Elmstead Primary School - Foundation Stage

Foundation stage

Welcome to our Class R page! Here you can find out about our learning and see what Early Years is all about.

Class R have graduated!

Miss Woods is very proud of you all and all you have learnt. Here are the videos from our Zoom Graduation.

Class R memories - coming soon...
Graduation dance

Good Luck in Class 1, I will miss you!

Week beginning 13/07/2020 - Elmstead's Got Talent

Please see this weeks activities on the 'Whole School Themed Home Learning' page.

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Snakes and ladders game
Read and write activities
Summer activity pack - Phonics, writing and maths

Take a look at all the tasks we completed in Task Master Week, Miss Woods is so proud of us!

Meet your new teachers who will be teaching you in Class 1...

Week beginning 06/07/2020 - Task Master week

Please see this weeks activities on the 'Whole School Themed Home Learning' page. Each day a new task will be released that you need to complete and send to me.

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If you are not in school...

Practise this song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJqSkQqRebg

Make a graduation hat with your child and send Miss Woods a picture of you in it. (you are welcome to make it however you like and using whatever you have in the house). Or here is an example you can try to follow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzTwIXwpA3k.

Here are some books which you can read electronically...

Can cat get cod? - Pink

Munching Lunch - Red

Eggs - Red This book is a challenge, can you have a go?

Nod - Pink

Up to the Stars - Red

Rat and Cat in The Hat Trick - Red

The Thing - Red

Big Fat Rat - Pink

Dig, Sid, Dig - Pink

A Green Lunch - Red

See Like Me - Red

King Pip and the Wish - Red

Panther and Frog - Red

Hidden Liz - Red

Is Nan In? - Pink

Week beginning 29/06/2020 - STEM week

Please see this weeks activities on the 'Whole School Themed Home Learning' page.

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Coin detectives
Ice cream cost
Read and colour
Unscramble setences
'ai' read and write
'air' read and write
'ar' read and write
'ch' read and write
Mrs Minshull activity - Playing simple tunes https://youtu.be/jU6go6O8pU8
Chime bars colouring sheet

At school we are learning this song to celebrate the end of the EYFS, can you all practise it at home! If you are not coming into school can you send me a video of your child dancing and singing to this song which I can use for a special surprise for Class R children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJqSkQqRebg

Here are some books which you can read electronically...

Can cat get cod? - Pink

Munching Lunch - Red

Eggs - Red This book is a challenge, can you have a go?

Nod - Pink

Up to the Stars - Red

Rat and Cat in The Hat Trick - Red

The Thing - Red

Big Fat Rat - Pink

Dig, Sid, Dig - Pink

A Green Lunch - Red

See Like Me - Red

King Pip and the Wish - Red

Panther and Frog - Red

Hidden Liz - Red

Is Nan In? - Pink

Week beginning 22/06/2020 - Sports Week

Please see this weeks activities on the 'Whole School Themed Home Learning' page.

Click here for Maths activities:

3D shape sorting activity
Addition to 20 game
Building bricks subtraction
Reading Challenge (Week 1) for Class R
Mrs Minshull task - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnYlqQNncvs

Remember to send me any pictures of your learning this week as Mr Macdonald will be choosing some to put in his newsletter!

Books this week:

- Kick It! - Pink

- The Queen's Plan - Red

Take a look at the fun we have had since being back at school! We have been learning about Pirates and Under the Sea. We have also amazed Miss Woods with our Writing and Math work.

Home Learning

Home Learning - 15/06/2020

NEW TOPIC - UNDER THE SEA

Letter to Class R

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Mrs Minshull activity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8AVa_qYhyM

Epic log in instructions - Please log in and read with your child.

Books for this week:

Hop, Swim and Run - Pink
In a Rush - Red

Home Learning - 08/06/2020

NEW TOPIC - PIRATES

Pirates - BrainPOP

Letter to Class R

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Read and draw activity
Tricky words colouring
Pirate subtraction
Pirate addition
Where is the...? Click HERE for the map. Click HERE for the question cards.
Instructions to make a Pirate hat
Label a Pirate ship

Mrs Minshull activity - https://youtu.be/wJYM8IZPKrA

Books for this week:

Epic instructions

- Click HERE for Miss Woods reading Worrysaurus in preparation for coming back to school.

I am really looking forward to seeing you at school this week. I will be there waiting at the door with a big smile and I hope you will be too. We will have lots of fun! Click HERE for the social story.

Home Learning - 01/06/2020

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Letter to Class R - 01/06/2020

Miss Woods reading Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood - questions
Little Red Riding Hood - character description
Little Red Riding Hood - speech bubbles
Creative writing - Banana
Creative writing - Green dog
Phonics - Blends board
Phonics - Blends activity
Well-being activity

Math challenges

Make a musical instrument with Mrs Minshull - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZfV2Qjh9I

Books for this week:

A Big Mess - Pink
Top Dog - Red

If your child is due to return to school when we reopen, I have made a social story with pictures to help with the transition back to school. It includes pictures of the classroom and what will be slightly different. Click HERE for the social story.

