Reception home learning Wednesday 27th January
Good morning,
Well done and thank you to everyone who sent in facts about William Shakepeare. I have now put these all in our book and we will start our day by reading them all out to you. The children are doing the same thing at school so I wonder what their book looks like?
Did you like the book? It contains facts so it is an information book and not a story book. Did you see that I have left some gaps in it? That’s because our book needs some illustrations – that is pictures so later on today Mrs Whitestone is going to demonstrate how to draw a picture of William Shakespeare to add to the book. It’s very exciting to be authors and illustrators!
First things first, like at school let’s do out fantastic phonics!
Group A
Group B
Group C sorry this is in 2 videos but one follows on from the other!
Reading
Please revisit the books on the Oxford Owl website – link is here
Literacy
For literacy I am going to dictate some sentences and then ask the children to write a sentence of their own that relates to the first sentence. The sentences will get progressively harder so please stop when your child cannot write them independently. As a rough guide, all the children should be able to do the first sentence, children who are doing phonics groups B and A should be able to do the second and phonics group A should be able to do the final one as well.
Maths
Starter – Choose the third activity of combining 2 groups
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/growing-6-7-8-week-2/
Main activity
We have tried to avoid links to sites where they have to be on the screen too much but this game is really good at getting the children to count on from 10. It’s all explained in the video for you. However, if you prefer and active activity then you could just do it with items instead.
Expressive Art and Design
Our information book is looking great but we need some illustrations so today we are going to try and draw a portrait of William Shakespeare. We are going to copy this picture of him using our observation skills. You are going to need a small piece of paper (no bigger than 1/2 A4) and a sharp pencil. Children listen to Mrs Whitestone really carefully and see if you can do a drawing like hers. For once, we do not need your imagination but draw what you can see!
Story
A very funny story read by Mrs Cieslik! Now, William Shakespeare wrote some funny stories that are called comedies. Have we written that fact in our book yet?
It looks like the children are enjoying learning about William Shakespeare – thank you for your support at home.
The Reception Team