Good morning Reception children and parents,
I hope you all enjoyed the snow day yesterday. If you’re outside making the most of the snow this morning, below is a link to fun snowy day activities.
Enjoy the precious time together in the snow if you wish! I don’t expect you to complete all the activities below as well! Perhaps use the suggested activities on a different day. Once you’re cosy and warm inside, your child could watch the videos for our new sound ‘oa’ today.
Here is my plan for this week’s posts. I’m going to focus on the story of Jack and The Beanstalk for a couple of weeks. This was the second most popular story from the favourite story poll. If you are able to obtain some beanstalk seeds that would be great. However, this is not essential. Little tip, broad beans have a stronger stalk.
Fun writing idea
Home cinema
Here are some ideas of how to create your cinema experience at home:
- Choose your film.
- Create tickets for your chosen film – don’t forget about how much your ticket will be;are there different prices for different aged people?
- Create advertisements, for example recorded radio adverts, or posters for your chosen film – when is it going to be shown, where will it be shown?
- Write a shopping list for your film snacks and go shopping for your film snacks.
- Create a shop for your customers to buy their tickets and film snacks – add prices and use money to buy the item.
Letters and Sounds
Today’s new sound – ‘oa’ (digraph two letters but one sound)
This video to supports blending for reading ‘oa’ words.
This video introduces ‘oa’ word sentences.
Below is the action for ‘oa’
Show your child how to write ‘oa’ using the correct letter formation.
Letter formation for ‘o’ and ‘a’ can be found in your child’s letters and sounds book.
Encourage your child to ‘have a go’ at writing the ‘oa’ sound.
For challenge
Only if your child is ready.
For extra challenge
Write a sentence and draw a picture to accompany the sentence.
Game to help reinforce our new tricky words: they, are, all, was, her, you
Maths
Playing cards are a great maths resource. Below are some ideas of games you could play. The link is to a memory ‘matching pairs’ game. I suggest you reduce the amount of cards to simplify this game.
Wishing you all a fun day.
Nicola Palmer