What is your child learning today Reception

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Didn’t spot a thread for Reception year!

I’ll start - difference between night and day.

What is she suppose to be doing or what we have actually done?
She has mostly jumped around on the furniture and not injured her younger sister.

I’ve been quite shocked today.

We received an email telling us as from tomorrow they will hold Registration at 9.15am via zoom, all children must be logged in and one parent must be present. This must take place in a quiet room and parent must stay for the duration of registration. Both child and parent plus everyone else in the house must be dressed appropriately. I’m guessing everyone else just Incase they wander and can be seen. During this zoom call they will go through tasks and work to be completed that day and all completed tasks must be submitted by 3.15pm each day. 😳. This is for children aged 4/5!!

@Icantrememebrtheartist. That’s quite full on!!

@Icantrememebrtheartist

I’ve been quite shocked today.

We received an email telling us as from tomorrow they will hold Registration at 9.15am via zoom, all children must be logged in and one parent must be present. This must take place in a quiet room and parent must stay for the duration of registration. Both child and parent plus everyone else in the house must be dressed appropriately. I’m guessing everyone else just Incase they wander and can be seen. During this zoom call they will go through tasks and work to be completed that day and all completed tasks must be submitted by 3.15pm each day. 😳. This is for children aged 4/5!!

Ridiculous! I would ignore it

What if you are working from home on the only laptop?? Ridiculous.

My DS is in reception. By 9am today we had tasks sent to us under maths, phonics and the general topic, a combination of writing, drawing, counting and then taking photos of things they can see. No deadline.

It was a little bit tricky to get him to focus but DS did some of each task.

That’s absurd

It’s basically saying you have to prioritise home-Ed over work commitments. We’ll work is what feeds my kids and its not always possible to avoid a meeting at 9am or finish school work by the afternoon. Surely flexibility should be allowed including using the weekends to complete assignments over the course of a week. Whoever came up with that must assumes all mothers don’t have jobs...

Crikey that's full on.
I've got 4 kids.
School made some recommendations.
My 4 year old did one of those dot to dot letters work books. Counted up to 20 and worked on 'one more than' using a number line and some shells.
Practiced writing her name.
Did a bit of phonics work.

DS in reception will, from tomorrow, have:
1 x live daily phonics lesson on Google classroom (20 mins) at the start of the day
1 x live daily story time (15 mins) at the end of the day
Worksheets/tasks for in between set daily. Unclear yet if we have to submit them or just do them at home.
Also not sure yet what they propose for reading, we have access to ebooks on the Oxford owl website but there’s only 6 or so for each level some of which we’ve read already.

We did phonic (a video on diagraphs and writing some words) maths (time and guessing the season), some exercises, talk about and draw nocturnal animals. I'm struggling with just that 😳 we've done three activities.

They want to do a registration via zoom tomorrow morning which I'd rather not do.

I'm just doing what I can and not stressing about the rest. I tied myself in knots tge last lock down trying to get everything done and my son loves learning that I'm taking a stance to not suck the fun out of it and turn it into a soul destroying chore.

Last year in reception I was told an hour a day flit into 15 mins sections.

But they wanted children back normal and healthy...

We had hard copy packs and lots of apps. But we picked and chose which to do. At school in reception they do lots of play and arts and crafts

DD doesn't have anything live. She has 4/5 pre-recorded videos on Tapestry with something to do after e.g. video about drawing a story mountain then draw your own, video on '1 less' then practise with pencils. She has a suggested timetable of when to do these plus Reading Eggs, Cosmic Yoga etc but they said do what you can.

@Icantrememebrtheartist

I’ve been quite shocked today.

We received an email telling us as from tomorrow they will hold Registration at 9.15am via zoom, all children must be logged in and one parent must be present. This must take place in a quiet room and parent must stay for the duration of registration. Both child and parent plus everyone else in the house must be dressed appropriately. I’m guessing everyone else just Incase they wander and can be seen. During this zoom call they will go through tasks and work to be completed that day and all completed tasks must be submitted by 3.15pm each day. 😳. This is for children aged 4/5!!

And what if there are older kids/parents who need to be in another zoom meetings at that time & there's only 1 laptop?!

Or limited data for internet?
Or slow internet that can't do zoom?

