The Gates Primary SchoolEYFS- Penguins: Blog items
Nursery Home Learning 27th March
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 8:19am
Happy Friday everyone!
I hope you have been enjoying the sunshine this week. I have! I have been doing lots of puzzles and exercise outside and my two cats have even been sunbathing!
I am so pleased to see so many children taking part in the home learning activities and I love looking at all the new creations on Purple Mash and Mini Mash. I wonder if you could create an easter egg today?
Today's tasks are as follows:
IXL:
Maths- E1, K1
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash and Mini Mash.
Let's begin the day with a challenge. Can you go for a walk with your grown-ups and count how many rainbows you see? You could even take pictures of your walk and put them on the blog for teachers to see!
I hope you have a wonderful day Penguins and I can't wait to see all your creations.
Miss Altham
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 4:49pm
Hi penguins I hope you've had a good day in the sunshine. We have been doing our exercise in the garden and playing some phonic games outside. We have come in now though for some chill out time before tea.
I am so impressed with how much learning has been going on today, we have reached 10,000 questions on IXL which is amazing, you have posted some great blogs about painting and baking AND there has been some amazing learning on purple mash too. I am loving all your little comments on your pictures they really make me smile during the day.
I have added some pictures below of some of the learning.
Hope you all sleep well penguins and enjoy a lovely bedtime story. I'll speak to you all tomorrow.
Mrs J xx
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 12:33pm
It's so great to see so many children creating rainbows to put in their windows.
Take a look at Eddie's rainbows. Hasn't he done a brilliant job?
Don't forget to post anything you want to share with us on the pupil blogs.
Miss Altham
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 10:10am
I have just been looking at the IXL, you are doing brilliant Penguins. Poppy is currently in the lead with 680 questions answered closely followed by Freddie and Tilly.
Like Miss Altham said, lets see if we can have a big push today and raise those numbers.
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 9:04am
Just wanted to share some of the fab things already posted on the pupil blogs! Can't wait to see lots more today!
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 9:01am
Well done Penguins, over half way!
Let's see if everybody can answer some questions and get us to that next milestone!
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Nursery Home Learning 26th March
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 8:12am
Good morning Penguins!
I am so happy to see so many of you having a go at the to dos on Purple Mash. You have created some great rainbows and daffodils.
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Sadly, I am not sure my cat likes daffodils as much as we do...
I am looking forward to seeing more of your creations on Mini Mash and Purple Mash today. Don't forget to put your name on your work!
Todays tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths-B3, P3
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash and Mini Mash
Have a great day!
Miss Altham
Date: 25th Mar 2020 @ 9:52am
Hi Penguins,
Hope you've had a great day, there has been lots of great learning today. Well done!
How did you do with your patterns on IXL today?
Did anyone manage to make any with objects around the house?
These are the ones we've made today; what would come next?
Penguins 27th March Home Learning
Date: 25th Mar 2020 @ 9:25am
Good morning Penguins and happy Friday!! You have made it through your first week of learning at home (and so have your grown ups!) you have all done so well. Lots of you have continued to work hard to keep those brains growing so well done!
We had a fun afternoon in the garden yesterday, I was inspired by Olivers garden nerf game so set up a tricky word game using post it notes and Arthur had to shoot the tricky words I shouted, we only lost a few balls over the fence!!
Today’s tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths – Year 1 - M.8 and the have a go at M.13 they are quite tricky! Remember to use objects to help you or use a number line to 20 i'll add one below to look at. Your grown ups could draw this out for you.
English – Year 1 - rhyming E.2, E.3, E.4
Phonics play - can you grab a giggling grapheme? This is great fun and will make you giggle too!
Please also complete activities on:
Purple Mash
Mini Mash
Don't forget to try and read every day, Oxford Owl have some great books broken down into levels that you can use. Majority of Reception are on red, yellow or blue and work within phase 3 phonics.
Have a great day Penguins and a lovely weekend, you all deserve it!
Lets kick the day off with some subitising!
Mrs Jarrett 
Penguins 26th March Home Learning
Date: 25th Mar 2020 @ 9:10am
Morning Penguins!
We are nearly at the end of our first week at home and you are doing amazing! I am so proud of you all! I hope you are all being good for your grown ups and doing some really good listening! I went for a long walk yesterday and saw lots of rainbow in the windows, these really made me smile. I hope they make you smile when you go walking too!
Its a really sunny day again so make sure you make time to go outside in the garden and play. Im going to finish my morning coffee and go and do a workout in the garden. Hope you are all managing the Joe Wicks P.E workouts, they're fab!
Today’s tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths – Year 1 - addition - M.1, M.2, M.3 and if you're up for the challenge M.10
English – Year 1 - short vowels - I.12, I.16
Phonics play - lets try Rocket rescue today - can you sound out all the words. Most of you are on Phase 3, if you need a challenge try Phase 4. If Phase 3 is a little bit tricky don't worry do Phase 2.
Please also complete activities on:
Purple Mash
Mini Mash
Don't forget to try and read every day, Oxford Owl have some great books broken down into levels that you can use. Majority of Reception are on red, yellow or blue and work within phase 3 phonics.
You should have all recieved a blog log on yesterday so can now upload comments and photos about what you have been up to. I can't wait to see them all; happy blogging!
Have a great day Penguins!
Lets kick the day off with some counting in 5's!
Nursery Home Learning 25th March
Date: 25th Mar 2020 @ 7:27am
Hi Penguins,
Happy Wednesday!
I hope you are having a lovely week and I can't wait to hear all about it. Well done to everybody who is completing their daily challenges on Purple Mask and IXL.
Nursery
Today's tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths-B2, P2
Please also complete activities on:
Mini Mash
Let's start today's learning off with some counting!
Miss Altham
Date: 24th Mar 2020 @ 10:57pm
Lots have people have been making rainbows and putting them in their windows for everyone to see when they are out for a walk. Mr Dean has said they made him smile when walking home from school yesterday!
Have you created one yet? If you haven't can you create one today and put it in your window! If you get chance to go for a walk today you could count how many you find and comment on this blog to tell me!
These are the rainbows I made today with my children that are now in our window.
Penguins 25th March Home Learning
Date: 24th Mar 2020 @ 9:23pm
Good morning Penguins!
Happy half way through the week! Hope you are managing to enjoy some of this lovely sunshine! Look how amazing we are doing on IXL, we are nearly at the top of the mountain! Keep it up.
I have added below the home learning for today and don't forget the purple mash to do's and to save your work so I can see what you’re up to.
I thought today we could use our bodies to make some repeating patterns! Once you have tried the video ones a few times, could you make you own up! I'd love to see them!
Today’s tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths – Reception - Patterns - M.1, M.2, M.3, M.4.
If you think you're ready for a challenge try; Year 1- Patterns - I.7, I.8.
I wonder if you could find some objects around the house to make a repeating pattern, I'll have a look too!
English – I thought we would recap our position language today as we sometimes get a bit muddled. So please complete : H.7, H.8, H.9.
Phonics play - you could practise your tricky words today on the truck app. Use Phase 2,3, or 4 depending on what tricky word book mark you're up to. Comment below on how long it takes you to read them, I wonder who can be the quickest?
Please also complete activities on:
Purple Mash
Mini Mash
Don't forget to try and read every day, Oxford Owl have some great books broken down into levels that you can use. Majority of Reception are on red, yellow or blue and work within phase 3 phonics.
Have a great day Penguins, don't forget to get up run around, play in the garden and make the most of being able to play with all your toys during the day!
Date: 24th Mar 2020 @ 9:16pm
These minibeasts are fab and well done to those children who tried to add some writing. Ive only seen 3 though, I'd love to see some more. They are on your to do section on your purple mash.
Date: 24th Mar 2020 @ 9:11pm
I have just been looking through some of the wonderful learning that has been happening over on purple mash. I love these dafodils paintings, they really made me smile. They are just like the ones on my kitchen table.
Don't forget to to save your to do's so I can have a look at them and add a comment.
Date: 24th Mar 2020 @ 7:41am
David Walliams stories are fab and for the next 30 days he is releasing a different audio story every day! This would be something lovely to listen to, I can't wait for the first one today!
