Reception Home Learning Week Commencing 27th April 2020

We hope you have enjoyed the first week of our new topic!

Please continue to keep a look out on our Facebook page for videos of

phonics teaching and for some more ideas of things you could be doing at

home…

…and to find out what the teachers and TA’s have been up to!

Thank you for all of your incredible efforts with Home learning. We are all

really enjoying seeing the wonderful things you have been doing at home.

One day, your children will look back on this as a really lovely time spent with

their family.

If you would like your work to go on the website, please email it to:

homelearning@winchcombe-pri.gloucs.sch.uk

Phase 5 phonics sounds:

ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw,wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey,

a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e

Here are all of the Reception tricky words:

Once you have learnt them by sight, please practise writing them and putting them

into sentences.

I, the, to, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, you, they, all, are, my, her said,

some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what, have, like, so, do, oh,

their, people, mr, mrs, looked, called, asked, could

Phonics This week, please focus on: ie and ea

These are alternative sounds – the children already know

‘igh’ and ‘ee’, so you can re-teach these alongside them.

We will post two teaching videos this week to the Facebook

page. (Monday and Wednesday)

Writing Writing from a stimulus

Every other week, we practise writing from a stimulus. We give

the children an interesting picture and encourage them to talk

about what they see and why. We encourage deep and

philosophical thinking from the children and encourage lots of

questions.

We then encourage the children to write some words, a

sentence and more increasingly, a story about the picture.

We usually model the writing together on the whiteboard

before going off to attempt to write it as independently as

possible. For some, this might be a few words with correct

formation of letters, for others, extending sentences to include

adjectives and using correct punctuation. We also encourage

children to think about narrative and write a story about the

picture. Be led by your child, but do push them to do their best

writing.

Below is a suggested picture, however, if there is a different

picture you would like to use (for example, a more personal

picture of family or a past event or a picture that you feel will

capture your child’s interest) please feel free to use that:

Maths This week, please focus on: Addition

More details below.

Understan

ding of

the World

‘Out of the egg’

This week, we have received a letter from a Mummy and

Daddy DINOSAUR! (Attached below, but feel free to use your

own version) Maybe your child could find the letter by the letter

box in the morning in an envelope with their name on, or it

could have accidentally been sent to the wrong Mr…/ Miss…

and gone to a family member who skypes you to let you know!

It could even come through as a special email on your

phone/tablet.

Did any of you think it could have been a dinosaur egg from

your research last week?

This week please could you create a research project about

one of the following dinosaurs:

T-Rex

Pterodactyl

Stegosaurus

Diplodocus

Triceratops

Please think about things we might need to know if the egg is

that kind of dinosaur! How would we look after that kind of

dinosaur? What do they need? E.g. What do they eat? (Will we

need to grow some trees?) Are they awake in the day time or

night time (nocturnal)? How big will they grow? Etc.

Please be as creative as you like with the presentation, you

could create a poster, a video, a PowerPoint, art work, a prezi

presentation, a song, a letter back to the dinosaurs… the list is

endless!

If you could then share this on the Facebook group for

everyone to see, we will all be able to learn about all of the

different dinosaurs from what everyone has found out!

You will be the teachers!

Expressive

Arts and

Design

Can you create a ‘habitat box’ using all of the information you

have gathered. You could use a shoebox and add all of the

things your dinosaur might need inside (e.g. trees, food,

somewhere to live etc.)

RE The Story of Noah’s Ark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCLRcA9mlQE

Please listen to the story of Noah’s Ark. You could use the

summarised version below if you prefer.

A long time ago, the people of the world were not treating

each other kindly. God was very sad, and so he decided to

send a flood to cover the entire world. However, one man,

Noah, and his family were very good people, so God told Noah

to build a big boat and to gather two of every kind of animal to

be kept safe in the boat when the flood arrived.

Noah tried to warn the people to change their ways so that

they could hear God too. But they would not listen, and they

kept on with their selfish lives. Noah built the ark as God had

commanded and soon he, his family, and all the animals were

drifting in the flood waters. It rained for forty days and forty

nights.

