RECEPTION WHOLE SCHOOL CLOSURE LEARNING PACK 8 THE

RECEPTION WHOLE SCHOOL CLOSURE LEARNING PACK 8 THE FOLLOWING POWERPOINT WILL OUTLINE A FULL WEEKS WORTH OF HOME LEARNING TO SUPPORT PROGRESS WHILST LEARNING AT HOME.

TIMETABLE • We would like to begin by thanking you all for accessing the home learning pack whilst isolating at home. You should be very proud that you are following the government guidance and keeping the community safe. • Please begin by outlining with the family the agreed routine and timetable that you will attempt to follow. In school a routine and goal often helps to achieve a successful day. • The Power. Point will cover 5 days worth of learning. Please set up a timetable that suits your family and ensure you still communicate with the class teacher via the email on a daily basis about your progress. • Please stay physically and mentally fit by engaging in 10 minutes exercise daily. This can be something decided on by the whole family isolating. It is a good way to positively share time. • Please use the class email account to share your learning with to the teacher. Photos of work can be sent in for feedback. Please be aware that teachers will not reply after 3 pm or during the weekend. • beech@peartreemead. essex. sch. uk cedar@peartreemead. essex. sch. uk Please ensure that the work has a clear title and labelled with your child’s full name.

DAILY PHONICS Either use these phonics video links below and/or use the next page to find additional options. Monday – Learn 'igh' Miss Butler's video https: //youtu. be/Bg. UIWML-m-E Tuesday-Recap 'igh' 1 Recap sounds 2 Read some 'igh' words https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=3 UVt. Oae. BIDg 3 Write some 'igh' words Wednesday – Learn'oa' Miss Butler's video https: //youtu. be/c. Wv. WSmoazz 4 Thursday- Recap sounds Recap games of sounds so far. You could then link reading or writing to world book day Friday- Recap 'oa' 1 Recap sounds 2 Read some 'oa' words https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=M 8 n. Gaspu. WAQ 3 Then write some 'oa' words

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS FOR DAILY PHONICS Monday –Miss Butler's video'igh' Tuesday-'igh' Wednesday- Miss Butler's video 'oa' You could do phonics without a video teacher (You could use any games/resources at home) Follow this order 1)Recap phase 2/3 sounds 2)Teach sound of the day 3)Read Words with sound of the day 4)Write words with sound of the day 5)Read/write sound in a sentence Use BBC bitesize https: //www. bbc. c o. uk/bitesize/topic s/zvq 9 bdm Use Phonics Play https: //www. phoni csplay. co. uk/ Friday-'oa' WORDS/SENTENCE IDEAS FOR READING AND WRITING igh high, sigh, thigh, fight, light, might, night, tight, right, sight bright, The light is bright. The boat is green. I sleep at night. oa oak, boat, coat, loaf, soap, toad, toast, croak I had toast. The soap is wet. Toads can croak. The boat sunk.

MATHS FOR THE WEEK Monday - 12 is the number of the week Explore the number 12 in different ways e. g. find objects to make a group of 12, look for the digit 12, one more and one less than 12, addition to 12, subtraction from 12, write 12. Tuesday - Using the length of your feet measure the lengths of the rooms in your house. Which are the longest and shortest rooms? Wednesday – Using your hands measure objects in your house. Which objects were the longest and shortest? E. g. the door was 9 hands but the table was 24 hands. Thursday - (No maths due to World Book Day Activities) Friday- Using items in your home like pencils, pasta, cars or pegs measure the length of objects found around your house, e. g. the length of the bath or the washing machine.

