We are so pleased to all be back together again as team Grayling Foundation! We are so proud at how well the children have settled back into our routines and been such kind caring friends to each other. We have worked hard together for our phonics and maths learning and even listened brilliant to a whole school virtual assembly! Well done everyone 😊
We have come to the end of our half term and ended it with alien parties at home and in school! Well done to everyone for all your hard work. We hope you have had lots of fun learning about space, shapes and much more! Enjoy having some fun and a rest over half term and we shall see you soon!
Miss Baker and Mrs Jackson X
This week has involved lots of 3D rocket making using materials, big and small! Amazing efforts from everyone! I have been so impressed with your shape learning, poem reciting, imaginations and creativity! Well done!!
This week we started our Space topic with a crash landing in the playground!! We hope you have all enjoyed the videos and being reporters!
Well done to all children in school and at home for your brilliant work including incident reports, moonscapes, 2D rockets, construction models and role play!
This week everyone has been so busy! We have made some lovely hedgehog creations at home and school as well as some brilliant mitten writing, subtractions and phonics revision. Well done everybody! Have a lovely weekend and see you next week for our new topic… SPACE!
Grayling have worked so hard this week with their subtraction learning at home and in school. Wow you are all maths super stars!
Thank you to those who joined us for story time today! It was so lovely to see your faces! If you couldn’t hear me or there were any other issues then please let me know on the Foundation email and I’ll try to resolve these by Monday.
Have a lovely weekend everybody 🙂
From Monday we will be using a Foundation year group blog for you to access all of your child’s remote learning provision.
The Grayling blog will still be here but we will only post here on a Friday to celebrate the children’s work. Continue to check here to see what the children have been doing at home and school every Friday.
The Foundation year group blog will provide you with homemade videos filmed by your favourite Foundation teachers teaching you just as they would in school. You’ll find a daily phonics session, Maths and Literacy videos, links and games.
There will be a specific page on the year group blog where you’ll be able to find Google Meet links to meet with your teacher virtually everyday too. We will be meeting you for story time every day and we will meet with small groups of children over the course of the week. Please wait for more information to follow about our virtual meetings.
Below is this week’s learning all about winter 🙂 To those of you at home, well done for already uploading work to Eexat! We miss you all lots!
Have a lovely weekend x
Phonics
Let’s start with an alphabet song…
Friday is always a revision day. Open up your phoneme book and see if you can remember the new digraphs learnt this week (short oo, long oo, ar and ur).
Check you have a word and picture on each page or spend some time today catching up.
Test your family by playing eye spy with these pictures (curl, card, star, moon, woods)
Have a go at reading the question below. What makes this sentence a question?
Literacy
Have a go at using these sentence starters to complete the sentences. You might want to start with a different sentence starter that your adult can help you with. Use your sounds to segment words you’d like to write for example, Winter is… c – o – l – d. Winter is wearing… h – a – t – s. Winter is feeling… s – n – u – g.
Winter is… f – r – o – s – t – y.
Maths
In this session we are going to be thinking about our number formation so grab a pen/pencil and some paper and watch the following song! Make sure that you try to form your numbers the way that it shows you in the song!
Next week we will be starting to look at subtraction so over the weekend we would like you to remind yourself of these symbols … – + =
Have a chat with your grown up and talk about what they mean and when you might use them!
Have a lovely weekend!
Phonics
Sing along with this alphabet song.
Today’s new digraph is ‘ur’ for fur. When you say ‘ur’, turn your hands around each other like when you sing ‘wheels on the bus’. Watch this video to show you some more ur words to read.
Look at the picture below from the video. See if you can write your own sentence to match using the new digraph and a tricky bug.
Eg –
I can surf.
The cool dog can surf.
My dog is good at surfing.
Literacy
Have a look at these winter pictures. Describe what you see using as many different describing words as you can. Have a look out of your window or go for a walk and see if you can find any signs of winter. Use one of the pictures above to write some labels or descriptive words like in the example below.
Maths
Warm your number brains up with this song.
Let’s focus a little more on counting and recognising numbers today by playing this game!
Phonics
Listen to this tricky word song to see how many you can remember…
Have a look at the pictures below. Use your robot arms to say them and see if you can guess what our new digraph is for today.
When you say ‘ar’ you open your mouth like you are at the dentist and say ‘aaarrrrr!’ Listen to this fun ‘ar’ pirate song…
Choose your favourite ‘ar’ words to write in your phoneme book and draw/stick a picture in to match.
Literacy
For today’s task you’ll need an A4 piece of paper. Fold it in half and then in half again so that you have 4 equal sections. Use each section to represent each of the 4 seasons as seen in the examples below. Discuss what you might be wearing in each season, what you might see on the trees or how it would feel. Label each section with the season you are depicting.
Here’s another season’s song for you to listen to today.
Maths
Have a go at counting all the way to 100!
Yesterday you had a go at subitising, you could try this again today with a small selection of objects around the home and then watch these songs. See how many you get right! Feel free to pause it if you need a little more time!