Home learning week 14

Week 14 home learning activities – 13/07/20

Dosbarth Pendre

Phonics

Nursery

Lets have  a reminder of all of the letters and sounds we have looked at:

Set 1: s, a, t, p

Set 2: i, n, m, d

Set 3: g, o, c, k

Set 4: ck, e, u, r

Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

This video reminds us of the sounds and helps us practise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4

There is a good game to play here…

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/fishy-phonics?phase=2#

Reception

Let’s revise the vowel trigraphs ‘ear’ and ‘air’

ear- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHe3Ripnt08&t=16s

air- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3rWZYN5jno

There is a game to play here https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/pick-a-picture

where they can practise finding words with the diagraphs we have been looking at (chose phase 3 digraphs)

As before, this is the video of the song we have used in class to say the names of the letters as well as the sounds they make – our alphabet song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38bK96hMbw

There are games that we have played in class on:

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html  (Nursery)

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html  (Reception)

Maths

There is a final set of activities at https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/  (summer term week 12 and the ‘How many legs’ section).  As before there are 5 days worth of activities here based around a book, but you don’t have to have the books to do them.  They are all very practical activities that you can do, there is no need to print anything off, just download the ‘get the activity’ for each day.

PE

Joe Wicks is still doing PE sessions, but only  3 times a week now at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ he is live at 9am but you can watch any time after as well.  RCT have produced some guidance and activities too, which is available here http://d6vsczyu1rky0.cloudfront.net/33281_b/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wellbeing-Pack-Four-Diet-and-Exercise.pdf

Topic

Our topic for the last half-term has been ‘Splendid Skies’ and was all about the weather. 

The weather is set to be better this week (fingers crossed!). On a sunny day encourage the children to investigate how shadows are made. Allow them to take objects outside to investigate shadows. Include objects with holes in them e.g. sieves, colanders or plant pots for interest. How does the shadow change as the object is turned? Remind them of the safety aspect of never looking directly at the sun.

Reading

Keep reading as much as you can!  If you need any logins (oxford reading buddy / hwb / study ladder) please let me know.

Study ladder

I have added more activities onto study ladder: www.studyladder.com

School re-opening

It has been great to see Reception over the last three weeks.  Thank you for all your support with learning materials sent home.

Next year

Although this year has been a strange one and had its challenges for us all, it has been an absolute pleasure to get to know your children and be their teacher this year.  Hopefully you will have seen a communication from Mrs Price to confirm that I will be teaching Reception/Year 1 next year, and that Miss Hughes and Mrs Bamford will continue to be part of the team.  I am delighted, and I hope you agree that it will also be very beneficial for the children to have familiar faces to come back to next year after the disruption and uncertainty this year has brought.

Hope you all have a great summer and continue to stay safe. I look forward to seeing you all in September.

Mr Griffiths

P.S. Please find below a ‘starting Reception checklist’ for next year, which lists the kind of things the children could do with knowing/being able to do for when they start full days in school 

Home learning week 13

Week 13 home learning activities – 06/07/20 

Dosbarth Pendre 

Phonics 

Nursery 

Let’s have  a reminder of all of the letters and sounds we have looked at: 

Set 1: s, a, t, p 

Set 2: i, n, m, d 

Set 3: g, o, c, k 

Set 4: ck, e, u, r 

Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss 

This video reminds us of the sounds and helps us practise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4 

Reception 

Let’s revise the vowel digraphs oo and or 

oo- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfMKV_9agiY 

or- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33kvsqyOYdg 

Can you please help your children to practise and learn the following tricky words (which can't be decoded) 

he, she,  we, me, be, was, you, they, all, are, my, her  

Can they use their phonic knowledge to sound out the words shown http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/resources/p4cvcc1.pdf  

(no need to print out, you could just copy the words or read from a screen). 

There is a game to play here https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/sentence-substitution-ph4 

Which uses all the sounds they have learned so far. 

As before, this is the video of the song we have used in class to say the names of the letters as well as the sounds they make – our alphabet song… 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38bK96hMbw 

There are games that we have played in class on: 

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html  (Nursery) 

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html  (Reception) 

Maths 

There are more great activities on https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/  (summer term week 11 and the ‘The Dinosaur that pooped a planet’ section).  As before there are 5 days worth of activities here based around a book, but you don’t have to have the books to do them.  They are all very practical activities that you can do, there is no need to print anything off, just download the ‘get the activity’ for each day. 

PE 

Joe Wicks is still doing PE sessions, but only  3 times a week now at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ he is live at 9am but you can watch any time after as well.  RCT have produced some guidance and activities too, which is available here http://d6vsczyu1rky0.cloudfront.net/33281_b/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wellbeing-Pack-Four-Diet-and-Exercise.pdf 

Topic 

Our topic for the last half-term is called ‘Splendid Skies’ and is all about the weather.   

