Owlets

Dear Parent/Carer

Although the school is temporarily closed due to the Coronavirus, we are continuing to provide

education for your child.

Please see the attached home learning tasks for your child to complete this week:

- Reading (minimum 15 minutes per day)

- 30 minutes daily of English across the week, including daily phonics (10 minutes).

- 30 minutes daily of Maths across the week

- Wider curriculum tasks – children will be awarded Dojo points for the activities they complete.

- Please supplement with online learning and record this as part of your child’s learning timetable

- Please refer to classroom where there will be tutorials to support learning.

Please upload learning to Class Dojo

Phonics:

Phonics is vital to speech, reading, spelling and writing. Please practise daily

Watch the video on Class Dojo/school website for pronunciation of sounds

PHONICS Summer 4

MON

Practice sounds: s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss j v w x y z qu sh ch th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er. Play speed trial flashcards on Phonics Play.

Practice reading Phase 4 tricky words: have, like, some, come Practice writing: Ear Practice spelling- All tricky words in Phase 3.

Teach reading CCVC words by writing pot on the whiteboard. Sound talk- p-o-t. Write s in front of pot to make spot. Point to the s and say sssss holding the sound then point to the next consonant and continue sound talking the rest of the word. Repeat with step, stop, skip, trip, plan, from.

TUE Practice sounds: s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss j v w x y z qu sh ch th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er. Play speed trial flashcards on Phonics Play.

Practice reading Phase 4 tricky words: have, like, some, come Practice writing: Ear Practice spelling- All tricky words in Phase 3.

Practice reading sentences:

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/ph

onics-phase-4-sentence-game-2

Usernames and Passwords will be sent

individually.

WED Practice sounds- s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss j v w x y z qu sh ch th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er. Play speed trial flashcards on Phonics Play.

Practice reading Phase 4 tricky words: have, like, some, come Practice writing: ear Practice spelling- All tricky words in Phase 3.

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/phase-4-phonics-match-words-to-pictures-game-1/ Usernames and Passwords will be sent individually.

Phonics play:

Log in- march20

Password- home

THU Practice sounds- s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss j v w x y z qu sh ch th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er. Play speed trial flashcards on Phonics Play.

Practice reading Phase 4 tricky words: have, like, some, come Practice writing: air Practice spelling- All tricky words in Phase 3.

Parents say the word and children to write the

word by sound talking it for writing- spot, step,

trip, from, skip,

FRI Practice sounds- s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss j v w x y z qu sh ch th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er. Play speed trial flashcards on Phonics Play.

Practice reading Phase 4 tricky words: have, like, some, come Practice writing: ear Practice spelling- All tricky words in Phase 3.

Read a sentence. Ask children to sound talk to

help them work out how to spell the words. This

frog is strong. His green skin has bumps. He

likes to swim in his pond.

English tasks: Parents you will need to look at the booklet attached to the email and on Class Dojo. You may find it helpful to print it. This booklet will be used over the next few weeks.

Monday:

Read or listen to the story ‘Mouse’s Adventure’ (In booklet page 3 and 4) http://soundcloud.com/talkforwriting/mouse/s-rV3emp306CV

Talk with your child about what happened in the story. What did they like? Did anything surprise them? Do they have any questions? Take notes or video and post on Dojo.

Tuesday:

Read or listen to the story ‘Mouse’s Adventure’ (In booklet page 3 and 4)

Encourage your child to understand the story by entering into the story world with one of their own toys.

Can you pretend one of your toys is in the story? While reading keep stopping and asking can you remember what mouse said? What would your toy say?

Wednesday:

Rhymes are very important they help to keep the learning fun. Sing this rhyme and think of actions to each part of the rhyme.

Hickory Dickory Dock,

The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one.

The mouse ran down.

Hickory dickory dock.

Thursday:

Look at the pictures on page 9. Mouse has been on more adventures. What has he been doing?

Write about each picture to explain what mouse is doing.

‘Mouse is eating.’

