Monday 18th January 2021 

Thank you for sharing your work with us either on Tapestry or via the class email.  It has been wonderful seeing all the fantastic learning you have been doing at home!

Did you see Mr Barron’s Briefing on Friday? Click here to watch it.
Today is Winnie-The-Pooh day, so our learning activities will be based upon Winnie-The-Pooh.

Reading and Phonics

Please read for 10-15 minutes each day. You can use any books from home. You can also access free eBooks on the Oxford Owl website. 

When you have read 5 times remember to send a photo of your reading record to golden.tickets@gadevalley.herts.sch.uk by 10am each Friday, so that your Golden Ticket is entered into the competition. 

Practise your phonics by either using the flashcards below, or on the phonicsplay website-flashcards speed trial game (user name: jan21. Password:home) or watch the Wednesday 6th January video of me doing our flashcards.

Monday Afternoon Task - Communication and Language

Have a teddy bear picnic with all your teddies.  Make sure they have all got enough food, see if you can make sure they all have the same amount by counting what is on their plate.  It would be a good idea to draw a map to show the teddies where they have to go.  I have included a copy of Winnie-The-Pooh's map below but you can design your own. 

Reading and Phonics

Please read for 10-15 minutes each day. You can use any books from home. You can also access free eBooks on the Oxford Owl website. 

When you have read 5 times remember to send a photo of your reading record to golden.tickets@gadevalley.herts.sch.uk by 10am each Friday, so that your Golden Ticket is entered into the competition. 

Practise your phonics by either using the flashcards below, or on the phonicsplay website (explained in today's phonics video) or watch the Wednesday 6th January video of me doing our flashcards.

Friday Phonics Tricky Words Song Click to hear song.

Phonics Play- Click on the link.  The user name is: jan21.  The password is: home. 

The games I would like you to play are 'flash cards speed trial' and 'picnic on pluto'.  You can select either phase 2 or phase 3 to play these games.

Friday Afternoon Task - P.S.H.E- learning how to solve problems

Jigsaw – Dreams and Goals- Piece 1 - Follow the links and listen to one or both of the stories.

Don’t worry hugless Douglas

Love monster

Try this challenge: Fill a small bowl of small objects e.g raisins and peas (or whatever you have to hand) and blindfold your child. Can they only pick out only the raisins?

 Questions: How did you find that challenge? How did it make you feel? What sorts of things do we everyday that are tricky? Do you ever have any problems with your friends? How do you sort these out?

Let’s Think: Talk about how sometimes we may come across things that are hard.

Discuss how we could overcome them. If we were to do the challenges again, what could we do to help us achieve them? What sorts of things do we everyday that are tricky? Do you ever have any problems with your friends? How do you sort these out?

It's time for some Yoga.  Have a go at this cosmic kids session; Sonic the Hedgehog.

Thursday 14th January 2021

Watch Mr Barron's Briefing

Reading and Phonics

Please read for 10-15 minutes each day. You can use any books from home. You can also access free eBooks on the Oxford Owl website. 

When you have read 5 times remember to send a photo of your reading record to golden.tickets@gadevalley.herts.sch.uk by 10am each Friday, so that your Golden Ticket is entered into the competition. 

Practise your phonics by either using the flashcards below or watch the Wednesday 6th January video of me doing our flashcards.

Click here to play the forest phonics game

Literacy Challenge No need to print, please complete on paper.

Maths Challenge  Have a go at completing at least three pea smashes!

Thursday Afternoon Task - Communication and Language/Maths

Create a simple supermarket/shop. Add empty boxes and make price labels up to 5p. Use real 1p coins (if you have any or use paper coins) to buy the items. Play with your child initially to model the language for transactions. How much does the… cost ? That will be 3 pence please. Count out the coins one, two, three.  Repeat for other transactions.

Reading and Phonics

Please read for 10-15 minutes each day. You can use any books from home. You can also access free eBooks on the Oxford Owl website. 

When you have read 5 times remember to send a photo of your reading record to golden.tickets@gadevalley.herts.sch.uk by 10am each Friday, so that your Golden Ticket is entered into the competition. 

Practise your phonics by either using the flashcards below or watch the Wednesday 6th January video of me doing our flashcards.

th pictures 

Have a go at writing words to go with these pictures.  For an extra challenge you could write a sentence.

Wednesday Afternoon Task - Physical Development- Health

Healthy Eating; We are going to learn to identify foods that are healthy and foods that are not healthy. Click here to watch the lesson with Miss Hughes. What is the importance of a healthy diet? What is the importance of different food groups? At the end of the lesson, draw your own plate of healthy food, or stick pictures from a magazine on a paper plate.

