Reception Home Learning – 22.02.21

Dear parents and children,

I hope you all had a wonderful half term and managed to have a rest.  I appreciate that many of you are juggling family life with working and home schooling.   Hopefully, everyone is feeling ready to begin this week’s home learning.

Here are my plans for the week.

Religious Education – Lent

A promise for Lent

As you are aware, the church season of Lent began last week with Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.  Remind your child it is purple time again in the church year; a time of getting ready for the celebration of Easter.

It is also a time to think about how we can change and grow inside to be more like Jesus.  We are growing not only physically but inside in goodness, kindness, caring and loving. Our learning will begin by thinking about what the term ‘growing’ may mean.  I have, therefore, included a couple of activities this week that observe the growth of plants. 

I am sure you will have discussed Lent with your child and may have taken the opportunity to attend St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church to receive the Ashes. I would really like to hear about your child’s Lenten promise.  If you haven’t already agreed upon a promise, please make a Lenten promise with your child to send to me. 

The cornerstones of Lent are praying, fasting and giving.  You may find the list of suggestions below useful ideas. 

Pray

Fast      

Give up something you enjoy eg. only have sweets or treats at the weekend
Choose to look at a book instead of the television

Giving

Helping with a chore in the house
Playing with a brother or sister

Encourage your child to draw a picture.  Scribe your child’s promise on the picture and pin it up somewhere prominent to help your child remember this special time of the church year.

Letters and Sounds

Today’s new sound – ‘ear’ (trigraph three letters but one sound)

This video introduces the ‘ear’ sound.

Show your child how to write ‘ear’ using the correct letter formation.

Letter formation for ‘e’ ‘a’ and ‘r’ can be found in your child’s letters and sounds book.

Encourage your child to ‘have a go’ at writing the ‘ear’ sound. 

For challenge

Only if your child is ready.  Write the following words:

For extra challenge

Write a funny sentence and draw a picture to accompany the sentence. 

Maths

Number positions

This week in maths your child will be learning how to understand the position of numbers and their relationship to other numbers.  We will focus on numbers from 0-10.  However, the activities for the week can also be extended to 0-20, depending on your child’s confidence.  We will be working towards understanding 1 more and 1 less. 

Let’s begin with step 1:    Recognise that a count starts with nothing (zero) and increases equally by one each time

Make a number staircase

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This activity will help your child to see that the difference between each number is equal and goes up in ones.  It involves creating a number line physically as a ‘staircase’.

You will need:

Ideally Duplo or Lego bricks to make towers.  However, you can use pasta shapes, buttons, beads and create number lines on the floor.

What to do:

• Write numbers 0-10 on a separate pieces of paper.  You could use the numeral cards I previously sent through Tapestry.  I’ve resent them for today.
• Give a number to your child.
• Ask your child to make a tower of cubes to match the value on the card.
• Ask your child to order the towers from smallest to largest labelling each tower/length with the number card.

The idea is for your child to increase the number of items used for their towers/lengths by 1 each time. 

Ask your child ‘What do you notice?’  Ideas you will be looking for:

Celebrating our Learning

The children really enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year.  Many thanks for all the wonderful photos and creative ideas.  I thought the children may like to share their photos with each other.

I look forward to hearing all about your learning through Tapestry and wish you all a great day.

Nicola Palmer