Class 1 Foundation

Welcome to class 1

                                      Home learning

 

Please find below all of the home learning sheets up to May half term, as well as other previously added links and useful information. For home learning for w/c 1st June onwards, please go to the 'EYFS Home Learning' page.

 

Phonics and sight words

In addition to the weekly story activities, we would encourage the children to keep practising their phonics skills at home, and Phonics Play (https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ ) is a great website full of games and activities for this. You can log in for free whilst schools are closed using the username and password on the home page.  There is also some useful information in the Parents section.

 

Reception

Go to Resources and select Phase 2 or Phase 3 on the Phonics Play website. You will find a range of interactive games and activities to help the children revise the sounds that we have taught in school.

 

Please also keep practising reading and writing the sight words (especially those towards the bottom of this page). ‘Tricky word trucks’ on Phonics Play is also good for practising quick sight word recognition.

 

We also ask that the children continue to practise number activities regularly, such as number recognition and ordering numbers to 20, along with adding two small numbers, perhaps through dice games. The Top Marks website (www.topmarks.co.uk ) has some great maths games.

 

Nursery

Go to Resources and select Phase 1 on the Phonics Play website. You will find a range of activities to help children tune into sounds to prepare them for reading and writing. Playing games like I spy; breaking apart and putting words together e.g. c-a-t; and drawing children’s attention to rhyming words will also help.

This term we would also be introducing the nursery children to their first ten sight words (also known as High Frequency Words. See list below). These are common words that appear very often in texts. We call them sight words as the children are taught to ‘see them and say them’ and not to attempt to sound them out.

 

 

When introducing your child to these words, just choose 2 or 3 to begin with and introduce more as they learn them. Always include previously learnt words to make sure they remember them all and to give them confidence.

You could:

• Write them out on cards and stick them up around the house for your child to read each time they see them
• Have two or more of each word on cards and play snap or pairs
• Look for the words in the stories that you share together

 

We would also like the nursery children to continue to count in nursery rhymes and songs, along with counting practically with everyday objects e.g. apples, pencils or teddies (up to 10).

Weekly story and activity ideas - Dear Zoo - Week 2 - w/c 30.3.20

 

Reading :

Please continue to read to and with your child, their reading book, books  home and their sight words. 

 

Phonics: 

You can access some useful free games to play at https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm  

We have worked on Phases 1, 2 and 3 in school. See below in the phonics section for more information.

Also the following website is good to practise letter sounds www.teachyourmonstertoread.com (there is a small charge to use on a tablet).

 

Continue to make cvc words using the phoneme frame and cards sent home, try to make words using the digraphs and trigraphs they now know.  You say the word i.e zip, goat etc can they make it with the cards or you make a word i.e sheep can they say the sounds and blend it together to read it . Try to make it into a game - give points every time they can make a word or read a word, how many points can they get? Can they beat their score?

 

Writing:

Practise writing CVC words and short sentences.  Encourage the children to write a diary with a daily sentence, the children could use their sight words from the sheets that have been sent home previously.  

The children are also very familiar with the stories of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and 3 Billy Goats Gruff so they could retell or write parts of the story.  They could also change them to make their own versions i.e The very hungry dog or 3 little unicorns etc.  What foods would they change, or what monster would be under the bridge?

 

Maths: 

Regular counting practise to and from 20.

If you say a number, can the children say 1 more or 1 less. 

Spot 2 numbers, can they add them together. Roll 2 dice and add them together.

Play games with dice. 

Complete a number or shape hunt around your house.

There are also resources on the following website which you may find useful:  https://www.topmarks.co.uk under the Early Years section.

 

More websites:

 

Twinkl:  This is a website with a variety of resources that we often use in school.  They are offering the free use of this site during school closure by following the link https://www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and entering the code CVDTWINKLHELPS. Please look at the EYFS section.

The hungry little minds website has information for parents for home learning, there are 6 apps that they recommend https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/#information

 

This website also has some ideas for home learning.  You may need to check and see which are age appropriate for your child.  https://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/50-youtube-channels-for-home-learning/

 

There are also 25 ideas for children for home learning that are not online check them out at the following site: 

https://medium.com/pobble

 

 

 

This year our staff includes:

Mrs Williams and Mrs Sudra

Miss Clarricoates (Monday - Thursday mornings ) 

Mrs Watts (Tuesday morning)

Mrs Kettle  (Friday morning) 

 

Within the Foundation base, our staff also includes: 

Mrs Hobson and Mrs Savage 

Miss Duke  

Mrs Kettle (Wednesday -Friday )

 

We also have student placements and parent volunteers at different times.

 

 

Our P.E. days are: 

 

Nursery children -  Wednesday morning 

Reception children - Wednesday afternoon

 

Your child will need a named white t-shirt, a pair of dark coloured shorts and plimsolls.  For health and safety purposes, ALL jewellery should be removed including earrings , and long hair tied up.   

If your child has items that cannot be removed please speak to a member of staff.

Water Bottles

 

Children are encouraged to bring a clearly labelled bottle containing water, which they will have access to during the day.  The children are expected to take this home at the end of the day and bring back the following day, refilled.

Important dates for this term

 

 

Thursday 19th March - Mothers day pop up stall.  Gifts priced between £1-£4

 

                           

Friday 3rd April - Break for Easter  

Monday 20th April - School reopens 

 

 

Our topic this term is Animals 

 

We are looking at books by Eric Carle

 

Phonics

In our daily phonics sessions, the children:

•  Practise saying the sound for each of the letters that we have learnt.
•  Read words by saying the sounds and blending them together. We use the following mantra, We Look at the letters, make the sounds, blend the sounds together.
•  Listen to words and then sound them out before writing them. We use the mantra, We Say the word, robot the word, write the word.
•  Read simple sentences (using these phonics skills and recognising sight words).
•  Write simple sentences (using these phonics skills and taking care to spell sight words correctly, using letter names).

 

Here are all of the graphemes (single letters), digraphs (2 letters making one sound) and trigraphs (3 letters making one sound) that we have covered in class.

 

 

 

Here are all of the sight words that we have learnt in class. Remember,

See the word and say the word (no sounding out).

 

 

 

Now the children recognise many sight words they should be working on spelling these 12 sight words correctly using letter names: