Author: Mrs Farmer

Avatar photo
3 years ago
Posted on by

Hedgehog Home Learning 13.01.2021

Good Morning Hedgehogs!

It was so lovely to see more of you yesterday on our live chats. I hope that I’ll get to see some more faces today as well! Here’s your suggested timetable for the day:

Hedgehog-Class-Timetable-13.01.2021

English

Think of the three characters in the story “Let’s All Creep Through Crocodile Creek”. Make up your own character that might want to cross Crocodile Creek. What is their name? Where are they going? How will they get there? Year 1, you should write a series of sentences to tell me about your character. Reception, you can write some labels and a short sentence to tell me about your character.

Maths

Yellow, Orange & Green Groups

Use everything that you have learnt so far this week to answer the questions on the worksheet. Some of them are tricky but do your best! Please photograph the work that you have done and upload it to either the relevant file on TEAMS or to Tapestry if you are not sure how to do this yet.

Maths 13.01.2021 Yellow, Orange & Green Group

Purple Group

Use everything that you have learnt so far this week to complete the addition to 20 worksheets. You can choose your own level of difficulty.

Maths 13.01.2021 Purple Group

Red Group

Watch the video:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08bzgt8/numberblocks-series-1-two

Draw some groups of 2 things. For example, draw 2 circles, draw 2 cars, draw 2 houses and so on.

Phonics

Red Group – Log on to Reading Eggs and go on Fast Phonics. Select Peak 1 and complete levels 1, 2, 3 & 4. (s, a)

For the rest of you, we’re going to have a go at doing some small group sessions on Microsoft Teams for you today. Please do not do your phonics activities until after our online session.

Purple Group – Online at 11.00

Follow the link below, watch the video and then click on the orange arrow below to complete the activity, (w). https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm/articles/zmnbnrd

Phonics 13.01.2021 – Purple Group W

Green Group – Online at 11.15

Short “oo” sound.

Phonics 13.01.2021 – Green Group Phoneme Spotter Worksheet

Yellow & Orange Group – Online at 11.30

Alternative pronunciation of “ey”.

Phonics 13.01.2021 Yellow and Orange Group

Reading

Snuggle up and read a book with an adult. You could read to them or they could read to you. Just enjoy a story and talk about it. If you haven’t done your Reading Eggs activities from yesterday then please also complete these.

PE

Wednesday afternoons are usually our PE Lesson. Complete a Joe Wicks workout like the one in the attached link or go for a nice long walk or bike ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSi2ix1i180

Join us online at 2.30 for an end of the day catch up and story time as well.

I’m so proud of you all for the way you are adapting to our new way of learning. You are helping me out so much by listening to instructions and learning to “mute” and “unmute” yourselves when we are on Teams. What a special bunch of children you are!

See you later,

Mrs Farmer x

Avatar photo
3 years ago
Posted on by

Phonics Play

Morning All! We’ve come up against a tech problem already this morning I’m sorry. The Phonics Play link doesn’t seem to be working for the yellow and orange group. I’ve tried updating the website link but it still doesn’t seem to be working. If you search for Phonics Play Cheeky Chimps in your browser or search engine, you should be able to find it that way. Log in details are:username: jan21

password: home

Thanks,

Mrs Farmer

Avatar photo
3 years ago
Posted on by

Hedgehog Home Learning – 12.01.2021

Good Morning Hedgehogs! It was so lovely to see so many of you online for our sessions yesterday. If you didn’t make it yesterday, please do your best to join us today.

Here is today’s suggested timetable for you:

Hedgehog-Class-Timetable-12.01.2021

Phonics

Red Group – Log on to Reading Eggs and go on Fast Phonics. Select Peak 1 and complete levels 3 & 4. (a)

Purple Group – Follow the link below, watch the video and then click on the orange arrow below to complete the activity, (v).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm/articles/zmp3pg8

Roll and Read Mat – roll a dice and see if you can read all of the words that are on the line that matches the number on your dice.

Phonics – 12.01.2021 – Purple Group

Green Group – Phase 3, Week 7 –  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm/articles/zh828xs  follow the link, watch the video and click on the orange arrow below to complete the activity, (ure).

Choose one of the worksheets below to complete.

