Foundation 2 Home Learning Posts
Good Morning and Happy Friday Foundation Class!
We’ve now welcomed back to school all children in Foundation 2. As this is the case and the children will be accessing learning in their class bubbles, we’ll no longer be posting home-learning activities for F2.
We’ll continue to post weekly activities for Foundation 1 each Monday and a ‘Story time’ video to enjoy at home each Friday. The class bubble teachers will also be posting pictures of the learning that is happening in school each week.
We encourage you, as always, to keep sending in pictures of activities at home to:
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
Have a fantastic weekend!
Story time! Daddy’s Sandwich
For today’s story, I have chosen Daddy’s Sandwich by Pip Jones and Laura Hughes. 
To listen to the story, click here
I have a little helper reading the story for me today!
Activity ideas
- In the story, the little girl is trying to add all of her Daddy’s favourite things to make one giant sandwich. If you were going to make a sandwich for someone special in your family, what things would be in their sandwich?
Perhaps you could draw a picture of your mega sandwich, including all of their favourite things and label it. You could give it to them as a present.
2. This Sunday 21 June is Father’s Day. It is a day when we celebrate and say thank you to someone we love. This could be your Daddy, Grandad or maybe even an uncle. Twinkl.co.uk have lots of craft ideas to make gifts and cards for the day (search ‘Father’s Day’)
I really like this book where you can write lots of things about your special person and add drawings. You can change the name by downloading the editable version.
Have a great weekend!
19 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
1.Sing the tricky word songs.
Phase 3:
Phase 4:
Phonics Activity:
Can you spot any tricky words in this story? How many did you find?
Maths
Now that we have reached the number 20, we will be doing lots of revisiting and revising of the teen numbers. If you have powerpoint at home, have a go at these twinkl slides. There is also a worksheet for all to have a go at.
(Top Tip: Treat each flower pot as a tens frame. You can only have a maximum of 10 in each pot!)
Cherry’s Flowerpots Counting to 20 Powerpoint Cherry’s Fowerpots (Powerpoint slides)
Counting to 20 (Worksheet)
Literacy
Book of the week: Monkey Puzzle
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxpJnk3QO-8)
- It’s puppet show time! Use the puppets, setting and story maps you have made to retell the story Monkey Puzzle
- You could record your puppet show and email it to us at: stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
Here is an example video by Mrs Flynn at Scholes Primary School:
Have a fantastic weekend!
18 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Here are a few fun outdoor activities you could try at home, to practise those phase 4 blends. As many of us can’t see friends at the moment, you could make an obstacle course for family members instead. You could try one or two activities over a few days.
Maths
Mathematical graphics – Can you draw 20 in different ways? Can you tell a number story about your picture?
Things your child could draw to show 20:
- 20 monkeys jumping on a trampoline
- 20 stars in the sky
- 20 rainbows
- 20 hearts
Challenge: Use objects at home to solve the following problem. Is 20 an even or odd number? How do you know?
Literacy
Book of the week: Monkey Puzzle
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxpJnk3QO-8)
- Listen to the story of the week.
- What happens in the story? What are the events?
- Retell the story to a grown up or draw a story map of events.
17 June 2020: F2 Maths Lesson
Number 20!
Please use the following links to access today’s maths video:
Part 1
Part 2
Parents: Please pause the videos at anytime if your child needs more time on things.
Here are the challenges for after the video…
Click on the link below to download to Twinkl sheet.
Number bonds to 20
Have fun!
17 June 2020: F2 Home Learning
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2
Phase 3
Words to Read: drip, pram, plug, bank
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ to help blend the words. How many sounds are in these words?
Words to Write: nest, lamp, felt, gulp
You could draw a phoneme frame in your exercise book to help you remember all the sounds.
Phonics Activity: Phonics play – dragons den – phase 4 – CVCC – Set 1-7 plus digraphs
Maths
Focus number 20!
Please see today’s home learning video.
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle
- Listen to the story of the week.
- What is the setting? Where is the story set?
- Draw the setting of the story. This will be the background for your puppet show. Here is an example of a setting you could draw.
16 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Tricky words lesson slides-
Today’s video lesson is led by one of our Sphere Federation teachers; Mrs Flynn. Click the link below to be taken to today’s video.
Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Maths
- Watch the Numberblock 20 video.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006rr5/numberblocks-series-4-twenty
- Can you do 20 hops, claps, jumps? Remember to count each movement and stop at number 20.
- Write the numbers 0-20 on the floor using chalk, paint or write on paper (make sure they are big enough to stand on).
- Can you find the answers to these problems?
Find and stand on the number that is one less than 20
Find and stand on the number that is double 7
Find and stand on an odd number
Find and stand on a number that is fewer than 8
Find and stand on a number that is more than 10
Find and stand on an even number
Find and stand on the number that is half of 12
Challenge: Parents/carers give your child some more problems to solve or can your child think of their own number problem?