Online learning resources:

Nessy: www.nessy.com (pupils with access only)

Read theory: www.readtheory.org

BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary

Literacy shed: www.literacyshed.com

Primary Resources: www.primaryresources.co.uk

Learning by Questions: https://www.lbq.org/

Classroom secrets kids:

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk

Phonics play: www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Twinkl: www.twinkl.co.uk

Pearson Education:

https://www.pearson.com/uk/educators/schools/update

-for-schools/primary-support.html

Oxford Owl: www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Other free resources:

http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/

Friday:

Look at page 10. Sequencing is really important. Use the story path and add words to retell the story about Mouse’s adventure.

Extra play activities to encourage writing

Feather writing

If you can find a feather it can be used in so many different ways; mark making and letter formation in sand/ salt or dip in paint and practice writing words.

What you need –

• Feather

• Paint

• Paper

• Sand/ salt

Super Veggie Writing

Turn a vegetable into a super hero and have an adventure. Write speech bubbles for your vegetable. ‘Save me’ ‘Help! I am stuck.’

Encouraging writing through play is really important

Home areas- Menus, price lists, orders

Shops- Labelling, price lists, shopping lists

Doctors- Prescriptions, checklists, notes, names

Schools- register, lessons, labels

Office- Messages, lists, ordering

Getting the children to create menus for the evening meal, writing your shopping list or any kind of list, labelling etc, are fantastic but simple ways to get children to write.

Maths tasks – In line with all other year groups across the School, learning for maths will

now be accessed through White Rose.

Please use this link: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/

Once on this page (Home Learning – Early Years) you will see home learning for the week

beginning the 1st June. Learning will be taught through the text: The Snail and the Whale

(please do not worry if you do not have a copy of this book as all activities can be done

without it) Each day there is a new presentation with new activities to explore with your

child – you can choose to either press play and listen to the teacher narrate the lesson

and pause when necessary or click on ‘Get the Activity’ which will download the

presentation as a pdf PowerPoint. Or you can do a mixture of both! Please contact us if

you are having problems accessing this new material.

Over the week learning will focus on: Exploring patterns, adding more and taking away.

Monday: Day 1. Exploring spirals. (For one of the activities you will need wraps (could use bread!) and chocolate spread or jam (please don’t

worry if you do not have them)

Tuesday: Day 2. Exploring pattern. (Possible resources: Paint)

Wednesday: Day 3. Counting numbers to 20.

Thursday: Day 4. Doubling. Halving and sharing. Odds and evens. (Possible resources: 2 plates and objects to share)

Friday: Day 5. Length. Height and distance.

Extra tasks – optional

Hopscotch.

Online learning resources:

RM Easimaths: www.rmeasimaths.com

BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary

Percy Parker times tables: www.percyparker.com

Learning by Questions: https://www.lbq.org/

Prodigy maths: https://www.prodigygame.com

Top Marks: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Nrich: https://nrich.maths.org/

White Rose: https://whiterosemaths.com/

With all the lovely weather we are having, you could make the most of being outside by drawing a hopscotch on the floor using chalk. Hopsctoch is a

great interactive number game. You could play in the traditional way or make up some of your own rules and design your own grids. Make sure you say

the number which your stone lands in each time – this is good practice! Watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msiX-xky6Ac

Finger Painting.

Try painting numbers using finger paints. This is a fantastic sensory and messy play activity that will engage

children with number. Form a range of numbers including 2-digit numbers such as 17.

- Choose and play a game on Topmarks https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting or BBC Bitezize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8 It will be good to cover the same content that you learnt about with whiterose and any counting,

ordering, sequencing and place value.

- Activities we will set on class Dojo

- Games with maths at home, e.g. snakes and ladders, skittles, hoopla, pairs games, bingo

• If you are struggling with anything, please message on Class Dojo and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Wider curriculum tasks

During the next half term, we will be setting you a project to complete at your own pace across the 7 weeks. The main project will focus on DT

but will also incorporate other wider curriculum subjects. The project will be ‘Design a Healthy Snack’ and you can present your work in a way

which suits you e.g. fact file, display board, powerpoint etc. We will also continue to provide tasks for some wider curriculum subjects and give

suggestions of extra activities/ideas to do at home which do not link to the project. We have placed the tasks in the order of the subjects which

we see best fits for a build-up of a full project.

Science/PSHE

Research healthy eating and healthy living and what the benefits are for our bodies.