Phonics – 12.01.2021 – Green Group

Yellow and Orange Group – Phase 5, Week 14 – alternative pronunciation of “e” – be, she, me. Go on Phonics Play and play the alternative pronunciation game. Make sure that you select “e”

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/cheeky-chimps

Maths

Yellow, Orange & Green Groups

Watch the video:

https://vimeo.com/490879463

Watch the video and complete the worksheet. Please photograph the work that you have done and upload it to either the relevant file on TEAMS or to Tapestry if you are not sure how to do this yet.

Maths – 12.01.2021 – Yellow, Orange and Green Groups

Purple Group

Go through the PowerPoint and write your answers into your books.  Please photograph the work that you have done and upload it to either the relevant file on TEAMS or to Tapestry if you are not sure how to do this yet.

Maths – 12.01.2021 – Purple Group

Red Group

Watch the video:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08bzgt8/numberblocks-series-1-two

Draw some groups of 2 things. For example, draw 2 circles, draw 2 cars, draw 2 houses and so on.

RE

Whole Class Online session – Recap the story of Creation with the children on the PowerPoint. Children should use materials from home e.g. cardboard boxes, plastic bottles etc. to make something from the story e.g. a fish or a particular animal.

Then discuss the following: Was it easy to create your model? Was it alive when you had finished? Why not? Explore the idea that Christians believe that God is the giver of life, giving life to all living things

Reading

Red & Purple Group – Spend some time on Reading Eggs and work through the levels.

Yellow, Orange & Green Group – Log on to Reading Eggspress and complete the assignment that I have set for you.

Forest School

Today we would have been going to Forest School. Today instead, I would like you to take a little bit of time to look at the trees in our area. Go for walk with your adults. What do you notice about the trees? Do they all have leaves or do just some of them have leaves? Take some photos of the trees that you find so that we can look at them again in Spring and compare how they have changed. You can upload the photos to Teams or Tapestry so that we can keep them safe for you and see what you have found.

Join us at 2.30 for an optional end of the day catch up and story time on Teams.

Have a lovely day all and I look forward to seeing you on Teams later!

Mrs Farmer x

.

Avatar photo
3 years ago
Posted on by

Hedgehog Home Learning 11.01.2021

Good Morning Hedgehogs! I hope that you’ve all had a lovely weekend and that you have managed to do lots of lovely things with your families at home. This week we are going to be moving onto TEAMS for our learning which I am really excited about as it means that we can see each others faces and have a chat albeit online. Please bear with us as we all get used to this new way of learning. We will be having our first video call today at 9.25am. If you’re struggling to join us, please let us know ASAP and we’ll try and help you as quickly as we can. I’ve attached a suggested timetable below which outlines our video call times for today and how you might like to fit your learning around those.

Hedgehog Class Timetable – 11.01.2021

All of your activities are uploaded to TEAMS today under the “Monday Lessons” channel but I will put them all on here as well just in case you’re struggling to access them. Again, please let us know if you are struggling to find them on TEAMS and we’ll help you remotely.

Phonics

Red Group – Log on to Reading Eggs and go on Fast Phonics. Select Peak 1 and complete levels 1 & 2. (s)

Purple Group – You are now ready to move on to Phase 3! Follow the link below, watch the video and then click on the orange arrow below to complete the activity, (j).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm/articles/zv3cy9q

Green Group – Follow the link, watch the video and click on the orange arrow below to complete the activity, (air).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm/articles/zj39382

Yellow & Orange Group – Alternative pronunciation of “e” – be, she, me. You already know “e” as in “egg” but now you are ready to learn the other way of saying it! Sort the words into two groups depending on which sound the “e” makes.

T-L-5523-Alternative-Pronunciation-Of-E-Sorting-Game

Maths

Yellow, Orange & Green Groups – Watch the video: https://vimeo.com/490879063

Complete the questions as you go along. If you would prefer to use the PowerPoint, please use the attached file. Please photograph the work that you have done and upload it to either the relevant file on TEAMS or to Tapestry if you are not sure how to do this yet.

11.01.2021 – Spring1.2.1-Add-by-counting-on-activity

Purple Group – Go through the PowerPoint and write your answers into your books. Please photograph the work that you have done and upload it to either the relevant file on TEAMS or to Tapestry if you are not sure how to do this yet.