Reading and Phonics

Please read for 10-15 minutes each day. You can use any books from home. You can also access free eBooks on the Oxford Owl website. 

Practise your phonics by either using the flashcards below or watch the Wednesday 6th January video of me doing our flashcards.

Tuesday Literacy

Listen to the story of Supertato either from the video yesterday or the PowerPoint below today’s Literacy video. Have a go at playing the roll and retell game.

Tuesday Afternoon Task - Expressive Arts and Design/Maths

Use building bricks to make a home for Supertato.  Think about how tall and wide it needs to be to fit supertato inside.  As an extra challenge you could ask your adult to show you with a ruler how tall and wide your house is.  If you don’t have a ruler you could use bricks to measure it (make sure they are all the same size!)  If you don’t have bricks at home you could use lego or you could draw a picture of supertato’s house.

Monday 11th January 2021

Reading and Phonics

Please read for 10-15 minutes each day. You can use any books from home. You can also access free eBooks on the Oxford Owl website. 

Practise your phonics by either using the flashcards below or watch the Wednesday 6th January video of me doing our flashcards.

Literacy

Listen to me read the story of Supertato by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet.  Then tell your adult your favourite part of the story.  Finally look at the Evil Pea picture below, can you spot what he has done and talk to your adult about what you think the answers are to the questions.

Monday Afternoon Task - Expressive Arts and Design/Communication and Language

Have a go at creating your own SuperTato.  Use a potato (or any other vegetable).  Give your vegetable a face.  Don't forget a cape! 

What are your vegetable's super powers?  For example:

1. Super squishing power

2. Power to make people smile

3. Super tickler

Take your SuperTato/vegetable around your house to help out with some of the jobs, such as tidying your bedroom or putting away the dishes.  What other helpful things could they do?

Friday 8th January 2021

Look out for Mr Barron's assembly on his briefing page. Next week we will be reading the story 'Super Tato'.  It would be great if you could have a potato ready to decorate. We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to more learning next week.

Reading and Phonics

Please read for 10-15 minutes each day. You can use any books from home. You can also access free eBooks on the Oxford Owl website. 

Practise your phonics by either using the flashcards from yesterday or watch the Wednesday video of me doing our flashcards.

Friday Phonics Tricky Words Song Click to hear song.

Friday Phonics The Dinosaur Eggs word game

Friday Afternoon Task - Expressive Arts and Design.  Physical Development.

Zog needs a rest! Can you design your very own creature who would make a very good ambulance?  It could be another type of dragon or a creature you have made up.  Draw your dragon or creature and give it a name.  What special abilities does it have to help the doctors to treat their patients?

It's time for some Yoga.  Have a go at this cosmic kids session; it's a Winter story.

Thursday 7th January

Hello Reception!

I hope you enjoy your learning today. You will be practising your phonics, creating patterns and learning about the season Winter.

Have a good day and keep warm!

Phonics

Today we would like you to practise your phonics using the document below called ‘practise your phonics’.  Then watch the phonics video for today which is all about the phoneme v.  On some paper have a go at writing the phoneme v and then write v words to go with the pictures below.  Remember to segment the words to help you write them. For an extra challenge you could write sentences instead of words to go with the pictures.

The lion is feeling cold in his cave.  Can you draw him a scarf with a repeating pattern? See the examples below.

Afternoon Task - Understanding the World

Signs of Winter

Have a look at and talk about the pictures in the document below.  Ask your child:  If we went on a winter walk now, what do you think you would be able to see? For your challenge - can you draw a picture of what you would see on your walk?  You could draw trees, robins, gloves and scarves, holly and so on.  As an extra challenge you could label or write a sentence about what you have drawn.

Literacy

Listen to the story of Zog and the Flying Doctors by Julia Donaldson.  

Ask your child can they remember and tell you about the patients in the story:  Who were they? What was wrong with them? How did they get better?

Afternoon task

Communication, Language and Literacy/Understanding the World

Make your own role play flying doctors’ base. Ask your child to suggest where this could be – you could look at images from the book for ideas; maybe it will be a cave, a forest, castle ruins, etc. Tell your child that they are going to pretend to be one of the flying doctors. Read out the scenarios on Resource Sheet 1: A doctor’s checklist and encourage your child to suggest the correct treatment to give to their patients. Teddies or dolls could be used as the patients, each with a card stating what their problem is and your child should act out how to treat their ailments.