Click on the photo to take you to his website, the stories are under the Elevenses tab.
Nursery Home Learning 24th March
Date: 23rd Mar 2020 @ 9:07pm
Good morning Penguins,
I hope you are having lots of fun with your grown ups at home and spending lots of time in the lovely sunshine this week!
Well done to everyone who has been doing their questions on IXL and putting work into their trays on Purple Mash. I have enjoyed looking through all of these this week.
Why not start this Tuesday off with some yoga before completing today's tasks? Don't forget to share with me everything that you have been up to by commenting on the blog!
Miss Altham
Today's tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths- B1, P1
Please also complete activies on:
Mini Mash
Penguins 24th March home learning
Date: 23rd Mar 2020 @ 7:13pm
Good morning Penguins, hope you had a good day yesterday and we were so pleased to see how many children where on IXL and we are now up to 2,823 questions answered; this is amazing keep it up Penguins!
I have added below the home learning for today and don't forget the purple mash to do's and to save your work so I can see what your up to.
Yesterday we counted to 100, I hope you all got involved. How about today we count to 100 in 10's?
Remember those teacup numbers.
Today’s tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths – Reception Subtraction I.1, I.2, I.3 (have some objects like lego bricks, cubes, animals, cars on hand to help you practically work out the answers for some of the questions)
English – Alphabet B.10, B.11
Phonics play - dragons den - phase 2 and phase 3. Those who are ready for that challenge use phase 4.
Please also complete activities on:
Purple Mash
Mini Mash
Don't forget to try and read every day, Oxford Owl have some great books broken down into levels that you can use. Majority of Reception are on red, yellow or blue and work within phase 3 phonics.
Have a great day Penguins, don't forget you can comment on the blog about what you have been up to, we'd love to hear from you!
Date: 23rd Mar 2020 @ 10:49am
Attached are the EYFS Topic Homework Webs, old and new! Please continue at home to support our topic learning by completing some of the following activities. Please share what you have completed by blogging, we will look forward to seeing them!
Penguins 23rd March Home Learning
Date: 23rd Mar 2020 @ 8:20am
Morning Penguins!
I hope you all had a nice weekend at home managed to get out in the garden to enjoy the sunshine.
I am so impressed that Penguins have answered an amazing 1,156 questions on IXL; keep it up, lets see if we can be the first class to get to 2,500!
Below I will post todays learning and will add some to do's on purple mash.
But lets start the day with some physical counting.
Remember to say the numbers all the way to 100, can you get everyone involved at home? (video is at the bottom)
Today’s tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths – Reception Size N.2, N.3, N.4
English – Sight words – Reception G.1, G.2, G.3
Phonics play - buried treasure - phase 2 and phase 3. Those who are ready for that challenge use phase 4.
Please also complete activities on:
Purple Mash
Mini Mash
Have a great day Penguins.
Nursery Home Learning 23rd March
Date: 23rd Mar 2020 @ 7:58am
Nursery
Today’s tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths – A3, L3
Please also complete activities on:
Mini Mash
20th March 2020 Home Learning Nursery
Date: 20th Mar 2020 @ 8:00am
Nursery
Today’s tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths – A2, L2
Please also complete activities on:
Mini Mash
Penguins 20th March 2020 Home learning
Date: 19th Mar 2020 @ 3:53pm
Today’s tasks will be as follows:
IXL:
Maths – Reception Subtraction I.1, I.2, I.3
English – Alphabet – Reception B.3, B.4, B.7, B.8
Phonics play - picnic on pluto with phase 3 sounds.
Please also complete activities on:
Purple Mash
Mini Mash
Date: 19th Mar 2020 @ 2:00pm
Our little ducklings have all hatched now and fluffed up! We moved them into their bigger home today and even got them out to take their first steps! They are all now having a snooze curled up under the heater.
Date: 18th Mar 2020 @ 4:10pm
What an aexciting day we have had! This afternoon 4 of our baby ducklings have hatched. The children sat and watch them and have been fascinated watching them hatch out of the eggs. They have been so quiet and it has prvoked some amazing conversations!