Home Learning – Reception Updates : Please ensure you regularly check the school’s website www.paxtonacademy.org.uk and the school’s Facebook page for updates. Reading: Please read with your child for at least 20 minutes a day. Your child can read their school reading books, as well as any other books you have at home, magazines, children’s websites, etc. Questions to engage your child at home: Useful websites: Twinkl: www.twinkl.co.uk/offer A range of STORY OF THE WEEK: Cinderella reading activities available • Who are the characters in the story? Please see attached PDF documents for useful websites and top tips for reading. • What is the moral of the story? Cbeebies - https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies • What is the happiest part in .https://www.storylineonline.net/ - books read the story? online • What do you think the story is about? Paxton’s Phonics programme - Read, Write Inc. • Why do you think that? - https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out- • How do you think the story more/help-during-school-closure/ ends? • What was your favourite https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ - Some free phonics games and resources. part of the story? Why? Username : march20 • What didn’t you like about Password : home the story? Why? Remember, when reading aloud, children can work on their fluency and expression, so reading a text/part of a text more than once is great practise. You can model this to them too when you read them stories. Writing focus : Fine motor/Gross motor skills: • Writing a ‘WANTED’ poster for the owner of • Writing small and capital letters of the the glass slipper. alphabet. • Writing an invitation to the ball. • Colouring the insides of pictures (staying • Writing a list of chores that Cinderella has to within the black lines) do. • Beads onto spaghetti • Writing adjectives (describing words) for the • Painting with Q-tips (ear buds) different characters, explaining what they look • Finger painting like and how their personalities are. • Skipping (can you skip within beat) • Writing a recount of the ‘CINDERELLA’ story. • Hopping • Drawing people with head, neck, body, Remember to use the tricky words that you know arms and legs. and sound out any words that you are not sure of using your sounds. Maths Learning: Please ensure your child practises counting everyday objects. Activities for your child at home: Useful websites: • https://ttrockstars.com (Pupil login available) • Reciting numbers 1 to 100 • https://www.mathletics.com (Pupil login available) (forwards and backwards) • https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ - White Rose • Count out loud in 2s, 5s and 10s Maths • Counting objects (toys, sweets, • https://www.mathplayground.com stones etc.) and grouping objects • https://www.topmarks.co.uk in 2s, 5s and 10s. • Twinkl free login: www.twinkl.co.uk/offer (a range of • Placing numbers 0-20 in the accessible worksheets at different challenge levels) correct order. Can an adult take • BBC KS1 Maths: some away and guess which https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8 numbers have been taken away? • Representing numbers on their fingers/finding 2 more than/2 less than. • Identifying 2D shapes in the environment, e.g. circles, rectangles, squares, triangles, pentagon, hexagon. Can you describe their properties? • Recite the days of the week and the months of the year. • Practise writing numbers to 100. • Practise writing numbers in 2s, 5s and 10s. • Place objects in a bag, put your hand in and count out different number of objects (no peaking!). • Can you complete these number sentences independently? 12+3=, 5+3=, 13+0=, 15+4= , 20-4= , 13- 5=, 4-4=. Creative learning around IPC project: ONCE UPON A TIME - CINDERELLA • Using junk modelling can you design your own carriage? • Design your own ball invitation. • Can you design dresses that Cinderella and the other characters might wear to the ball? • Listen to songs on YOUTUBE about Cinderella. Can you learn any off by heart? • Can you choreograph your own dance that you may dance if you went to the ball? Keeping active inside and outside: These are a really fun way to be active indoors and great for breaks • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBuxu3sLztrvWFehzv-LnR2c Joe Wicks children’s workouts – Joe Wicks is running daily children’s exercise sessions on his youtube channel at 9am Monday to Friday during the school closure period • ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers Lots of fun learning through dancing and singing. • https://www.gonoodle.com (this is also a free app on the iPad) Learn a new skill • Touch typing https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr • Coding - https://scratch.mit.edu/join Free Subscriptions: Many websites are also offering parents free access to resources; we will continue to add new sites we find to our website and our Facebook page • Twinkl (All subjects): Easy to set up - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS - Twinkl covers all subjects and offers printables resources for screen free learning • https://www.scouts.org.uk/the-great-indoors/ - Great ideas of indoor activities and games from The Scouts Educational Television: For really informative generally science based television. Episodes on YouTube too. BBC iPlayer Netflix Prime • Maddie’s do you • Ask the Storybots (Yrs R-6) • Anything David Attenborough know (all Years ) • Messi goes to Okido (All • Blippi (Nursery / Reception) • Graces’s Years) • Little Baby Bum Nursery Rhymes amazing • Bug Beats (All Years) machines (also • Julie’s Greenroom (All Catie’s) Years) • Messi goes to • Anything David Okido (All years) Attenborough Our favourite songs How many fingers on one Ten in a Bed hand? One Little Finger Follow Me Shake Your Sillies Out Five Little Monkeys 1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive Five Speckled Frogs Hammer Hammer Shape Song #1 and Shape Grandma song Song #2 If you’re happy and you know it Wind the bobbin up The wheels on the bus Little turtle We are one (Lion King 2) Socialising with friends whilst at home (Under the school’s e-safety policy, parental guidance and presence advised): • Facetime (available on Apple devices), using WhatsApp messenger, Facebook messenger and VIBER to communicate with family and friends. • House Party app - House party is a video messaging app that allows parents to add their friends. It has the facility for children to have a video conversation together. Within the app, the children can play games together during the conversation, such as Quick Draw, Trivia and Heads Up. .