Firstly, can I say a big thank you for all your support and kind words last week. It has been a very emotional and unsettling time for everyone so thank you for being so patient and understanding. The children were brilliant every day and washed washed washed those germs away! Naturally they had some questions which we addressed in a simple and age appropriate way and I am so glad that they have the innocence of their age and weren't phased by the whole situation. They kept us all smiling with their lovely little personalities : )
Each week, I will upload some activities for you to work on with your child at home to ensure we continue to support them on their learning journeys.
On Friday, I sent home a work book for them to use to record some of the activities they do. As working at home will now be the main focus for the children's learning, it is extremely important they complete the tasks at the same standard that they would complete them in school. Please encourage your child to take time and care with their work as they would do in school.
With younger children it is important that any misconceptions your child may have when completing an activity is discussed there and then. So please don't just ask your child to complete the work and move on to the next activity.
The adult sitting with them needs to check the work that they have completed. (In school the children love checking work with the adult and ticking the things they have done correctly).
Above all, praise, praise, praise! As long as your child has sat, concentrated and tried their best, that is all we can ask for. It is a different way of learning for them and they will want to show you how clever they are, just like they love showing us in school.
The adult sitting with them needs to check the work that they have completed. (In school the children love checking work with the adult and ticking the things they have done correctly).
Above all, praise, praise, praise! As long as your child has sat, concentrated and tried their best, that is all we can ask for. It is a different way of learning for them and they will want to show you how clever they are, just like they love showing us in school.
Language, Literacy and Communication
In Reception, learning letter sounds and building/blending words play a key role in developing your child's reading.
Ruth Miskin (the creator of Read,Write, Inc) will be providing free daily phonics lessons from Monday 23rd March via Facebook and YouTube. Click on the link below for further information:
If your child is in Mrs.Hargreaves or Mrs.Dollman's group for RWI, please follow Set 1 sounds sessions at 9.30am
If they are in Mrs.Rees & Mrs.Farrell's or Miss Key's group for RWI, please follow Set 2 sounds sessions at 10am.
Alongside this, we have tricky words/HFW which are words that cannot be built and we need to be able to read these by sight. I have put a list of all the words inside the learning packs. Work through them a few at a time, but also make sure to recap words they can already read to ensure they don't forget them.
Once they have mastered reading them, practise to spell them. You can learn these words in lots of different ways, playing matching/pairs games, snap, bingo, hide and seek, 'find the word' e.g. in your favourite book, in your home environment.
We practise these skills daily in school and ask if you can do the same at home.
Inside the work books, I have put a sound and HFW record sheet for you to complete together with your child to see exactly where they are and what sounds/words they need to practise next. It's a great way for the children to see their progress as they colour more and more sounds and words.
Writing
As with the reading of the sounds, please continue to work on your letter formation using the sound cards that were sent home at the beginning of the year. Practise the sounds that they find tricky or may not be forming correctly.
Last week, the children worked together with their new 'sea crew' team to research images of the sea creature that they have chosen to make. Ask them about which sea creature they have chosen and what they designed last week?
Please can you help them to continue their research at home and create a fact file about it? I have stuck a template in the work books to record what you find.
Remember your writing targets! We are working on writing the sounds we can hear in each word, using a finger space between each word and a full stop at the end.
Mathematical Development
Last week, we started to learn about simple subtraction (taking away).
- Count backwards from 10/20. Remember to say 'teen' and show your teeth!
- What does '1 less' mean? Practise to mentally recall '1 less' than a number up to 10/20. If you find this tricky, use objects to help you.
- Sing some number rhymes together which practise 'taking away'.
- Play skittles with your family. Count how many you have at the start. How many did you knock over? How many are left standing? Keep score by writing the numbers. Who knocks over the most/least?
- Make some playdough fish. Snappy Shark likes to eat (squish) them - Roll a dice, how many will he squish? Count how many you have left?
- Have a go at taking away different objects using this fun and simple game:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=TakeAway
Count how many are left - Can you write the number?
If you fancy a challenge, you could write the subtraction sentence e.g. 7-2=5. Talk about what each symbol means.
Have a go at this:
Physical Development
Joe Wicks has announced that he will be completing PE sessions live on YouTube every day next week from 9am. We use Joe Wicks school workouts during our 'get active' sessions and the children love it. It keeps me fit too!
Online learning - HWB
Last week, I sent out your child's login details for HWB. Some of you who have older siblings in the school may be familiar with HWB already. HWB is an online digital platform for teaching and learning. It allows access to a range of free educational resources and is a great tool that pupils will use regularly throughout the school to support their learning in lots of different ways.
There are many different apps/programmes to use within HWB, so this week, please can you help your child to log on and explore what HWB has to offer.
Visit https://hwb.gov.wales
Click Login on the top right hand side of the page and enter you login details. This will take you to a page of different programmes.
We love using Just2Easy (j2e) in class, there's so many fab things to do.
To help you with your research this week, have a look at 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'. You can type in the name of your sea creature in the search bar and it will bring up a number of pages, images and videos. There's also an option for the text to be read out loud, by clicking the speaker at the top right hand side of the page.
Oxford Reading Buddy
https://www.oxfordreadingbuddy.com/uk
Please continue to access the online reading books using Oxford Reading Buddy. I have reviewed all the levels and moved the children according to their current stage of reading development. Don't forget to complete the quiz after you have read the book, this will allow you to assess their understanding of what they have read.
Remember, we ask that you only read through one or two of these books a week and share a range of other reading materials together such as story books, comics, non-fiction books about topics that interest them.
Online games
There are so many fantastic online game/apps to support your child's learning. Here are a few of our favourites:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games
oxfordowl.co.uk
phonicsplay.co.uk
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/3-5-years
Cbeebies storytime /
playtime
Most importantly, stay safe and enjoy this time together at home. Cuddle up and read a story. Take turns reading, read them your favourite novel. Do a puzzle, play some games, build a den, do some baking, prepare your own teddy bear's picnic, paint, draw, teach them a new skill, if the sun comes out - have some fun outside, enjoy a family film together.
Diolch
Mrs.Dollman
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