Good morning Reception parents and children,
I hope you all had a fabulous weekend. This week we will be celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week, playing letters and sounds games and begin a new RE topic – Eucharist: Relating. We will also spend one more week exploring The Jack and the Beanstalk story.
Please find below my plan for the week. You will need to collect an empty kitchen roll, paper plate, cotton wood and pva glue for making our castle on Tuesday. On Thursday will be using jelly beans for our maths game.
Children’s Mental Health Week – 1- 7th February 2021
At St Adrian’s, we are committed to promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing to all students, their families and members of staff and governors. We are proud to support Children’s Mental Health Week and the theme this year is ‘express yourself’.
Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good.
Every child in each class are being asked to complete an assignment linked to Children’s Mental Health week and post a photograph to celebrate their home learning from the week. You will notice from my plan that I will set an activity each day. Please choose at least one activity to post on Tapestry during the week.
Today’s activity is linked to PE. Take a picture of your child doing something outside or inside. For example, a nature walk or taking part in exercise. Below are some suggestions for indoor movement:
Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
BBC Boogie Beebies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Boogie%20Beebies
Runner Bean Game
This is a game we play during PE – it’s a good ‘warm up’ game. Your child should be familiar with the game.
What to do:
- Ask your child to move around (walk, run, hop, jump etc) until you shout ‘stop’
- Ask your child to do a funny position with their body to match a bean name.
- Ask your child to move around again until you shout ‘stop’ again.
- Ask your child to do a funny move to match a different bean name.
- Continue ……
This game works best outside. Each time you ask your child to move around, change the instruction eg. walk, jump, hop
Here are the different bean positions:
1. Runner Beans: Run on the spot
2. Broad Beans: Do a big, broad star shape
3. Baked Beans: Lie on the floor, curled up in a ball
4. Kidney Beans: Make a curvy C-shape with your body
5. Butter Beans: Pretend the floor is slippery
6. Jumping Beans: Jump up and down
7. String Beans: Stretch up tall like a pencil
8. Beans on Toast: Lay on the floor with arms and legs stretched out wide
Letters and Sounds
Wanted Poster
Ask your child to write a ‘Wanted Poster’ for either Jack or The Giant. If you have printing facilities, I have added a template that you may wish to use. Otherwise, just ask your child to draw the poster.
- Talk to your child about what they could write. Here are some suggestions which support phonics:
The Giant
He is big.
He is tall.
He has long legs.
He took the hen.
Jack
He is small.
He can run.
He can chop.
- Remind your child of tricky word ‘all’ when writing ‘tall’ and ‘small’.
- Encourage your child to use capital letters and full stops.
- Encourage your child to use their sound mat to support their writing.
Maths
I spy game – making comparisons
Play a ‘I spy’ game where you ask your child to spot objects and make comparisons.
- Look for real objects around the house eg. “I spy with my little eye 6 cushions and 4 chairs”. Ask your child how many more cushions?
- Gather together a collection of toys “I spy with my little eye 2 dolls and 4 animals” How many more animals?
To support your child, you could line the objects up next to each other to show the comparison.
Take turns playing the game with your child.
For Challenge
Perhaps your child could add the object together. How many altogether?
Use larger numbers to extend your child.
Maybe pretend to see some objects from Jack and the Beanstalk story “I spy 2 golden eggs and 8 magic beans”. Perhaps use bricks or pieces of pasta to represent the eggs and beans.
Religious Education
Eucharist: relating
This week we are beginning a new RE Topic – Eucharist: relating. Please see our Foundation Stage RE blog for details. Here is the link:
Today we will explore how and why people gather together.
Talk to your child about activities that are better done together eg. playing a game. Why is it more fun together?
Talk to your child about things we can do alone. How does it feel to be alone?
Of course, being on your own can be something we prefer. For example, praying is a very special time we may do alone. However, the idea of this discussion is to help your child understand the collaborative nature of this topic. Draw your child’s attention to times when the parish family gather together in church eg. wedding, baptism, Christmas and Easter celebrations.
Scribe your child’s ideas.
- Make a chart of ‘All that we do together’ as a family at home.
- Make a chart of ‘All that we do together’ as a parish family in church.
Have a great day.
Nicola Palmer