DAILY READING PRACTICE (10 MINUTES EACH A DAY) Please choose any of these activities: • Watch Mrs Leafe's story Jack and the Beanstalk Mrs Leafe • Watch Miss Butler's story Cock-a-doodle-poo https: //youtu. be/a 7_ep. YY 6 cho • Access the online books from Bug Club • Use some Cebeebies story time videos on Youtube. • Share any books together from home. • Phonics 'Tricky words' (words which can't be sounded out and are read on sight) -Phase 2 tricky word song https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Tv. Myssf. AUx 0 -Phase 3 tricky word song https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=R 087 l. Yr. Rpg. Y (can be slowed)

TOPIC ACTIVITIES Jack and the Beanstalk: Monday , Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday (See reading page for Mrs Leafe's storytelling) Activities to choose from: • Make a paper bean stalk. • Make a Jack and the Beanstalk story box • Grow something • Write an invitation to the giant asking him to tea. • Create some music to accompany retelling the story e. g. Banging on a saucepan as Jack climbs onto each leaf of the beanstalk or shake some rice in a container as Jack runs across the giants castle. World Book day: Thursday (See slides 8 and 9)

Thursday 4 th March Celebrate world book day as a family. Please choose 3 (or more) activities to complete, and send any photos from today into school, so we can celebrate with you! Make a mini book Ask your families what their favourite books are, what the books are about and why they like them. Make things to represent your favourite character (e. g. Mask, prop) Make up a song for your favourite story. Roleplay your favourite s tory. Listen to your favourite stories and share books with others Draw your favourite character and describe them Take photos of you reading in extreme, funny or unusual places

Take a long walk together, photographing new and familiar words on the way. Grab a blanket, some tasty portable snacks, and a favourite stack of books. Find a nice place to sit while listening to stories or taking turns reading aloud together. Retell a story using puppets Listen to some of the stories on the reading slide and school website Create your own world book day story activity Collect some stones either from your garden or a nature walk. Decorate each individual stone by painting it, adding stickers, or drawing on it with markers. Once the stone’s decorated, mix them up in a bag or a box and use the randomly drawn stones to inspire stories.

FINE MOTOR SKILLS For each session, please complete 1 warmup activity and letter formation practise. Finger warmups: • • Pencil control pattern Practise doing buttons or zips up Try some simple origami String beads, chopped up straws or pasta Handwriting: • Use the website Letter join to practise your letters (please don't re-teach in a different way) https: //www. letterjoin. co. uk/ Mrs Martin's video shows curly caterpillar letters this week. https: //youtu. be/b 6 r 7 g. Bx 4 Tu. M

SPELLING PRACTICE TWICE A WEEK Choose creative ways to practise your spellings e. g: using chalk, crayons, talc on a tray. Practice writing your rainbow spellings. (These are in your child’s reading journal, ask if you think your child would benefit from practising the next set too. ) Or practice writing TRICKY words are words that cannot be sounded out: Phase 2 Tricky words: I no go the into and Phase 3 Tricky words: He she me be we you all are her was they my. (This is new learning, please only learn a few at a time)

SMALL WORLD PLAY • Across the week use a variety of toys in your house. • Play a board game with members of your family and practise the different learning skills this would involve. E. g turn taking, number and language. • Create a small world set up for you to use to develop lots of different areas of learning.

DAILY PHYSICAL EXERCISE Please make sure that you are completing 5, 10 minute sessions of physical activity everyday. It is best to decide as a family and spend this time together having fun. Choose what you want to do, but here are some ideas you can use: • Cosmic kids yoga (on youtube) • Just dance (on youtube or just choose music to dance to) • Jack Hartman count to 100 (on Youtube) • Joe Wicks (on Youtube) • Mini home sports competition e. g. bowling, throwing to a target • Kids Zumba • Supermovers • Jump Start Jonny • Go Noodle

HOW TO CELEBRATE WITH YOUR CLASS Don’t forget to use your class email account daily to show your hard work to the teacher. Here is also a good place to communicate about learning. Photos of work can be sent in for feedback. Please be aware that teachers will not reply after 3 pm or during the weekend. beech@peartreemead. essex. sch. uk cedar@peartreemead. essex. sch. uk Please ensure that the work has a clear title and labelled with your child’s full name