05 January 2021: F1 Home Learning

Happy New Year! I hope that you’ve had a happy and healthy Christmas.

Phonics
Listening Walk
Go on a Listening Walk with an adult around your house and in your garden. Practise listening carefully to all the different sounds you hear. Talk about what you heard. Did you recognise all the sounds? Were they loud or quiet? Were they long or short sounds?
Draw pictures of the things you heard on a piece of paper.

Maths
Build a tower using building bricks, blocks, cubes or anything you have at home.
How tall is your tower?
Can you count all of the bricks?
Can you build a smaller tower?
Topic
We are currently in the season winter. This morning, there might be frost on the floor. Go outside into your garden to explore the frost.
Talk to an adult about…
What happens in winter?
Do you like winter?
How do we keep warm in winter?
Draw or paint a picture of someone dressed for a cold winter day.

05 January 2021: F2 Home Learning

Happy New Year! I hope that you’ve had a happy and healthy Christmas.

Phonics
1. Quickwrite!
Practise writing the phase 2 sounds.
Parents: Please read the sounds to your child. They can then write them on a piece of paper.

Parents: Your child should have this sound mat in the home learning pack which was sent out before Christmas.

2. Words to read:

Was your child able to blend the words? Encourage your child to use their ‘phoneme fingers’ to help them when reading words.

3. Words to write:
mud   hat   peg   cog
Ask an adult to read out the words. Use your phoneme frames in your home learning pack. Remember to write one phoneme in each box.

Literacy Activity
Tell me something about your Christmas holiday.
You could draw a picture and label it with a simple sentence or word.
Remember to use your phoneme fingers when segmenting!

Maths Activity
Sammy squirrel likes to hide nuts for the winter. He has hidden 2 nuts in one hole and 3 nuts in another hole. How many nuts has he hidden altogether? Draw a picture or a number story to show your answer.

Please use the email address below to send photos of your child’s home learning and if you have any questions about the home learning activities.
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org

Christmas Party

Merry Christmas and a happy new year from all of the Foundation Team!

Christingle

Preparing for our Christingle service.
The children were very sensible when holding their Christingles – we were very proud of them all.

Talk to your child about the Christingle service and see if they can remember the meaning.

Christmas Jumper Competition

Well done to all the children who designed a Christmas jumper for last week’s home-link challenge. You all made it very difficult to choose a winner!
The runners up…
Ava

Alba
The winner is…
Logan

Christmas Lunch

Virtual Santa Visit

The Christmas Sing-a-Long

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did performing it!

Merry Christmas!

This week in Foundation…

We filmed the Christmas show on Monday and the children all looked fabulous and did some amazing singing. Make sure you check out the Foundation Class News Page on Tuesday – you don’t want to miss it!

This week has been another busy week full of lots of great learning.
Here are some of the things we’ve been up to this week…
We made and decorated salt dough baubles. The children will be bringing them home next Wednesday. The children enjoyed navigating the Bee-Bots around the mat to different Christmas pictures. They had a go at drawing some maps to show how the Bee-Bot got to one of the pictures.

This week, our focus story was The Christmas Story. The F2 children drew a picture of their favourite part and retold the story using the finger puppets in the reading corner. Some of the children made a stable using the outdoor construction resources.

Getting messy in the sensory area!

Click here to watch a snapshot of what we do when we are learning in the areas.

Next week is a going to be another hectic week.
We have lots of fun activities planned for the children.
Don’t forget it’s our Christmas party next Friday. The children can come in their party clothes.

Home-Link Challenge

Christmas celebrations

As we approach the final week of term, it’s time to get Christmassy, but as you know, it’s going to be very different.

We can’t invite you in to share any Christmas celebrations so instead we’re going to share Christmas with you in a different way. From Tuesday 15 December, there will be a video posted on Class News of your child’s class taking part in some Christmas celebrations. We know that this doesn’t compare to what we normally do but we hope that it helps in some way.

During the final week of term, there will be a virtual pantomime performance that children will be able to watch at school. Thanks to the PTA who have paid for this.

Christmas lunch will be on Tuesday 15 December and all children will get a Christmas cracker!

On Friday 18 December, there will be Christmas parties in classrooms. Children can come to school in non-uniform. There will be some goodies coming home which have kindly been bought by the company who provide and maintain our photocopiers and printers.

It’s a very different Christmas this year but we’ve worked so hard to stay safe that we don’t want to spoil it now.

We hope that you have a happy and healthy, enjoyable and restful time with your families over the Christmas holidays.