FOUNDATION STAGE WEEKLY OVERVIEW OF LEARNING 4.5.20

PRIME AREAS

Personal, Social + Emotional Development:

HOPE – this activity is ready for you on seesaw

Connect – Have a VE celebration with your family

Give – a neighbour a sample of your wartime cooking

Notice – the tastes of your wartime food

School Worship – Watch Wednesday Worship with your family

Physical Development:

Cut and fold – making scrap paper bunting – see expressive art and design below

Rub and stir – Wartime recipes – See seesaw activity

Make up a dance to a wartime song

Communication and Language:

Question for an evacuee – seesaw

Little Mole Finds Hope – Listen to the story (Hope seesaw activity). Answer questions eg. How did Little Mole’s mum know he was not feeling good? What did Little Mole’s mum say he needed? Etc.

Flick through the pictures in the story with the sound turned down. Use the pictures to help you re-tell the story.

Use a teddy to help you make up your own story about losing and finding hope.

Homecoming – seesaw. Tell someone in your family what you have learned about wartime and evacuees. This could be a video chat to a grandparent or great grandparent. Listen carefully, they may have some memories to share with you.

PRIME AREAS

MATHS FOCUS: I can use my knowledge of doubles and halves to share objects into 2 groups

Opportunities Offline

Play doubles ping pong – I say 3 -you say 6. I say 2, you say 4.

Make fingerprint paintings – use a different colour for each hand to show the doubles.

Put 6 sultanas on a plate and ask your child to take half away.

Make sandwiches for your VE celebrations (even numbers ten or less). Ask your child to share them fairly between 2 plates. Can they tell you how many will be on each plate? Ask them how they knew?

Opportunities Online

Share the cookies – seesaw

Share the apples – seesaw

READING FOCUS:
Daily phonics – phase 3
– https://wandleenglishhub.org.uk/lettersandsounds/reception

After you have listened to the daily sound pretend you are Gerladine the giraffe and look around the house. Say the word as you find things – can you hear the sound of the day? This is a link to the short oo sound https://www.google.com/search?q=geraldine+oo+short&oq=Geradine+oo&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l7.14546j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Opportunities Offline

Play hangman with words using the sound of the day. Use 1 line for each sound. Eg. moon … __ _____ __

Make a noughts and crosses grid. Put a vowel in the middle. Take turns to choose consonants to fill the other squares. Read the words you have made. Have you made any real words?

Share books at home. Ask lots of questions eg. What might happen next? Why do you think that? Encourage your child to talk in detail about what is happening in the story.

Opportunities Online

DAILY PHONICS – https://wandleenglishhub.org.uk/lettersandsounds/reception

READING BOOKS – choose your new reading books from the oxford owls e library – https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=Age+4-5&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=# Read them with a grown up and change them when you are ready

WRITING FOCUS: Write a list in time order. Spell words as they sound. Stretch out the words to hear all the sounds eg. d-a-n-s (dance) ee-t (eat) etc

VE day street party plan – a list of activities in time order

War and evacuees – Homecoming – seesaw

EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN:

Use some old newspaper, magazines or scrap paper to make VE Day bunting to decorate your house.

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD:

Eggs were very scarce in wartime. Choose an egg experiment from science sparks. What have you learned about eggs? https://www.science-sparks.com/10-egg-science-experiments/

War and evacuees – Homecoming – seesaw Power point and/or video clips