April 20, 2020

Year R – Tuesday 21st April

Good Morning Parrots, Puffins and Penguins!

Hello children!

We absolutely loved seeing some you in our Zoom video chats yesterday and seeing your lovely, smiling faces! If you weren’t able to join us yesterday, don’t worry, we’ll do it again soon so look out for the invite!

We had a little trouble with the link we had attached for Maths yesterday (silly BBC iplayer removing the episode for some reason!) and needed to swap the link over. We did this before lunchtime but realise that some of you may not have gone back and retried, so here is the link again. Numberblocks 11 episode.

Did you have fun yesterday making a picture or a model of a hot air balloon? What did you find out about them using the non-fiction book ‘Up in the air’?

What makes them go up? What are they made of? Do they travel fast or slow? Are there any other ways we can travel by air? By road? By water? By rail?

Today’s story is about travelling in lots of different ways, except it’s not humans travelling, but animals! We hope it makes you giggle as much as it made us!

Have a great day!

Year R Team

This week we go up, up and away to explore… going on an adventure!

Helpful Reminders

Email How much to help? Too much to do?

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 Activities

You can find lots of learning resources that we have collated on the Educating Home Page. Click here to be redirected.

- Reading
- Handwriting – for a video please click here
- Keywords
- Phonics
- Number and shape, space and measure activities – try Numberblocks games and Maths Factor (see Educating Home Page)
- Dough Disco – click here for a simple playdough recipe if you need it

English – You can’t take an elephant on the bus!

First listen to today’s story, read to you by Mrs Baird. You’ll find this in the Video Resources section at the bottom as usual.

There were so many different types of transport in that story weren’t there!
Can you have a go at reading the book ‘Let’s go’ on the Oxford Owl website with your grown up? Before you begin reading, click through each page, spotting the ‘red words’ and trying to read them by sight.

Once you have read the book, see if you can answer the ‘Questions to talk about’ at the back. Click back to the right page and answer the question using the pictures and the writing.

First, log into the Oxford Owl site and then click on the image below to be taken to the right book.

Maths – Meet Numberblock 12!

First watch today’s episode click here to view

Can you make a set of twelve objects? Now can you put them into a 20 frame? You can use a template like this – click to download or use the online frame and select the 20 Frame

What do you see? “10 and 2 more makes 12”

Now practise showing 12 with lots of different toys at home. Each time group them into 10 and 1 separately and practise the phrase “10 and 2 more makes 12”

Can you draw 12 in different ways? Here are some ideas of what you could do:

Adults at home: we are going to be focusing on the ‘arrays’ shown in the episode tomorrow, so please avoid doing this today if possible.

PE time!

Can you take part in the number 12 Olympics? Go outside into the garden, or set up some space in your house.

Can you do 12 jumps, hops, skips, star jump, leaps, kicks of the ball, goals, squats? If you like, you could set this up as a circuit!

Practise counting each movement carefully one at a time. Make sure you don’t count too fast!

Video Resources

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