Reception home learning Wednesday 10th February 2021
Here is our learning for today. You are all doing so well.We miss you all very much and can’t wait to see you all again soon.
I have had a couple of questions about how our phonics lessons work, so I thought I would give a brief outline of how they are set up.
In our phonics lessons at school we always try to have 4 parts to our phonics lessons: Revisit/review: This is where we look back at previous learning and try to embed the children’s knowledge and understanding further. So at this point in the lesson you may think ‘They have done this before!’ And you would be right. Over learning a particular skill or new learning helps the children retain it into their long term memory rather than short term. The second part of the phonics lesson is Teach: This is where we introduce a new sound or a new tricky word or other ‘high frequency words’ which children should learn to recognise by sight. Part three is practise: This is where the new sound or word is practised with lots of oral blending and segmenting of the sound in words. Games may be played to get the children more familiar with recognising tricky words or other common words. The final part of the lesson is Apply: This may involve reading or writing a short sentence using the focus sounds or words. Very often the different parts of the lesson merge into each other so the children wouldn’t necessarily be aware of them, but they are put in place to ensure their learning is progressive and builds on previous learning. Sometimes we also have a revision week. If we have introduced a new sound every day for a week, we often revise those the next week so that children deepen and embed their understanding. Many of the activities and games are repetitive in our phonics lessons, but it proves very effective in helping the children with their early reading and writing.
Phonics:
Sing the alphabet song. It is a new version so listen carefully first time round!
Using the letter names, play a game of I spy. You can use this picture card if you like.
Read phase 3 tricky words with me.
Play a game of ‘Roll and read tricky words’. Print out or copy the roll and read grid. Roll a die, read the word then cross it out with a pen, roll again and repeat the process.
Literacy:
Listen to the story of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff again. Can you join in with it? If you have any farm animals, use the goats (or sheep) to retell the story. Could you make a video of yourself telling the story? (If I have to record myself I’m sure you could too!!!) Maybe you could ask a parent or brother or sister to take on one of the roles. You could create a story map to help you tell the story. Don’t worry about drawing perfect pictures, they are to use as a guide.
If you have your own book of the story of the 3 Billy goats gruff, see if you can read it. If you don’t have the story of the 3 Billy goats gruff choose another traditional story.
Maths:
Wednesday’s maths lesson with Oak National Academy on shape.
Practise your subtraction skills. Make up some ‘first, then and now’ subtraction stories and use a 10 frame, cubes (or anything else you have at home) and a grid to write your answers. An example might be: ‘First there were 7 goats, then the troll took 5 away, now there are 2 goats. 7-5=2’
Topic: The three Billy Goats Gruff.
Make a paper plate goat.
Make your own set of face masks for the story and act it out. You could listen to Mrs Hulland reading it out loud and act along with it.
Physical Development:
Try this just dance video: Beep beep I’m s a sheep!
We learnt a new brain gym dance this week in school! Have a look at the ‘fingers song’ and try to join in.
ICT:
Play 1 more 1 less with this robot game.
Story:
Listen to this traditional story of Goldilocks and the 3 bears.