles then ask your child to add a beak, eyes, legs, wings, feathers.
Small world play – If you have farm animals at a home, ask your child to set up their own farm. Use paper for fields and an old cereal box as a farm house.
Sing – Old MacDonald and Baa baa black sheep are favourites in Nursery. Why not learn Chick chick chicken from the link below.
Chick, chick chicken
Eggs – We were planning to look at eggs in various forms at Nursery. Maybe you could do this at home? Peeling a boiled egg is a finger strengthening activity that young children need in order to develop the muscles needed to write. Let them help to make an egg sandwich.
Let us know how you get on, by replying to the email address: stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org.
We would love to hear about what you have been doing. Also we are happy to answer any of your questions too.
Have fun!
We hope you’ve all had a fantastic Easter half term. Thank you to those parents who continued to send us lovely photos of activities over the past two weeks.
From Monday, we’ll continue to post daily learning activities for F2 and a weekly activity menu for F1 based on a popular story.
In addition to this, the class teachers will be creating some lesson-style videos and providing a link to these. On Mondays at 10 am we’ll post a link to a phonics ‘lesson’, which will include two new tricky words to learn. On Wednesdays at 10 am we’ll post a maths ‘lesson’ which will be based on the next focus number. As we finished on the number 13 before the school closure, this will be the number we start with next Wednesday. We’ll also be posting some ‘story time’ videos on Fridays at 9am, keep an eye out for those too!
Good luck with the return to home learning. Stay Safe and don’t forget to email us with any questions or comments:
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org