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6 years ago
Posted on 21st Apr 2020 by

Tuesday phonics challenge

I hope that you and your child enjoyed yesterday’s phonics challenge.

When we have our letters and sounds time in nursery we spend part of that time learning the actions for each letter sound and write some of them on a daily basis.  Your challenge today is to look at the fantastic resources posted on April 20th by Mrs Giordano on the website that show the correct formation for each letter and how to do the accompanying action.  I would then like you to encourage your child to write their name looking carefully at each letter.  If they are very confident please help them to write their surname too.  Of course, if they are really enjoying this they could write other names within the family.  Do let us know how they get on by sending in photographs on evidence me.  Have fun and happy writing!

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 21st Apr 2020 by

Nursery Activities Tuesday 21st April

Good morning nursery, our team are smiling at all the wonderful photos that we are receiving through Evidence Me. You are all doing such a fabulous job!

Here are today’s suggested activities, we hope you are enjoying them.

Stay safe and enjoy the sunshine.

Tuesday-21st-April-Activity

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Year R Work : Tuesday 21st April

Hi all. I hope you had a lovely day in the sunshine and have enjoyed reading The Gruffalo. Mrs Stevens really enjoyed seeing some of your fantastic work today so thank you so much for sharing. We are so proud of every single one of you and think you are all stars.

Please find attached the work for Tuesday 21st April.

Many thanks The Reception Team

Tuesday 21st

Gruffalo 1 more than lesson 1- Blue group

Gruffalo 1 more than lesson 1- Red & Orange Groups

Gruffalo 1 more than lesson 1- Y&G groups

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Year 1 Guided Reading – Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd April

Just like before the Easter break, we will set some Guided Reading work for you to have a go at, at home. Sometimes these activities may take a little bit of time, so please don’t feel like you have to rush or complete them all – the most important thing is that you enjoy listening to and sharing some lovely stories at home! We will send out Guided Reading work twice a week, so you will always have a couple of days to listen to the story, talk about it and maybe have a go at some of the questions and activities. 🙂 📚

For today’s activity, you have two dinosaur stories to listen to! The first one is an e-book, which can be listening to on Youtube, or here:

The Hide-a-Saurus Questions and Activities

Pterodactyl Peg Craft Instructions

Pterodactyl Peg Craft Wing and Body Template

The Dinosaur That Pooped a Princess – I Spy and Read

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Year 1 Maths – Tuesday 21st April

Hello Year 1,

We hope that you all enjoyed starting to tell the time yesterday. Today, your job is to recap on yesterday’s learning then build your very own clock! You can practise making o’clock times with your clock and use it to play a game of What’s the time Mr Wolf? You may also like to print or create your own clock cards to play a game of O’clock Snap!

Keep the clocks that you make so that we can use them again later this week!

Tuesday 21st April Maths Activities

Build a clock template

O’Clock Snap Cards  (Please Note – you do not need to print all pages, just choose 2 colours that you like!) 🙂

Enjoy! ⭐🕑

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Year 1 Home Learning Tuesday 21st April 2020

I hope you enjoyed your learning on Monday. I noticed lots of fantastic art creations. Also some great puppet performances of our new story this week.

We are continuing with our ‘The Enormous Turnip’ work this week, with a focus on remembering familiar and repetitive stories.

Can you read it again today  – this time encourage your child to recite as much of it as possible by themselves. Then can you order the story in the correct sequence? You can do this by cutting out and sticking the sequencing pictures attached. Or you make your own by simply drawing a grid on a piece of paper and your child could draw their own lovely pictures in order themselves. You could try to label what is happening in each picture.

The-enormous-turnip-story-sequencing-cards

Also, look out for an Enormous Turnip themed jigsaw on your PurpleMash 2do.

 

Finally, for phonics today please continue to practise this week’s spellings. Here is a game you could use or copy for fun too.

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Keep an eye out for Miss Hammond’s great phonics video’s too. Well done everyone.

6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Phonics challenge

During the summer term (in normal times!) we are able to really challenge the older nursery children with their phonic (letters and sounds) knowledge as they have been working so hard all year.  The children usually know many of the 26 letter sounds by now (don’t worry if your child doesn’t every child is different).  At this point we stretch the children a little more using fun activities to try and read simple words.  As we are unable to do this at nursery at the moment we are hoping that you could try these out at home on a daily basis just for about 15-20 minutes a day.  The children usually love the games and it’s a great way to keep them entertained as well as learning.

