12 July 2020
Monday 13th July
Hello Class One,
This week our learning is around the story of How Many Legs! We will have some activities themed around the story, animals and lots of opportunities for maths learning this week.
I hope you have a super week learning around the story and I can’t wait to see your amazing learning! Please send me a photo and a message about the things you have been learning and getting up to at home.
Mrs Coleman-Harris x
Parents remember to do what you can (2 hours throughout the day is plenty- this doesn’t need to be all in one go!) Continue to learn lots more through your own play too.
Watch the story here
Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmUY5bXkVKQ Talk about how many legs you can see throughout the book? Can you count them all? What animals would you invite for tea? How many legs would there be then?
Literacy-
Nursery and Reception
Can you draw the animals you would like to invite to a tea party and draw your tea party table.
What animals would you invite to tea? What food would you have? How many legs would there be? How many chairs would you need? How many tables? How many sandwiches? What if everyone wanted 2 cakes? How many would you need?
Nursery can you draw your tea party and the animals you would invite? Can you label them with the initial sound or more sounds you can hear in the word? For example what sounds can you hear in rabbit? Tiger? Your parents can help you with some of the sounds and you can take it in turns to write some of the sounds in the words. Tell your parents all about what you would take with you. They can write down what you said or maybe you could have a go at writing some more words about what you would take too.
Reception can you independently use your phonics to write about the animals that would come to your tea party and the things you would need. Write some sentences to tell me all about what your tea party. Remember to use your phonics to spell and use the sentence check list to help you remember to include spaces, capital letters and full stops! Here is an example and some sentence starters to help you.
I will have a big hippo at my party. It has 4 legs. I will have a cat and a dog.
That is 8 legs! I will need lots of yummy cakes.
I need…
It has….
It will be….
I will….
Class one writing prompts
Continue to practice your letter formation
I have recorded a letter formation video for you to help you develop your letter formation at home. It’s quite long so you may want to just practice a few letters at a time. I hope it helps! When you open the link, it can be slow loading. Wait a while and it should start to work.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=JRuk5EO
It is super to hear about how this is helping lots of you with your letter formation!
Phonics and reading
Please look back at the phonics blog on the class one school closure blog for lots of phonics resources and ideas. Here is a list of websites and resources to support phonics learning at home. Nursery can try the phase 1 and 2 games and activities. Reception can try the phase 2, 3 and 4 activities. Please try and read a little each day.
https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-19-lockdown/reception-home-learning/
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html
https://www.phonicstracker.com/games/index
https://epicphonics.com/games/phase/1
https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-3
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/3-5-years/letters-and-sounds
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
phonics songs- https://www.youtube.com/user/teachinguk/videos
I have recorded the phase 2 phonic sounds here for you to practice at home. https://www.showme.com/sh?h=Q55krcu
I have recorded the phase 3 sounds for you to practice with me here. https://www.showme.com/sh?h=E3IchcG
Free access to e-libraries here:
Reception books- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=Age+4-5&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=#
Free 3 months access to another e-library here -https://www.risingstars-uk.com/series/reading-planet/products/rising-stars-reading-planet-online-library
Maths
All Nursery and Reception children can have a go at completing some of the day 1 and 2 How many legs themed maths challenges over the next two days. You can pick a few of the activities to try out on here.
Here is the link. Click on Summer term- Week 12 (w/c 13th July) and all of the activities for the week will be there. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/
Forming numbers
I have recorded a video to help you develop your number formation.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=A4gog1A
Numberblocks
These are a super way to learn and develop your maths skills. There are lots of episodes available on the iplayer. You could use a whiteboard or paper and join in with each episode by drawing the amounts or writing the number. Maybe you could make some numberblocks cakes, constructions or play dough creations too?
The How many legs, animal and party themed fun ideas for you to try out all week!
Here are some ideas for things to try out this week.
Learn the Makaton for animals and some animal stories!
On the farm- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFxYatusSf4
Lots of links to videos of animal signs- https://www.youtube.com/user/SingingHandsUK/search?query=animals
Relaxation stories and yoga
Relax with some yoga and relaxation stories.
Yoga for wild kids! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFbWNmzPByQ
Role play
Build and set up your own tea party for you, lots of animals and your family! Who will you invite? Can you count how many legs are at your tea party? How many chairs will you need?
Maybe you could make some food for your tea party? Here is a link to lots of simple recipes with visuals to help your child read the recipes too https://symbolworld.org/categories/show/33
Play dough tea party
Can you use play dough to create some party food? Can you use a knife and fork to practice cutting the dough (This will help you with your independence at meal times!)
Next can you cut the food to share it between 2 guests or 4 guests?
How many legs at home?
Can you find out and count how many legs there are in your house? Can you count your siblings legs? Your parents legs? Can you collect your toy animals and find out how many legs each animal has and make a number label? How many legs do your animals have altogether?
Can you sort the animals into groups? How will you sort them? Maybe you could sort them by pattern, size, or where they live? Can you sort them by the amount of legs they have? Animals with no legs, 2 legs, 4 legs. Can you find an animal with more than 4 legs?
Construct animals
Can you build or create your own animal? How many legs will it have?
Here are lots of other themed ideas, activities and printables to try at home.
How many legs?
Posted by Mrs Coleman Harris
Category: Class 1 School Closure
