Reception Home Learning 11.6.21

Country Research

This morning, we have done a Reception sweepstake ahead of the Euro 2020 Tournament starting this evening. We had lots of drum rolls and excitement as we each picked a team. I have asked the class to research the country they have chosen and write down one fact and draw a picture with a label.

They could think about flags, location, geography, food, the possibilities are endless!

We will add these facts to out wall chart display next week. Please send the facts in via reading folders by Wednesday (16th).

As always please let the children write as independently as possible using the sounds they know. Some words might look strange to me and you but they will be phonetically correct!

Fundamental Movement Skills

Our sports day will take place on Monday afternoon, we have been practicing all week. Over the weekend the children could sharpen up their rolling a ball technique ahead of Monday’s fun!

Thank you and have fun,

Miss Lavelle

Reception Home Learning 30.4.21

Wasp Research

The excitement levels were high this afternoon, when we discovered a visitor in our shed! A wasp has been very busy making a nest. The children were full of some brilliant questions, I have asked them to research wasps and write down one fact and draw a picture with a label.

I have added a sheet on the button, you can print or create your own.

As always please let the children write as independently as possible using the sounds they know. Some words might look strange to me and you but they will be phonetically correct!

Fundamental Movement Skills

Over the next few weeks we hope to improve our hopping. Have fun with this at home, lots of hopping games. Please see the picture and video below for some top tips! https://kiddo.edu.au/skills/hopping

Thank you and have fun,

Miss Lavelle

Reception Home Learning 16.4.21

Purple Mash

Please log in to your Purple Mash and click on the 2Do section. I would like the children to draw and animate a picture of the Three Little Pigs story.

(The video is from lockdown but shows you how to animate the story)

Then they can either:

-record the story

-type the story

-write the story and email a picture to Miss Lavelle

Please remember to click ‘save and exit’ and then ‘hand in’

PLEASE let the children write as independently as possible, I would like to see what they can do with the sounds they know. Click on the button for a sound mat that your child can use to support their writing.

Fundamental Movement Skills

Over the next few weeks we hope to improve our hopping. Have fun with this at home, lots of hopping games. Please see the picture and video below for some top tips! https://kiddo.edu.au/skills/hopping

Thank you and have fun,

Miss Lavelle

Reception Home Learning 27.11.20

Reading

Keeeeeeeeeep Reading!

Everyone should have a new set of word flashcards to practise with. If you do not have a set it is because the previous set wasn’t returned, please send them in next week and we can swap them over.

Homework Books

We have now learnt 26 different sounds which is AMAZING. I have slotted a sheet in the books of all the RWI rhymes to remember how to form the letters.

Please choose 10 letters and practice writing them on the lined page of your book. It is very important you start and finish in the correct place.

It might be a good idea to warm up those fingers with a dough disco.

Purple Mash

Enjoy exploring 2Beat to make a rhythm we can all join in with next week. We have been using 2Beat all week, so hopefully they will be able to show you what the different buttons do!

Please remember to click ‘save and exit’ and then ‘hand in’

Thank you and as always…enjoy!

Miss Lavelle

Reception Home Learning 20.11.20

Reading

Thank you very much we have had most reading books in everyday this week and the children are getting into a great routine of putting them in their house colour box.

Please continue to read your books at home. Everyone should have a new set of word flashcards to practise with. If you do not have a set it is because the previous set wasn’t returned, please send them in next week and we can swap them over.

Maths

Practice counting orally to 20 from different numbers. For example, you say…8 they continue with…9,10,11,12,13…all the way to 20.

Purple Mash

Each child has received a login for Purple Mash, this is a small laminated card in their reading folders.

Please use the details to log in to https://www.purplemash.com and follow the instructions below.

Use 2Paint to create a picture of a nocturnal animal. You could also add text to the bottom to write a fact about your animal.

Thank you and enjoy!

Miss Lavelle

Click on the alert in the top left corner.

This box will pop up. Click on ‘Go to’

When the picture is finished, click the arrow at the top right.

A box will appear, choose the ‘Save and Exit’ button.

Then click the ‘Hand In’ button, so I will be able to see the picture.

Reception Home Learning 13.11.20

Reading

Read, read, read! Read signs, read labels, read bedtime stories and please spend 5-10 minutes reading the book sent home with your child. This should be done at least three times during the week.

