Oak Class (Reception and Year 1)
Welcome to Oak Class!
Our teacher is Miss Poulton. Mrs Garlick, Mrs Burrows and Mrs Booth are our teaching assistants.
It's Friday, Oak Class!
Here's a joke to start the day (Answers at the bottom of this page!):
Friday: Knock, knock!
Who's there?
Soup.
Soup who?
Superman!
Thursday: What do you get when a pig and a chicken bump into each other?
Wednesday: What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
Tuesday: Why did the cow do star jumps?
Monday: What can't you eat at dinner?
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Note added 12 June 2020:
Thank you so much for a wonderful Zoom session on Wednesday. It was so lovely to see all of your smiling faces! Remember to bring along a piece of paper and felt tip pen next session.
Note added 29 June 2020:
There are new weekly video challenges for Maths for each Year Group. We encourage you to send in photos of your work (use links on front page).
There is also a new Topic Plan (see below) on the theme of Pirates!!
Have fun, me hearties!
In addition, there is a new video challenge to keep you on your toes for Topic.
Please see below a list of resources that can be used at home to support learning.
Zoom session information (Click here!)
What we are learning in class this week - Reception
We welcomed some reception children into school on Tuesday and some Year 1 children will be attending with Mrs Rose on Thursday. If your child is not attending, you may want to do the same work at home. We will post the lesson materials and share some of the children's work here.
We use Oak Academy lessons for English and Maths.
Link to year 1 work completed in school this week
Daily learning tasks in English and Mathematics
Reception
Hamilton Trust
Play activities
English and Mathematics
Oak National Academy
Reception class work Suggested work to be completed for Reception class from the Oak National Academy
Year 1
Oak National Academy
Year 1 Class work Suggested work to be completed for Year 1 children from the Oak National Academy
Additional structured lessons
White Rose Further maths activities and problem solving challenges. Choose your year-group from the drop-down boxes (powerpoint only).
BBC Bitesize New online learning materials for each day in all subjects, with videos, activities and puzzles. Click on your year-group from the selection, then choose the desired subject area.
Phonics and Spelling
Daily online Phonics lessons
Click here to access daily online Phonics lessons for Reception and Year 1.
Other Phonics resources:
Mr T's phonics! This link will take you to a youtube page. The man is called Mr T. He creates videos all around phonics sounds. If you or your child are unsure how to pronounce some of the sounds - Mr T's videos will help you clear that up! He also shows the different ways to pronounce sounds.
Phonics Play This website has different phonics games on to help with the pupils' reading. They are offering free access to all resources. Username: march20 Password: home
There are games for the children but also information for the adults. The pupils in Reception are working on Phase 2 and Phase 3 sounds. Year 1 pupils are working on Phase 5.
Phonics Bloom This website is full of interactive phonics games. Just click on the link and the phase you would like. Reception pupils are working on Phase 2 and Phase 3. The year 1 pupils are working within Phase 3 - 5.
ICT games This link is also within the English area. There are also phonics games on this website. Take a look!
Reading comprehension exercises
Here are some activity sheets to do alongside your reading. Keep enjoying your reading!
Reading Inference and Writing
Look carefully at this picture and read the brief description.
What does it make you feel? What do you notice in the picture?
Create a story, using the image and text to inspire you.
Handwriting practice
Additional Writing Resources
Small Town Superheroes game On this game you can practise your sentences, your full stops and capital letters and prefixes and suffixes
Full stops Game Practise using your full stops with this interactive game!
Capital letters game Help Zed the zebra put capital letters in the right place.
Look, cover, write Practise your tricky words.
Tricky word song Practise more tricky words in a song
Additional Maths Resources
Reception
- Caterpillar Count Order the numbers to 15 to watch the caterpillar grow
- Numberblocks We use Numberblocks to help your child's number recognition and early mathematical skills
- Blast-Off Listen to the number being said, find the matching rocket and watch it blast off
- Toy Shop Buy some toys using a variety of coins
- Underwater Counting Count the sea creatures and find the matching number
- Teddy Numbers Feed the teddy the number of cakes shown on the screen
- Shape Patterns Continue the repeating pattern on the train using 2D shapes
Year 1
Maths games - Top Marks On this website you will find lots of different maths games. You choose a category and click onto the game you want. All games are free!
Maths games - ICT Games This website has a variety of maths games similar to Top Marks. Click maths and then all categories are one page, if you scroll down and click on the game you like.
Jack Hartmann fun songs to sing and learn as we go!
Key stage 1 topic plans
Fun games to play
My Pet and Me A game where your child can look after a virtual pet
Andy's Dinosaur Adventures Go on an adventure with Andy and see what dinosaurs you can find!
Scary Spuds Create a silly potato face
Bee-Bots A virtual Bee-Bot game helping to develop positional language and early programming
End of Year Expectations: what children are expected to know and be able to do by the end of the year
Home learning booklets and ideas
Answers to riddles and jokes:
Friday: (Answer tomorrow!)
Thursday: Ham and eggs!
Wednesday: Frosties!
Tuesday: Because he wanted a milkshake!
Monday: Breakfast and lunch!