Core daily activities are listed below. These mirror what we will be teaching in school each day. If your child does some days in school, you only need to do the activities for the days they are at home please.

At the bottom of the page you will also find additional activities you may wish to do with your child over the week - these are not core activities but suggested activities.

Note to parents this week: On Thursday we will be making junk modelling rockets. It may be worth keeping empty boxes, tubes, bottle lids etc for this activity.

Monday 25th January

Please access today's phonics lesson through Tapestry.

Group 1: Today we are learning /y/.

Group 2: Today we are learning a new digraph /ee/

For today's mathematics lesson, please use: Growing 6,7,8 week 1 session 1

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/growing-6-7-8/

Talk4Writing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Iu3tfvbmI

Watch the projection on you tube. If you really want to immerse yourself in it you could turn the lights off and watch it on the tv perhaps. If you have a space projector you could use that instead.

Talk about what you can see, where are we? What do the children already know about space, stars, the moon etc.

Tuesday 26th January

Please access today's phonics lesson through Tapestry.

Group 1: Today we are learning /z/

Group 2: Today we are learning a new trigraph /igh/

For today's mathematics lesson, please use: Growing 6,7,8 week 1 session 2

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/growing-6-7-8/

Talk4Writing: Please log into your tapestry account to enjoy our new story. For the rest of this term we will be focusing our learning around the story 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy and exploring aspects of space!

Wednesday 27th January 

Please access today's phonics lesson through Tapestry.

Group 1: Today we are learning /zz/

Group 2: Today we are learning a new digraph /oa/

For today's mathematics lesson, please use: Growing 6,7,8 week 1 session 3

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/growing-6-7-8/

Talk4Writing:

Today out will need a box and a bear (and any other props you may like to use!)

Drama: Reread the story from yesterday and see if you can act out the story with your teddy bear and box.

Thursday 28th January

Please access today's phonics lesson through Tapestry.

Group 1: Today we are learning the tricky words he/she

Group 2: Today we are learning the tricky words was/my

For today's mathematics lesson, please use: Growing 6,7,8 week 1 session 4

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/growing-6-7-8/

Talk4Writing: Talk about how Baby bear got to the moon. How do humans get to the moon? Watch episode 1 of Maddie, Space and you:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rjgg/maddie-space-and-you-series-1-1-rockets

Junk Modelling: Now we have learnt about rockets and how to get to space, today we are going to design and make our own. Use a selection of junk modelling for children to make their own rockets. Have a selection of junk modelling (boxes, tubes, bottle tops) for the children to make their own rockets or vehicles. Allow children to design and create their own rocket.

Friday 29th January

Please access today's phonics lesson through Tapestry.

Group 1: Today we are learning to spell the tricky words the/to

Group 2: Today we will be consolidating ee/igh/oa

For today's mathematics lesson, please use: Growing 6,7,8 week 1 session 5

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/growing-6-7-8/

Additional Activity for today: The RSPB big bird watch is this weekend. We though the children might enjoy joining in over the weekend. You can sign up following the link below:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/?sourcecode=BWMITH0230&channel=paidsearch&gclid=CjwKCAiAu8SABhAxEiwAsodSZFeNNLsmyXXprsVWlDo-GwGg1-mG4fFrUrCv6BnUWoCBU4-DVWBYshoCzzsQAvD_BwE

Today you could make a bird feeder to hang in your garden to help attract the birds. Here are some ideas of ways you can make your own at home:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/games-and-activities/activities/make-a-recycled-bird-feeder/

https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/games-and-activities/activities/produce-a-pine-cone-feeder/

Additional Activities

This week in mathematics we have explored the numbers 6,7,8

Numberblocks episodes relevant to this week's maths: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08pgksd/numberblocks-series-2-six

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08pgqt4/numberblocks-series-2-seven

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08pgvmb/numberblocks-series-2-eight

Alphablocks episodes relevant to this week's phonics:

Group 1: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08731hq/alphablocks-magic-words-25-meet-alphablock-y

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08731lc/alphablocks-magic-words-26-meet-alphablock-z

Physical Development

Please follow the links to yoga and Joe Wicks to keep your child physically active!! Alternatively get wrapped up and enjoy a nice brisk walk around your local area, looking at the seasonal changes that are happening around you. 

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

Joe wicks is back Live on live Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9am on his YouTube channel keeping your children active!!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Space Activities

Cbeebies are currently running lots of space programs and activities. Here are some suggestions of things your child might like to watch.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rjgl/cbeebies-stargazing-space-explorers-1-the-grand-tour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rjgg/maddie-space-and-you-series-1-1-rockets