Year R – Friday 27th March

Good Morning Penguins, Puffins and Parrots 

We hope you are all OK and staying safe at home. 

Some of today’s activities are linked to our story ‘Five Minutes Peace’ and this story reminded us of how busy your homes must be at the moment with everyone at home! We hope you are working hard to show good Teamwork with your brothers. sisters, parents and other adults as you get used to sharing toys, the TV, other electronic devices and space in your house? We’re sure you’re all trying really hard to respect everyone in your house and remembering ‘Too much selfie isn’t healthy!’

Have a great day!

Year R Team 

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 or need some help.

You can continue to use Tapestry to share your child’s work. Please only upload one post a day. You can either choose one activity or put all the activities you complete on one post.

We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!

Independence The children in Year R are very rarely asked to work independently, particularly when writing. It is expected that they will need adult support to get started on all of the tasks we set for them here, and continue to need it throughout their activity. 

However, we want to continue to build their independence, so encourage them to use resources which can help them be independent like sound cards, letter formation cards for handwriting etc. 

 

Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities with you. 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.

There is absolutely no expectation that you get all, if any of these activities completed each day. 

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.
  • *NEW* Keywords – practise these everyday. These are at the bottom of the ‘Educating Home’ section on the Home page of the website, under the ‘Our Classroom Resources’ section. Click here to be redirected.
  • Phonics Play -sign in for free – Username: march20 Password: home.
  • Teach Your Monster To Read– the computer version is free.
  • Numberblocks Games on cBeebies.
  • Practise your Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3 sounds with Mrs Baird. Click here.

English – Five Minutes Peace

First watch today’s story read to you by Mrs Baird. You can find it in the video resources section at the bottom of this post. The password is the same one every day, which was sent out via text on 18th March.

Today’s activity is a reading comprehension activity so it doesn’t require any recording. Open this powerpoint Year R -Five minutes peace comprehension questions for the questions.

Here are the story pages too so you can scroll through at your own pace Year R – Five Minutes Peace pdf.

Maths – Number bonds to 10

Open up this powerpoint Year R – Maths 27.03.20

Can you say what you see? The answer is on the next page to help you.

Once you have looked through the powerpoint, make number 1 – 9 using any resource you choose and investigate adding two together to find the total. You can record each combination if you like.

Which combinations make 10?

Understanding the world – Floating and Sinking

Can you investigate objects which float and sink? Collect objects from around your house with your grown up and then see if they float or sink. You could just do this at bath time.

Why do you think they float? Why don’t they float? What are they made of?

Video Resources

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Have a fun day and a super weekend, we’ll be back on Monday!