Class 1 Foundation

Welcome to class 1

Home learning

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: