Foundation 2: Blog items
F2 Friday 12th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 5:51pm
Hi F2,
Here are the activities for today:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Recap over the story ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Can you pretend to be another animal – where would you go and who would you be? Maybe your favourite animal. Can you perform an action as a new animal – can your family guess the animal?
Create your own version of the story with a new character and location.
For example: Pigs fly in the sky and go to the beach.
Phonics – Consolidation
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action ‘j, er, w, ai, ee, igh’
Can you practise your spellings for this week. ‘it, an, not, put’. How many did you get correct?
Play some free blending games on Phonics Play or Phonics Bloom.
Maths – Money
Play the game: Pay with just one coin https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=payusingonecoinv3
Play a listening game with pennies and a jar. Have an adult choose an amount and drop that amount of pennies into the jar, can you close your eyes and listen for how many pennies dropped and guess the amount.
Then can you count out the coins in the jar and write the total amount e.g. 5 pennies in the jar is 5p.
Complete the worksheet on the School Spider.
PSED: Koala makes the Right Choice
Listen to Miss Kealey’s video of the story –‘Koala Makes the Right Choice’ on Tapestry (Memo). Talk about the importance of making the right choices
Key questions: Answer Verbally
- Have you ever made the wrong choice before?
- How did that choice make your/others feel?
- When have you made the right choice?
- What did you like about making the right choice?
- Talk about food choices here too (link to lunch times in school)
Draw a good choice and a bad choice and label it.
For example: A good choice is sharing toys. A bad choice is snatching a toy.
Wellbeing Activity: Read a story with someone at home.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Thursday 11th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 5:32pm
Hi F2,
Here are today's activities:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Recap over the story ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Look at the characters in the video. For example: The man in the kitchen, the frogs etc.
Can you make a frog mask and act out parts of the story? Can you describe the frog? e.g green, slimy.
Can you draw a picture of one of the characters or a frog and write some words or sentences to describe them?
Phonics – Consolidation
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action ‘v, sh, ch, z, ll, ff, ss’
Recap the caption action for the ‘ure’. Can you form this grapheme on paper?
Ask an adult to write some words containing the ‘ure’ sound and hide them around your house. Can you go on a detective hunt to find them and try to segment and blend them?
Maths – Money
Listen to the coins song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzAU3u06Ps
With your role-play shop you made yesterday, can you give the different objects/items a price. Either find some pennies or make some out of paper. Can you use the coins to buy the items? Adults can you encourage your child and use language such as change, price, amount, coins, money, left over, expensive, cheap etc.
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the Rainforest?
Can you make some shadow puppets of animals you might find in the rainforest. Can you find a torch and make the shadows move?
Have a think about animals losing their homes if the rainforest is chopped down, can you write a letter to tell people to stop cutting trees down?
Remember to write your full name at the bottom of the letter.
Wellbeing Activity: Make an obstacle course – how fast can you complete it?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Wednesday 10th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 5:40pm
Hi F2,
Here are your activities for today:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Recap over the story ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Imagine you are a different character from the story e.g. the man in the kitchen. What do you think he might say about seeing the frogs flying?
Can you write a speech bubble about what you would say if you saw the flying frogs?
Please find a worksheet attached on the School Spider.
Phonics – Consolidation
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action ‘th, oa, air, ng, ch, sh’
Recap caption/action for the ‘ear’ grapheme. Can you write it too? Can you write some words containing this grapheme? For example: dear, fear, beard.
Can you write the sound buttons underneath each ‘ear’ word.
Maths – Money
Recap the different amounts of coins and their value. Play the Top Marks Shop game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Can you make a role-play shop? Can you decide on prices of objects, what is more expensive? What is cheaper? Can you write some price tags for items in your shop? For example: 5p for an apple.
Please find an example worksheet/template on the School Spider.
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the Rainforest?
Listen to the story ‘Slowly, slowly said the sloth’ by Eric Carle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZX39Nc20Ys
Can you think of different rainforest animals that are featured in the story?
Can you create a big rainforest to save the animals using a variety of materials? What does the rainforest need? Tall trees, flowers, vines etc. using paper can you make a rainforest scene and add different animals to it.
Wellbeing Activity: Make up a dance routine or song
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Tuesday 9th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 5:48pm
Hi F2,
Here are your activities for today:
Computing – Internet Safety Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwv8iAjBvpE Watch the video all about Smartie the Penguin and how to stay safe online.
Can you draw a picture of someone who you would speak to if you had any worries online. Can you write their name or a sentence too? (Please find the worksheet on the school spider)
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Ask an adult to write some ‘or’ and ‘oa’ words on paper. For example: fork, thorn, horn, corn, torch, goal, coat, boat, goat, soap.
Can orally segment the words and then sort them into 2 piles – ‘or’ ‘oa’ (See video on tapestry for phonics terminology support)
Challenge - Can you write some of these words in a sentence? e.g. The goat is big.
Maths – Money
Recap different coin names and what each coin looks like (1p, 2p, 5p,10p, 20p)
Listen to the coins song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzAU3u06Ps
Find some different coins around your house, a crayon and a piece of paper. Can you make some coin rubbings? You might want to draw a purse or wallet they can go into.
Challenge – Can you write the value of each coin?
Thematic – What sounds can you hear in the Rainforest?
Recap the story about an Orang-utan (The video is on Tapestry – Memo).
Talk about how the animals would feel about their home being chopped down.
What do you think the animals would say?
Can you write a speech bubble of what the animals would say? For example: Do not chop down my home.
Wellbeing Activity: Make a puppet using a sock. Can you give it a name?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Monday 8th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 7th Feb 2021 @ 11:39am
Hi F2,
We hope you have had a lovely weekend. Here are today's activities:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Watch ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Explain to children that this story doesn’t have any words. How are we going to know what is happening without words? Discuss what happened in the video – beginning, middle and end. Role-play the story. What happens at the very end? Where might they go?
Draw a picture of the frogs and where they might go can you write a caption for the drawing?
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Recap caption/action for the ‘th’ grapheme. Can you write it too? Can you write some words containing the ‘th’ grapheme?
Maths – Money
Recap different coin names and what each coin looks like (1p, 2p, 5p,10p, 20p)
Have a look at some coins that you might have at home. Talk about when we use coins and when we might spend them. When might we choose to keep them in our purses/wallets instead of spending them?
Can you draw some different coins and write the amounts too?
RE: Jesus heals a man at the pool of Bethesda
Read the story - Cure of the man at the pool. Talk about how Jesus helped a person who was ill and how he healed him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1cykPOiMuY
Key Questions
Where did Jesus go? Who did he see? Why were the people there? What were they waiting for? What was going to happen? Who did Jesus speak to? What did he say to him? What happened next?
Write simple sentences/phrases for different ways they could help the sick e.g. We can send flowers.
Watch another of Jesus’ miracles of how he heals a man born blind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4qZ2KSbdxI
Key Questions – What did Jesus do with the mud? What happened when the man washed the mud away?
Wellbeing Activity: Go for a walk can you collect some twigs and make a picture using them?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Friday 5th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 7:29pm
Hi F2,
Here are today's activities:
Literacy – Alliteration
Write and sing the alphabet with someone at home.
Can you think of something that begins with each letter of the alphabet? For example: c –cat, f- frog, a – ant etc.
Complete the worksheet attached on the School Spider.
Challenge: Can you make a ‘Silly Soup’ of words all beginning with the same letter? For example: Dan danced dinosaurs.
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Look at a picture of a woodland scene https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/assets/resources/shared/pdf-thumbnails/printables-scene-woodland.jpg and can you write words for some of the objects you can see?
Challenge- Can you write some of these words in a caption. I see a fox.
Maths – Halving Objects
Join in with the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYMBQ92RoVw
Can you match the halves of the objects to make a whole on the worksheet?
Challenge – Can you draw your own object and cut it into two halves.
PSED: Lost and Found
Go on to Tapestry (Memo). Watch Miss Kealey’s video reading the story ‘Lost and Found’.
Look at the front cover of the book – how are the characters feeling? Why?
Read through the story. What does it mean to be lonely? Have you ever felt lonely before? Did anyone make you feel better? How do you know if someone is feeling lonely? What could you do to make them feel better? Talk about friendship in school.
Activity: Draw around your hand. On each finger can you write a name of someone you could talk to if you felt lonely? Can you decorate your handprint too.
Challenge - Write a sentence about what you could do if you or your friend was feeling lonely.
We have started uploading videos of stories on Tapestry (Memo). In addition, there is a video on Tapestry explaining some Phonics terminology.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week there are lots of activities that you can do on https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/ Place 2B website.
Wellbeing Activity: Play a game. For example: jigsaw, musical statues, board game.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Thursday 4th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 5:38pm
Hi F2,
Here are today's activities:
Literacy – Alliteration
Listen to the story (Akira’s Animal Alphabet Alliterations) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IpfL1uCgc
Can you think of any more alliterative animal phrases? E.g. blue bird, green grasshopper, ruby ring.
Can you write an alliterative poem all about animals or objects? It doesn’t have to rhyme.
For example: I can see a blue bird.
I can see a big brown bear.
I have a ruby red ring.
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Play a game of splat the sound. Can you write some of your Phase 2 and 3 sounds on paper and have an adult say a sound. Can you splat it with your hand?
Challenge – can you write a word containing that sound?
Maths – Halving
Watch and join in with the lesson about halving https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-the-concept-of-half-part-1-ccvp8t
Can you complete the worksheet all about halving? (You will find this on the School Spider)
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the rainforest?
Go on to Tapestry (Memo). Watch Miss Kealey’s video reading a story all about an Orang-utan.
Talk to children about the issues the rainforest animals are facing due to the trees being cut down and their habitat destroyed.
Can you use a range of materials to make a ‘Save our rainforest’ poster, think about what you could write on the poster.
We have started uploading videos of stories on Tapestry (Memo). In addition, there is a video on Tapestry explaining some Phonics terminology.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week there are lots of activities that you can do on https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/ Place 2B website.
Wellbeing Activity: Play a game of hide and seek with your family
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Wednesday 3rd February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 6:38pm
Hi F2,
Here are todays activities:
Literacy – Alliteration
Sometimes we get words muddled when they all begin with the same letter and are next to each other, which is alliteration. Listen some tongue twisters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvZ-J5AsfM&t=187s&pbjreload=101
Can you say the first letter that their name begins with? For example ‘B’ for Billy. Can you recognise the first letter of the names of the people you live with?
Can you write a name label but use some alliteration too. Think about your coat peg in school what is the picture? For example: Tiger Tim. You might even want to think of an action For example: Jumping Jake.
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/assets/resources/shared/pdf-thumbnails/printables-scene-farmyard.jpg Can you look at the picture. can you write some words to match what you see in the picture? For example: sheep. Can you write your sound buttons too?
Maths – Halving
Watch the story all about halving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663FhDCwhkY
Have some different pieces of fruit/ objects E.g. 4 apples, 6 bananas, 5 oranges etc.
Pick a number. Can they count out the correct amount of fruit/ objects and halve it equally (share between 2)?
Repeat this with different numbers.
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the rainforest?
Talk about the rainforest climate and the fact that it rains a lot. Show children rainmaker instrument and explore using it to make different sounds. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KDYKZOQJL._AC_SX425_.jpg
Explore pouring different materials into cardboard tubes (kitchen roll tube or just rolled up card) eg. lentils, rice etc and what sounds best.
Can you create a rainforest design on paper that can be wrapped around your rainmaker you might include trees and what animals live in the rainforest.
Can you make a rainforest sound composition, explore starting quietly and then get louder.
We have started uploading videos of stories on Tapestry (Memo). In addition, there is a video on Tapestry explaining some Phonics terminology.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week there are lots of activities that you can do on https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/ Place 2B website.
Wellbeing Activity: Do some yoga with your family.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Tuesday 2nd February Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 5:49pm
Hi F2,
Here are today's activties:
Literacy – Alliteration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4YaF-jXWuY Play a game of eye spy. Can the children find the picture that matches the letter?
Look at this picture. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/71/61/097161aac1230c50448fbd5b11dcea06.jpg
Can you find pictures of objects that begin with the same letter? For example: Pig, Pineapple etc.
Challenge: Can you say them or write them in a sentence? e.g. I saw a pig eating a pineapple.
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Model reading words with two syllables chicken, tonight, boatman, rooftop, farmyard, market, lightning, bedroom. Can you use your sound buttons underneath to help you?
Look at a picture of a sea scene on this link https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/assets/resources/shared/pdf-thumbnails/printables-scene-seaside.jpg Can you label items in picture e.g. shell, fish, shark, tooth, boat, sail, ship.
Can you practise reading the sentences?
The farmyard is full of pigs and cows. Lightning might hit a boat tonight. Rats run on the rooftops in the dark.
Maths – Doubling
Listen to the doubles song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0quRa90rs
Can you draw or make a domino. Can you practise making your doubling addition facts e.g. 1+1 = 2, 2+2=4 etc.
Can you complete the worksheet attached on the school spider?
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the rainforest?
EYFS/KS1 Music: Andy Day looks at rainforests - BBC Teach watch the video. Can you guess what habitat we are going to be learning more about?
Talk about habitat ‘the rainforest’ and discuss what it is like there and the animals that live there.
Listen to the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myYyMg1fFE&t=193s Think about what sounds you might hear in the rainforest, what could they be?
Can you draw the rainforest and think of onomatopoeia words to match the sounds e.g. drip, drop, splash, tweet, crunch etc.
We have started uploading videos of stories being read on Tapestry (Memo). In addition, there is a video on Tapestry explaining some Phonics terminology.
Wellbeing Activity: Draw a picture for someone and post it to them.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Monday 1st February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 9:58am
Hi F2,
We hope you all had a lovely weekend! We cannot wait to see all of your hard work!
Literacy – Alliteration
Listen to the alliteration song - https://www.youtube.com/watch/y-koivS_aho
Alliteration is when we have words that begin with the same letter. E.g. jiggle jelly, brown bear. Can you play a game of eye spy and find things that begin with the same letter?
Choose a letter and write some words of things that begin with that letter. You could even draw a picture too.
How many letters can you complete?
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Can you write a sentence using last week’s spellings e.g. all, he, my , into
Go on Phonics Play or Phonics Bloom and complete some of the free blending games.
Maths – Doubling
Listen to the My Doggie Double song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqp90ulJiIo&t=50s
Can you make or draw a butterfly and cut some circles out of paper. Then roll a dice and whatever number it lands on can you put the circles on each side of the butterfly’s wings. Can you work out what double of your number is?
e.g. 3 and 3 is 6 (so double 3 is 6)
RE: Jesus heals the sick
Listen to the Story of Ben. (Ask an adult to read the story, please see attached)
Can you verbally answer these questions?
How did Ben feel when he was in hospital?
• What did his friends make for him?
• Can anyone think of anything else they did?
• What did Ben think was the best thing they did?
• How can we help people when they are ill?
Listen to the song and join in with the actions. We Believe (Easter Song) - YouTube
Jesus brought the good news of God’s love to everyone. He healed the sick, raised the dead, he fed the hungry and he quickly forgave people who had made wrong choices.
Write a speech bubble of what they think Jesus would say to the sick.
Wellbeing Activity: Sing some nursery rhymes with your family.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Friday 29th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 5:38pm
Hi F2,
Here are your activties for today:
Literacy – Wanted Poster
We are so impressed with the instructions you created yesterday.
We want you to make a wanted poster so Goldilocks can clean up the mess using your instructions. Think about what she looks like and what she did. Can you include that in your poster. You might even want to draw a picture of her too.
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Play sentence substitution: Read the sentence and then swap one of the words in purple to make a new sentence to read.
You can hear a goat. (toad – song – see – coin).
They might meet in the town. (market – summer –we – fish.)
The shop is on the corner. (church – right – shark – boat)
Maths – Repeated Patterns
We have been so impressed with your repeated patterns. We thought you might like to make another one but this time with some yummy treats.
You might have some biscuits (or something alike) at home. Or you could pick up one of the baking packs from school (Annexe building 10am -11am) and make some if you like. We would like to decorate some biscuits or make some of different shapes or colours to create a repeated pattern.
PSED: The squirrels who squabbled.
Before playing the video. Look at the front cover of the book. How do you think the characters are feeling? What does the word squabbled means? What might they ‘squabble’ about?
Watch the video The Squirrels Who Squabbled by Tim Field - YouTube
Think about: What does it mean to share? Do you think the characters were good at staring in the beginning? What did they learn? Do you think it is important to share with your friends? Why?
Can you create a poster showing ways you can share?
Wellbeing Activity: Bake some yummy treats with your family. This might help with the maths activity for today.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Thursday 28th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 5:24pm
Hi F2,
Here are todays activties for you to complete.
Literacy – Instructions
Look at the picture of the classroom (see attached). Speculate what might have happened to the classroom. Read the letter from Goldilocks to your child. Can you think of instructions to help tidy up the mess that Goldilocks has made?
For example: Pick up the pen. Sort the books. Bin the paper. Get the chair.
Can you write some instructions or words to help tidy the classroom? Remember to use your ‘bossy verbs’ such as ‘put, pick up, get’
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Practise the tricky words – we, me, be. Can you challenge yourself and write them too?
Read together and model blending tricky words and sounds.
We can be rich. She is in a rush to get it to me. He had a big shock.
Play a free blending game on Phonics Play. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources
Maths – Shape Repeated Patterns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EU1OpHyHnU Join in with the video. Can you work out what shapes come next in the pattern?
Cut out some 2D shapes out of paper. Can you make different repeated patterns? Challenge yourself and use three shapes in a pattern.
Can you count each shape and record how many you have used? e.g. 4 circles, 3 squares.
Thematic: Who’s print is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqBg8Vvvleg Join in with the song all about animal patterns.
Play the hot seat yes or no game. Pretend to be an animal and have an adult ask you some questions about your animal. Remember you can only answer with yes/no. For example: Is it brown? Is it bigger than a tree?
Create a piece of artwork of different animal prints using sponges and other materials around your home. For example: For a snake you might print with bubble wrap.
Wellbeing Activity: Draw or paint a picture of everyone in your home with you.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Wednesday 27th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 5:40pm
Hi F2,
We can't wait to see all of your hard work on these tasks.
Literacy –Finger Spaces and Sentence Building
Ask an adult to write a simple sentence on paper and cut it up. Have the adult hide the words around your house. Can you find them and put the words into a sentence?
For example: The bear is big. The chair is hard. The bears walk in the woods.
When you have put your sentence together, can you write it in your book using finger spaces between each word?
Challenge: Can you think of your own simple sentence or caption to write?
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Can you read and practise remembering these High Frequency Words: the, to.
Can you have a go at writing some captions? Begin each caption with ‘I can…..’
For example: I can run. I can dig. I can quack.
Maths – Patterns and Models
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf33y9q/articles/zrmkcqt Watch the video about 2D shapes. Can you remember any? Can you play the shape matching games too?
Cut out some different 2D shapes. Can you make a picture using them? For example: a house, a car, a robot etc.
Challenge: Can you describe the properties of the 2D shapes?
Thematic: Who’s print is this?
Think of an animal, can you describe the animal to an adult or a sibling but don’t tell them what the animal is. For example: It is green. It has scales. It has no legs. What am I?
Draw an animal in your book. Then draw that animal’s print on a piece of paper and stick it over it, to make it look like a flipbook. Can you write some words or sentences describing the animal without saying what animal it is? Can you family guess what animal it is?
Wellbeing Activity: Do yoga – There are some brilliant yoga activities on YouTube on Cosmic Kids https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Tuesday 26th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 5:44pm
Morning F2,
We cannot wait to see all of your hard work!
Literacy –Verbs
Recap over what a verb is. (A verb is a doing/action word) Say a verb and can you act it out? E.g. hop, jump, run etc.
Have a think about the verbs you created yesterday. Can you say them in a sentence?
For example: I can jump. I like to run.
In your book, can you write your verbs in sentences?
Phonics – Consolidation/Letter Names
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
With an adult, can you sing the Alphabet Song? Can you write the letters down and point to each one as you sing the song?
Can you try to read these words? These are tricky words so some of them can’t be segmented and blended together. he, she, and, the, no, go
Can you read these sentences containing tricky words?
Can he hop and zigzag? Did he yell? Can she zip up a hill?
Maths – Repeating Patterns
Join in with the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAYp6O8GwU
Can you go around your house and see if you can spot a repeating pattern anywhere?
Using paint or coloured pencils. Can you make your own repeating patterns?
How many colours can you use?
Thematic: Who’s print is this?
Watch the story ‘Monkey Puzzle’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GzMWFZPqw4
Can you create your own animal puzzle? Draw an animal, colour in its print, then cut it into jigsaw pieces, muddle up and put back together correctly. Can you stick it in your book?
Can you write what animal it is?
Challenge- Can you describe it’s print?
Wellbeing Activity: Make up a dance to your favourite song. If you want you could perform it to the rest of your family.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Monday 25th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 24th Jan 2021 @ 10:54am
Hi F2,
We hope you have had a lovely weekend. Here are today's activties:
Literacy –Verbs
Introduce what a verb is. A verb is a doing word.
Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzmmSbLwOGo
Can you act out some of the verb e.g. run, skip, hop, clap, cry etc.
Complete the worksheet attached on your school spider. Can you write the verbs to match the picture and then draw a picture to match the verb?
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Can you try to read these words? Can you use your sound buttons underneath to help you?
mess, hiss, bun, boss, back, hop, kiss, cuff, dull, sell.
Can you try to read these captions too or identify the sounds?
I got a hug and a kiss. The dog bed is in a mess. A cat can hiss.
Maths – Repeating Patterns
Join in with the lesson about repeating patterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5XXQFMDSo
Can you make a repeating pattern at home with different objects? Can you challenge yourself and use more than 2 objects? How many different objects can you use in one pattern?
You might want to use pasta and make a necklace. Here is a recipe for making pasta different colours. This might be something fun you could do with your families.
https://supersimple.com/article/colored-pasta-for-sensory-play/
RE: Jesus heals the sick
Discuss with your child their experiences of being ill/poorly, who looked after them and how they got better. E.g. medicine, rest etc.
One of the ways that Jesus showed his love for people was by trying to heal them if they were sick.
Share reading of story of how Jesus healed the paralyzed man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cmppSIQUX4
Sometimes when people are poorly/sick we make them cards to ‘Get well Soon’. Can you make a card for someone to help them feel better?
Challenge: Can you write a message inside the card too?
Wellbeing Activity: Build a den – make your own private place and have some quiet time. Maybe share a story with a family member.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Friday 22nd January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 7:34pm
Hi F2,
Happy Friday! We hope you all had a lovely day doing activities yesterday! We cannot wait to see all of your hard work!
Literacy – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Look at the pictures that you created yesterday for your sequence of instructions on how to make porridge. Can you retell the instructions to an adult?
Can you think about the words we use at the start of instructions? For example: mix, stir, put, eat etc. These are imperative verbs or ‘bossy verbs’ as they tell us to do something.
Can you write some instructions on how to make porridge? Can you include the ‘bossy verbs’ in your instructions?
Phonics – Consolidation/Letter Names
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Play some free Phonics Play Games to work on segmenting and blending.
Write some Phase 2 and 3 phonemes (sounds) on some paper and cut them out. Can you make a path with them on the floor? Pretend the sounds are the stepping-stones. Can you say them as you step on them to cross the river? E.g. oa, oi, th, w, s, ff
Maths – Addition
Using Duplo blocks/Lego or make your own objects using paper. Can you combine them together to make an addition sentence? For example: 2 yellow blocks and 4 red blocks make 6.
Use a different colour for each number e.g. 2 are yellow and 4 are red. When we add them together, we get a tower of 6. Recap on practicing counting 1:1 correspondence.
Make addition sentences and work out the answers. Remember to use our + and = symbols too.
PSED
Listen to the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_5LXqkfzQ
Before playing the video. Look at the front cover of the book. How do you think the dinosaur is feeling? What does the word worry mean? What might the dinosaur worry about?
After listening to the story – have you ever felt like the worrysaurus? How does your body feel? What can you do when you feel worried or scared? Act out what you would do/say with one of your favourite toys/teddies.
What would you say to the worrysauras to make him feel better? Can you draw a picture to show this and write some words too?
Wellbeing activity: With an adult, can you cook or bake something yummy to eat?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Thursday 21st January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 8:42pm
Hi F2,
Happy Thursday. We have loved seeing all of the work you have sent in to Tapestry so keep up the hard work!
Literacy – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Listen and watch the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfn4WGv3qgU
Recap how to make porridge and what ingredients and equipment we need.
Draw pictures of each step and sequence pictures for making porridge. Can they write time adverbials for each picture? E.g. first, next, then etc.
Don’t write the instructions as we are doing this on Friday.
Phonics – Consolidation/Letter Names
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Ask an adult to write some CVC words on pieces of paper. Can you read them and draw a picture to match?
Play some free Phonics Play Games to work on segmenting and blending.
Maths – Addition
Collect 2 bowls/boxes and some different objects from around your house.
Can you put different amounts of objects in the bowls and write an addition sentence to match.
For example: 2 bananas and 3 apples will be 2+3 = 5
Understanding the world: Who’s print is this?
Listen to the story - Rumble in the Jungle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgdfofQegaM
Make up your own animal and draw it. You can combine two animals together if you like. We would like you to create a new pattern for your animal e.g. purple spots or green stripes. You might give it a name such as a ‘zebraffe’ (mix between a zebra and giraffe).
We cannot wait to see what you come up with!
Music
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-rainforest-part-2-64wk8t?activity=video&step=1&view=1 Rainforest Lesson Part 2
Join in with the lesson. Dance to some Brazilian drumming and make up some funky fruit rhythms.
Wellbeing activity: Go for a walk. Can you draw some things you might see on your walk?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Wednesday 20th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 6:32pm
Hi F2,
Happy Wednesday! We hope you all had a lovely day doing activities yesterday! We cannot wait to see all of your hard work!
Literacy – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Listen and watch the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfn4WGv3qgU
Watch the video of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. What does Goldilocks eat?
Watch a video of someone making porridge with the sound on mute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNoUbl-r0oY Have the children each make porridge, have the children verbally tell an adult the instructions. Talk about what ingredients and equipment is used. Can you draw a picture of them and write the words?
Phonics – Consolidation/Letter Names
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Write some Phase 2 and 3 sounds on paper and mix them up. Have an adult shout out a phoneme (sound) and can they find it?
Maths – Adding groups
Watch the video: Jack Hartman Number Bonds to 10 to recap your work from yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9tjBUiXs0
Can you make an addition machine? (See picture attached).
Using sweets or objects, you have at home. Give the children number cards to 10. Choose 2 cards and count out that many sweets/cubes. Can they put them in the addition machine and add the total at the end when they have combined.
Understanding the world: Who’s print is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrmZeXf7ScU (The Mixed up Chameleon)
Listen to the story - What animals can you see? Why do you think animals blend in with their habitat? Do you know what it is called? (camouflage)
Choose your favourite 4 animals. Divide a piece of paper into 4 sections. Can you draw the print of each animal in the different sections? Can someone in your home guess the animals from the prints you have sketched?
Wellbeing activity: Play a game/board game with your family. Maybe you could make up your own game too?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Tuesday 19th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 18th Jan 2021 @ 8:15pm
Hi F2,
We hope you all had a lovely day doing activities yesterday! We cannot wait to see all of your hard work!
Literacy – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Listen and watch the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfn4WGv3qgU
Act out your story map of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to your family.
Have a look at the characters in the story, can you describe them?
Choose a character, draw them and write some words to describe them? E.g. big, brown etc.
Phonics – Consolidation/Letter Names
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Go on Phonics Play free games, can you play a blending game (Either Phase 2 or 3).
Can you practise forming the letters/words you see when playing the games?
Maths – Number Bonds to 10
Watch the video: Jack Hartman Number Bonds to 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9tjBUiXs0
Using the template (Part whole model), get 10 objects and can, you find all the different ways to make 10. For example: 3 and 7 make 10 (3+7=10)
Can you try and write down all of your answers.
Understanding the world: Who’s print is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJw9yPusak
Watch the video. What animals can you see? How do you know which animal it is? Talk about the patterns and key features of different animals. Why do you think this animal looks like this? What do you know about animal skins? Are they the same as our skin? How are they different? May be colour, camouflage pattern etc.
Draw your favourite animal. Make sure you include its unique print. Can you challenge yourself to write some words to describe your animal’s print? E.g. spotty, stripy, brown, soft etc
Wellbeing activity: Using boxes and other items that you can recycle. Can you make something using the objects you have collected? For example: a rocket using bottles, a castle with a box etc.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Monday 18th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 17th Jan 2021 @ 9:38am
Hi F2,
We hope you all had a lovely weekend! We cannot wait to see all of your hard work this week.
If you have a look at the weekly timetable we have included some wellbeing activities that you can do with your family. Today we would like you to do some yoga. There are some brilliant yoga sessions/ activities on YouTube on Cosmic Kids, choose one and join in. https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga.
Remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry, we love seeing all of the hard work you have been doing.
Literacy – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
This week in Literacy, we are learning about the story, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Listen and watch the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfn4WGv3qgU
Can you create a story map using pictures?
Can you remember what happens in the beginning, middle and end?
Can you create an action for each of the pictures you draw? Act it out to your family.
Phonics – Consolidation/Letter Names
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Ask an adult to write some cvc (real) words and some alien words (made up). Can you try to read them and sort them into real and fake words?
For example: CVC words: cat, mug, dog, pin
Alien words: zab, beb, bab, vug, lif, hib
Maths – Number Bonds to 5
Watch the video: Jack Hartman Number Bonds to 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1oa6o0fMKk
Collect five objects and count them out in to a bag or container. Count them one at a time as they go in. Take some objects out and lay them on the table in front of the bag. Count how many there are and think about how many objects are hiding. For example: 2 out of the bag so there must be 3 in the bag hiding. 2 and 3 make 5.
Draw a ladybird and cut out 5 spots. Can you put the spots on each wing to make 5. Can you write down the numbers that go together to make 5? For example: e.g. 4 and 1, 3 and 2.
RE: Jesus Loves Each One of Us
Join in with the song Jesus Love is Very Wonderful (with lyrics) - YouTube
Jesus shows us his wonderful love. Think about how you can show Jesus’ love to someone else. E.g. sharing toys, helping when someone is hurt etc.
Use the sheet attached to design a love heart. Can you make the heart using different materials in your home e.g. playdoh, salt dough or paper/paint?
Choose someone to give your love heart to and write a sentence. For example ‘I give my love to my nan/sister/brother’ etc
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Friday 15th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 5:23pm
Good Morning F2!
We hope you all okay at home. We love seeing your work that you have been uploading to Tapestry so keep sending it in!
Literacy – Little Red Riding Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q32d4k9jeTE Listen to the story, focus on how the characters are feeling and the words the characters say.
For example: Little Red Riding Hood says “What big eyes you have Grandma.”
Can you write a speech bubble for a character in the story Little Red Riding Hood?
The characters are : Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma, Wolf, Woodcutter.
Phonics – Building Sentences
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Can you practice some tricky words (the, I, to, no, go, into, he, she, all, me, be, was, you, they, her, are)
Can you write a sentence using CVC and high frequency words? E.g. The cat is sad.
Challenge: Can you think of a sentence using phase 3 sounds e.g. I can hear an owl at night.
Maths – Days of the week
Days of the week - Adam's Family (Dr. Jean) - YouTube
Join in with our ‘Days of the Week’ song. Can you copy the days of the week on to the sheet or paper. Can you draw a picture of something you do each day?
What are the days of the week? - BBC Bitesize
Complete the ‘days of the week’ activity above.
PSED – Oak Academy – Hidden Germs
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/hidden-germs-cgrkce
Join in with the lesson.
Can you write/draw instructions of how to wash your hands and keep clean?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Thursday 14th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 5:27pm
Hi F2,
We hope you are all keeping safe at home!
Please upload your work to Tapestry. You can upload pictures of your work that you have completed.
Literacy – Little Red Riding Hood
Can you sequence the story by drawing pictures? Use your story map from last week to help you.
Can you write some sentences using time adverbials e.g. First, next, then, later etc. Or can you use numbers 1. 2. 3. to sequence each part of the story?
For example: Next, the wolf was in the bed.
