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Another great day of learning yesterday – you are keeping busy. I posted lots more pictures from home yesterday – i’m sorry I can’t post them all as there are so many fantastic things you have been up to but I am trying to vary the selection. I am also working on putting some videos together… watch this space!

So we officially finish for the Easter holidays today which seems very strange in these circumstances. I am not setting any new challenges today but want to give you some activities that you may like to do over the holidays.

Please continue to practice phonics, literacy – reading, telling stories, writing and pencil control, maths – counting, number, ordering, addding/subtracting, problem solving (lots of ideas/resources/links on the blog to look back over). Also things like learning new life skills at home like zipping up your own coat, getting dressed independently and helping to set the table and prepare tea.

Below are just a few Easter activity ideas:

Remember to check the Twinkl home learning hub – gives you a daily timetable of activities should you wish to keep some structure throughout the holidays. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home-learning-hub

I will throughout today keep posting some more Easter ideas so please check back later this afternoon.

Purple Mash – Lots of you have now been given your Purple Mash logins, there are so many fantastic activities on there. Have a play with it and see what activities you enjoy. I have set a 2Do of designing an Easter egg – I look forward to seeing the finished eggs.

Observations on 2 Build a Profile

We have received so many fantastic observations so far. It is lovely to see what the children are keeping busy with at home. 2Build have had an influx of home observations across the country with the closure of schools. What I would suggest is only send pictures/observations on 2Build if it is something new your child has learnt and can now do independently or something that has WOW’d you with links they have made or something they have said. For example – can now write their name on their own with no help, can now zip up their coat on their own or get dressed independently, made an observation of something in the environment, used new vocabulary and made links, new learning they have achieved on their own – counting, adding etc. I hope this helps. Please email if you have any questions.

Therefore please feel free to email any pictures of what your child is busy with over the holidays if you wish. You could perhaps do it at the end of the week as a pic collage. I may not be on email or the blog as much over the holidays but will be officially signing back on Monday 20th April. I will put a selection of photographs from home on the blog towards the end of the holidays. Please also feel free to email me for more activities or challenges – I am more than happy to email anything over if you wish to print more (I just might not pick this up straight away). fsbrandesburton@gmail.com

It’s been a tricky and unknown time for us all and you have all been amazing, both Mrs Brompton and myself are very proud of you all! I hope you manage to enjoy the ‘Easter holidays’ as much as you can, have fun but please stay safe and stay home. X

The blog and our school email is the way as a school we are communicating with parents and providing activities and challenges. Please spread the word to other FS families if they are not aware of the school blog and the activities and challenges. Thank you to everyone that has sent pictures on 2Build a Profile or emailed so far. There has been so many lovely pictures and positive comments about the activities and challenges on the blog. You are all doing amazing – keep going guys.

Well done to those that completed activities and challenges from yesterday’s blog post. There was some fantastic hero posters I will be posting them on the blog after this.

Today we are going to have a ‘finishing off Friday’ even though its only Thursday ? as tomorrow I will be posting lots of activities and challenges for over the Easter holidays.

Please take time today to look back over the FS blog posts and make sure you have checked and are up to date. I have posted lots of activities and challenges over the last 2 weeks. If you scroll back and press previous at the bottom you can go back to my first home learning post on 19th March that starts with some great reading links.

Lots to choose from to keep you busy today – shadow mark making, alphabet scavenger hunts, something from the 28 days of activities – take photos, design and fairy or superhero house, set up a tent or den in the house or go on a minibeast hunt.

Please also spend some time looking at the Literacy, Phonics and Maths challenges over the last 2 weeks.

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Literacy – Have you been practicing your name? If not why not try it with water and a paintbrush outside or with shaving foam or salt in a tray. You could ask an adult to write the letters from your name on stones that you find then put your name in the correct order. Have a look at the phase 2 phonics mat on a previous post – how many sounds do you recognise? You could play eye spy with a family member or have a go copying/writing some CVC words with the sounds – cat, pat, tin, mat. Please choose the challenge that suits your child.

Reading and stories – Please continue to share and read stories and listen/watch stories online.

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/

http://www.magickeys.com/books/

https://www.freechildrenstories.com/

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

https://www.storylineonline.net/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChGhrWoaJY2Ee0IzuDpLEUQ

Maths – Keep practicing counting, number recognising and ordering to 10 – extend to 20 as a challenge, singing number songs and have a go at writing numbers – with paint, outside or in the air. Did you go on a number hunt around your house or on your daily walk? Remember to take some photographs to send to me.

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Literacy/Phonics – So far you should be constantly recapping phase 2 and phase 3 sounds – we are up to ‘air’. Please take time today to practice all the sounds – we will be doing the last 2 sounds after the holidays and I will set some challenges for them then. Today you could spend some time on the tricky words. The children love the two tricky word songs we use at school so it would be nice to watch those. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY

If you haven’t completed the challenge activity from 24th March (making and writing a card/letter to a family member or friend that you are missing, you could have a go today and practice your sentence writing. Think about your phonics – use the phonics mats if you need and don’t forget capital letters and finger spaces. I would love to see your finished cards/letters – don’t forget to take a picture to show me.

Reading – Ideally your child should be reading 3 times a week. My first blog post on 19th March listed lots of good online and ebook links. On twinkl there are lots of EYFS reading comprehension activities to have a go at if you are able to print – I have added one below. Please spend some time today on reading – this could be spotting words on food in the kitchen cupboards or reading sentences that an adult has written for them.

