Hi everyone,

This is an extra link to do some yoga.

It is made by a company called ‘yogido’ and it specialises in teaching yoga to children.  These  activities can be completed by your child or you can complete them together.

Click on the playlist ‘just be …. together’ and select from the list.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnwZcjT0emn7K1ZrrmUECvA/playlists?view_as=subscriber

I’ve been trying to do some yoga everyday with my son, which is fun and at times hard! I think we’ve almost mastered a ‘downward dog’.

I hope you find them enjoyable.

Thank you Elias and family for your photos, these painted stones are beautiful.

Good Morning grown ups 😊

Bonjour boys and girls 😊

I hope you are all keeping well and were able to enjoy a little bit of sunshine this weekend.  I am missing your smiley faces on a Monday morning.   I hope you’ve been able to show your grown ups just how great you are at all your jobs and also how good you are at building cars and bridges and also making up puppet shows.

Well done for completing week 1 of the Home Learning, I hope you are all ready for week 2!  I hope you enjoy looking out some bears on your walks.  Have you spotted any yet? 🐻

This is a lovely story which may help your child to understand a little more about what is going on just now.  It is written by a nurse and uses simple language and colourful pictures.

Dave the Dog is Worried About Coronavirus

There are a lot of great resources available for free online at the moment. I’ve collated them in the ‘Home Learning’ tab above and I’ll keep this updated over the coming weeks. In addition, the link below will take you to some of the daily live events with associated links.

‘Chester Zoo’ has also been live streaming their animals.   If you wish to take a look search for them on Facebook and log in.

Below are the suggested learning activities for this week. Remember they are suggestions so only do what you are able to.

Literacy Activities

• Try to read a story every day this week. This can be a book at home or you can follow the link below to Storyline Online and choose a story from there. Use the prompt cards in the reading booklet issued to discuss the book with your child and support their comprehension of the text. These are also available in the reading tab above. I’ve also added a Reading Bingo activity to the reading tab that you could try to complete over the next few weeks.

https://www.storylineonline.net/

• Complete pages 4 and 5 from the phonics booklet. I have included photos of these below for anyone without the home learning pack.

• Revise phonemes ‘s’ and ‘i’. Please make sure your child can correctly form theses letters.
• Continue to practise taught common words – see list in home learning pack for the specific words your child needs to practice.

Numeracy and Maths Activities 

• Money Booklet – Page 271. Please support your child’s understanding of this concept by giving them real coins to work with.

• Numbers to 20 – Page 18

• Addition and Subtraction  – Page 92. A number line has been including in the home learning pack.

General Activities 

• Please continue to support your child’s phonological awareness through the activities mentioned in the tab above.
• Finger Gym activities to support your child’s fine motor skills can be found in the tab above.

I would love to see what you’ve all been up to. You can send in photos to the address below and I’ll post them on our blog at the end of each week. Remember our blog is public so please don’t send photos that have children in them. Names will not be matched with photos. This email address will be used by several classes, so please use the subject line ‘Room 1 Mrs Chan’ in every message you send to make sure I don’t miss any.

gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk

Let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything.

Keep safe everyone.

Mrs Chan 😊

Good morning boys and girls,

I hope you are all keeping well and have enjoyed some activities with your family at home.

I know we are all a bit sad that our Teddy Bear’s Picnic can’t go ahead on Monday so I thought we could have a Bear Hunt instead! Put one of your bears in your window this week for your friends to spot when they are out on their walk.

You can email me pictures of your bears or what you’ve been up to and I’ll post them on our blog. Remember our blog is public so please only email me photos if you happy with them appearing on a public forum. Names will not be matched with photos. This email address will be used by several classes, so please use the subject line ‘Room 1 Mrs Chan‘ in every message you send to make sure I don’t miss any.

gw18burnsidephotos@glow.sch.uk

Happy hunting,

Mrs Chan 🐻

Good morning,

Welcome to our first weekly online learning blog post. I hope you and your family are doing well and looking after yourselves.  Below are the suggested learning activities for this week.  Again, I am aware this is an uncertain time and there may be many reasons why your child is unable to complete suggested learning.  Please do not worry about this and only do what you are able to.  I understand that you will have concerns about continuity of learning for your child.  I would like to reassure you that at this stage in your child’s development, play is still extremely important for learning so above all please ensure your child has lots of time for free play.  It is also very important to continue to encourage good talking and listening skills with your child during your usual daily conversations.  This will ensure they continue to develop and understand a wide range of vocabulary.