Please remember it’s not just about reading words:

• Make predictions of what will happen next

• Build character knowledge including descriptions and feelings

• Answer questions using evidence from the pictures or text

• Retell and sequence the story

• Embellish the story and even create alternative endings.

English

The class have shown a real interest in nocturnal animals, next week we will be finding out more about them.

Please choose one of the animals below to tell a story about.

You could make a little lolly stick puppet or something similar to help you tell the story or use some of the other nocturnal animals as other characters in your story.

Please record the story and send it to s.lavelle@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. We will share them as a class next week.

Physical Development

Fine motor fun! Make or use playdough you have already to have a ‘Dough Disco’. Here is an example… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBsNhwxzgc&safe=active Put on a favourite song and enjoy, rolling, pinching, splatting, pressing, squeezing the playdough to the music.

Thank you and enjoy!

Miss Lavelle

Reception Home Learning 21.10.20

Reading Books

Everyone has a new book to enjoy at home. After half term the children will read with an adult once a week and their book will be changed at the same time.

Please send your child’s reading folder everyday as the day they read will change each week. Homework books must be returned by Wednesday as usual.

Please remember to:

• Make predictions of what will happen next

• Build character knowledge including descriptions and feelings

• Answer questions using evidence from the pictures or text

• Retell and sequence the story

• Embellish the story and even create alternative endings.

Phonics - Read Write Inc

PLEASE continue to form letters in fun and imaginative ways alongside the below activity.

• Play Boggle using the sounds that we have learnt so far (m,a,s,d,t,i,n,p,g,o,c,k,u,b,f,e,l,h)

• Cut out the sounds in your folder (or use the ones from the sound hunt 2 weeks ago if you still have them)

• Set a timer for one minute and see how many words you can make using the sounds.

• You will have to reuse some of the letters so maybe a grown up could write the words as you make them so you know how many you have made at the end.

• After the timer has finished you could read the words on the list or ask a grown up to read the words for you to segment and write in your book.

Maths    

Look at the information below, take a picture of the repeating pattern you make and put it in your book or email it to Miss Lavelle.                                         

Physical Development

Get outside as much as you can and enjoy the outdoors, jump in a muddy puddle, roll down a hill, jump over some stepping stones the possibilities are endless. Keep working on building those independent skills of pulling back inside out sleeves, putting coats and jumpers on and off and using a knife and fork too.

And please remember these wonderful words….

Have a great half term!

Miss Lavelle, Miss Neves and Barbara

Reception Home Learning 16.10.20

Everyone has a new book to enjoy, sound flashcards with this week’s sounds added and some word flashcards in their folder.

Phonics - Read Write Inc

PLEASE continue to form letters in fun and imaginative ways alongside the below activity.

• Choose a sound that we have learnt so far (m,a,s,d,t,i,n,p,g,o,c,k,u,b,f)

• Pass or roll a ball or balloon to each other, saying a different word each time that starts with your chosen sound. Which letter can you get most words for? For example, flower, foot, face, fox, fog…

• You could use the same idea to segment words, choose a word, then each time the ball or balloon is thrown or rolled say a sound. For example, f-i-n, f-o-g (We have been reading these words this week using our new sounds...bun, bat, bag, big, bus, bug, sun cup, mug, fan, fun, fin, fit, fog, fan). 

Maths                                             

Use your imagination to turn the shapes (on the separate sheet inside reading folder) into a picture. Look at the examples below, a circle can be turned into a bee and a square can be turned into a cat. I can’t wait to see what you think of!

Physical Development

This week we have been improving our running skills, see if you can try this at home. Remember to take long strides, with bent arms and moving backwards and forwards the opposite to our legs. This will help us to run quickly!

Enjoy!

Miss Lavelle, Miss Neves and Barbara

Reception Learning from Home Thursday 16th July

Good morning Reception. It’s our last day doing home learning as a class today. Tomorrow being the final day of the year before the summer holidays, we will be working together (virtually of course) as a whole school to complete some activities and celebrate the year. Make sure that you check the class blog tomorrow for all of the photos from the week and a final “Good-bye” from the Reception Team

I hope that you enjoy the final day working as part of the Reception Class, very soon you will be in Year 1 (Isn’t it exciting!!!. I bet you can’t wait - I know Miss Lane is super excited and can’t stop talking about how great you were last week.)