This week the children will find out about the water cycle.  How does the rain come out of the clouds? You could use sponges in water to recreate the water cycle: use different vocabulary to explain the process: rain, cloud, shower, storm, droplets. 

Try ‘being a cloud’: imagine you are a cloud what would you see if you were above your house (when you have imagined make a drawing and then have a look on google maps aerial view of what it looks like).

Reading 

Keep reading as much as you can!  If you need any logins (oxford reading buddy / hwb / study ladder) please let me know. 

Study ladder 

I have added more activities onto study ladder: www.studyladder.com. There are now 184 learning activities on there!  Well done to all of you who have been doing them, especially to Damien and Isaac who have nearly done them all!!

School re-opening 

It was lovely to see so many of Reception last week and we are all really looking forward to seeing them again this week!  There is no need to bring back any of the paper activities that we sent home last week, just the reading book and the folder is fine.  We will then re-assess the children and send home some more personalised learning materials. 

Hope you are all well and continue to stay safe. 

Mr Griffiths

Home learning week 12

Week 12 home learning activities – 29/06/20

Dosbarth Pendre

Phonics

Nursery

Lets have  a reminder of all of the letters and sounds we have looked at:

Set 1: s, a, t, p

Set 2: i, n, m, d

Set 3: g, o, c, k

Set 4: ck, e, u, r

Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

This video reminds us of the sounds and helps us practise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4

Reception

Let’s revise the vowel digraphs ai and ee

ai- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbmpw192MSg&t=1s

ee- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ci0oEO8dXE&t=1s

Can you please help your children to learn the following tricky words (which can't yet be decoded)

said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were

Can they use their phonic knowledge to sound out the words shown http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/resources/p4poly.pdf

(no need to print out, you could just copy the words or read from a screen).

There is a game to play here https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/sentence-substitution-ph4

Which uses all the sounds they have learned so far.

As before, this is the video of the song we have used in class to say the names of the letters as well as the sounds they make – our alphabet song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38bK96hMbw

There are games that we have played in class on:

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html  (Nursery)

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html  (Reception)

Maths

There are more great activities on https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/  (summer term week 10 and the ‘Oliver’s vegetables’ section).  As before there are 5 days worth of activities here based around a book, but you don’t have to have the books to do them.  They are all very practical activities that you can do, there is no need to print anything off, just download the ‘get the activity’ for each day.

PE

Joe Wicks is still doing PE sessions, but only  3 times a week now at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ he is live at 9am but you can watch any time after as well.  RCT have produced some guidance and activities too, which is available here http://d6vsczyu1rky0.cloudfront.net/33281_b/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wellbeing-Pack-Four-Diet-and-Exercise.pdf

Topic

Our topic for the last half-term is called ‘Splendid Skies’ and is all about the weather. 

Can you create a dance involving the wind? You could move like a leaf on a tree, live a wave, a windmill or a flag blowing in the breeze.  You could link it to a breeze, a whirlwind or even a tornado.  Could you take some photos or even make a video?

If you would like to get creative, can you design something that would fly in the air, like a kite or an aeroplane.  You could make a ‘junk model’ using recycling.

Reading

Keep reading as much as you can!  If you need any logins (oxford reading buddy / hwb / study ladder) please let me know.

Study ladder

I have added more activities onto study ladder: www.studyladder.com

I have been working on creating a new website for our school, and this is now live at www.llanharanprimary.com if you would like to have a look.  It is still a work in progress!

School re-opening

I am really looking forward to seeing Reception this week.  I plan to give everyone some personalised learning on maths and phonics to bring home as well.

Hope you are all well and continue to stay safe.

Mr Griffiths

Home learning week 11

Week 11 home learning activities – 22/06/20

Dosbarth Pendre

Phonics

Nursery

Lets have  a reminder of all of the letters and sounds we have looked at:

Set 1: s, a, t, p

Set 2: i, n, m, d

Set 3: g, o, c, k

Set 4: ck, e, u, r

Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

This video reminds us of the sounds and helps us practise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4

Reception

Let’s revise the consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, ng

ch- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEoednLrsMY

sh- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRqtFBQ_2k

th- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hZMjZGNq4g

ng- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQshNmncnBs&t=1s

Can you please help your children to learn the following tricky words (which can't yet be decoded)

said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were

Can they use their phonic knowledge to sound out the words shown http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/resources/p4poly.pdf

(no need to print out, you could just copy the words or read from a screen).

There is a game to play here https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/sentence-substitution-ph4

Which uses all the sounds they have learned so far.

