Thank you for all of your amazing pictures on EExAT, it is great to see all the learning that is happening at home. If you haven’t uploaded anything yet there is still time. It would be great to see at least one or two pieces a week from each of you! We are working really hard here at Damers to provide some great remote learning content whist simultaneously teach the children who cannot stay at home. Seeing what you have been doing at home is a great way of monitoring your child’s engagement in the learning that we have planned for them. Take a look at some of the fab work that has been happening this week at school and at home!
What a strange week to start 2021! I hope you have been working hard at home with your grown ups. I have seen lots of fab work on EExAT which I am really pleased about. Check out some of our work at home and school below 🙂
From Monday we will be using a Foundation year group blog for you to access all of your child’s remote learning provision. The Meadow Class blog will still be here but we will only post here on a Friday to celebrate the children’s work. Continue to check here to see what the children have been doing at home and school every Friday.
The Foundation year group blog will provide you with homemade videos filmed by your favourite Foundation teachers, teaching you just as they would in school. You’ll find a daily phonics session, Maths and Literacy videos, links and games.
There will be a specific page on the year group blog where you’ll be able to find Google Meet links to meet with your teacher virtually everyday too. We will be meeting you for story time every day and we will meet with small groups of children over the course of the week. Please wait for more information to follow about our virtual meetings.
You can find the new Foundation year group blog here …
Friday is always a revision day. Open up your phoneme book and see if you can remember the new digraphs learnt this week (short oo, long oo, ar and ur).
Check you have a word and picture on each page or spend some time today catching up.
Test your family by playing eye spy with these pictures (curl, card, star, moon, woods)
Have a go at reading the question below. What makes this sentence a question?
Literacy
Have a go at using these sentence starters to complete the sentences. You might want to start with a different sentence starter that your adult can help you with. Use your sounds to segment words you’d like to write for example, Winter is… c – o – l – d. Winter is wearing… h – a – t – s. Winter is feeling… s – n – u – g.
Winter is… f – r – o – s – t – y.
Maths
In this session we are going to be thinking about our number formation so grab a pen/pencil and some paper and watch the following song! Make sure that you try to form your numbers the way that it shows you in the song!
Next week we will be starting to look at subtraction so over the weekend we would like you to remind yourself of these symbols …
+ = –
Have a chat with your grown up and talk about what they mean and when you might use them!
Today’s new digraph is ‘ur’ for fur. When you say ‘ur’, turn your hands around each other like when you sing ‘wheels on the bus’. Watch this video to show you some more ur words to read.
Look at the picture below from the video. See if you can write your own sentence to match using the new digraph and a tricky bug.
Eg –
I can surf.
The cool dog can surf.
My dog is good at surfing.
Literacy
Have a look at these winter pictures. Describe what you see using as many different describing words as you can. Have a look out of your window or go for a walk and see if you can find any signs of winter. Use one of the pictures above to write some labels or descriptive words like in the example below.
Maths
Warm your number brains up with this song.
Let’s focus a little more on counting and recognising numbers today by playing this game!
Listen to this tricky word song to see how many you can remember…
Have a look at the pictures below. Use your robot arms to say them and see if you can guess what our new digraph is for today.
When you say ‘ar’ you move your arm like a pirate saying ‘arrrrrrrr!’ Listen to this fun ‘ar’ pirate song…
Choose your favourite ‘ar’ words to write in your phoneme book and draw/stick a picture in to match.
Literacy
For today’s task you’ll need an A4 piece of paper. Fold it in half and then in half again so that you have 4 equal sections. Use each section to represent each of the 4 seasons as seen in the examples below. Discuss what you might be wearing in each season, what you might see on the trees or how it would feel. Label each section with the season you are depicting.
Here’s another season’s song for you to listen to today.
Maths
Have a go at counting all the way to 100!
Yesterday you had a go at subitising, you could try this again today with a small selection of objects around the home and then watch these songs. See how many you get right! Feel free to pause it if you need a little more time!
Good morning everyone and welcome back to the blogs. We’re busy setting up our remote learning provision after yesterday’s announcement but for today here’s some home learning jobs for you to do which follow on from what we started learning about on Monday.
We are sad that we didn’t get a chance to properly say goodbye to the children but please let them know that we will be missing them and will see them soon.
Don’t forget our year group email is up and running so if you have any questions or queries about your child’s learning please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us at foundation@damers.dorset.sch.uk
Yesterday we learnt the short digraph ‘oo’ for book. Today’s digraph is also ‘oo’ but this time it’s the long oo sound for moon. Have a go at reading the oo words below.
Open up your phoneme book, find the oo digraph and have a go at writing some of your own words with pictures to match.
There is also a new tricky bug for today…
See if you can say this word in a sentence.
Literacy
In Literacy this week we’ve kick started our winter topic by talking about the 4 seasons of the year. Listen to one of these songs to get you started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjpI6fgYSY
Have a discussion about the seasons and the changes that we see. How do we know when a season changes? Do we change what we do, what we wear or even what we eat in the different seasons?
Now think about winter specifically. What does winter feel and look like? Draw a picture of what you might wear outside on a winter’s day and label it.
Don’t forget to check the Winter Home Learning Suggestions sheet that came home in book bags yesterday for more fun winter activities you can try at home.
Maths
Listen and join in with this wintery number song …
We are starting this half term off by reminding ourselves of our counting skills before we move on to some subtraction later on. One skill we are beginning to use is to subitise, this means to judge (the number of objects in a group) rapidly, accurately and confidently without counting them, for example knowing the amount of dots on a dice or a domino just from a look. Have a look at the images below and see how many you can ‘subitise’!