Today’s Learning Activities:

English - Traditional Tales

Watch the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Can you answer these questions? Who went over the bridge first, next, last? Where were they going? Why? What did the troll say? What happened to the troll? What happened to the billy goats?

Can you make a bridge? You might want to use Lego or other construction toys. Then using your toys or teddies can you act out the story?

Maybe you could use different voices for the different characters. Have fun!

White Rose Maths

Lesson 4 w/b 29th June

Have a look at today’s activity. I hope that you are good at dancing!!! Don’t forget to make a list of which songs you will play 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. Think about your moves and have fun!

Reading

Make sure that you keep up with your reading during the summer holidays. Have you signed up for the library summer reading challenge yet? If you haven’t why not sign up for it now and see if you can read lots of books during the summer and complete the challenge. It’s great fun and it will get your ready for Year 1 too. Your grown ups will need to sign up for you using their email address.

Maybe you could have a look at the list of books that I have made a link to on the button below and see how many of them you have read. This will really help you with you work when you get into Year 1 next year.

(Challenge - can you tick them all off before the end of the summer???)

PE

Remember it’s really important to keep active. Think about what you can do today to keep active. Maybe you want to have a go at something you are good at because you enjoy doing it. Or maybe you know there is something that you would like to get better at and need a bit of practise with. Maybe you would like to have a go at more than one thing! You choose!

I hope that you have a super day.

Don’t forget to send me some photos of what you have been doing.

                                     l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Take care and stay safe

Miss Brisco xx

Reception Learning from Home Wednesday 15th July 2020

Good morning children. It’s our last Wonderful Wednesday of the school year - Can you think of 3 wonderful things about your time in Reception?

Today’s Learning Activities:

English - Traditional Tales

Watch and enjoy the story of Jack and the Beanstalk

Discuss the story and see if you can answer these questions: What did Jack swap for the cow? What was special about the beans? Who lived at the top of the beanstalk? How did Jack escape the Giant?

Do you really think that if you planted beans like in the story, they would grow overnight?

Have you ever grown anything before? I know some of you have been growing things during lockdown.

Look at CBeebies: How Does Your Garden Grow? for some advice and ideas about growing plants at home. (Why not plant some seeds which sprout quickly to maintain the children’s interest.)

Maybe you could make a quick-growing cress head like in Mr Bloom’s nursery:

If you don’t have any seeds are available, maybe you could grow leftover vegetable scraps to use in salads.

White Rose Maths

Look at Lesson 3 w/b 29th June

Today we are going to look at the story of Oliver’s Vegetables again. Oliver has been planting vegetables with his grandad. Can you help him to work out his problems? Then help him to sort his vegetables and say how he sorted them.

Learning Characters

At school we have 8 learning characters that help us to focus on what we need to do to grow our brains. Can you remember them all? (Cooper Crab, Sadie Spider, Roger Robin, Tommy Turtle, Clara Clownfish, Lizzie Ladybird, Kiki Chameleon and of course enthusiastic Bobby Bee)

Can you draw a picture of each of the learning characters and think about how you can be more like them?During the summer holidays can you try to do things that help you to grow more like each of them?

Have fun and think how you can continue to grow your brain - you might want to set yourself a challenge and see if you can achieve it before the end of the holidays. (Learn how to ride your bike, learn how to climb to the top of the climbing frame or go across the monkey bars, learn how to tie your shoe laces, be able to count to 100, or count in 2s or know your address. These are just some examples of things that you might want to do but I’m sure you could think of your own. )

PE

Remember it’s really important to keep active. Think about what you can do today to keep active. Maybe you want to have a go at something you are good at because you enjoy doing it. Or maybe you know there is something that you would like to get better at and need a bit of practise with. Maybe you would like to have a go at more than one thing! You choose!

I hope that you have a super day.
Don’t forget to send me some photos of what you have been doing. (Please send all photos by lunchtime tomorrow so that I can make them into a little photo movie. Thank you)

                                     l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Take care and stay safe

Miss Brisco xx

Reception Learning from Home Tuesday 14th July

Good morning children. It’s Terrific Tuesday again - try to do some terrific work today. Can you be a Bobby Bee?