As before, this is the video of the song we have used in class to say the names of the letters as well as the sounds they make – our alphabet song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38bK96hMbw

There are games that we have played in class on:

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html  (Nursery)

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html  (Reception)

Maths

There are more great activities on https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/  (summer term week 9 and the ‘Zog’ section).  As before there are 5 days worth of activities here based around a book, but you don’t have to have the books to do them.  They are all very practical activities that you can do, there is no need to print anything off, just download the ‘get the activity’ for each day.

PE

Joe Wicks is still doing PE sessions, but only  3 times a week now at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ he is live at 9am but you can watch any time after as well.  RCT have produced some guidance and activities too, which is available here http://d6vsczyu1rky0.cloudfront.net/33281_b/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wellbeing-Pack-Four-Diet-and-Exercise.pdf

Topic

Our topic for the last half-term is called ‘Splendid Skies’ and is all about the weather. 

This week the children could talk about some extreme weather conditions, for example the flooding we had in recently in Wales or tornados in America.  Discuss what happened and the consequences, and move on to talk about all extreme weather conditions we can have and the effects they can have.  Here is a video about tornados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s3UwOq1P1E and one about floods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe350nm_odA

Reading

Keep reading as much as you can!  If you need any logins (oxford reading buddy / hwb / study ladder) please let me know.

Study ladder

I have added more activities onto study ladder: www.studyladder.com

I have been working on creating a new website for our school, and this is now live at www.llanharanprimary.com if you would like to have a look.  It is still a work in progress!

Mr Foster’s challenge

I have added below.

School re-opening

I look forward to seeing some of you next week.  We have a few activities on our school website to do with coming back to school here http://d6vsczyu1rky0.cloudfront.net/33281_b/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Strategies-to-support-learners-back-into-the-classroom-environment-school.pdf

Hope you are all well and continue to stay safe.

Mr Griffiths

Home learning week 10

Week 10 home learning activities – 15/06/20

Dosbarth Pendre

Phonics

Nursery

Have a look at these videos for the sounds ll and ss

ll- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3YtQuyS1fc

ss- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0G-CEVXis

Can the children now say these words by blending sounds together…

lap, let, leg, lot, lit, bell, fill, doll, tell, sell, Bill, Nell, dull, laptop

ass, less, hiss, mass, mess, boss, fuss, hiss, pass, kiss, Tess

You can play a game like ‘I spy’ and find things that begin with letter sounds that they know.

Reception

Have a look at these videos for the sounds ir and or

ir- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhRxww2WmpI

or- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LILeh-ok7rs

Can you please help your children to learn the following tricky words (which can't yet be decoded)

said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were

Can they use their phonic knowledge to sound out the words shown here http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/resources/p4cvcc1.pdf

(no need to print out, you could just copy the words or read from a screen).

There is a game to play here https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/sentence-substitution-ph4

Which uses all the sounds they have learned so far.

As before, this is the video of the song we have used in class to say the names of the letters as well as the sounds they make – our alphabet song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38bK96hMbw

There are games that we have played in class on:

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html  (Nursery)

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html  (Reception)

Maths

There are more great activities on https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/  (summer term week 8 and the ‘Princess Mirror-Belle’ section).  As before there are 5 days worth of activities here based around a book, but you don’t have to have the books to do them.  They are all very practical activities that you can do, there is no need to print anything off, just download the ‘get the activity’ for each day.

PE

Joe Wicks is still doing daily PE sessions at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ he is live at 9am but you can watch any time after as well.  RCT have produced some guidance and activities too, which is available here http://d6vsczyu1rky0.cloudfront.net/33281_b/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wellbeing-Pack-Four-Diet-and-Exercise.pdf

Topic

Our topic for the last half-term is called ‘Splendid Skies’ and is all about the weather.  It was great to see some photos of children dressed in seasonal clothes last week!

This week, can the children watch a TV weather report.  Then can they become the weather presenter and y create their own weather report!  They could draw some pictures of the sun or clouds and use these as props.

Can they remember any Welsh words for the weather?

There is a song here to remind them of the vocabulary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC3y9gOiMYc

And another one here to help grown-ups! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUu9kB0xafc

Reading

Keep reading as much as you can!  If you need any logins (oxford reading buddy / hwb / study ladder) please let me know.

Study ladder

I have added more activities onto study ladder: www.studyladder.com

I have been working on creating a new website for our school, and this is now live at www.llanharanprimary.com if you would like to have a look.  It is still a work in progress!

School re-opening

We hope to get a letter to you later this week to explain what will be happening with the re-opening of school from 29^th June.

Hope you are all well and continue to stay safe.

Mr Griffiths

Home learning week 9

Week 9 home learning activities – 08/06/20

Dosbarth Pendre

Phonics

Nursery

Have a look at these videos for the sounds f,ff and l

f- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-KNJ0yXS8

ff- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqKUBZQhJA

l- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R-16L_Xmro

Can the children now say these words by blending sounds together…

if, off, fit, fin, fun, fig, fog, puff, huff, cuff, fan, fat

lap, let, leg, lot, lit,

You can play a game like ‘I spy’ and find things that begin with letter sounds that they know.