Literacy
Book of the week: Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson
- Listen to the story of the week.
- Who are the characters in the story? Who is in the story?
(Mum Monkey, Dad Monkey, Baby Monkey, Butterfly, Elephant, Snake, Parrot, Frog and Bat)
- Make puppets for some OR all of the characters. Here is an example of a puppet you could make. These puppets will be used for your puppet show on Friday.
You will need paper OR card, colouring pencils and sticks OR spoons.
Week commencing 15 June 2020: F1 Home Learning ‘What the Ladybird Heard’
We’re sure that you’ll all be familiar with this story; you might even have a copy at home. It’s called What the Ladybird Heard and is written by Julia Donaldson. As you listen, why not join in with the animal sounds!:
Which part of the story did you enjoy the most?
How did the animals trick Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len?
Which is your favourite farm animal?
We think you’ll also enjoy this version where Julia Donaldson tells the same story through a song.
Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.
Creative
Can you make a farm yard? You could use Duplo or Lego to make a farm house or barn for your toy animals and tractors. If you have a tray with sides or an empty (storage) box with low sides you could make your own farm small world area. In class, we often add Weetabix and other dry cereals to use as animal food. It can be a little bit messy but hoovers up easily at the end of the day!
You could make a little ladybird and use it re-tell the story as it flies from one animal to the next.
Mark making
Can you draw some of the animals that they found on the farm? Maybe you could draw a map of the farm like Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len used. You could even draw a long wavy line to show where the ladybird flew.
Listening games
Listen closely to the story. What does the ladybird hear? There is a ladybird on every page and he/she hears all the goings on in the farmyard and story. Play your own game, listening to the world around you. Say the phrase “I hear with my little ear something that sounds like…” Describe that you can hear around you.
Here’s a game we sometimes we play at Nursery. Get your listening ears ready… What animal can you hear? One of the cats purring is a little bit tricky!
Find out more about ladybirds
Here’s a short video all about ladybirds. Can you spot any ladybirds in your garden or on a walk?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01cb05t
Mathematics
1) One of the mathematical concepts that children sometimes find difficult is knowing that they can split a group of objects in different ways, but that the total is still the same. Here is an activity that may help with this.
Draw a ladybird outline and cut out 4-6 spots. Start with 4 spots and count them together with your child. Ask them to put the spots on the ladybird’s wings. How many are there? Talk about how many spots there are on each wing, but that there are still 4 spots altogether. Repeat, splitting the spots in a different way (Eg 2 spots on each wing, or 3 spots on 1 wing and 1 spot on the other). Each time you move the spots, count how many there are on each wing and how many there are altogether. That’s right, there are still 4!
If you return to play again another day, repeat the activity using a different number of spots between 2-6.
2) If you fancy painting, draw some basic ladybird outlines and ask your child to paint or fingerprint a given number (e.g 1-5) of spots on each wing. How many spots are there on both wings? Which ladybird as the fewest/most spots?
Can you spot the difference?
15 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2 – https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/flash-cards?phase=2
Phase 3 – https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/flash-cards?phase=3
Words to read:
Phonics Activity:
Phonics play – buried treasure – phase 4
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/buried-treasure
Maths
- Watch the video and count backwards from 20 to 0.
Today you will need:
- colouring pencils and paper or chalk and some outdoor space
- 0-20 number flash cards
- Parents/carers hold up and say a number. Children can you draw that many spots either on paper or on the ground?
- Look at how you can draw x amount of spots in different ways. E.g. you could draw 6 spots by drawing 2 at a time or by drawing 3 spots and then 3 more.
- Parents/carers ask the children some questions about each number as you go along e.g. what is 1 more/less, what is double… or half…?
Literacy
Book of the week: Monkey puzzle
- Listen to the story of the week.
This week we are going to be looking at the characters, setting and events in the story. This will then help us retell the story using homemade props.
- What do we mean when we say character? Setting? Events?
To join in with this week’s creative activities, you will need the following items. Hopefully, these are items you will find in your home.
- Paper OR card and colouring pencils
- Sticks from outside OR a collection of spoons (they can be re-used afterwards)
- Sticky tape
Perhaps if you are going outside for your daily exercise today you could collect some sticks.
Answers:
Character = Who is in the story. The people/animals in the story.
Setting = Where the story is set.
Events = What happens in the story.
Home Learning Heroes!
Let’s see what our home learning heroes have been up to over the past few weeks…
Did you manage to watch this week’s story time? It was a poem called Nuts about Nuts. One of the challenges was to add your own rhyme or mini-poem about your favourite food.
Well done to Willow, who came up with this fantastic poem:
I like tuna pasta,
I like it when it’s hot,
I like tuna pasta,
I like it when it’s not,
I like tuna pasta,
I like it in a dish,
I like tuna pasta,
Even though it’s fish!
Remember to send us your home learning pictures: stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org