My phonics challenge for  today can be found by googling phonics play on the internet.  Please then select the new version and input the current Username:march followed by the Password:home.  This takes you to lots of free games that in normal times schools are charged for but are kindly free during the lock down.  On the site I would like you to select the game Buried treasure at Phase 2 (this level is appropriate for the majority of the children going to school in September).  In this game the children have to drag coins with real words on them to the pirates’ treasure chest and drag the coins with fake words to the dustbin.  In order to help your child with this when you select which letter to use click on “revise all”.  Your child can then look at each letter on the coin saying their sounds out loud and then try to blend the sounds together to read the word.  This takes a bit of practise but we usually tap each sound on our arm as we read them and then stroke our arm as we blend them together.

Please have a go if you can and send in photo’s on the evidence me app.  More challenges to follow!

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

School Update- Monday 20th April

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you all had a good Easter, despite the strange times we are living in at the moment.

I would love nothing more than to be writing to tell you of a reopening date, but alas, we are again bound by the rules of the Government in an extended lock down.

We are all hopeful that we will at some point return this academic year and really hope that we do, so that our Year 6 children can say their goodbyes, so that our new Reception children can get a taster of next year and of course so all of our other children can meet their new teacher and get to see their new classroom for next year. Fingers crossed…

I am very proud of all of the Newdale teams and how they have responded during this very difficult time. There is so much work going on behind the scenes and everyone is playing their part. The admin team have been battling with all sorts of issues around ordering vouchers and sorting out codes, the Pastoral team making sure all of our families are safe, our teaching team doing all they can to support online learning at home and the teaching assistant team volunteering and doing lots of preparation for this term and beyond.

We have and continue to remain open to the children of key workers. We were open all over Easter including Good Friday and Easter Monday, as we wanted to support the national drive to keep our key workers in work. The volunteers in school have been amazing. Despite anxiety around infection and the difficulties in social distancing with children, they are coming in and offering the best childcare possible in our hub. As ever, if you feel you qualify for provision then please email school or give us a ring (details on the website). If you have concerns about your children at home then we might be able to help with advice or signpost you to support, so please do get in touch.

I am trying really hard to see the positives and am very thankful that the weather has been very kind to us during this time. I am hoping children can get outside in gardens and enjoy their exercise sessions each day: I know I am!

I will update you when we know more, but in the meantime we thank you for your support with home online learning. It really will make a difference to the children when they finally return to us.

Kind regards and stay safe…

Miss Cook

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Year 1 Afternoon Project Ideas

Hi everyone,

I hope you have had a lovely first morning back at home school! Lots of you have already sent back some brilliant work on PurpleMash.

As Miss Hailey has already explained, each week will now have a theme and a teacher from Newdale will be setting afternoon work for the whole school, based on that subject. This week is Art week and I know lots of you will be excited to get started on some super art projects.

We have also put together some additional project ideas for Year 1, that you may like to have a go at in the afternoons, alongside the themed work for that week. Remember, these are just ideas – they do not all need to be completed, they are there for you to pick and choose the ones that take your fancy and are feasible for you and your family. In school, our topics in the Summer term would be the ‘Seaside’ and ‘Growing/ Planting’, so we have tried to create some projects based on these areas.

Afternoon Project Ideas Summer 1

We would love to see any of the afternoon projects get up to, on the homework blog. Remember, you can also contact us via the Year 1 email address if you would like to share any work or have any questions for us!

newdale.year1team@taw.org.uk

Any documents you may need for the above activities can be found here:

All About Me Brain Teasers

Seaside I Spy Game

Seaside Spot the Difference

Easy Diwali Curry Recipe

Rainbow Skewered Fruit

The Enormous Turnip Soup Recipe

Sketching Tutorials – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5XMF3Inoi8R9nSI8ChOsdQ

Have fun!

Best wishes,

Year 1 team 🙂🙂🙂🙂

6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Start of term

I hope that you’ve all had a good Easter and I wish that we were all back together for the start of term as we usually would be.  Thank you to everyone who has sent in photographs of their child’s activities at home using the evidence me app, we do love seeing what you are all up to.  Please keep checking out the website for lots of ideas for activities at home. I am hoping to get in touch with you all individually by phone over the course of the next few days for a catch up.  Please let me know how things are going and what you would like support with in these rather unusual times.

Hope to speak to you all soon

Lisa Curnow

Nursery  Teacher