Reception Class- Pluto 2020
Welcome to Summer Term 2
We hope you all had a lovely half term break and have enjoyed the sunshine. For the first two weeks we will be focusing on Dinosaurs. Have a look at the activities and choose a few for each week. Feel free to create your own activities around this theme also. These activities would be part of our enhanced provision throughout the week, which would support Maths, Phonics and Literacy.
Week Commencing 8th June 2020
Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Theme Activities 2 Weeks
Dinosaur colouring in Dinosaur power point preesentation Dinosaur writing activity Half Lined Label the dinosaur Paleontology_Cards Venn Diagram
Literacy Activities- Writing sentences to build up to a story
Watch the following short video clip on Literacy shed and have a go at writing short sentences about what is happenning in the clip. Try and write a new sentence each day.
https://www.literacyshed.com/catchit.html
Phase 3 revision Phonics
This week we will be pausing our usual Phase 4 phonics and revising some of the trikier Phase 3 sounds . Please see planning links below.
Resourcse for weekly phonics
Monday Resources
air phoneme spotter differentiated air worksheet read and reveal air
Tuesday Resources
ear phoneme spotter ear real and nonsense
Wednesday Resources
ur picture and words cut up and match
Thursday Resources
Friday Resources
Phase 3 Phonics
If your child is finding these quite challenging, please repeat phase 3 sounds and go to the link on You Tube and follow the reception lessons. See below for an example lesson. Another great resource is the website Espresso. If you follow the Espresso link you can also find a range of phase 3 lessons with online activities to support these sounds. There are now 25 lessons you can go through.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=letters+and+sounds+home+learning+reception
RE
See Tapestry for planning and activities
Maths
See Tapestry for planning and activities
Reading
Reading is still a very important part of your child’s learning. Please continue reading to your child every day and hearing them read. You can use the flash cards or go to some of the online resources previously suggested. Oxford Owl have now added more E- books to their site. Phonics comics is also a good site. Please get in touch with us via Tapestry if you are unsure of your child’s reading level or wish to discuss any books you wish to get your child. Hopefully we can support you with this. Stage 2 links to phase 2. Stages 3 and 4 are linked to phases 3 and 4. These are some of the books you can find on Oxford Owl.
Phonics comics link here- https://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/underwear-rule/
A typical day at school- timings
Here is a rough timetable of how a typical day in Pluto Class may look. This does not have to be followed at home but may help those who would like a structure.
8:40-9:05- Handwriting/morning writing linked to picture
9:05-9:30- Collective Worship
9:30-10:20- Literacy or Maths focus with provision activities
10:20-10:35- Story and snack
10:35-10:50- Play time
10:50- 11:15- Phonics
11:15-12:00- Continue with Literacy/Maths focus with provision
12:00-1:10- Lunch and outdoor play
1:10-2:20- Topic based Provision or PE or RE
2:20-2:30- Snack and story
2:30-2:45- Outdoor play
2:45- 3:10- Reading activities/hearing individual readers
3:10-3:25 – Story or songs
Many Thanks
Pluto Team; Mrs H Bettiss, Mrs E Board, Mrs L Clark, Mrs C Heron
This is a list of useful websites, apps and resources that you may want to try with your child while they are at home. Some of these will then be used for activities advised on Tapestry
Espresso- Whole Curriculum
https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/
Username
student42593
Password
stm321
Super website that covers the whole curriculum. The phonics units are really useful. It also has excellent topic based activities for your children to explore, with useful video links.
Phonics Play
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
We use this website a lot in class and the children love playing Buried Treasure and Obb and Bob. This site is allowing parents free access over the next month. Year R focuses on Phase 2, 3 and 4. Phase 4 would be new to the children and would be something we would have been starting after Easter.
Topmarks- Great for Maths and Literacy games
Twinkl
Huge website with resources for everything. For the duration of the closures this site has been made free to parents. Lots of the resources require printing (if you have that facility) but it does also include online games and resources.
Reading
It is vital that reading is still a daily activity for your child. This includes hearing stories everyday and reading. Unfortunately we are unable to send home books over this long period. The website below is a great resource which has online books you can access at your child’s level. Please use the phonics flash cards daily to ensure they keep up with their sounds. Have fun creating new words and see if they can then make a sentence with that word.
Books for Topics
If you need any guidance about what books your child should be reading check out
https://www.booksfortopics.com/early-years
Muddy Puddle Teaching – Outdoor learning
A great site for ideas, games and fun learning outside. This site has given free access for a month to all parents.
https://themuddypuddleteacher.co.uk/
Useful Learning Apps
Teach your Monster to Read
Some fun phonics games for your children to help them learn their sounds and tricky words.
You tube Links
Tricky Word Songs– The children sing these songs in class and love them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0
Simply Phonics- Focus on phase 2 and 3, you can search for the sound you want by entering ‘ simply phonics phase 3 ai’ and it will take you there.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=simply+phonics
Useful Websites for Phonics
http://www.ictgames.com/phonemePopLS_v2.html
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/welcome/home/reading-owl/fun-ideas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/popup.shtml
Useful Websites for Reading
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/storyteller-videos/
Useful Websites for Maths
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html
http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html
Games
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games