Friday 8 January 2021

11.01.21 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

Well done for getting through the first week of home schooling, you have all been amazing! I've loved getting the emails showing me what the children have been doing and I'd like to say a huge thank you for all of your lovely words and support. 

Hopefully sharing things with you all will be a little smoother this week, now that I have set up the online folder. 

I have added various things into the folder during this week:

  • There is now a film clip of me demonstrating how we write our names using the sheets I have emailed to everyone. 
  • I have made online versions of the children's sound cards and will add the relevant one each week, so the set for j v w x is already there.
  • I had an amazing camera woman in school this week and she has filmed me doing the calendar, our morning timetable and the afternoon timetable. They are just there as a bit of fun, but do show you how we do it in school.
  • A list of online resources that I hope you will find useful.
Today I will also be adding:
  • Two of the films for next week's Phonics. These will be numbered as before. If you decide to do more than one in a day please can you watch them in order as I repeat the previous learning. (The other 3 will be uploaded on Monday - apologies there has been a slight technical hitch!).
  • Two films with me demonstrating how to label one of Harry's Robots. (See below for more information). One is for you to watch first and one is for the children to watch so they know what to do.
  • The robot labelling sheets.
  • Some Vocabulary Ninja words. These are numbered, in school we would have done 1 a day.
  • Our Days of the Week song.
  • A film showing how we write our numbers in school.
  • A list of how we write our numbers in school.
This week I have updated all of the children's Big Cat e-book libraries. To find the new books simply sort your child's library by clicking on "Recently Added". As with the Lilac Books, there is a clip of how to support your child when reading these new books. To watch this you need to click on the little blue circle on the right hand side of the front cover. (As shown in the picture below).


Below are some ideas for this week's home learning, these are the activities we would have been doing had we been in school.

We would have been:

  • Sharing the stories "Harry and the Dinosaurs go to School" and "Harry and the Robots". If you do not have these at home, then they can be found here and here.
  • Discussing the story "Harry and the Robots" and thinking about how Harry wanted to help his Nan get better. We would have gone on to think about ways we could help each other.
  • Using junk modelling materials to make our own robots.
  
  
  • Labelling the parts of a robot in our English session. Please check in the Home Learning folder for a film of me teaching this along with the resources you might like to use. If you do not have access to a printer then the children (or you) could draw a robot and then go on to label it.
You may have seen there is no Mathematics listed. This is because I have now found the Home Learning area for Early Years on the White Rose website. It can be found here. In class we had already done some work around zero before Christmas which is why I had moved on. However this has made us a few days ahead, which wouldn't have mattered had the children been in school, but could prove more problematic given the current situation. So please can I suggest that for this week you could look at the video clips on zero which are here or reinforce the work from last week by using the clips here. This way we will be matched up with their resources for the following week. (Week beginning 18/01/21 - Alive in 5! Week 3). Any problems please just ask, sorry if this has caused any confusion.

As always, please email me using earlyyears@downhallprimary.com with any queries, questions, to share some of your child's learning or just to say hello! You may have seen on the latest letter from school that we are asking families to check in with us at least once a week just that we know that you are all ok at home. Although school is "closed" we are all still here and are only ever a phone call or email away.

Take care and have a lovely weekend
Miss Wakefield