Today’s Learning Activities:

English - Traditional Tales

Read and enjoy the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears: or you may have your own version to share together.

Then have a go at answering the questions

What happened when Goldilocks ate Baby Bear’s porridge?  How do you think she felt when she broke Baby Bear’s chair? What happened when she fell asleep in Baby Bear’s bed? How do you think the three bears felt when they saw everything that Goldilocks had done? How might Goldilocks have felt when she got home and thought about her behaviour?

Can you write a letter from Goldilocks to the three bears to say sorry? What will she write? Remember to use your phonics to help with your sounding out and spelling.

White Rose Maths

Lesson 2 w/b 29th June

Today we are going to look at the story of Oliver’s Fruit Salad. Can you play the game - I went to the market and bought …? (I love playing this game - whenever I play it I always like to create pictures in my head and I find that it helps me to remember. Maybe it will help you too!) Then can you look at the pictures and ask and answer some questions? Have fun!

Postcard

You have been in Reception since last September and you have grown so much and learned such a lot. Think about what it was like to start at school. Were you excited or were you a little bit worried and scared? When the new Reception children come into school in September some of them might be a bit worried and not know what to do.

Can you use Purple Mash and write them a postcard to tell them how wonderful it is in Reception and to tell them not to worry?

PE

Remember it’s really important to keep active. Think about what you can do today to keep active. Maybe you want to have a go at something you are good at because you enjoy doing it. Or maybe you know there is something that you would like to get better at and need a bit of practise with. Maybe you would like to have a go at more than one thing! You choose!

I hope that you have a super day.
Don’t forget to send me some photos of what you have been doing.

                                     l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Take care and stay safe

Miss Brisco xx

Reception Home Learning Monday 13th July

Good morning Reception . It a marvellous Monday again today. Try to be marvellous in everything that you do!

It’s so lovely to be with you all again for our final week in school.  I can hardly believe that you have come to the end of your Reception year and are ready for Year 1 - time seems to have flown by! But then again, I know that you have worked really hard this year and even though things have been very strange for us all, you have been great learners and wanted to keep growing your brains. Well done!

I might not have been looking after your learning for very long but I do know that I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know you and watching you learn new things and I also know that Miss Bassett is so proud of you all and how much you have learned.

I hope that you enjoyed last week, getting to know your new teacher Miss Lane. I know that she really enjoyed hearing from you and finding out all about you all.  She is so excited to be teaching you all in September.

We have just 4 days of class learning this week and then on Friday we have our final day of the year working together as a whole school to say “good-bye” before we start our summer holidays.

Today’s Learning Activities:

English - Traditional Tales

Watch and enjoy The Gingerbread Man, read by Julie Walters:

Discuss the story with your grown up. Can you answer these questions?

Who baked the gingerbread man? What did the gingerbread man shout each time he escaped from someone? How did the sly old fox trick the gingerbread man?

Can you write a list of all the people and animals that the gingerbread man escaped from? (Remember to sound out each word carefully)

Can you draw pictures of them in the order that they appear in the story?

White Rose Maths

Lesson 1 Week 10 w/c 29th June

This week we are going to look at the story of Oliver’s Vegetables. I know quite a few of you have been busy growing vegetables at home during lockdown and I’ve been looking at all of the photos that you have in, you are looking after them really carefully and will soon be eating lots of delicious things that you have grown. Have a look what Oliver has been up to and see if you can help him with his maths work. Maybe you could use the border that you create in the next activity.

Memories

Have a think about all of the things that you have done during your time in Reception. Talk to your grown up about what you have done. What did you enjoy doing the most?

I would like you to draw a picture and write a sentence or two about your favourite memory of being in Reception Class. (Remember to sound out carefully when you are writing.)

PE

Remember it’s really important to keep active. Think about what you can do today to keep active. Maybe you want to have a go at something you are good at because you enjoy doing it. Or maybe you know there is something that you would like to get better at and need a bit of practise with. Maybe you would like to have a go at more than one thing! You choose!

I hope that you have a lovely day.
Don’t forget to send me some photos of what you have been doing.

                                     l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Take care and stay safe

Miss Brisco xx