Year R – Wednesday 18th March

Good morning children!  We hope you have had a good breakfast and are up and ready for the day! It doesn’t look like it is going to rain today so it might be good to get a little bit of fresh air if you can.

Yesterday, parents,  we had some queries about how much you should expect your child to be doing within the home environment, for how long, and in what detail.  We think that each of the activities we suggest should take 10-15 minutes and we recommend that you include some time to play in between activities, as we would at school.

Well, we are really looking forward to seeing all your posts on Tapestry today.  Keep smiling and remember children, be kind to your grown ups and show them lots of your fabulous Learning Behaviours. 

Take care Parrots, Puffins and Penguins!

Writing and Reading Activities

Each day, please practise:

  • Writing your name (use your laminated name card from your Summer pack)
  • Writing the long ladder letters (don’t forget to use the lead-ins)

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  • Reading your keywords

Today’s Job:
Try reading an Ebook  from the following website’s Ebook library. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

You’ll find lots of Kipper books and even some Read Write Inc Phonics books too!

Grown-ups: you will need to create a parent account which is free to do.  This website is great for  helping parents to understand how and what we teach your children in school and we hope you’ll find it useful.

Maths Activities

Each day, please practise:

  • Counting forwards and backwards to 10
  • Counting a small handful of different everyday objects
  • Lining up larger numbers of items and counting them carefully and slowly,  Make sure to touch each one as you move along the row of items.  Each time you touch a new number say the next number name clearly.  If you go higher than 10 make sure you say “teen” not “ty” (fourteen not forty).

Today’s Job:

Please click below to open today’s Numberblocks Maths Activity.

Maths Flipchart for home learning 18.03

Topic Activities

We are learning about the farm.  Last week we read non-fiction (information) books to learn about different farm animals and we thought about different ways we could group farm animals together.  We sorted them by colour, size, by what they ate etc.

Today’s Job:

Can your grown-up guess your favourite farm animal? Give them some clues to listen to.  Don’t make them too easy to begin with or they will be able to guess straight away!

Here’s one for you to give you an idea:

  • it has 4 legs
  • it has ears
  • it likes to roll in the mud
  • it lives in a sty
  • it has a curly tail
  • it is sometimes pink

Did you guess it? Yes!  It’s a pig!

Can you draw and colour your favourite farm animal?  Think carefully about the colours you will use to make it look as real as you can.  Maybe your grown-up can help you look for a photo of the animal that you have chosen.  Do you have any books, puzzles, toys to look at that will help you to draw your picture?

 

We’ll be back again tomorrow!  Take care.