Hello Everyone! I have missed you all and hope very much that you and your families are well and you had the best Easter break possible considering the challenging circumstances. 🐥

Over the coming days I will give you all a little call to check in and hear your news. 📞🙂Also, remember you can send me your photos here on the blog or via email or the schools twitter account! It’s always great to see your little faces! 🥰

I bet you have had lots of Easter treats over the weekend so to get ourselves up and active, use the video link below to get yourself moving!

https://youtu.be/oLaJ4jyKBUY

Literacy – we will follow the a similar routine each Monday but with a different page of our ‘reading booklet’.

1. Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart. Play this word building game by using the sounds or letters in the words ‘chocolate eggs’ to see how many of your own words you can make. I will give you some to get you started- get, chat, cot.
   Also, you can take time to practise your speedy blending using the game shown below.
   https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/fishy-phonics?phase=2#

2. Reading– Play some more of ‘Teach Your Monster To Read’ by logging in using your account details.
3. Also, work on the reading of the speed sounds, green words, red words and the short story on your reading sheet booklet.

Red literacy group- sheet 3

Green literacy group- sheet 12

Pink literacy group- sheet 27

Complete the ‘questions to talk about’ section detailed at the bottom of page

4. Writing– Do the ‘Hold A Sentence’ on the bottom of the reading page detailed above in your blue jotter. Please do this on the lined section and look at your ‘reminder of writing skills’ sheet to help. Steps are 1. Grown up reads sentence. 2. Practise saying the sentence aloud a number of times until child remembers it. 3. Grown up models how to write the sentence (can use back pages of blue jotter or spare paper from home) 4. Child writes sentence independently without a visual. Encourage them to keep saying it as they write. 5. Check the writing. What went well, what do they need to remember for next time?

 

Numeracy – Lets begin our recap of subtraction

Mental and Activity

1. Take time to look at and talk about what we have learned about subtraction or take-away  in class using the poster from your pack to help.

🧸Collect 6 teddies or toys from home and place them on your sofa.
How many do you have all together? If we take some away, will the number get bigger or smaller?
🎲 Using your dice, roll and then take away that number of teddies or toys from the sofa.How many do you have left? Can you use the different strategies on the poster to show/prove and check this? Use you little green jotter if you want to show your learning. Do this until you roll all numbers on your dice please.

(Teaching points for parents to help if needed  – Remember, when we subtract the biggest number always comes first and after taking away, our answer gets smaller or less. Also, we can then use adding to check our answer eg 5-2=3 shows us that if we start with 5 then take 2 away, we are left with 3. Also, if we then combine the 3 back together with the 2 by adding, we then have 5 again. The fancy name for this is inverse operation and we will practice this more later.)

Other learning task- Art/Outdoor fun

Easter is a time of new beginnings and all around us in nature we see this. If you have a garden or outdoor area you can safely play in, see if you can create an Easter or spring-themed piece of artwork using the resources around you. Remember, just like when we have taken part in tasks like this in school, be safe and sensible by washing your hands and do not touch your face whilst working.  If you prefer, this can be done inside with items in your home. Don’t forget to send us some photos of your creations. Please see some examples below, but you can create whatever you want!