Where the letters sit on the sky, grass, ground board

Monday 16th November

Morning Briefing 10 am on Microsoft Teams - please see instructions above.

Login details are found on the inside cover of the yellow reading journal. 

Focus activity- Creative Activity

Today the children in school will be creating their own Elmer design using either a paper plate or a blank mask template found below. This will be used to take part in our own Elmer parade on Friday. Look at all the different designs the elephants painted themselves in the story for inspiration; now create your own. You can use anything you have at home to create your design: paint, crayons, collage, natural materials or anything else you can think of. Please bring it in on Thursday when we return to school.  Have lots of fun!

Focus activity- Phonics Activity

In the morning briefing the children will be introduced to the sound 'y' and the action that goes with it. Please login to Education City and play the 'y' game.  See instructions above to how to login Education City.

Another game you could play or adapt if you wanted would be...

I Spy the Sound

‘I Spy the Sound’ is a fun way to build phonics skills and phonemic awareness. In this variation of the classic game, ‘I Spy’, ask your child to spy words that begin with a certain sound, rather than a letter. For example, “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with mmm.”

Tuesday 17th November

Morning Briefing 10 am on Microsoft Teams - please see instructions above.

Login details are found on the inside cover of the yellow reading journal. 

Focus activity- Maths- Counting and Addition Activity

This week the children in school will be introduced to the terms 'add' and 'subtract' and the symbols that go with these terms. In the briefing I will introduce them, explain what they mean and show the children what they look like along with the sign language to go with it. We have to use the word subtract and not take away. The children need to understand 'add' as putting things in and the group getting bigger, and 'subtract' as removing things from a group and it getting smaller. Please practise addition using the sheets in the masters section below. There is a counting sheet for help recognising numbers, an addition sheet with numbers up to 10 and, for a challenge, an addition sheet with numbers to 20.

Focus activity- Phonics Activity

In the morning briefing the children will be introduced to the sound 'x' and the action that goes with it. Please login to Education City and play the 'x' game.  See instructions above to how to login Education City.

Another game you could play or adapt if you wanted would be...

Letter Race

This game requires a magnetic board, magnetic letters, and a lot of space! Set up the magnetic board on one side of the room, and place the magnetic letters in a basket or bowl on the other side. Call out a sound, or a word starting or ending in a particular sound. Then ask your child (with a ready, set, go!) to pick out the correct magnetic letters and run over as fast as they can to stick it on the board. Extend with full cvc words such as cat, hat, mat etc. If you do not have a magnetic whiteboard, use bits of paper with the sounds written on them. Sounds covered so far are; s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g,o,c,k,,b,f,v,j,z,w,l,e,u,r,h,y,x

Focus activity- P.E

Could you go on a Winter Yoga adventure? Follow the link for a 15 minute yoga session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9jd1Ug2y4

Wednesday 18th November

Morning Briefing 10 am on Microsoft Teams - please see instructions above.

Login details are found on the inside cover of the yellow reading journal. 

Focus activity- Forest Schools

The Children at Forest Schools today will be going to collect as many different coloured and shaped leaves as they can to create their own camouflaged Elmer. If possible collect leaves from the garden to create your own Elmer from natural resources. Here are some examples.

Focus activity- Phonics Activity

In the morning briefing the children will be introduced to the sound 'q/qu' and the action that goes with it. Please login to Education City and play the 'q/qu' game.  See instructions above to how to login Education City.

Another game you could play or adapt if you wanted would be...

Phonics Hopscotch

This game helps children develop their ability to match letters to their sounds. All you need for this fun phonics activity is a piece of chalk and the ground. Simply draw hopscotch markings on the ground (how many squares and in what shape they are arranged is up to you). In each square draw a letter of the alphabet (you may want to draw both the upper and lower case letters in each). There are many ways you can play this game – you can call out a letter or combination of letters and ask your child to jump on those letters, and as they do, for them to sound out each letter. Or you can ask your child to jump on the letters in alphabetical order, sounding them out as they go along. You can also roll dice and ask your child to jump to the square that matches the number rolled, counting the squares as they jump and sounding the letter out at the end.

Focus activity- Reading Comprehension Activity

After reading the story of Elmer's Lost Teddy this morning please have a go at the two comprehension activities on Espresso about the story. See photographs to find out how to find the two activities. 

Children in Need

This week Lyppard Grange are participating in Children in Need's 'Five to Thrive'. Each day in class we would have been looking at the theme for the day. There is a new theme daily. I have put the link to the Children in Need website that takes you to the theme and the video for each day below. 

Monday- Connect

Tuesday- Take notice

Wednesday- Get Active

Thursday- Be curious 

Friday- Give

In our morning Briefing on Friday, please feel free to wear the outfit you had planned for our non-uniform day with the theme being 'Happiness'. Come to our morning session wearing something that makes you feel happy. That might be your favourite colour, your football kit or even your cosy pyjamas and slippers! I look forward to seeing what makes each of you happy.  

Thursday 12th November

Morning Briefing 10 am on Microsoft Teams - please see instructions above.

Login details are found on the inside cover of the yellow reading journal. 

Focus activity- Maths Pattern Activity 

Inside book bags there was a blank Elmer. Please encourage the children to colour him in using a repeating pattern of 2/3 or 4 colours. 

Focus activity- Phonics Activity 

In the morning briefing the children will be introduced to the sound 'r' and the action that goes with it please login to Education City and play the 'r' game.  See instructions above to how to login Education City.

Friday 13th November

Morning Briefing 10 am on Microsoft Teams - please see instructions above.

Login details are found on the inside cover of the yellow reading journal. 

Focus activity- Writing Activity

Please could you continue to practise writing your name on your large 'Elmer's Parade' sheet sent home. Some children are working on forming all the letters in their first name correctly to get their first gold and some have now moved onto the letters in their surname to get their next gold. Please use the formation on the ground grass and sky board as provided in the workshop packs. Both Documents are downloadable at the bottom of the page if you do not have them. For a further challenge the children could write words that describe the elephants in the picture for example 'red' or 'spotee' (spotty) The children should be using their robot arms and the sounds on their phonics strips sent home to support their writing. 

Focus activity- Phonics Activity

In the morning briefing the children will be introduced to the sound 'h' and the action that goes with it please login to Education City and play the 'h' game.  See instructions above to how to login Education City.

The children will also be introduced the tricky words 'to' and 'I'

please play this game on Education City

Focus activity- P.E

Could you go on a yoga adventure through Elmer's jungle? follow the link for a 13minute yoga session.