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4 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Panda Class Monday 20th April 2020

Hello Panda Parents/Carers, I hope you are all well and have had a good Easter break.

Thank you so much for your continued positivity in continuing to support your child’s learning at home. The sunflowers are all doing well and getting quite tall! I will send some pictures on ClassDojo.

I have put together some links for this week’s learning.

There are links to:

How to use the correct letter formation when forming lower case letters. If at all possible, please do all 26 over the next couple of weeks. This uses the Read Write Inc rhymes too which your child will recognise.  I really believe that using the correct letter formation from the start is far easier than having to undo ‘bad habits’ in later years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUH2TCsfIc

Talk for Writing – This is in the form of a booklet which guides children and their adults through guided literacy exercises. This is a great resource and starts with a text and then followed by lots of ‘talk for writing’, so important for early writers.

https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reception-Unit.pdf

In Maths this week we are looking at Composition using the Part / Whole Method. (Adding 2 numbers to find the whole/total). To put this in to more context there is a link to The Main Areas of Early Years Maths (From the National Centre for excellence in the teaching of Mathematics) Then there is a link to a YouTube video showing the Part / Whole model for adding.

https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/52500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fc3x3nF0Rg

I hope you have a great week – if you need any help/support at all please do contact me through ClassDojo.

Best wishes

Mandy Turner

 

4 years ago
Posted on 30th Mar 2020 by

Panda Class – Phonics – Read Write Inc link 30th March 2020

Hi Panda Parents/Carers,

I hope you are well.

I wanted to highlight a great resource from Read Write Inc – our phonics lessons / resources.

There are live films for teaching phonics lessons, available everyday for 2 weeks with each episode available for 24hrs.

Set One Speed Sounds @ 9:30am  (These are really important for revision)

Set Two Speed Sounds @ 10:00am  (This is where we are up to currently – we have covered ay, ee, igh, ow, oo (as in moon) & oo (as in book)   New learning would be ar, or, air, ir, ou & oy

Set Three Speed Sounds @ 10:30am  For when children have completed Set Two Speed Sounds (This set is for learning more ways of writing the same sounds)

I would recommend watching Set One Sounds, then have a break and watch Set Two Sounds a little while later.

There are also further films for parents/Carers which help with understanding the process of teaching phonics and how to say the sounds.

Please follow the link below and hopefully you will enjoy tuning in every day.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ

Your children will be so pleased and proud to show you how well they can do – I’m sure you could use Dojo rewards to add Monster points! Keep the wonderful communications through Dojo, I love hearing about what you have been doing.

Happy Phonics

Mandy Turner

 

 

4 years ago
Posted on 28th Mar 2020 by

Panda Class – New learning objectives for w/c 30th March 2020

Hello Pandas,

It has been so wonderful to see what you have been doing this week! Goodness you’ve been busy.

I am keeping a close eye on the sunflower seeds I have planted for you –  picture on ClassDojo – I will let you know if anything appears.  Finger’s crossed

Attached is the link for more work ideas w/c 30th march 2020

.Overview of learning 30th March 2020

Below are the work sheets referenced in the overview, for writing.

Hold the sentence

Look trace write sheets

Best wishes

Mandy Turner

4 years ago
Posted on 22nd Mar 2020 by

Panda Class Home Learning 23rd March

Good morning Panda Parents/Carers,

I hope you are all well and enjoying some sunshine. I have added a link to next week’s learning and an Early Years Foundation Stage Home Learning pack which is full of different activities to keep those minds active. I will be using ClassDojo as a means of communicating with you all – thank you for the messages so far, it’s lovely to stay in touch.

Any queries at all please just get in touch I am here to help.

Overview-of-learning-23rd-March-2020

EYFS-Home-Learning-Pack

Best wishes

Mandy Turner

4 years ago
Posted on 20th Mar 2020 by

What a strange week

Hi Pandas

What a strange week it has been. But through it all your children have been amazing!

I will be posting messages here and on ClassDojo of links to well-chosen websites and I will be suggesting activities to engage those wonderful minds.

Here’s something to unwind into the weekend – the children have done some of this before and have really enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Have a good weekend and take care Pandas.

Best wishes

Mandy Turner

 

4 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by

Phonics Play access for parents

Phonics Play is a great website containing lots of interactive phonics and spelling games and activities. Like other popular educational websites, which normally need a paid subscription to allow access, they are offering free access during the school closure period.

Please use the link to access the Phonics play website and use the username: march20 and password: home to gain access.

Hope you enjoy this great resource

Regards

Mr Glover

4 years ago
Posted on 18th Mar 2020 by

Parent access to Twinkl – An Educational Resource Website

Twinkl is an educational website which contains a wealth of resources designed by teachers for teachers. To access the resources, you usually require a paid subscription. However, due to school closures and pupils’ learning being disrupted, Twinkl is offering every parent access to Twinkl resources with a One Month Ultimate Membership, totally free of charge. 

Accessing this offer is really easy to do – go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer to set up a new account using the code UKTWINKLHELPS and you’re ready to go.

Additional Resources:

Twinkl have also created a number of really helpful guides, designed for parents, for different areas of the curriculum. Their dedicated Parents’ Hub contains hundreds of educational activities designed for use at home.

For parents with children in EYFS, take a look through the EYFS for Parents area to find some really useful guides and activities to share.

For primary-aged children (Year 1 to 6), take a look at the 5-11 area. Again, this was created with parents in mind so it’s filled with guides and information about what children should be learning in each year group, for each curriculum area.

They have also created some interactive ‘School closure learning packs‘ which can be downloaded once you have an account. Click on the link below for quick access:

Learning Packs

Hope you enjoy the resources

Regards

Mr Glover

4 years ago
Posted on 17th Mar 2020 by

News from Panda Class 17th March 2020

Hello Panda Parents/Carers,

I just wanted to share with you some good web sites that offer educational activities for children – should they be needed.

At this age children’s attention span is going to be short – as a rule of thumb: their own age (so 5 minutes if a child is five, and so on), plus or minus 3 minutes. So, not long at all.

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/

https://www.mrsmactivity.co.uk/downloads/category/home-education/

Some museums are also offering a virtual tour of the museum too.

Children learn such a lot through play which doesn’t take as much concentration. So whilst web sites are good play situations are really helpful too. For example, you might play a  board game – rolling the dice and recognising the number pattern, taking turns, reading captions etc., are all good ways of learning through play. Baking, reading, colouring, card making, letter writing (to grandma who might be isolated), weaving, model making – the list is endless.

If you go online and there is often a choice of age groups – we are EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage).

Recently we have been looking at space and the planets – comparing size, colour and characteristics of the planets. Writing their names and the descriptions we noticed. We have been writing a list of what we would take to space in our rocket. We have enjoyed the story Whatever Next! too.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Mandy Turner

4 years ago
Posted on 10th Mar 2020 by

Panda and Tiger Verandah work

We are very pleased to say that work is commencing next week to improve the verandah across the back of panda and tiger classrooms.  The heating system has already been installed and there are now units which can heat or cool. The ceiling is being completely replaced to prevent it from over heating and there is work being done on the windows and floor. This is such a valuable space in our school with our growing numbers so we are very excited to have these improvements.

During this period from 23rd March, Pandas will need to come in through the same door as the rest of the children until it is complete.