RECEPTION HOME LEARNING 4: OUR WORLD W/B 04 MAY 2020

Summer Term in the Foundation Stage

During the next weeks, our Summer Term theme will be all about ‘Our World’. We learn all about …:

• Plants – e.g., how they grow from seeds, what they look like, how to care for them

• Animals – e.g. minibeasts, farm animals, wild animals; how they look and sound, how they grow, what they do

• The importance of taking care of our environment and living things

In this Home Learning booklet we’ll focus on activities that can help with:

• Learning more about counting and about measures

• Next steps for letters and sounds

• Learning that plants grow from seeds, and that there are many different kinds of seeds and plants

Useful resources for home activities, if available/possible to get them:

• Paper, including scrap paper

• Recycled materials, e.g. boxes and containers

• Different kinds of mark-makers – pencils, pens, crayons…

Hello everyone!

Here is the fourth Foundation Stage Home Learning activity booklet, with activities to share in whatever way fits in best for your family.

Throughout each day, try to check in with one another about how you’re feeling, and what it might be best to do next.

There are still lots of ideas on the pages of the Cayley website, so please remember to explore for activities and information there. Also on the

website, there’s a new message from Zoé to share with the children this week… and, here in the home learning booklet, there’s a slide about being ready for a special message from the class team this week – we hope your

children will feel very excited about it!

As always, please keep in touch, and let us know if you have any questions, concerns, requests or work to share.

Best wishes, keep having as much fun as you can, and keep making as many good memories as possible during this time!

Stay safe and well,

The Foundation Stage Reception team

RECEPTION HOME LEARNING 4: OUR WORLD W/B 04 MAY 2020

Let’s keep in touch!We hope you enjoy having a go at these activities - let us know which ones you like best!

If you need help please email: schoolclosure@cayley.towerhamlets.sch.uk, FAO ‘Foundation Stage’.

Share what you have been doing on Twitter @CAYLEYPRIMARYSCH

Best wishes, everyone.

Please take care of your wellbeing, too!

Encourage children to make choices, and help them to follow their interests and feel successful

It’s ok if the children find something challenging – if you’re unsure about explaining, it’s ok to move on to something else – you can make a note to tell the staff,

and the children can come back to it at school later, or you can let us

know if you’d like some help

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-children-aged-2-to-4-to-learn-at-

home-during-coronavirus-covid-19

Take a look at this gov.uk link for hints and tips about younger

children’s home learning!

Keep things simple, and go at a gradual pace that suits you as a family;

children might spend a whole day on one or two activities…

… Find a routine that works for you and can be flexible; have fun, and

help everyone to feel happy and safe

Quality matters most! Don’t worry about quantity and speed of activities…

Activities can be ‘breaking up the day’ rather than trying to ‘fill it up’!

Take a look at… https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-primary-

school-children-continue-their-education-during-coronavirus-covid-19

Messages from your teachers Something special starts this week!

Hello everyone!Zoé here.

I have written a message for you this week, and it is on

the Cayley website. Your family can share the

message with you!

Your teachers are feeling very excited this week, because a special time is coming!

Listen out for the phone ringing… because we hope to be giving you a call!

We are looking forward to talking with you and your family.

We can talk all about what we have all been doing, and how we feel!

We are all looking forward to talking with you and your family!

We can talk about what we have all been doing, and how we are all feeling!

Sunara

Rajia

Nadhia Judith

Kudaza

Rummana

Thinking about Our feelings

Parents’ tips about calming down:https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/joinin/seven-techniques-for-helping-

kids-keep-calm

During the day, talk together about how you feel and what you might need.

We might be feeling happy or delighted, tired, hungry, excited…

How are you feeling?

Choose a feeling song, and watch and talk about it together!

There is a song all about feeling excited…!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/feeling-better-songs-playlist

During the day, talk together about how you feel and what you might need.

We might be feeling happy or delighted, tired, hungry, excited…

Think and talk together about what you might need, or what you might want to do,

when you feel this way.

What can help when you feel this way?

Words of the week Use them whenever you can!

seed

plant

grow

Plants are very important in our world.

There are all different kinds of plants, and they grow from all different kinds

of seeds.

We will be learning all about plants and their seeds!

A bean is one kind of seed!

