W/C 13th July

Hi Tigers and Monkeys, it is our last week of learning together before you go into big school as Year Ones! We can’t wait to see you in September, we think you will have grown so much as we haven’t seen you for so long.

So let’s get learning, here are your last Tiger and Monkey challenges.

We are going to continue to follow the phonics videos. see the link below on how to access these sessions! 

Don't forget you can access some of our favourite phonics songs!

Tricky word phase 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY
Tricky words phase 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
alphabet rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emb2yvwAHtc

Monday

We know that your new teachers will be looking forward to welcoming you back to Hilltop Academy in September so to help them recognise you we would like you to do a drawing of yourself, don’t forget to use your best handwriting to write your full name on your picture.

Tuesday

Today we would like you to label your picture from yesterday with what you look like and all of the great things that you are good at such as:

·       Football

·       Dancing

·       Writing

·       Reading

·       Singing

·       Any other talent you have.

Wednesday

Now that you have done your drawing and labelled it, use three of your labels and write a sentence about each, telling us about your talent such as where you do it, who you like to do it with and anything else interesting about what you are good at. Don’t forget to use a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence, a full stop at the end and remember those finger spaces.

Thursday

Today we would like you to write three sentences all about you that you think your new teacher would like to know about you. Don’t forget to use a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence, a full stop at the end and remember those finger spaces. Your sentences can be about anything such as any worries about returning to school, or what you are looking forward to, or who you are looking forward to playing with. PLease ask your adults to send your lovely drawing and sentences to us so we can pass them on to your new teachers.

Fun Friday

This is our last fun Friday in Tigers and Monkeys before you become big Y1's! So we would like you to make up an end of year dance to your favourite music. Or you could show us how musical you are by making up your own tune with either an instrument or something you can make noise with from around the house or even body percussion. We are looking forward to seeing some crazy dance moves and music so get creative. Don’t forget to take videos or photos to send in to us to cheer us all up seeing your happy smiley faces.

Dance and Music Festival

Hill Top needs your help!

Monday the 13^th of July marks the beginning of our Trust Dance and Music Festival.

We know how talented you all are and we want to share that!

This will be our last week of Summer term and what better way to lift spirits than a good song and dance!

You can film yourself singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument at home. 

Then please email it to your year group email address.

Look out for your videos on Facebook throughout the week, so we can showcase all of our pupils' talents!

W/C 6th July

W/C 6th July Super Learning Challenges

Hi Tigers and Monkeys! We hope you have been having fun practicing for our virtual sports day. We miss you all so much and can’t wait to be back altogether! 

Let's see what learning challenges we have for this week!

We are going to continue to follow the phonics videos. see the link below on how to access these sessions! 

Don't forget you can access some of our favourite phonics songs!

Tricky word phase 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY
Tricky words phase 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
alphabet rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emb2yvwAHtc

Monday

This week we are going to look at things that keep us healthy, so to start our Healthy bodies topic we would like you and your adults to read this story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

Now can you tell your adult which foods did the caterpillar eat that are healthy and which foods are unhealthy?

Tuesday

Now that you have read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, you know the life cycle of a butterfly. Using a piece of plain paper put the title Life cycle of a butterfly and underneath draw all the stages from the egg to the butterfly. You can make your picture as colourful as you like, get creative!

Wednesday

Today is the day to hunt in the kitchen cupboards (with your adult’s permission). Make two piles, one with all of the healthy food you have found and one with all the unhealthy foods you have found. Which is the biggest pile? Which pile would you like to eat the most?

Challenge

Can you design a healthy meal from what you have found?

Thursday

Today we would like you to draw and label all of the healthy foods that you like to eat. If you are not sure if they are healthy you can ask your adult or ask them to help you research them on the internet.

Challenge

Using your food list can you draw a plate of healthy food that you would like to eat for a meal. ( Maybe you could even help your adult to make this meal over the next few days and send us a picture to our email:

reception@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

Fun Friday!

Let’s get creative again today. Can you make your own Very Hungry Caterpillar? There are lots of different ways you can do this with whatever you have in your home. You could paint a picture using a brush or even your hands:

You could make an egg box caterpillar:

Or even a puppet:

Why not get creative with healthy foods?

Whatever you do have fun and be healthy!

NEW LINKS - Virtual Sports Day

NEW WORKING LINKS 

We apologise that the links didn't work 

yesterday. Click below to watch the videos 

and log your score 

HILL TOP NEEDS YOU!

Pupils, parents and teachers of Hill Top, enter the Trust Virtual Sports Competition 

and let’s make Hill Top victorious!

Join the competition and help Hill Top win against the other schools in the Trust!

To log your score 

- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAQ5HNm_4deh9SiBZcO3f56MwWHRNDnktIC1j4dTi4RR4nxg/viewform

To see the activities -

 https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmX9uy8Tkt1wBBwpbVtltaobge8gsngay

Take a look at our video of the teachers practising their skills last week.

Hill Top Staff - Virtual Sports Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxq8R909bi8

Sports Active week

Good morning Tigers and Monkeys. This week is our Sports Active week so let’s get moving! We have some excellent sports that you can do at home with household items. Watch the videos by clicking this link:

 https://buff.ly/2zQPvuO

You can log your score online by clicking this link: https://buff.ly/2YYgfCb

Let’s do this Tigers and Monkeys!

Week 14 - Super Learning

Hello Tigers and Monkeys! 

We hope you are all keeping safe and having lots of fun at home! It has been lovely to see all of your super learning this week! We hope you enjoyed Jasper's Beanstalk too! Marvin and Tommy were super busy learning about growing too! Here is what they got upto!

Let's see what learning challenges we have for this week!

We are going to continue to follow the phonics videos. see the link below on how to access these sessions! 