Reception

Can you please help your children to learn the following tricky words (which can't yet be decoded)

said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were

Can they use their phonic knowledge to sound out the words shown here http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/resources/p4cvcc2.pdf

(no need to print out, you could just copy the words or read from a screen).

There is a game to play here https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/sentence-substitution-ph4

Which uses all the sounds they have learned so far.

As before, this is the video of the song we have used in class to say the names of the letters as well as the sounds they make – our alphabet song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38bK96hMbw

There are games that we have played in class on:

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html  (Nursery)

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html  (Reception)

Maths

There are yet more great activities on https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/  (summer term week 7 and the ‘The princess and the wizard’ section).  As before there are 5 days worth of activities here based around a book, but you don’t have to have the books to do them.  They are all very practical activities that you can do, there is no need to print anything off, just download the ‘get the activity’ for each day.

 

PE

Joe Wicks is still doing daily PE sessions at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ he is live at 9am but you can watch any time after as well.  RCT have produced some guidance and activities too, which is available here http://d6vsczyu1rky0.cloudfront.net/33281_b/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wellbeing-Pack-Four-Diet-and-Exercise.pdf

Topic

Our topic for the last half-term is called ‘Splendid Skies’ and is all about the weather.  Last week we thought about seasons.  This week can the children go out for a walk and look for some real-life signs of the seasons – leaves on trees, clouds in the sky, flowers, buds, sticks on the ground etc.  What colours can they see?  Can they take a photo or make a drawing?

Think about different clothes that we wear during the different seasons, and why we wear them.  Again, they could draw some pictures of what they wear in different seasons, or get dressed up and take some photos!

Reading

Keep reading as much as you can!  If you need any logins (oxford reading buddy / hwb / study ladder) please let me know.

Study ladder

I have added more activities onto study ladder: www.studyladder.com

I have been working on creating a new website for our school, and this is now live at www.llanharanprimary.com if you would like to have a look.  It is still a work in progress!

Hope you are all well and continue to stay safe.

Mr Griffiths

Home learning week 8

Week 8 home learning activities – 01/06/20

Dosbarth Pendre

Phonics

Nursery

Have a look at these videos for the sounds r, h and b

r- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xFKC8tNdEo

h- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C69V6GtdT7Y

b- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwTkcfKRj00

Can the children now say these words by blending sounds together…

rim, rip, ram, rat, rag, rug, rot

had, him, his, hot, hut, hop, hum, hit, hat, has, hack, hug

but, big, back, bet, bad, bag, bed, bud, beg, bug, bun, bus, Ben, bat

You can play a game like ‘I spy’ and find things that begin with letter sounds that they know.

Reception

Can the children decode (read) the following words http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/resources/p4ccvcc2.pdf (there is no need to print them off).

Can they read/learn the following ‘tricky’ words that can’t be de-coded http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/resources/p4tricky.pdf (again, no need to print them).

As before, this is the video of the song we have used in class to say the names of the letters as well as the sounds they make – our alphabet song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38bK96hMbw

There are games that we have played in class on:

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html  (Nursery)

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html  (Reception)

Maths

There are yet more excellent activities on https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/  (summer term week 6 and the ‘Snail and the Whale’ section).  As before there are 5 days worth of activities here based around a book, but you don’t have to have the books to do them.  They are all very practical activities that you can do, there is no need to print anything off, just download the ‘get the activity’ for each day.

PE

Joe Wicks is still doing daily PE sessions at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ he is live at 9am but you can watch any time after as well.  RCT have produced some guidance and activities too, which is available here http://d6vsczyu1rky0.cloudfront.net/33281_b/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wellbeing-Pack-Four-Diet-and-Exercise.pdf

Topic

Our topic for the last half-term is called ‘Splendid Skies’ and is all about the weather.  This week the children could keep a record of the weather during the week, so practising the days of the week as well.  As it’s likely to be warm all week, perhaps they could look at the temperature for each day and compare.  What was the warmest/coldest day of the week?

There is a seasons sorting activity here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uBiMGmcAQ05b8X9v_q4um-9z5sF3_hc3/view?usp=sharing

Again, you don’t have to print it out, you could just discuss the seasons and which picture belongs with whih season.

Reading

Keep reading as much as you can!  If you need any logins (oxford reading buddy / hwb / study ladder) please let me know.

Study ladder

I have added more activities onto study ladder: www.studyladder.com

I have been working on creating a new website for our school, and this is now live at www.llanharanprimary.com if you would like to have a look.  It is still a work in progress!

Hope you are all well and continue to stay safe.

Mr Griffiths