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Year R – Tuesday 24th March
Good Morning Year R!
Hello children! We hope you are well and enjoyed getting out in the sunshine yesterday looking for signs of Spring. You can get creative today so have fun!
Parents, it’s been wonderful to see pictures of what the children have been doing on Tapestry. Please can we ask that from now on, you only upload one Tapestry post a day. You can either choose one activity or put all the activities you complete on one post. Thank you.
Please can we remind you that there is absolutely no expectation that you get all, if any of these activities completed each day. They are merely suggestions of what you could do should you wish. We are very aware that many of you are trying to juggle working from home. If your child is finding it too much, reduce your expectations slightly. You may find it useful to start the day by planning with your child which activities they are going to do, and when, then they will be more mentally prepared for ‘learning time’. Young children in particular thrive on routine, so knowing what is happening ‘now’ and ‘next’ can be really reassuring.
For example your day might look like this:
- PE with Joe Wicks
- Reading or phonics activity for 10-15 minutes
- Free time
- Snack
- Maths activity for 10-15 minutes
- Free time
- Lunch
- English activity for 10-15 minutes
- Free play
- Creative / Understanding the world activity for 10-15 minutes
Whatever works best for you is what’s best for your family.
Year R Team
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Helpful Reminders
Don’t forget you can email us on yearr@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Ongoing Daily Activities
- Counting and sorting objects – count accurately and sort by colour/size/shape
- Reading on Oxford Owl– you’ll need to create a parents account for this.
- Handwriting – tracing over your alphabet card and name.
- Keywords – practise these everyday (use those you have already but look out for our upcoming resources download page – coming soon!)
- Phonics Play -sign in for free – Username: march20 Password: home.
- NEW!!! Teach Your Monster To Read– the computer version is free.
- NEW!!! Numberblocks Games on cBeebies.
- NEW!!! Practise your Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3 sounds with Mrs Baird. Click here.
English – Oi Duck billed-platypus!
First watch today’s story read by Mrs Rushton – Oi Duck-Billed Platypus!
Today’s job:
- Can you think of words which rhyme with your name? e.g. Sophie, tophie, trophie, dophie! (the sillier the better!)
- What about words which rhyme with the names of your family members?
Maths – Representing 10
Use the slides to guide you through today’s activities.
- On the ‘getting to know’ page, practise writing ’10’ and making a tally of 10. Remind yourself of what 10 looks like using objects in a tens frame, and see if you can point out the Numicon 10 piece on the screen.
- You can either get creative and make your own 1-10 number balloons using paper and scissors, or you could just get your number cards out (the green ones we sent home in September.)
- ’10, not 10′ page – can you ‘subitise’ any of the arrangements to recognise 10 without counting? Which pictures do not represent 10?
- 10 flower- draw your own flower (or ask a grown up to do it for you) and practise representing 10 in different ways on each petal. You could cut it out afterwards and put it up somewhere in your house a reminder of 10!
Art – Easter Egg
Can you design an Easter egg? Ask your grown up to draw you a big egg shape on a piece of paper to colour in, paint a pattern on, or decorate with collage materials. If you are using paint, you could try an alternative tool, like a cotton bud, or fork to print with!
Here is a template to print out for those of you who would like to use it Year R – Easter egg template
Video Resources
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