11.01.2021 – Purple Group Maths

Red Group – Watch the video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08bzzns/numberblocks-series-1-one

Walk around your house and find 1 of different objects. E.g. find 1 pencil, find 1 chair and so on. Ask an adult to either take a photo or video of you doing it and upload it to either Microsoft Teams or to Tapestry.

English

We’re going to start our English lesson on TEAMS today. Please join us at 11.00 to listen to the story that we are going to be using for our English work, to join in with a couple of practical activities and for me to explain your task to you. If you can’t make it to our 11.00 lesson, please use the PowerPoint to read the story. And complete the task relevant to your group.

Red Group – Talk about how the characters might be feeling or what they might say. Ask an adult to video what you have said.

Purple Group – Children choose to be one of the animals and write a word, caption or simple sentence in a speech bubble to describe how they might be feeling or to demonstrate what they might say.

Green, Yellow & Orange Group – Children write a sentence for each animal in different speech bubbles to describe how they might be feeling or to demonstrate what they might say.

English – 11.01.2021 – Speech Bubble

Please share all of your work with us by uploading a picture of it to either Microsoft Teams or to Tapestry if you’re not sure how to do this yet.

Afternoon Activities

Reception – Think of some questions that you would like to find out the answer to about Transport this term. Ask an adult to share these questions with me on Tapestry and I’ll plan some activities to help you find out what you want to know.

Year 1 – Science – In science this term, we were going to be learning all about materials including how to describe different materials scientifically, how to sort and group materials, how to test materials and what different materials are used for.

Collect some objects made from different materials from around your house (e.g. wooden clothes peg, plastic clothes peg, rubber, metal paper clip, cardboard, pebble, foil, plastic toy, piece of fabric, duster, sponge). Handle to objects and describe them. What are the objects made from? You could either talk about this or draw the object and label it with what material it is made from.

Go on a materials hunt around your house and record what you have found using the sheet attached. If you are unable to print at home, you can write your own headings and make a list of what you found under the relevant one.

t-tp-427-different-materials-hunting-activity-sheet_ver_1

2.30 – You are more than welcome to join us at 2.30 on TEAMS for an end of the day catch up, for the children to have the opportunity to share anything that they have done with us and for me to read them a story to end the day if you would like to.

Make sure that you take as many breaks as you need to throughout the day. This is a strange and potentially difficult time for us all and you need to look after yourselves. If you need any help with anything, please let us know and we’ll do whatever we can to help you. You can contact us via the school office, email address or via the “Ask for Help” channel on TEAMS.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Mrs Farmer

Avatar photo
3 years ago
Posted on by

Hedgehog Class Home Learning 06.01.2021

Good Morning Hedgehogs!

I hope that you all had a good day yesterday. It was lovely to have the chance to chat to some of you on the phone! Here’s today’s learning. There was some lovely work put on Tapestry yesterday so I’m really looking forward to seeing what you’ve been up to today.

Phonics

Purple Group – Your sound today is “ss” (Phase 2). Watch the video below and then play the game on Phonics Play.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2yf4j/articles/zkbk92p

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure

Green Group – Your sound today is “oi” (Phase 3). Watch the video below and then click on the orange arrow below the video for your activity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm/articles/zfj6jhv

Yellow and Orange Group – Your sound today is the alternative pronunciation of “ou” (Phase 5). You already know it as in cloud and yesterday you learnt it as in soup but now you need to learn it as in should! (Isn’t the English language tricky!) Work your way through the words in the PowerPoint and see if you can read them.

Phase-5_alt-pron_ou_DB2014 06.01.2021

English

To carry on the theme of transport and journeys, today I’d like you to find a picture of a place that you would like to visit. It can be anywhere in the world! Reception, you should then write a caption for your picture using your best sounding out. Year 1, you should write a few sentences about the destination that you have chosen. Please feel free to choose more than one picture if you want to practise a bit more!

Maths

Reception, have a go at this interactive activity and then see if you can answer some of the calculations in the second link. If you want to save printing, you could copy the calculations into your workbooks and write the answers straight in there.