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/

http://www.magickeys.com/books/

https://www.freechildrenstories.com/

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

https://www.storylineonline.net/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChGhrWoaJY2Ee0IzuDpLEUQ

Maths – Number work practice to 20 then extend as appropriate for your child. Keep working on counting, ordering, more/less, adding, subtracting, doubling, halving/sharing – this can be done practically with objects at home or written down number sentences. Some great halving work has already been completed by lots of you. Keep working on that number writing too.

Purple Mash

Purple Mash is a comprehensive suite of online learning tools and content. We use Purple Mash in the classroom and many of the children really enjoy completing activities on it independently. There are hundreds of activities, paint projects and more for your child to explore. I have been setting all the FS children up with logins. Please email me fsbrandesburton@gmail.com and I will give you your child’s login details.

Please remember it’s not about ‘teaching’ your children it’s most importantly about providing ‘fun’ learning at home and a safe place. Everything on the blogs are just ideas and activities to help you along the way and to keep the children busy with some kind of routine. Have a fun and lovely day – I look forward to seeing your pictures later.

Good morning, again I want to start with a thank you to everyone that has been completing challenges from the blog.

Why not start today with some wake up yoga to get you ready for the day ahead. https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

There are lots of people who help us especially through these tricky times. Today we are going to think about some of these people.

Today’s challenge – Can you create your own Heroes poster? You could draw your own or have a go at colouring the one below if you can print it.

Literacy challenge –

FS1 – Can you write your name on your poster and tell a grown up some of the special things they do? You could ask the adult to video your answers or get the adult to write them down for you.

FS2 – Can you label and write a sentence to go with your poster using your phonics? Remember capital letters and finger spaces. You could film yourself telling me some of the special things the heroes do.

Maths challenge – Below are some people who help us counting activities. If you are not able to print you could count on the screen and write your answers down. Please choose the challenge suitable for your child.

I would love to see your finished posters and Maths challenges either by email fsbrandesburton@gmail.com or upload them to 2Build a Profile.

2Build a Profile

If you’re not sure how to upload a photograph or video – please email me fsbrandesburton@gmail.com and I will talk you through the few simple steps. It is easy and takes just a few minutes to send pictures and videos straight from your mobile phone or iPad.

When you send pictures please try to add a comment of what your child has done – this only needs to be short – 1 or 2 lines. If you have more than 1 picture of your child doing the same activity it would be great if you could collage the pictures together, this is easily done with the Pic Collage app. Again I can talk you through this if needed. A single photo is great too.

Time for a song – watch the video below, can you spot the rhyming words?

Well done everyone that completed some challenges and activities from yesterday’s blog post and thank you for the fantastic pictures and observations on 2Build a Profile and email.

If you haven’t done the alphabet scavenger hunt from yesterday why not have a go today. See how many different objects you can find around your house beginning with the letters of the alphabet.

Today’s Literacy challenge:

FS1 – Can you complete the alphabet scavenger hunt? Can you copy any letters from the alphabet?

FS2 – Well done those of you that looked at the ‘air’ trigraph. Can you write some silly sentences today using this new sound. Maybe make a list of as many ‘air’ words as you can think of first. Ask an adult to support and check spellings if you need. Chair, fair, pair etc. If you haven’t yet looked at this sound take a look at the phonics video, it also has lots of ‘air’ words if you need some ideas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=uZHKK9jnfFQ

Today’s Maths challenge:

FS1 – This week’s challenges are counting, recognising and ordering numbers to 10. Can you challenge yourself past 10?

FS2 – Well done to everyone that completed the halving challenges from yesterday. If you haven’t yet have a go today. Extra challenge for those that have – Can you solve these word problems? Can you write it down? E.g Half of 6 is ..

Reading – Oxford Owl have free ebooks you can access and read online, all you need to do is join as a parent – https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ If you have a school reading book at home you can look at the colour book band (coloured sticky label on spine) to see what level would be appropriate for your child or email me if you’re not sure. fsbrandesburton@gmail.com

I hope you all managed to have a nice weekend and found things to keep busy with. Have you been doing Joe Wickes live on You Tube every day at 9am? If not it’s a great start to the day and certainly wakes you up. I have been joining in as much as possible.

A huge thank you for all the fantastic pictures you have emailed and pictures and videos sent in on 2build a profile so far, it is lovely to see what you are busy with at home. Keep them coming – they certainly brighten up my day.

The weather doesn’t look so great this week and is definitely colder. Start collecting some junk modelling – cereal boxes, yoghurt pots, egg boxes etc as I will be setting some Easter craft making challenges later in the week. It’s a wet start today so a day to do some inside activities.

Todays challenge for Literacy is:

Can you do an alphabet scavenger hunt around your house? You could write the alphabet letters on scraps of paper. FS2 you could also write as many words as you can beginning with that sound.

FS2 Phonics – Please keep recapping all phase 2 and phase 3 sounds. There were just 3 sounds left of phase 3 that I hadn’t taught yet – ‘air’ as in ch-air chair, ‘ure’ as in m-a-n-ure manure and ‘er’ as in r-u-bb-er rubber. Please spend time with the children looking at these sounds – there are lots of activities on Twinkl home learning phase 3 and also some great phonics sound videos on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNcBWSBxSp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU2vWZKS7rY

This week’s Maths challenges:

FS1 – Lots of counting, matching number and quantity activities. This link has great counting and number matching activities. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/ladybird-spots Can you count how many tins are in one of the cupboards in the kitchen? Can you get someone in your house to write numbers 1-10 and can you find the correct number of objects? You could print these number cards if you have a printer at home. Can you challenge yourself past 10?

FS2 Halving challenges: