Foundation stage
Welcome to our Class R page! Here you can find out about our learning and see what Early Years is all about.
Home Learning
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:
- Tut, Tut, Pup - Pink
- Moo! Cluck! Growl! - Red
- Eco Apes - Red
Home Learning - 11/05/2020
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- Phase 3 matching pictures
- Phonics challenges (phase 2)
- Phonics challenges (phase 3)
- Miss Woods on a bear hunt
- Bear hunt adjectives
- Miss Woods' story board - support video
- Doubling booklet
- Doubling challenges
- Halving bees
- Halving challenges
- Video from Mrs Minshull
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...
- A big mess - Pink
- Star cat - Red
- Turnips and Beetroots - Red
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
See Like Me - Red
King Pip and the Wish - Red
Panther and Frog - Red
Hidden Liz - Red
Is Nan In? - Pink
Pop! Pop! Pop! - Pink
I can fix it! - Red
Sid and Zak - Red
The quiz went fizz - Red
In the Pit - Pink
A Bad Lad - Pink
Sid and Nan Invent - Red
On the Farm - Red
Lots of Legs - Red
Tom's Mad Mop - Pink
Is it a Rock? - Pink
Fun on the Canal - Pink
In a Rush - Red
Is it a Monster? - Red
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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- Postcard outline
- Design a Planet
- Questions about 'The Moon'
- Miss Woods reading the book about the Moon
- The Sun - book
- Everyday 3D shape PowerPoint
- 3D shape talk poster
- Tricky words (Phase 3)
- Phonics 'air'
- Phonics 'oo' and 'oo'
Letter to Class R (27/04/2020)
Home learning SPACE Week 1 - 20/04/2020 
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- Book about the Planets
- Miss Woods reading the book about Astronauts
- Space Maths booklet
- Solar System
- Space sentences
- Phase 2 Tricky Words
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...
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!
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- Aliens in Underpants Save the World
- Teen numbers video
- What is this teen number?
- Teen number activity
- Preposition posters
Letter to Class R 06/04/2020
Week Beginning - 30/03/2020
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- Little Red Hen story
- Digraphs and trigraphs practise
- 'ar' worksheet
- 'oa' worksheet
- 'ai' worksheet
- How to write a sentence...
- Letter join log in
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.