A beanstalk is one kind of plant!

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Marvellous Maths words of the week Use them whenever you can!

long

measure

small

tall We can find out about the size of things by measuring them!

This week, look out and think and talk about the sizes of things.

Find out which things are short, long, tall, large and small by checking them next to each other,

with your family.

shorter shortest longer longest taller tallest

short

In the morning… and helping at home this week

Think about clothes this week… see if you can help with your clothes! Being helpful is good!

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get ready

Here are some activities all about clothes…

• Help to sort out your clothes ready for each day. You could do this before bedtime, or in the morning. Look at and talk about the colours and patterns, and what you would like to wear.

• Help to put clothes into the laundry basket when they need to be washed.

• Help to hang washing up to dry. You could do some ‘peggy exercises’ with the pegs, to make your fingers and thumbs strong! Can you squeeze the peg open 5 times, or even 10 times, with each hand?

• Help to put away clothes when they are dry.

• Sort out your clothes into different types. You could sort by…

• day clothes and night clothes

• clothes for cold weather and for warm weather

• different colours or patterns

• Can you check all of the socks are matched in pairs?

In the morning… Let’s get moving! All join in!

Play musical statues or musical bumps

this week!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday!

Find a favourite song, and do

moves or your exercises while it

plays! And remember all about washing your

hands, today!

Counting

• How high can you count? Count out loud, as high as you can go! Use special voices! Remember you can use your number line or 100 square if you like, and find someone to help you to learn the next number!

• Play ‘I count, you count’ with someone in your family:

• Point to yourself and begin counting

• Point to the other person so they can continue counting

• Keep swapping!

• Count actions, exercises, things at home, or your toys

• Count backwards to blast off!

From 20, 10 or 5… to 1 and then…

Let’s have activity time… Marvellous Maths!

You can use these activities once every day…

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday!

Sing a counting song! This week, how about sharing it with someone who doesn’t live in your home? Give them a call! Can you read out their number

before calling?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-ten-green-bottles/zncyt39

Can you use some objects, or your fingers to act out the song? Ask someone in your family to draw a 10-frame for you. Can you use the 10-

frame to act out the song? What if… 2 or 3 bottles fell off the wall each time?

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Let’s have activity time… Marvellous Maths!

Have a go at these Maths activities this week!

They help us with learning all about adding and taking away!

To help with choosing your number, you could use a number track or a 100 square.

Or you might like to use some scrap paper or a cereal box to make some numeral cards, and use your cards to find the mystery starter number

each time!

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Choose a starter number. How many ways of making that

number can you find…?

Let’s have activity time… Marvellous Maths!

Here are some more peggy Maths

activities to try this week!

Let’s have activity time… Marvellous Maths!

How big is it/are they…?Why do you think it

is/they are that size?

Once you’ve opened and explored what is in the box, challenge your child to place specific numbers of things inside it, using smaller objects, and using larger objects. Can they find out if they can fit more of the smaller objects or more of the larger objects inside the box…?

I have a box… an ‘nrich’ Maths activity

• Prepare a box of secret things to share with your child – a little like a treasure box, or a ‘Maths mystery’ box!• Place inside objects which

differ in size, weight and ability to rattle!

• Seal the box• Ask your child to say what might be

in the box• Can they use their knowledge and

past experiences to make some guesses?• Could there be a bicycle in the

box…?!• Use some of the questions on this

page to talk together…

Tell me a bit more about what you think is inside the box…

How many of them are there, do you think?

Why do you think there are that many?

Let’s have activity time… Marvellous Maths!

Share this activity!

• Find some paper/card and a pencil, pen or paint.

• Trace round your hand with your mark-maker.

• Be inspired by people who lived a very, very, very, very long time ago, and painted around their hands in caves!

• You could decorate your hand, or draw a face or a pattern.

• You could put your hand in the window to wave to everybody!

• You could post email us your picture to wave to everybody!

Family measures… all about hands!

• Find out all about everyone’s hands…

• Who has small hands? Who has large hands?

• Whose hands are the smallest? Whose hands are the largest?

• Can you stand in a line, in order of smallest to largest hands?

• Talk together about what you find out, using our words of the week!

Let’s have activity time… Marvellous Maths!

…all about clothes!

