Hello everyone! We hope you are all keeping safe and well. All of us in the Reception are missing you all lots and lots. We thought it would be nice if we provided you with some online teaching videos and resources to support your weekly activity packs. If some of the activities are too difficult for your child, please don’t feel you have to do them. There will be a variety of videos and resources available for each day. These will be in the areas of literacy, numeracy and wider learning in the afternoons. Some of the activity pack activities will require an adult or sibling to support them but we have also provided activities your child can do by themselves!
Many thanks
The Reception Team
Week 7
Week Beginning: 22nd February 2021
Welcome to the Reception Online Learning Page!
This week we have enclosed the usernames and passwords for two different online educational resources for you to use. These are inside your activity pack.
Education City is an educational resource often used in school and provides lots of activities and learning for your child to enjoy. Try to look at the learning areas we have explored in the last 6 weeks. Here is the link to access the site:
We have now subscribed access for you to the Oxford Owl e-books resource which has a ‘Letters and Sounds’ section which all Reception children will enjoy. There are also the levelled reading books we use in school available for you too. Use the link below and type in your username and password to access the site:
If you would like to share your work please send it to sharereception@swbschool.net. You may see some of your work in the Learning Gallery next week!
This week you are invited to a live zoom story this Thursday at 1pm. You will be receiving a zoom link later in the week if you would like to attend.
This week Scott's and Heather's class will be having our weekly whole class zoom meetings. This will be on Friday and you will be receiving the link for this later this week.
Monday
Welcome to Monday: good morning and overview of the day video
Weekly Physical Challenge
Enjoy some exercise in this week’s physical challenge with Scott!
Literacy
Daily phonic recall sessions
As part of our phonic morning sessions and as suggested in the daily reading activities, it is important your child does a daily recall of all the single sounds, clusters and digraphs and early tricky words. If your child is in the earlier stages of phonics just concentrate on the single sounds and let them just watch the other videos.
Here are some videos to support this
Single sounds
Digraphs (two sounds together to make one sound)
Clusters (two sounds that blend together often at the beginning of words)
Early Tricky words
Writing: Writing and identifying capital and lower case letters (Part 1)
Letters have both a capital and a lower case letter e.g. Aa, Bb
Letters also have a name and a sound. In school we say Mr Aa makes the ‘a’ sound (‘a’ for ant)
Online Learning Resources:
Capital and lower case letters and their names (not phonic sounds)
See if you can name them in this video:
If you get time, play this BBC Bitesize game about capital letters
Activity Pack: Writing the lower case letter next to the capital letter activity (upper and lower case letter guide in pack)
Additional story activity: This week we are going to enjoy the story of
Knock Knock, Who's There?
1. Listen to the Story
2.Can you retell the story to a family member?
3.A Gorilla knocked at the door, but who else knocked? Who was really knocking at the door? How do you know?
4. On a piece of paper draw your favourite character or draw the girl and her Daddy.
Reading:
If you feel your child is ready to do their word box 9 or word box 18, please send a message to the shared email to let us know and we will be in contact with you shortly.
sharereception@swbschool.net
1. Try and go over the blue initial sound books and digraph books that were provided every day.
2. For those children who are not on word boxes yet, please have a try of the onset words provided (along with the guidance) in your activity pack.
3. For those children that are on word boxes, please continue to go over these regularly as you progress through the word boxes provided in your activity pack.
4. Use the Oxford Owls website to access the ‘Letters and Sounds’ section to support your child with early reading skills.
5. For those children now on early reading books, we have put some of the early reading scheme we use at school in the reading library link below.
1. Dandelion 1 (beige books)
2. Dandelion 2 (green books)
3. Dandelion 3 (purple books)
4. Oxford Reading Tree Floppy Phonics (purple)
5. Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds (purple)
6. Oxford Reading Tree level 1+
7. Oxford Reading Tree level 2 Songbirds (green)
8. Oxford Reading Tree Level 2 (green)
Click on the link for access to the reading books library:
Numeracy
Numeracy
Daily number recognition and counting:
Have fun counting to 20 and do a workout at the same time!
For those children who would like something a little harder, count to 100 and do a workout at the same time!
Number: Identifying and counting numbers
Online Learning Resources:
Counting amounts to 20 and 1 less back to zero
Activity pack: Identifying and counting amounts to 20
Extension activities:
If your child would like to try something a little harder, try these counting activities for amounts 20+
Afternoon Activity
Afternoon Activities
Understanding the World:
This week we are going to explore wet and dry. Have a watch of this video of wet and dry things
Watch this video of Scott talking about Dry and Wet things.
What things can you think of that can be wet and dry, e.g. a towel, a sponge etc.
Characteristics of Learning
Problem solving and memory: have another look at some puzzles and memory games from the BBC:
Tuesday
Welcome to Tuesday: good morning and overview of the day video
Literacy
Daily phonic recall sessions
As part of our phonic morning sessions and as suggested in the daily reading activities, it is important your child does a daily recall of all the single sounds, clusters and digraphs and early tricky words. If your child is in the earlier stages of phonics just concentrate on the single sounds and let them just watch the other videos.
Here are some videos to support this
Single sounds
Digraphs (two sounds together to make one sound)
Clusters (two sounds that blend together often at the beginning of words)
Early Tricky words
Literacy
Phonics: Introduction to the ‘ou’ digraph
Online Learning Resources:
Listen to the story and words with the ‘ou’ sound (teaching video with Mary)
Watch this short Alphablocks video exploring words with the ‘ou’ sound
Watch Geraldine the Giraffe explore the ‘ou’ sound
Now explore some words that has the ‘ou’ sound in them
Activity Pack: Letter formation and words with the ‘ou’ sound
Numeracy
Numeracy
Daily number recognition and counting:
Have a look at these counting videos from BBC Bitesize and have fun with your counting:
Counting from 1-10
Counting from 10-20
Counting to 100 doing the cowboy count!
Number: Doubling numbers to 10 (focus doubles 5-10)
Online Learning Resources:
Enjoy this fun doubling song for numbers 1-10!
Activity Pack: doubling Numicon up to 10 cutting and sticking activity
Extension activities:
Watch this lesson on doubles and begin to understand how it relates to the parts of a whole number (halving) and how it can be shown on a number line
Here is an activity sheet to consolidate doubles 6-10
Try this
Afternoon Activity
Afternoon Activity
Fine motor skills and 2D shapes
Have fun making your own 2D shape Teddy bear
Activity Pack: Teddy Bear activity sheet
Wednesday
Weclome to Wednesday: good morning and overview of the day video
Literacy
Daily phonic recall sessions
As part of our phonic morning sessions and as suggested in the daily reading activities, it is important your child does a daily recall of all the single sounds, clusters and digraphs and early tricky words. If your child is in the earlier stages of phonics just concentrate on the single sounds and let them just watch the other videos.
Here are some videos to support this
Single sounds
Digraphs (two sounds together to make one sound)
Clusters (two sounds that blend together often at the beginning of words)
Early Tricky words
Literacy
Phonics: Introduction to the ‘oi’ digraph
Online Learning Resources:
Listen to the story and words with the ‘oi’ sound (teaching video with Mary)
Watch Geraldine the Giraffe explore the ‘oi’ sound
Now explore some words that has the ‘oi’ sound in them
For some more challenging words, watch this guided blending video for ‘oi’ words
Activity Pack: Letter formation and words with the ‘oi’ sound
Reading: See Monday’s guidance
Numeracy
Numeracy
Daily number recognition and counting:
Let’s keep fit with another look at Monday’s keep fit counting
Have fun counting to 20 and do a workout at the same time!
For those children who would like something a little harder, count to 100 and do a workout at the same time!
Number: Doubling numbers to 10 (focus doubles 5-10)
Online Learning Resources:
Have a listen to this double’s song
Activity Pack: Numicon Doubles and writing number sentences activity
Extension Activities: Problem Solving with Doubling
Here is an activity for those children who would like to try something a little harder
Afternoon Activity
Afternoon Activity
Art
Today, we are going to design our own winter clothes! You can create your own design or repeating pattern. Have fun!
Online Learning Resources:
Enjoy this song about clothes we wear in winter
Activity Pack: Design your own winter clothes activity
Thursday
Weclome to Thursday: good morning and overview of the day video
Literacy
Daily phonic recall sessions
As part of our phonic morning sessions and as suggested in the daily reading activities, it is important your child does a daily recall of all the single sounds, clusters and digraphs and early tricky words. If your child is in the earlier stages of phonics just concentrate on the single sounds and let them just watch the other videos.
Here are some videos to support this
Single sounds
Digraphs (two sounds together to make one sound)
Clusters (two sounds that blend together often at the beginning of words)
Early Tricky words
Literacy
Writing: Early reading comprehension
Activity Pack: Early Reading Comprehension Activity
If your child is in the early stages of reading, you can help your child by reading the sentences with them and drawing what needs to be added
Tricky words: ‘I’, ‘the’ and ‘a’
Reading: See Monday’s guidance
Numeracy
Numeracy
Daily number recognition and counting:
Have another look at these counting videos from BBC Bitesize and have fun with your counting:
Counting from 1-10
Counting from 10-20
Counting to 100 doing the cowboy count!
Shape, space and measures: Sequencing events
Online Learning Resources:
Have a look at these activities that you do every day. Which video is in the right order? Explain the sequence to an adult/sibling or have a go yourself! See how Heather and Scott got on when they had a go.
Discuss using the activity sheets provided which order you do it in.
Afternoon Activity
Physical development
Have fun doing some of the yoga we do at school. Get the whole family to join in!
Friday
Weclome to Friday: good morning and overview of the day video
Literacy
Daily phonic recall sessions
As part of our phonic morning sessions and as suggested in the daily reading activities, it is important your child does a daily recall of all the single sounds, clusters and digraphs and early tricky words. If your child is in the earlier stages of phonics just concentrate on the single sounds and let them just watch the other videos.
Here are some videos to support this
Single sounds
Digraphs (two sounds together to make one sound)
Clusters (two sounds that blend together often at the beginning of words)
Early Tricky words
Literacy
Story-based writing activity:
Kipper’s Toybox
By Mick Inkpen
Online Learning Resources:
Get your Favourite toy or teddy and listen to the story of ‘Kipper’s Toybox’ read by Mary
Have a try answering some of these questions about the story
How many noses did kipper count?
Which one of his toys came to life?
What woke Kipper up?
How did Kipper feel about losing one of his toys?
Have you ever lost a special toy? How did it make you feel?
Why were there too many noses when Kipper counted?
What is your favourite toy? Why do you like it?
Activity Pack: Kipper’s Toybox drawing activity
Reading: See Monday’s guidance
Numeracy
Numeracy
Shape, space and measures: Sequencing events
Everyone has a morning routine, especially on the mornings we come to school. Have a discussion with your child about the order in which you get ready in the morning. Everyone has a different routine so enjoy ordering these events in the order you and your family do them!
Watch this morning routine song
Activity Pack: Sequencing your morning routine cutting and sticking activity
Afternoon Activity
Afternoon Activity
Art
Online Learning Resources:
Have another listen to the story of ‘Kipper’s Toybox’ read by Mary
Activity Pack: ‘Kipper’s Toybox’ colouring activity
Online Learning Gallery of Reception Work