General Information
Mrs Board teaches on a Monday and Tuesday and Mrs Bettiss on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Mrs Clark is our Teaching Assistant, who is in every day. Mrs Heron is also in Pluto Class on a Tuesday and Thursday morning.
PE is on a Thursday. Please ensure your child comes dressed to school in their PE clothes that day. As the days are getting colder, please can they wear some warm clothes.
Our Early Years Intent
It is our intent to ensure all children in the Early Years have an exciting, motivating and challenging curriculum. This will offer them opportunity to explore and investigate their own interests. In the Early Years, we implement this by having a rich, stimulating environment, allowing children to select their own resources and follow their path of learning. The children have continuous and enhanced provision, which is carefully planned for from observing and assessing their learning through play. The impact of this approach allows children to thrive, be happy and learn at a rapid pace, making excellent progress.
Unfortunatey, Tapesty seems to be experiencing high volumes of use, which is causing the site to crash. Please see below for this weeks planning.
Click on the link to listen to me read a story. ‘The Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram, published by Templar.
This week, we are focussing on curly caterpillar letters.
Curcly caterpillar letter formation sheet Extra handwriting
Wednesday oa sound button cards
Thursday long oo sound button cards
Thursday pictures for spelling
Friday short ‘oo’ pictures for spelling Friday short oo sound button cards
If you feel your child is working at Phase 2 level please use the following links and focus on s, a, t, p, i, n
Interactive initial sound sort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqMDXWEtXs (‘s’ phoneme’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-2SNtGeodQ (‘a’ phoneme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdYxh-23INc (‘t’ phoneme)
ou can also watch the simply phonics video. which is all sounds in one lesson.
You can also use the discovery Education site, which also has good phonics videos. Please see below for the login details
Chilli Challenge Activities
These are activities we have out during the day for children to explore. Can you pick one or two to do throughout the week?
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you need any guidance about what books your child should be reading check out
https://www.booksfortopics.com/early-years
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/
Teach your Monster to Read
Some fun phonics games for your children to help them learn their sounds and tricky words.
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