• Look at the healthy eating powerpoint – can you remember the different types of food we need to consume. Use the healthy food

plate to identify food in the different sections, while completing this start to think of food which you may use for your healthy snack.

• Thinking about what you learnt from the healthy eating powerpoint and your healthy food plate. Sort food into ‘healthy’ and

‘unhealthy’ categories. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-29225-healthy-or-unhealthy-sorting-powerpoint

• Think about where your food comes from. Does it come from an animal or plant? https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/cfe-p-211-where-

does-my-food-come-from-sorting-cards

DT

Plan and design a healthy snack – this could be anything from a fruit kebab, healthy cereal bar or healthy drink/smoothie.

• Design your healthy snack (you can use the template as support) – think about what you have learnt about healthy food in science.

What type of snack will you design? What will you include in your healthy snack and what proportions?

• Write a recipe for your healthy snack, remember what you have learnt about instructional writing and how to form the layout.

Geography and History

• Research how and where different food is grown – is different food grown in different countries? (Rice/ pasta/ lentils)

Art & Music

Can you create a super hero from a vegetable? Name your new super hero vegetable and create a poster.

P E

Can you balance on one leg? Try to improve your time balancing on one leg over the course of the week and record your times.

Can you complete a jigsaw puzzle without stopping or any help?

Can you play ‘follow my leader’ and think of some fitness activities for everyone to follow?

Computing

A few ideas of how computing could be used to support your learning for your project.

• Use the internet to research and find out information.

• Use powerpoint or word to record your learning.

• Use a video to record your advertisement.

RE/ Art

Can you watch the power point about Adam and Eve? Can you discuss the story? What was your favourite day that God created? Create a

piece of art to recreate one of the days.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-5364-adam-and-eve-story-powerpoint

Other wider curriculum tasks

PE (choose 1 activity)

• Ride your bike/ scooter for at least twenty minutes

• Super movers video - https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-collection/zbr4scw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

• How many skips can you do in 30 seconds?

• Create your own obstacle course – how long does it take you to complete it? Can you improve your time?

• Go for a walk

• Complete a yoga session at https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

• Complete a workout with Joe Wicks (on Youtube)

• Complete a dance routine with Oti Mabuse (on Youtube)

• Try a session on GoNoodle: https://www.gonoodle.com/

• Daily Mile- Can you run a mile every day? How fast can you run a mile? Can you beat your previous time?

PSHE

Over this half term, we are going to focus on emotions and being mindful. What this means and how it can help will become clearer over the

weeks. We will not be expecting you to write anything down in these sessions (unless you would like to) instead we would like you to take this

time to reflect either alone or by sharing the experience with a member of your family.

Take some time to look in the mirror and explore how your face can reflect how you are feeling. Show some of these faces to someone else in

your house and see if they can guess the feeling you are showing. It isn’t always possible to tell how someone is feeling in the inside by how

they look on the outside. Explore some of the ways you have felt over the last couple of months. E.g. I felt excited when it was my birthday but

angry that I couldn’t have my party. Can we explore what happens to our body when we have these feelings? Could others around you tell that

you were feeling this way? Eg When I’m excited, I can’t stay still, I make lots of noise and don’t listen to instructions very well. Watch:

KS1: https://youtu.be/ZxfJicfyCdg

KS2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkyKyVFnSs

We feel many different emotions throughout a day, sometimes this can get too much so finding ways to be mindful can help.

Watch Mrs Harris’s video on dojo – What is mindfulness?

Extra Activiites

Washing Station

Set up a washing station in the garden and get the children to clean some toys. You’ll need a few bowls of warm water – some with soap in for

washing and some without for rinsing – along with sponges and brushes for scrubbing, and towels (or paper towels) for drying. You could make

this activity more specific, for example, it could be a car wash (for cleaning all the toy vehicles) or a laundry (for washing and pegging out toy

clothes).

Water Experiments

For this activity, you’ll need an assortment of materials with varying degrees of absorbency (eg cotton wool, paper towel, cardboard, fabric,

cling film, aluminium foil), and something for applying water (eg pipettes or squeezy bottles). Get the children to experiment with dropping

water onto the different materials and see which ones absorb it most quickly, and which don’t absorb it at all. Add food dye to the water to

make it easier to track.