Reception Class Monday 6th July
To the Parents and children of Reception Class.
Welcome to another week of online learning. I hope you are all safe and well and have had a bit of time to relax on the weekend. We are nearly there!
"Children need the freedom and time to play.
Play is not a luxury.
Play is a necessity."
Kay Redfield Jamison
Literacy
Mrs Garbett
We are now going on to a different level of reading so if this seems too much of a jump, follow Mrs Evans group.
Speed set 2 sounds are- ay ee igh ow oo oo ar or air ir ou oy
Sound- or (shut the door).
Words- Short worn sport fork
Words to read over the week- want you call we be no her are (HFW).
shop must smell dull tank stick
Sentence- Make the sentence easier if required.
Meg wants a pet. Mum and Meg are in the pet shop.
Mrs Evans group.
Recap previous sounds.
We then repeat speed set 2 sounds as children need to have this embedded before commencing speed set 3.
New sound- ee (what can you see?).
Words- tree three been sleep
Words to learn over the week- said the my are (HFW).
spin six stuck black flat pink long thin them munch this
Sentence- This is Spin. Spin is sitting in his web.
Mrs Miles group.
We have completed set 1 special friends. I am now going to repeat the sounds below. If you feel your child is ready to move on, you can follow Mrs Evans group.
sh th ch qu ng nk
So today our new sound is- ng
Read and write these sounds- thing sing ring
Words to learn for the week- six red big snap in pink long rat hat sock
Sentence- Six pink rats.
(Please remember a capital letter at the beginning, tall, short letters, and a full stop at the end).
Don't forget the- high frequency words. Perhaps learn 3 or 4 a week and just keep recapping.
I go come went a was look there are we and me like going she they my see on away this play no yes for can he am all you said to day there
Numeracy
Time
Lots of modelling is really important to help your child to understand the difficult concept of being able to measure time. Letting your child discuss what they are doing at different times of the day helps to make explicit, the abstract nature of the concept, and makes it meaningful to them. Highlight the different times, e.g. "It's 12 o' clock, so now it's lunchtime." "It's 7 o' clock, so now it's bedtime." (If you are lucky).
All Children- Go on a clock hunt around the house. How many clocks can you find? I know lots of clocks don't have numbers or are digital. But that's fine. Are there any rooms that have more than 1 clock?
Most Children- Can you make a clock with your child? You can use a paper plate or a piece of card. Remember to use 2 hands of different lengths. So it is clear which is the minute and hour hand.
Challenge- Explain to your child that the hands move around the clock all the time. The longer hand is called the minute hand and the shorter one is the hour hand. If you have a clock with a second hand, can you count as it moves around the clock? Explain that it takes 60 seconds to move all the way around the clock.
Topic- Over the week
Van Gogh
I am going to try and bring the sun back by studying the artist Van Gogh and in particular "The Sunflowers." Perhaps you can show your child this painting on the internet. This painting is very famous. Look at the bright colours and the way each sunflower is painted differently. Van Gogh also lived in a yellow house. Do you like the painting? Where would you hang this painting in your house? I would hang it in my bedroom, so everyday I would wake up and see it straight away. Or maybe I would hang it in the hall, so that everyone that came to my house would see it too. Van Gogh used lots of shades of yellow. How do you think he created various shades of the same colour? Perhaps you could use a paper plate and create various shades, just like Van Gogh.
Can you find 5 facts about Van Gogh, one each day? If the writing is too much of a challenge, perhaps you could write a simple sentence and leave space for your child to write underneath. Help your child to read aloud the sentence you have written.
There is an animated short story on YouTube- Art with Mati and Dada about Van Gogh.
Creative-over the week.
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
Vincent Van Gogh
Thank you for those that shared "The Kelly" by Anna Blatman. I was really impressed.
Now we are going to create Van Gogh's sunflowers. If you get a big sheet of paper- ideally A3. As we have done before, paint the paper with a colour wash (watery paint, any colour). Make sure you create the flowers on portrait. When it is dry, draw a line on the bottom third and then draw your vase. After that draw 14 random circles of different sizes all over the paper. So some are high and some are low. Then you can paint the bottom third a colour of your choice and when that is dry, paint your vase. This can be a 2 tone colour or just 1. I don't want to be too descriptive as it will be your own version. These are just some ideas. When this is dry you can begin to paint your sunflowers using various shades of yellows and orange. So you can paint the middles and then soft strokes for the petals. Children tend not to like painting the seeded sunflowers, so that is fine. You can then add soft strokes of green to create petals. Voila, I can't wat to see this.
Mindfulness
Mental Snapshot
This is a game for 2 or more people. You will need a cloth or blanket and 7 different objects such as pebbles, buttons, crayons or small toys. Add more to make challenging.
Perhaps you can do this as a family as it needs more than 1 person. Sit together in a circle. Choose a leader. The leader sets out the objects close together where everyone can see them.
Everyone is given a minute to look at the objects and try to remember them all.
The leader covers the objects with a cloth or a blanket, then takes one object away without letting anyone see it.
The leader removes the cloth or blanket and everyone looks again to figure out which object is missing. Take turns being the leader.
Weekly Welsh-
If you are not sure of pronunciation, you can always check on google translation. Take it in turns with your child to say the language patterns-
Introduce- Oes llygaid……………… 'da ti ? (Have you got………..eyes?). Don't forget to say the colour in the space.
Answer- oes/nag oes (Yes/no).
So for e.g.- Oes llygaid glas 'da ti? Nag oes.
Oes llygaid brown 'da ti? Oes
You could do a survey finding out from your extended family their eye/hair colour. You could do this by using a tally just like you did last week. Then input your data on jit 5 to make a graph.(Details how to do this was on last week's numeracy planning).
My email address is- MilesD8@hwbmail.net if you need to contact me.
Thank you and keep yourselves safe.
Mrs Miles