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With Miss Carney

 

Welcome to our children and families.

Spring Term – Under the new Covid restrictions Remote Home Learning is now in operation. Weekly Reception Class lessons are available on MS Teams. All Campbell class families  have received a Home Learning Pack which included the log-in details for this. A demonstration video of how to log-in is to be found on the ‘Classes’ page of the school web-site (select ‘Children’ at the top of the Home page and then ‘Classes’ will appear ).

The pack also includes sheets linking to the videos and supplementary sheets for home learning – please read the explanatory letter and list of contents included in the pack. 

Further Home Learning Packs will be sent home fortnightly.

 

 

Home-Learning during lockdown

 

Please follow the time-table for the lessons provided on MS-Teams. The aim is that all children will view a  literacy, numeracy and phonics session each day and then complete  linked activities

If you are unable to view a  lesson the pack can still be used independently and the class teacher will discuss how to do this during the weekly MS Teams video call. 

Please also remember to work DAILY on the Phase 2 and Phase 3 sound mats and  word mats. The aim is that  children should know all these sounds ands words. Letter formation  practice is included in the pack but it would be very useful for children to complete some additional handwriting practice EVERY day.

 

Our topic  term is Animals and we will be focusing on Jungle Animals. Here are the books we will reading together –

      We will also be learning about Chinese New Year and the Great Animal Race

                                                                               

 

 

Important Notice: The following pages contain links to websites that we feel are supportive to the curriculum and safe but it must be noted that the contents of the websites are out of our control. Therefore, we recommend that parents check them before allowing children unsupervised access. Remember to stay safe online! 

 

READING

 

Visit the Phonics Play website free of charge to play games which will enable your children to practise their phonic knowledge.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Username: clarence

Password: clarence

 

Visit Oxford Owls  to read Oxford Reading e-books free of charge.

OxfordOwl: Free access to reading e-books by stages and levels. 

Access our class account by clicking My Class Login and entering the details below: 

My class name: campbell2020

My class password: Campbellbooks

 

 

We are currently working towards learning all the letter sounds  on the Phase 2  and Phase 3 mats below.

                                                             

 

                                                            

 

                   

 

  Visit our phonics page by clicking on the red  phonics button on the right of this page  for more phonics information.

 

We are also working on these  High Frequency Words  and learning to read them on sight.

See the Tricky Word learning song here.

 

 

WRITING

Please  practise handwriting regularly. The formation of the letters should be in a cursive style as illustrated below. Help your child to hold their pencil correctly in a tripod grip if they are not already doing so.

   

Children should only use capital letters at the beginning of sentences or  the names of people/places. Children should not be using capital letters to write complete words – this is printing, not handwriting.

 

Drawing also develops good pencil control as does colouring-in. How are your child’s drawings developing? Please encourage them to draw and colour as much as possible.

 

 

Scissor skills are also important. Encourage your child to cut out pictures from newspapers/magazines,  or their own drawings, using safe children’s scissors.

          

                                         For further ideas/help with Home Learning

Visit this website for free access to thousands of online books. Try the monster counting book and see what else you discover! 

National Literacy Trust http://www.literacytrust.org.uk./

For more story times, games and activities visit the book trust page here. 

BBC Bitesize have activities across age ranges and the curriculum https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary

The CBeebies website – https://www.bbc.co.uk  contains useful games and activities for Home Learning, for example, Alphablocks and Number Jacks. The Topics area also contains interesting material and the Make and Colour area provides ideas for craft activities. Literacy and numeracy activities can also be found on www.phonicsplay.co.uk and www.topmarks.co.uk.

BBC Bitesize have activities across age ranges and the curriculum https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primaryThe Government website Hungry Little Minds – https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk also has useful links and ideas for Home Learning, as does our St Georges School website.

The Government have produced an online learning platform for all ages and subjects. Click on the image to go to the Reception lessons. This page has lessons structured for each day weekly or you can search by subject and age range for a particular lesson you might want to do with your child. 

 

Resources for Emotional and Physical Well-Being

You may  find this website useful when talking to your children about Covid 19.  

 https://www.mindheart.co/descargables 

For support with setting rules at home, managing behaviour and children’s emotional health visit http://www.familylinks.org.uk/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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