Home Learning - 18/05/2020

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Miss Woods reading the ebook 'The Cautious Caterpillar'
Questions about 'The Cautious Caterpillar'
Mini beast sentences
Feeding the mini beasts Maths worksheet
Tree identification
Cody's butterfly cakes recipe
Outdoor colour match
Sticks and stones Maths mastery activity

Letter to Class R - 18/05/2020

Books for this week:

Home Learning - 11/05/2020

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Letter to Class R - 11/05/2020

With the worksheets don't worry if you do not have a printer, just use the worksheet online and write the words in your home learning books!

Books for this week...

Here are some books which you can read electronically...

Can cat get cod? - Pink

Munching Lunch - Red

Eggs - Red This book is a challenge, can you have a go?

Nod - Pink

Up to the Stars - Red

Rat and Cat in The Hat Trick - Red

The Thing - Red

Big Fat Rat - Pink

Dig, Sid, Dig - Pink

A Green Lunch - Red

See Like Me - Red

King Pip and the Wish - Red

Panther and Frog - Red

Hidden Liz - Red

Is Nan In? - Pink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJqSkQqRebg

Home Learning - 04/05/2020

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'ur' activity
'ur' sound buttons
'ear' activity
Doubling story
Halving mat
Ladybird doubles
Miss Woods reading 'A Squash and a Squeeze'
CHALLENGE from Mrs Minshull - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPe3vOzFyqU

Letter to Class R - 04/05/2020

VE Day - Friday 8th May activities

Have a go at some of these activities to create your own home decorations and to celebrate VE day.

Home learning SPACE Week 2 - 27/04/2020

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Letter to Class R (27/04/2020)

Home learning SPACE Week 1 - 20/04/2020 How Old Is the Solar System? | Answers in Genesis

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Letter to Class R (20/04/2020)

- How to support your child blending CVC words

EASTER Week 2 - 13/04/2020

This week is all about 'The Gruffalo', hope you enjoy all the activities, keep in touch through our email Class R!

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Letter to Class R 13/04/2020

A message and challenge from Mrs Minshull...

https://youtu.be/iTqb9Ypf7wc

EASTER Week 1 - 06/04/2020

This week is the start of the Easter holidays therefore it is important to have fun and concentrate on your child’s wellbeing. I have set less activities this week which also includes some fun, practical tasks. I hope you have a great week!

Click HERE for Home Learning 06/04/2020 (Easter tasks)

Letter to Class R 06/04/2020

Week Beginning - 30/03/2020

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With the worksheets don't worry if you do not have a printer, just use the worksheet online and write the words in your home learning books!

Letter to Class R 30/03/2020

Week Beginning 23/03/2020

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Letter to Class R pupils (23/03/2020)

Here are some pictures of what is growing in Class R...

Hope has visited school this week and has also been helping Miss Woods answer your emails.
The caterpillars have turned into chrysalis' and now safe in Miss Woods' house being closely watched. Miss Woods will try to record the butterflies coming out of their chrysalis for you.
The children who are at school have planted all your beans in pots, Miss Woods will keep you updated on their growth!

Hope helping Miss Woods clean her bedroom...
Hope having a rest in a cup...

In Foundation Stage, we learn through play in our enabling indoor and outdoor environments. We always have our waterproofs and wellies at school so we can go outside whatever the weather! Look at how much fun we had in these giant puddles…

Wassily Kandinsky Valentines Artwork

This half term in PE we have been doing dance. Each week we have learnt a new dance skill, these skills were shape, space, direction and levels. Using these skills we learnt a dinosaur dance linking to our topic, we had great fun! We also shared the dance with our parents at 'Stay and Play'.

We have learnt the story 'How to look after your dinosaur' by Jason Cockcroft, use the QR code to watch us retelling the story.

Measuring fun!

We have been learning how to measure using non-standard measurements. We found objects we wanted to measure both inside and outside.

"You have to measure from one edge to the other!" - Annabel

Take a look at some of our measuring...

We decided to measure how many children, sitting on chairs, could fit across our classroom. We managed to fit 27 children!

Dinosaurs - Spring 1

This half term we are learning all about dinosaurs. We have been looking at the book ‘Tyrannosaurus Drip’. Each day we have read a small part of the story and created a story map. We also created an emotion graph to plot Tyrannosaurus Drip’s feelings throughout the story, we came up with adjectives to describe how he might have felt. After that, we used our story map to retell the story of Tyrannosaurus Drip, here are some of us retelling the story.

Tyrannosaurus Drip also visited our school, which we were very excited about. He left footprints across the hall which we followed to see if we could find him. We followed the clues around the school and eventually found a note from him. “I don’t belong here either so I need to go and find my home, but I have left you these eggs.” We felt sad for Tyrannosaurus Drip because we wanted him to find a place to call home however we were very excited about the eggs which he had left.

Over the past week, we have watched the eggs hatch and we now have two Stegosauruses in our classroom!

In our story, Tyrannosaurus Drip didn’t want to eat meat and it made us wonder, what did Dinosaurs eat? So we started to look at the different types of dinosaurs and what they used to eat. We learnt what a herbivore and a carnivore was and then realised Tyrannosaurus Drip didn’t want to eat meat because he was in fact a herbivore. Therefore, we wrote recipes and created a special snack for Tyrannosaurs Drip using all types of vegetables and plants. We used our recipes to make sure we remembered all the ingredients.