Literacy Activities

• Try to read a story every day this week. This can be a book at home or you can follow the link below to Storyline Online and choose a story from there. Use the prompt cards in the reading booklet issued to discuss the book with your child and support their comprehension of the text.

https://www.storylineonline.net/

• Complete pages 2 and 3 from the phonics booklet. I have included photos of these below for anyone without the home learning pack.

• Revise phonemes ‘a’ and ‘t’. Please make sure your child can correctly form theses letters.
• Continue to practise taught common words – see list in home learning pack for the specific words your child needs to practice.

Numeracy and Maths Activities 

• Money Booklet – Page 269. Please support your child’s understanding of this concept by giving them real coins to work with.

• Numbers to 20 – Page 17

• Addition and Subtraction  – Page 91. A number line has been including in the home learning pack.

General Activities 

• Please continue to support your child’s phonological awareness through the activities mentioned in the tab above.
• Finger Gym activities to support your child’s fine motor skills can be found in the tab above.

Please do not hesitate to leave a comment if you have any questions. Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Chan 🙂

Each child was issued with a Home Learning Pack today. In this you will find work to support your child’s learning over the coming weeks. Each week, I will use our blog to provide you with suggested learning tasks for the week and a note of the activity sheets to complete.

I am aware there are some children who are currently self-isolating and unlikely to be back in school to collect their pack before Friday. For those of you in this position, I will upload photographs of the activity sheets as we go along. The first post will go up on Monday morning.

I will check the blog daily and be on hand to support with any questions you might have.

I am aware this is an uncertain time and there may be many reasons why your child is unable to complete suggested learning. Please do not worry about this and only do what you are able to.

Mrs Chan

As a whole school we are currently planning for learning at home in the event of closure.

However in the meantime as there are a number of pupils who are currently absent or self isolating the following activities could be completed at home.

Literacy:

• READ, READ, READ
• Continue to practice common words (see tab)
• Continue to practice recognition of phonemes
• Practice reading and writing 3 letter words

Numeracy:

• Studyladder
• Counting to 20
• Number before/after
• Number more than/ less than

Other:

• Still life drawing. Choose something at home to draw i.e bowl of fruit, view from window, garden, etc.
• Easter Art. Decorate a hard boiled egg, Easter bonnet, etc.
• Home baking.

I hope you are well and taking care of yourselves and each other. Please keep an eye on this blog as the majority of future learning is likely to be posted here however Mrs McGravey will advise of this in due course.

Thanks

Mrs Chan

We have now taught all the initial sounds and so over the next two  weeks we  will be assessing the children’s progress.  At this stage the children are expected to read and write their phonemes.  It is also expected that they will be able to use their phonetic knowledge to read and to spell untaught three letter words.  This assessment, along with ongoing assessments, allows us to determine your child’s readiness to move on to learning joined phonemes.

To allow for reinforcement of the phonemes before next week’s assessment, no reading books will be issued for the next two weeks.  Please use this additional time to support your child in consolidating their learning of taught phonemes.

The phoneme tab above has a list of words your child should be able to read and write independently.  The homework tab has a list of activities you may wish to use to consolidate their learning.

Just a reminder that it is’Parent’s Evening’ on Thursday 2nd April.  If you would like an appointment and have not returned the slip please could you send it in.

Also there are still some ‘Teddy Bear Picnic’ returns to come back in too.

If you have any questions please catch me at the end of the day or contact the office.  Many thanks for your continued support.

Anthea Chan

A slight change this week, as we are not consolidating last weeks phonemes and spelling words.  We will have 2 weeks of consolidation after this week.

We are learning our last two single phonemes q(u) and x.

The spelling words for this week are;

are

dad

not

Please continue to help your child to read and write all previous phonemes and spelling words.

Also see the reading tab for additional ideas on how to support your child to read.  We are currently reading ‘yellow’ band books.  Talking about the book helps your child to develop an understanding of the text, which helps them when they are completing tasks in the classroom.

Teddy Bear Picnic returns;  There are still some returns to come back to class.  Please can these be returned by next Monday.  If it is in your child’s bag, please remind them to hand it in and I will also be asking in class.  Thank you.

Any questions or queries please see me at the end of the day or contact the office to make an appointment.

Kind regards

Anthea Chan

Just to let you know that the phoneme tab has now been updated.

Also can I please ask that reading books come into school everyday with your child.  We read from them each day and carry out a follow up activity.  Unfortunately I do not have any spare copies in the class.

Many thanks for your support.

Anthea Chan