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/free-eyfs-practical-addition-iwb-activity/

EYFS-Mathematics-Numbers-Adding-using-Objects-Learning-Activity

Year 1, please go through the PowerPoint below. When you have done that, have a go at the worksheets. As yesterday, there are 3 different levels of challenge. Choose which one you think suits where you are currently working at – make sure that you are challenging yourself!

Year1-PRESENTATION-Addition-06.01.2021

Year1-WORKSHEETS-Adding-by-counting-on-2

PE

This afternoon would have been our PE lesson so it’s time to get active! Why don’t you have a go at this PE with Joe session…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX05HHni9Wk

PSHE

In PSHE this term we would have been learning all about relationships. Today, ask your adult at home to spend a few minutes with you to talk about and answer the following questions:

  • How do we feel today?
  • How do we show/tell people how we are feeling?
  • How do others show their feelings?
  • How can we help if someone is feeling unhappy?

This is probably one of your most important tasks today. It’s really important that we all have an opportunity to talk about how we are feeling, particularly in these strange times! There is no physical work to do for this, please just spend some time talking.

Reading

Just a very quick reminder to keep practising your reading too! There are lots of free age appropriate eBooks that you can read at https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

I can see that some of you have also been busy on reading eggs recently as well. Don’t forget to log in and make the most of this resource! Reception, you are all now set up on this and I have put the relevant information on Tapestry for you. If this is your first time on Reading Eggs, please log in and click on “My Lessons”. When the next screen loads, please complete the Placement Test. This will assess where you are currently working at and it will start you off on the right level for your current ability. It’s really important that the children don’t get any help reading with the placement test. If they do get help with it, the programme will start your child off on a level that will be too difficult for them. If you need any help with this or are unsure, please contact us at school or via Tapestry and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a lovely day all! That’s it from me this week but I’m really looking forward to catching up with you on Microsoft Teams next week. As always, if you have any questions or need to get in touch, please email me via the admin email address.

Mrs Farmer

Avatar photo
3 years ago
Posted on by

Hedgehog Class Home Learning 05.01.2021

Good Morning Hedgehogs!

Happy New Year to you all! I hope that you all had a really lovely Christmas and enjoyed some special time with your family. I can’t wait to hear all about it! This isn’t how I envisaged our first day back together. I was really looking forward to being back in the classroom with you all but we’ve got lots of things planned and we’re hoping to be able to do lots of face to face teaching online with you. Please bear with us while we plan and put into action our next steps. Please find your learning for today below.

Phonics

Purple Group – Your sound today is “ll” (Phase 2). Watch the video below and then complete the game on Phonics Play.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2yf4j/articles/z4v4cqt

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure

Green Group – Your sound today is “ow” (Phase 3). Watch the video below and then click on the orange arrow below the video for your activity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm/articles/z64j47h

Yellow and Orange Group – Your sound today is the alternative pronunciation of “ou” (Phase 5). You already know it as in cloud but now you can learn it as in soup! (Isn’t the English language tricky!) Work your way through the words in the PowerPoint and see if you can read them.

Phase-5_alt-pron_ou_DB2014

English

Today we were going to think about a journey that you regularly make. It could be the journey from your house to school, from your house to the shop or from school to your swimming lesson. I’d like you to draw a “path” of your chosen journey. Reception, you should then either label your “path” or write a caption for it. Year 1, I’d like you to write a few sentences about your “path”. Really show off everything that you have already learnt in school! I’m looking forward to reading your writing! If you share it on Tapestry, I’ll be able to see what you’ve done.

Maths

Today we were going to recapping the work that you did on addition last term. Please have a look at the PowerPoint and then complete an activity of your choice. There are 3 different levels. If you are super confident at doing this then have a go at the sheet on page 3. If you think you are comfortable at doing this then have a go at the sheet on page 2 and if you think that you need a little more practise at this then have a go at page 1. Your adults at home can find the answers on the last few pages.

Addition Presentation 05.01.2021

WORKSHEETS-Adding-by-counting-on-1

RE

Our topic for RE this term is “Why is the word God important to Christians?”

Christians learn about God from the Bible at church and at home. No one has ever seen God, but Christians believe he is behind all there is in the world; he is the Creator and giver of life. Christians believe his ways and thoughts are infinitely greater than ours.

Read through and discuss the story of Creation with an adult at home. We will talk about it more when we can speak virtually.

