Welcome to a new week. This week there are lots of activities about the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'. Remember to do what you can and adapt any activities to suit you. Have fun!

It is also 'Children's Mental Health Week' this week so here are some resources that you may want to use at some point this week.

                   Reception Home Learning for Monday 1st February

Phonics

Today, our new digraph is ar. Remember that a digraph is two letters together that make one sound. Join in with blending to read the words on the videos below.

 Reading 

Listen to and join in with the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'.

Do you think it was a good ending?  Why/ why not?

Can you think of a different ending for the story?

Writing

Draw a picture of the gingerbread man running away from the rest of the characters in the story and write the names of the characters next to them.

Maths

See  for todays maths.

Other Curriculum Areas

Can you make your own gingerbread man? You could use some cardboard and ask a grown-up to draw the shape for you to cut around. You could then decorate it with whatever you have at home. You could bake your own gingerbread person or decorate one.

Be creative!

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               Home Learning for Tuesday 2nd February

Phonics

Our new digraph today is or. Watch and join in with the blending in the videos below.

Writing

Can you write a caption to match this picture?

Reading

Look at  for todays reading activity.

Maths

Today, we are going to learn how to combine two groups to find how many there are altogether.

Have a go at the activity below

Other Curriculum Areas

Look at the setting for the gingerbread story. Is it like where you live?

What is the same? What is different? Can you name some of the features of the environment . Look at the question marks in the document below. What would the label say?

                                              vocabulary

 river      field       path       bushes/ shrubs       woods       trees                                              rocks     town      country     

Imagine that the Gingerbread Man ran from your house. Where do you think he would go? What would he pass on the way? You could draw a picture or map to show us.

There is also a story on youtube called 'The Gingerbread Man in the City' if you would like to watch that.

Reception home learning for Wednesday 3rd February

Phonics

See  for todays phonics activity.

Reading

Writing

Today, we are going to practise writing some letters correctly. You will need some paper and a pen or pencil.

Maths

Today we are going to continue combining two groups to find out how many we have altogether. Look at the activity below and then have a go at making your own pictures . You could have grapes and strawberries or yellow lego and orange lego. You could use the 10 frame to show how many you have altogether.

Other Curriculum Areas

The Gingerbread Man was eaten because he couldn't swim across the river. Could you make a bridge for the Gingerbread Man to cross over. Be creative!

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                 Reception Home Learning For Thursday 4th February

Phonics.

Watch and join in with the powerpoint below

Reading

Listen to the story below then think about how this was a happier ending for all of the characters.

Writing

The Gingerbread Man in the first story was very fast but the fox managed to catch him. How do you think you would catch the Gingerbread Man?

Write a sentence to tell us what you would do and draw a picture.

Maths

Today we are going to be learning about the part/ whole model. It means how we can split a number into parts and what it might look like. Watch  the power point below.

Other Curriculum Areas

See  for todays activity.

                Reception Home Learning for Friday 5th February

Phonics

We have been learning about the sounds that letters make but today we are going to learn that letters have names too.  It's just like a cow is called a cow but it makes a moo sound. Watch the Alphablocks and join in with the alphabet song.

Writing

Can you write the letters of the alphabet in order? 

Can you write the capital letters to match?

Below are some things that you could use. There is a sheet to write capital letters to match lower case letters. There is also a gingerbread capital letter sheet. You could point to the letters and say what they are or if you can print them out you can cut them up and arrange them in the correct order or next to some matching lower case letters.

Maths

Yesterday we used the part/whole model in our maths work. Today we would like you to use that model again to find ways of making 7 and 8. Remember you can draw one, use hoops, plates or print one out.

Other Curriculum Areas

See for today's activity.

Reading

Some of you may be missing school, your friends and even family at the moment which can be hard. Some of you may be happy to be at home. Some people may feel sad, worried or angry. It's okay to have these feelings. Listen to the story below. We can look forward to seeing each other again and what a fun time we will have!

Well done children and grown-ups for your hard work this week. 

Have a restful weekend!

Things don't always go according to plan for any of us. Sometimes it takes many tries. Here are a few of our video outtakes. There were many many more!