For reception FGS

We've been doing phonics today and handwriting practice. I would follow what you can but deffo don't put too much pressure on yourselves for this age xx

We have a live session of phonics in the morning and 2 short pre-recorded videos a day on numeracy and literacy.

I’ve signed up to Twinkl for a month (£5.50 ish) and there’s good resources on there. Did some scissor control and counting today.

The app How to teach your monster to read is really helpful. (£5)

Good luck everyone @Icantrememebrtheartist that sounds excessive. Flexibility is needed from both ends. I work full time, I'd be very unhappy with that. I'm unsure what they're trying to achieve.

We did get a timetable, and get at least 4 pre-recorded/storybook sessions a day. Follow on activities accompany 2 of them usually. I've been studying for over an hour about how to teach my kid to read. This term is when they'd have started 'reading' very basic books, so we have started with level 1 books according to Oxford Owls. All the information was sent to parents, with links and resources. My kid barely knows what sound each letter makes, so we'll go at a natural pace

The teacher delivers a live phonics session at 11am, and the kids get to talk to their friends for a bit afterwards. Very inconvenient as I also had a zoom team meeting, but we were able to handle it, except I begged him not to put his hand up.

Most of the day we allow him to play. We try to focus his attention to playing with his lego, play doh, and art/crafts. Youtube videos have been fun to watch too.

We get given a maths task, a phonics task and a task linked to their topic of interest for each day / week, plus live meetings at the beginning and end of each day. No reading or writing as far as I can see. It’s probably a good level of set work although I am a person who needs rules and structure so would happily have more! DD wouldn’t agree, I suspect...

I’ll do reading and writing with her around the set work. I’m in a lucky position of not having other children in the house to deal with and DH and I are splitting the days so not trying to work simultaneously

We’ve got a weeks worth of work on the website. Each day is phonics, literacy based on a book, and maths. Phonics we completed by ourselves and then found a video the school had posted with one of the teachers going over it so we do the phonics session twice.

Everything else is fairly easy and doesn’t take much time but we are making sure we are reading each day. During the last lockdown I printed some cursive phonics flash cards and we play a quick fire game each day to practice them.

We’ve got a minimum of two tricky words to teach each day. It’s hard but doable. Simple writing tasks too, a sentence with punctuation that the teacher sets. Upload via tapestry each day.

So far today she’s done an hour of English with the class over teams, some independent doodlemaths, a class session of maths and a 1:1 phonics session.

She’s doing PE now.

I think there’s some RE later where they talk about how they’re unique.

Bump

Do started the day really upset, so we started with a fun challenge of drawing the numbers 1 to 10 outside in chalk and counting down by jumping from each number to the next and shouting "blast off" when she reached number 1
For phonics she completed a worksheet on the letter w and told us where the "w" sound is in a selection of sentences.
Then she did some work on the number 10, recognising the number, how it's written, and some counting and figuring out which picture had 10 items in. She was meant to do hickory dickory dock up to 10, but she'd had enough at that point

Watching with interest. Our school has said they will post work properly from Monday as they need a few days to formulate a plan. Large class and more than half are still in.
I’ve just been doing bits myself with DS, reading, numerals, drawing, mostly playing.

I’m worried about the access to books during lockdown. DS has formed a love of reading and brings me several books a day to listen to him read. School were fab as they had picked up on it too, and used to send him home with a few extra. I’ve ordered a few from Amazon but the rate he gets through them it is going to cost us £££s for six of the biff, chip and kipper ones it was £28! . We have the teach your monster how to read app which he loves.

@Icantrememebrtheartist

I’ve been quite shocked today.

We received an email telling us as from tomorrow they will hold Registration at 9.15am via zoom, all children must be logged in and one parent must be present. This must take place in a quiet room and parent must stay for the duration of registration. Both child and parent plus everyone else in the house must be dressed appropriately. I’m guessing everyone else just Incase they wander and can be seen. During this zoom call they will go through tasks and work to be completed that day and all completed tasks must be submitted by 3.15pm each day. 😳. This is for children aged 4/5!!

Same. It’s ridiculous.

I’ve ordered a few from Amazon but the rate he gets through them it is going to cost us £££s for six of the biff, chip and kipper ones it was £28!

If you register on the Oxford Owls website, you get access to ebooks. Biff, Chip, Kipper books are there

home.oxfordowl.co.uk/