Friday 17 April 2020

W3 Friday Learning Blog

Good morning Reception Class ๐Ÿ˜Ž Welcome to Week 3 Virtual School!

There are 3 different learning areas for you to work on every day.
Try to follow the instructions carefully and complete the tasks according to your learning pace!

Please be prepared to share some of your work during the end of the day Zoom meeting at 11:30 am with your teachers. Don't forget to upload at least one task on Tapestry for teachers to see how hard you've been working daily! Keep up the good work ๐Ÿ˜Š

1) Key Ring Sight Words (Reading)
Learning Objectives (LO): ELG - Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.

It's Friday! Our time to review and practice our key ring sight words!
Are you ready?

Please find the right key ring numbers your child is working on below. Try to make up a sentence using the sight words if possible. Don't forget to check if your sentence makes sense!

Rec First 100 Sight Words

Next 200 Sight Words

100 High Frequency Words

2) Mathematics (SSM)
Learning Objectives (LO): 
ELChildren use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time anmoney to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems
They recognize, create and describpatterns. They explore characteristics of everyday  objects and shapes 
and use mathematical language to describe them.

There are two different types of Maths activities. Please feel free to move from one star challenge to another depending on your mastery remembering what works best for you. 
Don't forget that learning is fun ๐Ÿ˜‰

Please download and work on Numbots daily if possible - your child will have an individual login to access this.

⭐ - 1 Star Challenge:

First, read the story What's the Time, Mr. Wolf? by Debi Gliori together. 
Have a look what happens every hour with Mr. Wolf!


Let's practice telling the time by playing Mr. Wolf game with Ms. Kris!

What time is it Mr. Wolf? 
Check your clock to tell Mr. Wolf what time it is!

In order to tell time, don't forget to check the hour hand (yellow in the video) first!
Can you stamp your feet according to its time?

For example, stamp your feet once if it is 1 o'clock! Have fun ๐Ÿ˜Š


⭐⭐ - 2 Star Challenge:

Let's practice reading minutes of the time by skip counting in fives!
You can use your own clock you made yesterday to help you count the minutes.



After practicing reading minutes of the time, you can add the minutes (5, 10, 15, 20, ...) to your own clock to help you easily read them ๐Ÿ˜‰



3) Arts and Crafts (Moving & Handling)
Learning Objectives (LO): ELG—Children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements.
They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.

Air Transportation

Up, up away!

For today’s activity we are going to make hot air balloons. 
Have you ridden a hot air balloon before? If you did, where did you ride it?

Decorate the hot air balloon as colorful as you want it to be and share us a picture!

You will need:
Paper plate, color paper and coloring equipment


Share us a picture of your hot air balloon for us to see! ๐Ÿ˜Š