Wednesday 20th January

Well, good morning, good afternoon and most importantly happy Wednesday to you all.

I hope your week is going well. I am enjoying seeing what you have been getting up to and you are proving to be a very good team of marine biologists!

Tapestry note: if you are having difficulties logging on to and/or using tapestry, please continue to email in your child's work as before. Meanwhile, let me know what the problem is and I will do my best to help!  I am happy to continue communicating by email for any of you that finds this easier - please email me about this. 

A lot of you enjoyed our Hedgehog song. Today, I think we'll do our elephant rhyme!

An elephant walks like this and that
He's terribly tall and terribly fat
He has no fingers and has no toes
But goodness gracious what a nose!

See if you can remember the actions Hedgehogs and if you can't, make up your own!

Apologies, I keep forgetting the ongoing jobs list! Here it is. 

And now, today's learning:

Job 1: The Storm Whale Chapter 8

Year 1 writing frame

The storm, in case the embedded film doesn't work. 

Job 2: Phonics

Reception phonics:

Click here for three in a row

Click here for the treasure hunt game (then click 'present')

If that doesn't work for you, click here for the dominoes instead!

Click here for the extra challenge - colour by phoneme

Year 1 phonics:

Click here for sounds splat

Click here for the quick read words

Click here for the word search

Click here for the colour-by-phoneme sheet

Job 3: Handwriting

Today we are going to look at the curly caterpillar family.

Reception children:

• practice c until it is just wonderful
• then 'a' - round up and down
• then 'd' - round all the way up and down
• then 'g' - round, up, down and a monkey tail

That will do for today, unless you are feeling super keen and want to practise the others!

Year 1 children:

• practice forming all of the letters correctly. If you get that far...
• make sure they sit on the line in the right place. If you get that far...
• make sure your tall letters are tall and your small letters are small

Have a very good Wednesday, Hedgehogs and parents

from Miss Nash

P.S A reminder, Hedgehog parents, you are doing a great job. I am always on the end of an email so please let me know if I can make your home-learning lives any easier. We can also arrange time for a phone call - just let me know!