Phonics – Building Sentences
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Can you practice some tricky words (the, I, to, no, go, into, he, she, all, me, be, was, you, they, her, are)
Sentence building: Can you put these words into a sentence? (cat, sit, mug, pen, frog, pack, fish)
Remember to focus on sounding out the word and thinking about what the sound looks like.
Maths – Length
Listen the story ‘Super worm’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pZwNie69n8
Talk to the children about the length of Super worm.
Ask the children to make different length worms using pictures they have drawn, playdoh, rolled up paper etc. and compare which ones are longer and shorter.
Understanding the World: Oak Academy – Habitat Lesson 3
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-match-animals-to-an-appropriate-habitat-6wr6cc Join in with the lesson.
Why are different animals better suited to different habitats?
Walking Through the Jungle | Barefoot Books Singalong - YouTube Listen to the song.
Can you create an information page/poster about your favourite animal’s habitat?
Include things like: The weather, where they live and what they eat/do.
For example: A snake lives in the desert. It has scales. It is hot in the desert.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Wednesday 13th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 12th Jan 2021 @ 5:18pm
Hi F2,
We hope you are all keeping safe at home!
We will be uploading daily instructions for your tasks, so keep coming back every day to check for your new tasks to complete! Once completed, please upload them to Tapestry. You can upload pictures of your work that you have completed.
Literacy – Little Red Riding Hood
Think about the setting of Little Red Riding Hood. Can you describe it?
Draw a picture of the setting and write captions to describe it. E.g. brown trees, long grass etc.
Phonics – Letter Names
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Ask an adult to hide letters around your house and go on an alphabet hunt.
Adult say: My sound is… but my name is… can you find me.
Example: My sound is ‘a’ but my name is ‘A’ can you find me.
Maths – Length
Make 5 different paper chains with your grownups/siblings. Can you put them in order of length? Can you explain how you have ordered your paper chains? Which one is longer? Which one is shorter?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znyyscw/articles/zkgp6v4 Watch the video.
We use certain words to compare things. We use longer and longest, taller and tallest. Can you compare the different animals?
Understanding the World: Oak Academy – Habitat Lesson 2
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-understand-what-makes-a-good-habitat-70ukjd
Join in with the lesson.
What three things do all animals need for a habitat?
Can you draw your habitat and label it?
F2 Tuesday 12th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 11th Jan 2021 @ 5:22pm
Hi F2,
We hope you are all keeping safe at home! Tapestry was having some technical difficulties yesterday so hopefully it will back up and running soon. If you keep trying to log in at different points throughout the day and hopefully you can upload your work soon.
Literacy – Little Red Riding Hood
Imagine you are Little Red Riding Hood. What gifts would you bring to grandma? Why? Draw a picture and write a list of items you would bring Grandma and write a sentence to explain what you have chosen.
Make a get well soon card for Grandma. Practise writing your name.
Phonics – Letter Names
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Ask an adult to write capital letters and lowercase letters on paper and cut them up. Can you match the letters together and say the name of the letter and the sound. For example: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd etc. Can you try to write these letters too in your exercise book?
Maths – Length
Draw around your feet on two pieces of paper and then cut the footprints out. Can you use the footprints to measure the objects or rooms in your home? Which room is the longest? Which room is the shortest? Which toy is the longest?
Please encourage your child to use mathematical vocabulary. For example: The teddy is shorter than the cushion.
Music: The Rainforest
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-rainforest-part-1-c8r6cc
Join in with the lesson. Can you listen for the sounds you might hear in the rainforest?
Can you draw the some of the things you might see or hear and write the words? For example: songbird, fruit etc.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
F2 Monday 11th January 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 10th Jan 2021 @ 10:17am
Hi F2,
We hope you had a lovely weekend with your families. Remember to log on to Tapestry to check for any information/Memo’s we may have posted and to upload your work to Tapestry when you have completed it. Here are the tasks for today:
Literacy – Little Red Riding Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q32d4k9jeTE
Listen to the story again. This time you are going to change a character.
What character will you change? What will you change it to?
Draw a picture of your new character. Can you write some words to describe your new character? For example: A long snake. A big snail.
Use your phonics knowledge to help you sound out the words.
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 sounds:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Go round your house and try to find objects that begin with each letter of the alphabet e.g. apple, book, crayon. Can you draw them and try to write what the object is?
Maths -Length
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIxBrO1bJY Watch the video.
Choose a selection of your favourite toys. Can you order them from shortest to longest/longest to shortest? Can you explain how you have ordered the toys?
RE – Jesus Loves Each One of Us
Talk about God and Jesus’ love for us. Using your favourite teddy bear or toy, show God and Jesus’s love e.g. give a hug, say kind words etc.
Sing song together ‘Jesus’ love Is very wonderful’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMVjO_GruA
Draw a picture and write a sentence about someone you love and why. For example: I love my brother. He is kind.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team