After many weeks of waiting, the flood went away and Noah,

his family, and the animals were able to return to land. Noah

prayed to God to thank him for keeping them safe. Suddenly a

bright rainbow filled the sky. This was God's promise that he

would never flood the earth again.

Task

1) Can you think of two questions that you would ask Noah.

I wonder how he was feeling whilst on the Ark? What did

he see?

Whilst we have been at home, it has been wonderful to hear

lots of you have created rainbow pictures to display in your

windows. These are a great symbol of peace and hope (as well

as cheering up passers-by).

2) Can you imagine you see a rainbow in the sky? Draw a

picture of what you would like to find at the end of the

rainbow and tell someone in your family why.

Other activities linked to other areas of the curriculum:

Mathematics: Can you practise counting in 2s? You could use

objects to represent the animals boarding the Ark.

Expressive arts and design: Can you do some junk modelling to

recreate Noah’s Ark? Which materials and shapes would work

best? Do they sink or float?

Understanding the World: Sometimes we can see rainbow

colours when we blow bubbles. Have a go at blowing some

bubbles outside and see if you can see a rainbow? Do you

know why this happens?

Letter from Mummy and Daddy Dinosaur:

Dear Reception Red and Yellow,

We hope this letter reaches you in time because… WE NEED YOUR

HELP!!

WE ARE TIME-TRAVELLING

DINOSAURS!! We have been travelling through time and space having so much fun

learning about how the world has changed. But, we accidentally left

our precious egg behind! Have you found it? Was it at your school?

Or at your house? We visited both (you have some cool toys by the

way!).

We are trying to come back to pick up our egg but our time

travelling machine stopped working when we came to visit the

Numberblocks, so now we are stuck here (but learning lots about

numbers!).

The egg is going to hatch soon; please, please, please could you look

after our precious little dinosaur when he or she arrives? Do you

know how? Do you know all of the things a dinosaur needs? Are you

up to the challenge? It’s a very important job!

We would be so very grateful if you could help us please!

Thank you,

Yours sincerely,

A very worried Mummy and Daddy Dinosaur!

Here are a few ideas of things you can do to

help your child learn about addition. Please

remember, these are just ideas and there is no

expectation for you to do all or any of these

activities. The most important thing is to keep it

quick, fun and to follow your child’s interests.

If you don’t have

this book at home,

there are several

readings of it on

YouTube and a

PowerPoint of the

book on TES. (You

may need to sign

up but this is free).

To create a 1-3 dice, take a normal dice and

cover numbers 4,5,6 over with stickers and write

1,2,3 on them again.

Maths This week’s focus: Addition

To create your own number track, cut a strip of

paper and split it into 10 boxes, label boxes 1-10.

The children can make their own number tracks

too! You could create a big one where children

draw that number of items in each box e.g.

Stars.

Although we have a ‘focus’ each week, please do not feel you need to limit your child’s

maths experience to just this. Below are some other ideas of things you could be doing:

Have a range of pompoms (with numbers on) in a small box and both of you

have a straw. Also have the same numbers on pieces of paper turned over so you

can’t see them. Choose one of the numbers but don’t look at it. Set a timer and

both of you try to suck up pompoms and put them in your own box/hoop. Turn

the number on the piece of paper over and look through your pompoms to see

who got that number and is the winner!

Practise your Number bonds to 10 and have a sing at the same time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9tjBUiXs0

BAKE!! This is your excuse to make some cakes or bread or both (let’s face it, the

lockdown diet is one of a kind!) Encourage your child to measure out the

ingredients, equally share the decorations and possibly make a pattern?

Alternatively, you could do this to make playdough. Below is the recipe I always

use:

Watch an episode of Numberblocks, eat your cakes and relax! You’re doing such

a great job! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks

Ingredients:

2 cups plain flour (all purpose)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil (baby oil and coconut oil work too)

1/2 cup salt

2 tablespoons cream of tartar

1 to 1.5 cups boiling water (adding in increments until it feels just right)

gel food colouring (optional)

Few drops glycerine (my secret ingredient for stretch and shine!)

Method:

Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl

Add food colouring TO the boiling water then into the dry ingredients

Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough

Add the glycerine (optional)

Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it vigorously for

a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most

important part of the process, so keep at it until it’s the perfect consistency!*

If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right.