Don't forget you can access some of our favourite phonics songs!

Tricky word phase 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY
Tricky words phase 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
alphabet rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emb2yvwAHtc

Maths Challenges!
This week we are going to explore addition. There are a number of key words which will you need to know and use throughout this week. 
add    combine    total    group    altogether 

Monday

Today you will need to draw a part whole model like the one below. You will be using this model to support you when you are combining two groups to find the whole (total). You will need to find a range of small objects which you can use to combine together. You could even create your own counters, colour them in, cut them out and use these! You could explore placing a range of amounts into the different parts and combining these to make the whole. You could begin with combining amounts to make 10, once you are confident in doing this you could combine amounts to make 10 and above. 

Tuesday

Today we are going to explore a story to help us with our combining skills today! Click on the link to watch the story of Mr Gumpy's Outing  

Once you have watched the story we would like you to create your own boat! You could make your boat from play-dough, cardboard or egg cartons! 

Now we are going to create our own stories using the sentence stems First.... Then.... Now...

First there were 2 children in the boat. Then 2 more jumped in. Now there were 4 children in the boat. You could even write the story down with the help of your grown up! You could even make little people to jump in and out of your boat! We can't wait to see your super creations! Don't forget you can use your part whole model to support you in finding the whole!

Wednesday

Today we are going to use the part whole model to support us when writing a number sentence! Below is an example of my completed part whole model. 3 is a part, 3 is a part, the whole is 6. Can you make your part whole model look like mine? Now we are going to explore writing this as a number sentence. 3 + 3 = 6 

Can you see how we add the two parts together using the addition + sign to find the total? 

Once you have had a try at mine can you create your own part whole model and number sentences for the ones below. 

4 is a part 

3 is a part

the whole is ________

_______ +  _______ = 

5 is a part 

4 is a part 

the whole is _________

________+_________= 

Thursday

Today you will need to ask your grown up to help you read your addition story! You will need your part whole model to help you!

Miss Hanson has 6 cookies and Miss Wilcox has 3 how many cookies do they have altogether?

You could draw your cookies in your part whole model to help you find the total. Don't forget your number sentence (______+______=)

Challenge: 

Miss Hanson and Miss Wilcox have lost their brilliant brains. They need your help this morning! They both think they have 10 cookies each in their baskets. 

Miss Wilcox has 6 cookies in one basket and 3 in the other. 

Miss Hanson has 6 cookies in one basket and 4 in the other. 

How many cookies do they have each? Who was right? 

Can you show this using the part whole model and the number sentences as above?

Fun Friday!

Today we are going to explore freezing and melting! Look at the picture below to see all of the resources you will need! Once you have frozen your eggs you could explore finding the quickest way to melt your egg surprise!

Super Learners

 

E has had a super busy few weeks! She has been exploring the outdoors with her dog and completing our capacity learning challenges! She even made her own labels for the jugs!

L has become a palaeontologist this week! He has been exploring a dinosaur egg to see what he could find… Once he cracked through the egg he found his very own dinosaur!

O explored Van Gogh’s sunflower painting last week and has created her own representation of his famous painting using her own wonderful ideas! O has also created her own flower this week using the resources she could find at home! She then used her phonic knowledge to label the parts of the flower!

Week 13 Learning Challenges

Hello Tigers and Monkeys! 
We hope you are staying safe and having lots of fun! We are missing you all so much so we are sending you a virtual hug! Get ready to catch it...

We hope you are ready for this week's learning challenges! Scroll down to see the fun challenges we have planned for this week!

Phonics
We are going to continue to explore the wonderful phonics sessions which are available on YouTube

Don't forget you can access some of our favourite phonics songs!

Tricky word phase 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY
Tricky words phase 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
alphabet rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emb2yvwAHtc




Understanding the World
This week we are going to look at one of our favourite stories Jasper's Beanstalk! 
Click on the link below to listen to this story!

Jasper's Beanstalk

Monday

Today we are going to explore reading the story Jasper's Beanstalk. Before you begin the story, have a look at the front cover and discuss these questions with your grown ups. 

What can you see? What do you think will happen? Who is Jasper? Do you know any other stories which contain a beanstalk? Why does the cat have tools?

Once you have read the story you could plant your own beans or seeds if you have any! If you do not have any you could research all of the things you would need to grow your own beanstalk! Can you make a list of all of the things you need? Can you draw the pictures to match?

Tuesday
Today we are going to continue to explore growing! We are going to focus on the different parts of a plant! Using any resources you may have at home your challenge is to create a picture of a plant! Here is an example of a picture using the key words and parts that you will need to include! Once you have designed your plant/flower can you label the different parts using your phonic knowledge? You could even write a super sentence about your design!

Wednesday 

Today we are going on a nature walk! We are going to collect lots of natural resources! You could walk to the local woods if you have one nearby to see what you can find! Whilst there you could discuss with your grown up's the changes you can see and the things which are different! Are the leaves nice and green or are they brown like in Autumn? You could attach sticky tape to a sheet of paper to stick your treasures onto! Just like below. Once you are home you could research the different tress you passed and the different leaves you found! Keep your treasures safe as you will need these for tomorrow's learning! 

Thursday 
Today we are going to use all of the wonderful treasures you found yesterday! Using the natural resources today we are going to create our own picture! The picture you choose to create is up to you! You could use the resources to make a tree or a house! Take a look at some ideas below to help spark your creativity! 
Don't forget to send us your designs as we really do love to see your super learning pictures! 

Fun Friday 

This week the Key worker children in school have been making dot pictures! They researched 'the dot' on the internet and have made their own pictures using the dot! 

We can't wait to see what wonderful pictures you create! Don't forget to send us your pictures!