Mrs Solakova

Reception Home Learning – 01.05.20

Good morning Reception class,

Here are my ideas for today.

Communication and Language/Literacy

Tell a funny story – pass the story

I thought this game may provide an opportunity for your child to use all the imaginative skills we have been learning recently. You can either use the Jack and the Beanstalk story for the underlying plot or make up an alternative story. This is a fun game to play together – it works for just two people or the whole family.

What You Need:

A soft, large ball. Inflatable beach balls are ideal. Or you just use a soft toy or cushion etc.

How to Play:

The person with the ball starts by speaking those magical words, “Once upon a time…”. The first person will then roll the ball to the next person who continues the story. After the next person has added one sentence or a few sentences, he/she rolls the ball to the next person. A cliff-hanger for the next person who catches the ball would add to the fun – I expect you will probably have to provide these. Continue taking turns as the story evolves and until you’re ready to finish the story with an ending.

Letters and Sounds

Fee, fi, fo, fum (fee, figh, foa, fum)

This game plays on alliteration and will also help your child develop their ability to read nonsense words (letter sequences that follow regular phonetic rules and are pronounceable, but have no meaning). This is an important skill and supports your child’s use of phonics.

What to do:

Show your child how ‘fee, figh, foa, fum’ can be written based on the sounds they know eg. ‘ee’, ‘igh’ ‘oa’.
Introduce a different letter at the beginning eg. see, sigh, soa, sum.
Play this game verbally first, taking turns to change the first letter at the front of the words. I normally find using a ‘b’ brings about much hilarity. You will see what I mean.
Challenge your child to choose a letter and write The Giant’s phrase eg. if your child chooses a ‘t’ then ask your child to write ‘tee, tigh, toa, tum’.

Adding a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) as the first letter will not work so avoid these.

This game will also really help your child consolidate their knowledge of ‘ee’, ‘igh’ ‘oa’.

Maths

Jellybean graph

You will need to buy some jellybeans on your next shopping trip for this game. Before the jellybeans are gobbled up show your child how a graph could be made – see picture below.

Religious Education

Blessings for those we love

What to do:

Provide pictures of individual people – perhaps family members or friends.
If you don’t have any pictures to hand, provide a people template for drawing/colouring. Or your child could just draw a picture of a friend or family member.
Ask your child to hold the picture or drawing in their hand.
Ask your child to quietly think of the person and picture the person in their mind.
Ask your child to say ‘God to bless …….’.
Perhaps write a message: God bless….. God look after …..
Stick the picture on your wall or fridge.

I’d also like to recommend the Sunday Liturgy for Families created by Ten Ten Resources in response to church and school closures.

https://www.tentenresources.co.uk/sunday-liturgy-for-families

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Nicola Palmer

Design Technology

Year 6 – Pop up book
EYFS – Cooking

At St Adrian’s Primary School, we aim to use the teaching of Design and Technology to offer opportunities for the pupils to utilise their imagination and creativity to design and make products that have a real and relevant purpose. Through our curriculum, the pupils are able to make links to designs and designers throughout history, adding historical context and depth to their designs. We also aim to provide opportunities for pupils to critique, test and evaluate their designs and products and the work of others. Where possible, we aim to use cross-curricular links to add more depth and applicability to the products being made.

Key documents

St-Adrian’s-long-term-plan-for-Design-Technology

Progression in Design Technology skills at St Adrian’s

National Curriculum for DT

Topics at a glance

Year 1	Mechanisms – Moving Story Book	Structures -Windmills	Textiles -Puppets	Nutrition: smoothies
Year 2	Structures – Chair for a Bear	Textiles – Pouches	Mechanisms – Making a Moving Monster	Cooking and Nutrition – A balanced diet
Year 3	Structures -Constructing a Castle	Electrical systems – Static Electricity	Mechanisms – Pneumatic Toys	Textiles – Cushions	Food – Eating Seasonally
Year 4	Electrical systems – Create a torch	Mechanisms – Making a Sling Shot Car	Textiles – fastenings	Structure – Pavilions	Food – Adapting a recipe
Year 5	Mechanisms – Pop-Up books	Electrical systems – Greeting Cards	Structure – Bridges	Textiles – Stuffed Toys	Food – What Could be Healthier?
Year 6	Electrical systems – Steady hand game	Textiles – Waistcoats	Structure – Playground	Mechanisms – Automatic Toys	Food – Come Dine With Me

Art

Year 1 – Van Gogh, Self portraits
Year 2 – Angie Lewin, Plants and Growing
Year 3 – Georgia O’Keeffe, Mother Nature
EYFS – Exploring colors and techniques
Year 6 – Botanical Art

At St Adrian’s Primary School, we recognise the importance of Art and Design within our curriculum as it permits curiosity, creativity and self–expression to develop alongside resilience and confidence. We prioritise the development and progression of artistic skills, using the topics as a vehicle in which the children can gain confidence mastering each skill. In each year as the children move through the school, there is a clear progression of these skills, which build on prior learning.

Within our skill-based curriculum, the children are encouraged to become critical thinkers through making observations, and discussing ideas and plans for their own work. They have the opportunity to invent, create and express themselves using different mediums whilst also exploring artistic styles and taking inspiration from a wide range of art and artists, including those from different periods and cultures. Each pupil keeps their own sketchbook which is used as a space for the children to explore and develop their ideas through sketching as well as evaluating finished ideas.

Key documents

St-Adrian’s-long-term-plan-for-Art-and-Design

Progression-in-Art-skills-at-St-Adrian’s

National Curriculum for Art

Topics at a glance

The Courtauld to stage the first exhibition devoted to Van Gogh's Self- Portraits across his career | The Courtauld

Leaf and Bark Rubbing - Tree House Learning

Nursery – Do not cross, crime scene

This week in nursery we talked about People who help us. We explored different occupations like fire fighter, police man, doctor, nurse. After a short discussion the children voted and now they have lots of fun in our new role play area – Police station.

They looked for clues in and outside using magnifier glasses and wearing special clothes and helmets.

We also talked about a special number 999.

Inside the Police station the children were busy answering the phone, filling report forms, making their own badges.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Solakova

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Year 1	Self portraits	The dark, dark wood	Amazing natural sculptures
Year 2	Colour study Wassily Kandinski	Design a hat Philip Treacy	Plants and growing Angie Lewin
Year 3	Mother nature Georgia O’Keeffe	Pop art	Death masks
Year 4	Greek Pottery	Victorians – William Morris	Henry Rousseaus -Landscapes
Year 5	Viking patterns	Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Fruit portrait	Little Dancer – Edgar Degas
Year 6	Botanical art	Human – fine art Michelangelo	Cubism