• Which other clothes could you place in order by size?

• When you’ve finished looking, thinking and talking all about it, deliver the clothes to the correct member of your family, or the correct room at home!

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• How many different socks does your family have…?

• Can you sort them out, and order them from smallest to largest?

More about measuring at home…

Let’s have activity time… Letters and sounds

Find all the sounds you know on your mat, every day!

How speedy can you be?

Play ‘Phonics Bingo’ this week!

Let’s have activity time… Letter formation

Practise writing letters that go aroundthis week!

Try in groups of 3 – first c, o and a, then letters d, g and q!

Look up the way letters ‘move’, and our special handwriting phrases, on the Cayley website!

Home Learning/Early Years/Letters and Words

First, start by tracing the letters in the air, saying the special words…

… next, wriggle and ‘flash’ your strong fingers to get ready…

… then find your favourite pen or pencil, some paper, and have a

go!

Let’s have activity time… Wonderful words

Look at the wonderful words we were learning at school.

Find all the words you know, and read them to someone in your family!

Look up the High Frequency Words and games on the Cayley website…!

Home Learning/Early Years/Letters and Words

Find words that you would like to learn to write this week.

Write them on small pieces of paper. Ask someone in your family to hide them in different

places at home.

Have a wonderful word hunt, and read the words in special voices when you find them!

Can you say sentences using your wonderful words of the week?

How many wonderful words can you use in your writing activities this

week?

Let’s have activity time… Story time

You might like to watch part of this story each day, until

you reach the end!

Watch together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5rxfLRgXRE

Who are the characters – the people, animals, and others –

in this story?

Each day, remember and talk about what has

happened so far

At the end, try to remember what happened from the beginning to

the end, saying ‘first’, ‘next’ and ‘then’

Let’s have activity time… Story activity time

Look carefully at fruit and vegetables you have at home.

Ask an adult to help you to find out which foods have

seeds…Find out more about peas, and about the seed in an avocado!

Go to this webpage, and click on the name labels to see some

information!

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-

nature/plants/fruits-nuts-and-berries/

Do all foods have seeds?

When you find some seeds, look at them carefully.

Talk together about what you can see…

What different sizes, shapes and colours are

the seeds?

Let’s have activity time… Drawing and writing

• Using our imagination means having our own new ideas about things that are pretend.

• With an adult to keep you safe, have a look through a window.

• Imagine or pretend there is another world out there!

• Think and talk together…

• What is the weather?

• What is growing there?

• Are there dinosaurs or other creatures living there?

• Which other characters can you see? Are there any giants?

• Create a story map about what is happening in your pretend world!

Looking through the window… and using our imagination

A story map can have pictures,

arrows and words on it!

Here is a story map someone made about a different story…

Let’s have activity time… Drawing and writing

• We’re thinking about all the people who help us!

• Talk with your family about all the people who are helping us, while we say at home to keep everyone safe, healthy and strong

• Have you created a thank you message to place in your window, or send to someone who helps us, yet?

• Have a go!

• Try the Cayley NHS Poster Competition and send off your entry

• Create a thank you sign for your window, for some people who help us. You might choose:

• Doctors, nurses and paramedics

• Police officers

• Recycling and rubbish collection teams

• Delivery drivers

• Shopkeepers

Saying thank you!

Let’s have activity time… Have a go!

Choose activities that make you feel happy!

Try some more calming down time this week!

You could watch and listen to this in a quiet cosy place, or try some calming movements while it

plays…

This week, can you and your family take turns to copy each others’ calm movements, like you’re a

mirror for each other?

At the end of the day, ask each other, ‘How are you feeling? What was the most fun today? Why?’…

…Talk all about it, and think about your plans and ideas for

tomorrow, or for another time in the future…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio

Scroll down the page to find ‘calming sounds to relax’, and choose your

favourite!

Something for bedtime… You could share this story this week…!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl-c-1WLTOc&list=PLoOc9M0VgduON_PbVYO

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We Are Together

In this story, we can hear all about how important it is to

have special friends and family in our lives, and how

good it is to stand together!

Something for bedtime… Here’s another story you could share

this week…!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00023c9/cbeebies-bedtime-stories-

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Avocado Baby

In this story, find out what happens when the baby

begins to eat avocado pears!