Story of Creation PowerPoint

 

It would also be great if you could spend a little bit of time outside today. Wrap up warm and play in your garden or ask an adult to take you for a walk. Have a lovely day and I hope to be able to speak to you all very soon!

Mrs Farmer

Avatar photo
3 years ago
Posted on by

Hedgehog Class Spring Newsletter

Hello Hedgehogs!

I hope that you are all as excited to come back to school tomorrow as I am! I can’t wait to get back to it and spend some time with you all and get to know our new Reception children.

Mrs Johnson and I have put together our newsletter for the term and we’ve also included our topic overview so that you know what we’ll be learning about this term.

See you in the morning,

Mrs Farmer

Hedgehogs Newsletter Spring 2021

Hedgehogs Spring 2021 Overview of activities

Avatar photo
4 years ago
Posted on by

Hedgehogs Home Learning Tasks 01.04.2020

Morning Hedgehogs!

We’ve made it to a new month! Let’s hope that we don’t have too many April showers and we get lots of sunshine instead!

Here are today’s suggested home learning tasks…

Handwriting

Reception – Please choose 2 ladder letters to practise…

Screen Shot 2020-03-29 at 22.03.23

Year  1 – Please practise writing the following words… poor, because, find, kind, mind

Remember to use joined up handwriting if that is what you usually do!

Phonics

Today I’d like everyone to play some of the games on www.phonicsplay.co.uk

This is a website that we regularly use in school with the children and they have currently got free access for parents at home. Please make sure that your child chooses the appropriate level for their learning.

Reading

Everyone has reading activities set up on Reading Eggs. If you are in Year 1 remember that you will need to click on Reading Eggspress to access your comprehension work.

Maths

 

Today I’d like everyone to spend some time on NumberGym to keep their mental maths skills ticking over. Start on level 1 (or wherever you last got to) on bond builder and see how many levels you can achieve lightening fast on!

English

To keep your writing skills sharp I’d like you to write a diary of what you have been doing again today please.

Exercise

The forecast isn’t quite as warm and sunny this week as it was last week but that doesn’t stop you from getting outside for some fresh air! Go for a walk with your household or spend some time on your bikes/scooters. If you aren’t going outside today there are some fantastic free online videos to help you get some exercise. Joe Wicks has been doing some great PE lessons for you to join in with at home!

Remember that we’ve also got our project grid for you to chose some activities from if you wish.

Screen Shot 2020-03-23 at 18.05.44

Please carry on keeping us updated with what you have been doing either through Tapestry or by emailing admin.

Have a fantastic day and enjoy the rest of your week!

Mrs Farmer

Avatar photo
4 years ago
Posted on by

Hedgehogs Home Learning Tasks 31.03.2020

Morning Hedgehogs!

I hope that you all had a good day yesterday and have been finding ways to keep yourselves occupied. Henri is certainly keeping me busy!

Here are today’s suggested home learning tasks…

Handwriting

Reception – Please choose 2 ladder letters to practise…

Screen Shot 2020-03-29 at 22.03.23

Year  – Please practise writing the following words… full, house, our, door, floor

Remember to use joined up handwriting if that is what you usually do!

Phonics

Everyone’s phonics activities for today are set up on Education City.

Reading

Everyone has reading activities set up on Reading Eggs. If you are in Year 1 remember that you will need to click on Reading Eggspress to access your comprehension work.

Maths

Reception – Show how you can share your toys into different groups e.g. 4 groups of 3 cars.

Year 1 – Your activities for today are set up on MyMaths.

English

To keep your writing skills sharp I’d like you to write a diary of what you have been doing again today please.

 

Exercise

The forecast isn’t quite as warm and sunny this week as it was last week but that doesn’t stop you from getting outside for some fresh air! Go for a walk with your household or spend some time on your bikes/scooters. If you aren’t going outside today there are some fantastic free online videos to help you get some exercise. Joe Wicks has been doing some great PE lessons for you to join in with at home!

Remember that we’ve also got our project grid for you to chose some activities from if you wish.

Screen Shot 2020-03-23 at 18.05.44

Please carry on keeping us updated with what you have been doing either through Tapestry or by emailing admin. I had a great time yesterday catching up with what you had been busy doing!

Enjoy your day,

Mrs Farmer